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TTTLF A Better Chance: Tenth Anniversary Annual Report,1973.

INSTITUTION A Better Chance, Inc., Poston, Mass.PUB DATE 73NOTE 21p.

EDRS PPtCE MF -$O.76 HC-$1.58 PLUS POSTAGEDESCFIPTORS *Annual Reports; Community Involvement; *Compensatory

Education Programs; Disadvantaged Youth; Federal Aid;*Financial Support; *High School Students;Participation; Private Financial Support; ProgramDevelopment; Public Schools; Student Characteristics;Voluntary Agencies

IDENTIFIERS *A Better Chance Public School Program

ABSTRACTThis rep1/4.rt is organized in seven parts. Part 1,

"Where have all the students gone?" tells briefly the stories of someof the students from the first class--where they came from, wherethey have been, where they are heading now. Part 2, "Years ofChallenge, Years of Change--A Better Chance: the first ten years,"briefly summarizes the development of the program. Part 3,

"Development Report," discusses the funding of the program and therole of volunteer associations. Part 4, "Public School Programs,"focuses on the problems in establishing a new public school program.Part 5, "Student Services," summarizes the program's capacity toinvolve parents and the home community as well as to meet thepersonal needs of students. Part 6, "Program Activities," discussesthe new orientation format, day schools, and recruitment. Part 7,"Appendices," includes tables pertaining to new students by year ofentry, geographical background. ..otal ABC enrollment by school year,racial background, socinecunomic background, career choices of ABCcollege graduates, history of expenditures, expenditures by source offunds, and expenditures by program area. Also included are lists ofparticipating independent schools, special honors to ABC graduates,college and university enrollment of ABC graduates, and donors to ABetter Chance as of September 30, 1973. (Author/JM)

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Years of Challenge, Years of ChangeA Better Chance: the first ten years

When the first youngsters arrived in Hanover. New Hampshire. for a summer programthat was to be their initiation into ABC, they were told: "You've come here to prove youcan make it in the best private secondary schools in the country. We've got your returntickets here, and if you're smart you'll get back on the bus and go home... Here you'llhave to demonstrate that you want the opportunity for a better education. We'll expectyou to work like you've never worked before."

Over a period of ten yearsa time of tremendous social changes and political andpersonal challenges throughout this countryincreasing numbers of youngsters havejoined ABC with their eyes on better education, better life options. And very few ofthem have used those return tickets. It is their self-motivation and determination, theirconsiderable talents, their abiding sense of personal perspective that this AnniversaryAnnual Report wishes to celebrate.

The structural history of a relatively small program like ABC is quickly told. In thebeginning the organization consisted of a shared secretary and a full-time director re-cruiting and coordinating under the auspices of the Independent Schools Talent SearchProgram and Dartmouth College. The object was single-purposed: to place economic-ally disadvantaged youngsters in the finest preparatory schools, and thus provide quali-fications and opportunity for their further education at the college level.

This unique idea in education was a response to specific national needs. PresidentKennedy said in a request to colleges in July 1963: "Equal opportunity for educationand for employment is a phrase without meaning unless the individual is prepared totake advantage of it. Young people who have been disadvantaged need special pro-grams.....

The history of A Better Chance was also interwoven with the changing national moodof the decade 1964-74. In the early Us there was optimism; genuine integrationseemed certain at the end of every march. including the historic march on Washingtonin 1963. High expectations gave way to violent disillusion and frustration. The minoritycommunity began seriously to question the staying power of the good will of the major-ity society. The one constant that kept our students. and ABC. from falling prey to thedivisive elements of those times was that indisputably valid goal of quality educationand th.: need for minority leadership.

ABCs initial administrative expenses were underwritten by the Merrill Trust. TheRockefeller Foundation had funded the first summer Project: A Better Chance. And in1965 the Ford Foundation gave a three-year grant for establishing a developmentoffice.

With massive financial hacking from the new Office of Economic Opportunity in1965, the founding vision dramatically expanded. The establishment of our own devel-opment office made it possible to broaden the base of support and he assured of finan-cial independence from public funding.

