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. THE CHARLOTTE POST - TTiursday, January 5, 1984
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What’s It Like Being
Married To Successful Men?
Story On Page 4A
Michelle Kaye Dorsey ”
.Fits characteristics of a Leo
Michelle Dorsey
Is Beauty Of Week
I like to be to aq it!” is only
part of the spook displayed
by our beauty, Michelle
Kaye Dorsey.
“I fit the characteristics
of a Leo,” Ms. Dorsey
explained. “I like to be in
OD what’s going on. I like
being in activities and I like
dealing with people. ”
Since that’s the case it’s
befitting Ma. Dorsey has
eh sake a profession which
suits her extroverted cha
racteristics, Presently she
to attending Central Pied
mint Community College
in the transfer program.
•’TMs is my first year at
CPCC. I plan to obtain my
B.A. in Communications
from either Howard or the
University of North Carol
ina, Charlotte.”
To be Accepted as a
respected broadcast Jour
nalist Ms. Dorsey realises
teat her English mist be
almost flawless. This, how
ever, should be the least of
her worries since she
speaks With bo* poise and
raised to Baltimore, Mary
land, Ms . Dorsey has since
made a mow* back to the
(JutoBnas, “My mother,
brother and I came back to
Strickland Dor
ty’s motMn
i one brother, 14
year-old George Edward
Dorsey Jr.
Taking life with an inde
pendent stance is a reac
tion Ms. Dorsey has in
herited from her mother.
“She instills in me the
importance of indepen
dence. She stresses edu
cation and I feel she has
done a great Job of being
my mother."
There are other snatches
of life Ms. Dorsey seems to
have analysed on her own.
“There’s no such thing as
hick.” She explains, “In
everything there are
efforts and from those
efforts come results.” '
Even now at 19 years of
age Ms. Dorsey has real
ised that Judging others is
impractical. “I would like
to see people come together
and look at people for
what’s on the inside of
them - making sure that
they look a little deeper -
instead of simply looking at
their race.”
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Kepublicans
To Adress
Child Care
By Karen Parker
Post Staff Writer
The Republican National
Committee reported
women are facing more
child care problems as they
enter the working market
in substantial numbers.
The Committee com
mented that working wo
men are having problems
finding appropriate, af
fordable care for their
children. As a result, Sen.
Paula Hawkins and Sen.
Orrin Hatch both in the
U.S.; Senate, will, introduce
legislation this month sug
gesting a one-time grant be
allotted to the states spe
cifically for the develop
ment of child care refer
ral services. The biH will be
called the Dependent Care
Resources and Referral
Act and will amend the
Public Health Services Act
which covers block grants.
The new law as enacted
will allow any state to
apply for a grant and then
tailor a referral service to
fit local community needs.
Whether North Carolina
will be among those states
who choose to apply for the
child care grant is un
known; however, State
Sen. Louise Brennan of
Charlotte pointed out that a
pilot program such as the
one introduced on the
federal level is already
active in Charlotte. With
1.3 million women in North
Carolina exiting in the
work force, Sen. Brennan
urged child care referral
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TOM GILMORE
i
—Democratic Gubernatorial candidate
Gilmore To Work Towards
Reducing Increasing Number
Of High School Dropouts
ny ivaren ranter
Post Staff Writer
When the Philip Morris
Company expanded its ope
rations into Cabarrus
County, it meant more job
opportunities.
According to Tom
Gilmore, Democratic gu
bernatorial candidate, the
majority of jobs unfortun
ately didn’t go to North
Carolinians but to people
who were relocated by the
company. “North Carolina
needs to continue to at
tract service industries
but the companies need to
hire more of the people
already living in the state,”
the 47-year-old candidate
insisted.
Gilmore feels that an
improvement in the educa
tion system is the best
place to start to assure
more of the state’s natives
are employed. “In this day
Along The Campaign Trail
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legislature^
Jesse Jackson s trip to
Syria,has resulted l« what
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from tbs Syrian govern
meat. On s televised pro
gram before tbs trip to
would at least get the issue
an the front burner of U S
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President Resgan of failing
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Rev. Jeese Jackeen
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Committee, January 16 aa
a deputy director for min
ority affairs. Simmons, Si,
is a partner in the firm of
Currie, Simmons, Pugh
and Joyner. He wiD take a
leave of absence from the
firm to work with the 1964
Senate campaign. A mem
ber of the N.C. Black Law
yen Association, Simmons
ie a graduate of Ml
Uni vanity, where be re
ceived his law degree. He
alao received a degree in
political acteade from
Howard University. Sim
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of high technology, we need
to prevent the increasing
number of high school
dropouts.” Gilmore ex
pressed his goals, if elected
governor, is to improve the
overall quality of life in the
state. He feels that can best
be achieved through edu
cation.
Two issues in education
receiving extreme atten
tion are merit pay for
teachers and longer school
terms. Gilmore doesn’t
support either. “I don’t
support merit pay because
everyone has failed to show
me how it can be adminis
tered fairly,” Gilmore
stated. He has his reasons
for not supporting a longer
school term. “Can you
imagine students sitting in
classrooms at tempera
tures of 96 degrees?” he
asked. Gilmore pointed out
he visited a classroom that
reached that temperature
in early September; there
fore, in the summer
months the conditions
could be worse.
He also feels that the
student-teacber ratio is too
high. We need to make our
classrooms smaller. The
average classroom has 35
students.
Those issues which
Gilmore does support in
education include raising
all teachers’ salaries above
national average. That
meant about an additional
tt,000 annually. Doing this
and decreasing the size of
classrooms would, in Gtt
more’s estimation, raise
the morels d the teachers,
as well as allow than more
time to spend individually ,
with** students
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Businesses
Need
Minorities
Making a special effort to
do business with minority
firms can pay off hand
somely for large corpora
tions.
That is the conclusion in
a new report released by
Philip Morris, Inc. on its
experience to date with its
“Minority Vendors Pro
gram.”
The report also high
lights opportunities for
minority-owned enterpris
es to sell their products and
services to the diversified
multinational consumer
products company.
Philip Morris spends
more than $150 million a
year with minority busi
nesses, the report says.
The company’s Minority
Vendor Task Force works
with Minority Business
Purchasing Councils to
identify qualified minority
business operators and
lelp prospective suppliers
meet Philip Morris stan
dards.
“Minority business and
large corporations need
each other," says George
Weissman, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of
Philip Morris, Inc. in the
report’s introduction.
“New entrepreneurs
need the business. We need
the best quality products,
materials and services
available and we can’t get
them if \ye don’t open our
doors to all who think they
can provide them.”
Providing a how-to-do-it
guide, the report encourag
es more minority suppliers
to do business with the cor
poration. The report lists
Task Force members along
with their addresses and
direct-dial telephone num
bers.
Profiles in Success. En
titled "They Sell To Philip
Morris-So Can You,” the
12-page, full color brochure
profiles six minority
business people who have
been successful suppliers
to Philip Morris.
"We’re proud to call the
people in this booklet
Philip Morris suppliers,"
Says Weissman “They’re
gaining a foothold on the
American economy by
building successful
.businesses with their in
dependence, persistence,
energy and vigorous entre
preneurship."
60 Artists
Sixty artists from the
Charlotte area wig partici
pate to Spirit Square Art
Center’s "MM Invitational
Black and White," 0|M*«
January 6 at the uptown
arts center.
The public In invited to
attend the opeMaf of the
eabibiUoa an Friday, x,
January *, from fc-7 p.m. In
Gallary Ona It Spirit
asrjrav
formation, call m
m-Man.