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Saturday, February 12, 1972 Second Section 6 Pages YOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY BUCK BELLHOPPER BECOMES BUSINESS EXECUTIVE David 5. Coley Now Insurante Agent For North GREENSBORO - David S. Coley, who gave up bell hopping 37 years ago to go into the insurance business, re tired this week as manager of the Greensboro District of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Reviewing his long career with the nation's most suc cessful black financial busi • ness, Coley said: "I don't regret a day with the organization. I have never felt insecure with them and I am convinced that that is a real place for the black man in the world of business." Coley had graduated from A&T State University, but found out that during the De pression, he could "make more than teachers by bellhopping." Coley joined the firm as an agent in High Point, knocking on doors to earn his $15.00 Cooperative Education Program Pays Students For Earning Credit Next September, ten to twelve North Carolina Central University students will be working in industry and government for reasonable salaries while still earning aca demic credit. As a result of the new cooperative education program in the department of business and education, they will be able to anticipate higher start ing salaries and more responsi ble positions when they grad uate, because they will have experience their employers want. In fact, according to Robert D. Montgomery, director of the cooperative education pro gram, they may find them selves among the few graduates who get jobs matching their training, if current economic conditions persist. "We knew that when a co-op student graduates, other 2 Blacks Homed To President's Council On Employment Of FOWLER WASHINGTON *- Two black officials, Jesse W. Fowler and Coiet F. Sime, have been appointed to staff positions with the President's Committee on Employment of the Handi capped. Fowler, a native of Cleve land, Ohio, has been named as liaison officer to coordinate the hire-the-handicapped effort with Governors' Committees located in the 50 states. A veteran of 20 years service with the State of Ohio, Fowler will be working with State and local committees throughout the country in an effort to find more jobs for the physi cally and mentally handi capped. In announcing Fowler's ap pointment, Harold Russell, Chairman to the Committee I I i | . 1 COLEY per week. Promotions came fast for the energetic voung salesman, and he was made special ordi nary agent in 1938 and assist ant manager of the district in 1943. He was promoted to things being equal, he is much more valuable to an employer thana non-co-op student. When the economy is slack, as it is now, co-op students will gen erally be getting job 6 when non-co-op students are not," Montgomery said. Cooperative education is a relatively new approach, Montgomery reported although there is a strong movement nationally toward it. "Some schools now require coopera tive education for all their stu dents." At North Carolina Central, business majors will be offered the cooperative education op tion at tne end of their sopho more year and at the beginning of the junior year. "The first step is to find companies willing to hire stu dents in a job challenging to the student. Generally, stu- m SIME said, "The President's Com mittee is broadening its effort to assist and improve the exist ing network of volunteer State and local committees throughout the United States." Fowler most recently was a program specialist for the Ohio Governors' Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped. He also worked with the Cleve land Bureau of Vocational Re habilitation for many years, rising through the ranks from rehabilitation counselor to dis trict supervisor. Fowler is a graduate of Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Marshall Law School. Sims has been appointed to the new position of minority information specialist. He brings extensive business and Che CarpSaCim^o DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 1 manager of the Greensboro District in 1961. A graduate of the Life In surance Agency Management School at Frenck Lick Ind., Coley was honored by North Carolina Mutual as the firm's "manager of the year" in both 1962 and 1964. Aside from his position, Coley has been active in the Greensboro Chamber of Com merce, United Fund, Greens boro Housing Commission, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and the United Presbyterian Church, where he serves as an elder. A native of Wayne County, Coley is married to the former Nelle Artis of Greensboro. He said his retirement plans call for "a little travel, a little civic work, and a little private selling of unsurance." dents will be off campus for one work period (a semester or a summer), on campus for the next work period, and off cam pus again for a second work period," Montgomery said. Students in the cooperative program will be given responsi ble positions, and will be paid salaries "comparable to what the companies would be pay ing for the same job if they were not using co-op stu dents," Montgomery said. They will also receive four hours of academic credit for each off-campus work period. In return, the student has to commit himself "to doing something year round," Mont gomery said. The normal aca demic calendar of nine months leaves a student with an ex tended vacation longer than he is likely to get in business and government employment. » university experience in mi nority affairs to the post. In announcing his