Assimilation of new ideas began almost immediately. Could the lessons learned fromthe independent school experience he translated into the language of a different locale?Could another kind of dormitory living, complete with houseparents and resident tu-tors. be established in a public-school community? Could volunteer support substitutea whole range of community resources for the structure of the independent school set-ting?

.1 he answer to these questions was the ABC Public School Program. The translationbegan to work first in liam.:er. New Hampshire. then in Andover, Massachusetts. By19"3 AB(' had Public School Programs in 29 communities in nine states.

As students explored their new educational and social environments. they discoveredtheir own needs for personal reinforcement from ABC. Thus it seemed logical to divertresources from the intensive and expensive summer program to a more long range stu-

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dent support system through which our students would feel a continuing concern for

their total welfare.The newest dimension of ABC is the incorporation of local volunteers into ABC

groups in a few selected urban areas. Young civic leaders in Cleveland, Columbus,Pittsburgh. Philadelphia. Washington, and the Twin Cities, feeling an urgent concernabout the future of their cities, have affiliated themselves with ABC. They see A BetterChance as an effective program with a dual purposeto provide excellent education foryoungsters who will in turn, as leaders, play a crucial role in their community's future.

By centering recruitment, student services and fundraising on these specific citiesABC intensities and unifies its program, providing students with a stronger local network of parental, volunteer, professional and community involvement.

Much of ABCs growth through the years has been in response to the changing needsof its students. But the inner strength of the program has been the ability of the stu-dents themselves to cope with the extraordinary social changes of their times, as well as

the enormous economic and cultural differences they encountered at the independentschools and public school communities. They wrestled with their own identity, withalienation, with isolation. They patiently educated us and the affiliated schools in moreeffective ways of facing the problems inherent in such a radically different program. It

was trial and error, good intentions paving the way to better insights.Along the way ABC students said "It was hard but it was worth it ..." "Education

got me where I wanted to go..." "Now I hope to use my skills to change things..."If there is any single attainment commonly shared by our students it is the confidence

to compete for professional roles in society. With this selfawareness and the education.al requisites, they can now move into economic and social sectors uniquely able to solve

problems on equal terms of preparedness and mutual respect.The essential history of A Better Chance is told not in terms of concepts. or cities,

schools, growth. volunteers, funds, or dedicated professionals. The story of ABC, the

success of whatever is past, present or future, is with the 3.9(X) youngsters who havemade the program work, proved their desire for the best education, and demonstratedtheir capacities through their own considerable achievements.

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11%/. the linVA b of New York that di-rected Richa.q Griffinwinner of the(lab. William Hale Harkness citizenshipand leadership award 1(1.4 Herter Chance.

.4 an .411C student at Collegiate. Griffinwon the Headmater's prize. was captain 14.

the basketball. and track to's.and won the school trophy as cantstanding,thlete. His academic record was **cunt-menclable '; the Collegiate transcript retersto him c/. ..c/ Mpericir human being.-

Griffin graduated from .Springfieldhwy, co a ociab,my mojur. The natural op-non for hint was 111 return to New York andthe Jef terson Park Iblys' Club. this time as aAIM Melnher. ''1 know the academics prOVicied by the .4 /1( experience were a stronginfluence on me. At /4 / might not havebeen as serious %thou! (5 career. and mightnot haw phtned ahead without the in flu'enc. of (*(illeminte. Now l find myself tellingthe hots I'm %corking with the ought tobegin looking at careers at an early age."

.41 the lbws' (*hilt Griffin holds colleme-in filmic:Hon W.1.(11.1, explaining the avail-ahiht. of scholarships. kinds olculleges.locations. cum.% ulum. lie is pursuing hisAin ver.. Degree in sociology through

pringfiehl College. with part of his fobe'xpe'rience' counting inward Master's credit.

Development Report

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For the first time in our history. ABC surpassed the two-million-dollar mark in fundsraised Between October 1. 1972. and September 30. 1973 (the end of the fundraisingyear). the total of 52.531.257.81. received from both public and private sources, repre-sented a 39.5 percent increase over funds raised the previous year.

