Los Angeles Urban League

Blair Taylor, executive vice president of College Summit, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that helps low-income high school students get into college, will succeed John W. Mack as president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Urban League, the league announced Thursday. The appointment was hailed by Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles), for whom Taylor served as a senior staff member when Ridley-Thomas was a member of the Los Angeles City Council.

Chase Manhattan is making $50 million available for mortgage loans over the next two years to increase the number of homeowners in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods of Los Angeles County, the company announced Tuesday. Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp. and Chase Manhattan Bank are backing the program with the Los Angeles Urban League and Operation HOPE, a nonprofit investment banking organization.

Bringing people together and getting them to act in unison are not necessarily the same. The crowd that filled the Century Plaza Hotel ballroom to its rim Thursday night for the Los Angeles Urban League 22nd annual Whitney M. Young Jr. award dinner was clearly delighted to be there; it just wasn't much inclined to stick to the schedule. "I'm the person who drew the short straw so you'll be spared some of my thoughts," said League President John W.

The Los Angeles Urban League's automotive training center in the Crenshaw district has joined in a partnership with Philadelphia-based Pep Boys to provide instruction and employment for 300 people in the next year, officials announced Thursday. The automotive training center was established in 1992 after the Los Angeles riots in a joint venture with Toyota to teach skills that would lead to careers in the automotive industry.