June 30, 1983
The Voice
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Service Awards Cont. Wrisley Receives Honor Events In Black History
Research by: Marion Crowe
J. W. SEABROOK SPECIAL
SERVICE AWARDS
President Student Government
Association: Jerry Beatty
Miss Fayetteville State University:
Lydia Day
Miss Student Center: Leola Weaks
Outstanding Service Award: Charles
Artis
OUTSTANDING SERVICE IN
RESIDENCE HALLS
Bryant Hall: Terri Lynn Williams
Harris Hall: Cynthia Taliaferro
Joyner Hall: Ruth Merritt
New Residence Hall (Female):
Rochelle Gore
Vance Hall: Berry Harris
OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO
FSU NEWSPAPER
Dedicated Service; Jackie Stewart
Outstanding Service: Emanuel
Vaughn, Jr.
MUSIC AWARDS
Band Director’s Award: Michael
Alexander
Paul Robeson Award for Outstanding
Baritone: Archie Williams
Roland Hayes Award for Outstanding
Tenor: Michael Mozingo
Marian Anderson Award: Teresa
Johnson
Leontyne Price Award for Outstanding
Soprano: Denise Mitchell
John Phillip Sousa Award for Senior
Bandman: Daniel Dunlap
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Outstanding Service Award: Carlton
Davis, Norman Johnson, Harvey
Moseley Shelia Rogers and Terri
Williams
Recognition for Service to the Student
Government Association: Angela
Collins, James Collins, Jeffery Cooper,
Marjorie Council, Arleen Crawford,
Arrida Henry, Gevevieve Jones,
Andrea McCrea, Ramona Morrow,
David Myers, Donita Norman,
Michelle Robinson, Stephone Sanders,
Stanley Singleton, Deborah Smith,
Valeric Strayhorn, Emanuel Vaughn,
Jr., Mary Williams, Herman Wilson
and Marion Coe.
Dr. Robert L. Wrisley, Assistant
Professor of Business Education and
Office Administration at Fayetteville
State University, was recently honored
at the 29th Annual State Leadership
Conference of the North Carolina
Future Business Leaders of America
Organization. At the conference held in
Winston-Salem, Dr. Wrisley was
presented an honorary life membership
in the North Carolina FBLA
organization for his outstanding and
faithful service to the organization.
During the fall of 1982, The Division
of Business and Economics with the
North Moore High School FBLA
Chapter, with Dr. Wrisley as
Coordinator, co-hosted a leadership
conference for high school students in
the fourth educational district.
Approximately 850 students and
advisors attended this conference. In
February, during National Vocational
Week, assistance was also given to the
North Moore High School FBLA
Chapter in the conducting of various
competitive events at Fayetteville State
University.
The Future Business Leaders of
America organization is comprised of
junior and senior high school students
in all fifty states and the U. S. territories.
There are more than 200,000 young men
and women in the national organization
and over 10,500 members in the North
Carolina state chapter. Various
activities are designed to supplement
regular classroom instruction by
encouraging strong leadership qualities
so that students can become business
leaders tomorrow.
In addition to Dr. Wrisley’s FBLA
activities, he serves as President-elect of
the Business and Office Division of
North Carolina Vocational Association
and Chairperson of the Public
Relations Committee of the North
Carolina Business Education
Association.
May 10, 1854 - Elizabeth Taylor
Greenfield, “The Black Swan,” sang
before Queen Victoria at Buckingham
Palace. She was the first black to
appear in a command performance
before royalty.
May 11, 1895 - William Grant Still,
noted classical composer and
conductor, was born in Woodville,
Mass. Having studied music at
Wilberforce University, Oberlin
College and the New England
Conservatory of Music, Still has the
distinction of having received the first
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934. Still’s
works consist of more than 100
orchestral compositions, five
symphonies, and six operas. He died
December 3, 1978.
May 11,1911 - James A. Bland, a singer
and composer of minstrel songs, died in
Philadelphia at the age of 56. Bland
composed much of his music while he
was a student at Howard University.
