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Cuttington $3.1 Million Campaign Launched

Diocesan Press Service. October 6, 1975 [75335]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Many prominent businessmen, bankers, industrial representatives, educators, and religious leaders have joined together to head the $3. 1 million fund drive launched in September for the expansion and endowment of Cuttington College, an Episcopal Church - related institution in Suacoco, Liberia.

Individuals and the national government in Liberia pledged $464,920 at the September 21 beginning of the campaign with a special service in Epiphany Chapel on the college campus. Of the $464,920, more than $30,000 has already been received in checks and cash, according to Dr. Oscar C. Carr, Jr., Executive for Development and Stewardship at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City.

Dr. Carr said he was "struck by the anomaly that the response was so fast and so overwhelming in a country where the per capita earnings are $197 per year."

Dr. William R. Tolbert, President of the Republic of Liberia, is honorary chairman of the Liberian phase of the campaign, with Justice James A. A. Pierre, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia, serving as general chairman. James E. Greene, Vice President of the Republic, heads the advance planning committee.

Campaign leaders in Liberia include Carl Hermann Enneker, Bong Mining Co.; John Peryola, Liberian Mining Co.; Ole Wijstroom, Liberian-American Mineral Co.; John Carmichael, Firestone Plantations Co.; William Perry of B. F. Goodrich; Peter Bates of Chase-Manhattan Bank's Liberian branch ; Augustus Jehle, Bank of Liberia, associated with Chemical Bank of New York City; and Hugh Mitchell of the Bank of Monrovia, an affiliate of First National City Bank.

Ambassador Emmet Harmon, Methodist Bishop Bennie D. Warner, Episcopal Bishop George D. Browne, and the Rev. Canon Emmanuel Johnson, president of Cuttington, also serve as campaign leaders.

The United States phase of the campaign began on September 28 with a service at St. James' Episcopal Church, New York City, at which Bishop Browne preached. The Cuttington College campaign is to provide needed capital for a permanent endowment, scholarship funds, expansion of facilities and the development of faculty pension plans, according to Dr. Carr.

Presiding Bishop John M. Allin of the Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Margaret Bush Wilson, St. Louis, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, are honorary campaign chairmen along with President Tolbert. John T. Fey, chairman of the board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, is national chairman of the United States phase of the campaign.