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SHARON LYNN COVINGTON
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Hawthorne Junior High
eighth grader, Sheron Lynn
Covington graces the Post’s
front page this week as our
beduty. . .
“Shay , miss covmgum s
nickname, was 14 years old
last May 6th and our 5-foot,
128-pound beauty is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William C. Covington of 1717
Madison Ave. in the McCrorey
Heights residential section.
At school, Sheron is a
member of the Future
Teachers of America, the
Human Relations Council, the
Executive Council, the Special
Abilities and Talents Class,
and plays Bass Violin in the
school orchestra, directed by
Mr. Frank Roberts.
Away from school, she is a
piano student of Mrs. Blanche
Post Office
Seeks Clerks,
Carriers
The United States Postal
Service announces that ap
plications are now being
accepted, and examinations
will be given to establish a
register of eligibles from
which future Clerk-Carrier
vacancies in the Charlotte
Poet Office will be filled.
Starting salary is $4.32 per
hour.
Applications are available
in Room 209, Main Poet Office,
Charlotte, N.C., or may be
obtained by calling 372-0711,
Ext. 668 or 656. Completed
applications are submitted to
U.S. Postal Service, P. O. Box
1127, Charlotte,'N.C. 28201
Cloeing date for receipt of
applications is May 25, 1973.
Oliver where she has been
studying for 8 years.
She is in her 4th year at
Young’s School of Dance
where she has learned to do
ballet, tap, toe, jazz and
modem dances.
Sheron, who was first
runner-up in the 1972 Miss
AKA Pageant, is also Vice
president of Tots and Teens,
Inc.
Miss Covington is a member
of the 1973 Confirmation
Class at Simpson-Gillispie
Methodist Church, * the
pastorate of Reverend James
E. McCallum. She is also on
the church’s Youth Choir.
Sheron's hobbies are:
dancing, talking, horseback
riding, reading, letter writing,
meeting people, participating
the club activities
Cay, and traveling. In the
continental United States she
has traveled extensively
throughout the southwest and
midwest. Abroad she has •
traveled throughout Europe,
Mexico, and the Bahamas.
Sheron says she enjoys
looking at the “Soul Train” TV
program and “of course
listening to the Jackson 5”.
Congressman
Rangel To
Speak Here .
Congressman Charles
Bernard Rangel of Harlem
will be featured speaker at the
Annual North Carolina
Dinner for the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational
Fund, Friday, May 18, at
Holiday Inn North, 3815 North
Tryon Street.
Co-chairmen are Mrs.
Catherine R. Hawkins and
Mrs. Sarah Stevenson.
Theme is The Struggle for
Justice in a New Era of
Repression, including em
ployment, education, housing
and minority services.
The dinner will be at 7 p.m.
in Waggoner HalUt la a OS
and Mrs. Stevenson will
preside. Following Rangel’s
address, Julius L. Chambers,
outstanding civil rights
lawyer, eouor 01 me Law
Review when he was a student
at the University of N.C. and
menjber of the State Board of
Higher Education, will make
remarks.
Listed as members of the
dinner committee and
sponsors from Wilmington are
Dr. Hubert A. Eaton and T.C.
Jervay, journal editor and
publisher who have helped
sponsor the event for several
years.' Wilmingtonians are
invited to attend.
The NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund,
responsible for the vast
majority of Legal battles to
establish equal rights for
Black Americans seeks fur
ther understanding and
support in North Carolina.
During this period of crisis,
spokemen say "we must
'step up our program of
action in the courts to
withstand today’s growing
attacks on equal rights for
black Americans in Schools,
jobs and housing.
Rangel was elected to
Congress on November 3, 1970,
with 87 percent of the popular
vote.
YOUNG HERO - Hubert Wright (seated) is
shown with congressman Jim Martin (left) and
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to Washington, D.C. last week.
Robert Wright
Charlotte Boy Gets
‘Hero’s Welcome’
Congressman Jim Martin
had the honor of giving Robert
Wright of Charlotte a “Hero’s
Welcome” to Washington.
