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MISS VONTINA SIMMONS
...West Mecklenburg Junior
16-Years-Old
Vontina Simmons
By JOANNE MOORE
Post Society Writer
Somebody once said that 16
is probably one of the most
difficult ages there is. You're
not quite old enough to be
considered an adult and
you’re much too old to called
a child.
So then, what does that
make you when you’re 16.
How about asking our
beauty this week. Maybe she
can give us some insight into
the mysterious 16-year old.
Meet Vontina Simmons, 16
of course, and a junior at West
Mecklenburg High School.
Typical sixteen year old?
Let’s see.
She’s talkative, likes sen
timental music by A1 Green,
can relate to Aretha Franklin
and above all wants to meet
Billy Dee Williajns, and spend
an endless day with him
talking"and gazing into his
gorgeous eyes.
We musn’t forget her
boyfriend, because 16 and
boyfriends go together, don’t
they?
>... Then there are her ac
tivities. She is vice-president
of Les-Charmant-elles Social
Club, a representative of the
Red Cross, a delegate to the
Baptist Convention, and a
me-nber of First Mt. Zion
Baptist Church. She sings in
the choir at church and was
vice-president of the Sunday
School.
The daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Robert Simmons, of
3138 Burbank Dr., Vontina
finds time to swim, play
baseball and play the piano.
How does she find time to do
all these things? Where docs
she get the energy?
Questions, that continually
puzzle those who are on the
other side of 16.
But there is the answer, to
be sixteen is to be energetic,
full of life, happy most of the
time, and above all able to
deal with the constant adult -
child world they live in.
So 16 is not so bad, many
tiave dealt with it and have
been able to make it to the day
when they become 17, a year
older.
My guess is that Vontina
will make the transition with
very little problem.
Women s Missionary
Plans Celebration
The Women’s Missionary
Society of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church
will launch its 100th An
niversary Celebration during
the winter session of the
Bishops’ Council being held
February 16-21, 1974, in
Kansas City.
Miss Mary Frizzell, Con
nectional President; Mrs.
Artisha Jordan, Connectional
First Vice President and
Program Chairman; Mother
Edith Bryant, Fifth District
Supervisor and Mrs. Cleo
Love, Fifth District President,
have made plans for an ex
citing kick-off celebration.
The W.M S. has chosen the
theme, “OUR HERITAGE
OUR FUTURE” and the
Creative* Arts
Committee led by Mrs. M L
Carswell, Connectional
Chairman; Mrs. Georgia
Stewart, Fifth District
Chairman, and Mrs. Dorothy
Counts, chairman of the local
committee have planned a
Creative Arts Festival as a
means to demonstrate this
committee's purpose and
function.
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There was a man who
called a SPADE a SPADE
until he STUMBLED over
one.
‘Ricky’Wallace Named To
Midget All-American Team
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NNAP Plans Winter
Workshops In Miami
Miami Beach NNPA
Growth, role and challenge of
the Black Press will be
discussed in two major ad
dresses at the Mid-Winter
Worksop of the National
Newspaper Publishers
Association here this
Post To Publish
Hoy Wilkins’
Column
Next Thursday, the
Charlotte Post will begin
publication of a new column
by Roy Wilkins, one of the
nation’s most respected and
most influential Black
leaders.
Mr. Wilkins has been
executive secretary of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People since 1955. His balance
and wisdom in directing that
bi-racial organization have
Orderly, legal pursuit (of civil
rights for Blacks.
“His column will reflect his"
own personal viewpoints
which we believe will be in
formative and of news value to
our readers,” Bill Johnson,
manager - editor of the Post
said Wednesday.
“We believe that having Mr.
Wilkins to join our family of
weekly reporters is another
step in the direction of giving
our readers the best and most
informative newspaper in the
weekly category,’’ Mr.
REV. THOMAS JENKINS
Organising m blister
Church Observes
Its 27th Year
The Statesville Avenue
United Presbyterian Church
will observe it's twenty
second anniversary on Sunday
January 27, at 11:00 a.m.
The church was organized In
the Biddleville Presbyterian
Church by the Presbytery of
Catawba January 27,1052. Dr.
Thomas A. Jenkins, the
organizing minister continues
to serve as pastor.
The membership has grown
from seventeen charter
members to more than three
hundred fifty. From • mission
church to seirsupporting
church with an operational
budget of >50.000.
