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the magazine section Features, Soorts, Lifestyle Thursday, December 22. 1983 Study supports black colleges PRINCETON, N.J. — A year-long study of torically colleges whose findings “clearly ijpport the role of black colleges and universities in jhancing opportunities for black Americans” has (cn completed by two researchers at Educational esling Service. The observations of Joan Baratz and Myra Ficklen oniradict critics of historically black colleges who ontend that desegregation has made them outdated. 4inotig the rhost notable findings contained in the i.page study, “Participation of Recent Black Col- •te Graduates in the Labor Market and in Graduate plication,” are: pjhat while only 17 percent of all black iidergraduates attended black colleges, 40 percent if all black graduates earned their degrees from lisiorically black colleges. iThat graduates of historically black colleges have a liaher level of participation in federal grant pro- lams and in the National Direct Student Loan NDSL) program and a lower level of indebtedness at raduation than do black graduates of predominant- hite institutions. iThat black college graduates earned similar grades, ;oth during high school and in college, regardless of leiralma mater, and chose similar majors. 'That black graduates of historically black colleges {readmitted to graduate school at the same rate as leir peers from predominantly white institutions. That overall employment rates and opportunities black students did not differ significantly, hether they graduated from a predominantly white rhistorically black college. pACCPORT UNITED STATES 1 Qp AMERICA WARNING; ALTERATION, ADDITION OR MUTtLATION OF EN TRIES IS PROHIBITED. ANY UNOFFICIAL CHANGE WILL RENDER THIS PASSPORT INVALID. NAM[N0M WILLIAM FREDERICK HYMAN, JR. BIRTH DATE • DATE OE NAISSANCE JULY 21, 1967 BIRTHPLACE-LIEU OE NAISSANCE NORTH CAROLINA, U.S.A. HEIGHT TAILLE C FEET q INCHES PIEDS ^ POU.CES ;hair-cheveux eyes-yeux BLACK black WIFE'HUSBANO-EPOUSt/EPOUX XXX ISSUE DATE-DATE D£ OELIVRANCE MARCH, 1984 MINORS ENFANTS MiNEURS XXX EXPIRATION DATE ^mARPM 1QftQ DATE D'EXPIRATION “ IVIMnUn, I303 SIGNATURE OF BEARER • SIGNATURE DU TlTULAlRE IMPORTANT; THIS PASSPORT IS NOT VALID UNTIL SIGNED BY THE BEARER. PERSONS INCLUDED HEREIN MAY NOT USE THIS PASSPORT FOR TRAVEL UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY THE BEARER. Young And Gifted An ‘ambassador of good will’ By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS Staff Writer Working a job that pays only $5 a day may seem like sweatshop earnings to a lot of people in this day and time. That’s just how much 16-year-old William (Billy) Hyman Jr. will take home each day for 10 weeks when he starts his new job working on diesel engines in West Germany next March. “I don’t need any more than that,” says Hyman. ‘T’ll have food and shelter, so 1 wouldn’t have anything to spend it on but gifts for my family.” Hyman, a resident of Pffaftown, along with Timothy Mitchell, both juniors at the Career Center and North Forsyth Senior High School, were selected out of six finalists to travel to Europe in the spring as goodwill ambassadors of the Cultural Relations Fellowship Program of Ameurop Cultural Relations Foundation. They are among 10 vocational high school students from seven counties in northwest North Carolina selected for the program, which is sponsored chiefly by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. “I’m sort of scared because I don’t know how to speak German that well and I’ll be living with a fami ly, says Hyman, “but I’m really excited. I just can’t wait until March gets here.” Starting in January on Saturday mornings, Hyman will begin a rigorous 11-week class that will include the German language and the country’s culture. Contrary to popular belief that the only students selected to travel abroad as ambassadors are the “elite,” Hyman is not an honor-roll student, nor are his parents considered members of the “upper crust” society. He does maintain an average academic standing and his father, an Army veteran, is as an auto mechanic. His mother is a housewife. In Hyman’s letter to the selection board, he told the committee that one of the reasons he wants to go to Germany is that the Germans invented the diesel engine and that he can learn much from them. “I can go over there and learn about diesel mechanics,” says Hyman. “My Pops was stationed over there (Germany) and he used to tell me how Please see page B8 K blessing: frat’s adopt-a-family program provides holiday cheer ^}'robin ADAMS 5/q// Writer I prayed for something like this to happen,” said Betty Terry as she walked into the grocery store last ''eek accompanied by 13 young men in purple and Nd, The Mu Epsilon Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Frater- % Inc. at Winston-Salem State University has adopted Mrs. Terry and her four children as its Christmas project. Although Mrs. Terry and her family did not get adoption papers from the ^tidergraduate chapter, they will get a supply of groceries and gifts for the children. Also included in the package is winterization of the ^^try home in Cleveland Avenue Homes. But since management has planned to winterize all the ipariments, the group has decided to winterize mother home. li seems just like this boy came from out of ''’^'here,” Mrs. Terry said, “and told me this good 1 can’t tell you how happy I am. I just can’t tell 1 thank God that He has answered my prayers,” 'Jesaid. “You know, this boy called me and told me 21 they was gonna do some things for my family 1 just cried. I went to church that night and I 2nked God. I just thanked Him for hearing my ’tayers. He knew I needed this.” As Mrs. Terry walked down the aisles of the store, with no limit on what she could buy, up apples, oranges, green peppers and ■ ''isinias nuts, the members of the fraternity kept ’ttining up to Mrs. Terry, like children let loose in a store, wondering if she liked this or that pro- ■luct. Afidmost of the time, she replied, “Yes.” .j'rs. Terry also got a turkey for the family’s ^ ‘'stmas dinner and wondered out loud if she could also get a ham. This time, the members of the frater nity told her, “Yes.”. After Mrs. Terry finished her careful shopping trip, the fraternity also had plans to take her and her family - three boys and one girl, ages 18, 15, 13 and 12 - shopping for Christmas gifts. “We do this because we just like helping people,” said Bevan Baker, chapter reporter. “We are all about bringing a smile.” This is the third year the fraternity has sponsored the Adopt-A-Family program. It started as a one time thing and was so popular with the fraternity’s members and the families that it has become an an nual event. The fraternity picks which family to adopt from a list of families recommended by Experiment In Self- '7/ seems just like this boy came from out of nowhere and told me this good news. 1 can V tell you how happy / am. I just can’t tell you. ” - Mrs. Betty Terry Reliance Inc. (ESR). “We try to pick a family that we can bring the most warmth to,” Baker said. “We try to go and visit the four or five families on the list and pick the one who needs us the most. We want the most deserv ing family. “Mrs. Terry is a very Christian lady and reminds me of a grandmother — you know, the kind that always has a smile, even though things aren’t the way they should be,” Baker said. “When we went to see her, she said, T just knew someone was coming.’” Also, as a part of the fraternity’s social action pro gram, the fraternity provided Thanksgiving baskets to a number of families recommended by ESR. The men in purple and gold make Christmas a special time for Betty Terry, center, and her family (photo by James Parker). Said one member of the fraternity: “This is the way we show what we are all about. It’s just being nice. I feel like what we are doing is worthy because it helps the people, the community, and it helps us.”
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