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TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1987

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COMMUNITY CHEST RAISES RECORD $42 MILLION

THE COMMUNITY CHEST RAISED A RECORD $42 MILLION ΤΟ MEET AGENCIES' REQUESTS PLUS ANOTHER $20.5 MILLION FOR A OPERATIONS FUND LAST YEAR, THE WIFE OF THE GOVERNOR, LADY SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

SPECIAL WILSON,

LADY WILSON SAID THIS HAD SUBSTANTIALLY BOOSTED THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO ALLOW 100 PER CENT OF THE DONATIONS RECEIVED TO BE PASSED ON WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTION FOR EXPENSES.

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THIS WAS STATED BY HER IN A PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AT THE 18TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST. LADY WILSON BECAME CHEST'S PRESIDENT ON HER ARRIVAL IN APRIL THIS YEAR.

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"ON TAKING UP THIS ROLE, IT IS A PARTICULAR PLEASURE TO THAT THIS PAST YEAR

BEFORE MOST OF IT SUCCESSFUL, SHE STRESSED.

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'$42 MILLION WERE RAISED THROUGH A VARIETY OF ESTABLISHED AS WELL AS IMAGINATIVE NEW EVENTS.“

SHE SAID THE CHEST HAD HAD A REWARDING YEAR WITH MANY AGENCIES BEING ALLOCATED ALL THAT THEY ASKED FOR AND MOST OF THEM HAD HAD AN INCREASE.

NOTING THAT DURING THE LAST CAMPAIGN, MANY BOARD MEMBERS AND VICE PATRONS LENT THEIR SUPPORT TO FUND RAISING BY WRITING PERSONAL APPEAL LETTERS TO SOLICIT CORPORATE DONATIONS, LADY WILSON SAID THAT THROUGH THEIR DETERMINED EFFORTS, THE CORPORATION DONOR BASE HAD BEEN ENLARGED.

BUT SHE ADDED THAT THERE WAS STILL NEW GROUND TO BE COVERED AND INDEED OLD GROUND TO BE DUG INTO MORE DEEPLY.

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WHILE EXPRESSING HER GRATITUDE TO ALL THOSE WHO WORKED FOR, HELPED AND SUPPORTED THE CHEST, SHE POINTED OUT THAT MR MICHAEL MILES, WHO WAS FINISHING HIS TERM AS CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

FOR HIS THE CHEST AFTER TWO YEARS, DESERVED A SPECIAL VOTE OF THANKS INSPIRING LEADERSHIP AND HIGH STANDARDS IN MANAGING THE CHEST.

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