Termination of Model Cities Programs in June 1974, instead of 1975 as originallyprovided in its legislation. put considerable stress on the Development staff' and re-quired paring the number of new students entering for the 1973.74 academic year to525.

In spite of the Administration's cut-back in support of educational programs andinstitutions. ABC succeeded in attracting renewed public funding. A total ofS1.206.350. came from the public sector this year. a 2.4 percent increase over last year.

Funds raised from private donors signified a tremendous endorsement of ABC:S1.324.901.81. an increase of 63.1 percent. The principal source was old donors mak-ing new grants: 45 corporations, twenty foundations and seven individuals gave a totalof $1.03172.

Seventy-one corporations gave a total of 5468,1440 in new money. Foundation supporttotaled $,98.547. Fewer foundations contributed, but the average gift size was $28,519,considerably larger than last year.

Individual support (38 individuals) came to $57.267 and included 31 new donors.The evolution of local volunteer organizations in certain key cities is critically impor-

tant to the development aspect of A Better Chance. Not only will recruitment and stu-dent services benefit from this centralization but the member organizations are assum-ing responsibility for raising a portion of the supporting funds. In Cleveland, Colum-

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John Chambers

"I have always been interested in medicine.but it is a competitive prolession. After awhile, you leant to just go ahead and doyour best, because it is a prolession whereyou can feel you are helping people. One cancombine the ability to show compassion withskills to at least try to alleviate sttlfering. Isuppose that was the motivating.lOrce turn-ing me towards medicine."

Chambers pursued his love /or sciencefirst at The Gunnery, then at Princeton, andfinally at Duke University. where he is nowin his third year of medical .schoot Lookingback on the ABC years. he acknowledgesthe quality ()Otis education. but admits thatequally important was the filet that ''itopened a whole new world lia- me too. It wasan opportunity to he associated with differ-ent types of peoples and ideas, to get a total-its of new perspectives.** lie cautions. how-ever. that "being black on a predominantlywhite campus presents problems. includingalienation from one's people and having tocontend with an often hostile environment."

(lon hers is one Of the 11 percent (Ohl.responding ABC graduates who have en-teral the field of medicate. Married. andthe .father of an eighteen-month-old daugh-ter. Chambers says. "Eventually I wouldlike tog. back to Richmond. That's wh..restarted from. Richmond is growing andthere is a need liar black physicians. 1 wouldlike to practice as a general surgeon."

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bus, and Pittsburgh development progress is already extremely promising. as indicatedby the following:

In Cleveland 'he total amount raised was 569,750 $39,750 available for use thisyear, and $30,000 raised toward goals for ensuing years.

In Columbus $95,757 has been raised-556.357 available for use this year, $39,400raised toward goals for ensuing years.

In Pittsburgh the total amount raised was $119,000 with $60,500 available for usethis year$58.5(X) raised toward goals for ensuing years.

Washington. D.C., now has a locally incorporated ABC volunteer group. We antici-pate development components in Philadelphia and The Twin Cities will also be opera-tional by the end of 1974. The eventual goal for these organizations is to become self-sustaining, and capable of raising substantial funds on a regular basis.

Early results confirm our expectation that such dedicated, informed volunteer asso-ciations strengthen the ABC support services and recruiting. as well as providing con-sistent long-term reinforcement to the students' home communities.

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The wayferfPahner tells it his lather askedhim it he wanted roger awa.fiir a Slimmer.and he said 'yes'. That decision led to Dart-mouth and "learning enure about my owncapabilities during that one summer than allmy teachers in school up to then had evertried to show me

A /ter the Dartmouth summer session.Palmer attended Kimball Union where hewas Secretary-Treasurer of the Student(*outwit Vice-President of the Senior Class.a ntent her Ur the Honor Society and a letterwinner in track. football. and soccer. "Ilearned what an important individual! wasby going to private school. says the youngman from Steubenville. Ohio. "I came torealize that thene were black peophe outthere. doing things. getting their heads to-gether." Then Cana' Yale University. a lel-lowship sponsored by lime. Lite. Inc.. andthe liniversityofChicago Business School.