appoint ment, Chairman Russell stated, "This new position will help the President's Committee to reach handicapped men and women in minority groups more thoroughly than we might have in the past. Studies have shown us that there is a higher percentage of handi capping conditions among minority sectors in our society than in society at large." Sims is the former editor of the Dravo Corporation company publication, SLANT. While working at the Aliquippa Works of the Hones and Laugh lin Steel Corporation, he es tablished a program to up grade workers' skills. He has also worked for Lincoln Uni versity in Pennsylvania. Sims, a 1958 cum laude graduate of Lincoln University, has completed work towards his Master's Degree at Kent State University in Ohio. He is a former member of the As sociated Editors of Pittsburgh and was listed in "Who's Who in American Colleges and Uni versities" in the 1957-58 edi tion. The President's Committee, in cooperation with other public and private group 6, sti mulates the employment of the physically and mentally handi capped by a continuing pro gram of education and infor mation. A mm HHBHI HI BLACK James Black Attends Annua Ise Meet in Ga Mr. James C. Black, a native of Durham, Director of the Five College Consortium In novative Thrust Program at Saint Augustine's College at tended the annual Ise Program Evaluation Conference which was held in Atlanta, Georgia on February 3, 4, 5, 1972. Some 156 participants from 14 colleges were ex pected to attend the con ference. It was sponsored by the Institute for Services to Education located in Washing ton, D. C. One representative froiri each major area of study In the FCCIT Program attended the conference. The following persons attended: Dr. Helen Othow, Miss Lydia Chiang, Mr. Henry Lewis, Mrs. Adessa Lewis, Dr. Joseph Jones, Jr., Mr. Ramesh Mathur, Dr. Wil bert W. Johnson, Miss Lois Rogers, Miss Carolyn White, Mr. James C. Black, Director. ■*ma» 1l ™ * HUSBAND AND WfFE WORKING TOGETH ER—Some husbands and wives have much in common, like mutual interests in sports, music, travel and the familiar range of hobbies. But engineering is what brought Sickle Cell Disease G Establishes Headquarters In New York The recently formed "Na tional Association for Sickle Cell Disease" (NASCD) has received positive recognition from important corners in its campaign to unite sickle cell related groups throughout the country. Guests at the NASCD's second Directors' meeting (January 22nd and 23rd in New York City) in cluded: Dr. S. Rex Clinton (Baltimore), Chairman pf the Sickle Cell Division of the National Medical Association; NMA Staff Consultant Walter A. Bennett; Doc Ellis (Pitts burgh Pirates) representing the National Black Athletes Foun dation for Research in Sickle Cell Diaease; Willie McCray, the Athletes' Executive Director; and Dr. Yvette Francis (New York), a member of the Federal Official Moves To High Director Of Marketing Analysis Free String Class Planned at NCCU; Instruments are Needed Earl Sanders wants to teach Durham area youngsters to play the violin and other stringed instruments - free. But he needs instruments for them to use. Sanders has asked a group of parents to meet with him this morning at ten o'clock to discuss his plans for a free string class. They will get to gether in room 104 of N. C. Central University's Fine Arts building. i Their children are among those who have heard the NCCU faculty member, Bar bara Cooke, in recitals at their schools over the past four months. Schools visited in cluded Fayetteville Streer, C. C. Spaulding, Lyons Park, Morehead, Burton, Pearson, North Durham, and Y. E. Smith. Sanders, who plays with the North Carolina Piano Trio and a number of symphony or ganizations in Piedmont North Carolina, asked the youngsters if they would like to learn to play. "We got a fairly good re sponse," he said. "But the kids I'm shooting at are really on the poverty margin. They can't afford in struments, and North Carolina Central doesn't have instru ments for this purpose. So I'm asking that people who have in struments they aren't using donate them to NCCU for this program," Sanders said. Walter and Dwyla Walker together. Both are associate engineers for Consumers Power Company in Jackson, Michigan, the nation's twelfth largest investor-owned utility. National Advisory Committee for Sickle Cell Disease of the Department of Health, Educa tion, and Welfare. From the New York meet ings, Mrs. Dorothye H. Bos well (Los Angeles) and Dr. Charles F. Whitten (Detroit), NASCD Chairman and Vice Chairman, traveled to Washing ton, D. C. on January 24th to meet first with Congressman Ralph H. Metcalfe, Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Committee, and next with Senator Richard Schweiker, one of the sponsors df Senate Bill 2676, "To Pro vide for the Prevention of Sickle Cell Anemia." 