Gerard E. Sherry, managing editor of the Georgia Bulletin, has been named to receive the 1965 James J. Hoey Award for Interracial Justice of the Catholic Interracial Council of New York.

The Hoey awards are given annually to a white and a Negro Catholic for “outstanding contributions to the cause of interracial understanding.” The Negro recipient is James R. Dumpson, former New York Commissioner of Welfare and now assistant director of the Hunter College school of social work.

Presentation of the 1965 awards will be at an Oct. 31 luncheon in the Hotel Commodore.

Previous Hoey award winners include labor leader Philip Murray; Sargent Shriver, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Peace Corps; AFL-CIO president George Meany; and Frank A. Hall, former director of the Press Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference.

Dumpson, author of several books and many articles, has been a member of the President’s Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse; chief of the U.S. Delegation to a seminar of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the far East; and UN adviser and chief of training in social welfare for the government of Pakistan.

Sherry, a native of England, became a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 1955. He was cited for his “outspoken editorials” which, the New York Catholic Interracial Council said, “have brought to Atlanta fresh Christian light on social problems.” Sherry recently completed a two-year term as president of St. Martin’s Human Relation Council, the interracial unit of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.