His Carry Me Back To Old Virginia
was adopted by the state of Virginia as
its official song. He wrote nearly 700
songs. Bland added a fifth string to the
banjo, creating a more versatile
instrument. After a spectacular career
as a minstrel, he died penniless. In 1946
he was honored by the Lions Club of
Virginia, and a monument was erected
over his grave in Bala Cyniord, PA.
May 12, 1951 - Oscar De Priest, first
black to be elected to Congress from the
northern state, Illinois, died in Chicago.
He was elected as a Republican to the
71st, 72nd, and 73rd Congress, as the
only black in Congress from 1929 to
1933. He was courageous a fighter for
every legal guarantee of rights for
blacks, and also against every aspect of
racial bias.
May 16,1947 - Herman Marion Sweatt,
a black man from Houston, lost the first
round of suit for admission to the
University of Texas as a law student.
District Judge Roy C. Archer, in
Austin, ruled that segregation of white
^nd black schools in Texas was required
by the state constitution. The decision
was reversed when the U.S. Supreme
Court ordered the University of Texas
to admit Sweatt into the law school.
May 17,1708 - Mark Anthony William
Amu, philosopher and counselor for the
state of Germany, was born near Fort
San Antonio, Axim, Gold Coast. Amu
was a teacher of the German
philosopher Immanuel Kant, who
refers to Amu in several of his books.
Amu studied at Halle in Saxony, and at
the University of Williamberg where he
distinguished himself as a student of the
Latin and the Greek languages as well as
Hebrew, French, Dutch and German.
May 17, 1954 - The Supreme Court
ruled that racial segregation in public-
supported schools is unconstitutional,
therefore, outlawing the doctrine of
“separate but equal.”
May 19, 1925 - Malcolm X, the
controversial Black Muslim who
evoked the thunder of revolution during
the sixties, was born in Omaha, Neb.
The former Malcolm Little rose from
meager beginnings and a life of crime to
become one of the most eloquent and
powerful speakers of the era. After
acquainting himself with the doctrine of
the Black Muslims during his ten year
prison sentence for burglary, he
converted to its radical point of view.
After his parole in 1952, he became an
outspoken defender of their doctrine,
seeking publicity through raging
speeches about retribution and
vengenance against white people, at
predominantly white gatherings. When
in 1963, he characterized the Kennedy
assassination as a case of the “chickens
coming home to roost”, he was
suspended from the Black Muslims by
leader Elijah Muhammand. He soon
formed his own protest group called the
Organization of Afro-American Unity.
His philosophies altered somewhat
after his holy pilgrimmage to Mecca.
His doctrine changed from vengenance
to world brotherhood. Despite his
sometimes conflicting racial attitudes,
he continuously preached the value of
self help, self love and education for
black people. He was assassinated in
1965 and buried as A1 Hajj Malik al-
Shabazz.
May 21, 1904 - Thomas (Fats) Waller,
pianist and composer, was born in New
York City. Waller, a major jazz creator,
was the first musician to play jazz
successfully on the pipe organ. In 1922,
Waller made his first record, “It Ain’t
Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do”, followed by
“Ain’t Misbehavin”, “Black and Blue”,
and “Honeysuckle Rose”. Waller was
the first solo jazz artist to play Carnegie
Hall.
May 29, 1886 - Charles H. Mahoney
attorney, business organizer and
politician, was bom in Decatur, Mich.
Mahoney helped organize the Great
Lakes Mutual Insurance Company in
1928, of which he later became
president and board chairman. His
appointments included City Planning
Commission, the Wayne County Board
of Supervisors and the Michigan Labor
Commission. He was one of the
organizers of the Public Bank of
Detroit, and a member of its board of
directors. He once served as associate
counsel to famed criminal lawyer
Clarence Darrow. In 1954, he was
appointed by President Dwight D.
Eisenhower as the first black full
delegate to the United Nations General
Assembly.
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