The Hechinger Company for many years has been an Equal Opportunity employer and at the present time has both top-management and middle-management executives who are both white and Negro.

Mrs. John W. Hechinger also has been involved in civic and community affairs over the years. She is on the Board of the National Symphony and the Advisory Board of the YMCA, was formerly residential campaign chairman for the District UGF and member of the Junior Goodwill Guild. She has been active in the affairs of the schools attended by the Hechinger children.

There are four Hechinger children: Nancy (20), a junior at Sarah Lawrence College- -a serious art student; John, Jr. (17) is a senior at Sidwell Friends School; Ross (16) is a junior at St. Albans; and Sally (11) is in the sixth grade at National Cathedral School. And they have a fine specimen of a dog named Oliver.

Mr. Hechinger's sports activities, along with his family, are riding, swimming, and tennis. His swimming gets a little exciting when he is on vacation, as he is a dedicated skin-diver. His hobbies are reading and art-collecting, mainly in the areas of contemporary local artists.

He has been active in many of the leading local civic and charitable organizations. He is a member and past President of the Board of Directors of Columbia Hospital for Women, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boys' Club of Washington, a former Trustee of the Public Library, and a former Vice President of the Health & Welfare Council, prior to which he served as Chairman of the 120-man Budget Committee for three years. He has served on the Commissioners' Public Welfare Advisory Council, is a member of the Board of the Washington Urban League, and a Presidential appointee on the Board of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency. In 1962, he was named "Man of the Year" by the Washington Hebrew Congregation, of which he is a member and former officer and Trustee. He has served in four Inaugural Medal Committees, once as chairman, and for three years on the First Lady's Beautification Awards Jury, with two terms as chairman.

WALTER E. FAUNTROY

Personal data:

Born: February 6, 1933, Washington, D.C.
Parents: William T. and Ethel V. Fauntroy.

Married: The former Miss Dorothy Simms of Petersburg, Virginia, who holds the B.S. degree from Virginia Union University. One son, Marvin Keith, born April 3, 1964.

Education:

Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C., 1951.

Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia, 1951-55; A. B. Degree, History, Cum Laude, 1955.

Yale University Divinity School, 1955–58; B.D. Degree, 1958.

Positions:

Pastor, New Bethel Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., 1959 to present. Director, Washington Bureau, Southern Christian Leadership Conference. President, Model Inner City Community Organization, Inc. (MICCO). D.C. Coordinator for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963.

Coordinator of the Selma to Montgomery march, March 21-26, 1965.

Vice Chairman, White House Conference To Fulfill These Rights, February 2-June, 1966. (Commencement Speaker-Howard University June 4, 1965). Membership: Member on the boards of more than twelve civic, religious and civil rights organizations, including the United Planning Organization, the Inter-religious Committee on Race Relations and the Leadership Committee on Civil Rights.

Awards: Recipient of more than fifteen citations for distinguished service in the field of Civil Rights and Community Service. Travel:

August, 1962-Goodwill Tour of Russia Baptist Churches in Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Latvia and Kiev, Ukraine. (Among five American ministers invited by the All Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptist). January, 1967-Two week study mission to Israel and the Holy Land, under the Auspices of the American Jewish Committee.

MARGARET A. HAYWOOD

Born Knoxville, Tennessee, October 8, 1912. Parents, J. W. M. Austin (deceased 1959), and Mayme A. Austin. One daughter, Geraldine H. Porter, and one granddaughter, Denise A. Richmond, age 16.

Residence

4424 Hunt Place, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20019; office: 1924 13th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.

Education

Public Schools, D.C., graduate of Cardozo High School, 1930, business course. Post graduate courses in shorthand and typing, during evening, about 1933–1934. Law: Robert H. Terrell Law School, 1936-1940, Degree: LL B. (then located at 1922 13th Street, N.E., since closed, about 1952).

Personal data

Married, 1931, to David C. Haywood, divorce obtained in 1940; married, 1944, to the late Harold T. Hawthorne, divorce obtained January, 1960. Not since remarried.

Work experience

1943-49: Teacher, Robert H. Terrell Law School (part-time, volunteer), 1922 13th Street, N.W. George A. Parker (deceased), Dean; Subjects taught: Wills & Administration; Business Units I (Agency); Ethics; Insurance.

1939-42 Office Secretary, Washington Urban League, Inc., then at 1538 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., George W. Goodman, Executive Secretary. (Office now located at 626 3rd St NW).

1937-39: Secretary-Stenographer, John R. Pinkett, Inc., insurance and real estate firm, John R. Pinkett, President, then, at 1302 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., since deceased; office now located at 1507 9th Street, N.W., Miss Flaxie M. Pinkett, President.

1934-37: Secretary-Stenographer, Houston, Houston & Hastie, law firm, 615 F Street, N.W., W. L. Houston (deceased) senior partner.

1933-34: Employed as waitress, two restaurants and one boarding house, none presently in business.

1930-31: Storage-Clerk, D.C. Public Schools, assigned to Cardozo High School then located at Old M Street High Building, East of New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Mr. Robert N. Mattingly, Principal.

