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President Tolbert to be Named Honorary Cuttington Campaign Chairman

Diocesan Press Service. July 21, 1975 [75247]

MONROVIA, Liberia -- Dr. William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of the Republic of Liberia, has agreed to join Presiding Bishop John M. Allin and Mrs. Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as one of the honorary campaign chairmen of the $3.1 million capital funds campaign for Cuttington College, Suacoco, Liberia.

The Cuttington Crossroads Campaign is scheduled to begin officially on September 28, when Bishop George D. Browne of Liberia will be the preacher in St. James' Episcopal Church, New York City, according to Oscar C. Carr, Executive for Development at the Episcopal Church Center. Dr. Carr received President Tolbert 's acceptance of the leadership position in an interview with him on July 3. The Development Officer was in Liberia to deliver the commencement address at Cuttington and also receive the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the college.

President Tolbert has long been on record as a Cuttington supporter. In 1974 he said "it is urgent and essential to improve the quality and extend the outreach of institutions like Cuttington College," helping to lay the ground work for the Crossroads Campaign. The President said that if Liberia and Africa are to avoid the "potential peril of ignorance and indifference " there will have to be "greater educational benefits for a greater number. "

The Crossroads Fund is aimed at building an endowment to assure income for specific faculty and student purposes, and securing capital funds to enlarge and maintain the Cuttington educational plant, according to Dr. Carr. At present Cuttington has no endowment at all, and the campaign that will begin in September marks the first 3-year development program in its 85-year history.

In his commencement address, Dr. Carr said the leadership of the Episcopal Church in the United States will be "joining hands with the church in Liberia and the people of Liberia " to seek " significant additional financial support for Cuttington College. I'm confident our efforts will be successful. I trust that the dividends from that investment will be the future graduates of Cuttington College," Dr. Carr told the graduates.

The Cuttington Crossroads Campaign has the official sponsorship of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council, the Association of Episcopal Colleges, and the Friends of Cuttington College, a not-for-profit corporation in the State of New York. John T. Fey, chairman of the board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, is national chairman of the campaign. The Rev. Robert R. Parks, rector of Trinity Church, New York, is Leadership Gifts Chairman, and James H.W. Jacks of Dallas is Special Gifts Chairman.

The fund-raising drive gets underway in Liberia in August, headed by Dr. James A.A. Pierre, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia and a Cuttington alumnus. He will be aided by leadership from the country, the Diocese of Liberia, and from both students and faculty of the college.