The worship service on
Sunday will be a combination
of the observance of young
people's day and the an
niversary.
Following the service a
church family dinner spon
sored by the fellowship
committee will climax the
day
weekend.
Delivering these addresses
at the Playboy Plaza Hotel
Thursday and Friday,
January 24-25, will be William
0. Walker, dean of the Black
Press and Editor-Publisher of
the Cleveland Call and Post;
and NNPA President Calton
B.Goodlett, Editor-Publisher
of the San Francisco Sun
Reporter Newspapers.
Goodlett speaks Thursday
evening and Walker at the
clsosing banquet on Friday
evening.
Other workshop speakers i
will be Berkeley G. Burrell, !
president of the National
Business League; George
Bush, Chairman of the ,
Republican National Com
mittee, Dr. Michael R.
Winston, Director of the
Moorland-Spinam - Research
Center, Howard University;
Miss Vera Gunn, President of
the National Association of
Marketing Developers;
St&nley S. Scott, Special
ficp -ruit' ff-: vtW 'i.r <rr>
end Col. Wallace W. Ffrice, of *
Pan American Airways.
Panelists, who will
discuss improved business
management, leadersnip of
Black newspapers, circulation
building, and advertising
salesmanship are: Mrs. Ruth
Washington, Los Angeles
Sentinel; Moser Newsom
and John Oliver Afro
American Newspapers; Mrs.
Lenora Carter, Houston
Forward Times, Longworth
M. Quinn, Michigan
Chronicle, Robert H. Fen
tress, Johnson Publishing
Company ; George Jackson,
American- Airlnes, and
Norman W. Powell,
Amalgamated Publishers Inc.
Following the Jan. 23-26
Workshop, the group will fly to
theBahamas for an overnight
•tay on Saturday, Jan. 26.
In discussing the growth,
role, and challenge of the
Black press, Walker will
review historically the
growth, going back in his own
experience over a 55-year
period during which he
worked for the Pittsburg
Courier, founded the
Washington Tribune, and took
over the now 61-year-old
Cleveland Call and Post in
1932 and developed it into the
third largest black paper in
the midwest.
ELLIS M. GALLIER, left congratulates
William "Ricky” Wallace, star football player
of the Salvation Army Boys' Club football team
at 2601 W. Trade St. Wallace is receiving a
certificate and lie's wearing' the beautiful
1 _‘ a__j_
Jacket he won when he waa named this week to*
the organization’s All-American Football team
for 10-12 year olds.
(Photo bv Peeler)
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UNCF Alumni Organization
Plans Washington Meeting
more man -iuo siuaenis anu
graduates of colleges and
universities affiliated with the
United Negro College Fund
will develop a national
program for strengthening the
fund raising activities of the
UNCF organization when they
meet for the 28th annual
conference of the National
Alumni and National Pre
Alumni Councils January 31 -
February 7 in Washington
DC.
Using the conference theme
"A Mind Is A Terrible Thing
To Waste,” alumni and pre
alumni members from the 41
predominantly black UNCF
schools will hold their
workshops, meetings and
social affairs at the Shoreham
Americana Hotel, 2500 Calvert
Street. N W.
Ms. Rosemary S Benton,
President of the Washington
Inter-Alulmni Council, is host
for the conference Con
ference Chairman is Ellison
V Peppers, Sr.
Describing the conference
as “action” oriented, Joseph
H. Taylor, National Coor
dinator of UNCF Alumni
Affairs, said “this is the first
time both councils have
devoted an entire conference
towards aiding the mission of
the UNCF and its member
institutions.”
On Thursday the UNCF
Alumni anji Pre-Alumni
Councils will host “Op
portunity Night" for 2500
junior and senior high school
students m the Washington,
D C area These students will
be able to discuss educational
opportunities, programs and
activities with a represen
tative from each UNCF in
stitution
The formal opening of the
conference will lake place
Friday morning when the
tHonorable Walter E
Washington. Mayor - Com
missioner of Washington. D C
For WSOC
Mrs. Bohn To Direct
Community Relations
Mrs. Jeanne Bohn has been
appointed Director of Com
munity Relations for W£OC
AM-FM-TV. The an
nouncements was made by
Vice-President and General
Manager Freeman R. Jones
A native of Chicago, Illinois,
Mrs. Bohn attended Knox
College in Galesburg, Illinois
She holds a B.A. degree in
English and was graduated
cum laude in 1950.
