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GAMBRELL & MOBLEY 3900 F IRST NATIONA L BANK BUILD I NG ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303 DAVID H . GAMBRELL JOHN H . MOBLEY ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSON June 17, 1969 J . ROBERT OWENS ROBERT D . FEAGIN III 404 / 525-8571 JEREMIAH LU X E MBURG ER LEON L . RICE ITI Mayor Ivan Allen , J r . City Hall 68 Mitchell Street, S.W. Atlanta, Ge orgia 30334 Re : Atlanta Youth Council Dear Mayor Allen: John Cox has tendered and the Executive Committee of the Youth Council has accepted his resignation from his job as Executive Director as of July 31, 1969. John is leaving the Youth Council to take Frank Thomas' job as Executive Director of the Butler Street Y. The Executive Committee of the Youth Council feels that John has served the Council diligently and effectively during his tenure as Executive Director. Before attempting to recruit a successor to John Cox, we wanted to ask y ou if you had any s uggestions for a s uccessor that we could offer to the committee in charge of selecting such a person and also to ask y ou if y our conception of the Youth Council or of the job to be filled had changed. As y ou may remember, there was some talk last Fall of conso lidating the Youth Council with another group s uch as the Crime Commission or the Community Relations Commi ssion. At that time, we were anxious to ge t the Council functioning and i t s pro g rams underwa y and did not want to ge t involved in a re-examinati o n of its p urposes or its p l ace in the structure o f City Government. That is still a fair assessment of the sentiment of the Executive Committee. Ne v e rthe l e s s , if changes in the status of the Council are contemplated, the Executive Committee felt that these changes should be known to it and taken into ac c ount in its p roce s s of rec ruiting a s ucces s or to John Cox . Very t r uly y ours , & JL/kt YOUTH �Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr . . June 17, 1969 Page 2 CC: Mr. Dan Sweat Mr. John Cox Mr. Michael Trotter Mr. DeJongh Franklin Mrs. Margaret Perdue Mr. Fletcher Coombs �