Six new members join ranks of lota Phi
Lambda Sorority Inc.
mx beta Alpha "Lomcps"
bccamc sorority members of Iota
Phi Lambda Sorority Inc. last Sat
urday at the home of Virginia E.
Wright.
New members are Darline P.
Bell, 'Peggy H. Galloway, Nancy
W. Green, Constance Hunter and
Denise P. Powell.
Mrs. Wright is the local dean
of pledges and was the presiding
officer. She was assisted by
Tressie Ellis, Thelma SmalJ and
Arrie N. Wright.
A reception followed the cer
emony.
Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Inc.
is a business and professional
organization founded by Lola M.
Parker in 1929 in Chicago.
Photo by C O. Matthews
From left are new members Denlse P. Powell, Constance Hunter, Jeane Brown, Peaav Galloway,
Nancy W. Green and Darline P. Bell.
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Seated, from left, are Dr. Manderllne Scales, Winston-Salem; Catherine Stewart, East St.
Louis, III.; Dr. Carrie F. Davis, national president, Chicago; Dr. Ernesdyne Burnett, regional
director, Los Angeles; Dr. Dollie Taylor, president, Chicago Chapter; standing, Martha Sllva,
president, Chicago Urban Chapter; Josephine Moore, national corresponding secretary;
Helen Falls, national member-at-large, Winston-Salem; Dr. Willa Ellis, national recording
secretary; Helen W. Bryant, president, Chicago Metroplex Chapter; Geraldine Tolliver, chap
lain, Houston, and Georgia Rice, vice president, Chicago Chapter.
Local women attend Chicago session of
National Council of Negro Women summit
Dr. Carrie R Davis, national
president of the National Women of
Achievement, presided at the spring
summit conference of the executive
board of NWOA.
Outstanding achievers from all
parts of the United States met in
Chicago to take care of the business
of the organization in preparation
for the national conference to be
held in the Windy City July 27 to
30.
Dr. Davis encouraged her
achievers to rise up, speak up and
put on the cloak of responsibility of
meeting the challenges of the day
through action, words and deeds.
She solicited her fellow members to
join her in attacking the problems of
society in "concerted effort and
orchestrated voices."
Members should send a mes
sage to the country, she said, that
means "America, you must listen to
strong women who have a program,
a design to alleviate the crucial
deprivation and overt subliminal
degradation of human beings. One
hundred women strong will sit in a
single gathering and write letters to
sisters' in Africa, developing a link
of sisterhood and increasing this
goal to 1,000 communicating with
Africa to break the chains that
shackle these human beings. An
international link of sisterhood is
the focus."
Local NWOA members attend
ing were Dr. Manderline Scales and
Helen Falls.
Rho Zeta Chapter holds pledge ceremony
Rho Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi
Beta Sorority Inc. held a pledge cer
emony Sunday, July 16, at the Beth
lehem Center.
Six women were inducted dur
ing the ceremony, which included
music, poetry and scripture read
ings.
Leola Sadler, dean of pledges,
presented the new members. They
were: Keeley Allen, Pollye Bailey,
Danette Fitts, Savannah Lewis,
Alice Smith and Jeanne Williams.
Each inductee received a pin and a
corsage.
Emily Harper, basilcus, was
assisted by Marie Graham, Cheryl
Super and Gwen Ashley.
Music was provided by Dollye
Mack. Refreshments were served
under the direction of Savilla Wil
son.
Zeta Phi Beta was founded at
Howard University in 1920. The
sorority was the first Greek-letter
organization to charter a chapter in
Africa (1948). The sorority is con- J
stitutionally bound to a brother fra- '
tcrnity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity *
Inc.
Zeta has chapters located in the
United States, the Bahamas, West
Africa and West Germany.
Rho Zeta, the local chapter,
was organized in 1935.
The sorority is a non-profit
organization based on the precepts
of scholarship, service, sisterhood
and finer womanhood.
Carver High School marching band to begin rehearsals
The Marching Yellow Jackets
Band of Carver High School will
begin rehearsals Tuesday, Aug. 1 , at
9 a.m. Rehearsals will be held each
Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to
noon. Rehearsals will be held until
school opens.
The schedule for Wednesday,
Aug. 2, will be varied.
