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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE HIGH POINT MODEL CITY COMMISSION
July 21,1972
Active In Projects^ Decision-Making
Women Take Vital Part In Model Cities Process
You may not call it the result of
Female Liberation, but women have
made their mark on Model Cities.
It’s not a telltale dishwater stain
or a lipstick smudge, but the mark of
a job well done.
In few organizations are women so
well represented, and have so unique
an opportunity to make a meaningful
contributifi
from all sectors of community life is
essential for Model Cities to be a
success.
As for the women, they make up
at least half of all active members on
Model Cities task forces. Ten of the
40 Model City Commissioners are
women. Of the 35 on the combined
staffs of the City Demonstration Agen
cy, Information and Evaluation De-
The mucti - puDucized women s
movement — brought even more into
focus recently with the national polit
ical conventions — has been booed and
praised. Some think that aggressiveness
in a woman is unfeminine, that her
place is in the home.
Others, however, feel that women
must seek out her own place — do
“her own thing,” be it on the job, on
the platform or on the ballot.
It might be said that Model Cities
and these new and experienced fe
male leaders have become partners,
and the results have been beautiful.
In Model Cities, participation is not
limited to a few of one race, age or
sex. In fact, the involvement of those
NELLIE JONES
YVONNE McCALL
UNIQUE SKILLS
All bring a unique set of qualifica
tions and skills to their job, and have
made what is generally agreed is an
outstanding effect on the work of
Model Cities.
Ms. Jones, who was a double biology
and chemistry major at A&T State
University, has been with her operating
agency, Guilford County Economic
Opportunity Council, for years.
She began as a coimselor of the Coun
ty-wide Neighborhood Youth Corps
(NYC) and has since moved up to the
director’s position of the program.
Nellie Jones feels strongly about
women’s roles. “A woman should have
the opportunity to pursue a career, of
course,” she says. "Women have an
important contribution to make. Just
because a woman is married, and has