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Herbert Wells, 79, learned the fund-raising business as a partner in the pioneer firm of Ward, Wells and Dreshman, founded in Fort Worth in 1911. Son Lewis, 49, a wartime lieutenant colonel in the Air Force who had once thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister, set up his own firm in 1946, later decided to specialize in religious causes. That led to Wells Organizations...
...scholarly studies are regarded as textbooks for the business. Smaller firms are Ward, Wells & Dreshman, and Tamblyn & Brown (out of fund-raising and into public relations exclusively for the duration). Together these Manhattan firms have raised over $2,000,000,000 for nonprofit causes. They have had to be patient, elusive and resourceful, with the corporate manners of an undertaker and the understanding of a Freud. Once, when Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams College, they happened to print a part of the College song, The Mountains, in a pamphlet. Checks fluttered in. When Horace Dutton...
...Lincoln, Neb. (population: 71,100) professional money-getters (Ward, Wells & Dreshman) raised $146,819, exceeding last year...
...resignation was that he wanted to identify himself "with a larger ministry whose influence and field of service is national." He said he had time and again been invited to other pulpits, had invariably declined. But now he had been asked to join the firm of Ward, Wells & Dreshman, specialists in philanthropic, educational and religious financing. In the past ten years this Manhattan firm has raised...
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