When it came time to choose a career.Palmer had one criterion: to find some-thing I wouldn't mind getting out of bet! tbrin the morning. The obvious answer. for me.was adverti.sing."

.4 t Needlutm. Harper & Steers. Palmer isAssistant Executive, with administrativeresponsibility for writing marketing plans.analyzing data. (Ind providing liaison be-tween clients and the creative departments.He is married and has a young son.

The idea of public school ABC programs is as exciting today fir communities in theUnited States as it was in 1966 when the first ABC house opened in Hanover. NewHampshire. Communities accept an opportunity to become involved in the search foranswers to the continuing social / economic problem that affects the country at everylevel.

The 1972.73 year began with 27 public school programs of which five were operatingfor their first year. In the fall of 1973 three additional programs openedin Simsbury.Connecticut: Lower Merlon. Pennsylvania: and South Hadley. Massachusetts.

Considering the problems facing our staff and the communitiesproblems createdmostly by the social climate and difficult economic and political times the country isgoing throughour record is impressive. But it is disappointing when measuredagainst our own expectations.

Fundamental issues that have to be settled with the establishment of each new publicschool program are town zoning laws and the waiver of tuition. (ABC students livein a residential house and attend the local high school. Individual town laws governresidence of non-related persons and payment of school tuition by non-residents.) Atone town meeting during the year it was voted to waive tuition: but later the town schoolhoard rescinded that vote. In most towns. tuition has been waived, in one case for 14students. The high cost of real estate frustrates the already complicated procedure of'finding a suitable house for up to ten ABC students. One program is faced with theprospect of buying a $75,000 house. Yet three of our programs have had residencesdonated by the colleges in their towns.

Any community considering a public-school program must have many strongly com-mitted citizens who can muster the financial and moral support vital to a thriving ABCresidence. The success of our programs continues to rest on this basic sense of involve-ment and the ability of each community to raise from within its own resources all themoney needed to operate the ABC residence. Ten programs are financially self-suffi-cient from National ABC'. This kind of commitment gives the program its unique char-acter and staying power.

It is our hope that the forthcoming year may provide a better psychological climate inwhich to nourish the valid and enriching concepts of the public-school programs in newcommunities. They will have as models the successes of those already established.

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John Washington

The committee on Human Relations of theWarrenum ( Va. )Junior Chamber qlCom-mere referred John Washington to /WCWith a 3.9 scholasti ct wrap. out ofble -1.14 and ability ',latched with imtbitionand drive. Washington was recommendedto Mt. Hermon School.

had to work.''' he says. "In nt previousrooling I was always first and it was eliS.

was .shaken at first. Then I decided theonly thing to do was settle down and do it.By the end of the first quarter I was up withthe rest of the class and on my way.- Theresult was election to the Cum Laud(' Soci-t. and admission On scholarship to Har-

vard..4t Harvard. Washington took a fob at a

computer graphics lab in the GraduateSchool of Design. Alter graduation he tookhis Master ei/Science degree at the Olier-Sit of ti ushittRtott, where he is now em-ployed as it den ie programmer in medi-cal radiation physics.

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When ABC was very youngand very small, with limited resourceswe relied heavilyon the trust parents placed in our educational goals. The history of ABC justifies thatparental faith. Now with the growth of the program we have an increased capacity toinvolve parents and the home community as well as to meet the personal needs of students.

One of the purposes of Student Services is to inform parents about the program asfully as possible and to provide continuing information and contact with ABC students.New activities, some of which incorporate what formerly were follow-up services. in-clude:

*ABC parent meetings in cities with ABC volunteer associations:*continuing regular visits to ABC's participating schools by a team of Regional

Directors;*regional newsletters linking ABC students in a given geographical area;*organization of an alumni association;*workshops with volunteer and resource people.

