The success of the project is exactly what the Reader's Digest Foundation was hoping for - making connections between local library systems and school libraries more effective.

The Reader's Digest Foundation has developed what it calls the Tall Tree Initiative.

For the first two years, the group was sponsored by Moral Re-armament and the Readers Digest Foundation.

The Reader's Digest Foundation gave $700 to match two-for-one contributions by employees of the magazine.

This year, teachers from Rye elementary schools will use the children's room for after-school tutoring in a program financed by the Reader's Digest Foundation.

He also heads the board of directors that runs the Reader's Digest Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the company.

Funds are being supplied by the Reader's Digest Foundation.

The cost, $75,000, is being paid for with a grant from the Dewitt Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation.

He was later named executive vice president and general manager, retiring in 1971 as executive director of the Reader's Digest Foundation.

The program is paid for by the Reader's Digest Foundation and administered by the College Art Association.