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SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1994-THE CAROLINA TIMES-5 Life AiroundUs PAMELA REID WITH PRE-SCHOOLERS Pamela Reid Brings Historical Performance To NCCU By Ray Trent amela Reid of Lowell, N.C. has nique way of keeping alive and :hing black history. She stays in period of the 50s, 60s and 70s. er character is Miss Elizabeth e Pittman who lived through se periods and participated in le of the history making events, n January 20, at the NCCU Stu- t Union, she welcomed a group her "History 101." The group ?ed in age from pre-schoolers )ugh college students. In Lil a Jane’s class (she was nick- led this as a child in South olina) there was never a dull nent. She made you laugh, she le you cry, she made you re- nber your childhood or she let peep into what your parents did ving up. le class started with Brown vs. rd of Education in 1954. As Lil i Janes said, the blacks went to white schools but no whites e to the black schools. In fact, ' made the black schools junior IS or shut them down, n to the tragic story of Emmett in 1955 to the courage of Rosa cs.(her feet hurt). In 1957 Fed- troops had to escort black chil- 1 to school. But it wasn’t all She let the students know what going on at "fish fries" in those '57 and ’58 saw the rise of ;own with the Temptations, remes and Marvin Gaye and own was a black company. ’62, James Meridith entered University of Mississippi. And dom riders were going all over South to get people registered The March on Washington in 1963 with Dr. King and those thou sands of people caused the presi dent to sign the Civil Rights Bill in ’64. In ’66, Malcolm X was assas sinated and we lost a great leader. But in ’67, another great leader, Thurgood Marshall, went to the Supreme Court. But Little Liza Janets greatest memory was in 1968. As a student at a college in the town of Orangeburg, S.C., which refused tc integrate, a student only wanted to go bowling. It started a mess and Liza Jane and all the students were confined to campus. When the Na tional Guard came, she thought they were there to see that the black people could bowl if they wanted to, but the guards came to the col- Quake Deals Another Blow To Area Torn By 1992 Riots LOS ANGELES (AP) - South Central neighborhoods struggling to recover from the 1992 riots were dealt another blow by the deadly earthquake. While the worst damage from Monday’s 6.6-magnitude temblor was in the San Fernando Valley, hundreds of buildings in the South west and South Central areas were rendered unsafe. Some are institutions in the black community. Perhaps worst-hit was the Southern Missionary Baptist Church, whose congregants spent ANNOUNCEMENT he Durham Board of County Commissioners solicits applicants to fill Dsitions on the following citizens’ board and commissions: ■Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee: Six expired >mis {expire February 1995). Subsequent terms are for three years, he committee is r6sponslve to the needs of nursing home residents nd promotes community involvement and cooperation with nursing omes. Members must be county residents and have no financial in- jrest, directly or indirectly, In a nursing home, and no immediate fam- / of a resident can be on the committee. ■Women’s Commission: One unexpired term (expires June 1994). his Commission is an advisory board on the status of Durham bounty women. Property tax listing must be current. County and City taxes must not jflect a^ delinquencies before an application is submitted. Appointments will be considered by the County Commissioners on londay, February 28, 1994, at 7:00 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Meet- ig Room, second floor, Durham County Government Administrative Jomplex, 200 E. Main Street. For applications or additional information, contact Garry E. Umstead, Jlerk to the Board of County Commissioners (560-0025). DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS FEBRUARY 14,1994 Garry E. Umstead, CMC Clerk to the Board $250,000 on earthquake reinforce ment three years ago. "There’s no question we’ll have to tear it down," said the Rev. J.L. Gates. "We made it through the Rodney King beating trials, but the tribulations got us." The acquittal of four white policemen in the state beating trial prompted three days of rioting that left dozens dead and caused $1 billion in damage. The Messiah Baptist Church, a refuge for Crenshaw District resi dents at the height of the rioting, closed after the quake cracked its bell tower and collapsed the ceiling and chimney in the fellowship hall. "We took care of hundreds here in 1992," said the Rev. Kenneth J. Flowers. He suggested the earthquake, coming on the heels of riots, floods and wildfires, may be a wake-up call to Southern Cdifomia. "I think God is speaking to get our attention, to say that we need to recognize that he is still in control and in charge," Flowers said. Also shut, at least tem()orarily, were Bethany Baptist Church, the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theatre and offices of the Family Savings and Founders National Bank. The quake damaged dozens of small bungalows and Spanish-style houses in the north end of the Crenshaw