The Miami Times

SATURDAY JULY 4. 1953

Negro College Fund Distributes $3,000,000

NEW YORK — A sum of $3,000,000 in additional grants was distributed today to the 31 private, accredited colleges and universities participating in the United Negro College Fund's $25,000,000 building campaign, known as the National Mobilization of Resources for the United Negro Colleges.

Today's distribution was the third since July, and brings the total to $9,400,000 so allotted in capital funds to the member colleges.

The fund's national mobilization program, a five-year capital funds campaign to help the member colleges meet their capital building needs, recently reached the appeal's half-way mark of $12,500,000 in corporation and foundation gifts.

Today's distribution was announced at UNCF headquarters, 22 E. 54th st., New York, by W. J. Trent Jr., the organization's executive director, who said that funds allotted so far in the program have been distributed on an equitable basis approved by the presidents of all of the member colleges.

Mr. Trent explained that reports from the college presidents showed that most of the funds received in the first two distributions, in July, 1952, and February, 1953, have been used to begin construction of new buildings where needed or to make extensive renovations to old buildings long in need of repair.

Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, used its first grant to renovate Cookman Hall (a dormitory for men), and to begin construction of a new physical education building.

The first allotment made to Dillard University in New Orleans, La., supplemented other funds toward completing and equipping a new science building to house its music and art departments, improve its heating plant and complete paving of its campus roadway system.

Funds made available to Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tenn., made it possible for that institution to erect a new, modern building to house its music and art departments.

With its share of the money allotted, Benedict College in Columbia, S. C. has begun a new dining hall and dormitory.

Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., used its funds to complete a new science hall in which classes were first held in December, 1952.