Ruby Dee Speaks to a Sparse Crowd
By MARK R. MOSS
CAroucfc Staff Writer
Actress Ruby Dee showed up
Friday night at the Marque of Win
ston-Salem for the fifth annual
national conference of the Associa
tion of Black Secretaries, but the
secretaries didn'.
The tables in the banquet hall
were dressed and prepped for at
least 100 people. There was a dais
for about a dozen and a disc jockey
for the dance that was to follow the
evening's proceedings. Alderman
Vivian Burke was there, too, to rep
resent the city and to present a
plaque to Dee.
The main problem was that
about only 20 people showed at the
banquet ? among them a spouse
and a child.
Belinda Beasely, the event's
organizer, said she didn't under
stand why there was such a sparse
crowd. Last year, she said, the
meeting was held in Chicago and
about 300 people showed up.
Because of the small crowd,
Doris Brown, the president of
TABS, suggested that the meeting
move to a hotel suite, where she
was staying. The numbers got
smaller at the new site.
Brown, of Oakland, Calif., who
is a founder of TABS, explained
during her remarks that the 23-year
old organization is composed of
minority support workers from both
the public and private sectors. She
said she organized TABS When she
discovered that blacks weren't wel
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Ruby Dee (2nd from L) with members of the Association of Black Sec -
retaries at their fifth annual conference .
coined at Professional Secretaries
International. Eighty-five people
showed up at TABS' initial meeting
in 1970, she said.
She also said that secretaries
are sometimes "the least recognized
and undervalued in" the workplace.
"Besides just filing and meeting
people ... we've always done more
than that," she said. "This organiza
tion really does believe in the secre
taries."
She went on to add that the
name "secretary" is becoming
anachronistic, and that TABS and
PSI is considering changing the
name of their organization.
"We have to start thinking of
ourselves as professionals," she
said. Such thinking, she said,
would force employers to re- think
their policy of only paying for man
agement's association with profes
sional organizations.
? . Without the introductory fan
fare that usually accompanies some
one of Dee's status, the actress of
such productions as "Roots" and
"Do the Right Thing," rose and read
a comical piece written by Zora
Neale Hurston.
Before the evening's events,
Dee sat for an interview and
explained that she often speaks
before various organizations.
Dressed Afrocentrically and looking
sanguine, she declined to say what
her next project would be. She did, -
. however, talk about working with
director Spike Lee, an experience
she claimed was "gratifying.''
The last piece she read at the -
gathering was a tribute to an execu
tive secretary who had died. It was
an original essay - a work in
progress, she said, that eloquently
described the many duties that a
particular secretary performed.
"I hope that this (the essay) is
saying Amen to what you do," Dee
said.
"Crossing 52" to Hold Third
Meeting
The People for Racial Reconcil
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Initiative," has planned a third
forum that will focus on race rela
tions in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Schools. The meeting will
x held July 27 at 7 p.m. at Mt. Zion
Baptist Church.
Panelists will include individu
als with specific interests and exper
tise in educational issues, including
representatives from the city/county
school system, from Citizens United
for Justice and LIFT (Learning Is
Fun Too) Academy.
Following the discussion
among panel members, the audience
will be encouraged to participate.
Future meetings will include
discussions on race relations in law
enforcement, economic develop
ment and issues concerning commu
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p.m. in Reynolds Memorial Auditorium. Admis
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FRIDAY, JULY 23
2:30 p.m. ? The Special Populations and
Programs Unit of the Winston-Salem Recreation
Department is sponsoring the Annual Senior Cit
izens Bingo Party until 5 p.m. at the Benton
Convention Center. Approximately 700 partici
pants are expected. The group includes the visu
ally impaired, persons who are wheelchair
dependent and others with little or no disability.
For information call 727-2505.
7 p.m. ? The "Music Lovers Band Camp"
awards concert will be held at Winston-Salem
State University in the Kenneth R. Williams
auditorium. Admission is free. For more infor
mation call Sanders Milligan, director of the
WSSU Marching Rams, at 750-2572.
SATURDAY, JULY 24
10 a.m. ? The Tiny Viking football pro
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cheerleaders July 24 and 3 1 at the Mineral
Springs Middle School parking lot field from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. for boys and girls, ages 5-15.
Bring a certified birth certificate and registration
fee. For information on boys, call Anthony
Moore at 922-1 137 or Johnny Oglesby at 788
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10 a.m. ? The Winston-Salem Tiny Rams
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Miller Park football field until 2 p.m. For infor
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Robert McCollum at 725-1165, Edelina
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1 p.m. ? The Sawtooth Center for Visual
Art will hold a printmaking workshop July 24,
31 and Aug. 7 from 1-4 p.m. Painter and print
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series concerning personal money control. The
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CCCS at 926 Brookstown Ave. from 6-8 p.m.
Pre-registration is required. The course fee is
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9 a.m. ? The Stevens Center will hold
auditions for the Children's Chorus July 28 and
31 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. for boys and girls,
ages 8-13. To schedule an audition or for more
information call 721-1945.
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