District, leaving many without gas or water. "My whole house slipped off the foundation," said Robert Petite, 81. "I’m still living here but I don’t know if my house is livable." "I’ve been trying to get a city inspector to look, but I just get a busy signal when I call," said the retired cook, who has lived in his home since the 1950s. Irene Trowell-Harris Is First Black Woman General In Air National Guard lege and surrounded it. For some unknown reason they started shoot ing into the school grounds. Several students lay murdered. The Orangeburg Massacre in 1968 will always be a scar on Little Liza Jane’s memory along with the tragedies and victories we knew in those periods. .After.. the presentation, the., pre schoolers who had sat so attentive ly throughout the whole per formance, listening and laughing at the dances of those times, sur rounded Pamela Reid with a hun dred questions. By knowing what, was sacrificed by so many of our people in the past, they might be able to build a future for America on the founda tion of the 50s, 60s and 70s. By Bruce Henderson The Charlotte Observer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Working in the fields of her fam ily’s farm near Aiken, S.C., young Irene Trowell-Harris watched in awe when airplanes flew overhead, and dreamed of someday flying for a living. "Every time we mentioned it," she says now, "we always laughed." Trowell-Harris, 54, is doing more than just flying in her 30-year- career as an Air National Guard flight nurse, nursing in structor and administrator. In Octo ber, she became the first black women ever named general in the 357-year history of the National Guard. "It makes me feel wonderful," Trowell-Harris, who now lives in Arlington, Va., said recently. "When I joined the Guard in 1963, the highest rank a nurse could go in the Guard was major.'But I enjoyed the mission, 1 enjoyed the flying, and that was always more impor tant than the rank," Her mother, Irene Battle Trowell, who still lives in Aiken, attended the ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington where Trowell-Harris was pinned as a brigadier general. Only two other women have at tained that rank in the Guard. The third of 11 children, Trowell- Harris’ mother had only a sixth- grade education, and her father fin ished only third grade. But several of her siblings earned college degrees, and one brother is a physician, "We picked cotton, took care of com, had cows and pigs," Trowell- Harris said. "It was a lot of work, but I have good memories. The only thing I didn’t like was the times when we had to stay out of school to pick cotton." After gradu ating from Columbia Hospital School of Nursing, Trowell-Harris earned a bachelor’s degree from Jersey City (N.J.) State College, a master’s in health administration from Yale and a doctorate in health education from Columbia Univer sity in New York. She joined the Air Guard in 1963 as a flight nurse, a specialty trained to care for patients during high- altitude and often long-distance flights. After steady advancement. Trowell-Harris in 1986 became the first Air Guard nurse to ever com mand a medical clinic. As a brigadier general, she is nursing assistant to the director, Directorate of Nursing Services iii the office of the Air Force surgeon general. That’s besides her civilian job.as a division director in the Depart ment of "Veterans Affairs in Wash ington. Trowell-Harris also serves on two community housing boards, in an Air Force mentor propani and with school and church pro grams. "People helped me, and I want to help them hack," she said. Nebraska Woman Recalls Atomic Near-Catastrophe By Donna Farris The Kearney Hub KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) - Tornado sirens don’t bother Marcella Dunn much. After all, she’s lived through a scare of the worst possible catastrophe - an accidental atomic bomb explosion. Although there was no blast, she doesn’t have fond memories of the air base in Morocco where a B-47 bomber, loaded with an atomic weapon, caught fire on a runway. "It’s an experience I hope I never have again," she said, adding that she will never forget the day it hap pened. Soon after the scare, military per sonnel and their families were told not to talk or write about the event. But Mrs. Dunn and her husband Bob, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, recently were contacted by. Col. Gerald M. Adams, and her story was included in a book he wrote called "History of the U.S. Strategic Air Bases in Morocco." At the time, the United States had ait bases in North Africa to guard against the threat posed by (Continued On Page 7) TheMeasmeefaMm "Theukinujtematsurecfa man is notwhere he stands in moments of comfort and conve nience, but where he stands attanesofchanengeand controversy.” MARTIN LUTHER KING JR, 19Z9-1968- BuiMing a futuie in partnership widi the community. /WHEUSER-BIBCH COMBWIES AnheoiW-Busch Cotnianies, Inc. is the patent company of Anheuse Busch, Inc. bfewers of Budweiser., Michelob*. MtcKelob. Light. _ . Budweiser* LI^NaluririLighL Busch*. LA^^ bwsand King Cobra Premlom Mah Liquor*. “Permissrongranied by the Estate of Martin Luther King |r.,
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