While ABC has successfully provided rigorous academic experiences to its students.we arc also aware of a critical need in the area of career counseling. Since communitieswill look to ABC graduates for effrctive leadership. it is essential that students haveinformation and counseling about career choices commensurate with their interests

and abilities.Student Services will provide this support as a systematic part it its program. work-

ing with the affiliated schools, the urban volunteer groups. and through the Regional

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klin knows the b.clings that are involved.and how to cope with 111011. thin .1 thinkWe betiime different people because we gothrough a certain school and culture system.It may shape Milne fornor attitudes andsharpen or dull Mir Aelf:thiclp% our pride inskills, our belief in tour own chances AM'may he something better, or it may he just achange. There's always potential fiir Chanetfeto be better. But you're still going to he s.ouPin nuttier where ou are.

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Program Activities

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University libraries in 21 states, as well as high schools. other public and private insti-tutions. and social scientists around the country have made requests for our majortwoand one-halfyear Research Study of A Better Chance, completed in 1972 byGeorge A. Perry. Director of Program Activity. The study has recently been included inthe ERIC System of research on the education of the disadvantaged, which makes itavailable on microfilm to most major libraries in the United States. We have also re-ceied a three-year grant from the Spencer Foundation for continuing research activi-ties.

OrientationA new orientation fOrmat has been worked out based on the success of an earlier pilotprogram. In the spring students will now spend approximately five days at their pros-pective ABC school. During the summer they will get together for another rive dayswith other ABC students entering schools in the same geographical area. The orienta-tion program is part of the year-round follow-up program under Student Services.

Day SchoolsTwo program changes have been made in the past year involving expansion in the num-ber of day schools affiliated with ABC and modification of the transitional program.

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RecruitmentDuring the past year approximately ttO percent of the new students were recruited byvolunteers or ABC staff members in ABC target cities. In the coming year the propor-tion will increase to KO percent.

Focusing recruitment in Cleveland, Columbus, New York, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh,and Washington provides a unified base of operations tier staff. recruiters, and volunteers. With titter cities to cover, the concentration of resources and manpower resultsin continuity and efficiency in planning, visits to member schools. placement workshops. services to students, and family and community liaison.

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Appendices

Appendix A

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Racial Background

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Soclo-Economic Background

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Independent Schools

Abbot AcademyAbington FriendsAthenian SchoolBaldwin SchoolBarlow SchoolBirch Wathen SchoolBishop Whipple SchoolsBlair AcademyBlue RidgeBoggs AcademyBrooklyn Friends SchoolBwton SchoolCa.nbridge School of WestonCenterbury SchoolCate SchoolChapel Hill Chauncy Hall SchoolChatham HallChoate-Rosemary HallCollegiate SchoolColorado Rocky Mountain SchoolColumbia Grammar SchoolColumbus AcademyColumbus School for GirlsCommonwealth SchoolConcord AcademyCranbrook SchoolCranwell SchoolCulver Military AcademyCulver Academy for GirlsCushing AcademyDana Hall SchoolDarrow SchoolDeerfield AcademyDelbarton SchoolDublin SchoolEmma Willard SchoolEpiscopal AcademyEthel Walker SchoolEthical Culture SchoolsFountain Valley SchoolFoxcroftFriends' CentralFriends' SelectFriends' SeminaryGeorge SchoolGermantown AcademyGermantown FriendsGould AcademyGovernor Dummer AcademyGroton SchoolThe GunneryHackley SchoolMiss Hall's SchoolHathaway Brown SchoolHawken SchoolHebron AcademyHinckley SchoolHoiderness School

Hoosac SchoolHotchkiss SchoolHyde SchoolKimball Union AcademyLake Forest AcademyLaurel SchoolLawrence AcademyLawrenceville SchoolLoomis-ChaffeeMasters SchoolMaumee Valley County Day SchoolMcDonogh SchoolMeeting SchoolMercersburg AcademyMiddlesex SchoolMillbrook SchoolMilton AcademyMoses Brown SchoolMountain SchoolNew Hampton SchoolNoble & Greenough SchoolNorthfield-Mount Hermon SchoolsOakwood SchoolPacker Collegiate InstitutePhillips AcademyPhillips Exeter AcademyPomfret SchoolMiss Porters SchoolPortsmouth Abbey SchoolProctor AcademyPutney SchoolRobert Louis Stevenson SchoolSt. Andrew's SchoolSt. George's SchoolSt. Joseph's PreparatorySt. Mark's SchoolSt. Paul's SchoolShipley SchoolSolebury SchoolSouth Kent SchoolSouthwestern AcademySpence SchoolSpringside SchoolStockbridge SchoolStony Brook SchoolStorm King SchoolStuart HallSuffield AcademyTaft SchoolThacher SchoolThompson AcademyTrinity PawlingUniversity SchoolVerde Valley SchoolVermont Academy

