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THE CAROLINA INDI/ | VOICE
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V0LUME ,2- NUMBER 29 ISc PEE COPT V' O 5 THURSDAY. JULY 19, 19M |
NEW "MISS LUMBEE"
A RISING JUNIOR
AT PEMBROKE STATE
by Gene Warren
The new "Miss Lumbee"--Pam Ox
endine, who was crowned during the
annual Lumbee Homecoming at Pem
broke, is a personable rising junior at
Pembroke State University with many
distinctions. Among them is the fact that
she is the first member of hei; family to
attend college.
She was also the first among the five
children in her family to go through the
pomp and ceremony of a high school
graduation. Both of the brothers received
their degrees via the GED (General
Education Diploma) route.
Pam also had the broadening ex
perience as a youth of spending six years
in Germany. Her father was a 21-year
Army veteran who spend part of that
time stationed in Europe.
"I went from kindergarten through the
first grade in Germany," said Pam. "We
were transferred to another place for a
short time, then returned to Germany
where I went from the third through the
fifth grade." Her home address is now
Rt. 1, Rowland.
The new "Miss Lumbee," the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Oxendine,
also took part in the widely-hailed
Pembroke State University "Upward
Bound" program for two years. This is a
program where high school juniors and
seniors live on the campus during the
summer and are helped instruction-wise
in preparing for college and also
graduate school. It is for students who
meet certain financial criteria.
-Continued Page S
Pam Oxendine
Miss Lumbee
Pam Oxen dine..."Miss Lumbee" from
Rt. 1, Rowland, who la a rising junior at
Pembroke State University.
Health Careers Awareness Project Summer Program Ends
Students [left to right] sre?[front row]: Colette Dial, Cutis Brigman, Ltxette
Harris, Lisa Ellis, Deborah McCaDnm. Kim McCartney, Billy Flelda, Jr., Janes
F. Bridges, Randy Cufyle and Cera Lena Loddear [assbtant]; [Middle row]
Lynn Ivey, Brenda Wfllongbby, Renee Thomas, Barbara OxemRae, Deena
Strickland, Frances Hant, Carol Rogers, and Gwen Jones; [back rew}~lvan
Edwards, Sylvia Cbavis, Danielle Brooks, Benlta Brewer, Caaaandia Hat,
Michelle Lowiy, Rickey Hafiey and John Boris Loddear [asaistant]. ?
by Marcla LocUear
The Health Career Aware
ness Project of the Robeson
County Board of Education
recently completed the 1984
Health Careers Summer En
richment Program. The pro
gram, held June 11 - July 11,
involved 24 high school sen
iors representative of all six
county high schools. The
summer program was held on
the campus of Pembroke State
University and at the Robeson
County Educational Resource
Center.
Participating in the pro
gram were seniors who are
aspiring to become health
professionals. The Health Ca
reers staff utilizes resources
ty
during the four-week program
to expose the students to
different health careers and
enhance their interest toward
that career.
This exposure is achieved
by role models who talk with
the students individually and
by tours to different health
curriculum! throughout the
state. There are tours to local
institutions of health care as
wen as East Carolina Uni
versity, University of North
Carolina at Chapel HU1. Wake
Forest University, and Bow
man Gray School of Medicine
in Winston-Salem.
Along with exposure to
different health careers, the
' t' ' ' '{
students receive instruction in
study skills, reading, memo
rization and test taking. These
skills were taught by Dr.
Mary Boyles, Dr. Ray Beatty,
Dr. Kathy Sullivan and Ms.
Fay McKethan of Pembroke
State University. Also during
the program, students receiv
ed training in cardio- pulmo
nary resuscitation. They were
involved in mock interviews to
strengthen their skills' for
health professional schools'
interviewing processes.
The project's activities are
not only to expose the stu
dents to different health car
eers, but to assist the stu
dents in making their career
x
plans more realistic and ob
tainable. The project staff
feels the skills learned will
enhance the ability of the
students to succeed in their
chosen health profession.
