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• e• ROBERT T. JONES. JR . FRANC IS M. BIRD ARTHUR HOWELL EUGENE T. BRANCH EDWARD R. KANE ROBERT L. FQqEMAN, JR. LYMAN H. HILLIARD .. LAW OFFICES \ JONES, BIRD FOURTH & HOWELL FLOOR HAAS-HOWELL BUILDING ROBER T P . JONE S FRAZER DURRETT, JR . EAR LE 8. MAY, JR. TRAMME'- L E.VICKERY RALPH WIL LI AMS . JR. J. DO NALLY SMITH WILLIAM B.WASSON C . DALE HARMAN PEGRAM HARRISON CHAR L ES W. SMITH CHASE VAN VA L KENBURG RICHARD A.ALLISON F. M. BIRD.JR. PEYTON S . HAWES.JR. RAWSON FOREMAN MARY ANN E. SEARS ARTH U R HOWE LL Ill VANCE Q. RANKIN Ill CYRU S E.HORNSBY 111 R ICHARD M.ASB I LL ATLANTA , GEORGIA 30303 187 9- 1956 RALPH W ILLIAMS 19 03- 1960 February 28, 1969 TELEPHONE 522-2508 AREA CODE 404 Honorable Ivan Allen Mayor, City of Atlanta City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Re: Dear Mayor Allen: Volunteer Citizens Services (__ _~ ~ -- -·-,, -) I am writing to you as Chairman of the Board of the Connnunity Council of the Atlanta Area. I, and the others who will be with me, appreciate and look forward to talking with you on next Wednesday afternoon, March 5, regarding a plan for the greater use of individual and group volunteers in the Atlanta area. Those with me on Wednesday will be Dede Hamilton, who is the current President of the Atlanta Junior League, and John DeBorde, who is the representative of the Atlanta Chamber of Connnerce working with us on our volunteer project. You perhaps know John. He is the general agent here for New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. Some months ago there was a meeting of representatives of the Connnunity Council, the Atlanta Chamber of Connnerce , and E . O.A . at which we discussed the possibilities of jointly establishing a means of making a more effective use of volun teers . Dan Sweat was also present and is generally familiar with what has taken place . Following this meeting there was a larger luncheon meeting of about 16 or 17 orga nizations at which there was a general discussion of the same subject. A Steering Cormnittee was appointed to formulate a means of ef fectively recruiting, screening, training, and placing of �