Rehearsals will be held from
noon to 2 p.m. A drum and bugle
corps clinic will be held for students
at Bowman Gray Stadium begin
ning at 3 p.m. The band will leave
Carver High School at 2:30 p.m.
The drum and bugle corps per
formance will begin at 7 p.m.
Admission to the performance is $8
per person.
Consultant: We must vary teaching methods for black males
ATLANTA (AP) - A Chicago
education consultant says educators
must overcome the "fourth-grade
syndrome" that starts some eager
black male students toward failure
in school.
Jawanza Kunjufu said that teach
ers must raise the self-esteem of
black male students and may have
to rely less on traditional techniques
such as lecturcs and worksheets
Black male students start school
eager to learn, Kunjufu said, but
their test scores tend to plummet
after the third grade.
This is due to a lack of black male
teachers and role models, an
increase in peer pressure and a drop
in self-esteem, he told the National
Alliance of Black School Educa
tors.
"Self-esteem through culture
leads to academic excellence," he
said. Kunjufu, author of "Counter
ing the Conspiracy to Destroy
Black Boys," said more black
women than men go on to college,
most black dropouts are male and
85 percent of black special educa
tion students are male.
Ross disturbed by apathy^ pageBi
something to get them to come back
and to be less apathetic. I don't
know really what we need to do but
we need to do something."
Mr. Ross, who was unseated by
Alderman Virginia Newell in the
1977 election, said that he has no
regrets about his political career and
that there's little he would have
done differently.
"I'm happy about what I wa$
able to accomplish and I'm proud of
the honors I received," he said. "I
got involved because I thought that
I would be able to achieve some
things. I feel good about the posi
tions I held."
Photo by C O Matthews
From toft are Virginia E Wright, dean of pledges, Tressle Ellis,
first vice president, Thelma Small, past national dean of
pledges, and Arrle Wright, journalist.
Archbishop calls for internal black leadership
WASHINGTON (AP) -The lead
er of the nation's 300 Roman
Catholic bishops admits there are
persistent '.'elements of racism" in
the church, but is calling for a black
priest s breakaway congregation to
return for the sake of unity.
Archbishop John May of St.
Louis, president of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops,
promised the Rev. George A.
Stallings Jr. the nation s two million
black Catholics would be given
"full voice" in the church.
"It is possible to ... be a voice of
conscience for the family and lead
that family from within," May said
in a statement Friday.
? Stallings, 41, has been suspended
for holding services the past two
weeks at his Imani Temple in defi
ance of Washington Cardinal James
Hickey.
A spokesman for Stallings said he
would have no comment on May's
statement or another call for tinity
from the nation s 13 black bishops
earlier this week.
Stallings has said he formed the
new congregation because the
Catholic Church has not addressed
black concerns and he has charged
the church with racism.
May's statement conceded, "Sure
ly, as all the bishops in this country
have acknowledged in the past,
there have been elements of racism
in the church and there continue to
be.
"We need to recognize more black
leadership; our liturgies need more
of the vibrancy, and our policies
more of the insight, of African
Americans," May said.
He said the nation's 52 million
Roman Catholics "share the sad
ness" reflected in the black bishops'
call Wednesday for reconciliation.
The black bishops' statement said
in part, "We sincerely hope
(Stallings' followers) are not com
mingling personal disappointment,
individually felt frustrations, and
personal anger under the banner of
racism. Racism is a sin which the
church must address. It is too seri
ous an issue to be used as a cover
for selfish concerns." ?
Several priests have supported
Stallings, however, including 15
who met with him in Chicago last
Thursday. They called for Hickey to
lift Stallings' suspension, imposed
after the first service of the rene
gade church at Howard University
onJuly^2.
Appearing Friday on The Oprah
Winfrey Show, Stallings denied he
is forming the church for personal
gain. "1 know exactly the picture
they're trying to paint ... but Martin
Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Jesse
Jackson, people say they all have
inflated egos," Stallings said on the
national television program.
"Since the Roman Catholic
Church cannot make inroads into
the black community, all we arc
saying is, let us show you how.
What's wrong with that?" he asked.
Suspension means Stallings is not
sanctioned to say Mass or perform
other sacraments. It is the strongest
step Hickey can Lake without mov
ing to excommunicate Stallings.
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