The summer program end
ed on July 11, 1964 with
certificates of attendance pre
sented to all twenty-four
participants. Working with
the participants dating the
foar weeks was health careers
counselors Maids Lock!ear
and Rhonda Dial. Student
assists were Cora Lena Lock
lear and John Boris Locktear
Coordinating the many acti
vities for the summer pro
gram was Rose Marie Lowry. ? ?
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Mrs.
Vera Ix>\* ry
to Chair
"Wheels
for Life"
Bike
A-Thon
Mrs. Vera Lowry has been
appointed Chairman for the
annual "Wheels for Life"
Bike-A-Thon in Pembroke.
The event is scheduled for
September 15, 1984, with a
rain date of September 22,
1984. This ride will benefit St.
Jude Children's Research
Hospital.
A special meeting for vo
lunteers to meet is scheduled
for Friday, July 20 at 7 p.m.,
at Sheff s Seafood Restaurant
in Pembroke.
St. Jude Children's Re
search Hospital is a research
treatment- education center
where physicians and scien
tists working side by side
have actually succeeded in
rewriting medical textbooks
through painstaking research
and treatment advances.
This institution, now the
largest childhood cancer re
search center in America,
owes its establishment to a
promise made years ago by
entertainer, Danny Thomas.
His dream became reality
when the doors of this non
sectarian research hospital
opened in 1962 dedicated
solely to the conquest of
hopeless diseases of children.
When St. Jude Hospital
accepted its first patient, the
survival rate for children
diagnosed with acute lymph
ocytic leukemia was less than
five percent. Today, the dis
ease-free survival figure for
children in long-term remis
sion has grown to more than
50 percent. Procedures that
originated at St. Jude are now
being used to treat children
throughout the United States
and other parts of the world.
St. Jude Children's Re
search Hospital has treated
children from 39 states and 29
foreign countries. Upon re
ferral from their physician
they are admitted to a resear
ch study without regard to
race, creed, national origin, or
ability to pay. The sole criteria
is a medical determination
that their disease is under
study. They receive the very
best and latest total medical
care because it is through
these children that we will
learn how to save others.
St. Jude Hospital is largely
supported by voluntary con
tributions which are tax de
ductible. Events such as the
"Wheels for Life" bike ride
raise the funds to continue the
research and treatment pro
grams which are freely shared
with all physicians and re
search scientists, extending
the benefits of its work
beyond its walls to children
' throughout the world.
PEOPLE
ANDPLACES
AND THINGS
MSFA TAKING APPLICATIONS
The Pembroke office of the Migrant
and Seasonal Farmworkers Association
is taking applications for enrollment in
anticipation of the new grant year which
begins July 1st.
MSFA is funded to assist low income
farmworkers in securing full-time em
ployment through job development and
training. To be eligible for program
services you must:
1) Be at least 18 years old and
interested in a full-time job;
2) Must have worked on a farm for
wages within the last (24) months;
3) Must meet JTPA guidelines.
If you are interested in putting in an
application, please call (521-8511) or
come by the office at College Court in
Pembroke.
Migrant & Seasonal Farm
Workers Assoc., Inc.
P.O. Box 1120
Pembroke, NC 28372
Pembroke
Klwanis News
Dr. Ken Johnson
Program Chairman Wade Hunt pre
sented Anthony Locklear. Director of
Admissions at PSU. Mr. Locklear said we
are very pleased with our progress with
admissions. "We are evaluating our
procedures and our enrollment is up in
transfer students. And we are also up in
our enrollment of male students."
The State Department 'of Public
Instruction has presented a projection
chart dealing with the number of high
school graduates in the State of North
Carolina each year. "In admissions," he
said, "we use these charts and have
found that there is a drop in the number
of high school graduates from 70.000 in
1982 to 67.000 in 1983 and 65,000 in
1984. We are more competitive in
recruiting as we have a closer working
relationship with high school counselors.
