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2 THE CAROLINA TIKES SAT.. NOVEMBER 14. 1831 Cm Omegas To Honor, Dr. Lavonia Allison On Saturday uk: THORP. Dr. Earlie E. Thorpe, professor of history at North Carolina Central University, will be the keynote speaker at a pro gram recognizing the1 achievements of Dr. E. Lavonia ? Allison and Other prominent local citizens, . on Saturday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m., in the sanctuary of Saint Joseph's AME. Church, 2521 Fayet teville Street. The program, presented by the Durham .chapters of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, is. the concluding activity pf the chapters' observance of the Fraternity's Na tional Achievement Week. Dr. Thorpe will ad dress this year's national theme. "Striving for Ex cellence," focusing .on the historical facets of the black man's strong desire to achieve ex cellence in spite of seem ingly irresistible negative constraints. Dr. Thorpe is the author of approx imately 25 articles published in several learned journals, and six books of history, four of which deal with the history of the black man in America. He is listed in Who's Who hi American Education, Tarheel Lives: Vie North Carolina Who v Who, the Directory of American Scholars, and Contemporary Authors: He is national presi-. dent of the Association for the Study of Afro American Life and History, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Edgemont-Few Gardens Community Center, associate minister of the Ledge Rock Baptist Church in Wake County, and a member of the Na tional Archives Advisory Council, the NAACP. the State Historical Ad visory Commission, Phi Alpha Thqta (the na tional history honor society). Pi Gamma Mu (the national . social science honor - society), the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and several other organizations. serve as president of the. Norm Carolina Associa tion of Health, Physical Education, and Recrea tion. In 1980, she was appointed to a three-year term as one of the fifteen members of the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps, Health Services1 Administration of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Very active in com munity and Democratic Party activities, ; . Dr. Dr. E. i - Lavonia ' Allison has served as vice Allison is being honored chairman of the John F. as the "Citizen, ot me Year." She is director of 'the North Carolina; Health Manpower Development Program (NCHMDP) in Chapel Hill, a position she has held since 1974. Prior t6 joining NCHMDP, Dr. Allison, a Durham native, was an associate professor and supervisor of student teachers in the heajth and physical education department at North Carolina Central Kennedy Young Democratic Club of Durham County, the Democratic Women's Club, and the Durham County Democratic Ex ecutive Committee. In 1 970, sher became the first serve as county Democratic Ex ecutive Committee in any of the state's I00 counties. She has served : on the State Democratic Executive Committee secutive terms. In I98I, she v& elected as chair- ,jman . of the , Nor(h -Carolina Black Leader ship Caucus, after, hav ing served as its, vice : chairman for several years. She has also serv ed as a member of the' National Black Caucus of Democrats, a member I of the Leadership Roundtable of the Con gressional Black Caucus, ; and chairman of the Political Committee of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People. She serves on a number of advisory com mittees, including a. charter member of the WTVD Channel II Television Station Minority Affairs Ad- Theta Sorority and the White - Rock. Baptist Church. v; Among her awards are the . Outstanding Educator of America, the North Carolina Heart Association's. Distinguished Leader ship Award, Who's Who in Women in Politics, Who's Who in Educa tion, and the North ', Carolina :: Masons' Woman of jhe Year. black-owned furniture showroom in , the southeast. A member of Saint Mark AME Zion Church," he was treasurer of the Building Comm nittee for the ohurch's present structure on South Roxboro Street.' Receiving the Service Award is Lindsey A. Merritt, who is currently director of the Career Counseling and Place ment Center at North Other honorees of the Carolina Central Univer- Fraterniiy v include sity. He is being honored wmmJtjmimi-ML.uiji i.... j .mm'wn, visorv Committee, the black female tof Duke Hosoital Advisory chairman of a 'Committee, the UNC Contract Programs on Optometry, Dentistry, and Medicine, and the Equal Health Oppor tunity Committee of the American Public Health University. She was the since I970. having bcen-vASsociation. She is also a first and only black to re-elected five con- member of Delta Sigma Grover C. Burthey, Sr who is the recipient of the graduate chapter's "Omega Man of the Year" award. He is be ing recognized for his many years i of work within the fraternity on the local, district and na tional levels, and for his accomplishments as a leading Durham business man. He is the