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Walden SchoolWalnut Hill SchoolWestern Reserve AcademyWestminster SchoolWestover SchoolWesttown SchoolWhiteman SchoolWhite Mountain SchoolWilbraham & Monson AcademyWilliam Penn CharterWindsor Mountain SchoolWoodberry Forest SchoolWoodstock Country SchoolWooster SchoolWyoming Seminary

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Altadena.Amherst. Mass.Andover. Mass.Appleton. Wis.Carmel. Cal.Claremont. N.H.Clinton. N.Y.Concord. N.H.Dover. N.H.Edina. Minn.Green Bay.Hamilton-Wenham. Mass.Hanover. N.H.Lebanon N.H.Lower Menor. . Penna.Madison. Conn.Neenah-Menasha. Wis.North Andover. Mass.Northfield. Minn.Oshkosh. Wis.Radnor. Pa.Shorewood. Wis.Simsbury. Conn.South Hadley. Mass.Wellesley. Mass.White River Jct . Vt.Williamstown. Mass.Winchester. Mass.Woodstock. Vt.

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Appendix G

Career Choices ofABC College Graduates

Science &Engineering

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Management40/0

Humanities4%

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Social Science14%

Medicine11%

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Business9%

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Law16%

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Appendix H

Special Honors to ABC Graduates

University of Virginia Governor's Fellowship to Curtis Farrar ofDartmouth (for English Ph.D.)

Princeton Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International AffairsRoberson Fellowship to Melinda Green of University of Pennsylvaniaand Sam Porter of Dartmouth

Tanzania. Africa Watson Fellowship to Robert Johnson of BowdoinCollege

St. Peter's College. Oxford. James B. Reynolds Fellowship for StudyAbroad (Modern Languages & Modern History) to Barry Jones ofDartmouth

MIT General Motors Fellowship (Nuclear Engineering Ph.D.) to JamesJones of MIT

University of Bonn. Fuibright -Hayes to Viola Osborne of William & Mary

Oxford University. Rhodes Scholarship to Jesse Spikes of Dartmouth

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Appendix I

College andUniversity Enrollmentof ABC Graduates1965-73

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DartmouthHarvardU of PennsylvaniaTufts

CarletonYaleStanfordWilliamsBrownWesleyanColumbiaNortheastern

CornellOberlinAmherstNorthwesternSimmonsDukePrincetonAntiochFordhamBoston UCase WesternHowardLawrenceOhio WesleyanRadcliffeTrinityDickinsonHamiltonVassar

BarnardLincolnNYUSyracuseU of ConnecticutBrandeisHampshirePomonaBowdoinMacalesterRutgers

65 U of Massachusetts57 U of Michigan51 Bucknell43 Clark U

Connecticut38 Springfield32 Swarthmore31 U of Vermont31 Wayne State27242321

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1965 491,000 62,000 372.000 376,031 1,301,031

1966 965,000 63,000 505.500 1,585,002 3.118,502

1967 1.267,000 110.000 272,560 1,326.116 2,975,676

1968 1,584.500 99,000 769,953 1,032,699 3,486.152

1969 2,279.100 126,000 1,231,259 500,000 4,136,359

1970 2.915,900 108.000 1,110.500 76,000 4,210,400

1971 2.826.900 31,575 1,298.850 428,500 4,585.825

1972 9,443,750 60,000 905,374 1,219,570 5.628,694

1973 3.684.570 65,000 1,111.800 1,388,805 6.249,975

Total 19.675.470 744.575 7.602,796 7.932.523 35,955,364

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Appendix L

Donors toA Better Chanceas ofSeptember 30, 1973

A BETTER CHANCE wishes toacknowledge with a deep sense ofgratitude those organizations andindividuals which have given theirsupport since the inception of theProgram.