We have them visit our campus. We
send out news letters to them informing
them as to what is going on in the
campus and what is projected for the
future. We have excellent brochures and
we have a computer system in touch with
the Raleigh Triangle where we get all
kinds of information on prospective
students. This data is very important as
we are able to use it and make decisions
from it. We draw 80% of our enrollment
from eastern North Carolina and 50%
from Robeson County. PSU has been the
most economical in cost. Costs of
out-of-state students is lower than most
other institutions. The Consent decree
helps us in looking for outstanding
minority students. This year our publica
tions created desire to attend PSU. We
have excellent full-color photography for
our attractive brochures. The admissions
staff now has funds to trvel to other
-CON! INUED PAGE 6
HOKE COUNTY'S JAMES MARTIN
NAMED ROBESON COUNTY
MANAGER
It was a bit of a surprise Monday
night as Hoke County manager James
Martin was named to replace tne retiring
Paul Graham as Robeson County mana
ger effective September 1. Martin will
serve under the tutelage of Graham who
is retiring December 31.
Martin's hiring was presented on a
motion by H.T. Taylor without comment
and carried unanimously. Commis- iner
Jack Morgan was not present at the
meeting.
Martin. 36. and county manager in
nearby Hoke for seven years was called
"very capable" by Carl Britt, County
Commission Chairman.
HEARING HELD ON UNIFYING
SMITHS PRECINCTS
A public hearing was held Tuesday
in reference to the recent 2-1 vote by the
Board of Elections to re-unite North and
south Smiths precincts into one precinct
again. The board voted at a recent
meeting to rejoin the precincts, subject
to a public hearing and the approval of
the Justice Department since Robeson
County is subject to the '65 Voting Rights
Act.
Some 100 people attended the hearing,
and the majority seemed to be in favor of
a single precinct in the mostly Indian
area, anchored by the Prospect Com
munity.
P/os and cons. were heard, including
remarks by former Elections Chairman
and Prospect notable Herbert Moore who
led the effort to split the Precinct during
his stint in office. Moore cited inconven
ience and unequal distances to the
polling place as reasons for splitting the
precinct noting that "you are bound by
law to establish a convenient number of
polling places..."
Dexter Locklear was one of those in
favor of one precinct and remembered
that he gathered some 900 signatures
last year opposing the splitting of the
precinct. Locklear and proponents be
lieve one central location eliminates
confusion among the Smiths electorate.
Mrs. Emma Locklear presently serves
as Chairperson of the Elections Board
and voted in favor of re-uniting the
precinct on June 1. Like Moore, she is a
leader in the Prospect Community and
Smiths Precinct.
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Coharie
Indian news
By FRANCES MAY NOR
Coharie United Methodist Church
will sponsor a chicken and (Ml plate
sale Saturday on the church groimda
beginning at 11 a. m. Plataa will ba H
each.
Homer and Barbara Fairdoth and
children spent last weekend In
B as sett, Va., with Barbara's
mother, Mrs. Linda Meeks. Mrs.
Meeks brought the gbia home and
?pent a night with them.
Mrs. Bobby (Grade) Amnions
? celebrated her birthday in July.
Herbert Ammons treated hie
. Meter Doris to a cooteoat last
Saturday for bar birthday. Ma.
I Viola Ammoue and famty and
William Smiling were guests along
' with members ol the Willie Ammena
family. The family apent Friday
night at Surf City.
Sara Loutee Maynor, grand
daughter of Frances Mayner, la
spendhig eome time in Clinton with
Rter grandmother. She enjoyed a
trip to Fhyetterflle on Tueeday
?ft Dene Falrdoth, Da PbUBpa
tr2n"?ud? Chance is vUtfog
her daughter Batty Lou and family
tt Charlotte tMa week.
Rudy Maynor and family of
Professor Dial interviewed
about4'Lost Colony'4
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