owner of Burthey Funeral Services and Burt hey Clot hiers, and co-owner of Fur niture Moods, a recently opened store in downtown which for his near-twenty years of service as ; the . undergraduate advisor to Tau Psi Chapter at North Carolina Central University, a position from which he is resign-: ing at the end of the year. The two recipienis of ' the Fifty Year Awards" are Dr. Charles A. Ray," a retired professor and i chairman of thjj English department at North Carolina Central Univer sity, and H.M. is Mickey" Michaux, Sr., Durham president of Union In the largest surance and Realty Com- - V DR. ALLISON pany, Washingtori Ter race Apartments and Shopping - Center in Raleigh, and Glennview Memorial Park. Tne Fraternity's Sixth District (North and .South Carolina) Representative Tyrone Gilmore of Spartanburg, S.C., will be the guest of the chapters for the occa sion. A reception will follow the achievement program in the W.G. Pearson Conference Room at Saint Joseph's. The activities are open td the public. Can The Present Political Economic Presi- When forma. dent Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party were deaf to the desires of blacks, Afro Americans in fewer numbers have been in volved in electoral politics. Will blacks again become involved significantly in the Democratic and Republican Parties? Do blacks think their in terests can be protected through affiliation within the current economic structure? To get at answers to these questions' ten blacks who Call TOLL FREE for FREE RECORD And Over $5.00 In Fret Material are active in North Carolina life were asked "Can the present political-economic system satisfy the needs of blacks?" T.C. Jervey, senior black publisher in North Carolina and editor publisher of the Wilm ington Journal: "I think it (the political-economic system) could be made to satisfy the needs of ait people. I don't know of any other government setup unless it's put into a parliamentary form of government. I don't see where communism is go ing to be the solution to it because only ten per cent of the people in the Soviet Union belong to the Communist Party. They have got a capitalistic setup at the top just like over here. I on how much exposure they can get in the media and how much they can pay for it. In other words, political offices today are bought and not won and I think this is very 'unfortunate, par ticularly for the low in come people and par ticularly for the black. There are just not any constituents who have the funds to buy political offices that come up. As is evidenced by the last election, money seems to be the difference in being elected and being defeated. 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Call Joyce Scott, 966-5011. (Health Services Research Center. UNC-Chape Hill. The University of North Carolina is an Affirmative Action Equal Employment Opportunity employer. develop pur own system. At the same time;, we have to exist and survive .under the present system that we have. ' v Leonard Dunston, presi dent of the North Carolina Association of Black Social Workers: "I have some grave reservations as to whether or not that can be done without radical and philosophical changes in the current political and social struc ture. At best, I see ac commodations will be made, but in terms pf achieving self-sufficiency in a system that is geared to exploit the people economically where yqji'are asked to produce labor more than you can ever realize in terms of income. I don't see how those two could ever ievei oui. ,,., ..... .. rhwj Rev. Thomas "Walker, pastor of Ebenezer Bap tist Church, Rocky Mount. . "I think that problems of blacks can be solved. I don't think our- answer lies in any political system. I . think our answer lies in us. We have been 'bewitched' in some way or another for lack of a better term, and certainly brainwashed. We have within our God and within our own culure the answer to our problems. It may take Reaganomics to shake us into that reality. We han dle the capital, if you look at the billions of dollars we handle an nually. Clarence Lightner, former mayor of Raleigh and mortician: "Sure, the concerns of black people will have to be met. 1' serve on the National Democratic Committee and that is one of things that a large faction of us talkabout at all times. It seems like they want to make some moves' to un-reform the reforms that we have made. There might be some need in some areas for this, but we are alert to see that it doesn't revert to where we were. Gordon Dilahunt, postal worker and organizer for the Raleigh Black United Front: "No, I clearly don't think so. It (the economic-political system) is designed to benefit the wealthy and those in government and institutions that support them and put them there. The first thing that the people of North Carolina are going to have to realize is that their interests cannot be represented by the Republicans and the Democrats. An alliance of the Afro-American people, in the main, and the labor movement is