DONORS OF $500,000 AND OVERThe Vincent Astor FoundationThe Rockefeller Foundation

$200 ,000-$499,999The Ford FoundationThe Edward E. Ford FoundationThe Louis W. & Maud Hill Family

FoundationThe Florence & John Schumann

FoundationThe Sears-Roebutk Foundation

$150,0004199,999Independence FoundationThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$100,000-$149,999AnonymousThe Frank E. Gannett Newspaper

Foundation, Inc.The Agnes M. Lindsay TrustThe Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.Marion G. McFadden EstateRichard King Mellon FoundationThe Rockefeller Brothers Fund

$50,000-$99,999Mary Reynolds Babcock

Foundation, Inc.The Danforth FoundationThe Esso Education FoundationThe Fairchild Foundation, Inc.The Samuel Goldwyn FoundationIBM CorporationMcGraw Hill, Inc.Charles E. Merrill TrustMobil Foundation, Inc.The Spencer FoundationHattie M. Strong FoundationGeneral Electric Foundation

$25,000-$49,999American Telephone & Telegraph CoAtlantic Richfield FoundationThe Louis Boehm FoundationThe Samuel Bronf man FoundationThe Bush Foundation

The Morris & Gwendolyn CafritzFoundation

The Louis Calder FoundationThe Chase Manhattan Bank

FoundationThe C.I.T. Foundation, Inc.The Robert Sterling Clark

Foundation, Inc.The Columbus FoundationThe Catherine M. Davis TrustFirst Educational & Charitable Trust

of Canton, OhioThe George Gund FoundationThe Kettering Family FoundationNorman FoundationThe Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.The S. & H. Foundation, Inc.Alfred P. Sloan FoundationTIME, IncorporatedWeyerhaeuser Foundation, Inc.

$10,000424,999Abex CorporationAetna Life & Casualty Co.George 1. Alden TrustAllied Chemical FoundationAnonymous (2)The Louis D. Beaumont FoundationBristol Myers Co.William BeineckeKenyon C. BoltonBorg-Warner Foundation, Inc.Chemical BankChrysler Corporation FundCity National Bank & Trust

Company of Columbus, OhioContinental Can CompanyThe Arthur Vining Davis FoundationsJudson Dunaway Charitable

FoundationFirst National Bank of BostonFirst National City Bank FoundationFirst Pennsylvania Banking & Trust

CompanyFisher Charitable TrustThe Frelinghuysen FoundationGeneral Mills FoundationEdwin Gould Foundation for

ChildrenThe Hartford Electric Light

Company, Inc.The Huber Foundation

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H. J. & Drue E. Heinz CharitableTrust

Huntington National Bank ofColumbus

Martha Holden Jennings Foundation(through University School,Cleveland)

Kennecott Copper CorporationThe Lincoln Fund of New YorkThomas J. Lipton Foundation. Inc.The Arthur D. Little Foundation. Inc.The Magnavox FoundationManufacturers Hanover Trust

Company FoundationMrs. Julia Ford MenardMetropolitan Life Insurance Co.National Distillers & Chemical

CorporationNew York FoundationNew York Telephone CompanyEdward John Noble FoundationOlin Corporation Charitable TrustOlivetti Foundation, Inc.The Permanent Charity FundPitney-Bowes. Inc.Polaroid FoundationRaytheon Charitable FoundationRCA CorporationAnne S. Richardson FundScripps-Howard Foundation AwardsShell Companies Foundation. Inc.The Seth Sprague Educational &

Charitable FoundationSinger FoundationState Street Bank & Trust CompanyThe Timken CompanyUniroyal FoundationUnited States Steel Foundation. Inc.United Thank OfferingUpjohn CompanyThe Victoria Foundation. Inc.Washington D.C. Department of

