The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 12

SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1967 Early Deaths Cancel Pact to Aid Needy THE COURIER-JOURNAL TIMES, LOUISVILLE, KY. 5620 Curriers Used Fortune Fighting National Problems PRESTON HWY. orrosm vidian txajl showino conn- NOW OPEN ANEW MONFRIED LOCATION it is understood, is in various trusts for their children. Stephen Currier. 36, was Harvard-educated, stiff, formal Mrs.

Carrier, 33, was small and shy. They were married secretly in 1955 because she wanted to rs. to Serve You -Zl ll Better! Complete Optical Service Prescription Eyeglasses Contact Lenses Hearing Aids By ROBERT E. BAKES lee Aneoioe Ttma-WMMnfllM PmI Service WASHINGTON The wills of Mr. and Mrs.

Stephen R. Currier philanthropic patrons of human need rather than the arts have been filed in Manhattan Surrogate's Court The court has also been asked to declare officially that the Curriers, who disappeared on a chartered plane flight between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Jan. 17, are dead. Thus ends the story of a remarkable couple who made a pact a dozen years ago to spend their immense wealth during their lifetimes on causes they felt were good for the country. They died young, before they could do it.

Their wills call for the distribution of $30 million, two-thirds to the Taconic Foundation that they established in 1958 and a quarter to their children, Anrea, 10, Lavinia, 9, and Michael, 6. That $30 million is only a fraction of the Curriers' wealth. The personal fortune of Audrey Currier, daughter of David K. E. Bruce, U.S.

ambassador in London, and granddaughter of the late Andrew W. Mellon, the Pittsburgh financier, is estimated at $700 million. And Stephen Currier was wealthy in his own right The bulk of their estates, so she could spend time with her children out of the headlines. In 1958 he established the Taconic Foundation to deal in the sensitive area of civil rights at a time when few other foundations were willing, or perceptive enough, to do so. But this was Currier's mark the innovative, inventive philanthropist In 1961 Currier brought a group of people to Potomac Institute here, which Taconic supports, to "brain storm" the next program for helping the cause of civil rights.

They came up with the voter education project, four years before the Voting Rights Act, for they saw Negro voter registration as a root problem in the South. Currier was not just a spender. He saw value in diversified support for civil' rights. In 1963, when Bull Connor turned the dogs loose on Birmingham Negroes, Currier went out and solicited $1.5 million from the wealthy for a financial pool for seven civil rights organizations. He saw his role as a catalyst for solving problems one of them was money in the civil rights movement His action steadied the major civil rights groups at a time of despair and growing distress.

To bolster Lady Bird Johnson's desire for a more beautiful capital city. Currier retained Lawrence Halprin, who came up with bold proposals for new parks and recreation areas for Washington. And, with the thrust of the civil rights movement blunted, Currier turned to the problems of the big cities. He formed Urban America, and, shortly before his death, was serving as the catalyst to bring together the mayors, industry, labor and civil rights leaders together in an effort to make the urban crisis a top priority item on the national agenda. This was the reason he was in the Caribbean at the time of his death.

He had been talking to industrial leaders in Boca Raton, about joining in the battle to solve the urban crisis. Despite such big projects, Currier was also interested in the little man and young people. The Curriers built a multimillion-dollar home that was a work of art "Kinlock" in Fauquier County, Va. and took a personal interest in the adjacent town of The Plains. The $20 million left in the Curriers' wills to the Taconic Foundation will provide about a million dollars a year, less than the average amount the Curriers were contributing but sufficient to keep it a going concern, to provide innovative ideas in the human rights field.

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