Jeanne joined the WSOC
stations in 1973 as Coordinator
of Women's Programming
and part-time consultant for
the Women’s Advisory
Council. Under her direction,
the Council presented several
television specials last year,
one of which was an in-depth
look at the conditions in a
woman’s prison. Another was
an investigation and analysis
of public kindergartens and
day care centers in the area
In addition to her duties at
WSOC, Jeanne is an active
member of the Charlotte Area
Clergy Association. She
served on the Board of the
League of Women Voters in
1971-72 and was a member of
the Quality Education
Committee dunng 1973.
Prior to joining the WSOC
stations. Jeanne's background
includes employment for
Time, Inc and the World
Council of Christian
Education. She also served as
reading instructor at Johnson
C. Smith University for the
government sponsored
College Education
Achievement Project in 1967
Jeanne is the wife of
Johnson C Smith University
professoi Rev. Ralph'Bohn.
They live in Charlotte with
their son and daughter
welcomes the delegates to the
United States Capitol.
MRS. WILLIAMS
..Program director
Mrs. Williams
Heads YMCA
Programs
Catherine P Williams
former Women and Girls
Director has been named
Program Director at the
McCrorey Branch YMCA, 3801
Bpatties Ford Road.
Mrs. Williams Is a graduate
ol Johnson C. Smith
University, Charlotte, North
Carolina. She will devote full
time as Program Director in
directing and planning all
programs for the McCrorey
Branch Y M C A
Mrs. Williams is very ac
tive in civic affairs and is in
the process of becoming a
certified Y M C A. Direc
torship She is a member of
APD Association, holds office
as Grammateus, President of
the Mecklenburg County
Chapter of Les Premieres
Feemes , Inc. Girl Scout
leader, Interested Citizens
Association, Fair Housing
Association, Board of
Directors National Con
ference of Christians and
Jews, IBPOE, and a member
of Memorial United
Presbyterian Church,
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Salvation
ArmyBoys’
Club Star
By BILL JOHNSON
Post M anager-Editor
There is another all
American football player in
our town.
He is William •‘Ricky”
Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs
William C. Wallace of 724
Walnut Ave.
A seventh grade student at
Quail Hollow Junior High
School, Wallace was named
this week to the annual
Salvation Army Boys Clubs’
Midget All-American Football
Team for 1973.
Although he’s the first
Charlotte native to be so
highly honored by the national
organization, Wallace became
n mornkar n f Iho T r* Q 1
Salvtion Army Boy’s Club
team quite by accident.
““I hadn’t thought very
much about playing football
until this past season," the
unassuming youngster said
qa.-l. vTV'j»<W /’jy
had always waiBd to play ’
baseball and baaKball.
He, nonthelessWecame an
outstanding performer in the
popular North Charlotte
Optimist Club’s Pop Warner
League.
“He’s one of the best tight
ends and defensive backs in
the league," Frento Burton
praised. A former, football
player at Johnson C. Smith
University, Burton is the head
football coach at the Salvation
Army Boys’ Club.
He quotes statistic to
support the appraisal of
Wallace.
The 120-pounder caught 40
passes, made three in
terceptions, ran back punts
and kickoffs and "played
exceptionally well wherever
we needed him.”
One of two children in the
Wallace family, Ricky was
named the Most Outstanding
player on his football team
and he more than likely will
be named team's outstanding
baseball players at their
banquet later in the year
According to Ellis M
Gallier, executive director of
The Salvation Army Boy's
Club, the honor is given "in
recognition of a boys out
standing ability in his school,
church and football prowess ”
"He (Ricky) is certainly
deserving of the honor," Mr.
Gallier continued. “He not
only Is an outstanding aimeie,
he’s also a very fine young
man.”
Wallace is a member of
the Grier Heights
Presbyterian Church.
Until this season, his love
for football began and ended
with his thoughts of Larry
Csonka, the fabulous Miami
Dolphin football player.
“I’d rather play basket
ball,” Wallace answered when
asked to name his favorite
sports. “He excells in
baseball, too," Mr. Gallier
Interrupted.
Kicky was the star catcher
for the Salvation Army Boys’
Club baseball team at 2601 W
Trade St. He also played first
base, outfield and pitched
He currently is starring
with the KYD basketball
squad coached by Kenny
Diamond. With Ricky in the
role of a leading scorer and
topflight guard, the teams
have won nine straight con
tests Ricky's contribution
includes a 15-point scoring
average