1930: Following graduation, during Summer, Clerk-Typist, National Benefit Life Insurance Company, 609 F Street, N.W. Miss Phyllis Austin, Supervisor. Engaged in private practice of Law in the District of Columbia since April, 1942. Locations, with the firm of Houston, Houston & Hastie, at 615 F Street, N.W., until April 30, 1944; 1917 14th Street, N. W., from May 1, 1944, to December, 1946. 2217 14th Street, N.W., from late December, 1946, to September 23, 1963. 1924 13th Street, N.W., from September 23, 1963, until present.

Law practice, general in nature, involving a wide variety of cases, predominantly civil. Practice involves extensive probate work, domestic relations matters, including those in both the Domestic Relations Branch, District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, and the Juvenile Court for the District of Columbia. Also involved is a significant amount of practice in the Administrative Law field, including hearings before Boards and Commissions, Examiners, etc., concerned with personnel ratings, charges, etc., representing employees of agencies under Civil Service Commission, or handling veterans' claims, etc. Also involved: representation of indigents, without charge, in both civil and criminal matters, and both by assignment of courts and by choice. In connection with numerous court assignments, have conducted investigations in conservatorships, committeeships, guardianships; Will cases; partition proceedings, trusteeships. Practice involves much trial work and some appellate work before District of Columbia Court of Appeals and United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Member of the Bars of District of Columbia Court of General Sessions: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and United States Supreme Court (1945), as well as United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Admitted on Motion, 1950, United States District Court for the District of Maryland, while trying a case there.

Other professional activities

Licensed Real Estate Broker, D.C.; Public Accountant, and served as Auditor, Town of North Brentwood, Maryland, auditing books annually and preparing annual fiscal report to the State of Maryland, from about 1949 through 1966. Extensive income tax return preparation for approximately 20 years.

Professional organizations

Washington Bar Association and American Bar Association.
Gamma Delta Epsilon-legal sorority.

Robert H. Terrell Law Society.

Lambda Kappa Mu Sorority, Inc.-past National Grand Basileus (1948-1952); past National Parliamentarian; past Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Chairman; permanent member of National Executive Board. (Business & Professional sorority, with principal objective of awarding scholarship aid to high school girls desiring to further their education in business and/or professional fields. Sorority also engaged in community service in many ways in the communities where chapters are established, incuding the District of Columbia.) Affiliate of National Council of Negro Women, Inc.

Cosmopolitan Business & Professional Club, Chartered January, 1967, by National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. Serving as Parliamentarian.

Religious affiliations

Member, Peoples' Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, 4704 13th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Formerly Financial Secretary of the church for approximately 15 years; member of Board of Trustees, for approximately 10 years; former President, Women's Fellowship; presently member of the Church Council. Member, and President, The Friendly Circle of People's Congregational Church, first term, since September, 1967.

Member, and Chairman, Governing Committee of the Institute of Church and Society, Council of Churches of Greater Washington, having been a member for a number of years. Member, Board of Directors, Council of Churches. Chairmanship of the Governing Committee of the Institute and service as member of the Board of Directors represent a second time for both in the history of association with the Council of Churches, previously known as The Washington Federation of Churches. Member, Board of Trustees, Potomac Association of Congregational Christian Churches, United Church of Christ.

Community service organizations (and others, civic, etc.)

Served as member, Board of Directors, Washington Urban League, Inc., for several years, until 1956, and in last two years, was 2nd Vice President; was Chairman of Annual Meeting on two occasions; represented the League as member of United Community Services (UGF) Recreation and Group Work Section and Corrections Section; also was Moderator of Urban League radio program: The Bridge Between, on radio station WOOK.

Served as member, and Legal Adviser, Central Northwest Civic Association; and as Alternate Delegate to Federation of Civic Associations; as member, Freedmen's Hospital Nursing School Council; as member, Board of Directors, United Givers Fund, Inc.; as member, Board of Directors, Southeast Neighborhood House; as member, Board of Directors, Health and Welfare Council; as Advisor, organization of Big Sisters; as member, Board of Trustees, Family & Child Services of Washington, D.C., two terms, and in latter, as Secretary to the Board, helping, to direct oldest family and child services agency in the District of Columbia, with its facilities offered not only in the central city, but in the near and far northeast, southwest and southeast sections, and in camping services, among many others; as member of legal committee of local branch, N.A.A.C.P.; still retaining membership in organization; as member of legal committee, National Council of Negro Women, Inc., also served as member of Executive Board (1948-1952); as member, and Parliamentarian, The Barristers' Wives, Inc.

Served as only Negro attorney for Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws, which committee spearheaded efforts leading to United States Supreme Court decision confirming validity of laws requiring equal service in restaurants, places of public accommodation, etc. This decision preceded the Supreme Court decision integrating schools. The impact of the case (District of Columbia vs Thompson) on social acceptance was historymaking. Entire service purely voluntary; hundreds of hours were involved, in

research, in conferences, in meetings, in demonstrations, and in court appearances, as well as in the preparation of briefs for the appeals involved.

Political affiliations (Republican)

Virginia White Speel Republican Women's Club; Formerly member District of Columbia Republican Committee.