Robert was on his way to the
White House to receive the
American Automobile
Association's Gold Life Saver
Medal. The 12-year-old
Charlottean is the son of John
and Betty Wright of 104
Dupree St., and is a student at
Hoskins Elementary School
Robert is one of sever
School Safety Patrol members
in the nation to be cited for
extraordinary bravery and
judgment in a crisis to save
the life of a schoolmate. On
November 10. 1972. Robert
pulled his twin brother Ronald
and another youth from the
path of an out-of-control car at
the intersection of Rozzell’s
Ferry Road and Linwood
Avenue, where Robert was on
duty.
Congressman Martin said,
“We are all very proud of ~
Robert Wright for his bravery,
quick thinking, and action in
averting a possible tragedy. I
am glad to welcome Robert
and his mother to Washington
for such an important event.
‘Get Involved’, Mayor Pro-Tern
Fred Alexander Urges Elks
Speaking at • the Civil
Liberties program Sunday
night, of the 53rd' annual
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convention of the N.C. State
Association of Elks, Fred D.
Alexander Mayor Pro-Tern of
Charlotte, challenged blacks
to support the programs of
fraternal orders and the
church
He told the audience that it
was the black fraternal leader
ands the black preacher that
broke the backbone of
discrimination and fufnished ’
the leadership that wooed
liberal whites to the cause of
freedom. He warned that the
Job was no where completed.
It was his thinking that
.when the black preacher
continued to telfcof the fury of
hell and the need of
brotherhood, he put the fear of
'God in whites. He also said
that when the black
congregations sing their
plaintative songs, the white
man got the message
Even though the black
Shriners had' to go to court to
get the right to function as a
high fraternal order, it set off
a aeries of chain reaction, that
told the whJte man that God
created all men equal to dwell
upon the face of the earth. He
minced no words in telling
that the Elks, the largest
black fraternal organization
in America, was the result of
black men wanting a medium
where they could discuss their
matters in secret
secret
There was a *bul -searching
admonition which dealt with
blacks going off in splinter
groups and following untried
leaders “The truth of the
matter is that we have too
many leaders who are self
appointed and do not know
where they are going them
selves," he said. He charged
that blacks are too prone to
run to the daily newspapers.
Such action, he alleges
miliUtes against the progress
of blacks. He said that as soon
as the newpaper represen
tative got the information, he
would call those he had set up
as leaders. The latter group
would proceed to vilify the
persons who called the
meeting the the writer would
then write a story to his liking.
The convention opened
Sunday and closed Wed
nesday, with a parade. The
program of the Order was
implemented, with much
emphasis on health, education
en/4 uiaUaee
ur. James w. Hryant,
president of The Robert R.
Moton Institute of New York,
will deliver th? address for
Johnson C. Smith University’s
106th commencement
exercises et 2 p.m. Sunday,
May 20 in Hartley Woods
Gymnasium.
Dr. Bryant, whose field Is
business administration,
assumed the presidency in
1972 of the Moton Memorial
Institute, which directs efforts
toward improving ad*
ministrative practices and
procedures in fund raising by
83 of the 86 traditionally
predominately black public
and private colleges In the
U.S.
Declaring that the most
pressing need of all colleges is
for additional resources for
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SUITS are more FITTING
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Here Sunday
Dr. James Bryant Is JCSU’s
Commencement Speaker
ii saves ume, inus per*
mitting the development of
ficer and president to con
centrate on making ap
plications for funds in amount
and subject areas more likely
to be honored by the foun
dations to which the requests
are submitted," he
elaborated.
The three program arms of
the institute were listed by Dr.
Bryant as the Moton
Development Consortium,
fund raising procedures; the
Moton College Services
Bureau, federal relations;
and the Moton Consortium on
Admissions and Financial
Aid.
After graduating from
Tuskegee Institute, Dr.