'Also at these meetings were: Naomi T. Gray, President of the firm re tained to provide staff services North Carolina Central Uni versity students will sit in on the free classes, tentatively scheduled for Saturday morn ings, and will eventually share in teaching duties, Sanders re ported. The free classes will be considered a workshop for the NCCU students. Sanders said he has arranged messages about instruments through the university opera tors st 682-2171, and at exten sion 319, the office of the de partment of music. Calls should be made to the department offices between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. White House Helicopter Malfunctions MIAMI BEACH, Fla. A helicopter carrying 15 White House communications person nel and a crew of three made an emergency landing on the south lip of Miami Beach Sun day after it developed a mal function on a flight from the Bahamas. A White House spokesman said no one was injured, and the Chinook helicopter was not damaged in the landing. The spokesman said the chop pa - developed problems in Its aft transmission while over the Atlantic between Florida and the Bahamas. The communications person nel were returning after spend ing several days in the Ba hamas in anticipation of a pos sible presidential visit to Grand Cay, a small island owned by New York industrialist Robert Abplanalp, a friend of Presi dent Nixon's. for the organization; and Wil liam Montgomery, Assistant for Community and Urban Af fairs, Vice-Chancellor's Office, University of Pittsburgh, who suggested and arranged the interviews. The NASCD is gearing its current activities towards constructing a sound organiza tional base, through which all who are pledged to the fight against this crippling and tragic disease can be involved in a nationally coordinated effort. Organizations engaged in sickle cell work are invited to apply for membership by calling or writing the NASCD temporary headquarters at: 111 West 57th Street, Suite 1108, New York, N. Y. 10019; telephone (212) 247-4716. Local, State and National News of Interest to All ||||^|^^ Duke Professor To Study Behind Iron Curtain How Ivan Ivanovich's edu- j cational experiences compare with Johnny Jones' will be studied by a Duke University professor during a trip behind the Iron Curtain in March. Dr. Allan S. Hurlburt, pro fessor and chairman of Duke's education department, will be among a group of 100-150 educators who will participate in a three-week seminar and field trip beginning around March 4. The study of "Educational Contrasts in Eastern and Wes tern Europe" is sponsored by the comparative and Interna tional Education Society and Phi Delta Kappa, a professional educational fraternity. Its objective, said Hurlburt, is to "become acquainted with Iron Curtain educational sy stems in contrast with our own." The group will visit schools and colleges in Leningrad; Moscow; Tallin, Estonia; and Sofia, Bulgaria. The compara tive study also will take the educators to Paris. Hurlburt said he particular ly is interested in studying the technical and vocational schools and colleges of Russia and its Iron Curtain neighbors. Duke Graduate Student Is Intern At S.C. State College ORANGEBURG, S. C. - Emest E. Andrews, a graduate student in counseling at Duke University, is an intern in the Career Planning and Placement Center at South Carolina State College. Andiews is studying on a fellowship from Sears. Roe buck and Co. which is ad ministered by College Place ment Services through Duke University. The program is set up to train blacks for employment in career planning and place ment centers of predominant ly black colleges. The first year Andrews spent at Duke gaining the threoretical approach. His second year is being spent in part at South Carolina State College in the internship phase. His primary assignment is with freshmen, counseling them in selecting career employment. A native of Sumter, An drews is a graduate of Morris College. He has been a public school teacher in Sumter County and last year served as a personnel trainee for IBM Corp. He is expected to receive a master's degree in counseling at Duke University this year. PRICE: TWENTY CENTS Post As For Xe STAMFORD, Conn. - Ronald B. Lee, 39, an assistant postmaster general of the United States Postal Service, will join Xerox Corporation March 1 as director, marketing analysis, reporting to William F. Souders, vice president, marketing and planning. Lee, who entered the postal service six years ago, has held management positions, and was instrumental in effecting the changeover of the old Post Office Department into the U. S. Postal Service. He is a West Point grad uate, a certified comptroller and holds a Masters degree in business administration from Syracuse University. He is working on a Ph.D. in manage ment technology. In 1965, Lee was in the first group of White House Fellows, appointed by the President. Born in New York City, he was reared in Springfield, Mass. With his wife, the former Joyce Juanita Thomas, and their children, he lived in Bethesda. Md. They will soon move to the vicinity of his new assignment to Xerox head quarters here. They have two children, Gregory and Dean. Lee is a trustee of Western New England College and the National Academy of Public Administration; a member of the board of advisors of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Af fairs at Princeton and of the National Institute of Public Affairs, and a member of the White House Fellows Associa tion, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Urban League and the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. President Back In Washington WASHINGTON - Pres ident Nixon returned to Wash ington Sunday night after a qui et Florida weekend of home work for his trip to China. Om of Nixon's first official acts Monday is expected to be signing a bill reforming feder al-campaign-spending laws. ANDREWS DuPont Science Grant Awarded N. C. Central Univ. A DuPont Science Grant of $7,500 has been made to science programs at North Carolina Central University by E. 1. dePont de Nemours k Company, according tq an an nouncement by T. L. Cairns, chairman of DuPont's Com mittee on Educational Aid. A check for $7,500 has been presented to NCCU Ptesi- Continued on page 2B
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