Citations and awards

December 1950: NAACP Trophy, from Federation of Civic Associations for outstanding civic activity during previous year.

June 1951: Cited, National Council of Negro Women, Inc., as one of America's Outstanding Women; 1951: Elected to Afro-American Newspaper Honor Roll and awarded plaque.

April 1954: Cited, as Woman of the Year, by The Barristers' Wives, Inc., awarded plaque, and $100.00 for favorite charity, which was donated to the Washington Urban League, Inc.

May 1957: Cited by Sigma Delta Tau Legal Fraternity for outstanding professional service.

December 1961: Cited, People's Congregational Church, for meritorious service, awarded plaque.

January 1967: Cited, Lambda Kappa Mu Sorority, Inc., elected to Distinguished Service Key Chapter; awarded distinguished service key.

Was one of Organizers of United Community National Bank, 3940 Minnesota Ave., NE.

J. C. TURNER

Born: November 4, 1916, Beaumont, Texas.

Family: Married Mary P. Curtis in 1934; children: Vivian, Daniel, Brian, Lisa, Loren.

Present address: 6961 32nd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Present Position:

Business Manager of Local 77, International Union of Operating Engineers. Second General Vice President of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

Education:

High School Eastern High School, Washington, D.C.

College Catholic University. Graduate work in economics, Catholic University and American University.

Employment:

Active in Operating Engineers, Local 77, Washington, D.C. since 1934. Full time employee of Local 77 since 1940. Business Manager of Local 77 since 1950.

Labor Counselor to International Labor Organization, 1950-1951. Attended I.L.O. Conferences in Geneva in 1950, 1952 and 1964.

Organizations:

Labor Member, D.C. Minimum Wage & Industrial Safety Board, 1944 to 1948.

Vice President, Washington Central Labor Union, 1948 to 1958; President, Greater Washington Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, 1958 to present. Vice President, Washington Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, 1952 to 1965; President, Washington Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, 1965 to present.

Vice President and Secretary, Maryland State, D.C. Federation of Labor, 1950 to 1957; Second Vice President, Maryland State, D.C., AFL-CIO, 1957 to present.

Labor Member, D. C. Unemployment Compensation Board, 1958 to present. Member of Commissioners' Citizens Advisory Council, 1952 to 1957. (Charter Member).

President, Washington Clearing House on Slum Clearance & Urban Development, 1950 to 1957.

Board Member and former officer of Washington Planning & Housing Association, 1944 to present.

Board Member, D.C. Citizens for Better Housing, succeeded by Housing
Development Corporation. Executive Committee Member, Housing
Development Corporation, 1964 to present.

Chairman, Advisory Committee D.C. Apprentice Information Center, 1963 to present.

Member, Washington Metropolitan Area Jobs Council, 1966 to present. Member, Advisory Council, D.C. Manpower Training and Development. Board Member and former officer of Washington Criminal Justice Association, 1943 to 1955.

Public Member, Selections Board, Foreign Service, U.S. Department of State, 1951.

Board of Trustees, D.C. Public Library, 1960 to 1967.

Executive Board Member and former Treasurer, American Association for the United Nations, National Capitol Area Chapter, 1945 to present. Trustees, Greater Washington Educational Television Association, Channel 26 from 1957 to present.

Board Member, Washington Urban League, 1960 to 1966. Adviser to Washington Urban League, 1966 to present.

Member, Board of Directors, Boys Club, Metropolitan D. C. Police, 19631964.

1st Vice President, District of Columbia Metropolitan Area Highway Users Conference, 1964 to 1967.

Member, Board of Trustees, United Planning Organization, 1960 to present. Member, D.C. Citizens for Better Public Education, 1965 to present.

Member Advisory Committee, D.C. Board of Education Model School System.

Member, Board of Directors, Y.W.C.A., 1966 to present.

Member, Board of Directors, Big Brothers of National Capitol Area, 1966 to present.

Advisory Committee Member, Department of Interior for Haines Point Bridge, 1967 to present.

National Committeeman, Democratic National Committee for the District of Columbia, 1960; Delegate to Democratic Convention, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964. Chairman of D.C. Delegation in 1956.

Vice Chairman, D.C. Democratic Committee, 1952 to 1960 and 1964 to 1967. Represented U.S. Workers at Ditchley Foundation in August 1966 at Ditchley House, England and addressed Anglo American Parliamentary Association at British Parliament, London, 1966.

High school: Received diploma from Cardozo High School, Washington, D.C., June 1950. Academic Course.

Honors and activities: President, Honor Society; Captain, High School Cadet Corps; Recipient, National Speech Award; Recipient, Honor Society Scholarship; School Representative to Oratorical Contests; President, French Club; Literary Editor, School Yearbook.

Undergrad: Bachelor of Science Degree from the D.C. Teachers College, Washington, D.C., in June, 1957, with a major in Mathematics and English.

Honors and Activities: Elected to Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges; Outstanding Senior Student Award; President, Senior Class; President, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity; Vice-President, Student Council; Chairman, Inter-Fraternity-Sorority Council; Chairman, Men's Council; Chairman, Home-Coming Čommittee, Winner, College Essay Contest.