Bryant earned his Master s
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Dr. James Bryant
Moton's president
current operation, Dr. Bryant
said competition for foun
dation funds makes economic
2y! efficient research a must,
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Rev. Jesse Jackson
Is Guest Speaker
The Rev. Jesse Jackson will kick-off a City-Wide Crusade
For Christ here Sunday afternoon.
We have strong beliefs that the church should relate to the
whole man,” Rev. Paul W. Drummond, pastor at Saint Paul
Baptist Church which is sponsoring the crusade, said Wed
nesday morning. “It is our opinion that the church has not -
been doing this ”
Rev. Drummond and the
members of St.. Paul Baptist
Church, who are attempting
for the first time to stage a
revival of this size, stated that
with the exception Billv
Graham and other well
known evangelists, this will
the initial efforts of a single
church to conduct a city-wide
cnuaade.”
the services will begin at
fee Charlotte Park. Center
afeertooe at ■ o'clock
with Rev. Jesse Jackson
president of Operation Pusli
which is based in Chicago, 111.,
will be the guest speaker.
Beginning Monday night,
Rev. Robert “Bob” Wilson,
pastor of the famous and
historic St. John Baptist
Church in Dallas, Texas will
c induct the nightly services at
St. Paul Baptist Church, 1401
N. Allen St.
According to Rev. Drum
mond, Rev. Robert Wilson ia
also a national figure. The
native of Columbia, S.C.
started preaching at yje age of
nine. After graduation from
Benedict College and Stark’s
School of Theology in
Columbia, Rev. Wilson
becanle fine of the nation’s
leading lecturers.
He now heads a church
with 1,600 members and a
6345,000 annual budget
‘‘We have seen some very
positive responses to this
crusade.” continued Rev.
Drummond, who explained
that “we have already set in
motion some programs to
implement these *responses ”
Rev. Drummond stated that
the city-wide crusade will
have three stages The first
stage involves pre-activities
and commentments from the
1,900 members of St. Paul.
“We are indebted to deacon
Roy Tolliver, who has done an
outstanding job as chairman
Of the city-wide crusade
committee," Rev, Drummond
praised. He also included
Miss Jennie Leslie, the
church's secretary, Zack
Alexander Jr. and L.B
Watson among those who have
"gone beyond the call of duty
to make this crusade a huge
success."
REV. T.W. SAMUELS
_...Revival Leader
Ml Moriah
To Hear
Rev. Samuels
The Rev. T.W. Samuels,
prominent minister from
Eustis, Fla will lead the
revivaj services at Mount
Moriah Primitive Baptist
Church here from Sunday,
May 20, through Friday, May
Beginning with the morning
worship services at Mt
Moriah Sunday, Rev Samuels
will preach nightly, starting at
7:45 o'clock
Barnhill Receives
Excellence Award
GREENSBORO,-Howard C.
Barnhill, a member of the
North Carolina Board of
Governor* and a Mecklenburg
County Health Department
administrator, has been
named winner of A4T State
University* second annual
Alumni Excellence Award
Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy,
chancellor of A4T, presented
Barnhill his award during the
University's 82nd annual
commencement exercises in
the Greensboro Memorial
Coliseum last Sunday
Dowdy said the selection
committee cited Barnhill for
kis sterling service to the state
ind to the University over a
ong period of time.
Barnhill currently serves as
tecretary of the Board of
Governors, whi^/k. directs all
ligher education in the state.
We formerly served on A4T's
board of trustees foe three
rears, and prior to that, he
served for 12 years as national
president of the A4T State
University Alumni
Association
Under Barnhill's leader
ship, the A&T alumni
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Miss Wise
Graduates
Miss Dorothy Lee Wise, I
biology major, was among the
235 seniors who were awarded
degrees at the Mth Com
mencement Exercises held by
Fayetteville State Universiity
last Sunday.
An overflow crowd at the
Cumberland County Memorial
Auditorium head Dr. Harold
Delaney, vice president,
student Services and Special
Programs at the University of
North Carolina, deliver the
principal address.
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