going to have to be forg ed in the development of a political force in elec toral politics and also in the area of economic and social struggle. Perhaps a labor party, a third political force that would come into an alliance with black' people. Labor might dp iL.,ljut clearly aligning"' with the Democrats won't do that. Their whole mis sion is-to maintain the status quo and only make the changes that are necessary to keep a lid on things. That is their history in this state and the country, for that matter. So I think that 'kind of force will have to emerge. Even that will only be a beginning step toward changing the lives of people within the kind of structural pover ty and unemployment, racial antagonism, op pression of women, the throwing aside of old people and that kind of thing. It is clear that fun damental changes in the economic-political system have to be made to eliminate these pro blems." Ms. Virginia Newell, Winston-Salem alder man and chairman of the Mathematics and Com puter Science Depart ment, Winston-Salem State University: . "I don't think this country has made a com mitment to black people. Black people have been out of the political system which has never included them. Our taws were made to exclude the black politically, economically, in educa tion and everything else. We have passed some laws that " have tried to erase that, but they have never been adhered to. I think we will always be on the periphery and that Afro-Americans have to force our way in. I don't mean shoot in. I think that Afro-Americans are going to have to stand up and say we are a part. In other words, when America stands up, then blacks will stand up too. We'll force our way in and demand our rights. Ms. Jennifer Henderson, director of the North Carolina Hunger Coali tion, Fayetteville: Yes, with modifica tions. Never having had the opportunity to fully participate in the economic-political system, blacks have been pushed into the position of consumers rather than producers in a capitalist ' society .which ' rewards only producers. Blacks muust organize means of production for some of the commodities we con sume, but that cannot be the capitalist mode that we know now. Through selective buying and sell ing, we can improve worker pay, incentives, benefits, and worker ownership of production in some instances. We can improve our situa tion by building an economy within the black community with . some of the characteristics borrowed from the world's socialist economics, and the capitalist ones too. Dr. Earl E. Thorpe, na tional president of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History and professor of history at North Carolina Central University: "The present political . and economic system has racism so thoroughly a part of it that fundamen- Making The Most Of Clothing Investment According to national sta tistics, the average family, regardless of size, spends approximately 7 percent of its take-home pay on clothing and maintenance. "Learning how to better, use this 7 percent is what 'investment dressing' is all about," says Harriet Tutterow, extension clothing specialist at North Carolina State University. "The key to investment dressing is planning and plan ning involves three steps," says Miss Tutterow. The steps are making a clothing inventory, an activity chart and a shopping list. ' The clothing inventory should result in a separation of your clothing into frequent ly worn, less frequently worn, least frequently worn and not worn at all. Try on all the garments in the first three groups and analyze why the clothing in the "less frequent" and "least, frequent" categories is not worn more often. You must! then determine whether some ' is worth salvaging or not.; If a garment has been' placed in the "not worn"1 category, the best approach, is to discard it, Miss Tutterow advises. "Remember", she says.i "what you want to strive fori is the interchange of clothing : items and accessories to: maximize their wearing frequency." Next, to better understand your clothing needs, make an activity chart listing all of your major activities. List your weekly and monthly activities, rank each accord ing to time spent on it and list the garments you have which can be worn for each activity. Identify additional clothes needed. You are now ready to pre-. pare the shopping list. "Your clothing inventory and ac tivity chart become the bases for the shopping list," Miss Tutterow explains. And other criteria include clothing styles, garment, fit and life cycling cost of the garments.. Look for styles that have a long life ( from three to five years) and durable con struction. And spend the major portion of your money on tops such as jackets, suits, shirts and blouses, Miss Tutterow advises, because the focal point of the body is the face. RENT-T0-0WN A CURTIS MATHIS TV Clip mis ad and get first week for Si 44 ' No long term obligations Call tor 1c ails. PALMER TV 383-5433 D.R. ALLEN & SON, kic. 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