Human ResourcesWestern Massachusetts Electric

Company & Holyoke Water PowerCompany

Arthur Young & Company

$5.000-$9.999ABC TrusteeAluminum Company of America

(ALCOA)Anonymous (4)Henry P. BectonThe Blanchard FoundationBorden. IncBoston Edison CompanyBurlington Industries. Inc.The Clark FoundationThe Connecticut Light & Power

CompanyAnne S. DaytonThe Dorr Foundation

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Eastern Charitable FoundationRoger S. FirestoneThe Firestone FoundationThe Foxboro Company FoundationGrace Foundation, Inc.Graham FrenchGeneral Cinema FoundationGimbel-Saks Foundation, Inc.The Hoover FoundationJohn Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Co.Inland Steel - Ryerson Foundation,

Inc.Inter.:.tional Union, U.A.W.Johnson & HigginsCharles F. Kettering FoundationEsther A. & Joseph Ktingenstein

Fund, IncorporatedEdwin H. Land & Helen M. Land

Foundation, Inc.The Merck Company FoundationMinnesota Mining & Manufacturing

Co.Monsanto FundMorgan Guaranty Trust Co.New England Mutual Life Insurance

CompanyNew York Community TrustOwens-Corning Fiberglas

CorporationPhoton. Inc.Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable

TrustThe Quaker Oats FoundationR. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanySt. Andrews Episcopal Church,

Wellesley. MassachusettsSt. Paul's Church, Dedham,

MassachusettsThe St. Paul Companies, Inc.Leopold Schepp FoundationSecurity Insurance Company of

HartfordSmith, Kline & French FoundationSpaulding-Potter Charitable TrustsAnne C. Stouffer FoundationTrinity Church, Boston,

Massachusetts

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National Committee

CHARLES F. ADAMSChairman. Raytheon Company

SAMUEL GOLDWYN. J-.President. Samuel GolawynProductionsHENRY P. BECT0';Chairman. Executive Committee,Secton. Dickinson & Company

JUDSON BEMISPresident. Bemis Company. Inc.

WILLIAM W. BOESCHENSTEINPresident. Owens-CorningFiberglas Company

KENYON C. BOLTONPresident. Cleveland Airways. Inc.

THORNTON F. BRADSHAVVPresident. Atlantic RichfieldCompanyEDGAR M. BRONFMANChairman of the Board. Joseph E.Seagram & Sons. Inc.

WILLIAM P. DRAKEChairman. Pennwalt Corporation

JAMES A. FISHERSenior Vice President. FisherScientific CompanyMARTIN S. HAYDENVice President & Editor. TheDetroit NewsHONORABLE H. J. HEINZ III(R.-Pa.)RICHARD D. HILLChairman. First National Bank ofBostonGEORGE P. JENKINSChairman of the Board.Metropolitan Life InsuranceCompany

JACK LEMMONPresident. Jalem Productions. Inc.

WALTER B. LEVERINGPartner, Carlisle DeCoppetCompany

CHARLES E. LORDPresident. Hartford National Bank& Trust Company

POTTER PALMERChairman of the Board.Globetrotter Communications, Inc.

GEORGE S. PILLSBURYPresident. Sargent ManagementCompany

H. CHAPMAN ROSE, ESQ.Jones. Day. Cock ley & Reavis

LELAN F. SILLIN, JR.President. Northeast UtilitiesService Company

E. CARROLL STOLLENWERCKVice Chairman. Laird Incorporated

ROBERT M. SURDAMPresident, National Bank of Detroit

HOBART TAYLOR. JR., ESQ.Dawson. Quinn. Riddell. Taylor &Davis

ALEXANDER B. TROWBRIDGEChairman;President. The Conference Board

CHARLES B. WADE, JR.Senior Vice President. The R. J.Reynolds Tobacco Company

MARK C. WHEELERPresident. New England MerchantsNational Bank

WILMOT F. WHEELER. JR.Chairman of the Board & ChiefExecutive Officer. American Chain& Cable Company, Inc.

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