UNCF Drive Nets Record $11 Million New Y ork - An all-time high record of $11.9-million was raiseo in the 1974 Annual Cam paign conducted by the United Negro College Fund. It sur passed the 1973 total of $10.5 million by almost a million and a half dollars. Thomas A. Murphy, UNCF National Campaign Chair man called the total "a truly remarkable accomplishment in the light of today’s economy.” Mr. Murphy said that inten sive staff training carried out in management workshops throughout the year paid off in the kind of aggressive, effi cient leadership needed to carry the drive to the record total. "Corporate solicitation, under the direction of A. Dean Swift, especially should be commended for its work,” Mr. Murphy said. American busi nesses contributed $4.4-mll lion to the UNCF drive in 1974, also a record amount. Some 5,500 corporations were among those contributing. .. Mr. Murphy, the board chairman of General Motors Corp., said he was also “Ex> tremely pleased” at the show ing of the foundations fund raising effort which increased in total $63,630 over last year at a time when foundaitons were cutting back on their grants. Foundations contribu ted $l.9-million to the 1974 total. . Mr. Murphy said it was “very significant” to note the largest gift ever received from an organization came from a black organization. The Links, Inc., a national women’s group. The Links presented the Fund with a check for $132,00 at a luncheon in Washington, D. C. last summer. Other areas which showed substantial gains in the drive included: colleges and univer sities, $879,637, up from 548,646; organized groups. $672,925. up from $372,106; municipal employees, $66,505. _, op from $38,027; and Poet Office Employees, 931,323, up from $21,786. Union contribu tions increased almost 7S per cent, from $20,997 to 934,071. Largest corporate donors to the UNCF were: General Motors, $300,000; IBM 9152,800; Bell System. 987,775; Sears Roebuck Foundation, $85,000; Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. (through the Ebony Fashion Fare) $78,264; Olin Corp. Charitable Trust, $62,275;. Ford Motor Co. Fund, 960,000 and U. 8. Steel Foundation, 960,000. MERRY MAKERS CLUB OF CHARLOTTE, INC. pose for photo during Good Friday Luncheon and Card Party at Holiday Inn North. They are: front Row, left to right; Eloise Morton, President; Rachel Byers. Recording Secretary; Ester Hill. Theresa Stewart, and Helen Kibler. Back Row. left to right; Frances Waddell, Maxine Davis. Vice I‘resident; JohnetU McClure, Bertha Max well, Sgt-at-Arms; Mildred B. Davis, Willie Powell. Mrs. Jerome Watson; Treasurer; l.ydia Pride, financial Secretary; Mrs. C. B. Alexander; and Mabel Dillard. Correspond ing Secretary. Club member Clotell Fisher is not pictured. Photo by Peeler. t riday Morning 125 Attend Merry Maker’s Luncheon, Card Party By James Peeler Post Staff Writer The 16-member _ Merry Makers Club of Charlotte. Inc. held Its Annual Luncheon and Card Party at Holiday Inn North last Friday. The 11:00 A.M. ‘til 4 P.M. affair was attended by 125 people who played pinocle and bridge after lunching on a menu of Chicken-a-la-King in Patty Shell, green peas, tiny whole onions, tossed salad, buttered rolls, coffee, tea, and Jello with Whipped Cream Desert. . The Luncheon was high lighted by sparkling modeling performances by Harold UNCC To Present Robert Bly In Poetry Reading The University of North Caro lina at Charlotte will present Robert Bly in a Poetry Read ing April 10 at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall of Rowe Arts Building. ..A Harvard graduate, Bly started a magazine in 1958 called The Fifties which be came The Sixties and is now The Seventies Clawson, William Lindsay, Charlie Dannelly, Robert Johnson, and Jerod Greene. The Fashion Show was narr ated by William •‘Bill" Lind say and Robert "Bob” John son. Winners at bridge and pin ocle received prizes of lamps, crystal, woodcraft, cooking utensils, and Girt Certificates. Since organizing in Septem ber of 1944, and incorporating on February 4. 1966, the Merry Makers Club of Charlotte, Inc. has participated in a number of civic and social functions. The club sponsors a SHOE FUND at Bethlehem Center, gives; free tickets to Southside area children to attend the Children’s Theater, makes visits to Nursing Homes and gives gifts to patients, gives clothing and food to needy families, contributes to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, and recenlty con tributed to the Johnson C. Smith University Band Uni form Fund. They meet once a month, generally at a members home, and have limited their mem bership to 16 persons. The Merry Makers Club is present ly composed of: Eloise Mor ton, President; Rachel Byers, Recording Secretary, Ester Hill, Theresa Stewart, Helen Kibler, Frances Waddell, Maxine Davis, Vice Presi dent; Johnetta McClure, Ber tha Maxwell, Sgt-at-Arms; Mildred B. Davis. Willie Powell, Jerome Watson, Treasurer; Lydia Pride, Financial Secretary, Mrs. C. B. Alexander. Mabel Dillard. Corresponding Secretary; and Clotelle Fisher. According to club spokes woman Lydia Pride, “The Luncheon and Card Party was and outstanding affair." She added. “Everywhere the beauty and exuberance ol Spring was evident in decora tions, music, lighting an SIZES 6*/2 HROUGH 10 NARROW NLY $3.98 V DISCOUNT UNIFORM SHOP 1508 Central Ave. Phone 376-1249 Pricet Good thru Saturday Open Nights 'til 9 1. 3121 Freedom Drive 2. 1403 Central Avenue 3. 3310 W ilkinson Boulevard 4. 3348 Independence Blvd. n us; you'll like ua. _/ SALE! 4-PC. 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