Mrs. ChiilSchUl Grahani, Jr. ’
.She was Miss Renee P. Tuck
ine groom s mother was
donned in a pink gown and
matching accessories.
Gerado Stroud and Mrs.
Lonnie Miller presented a
program of wedding
music.
Hazel Allen directed
the wedding.
The daughter of Mrs. E.
H. Tuck and the late Ste
phen T. Tuck, the bride is a
sophomore at Barber
Scotia College.
The groom, an SF4 in the
Army, is the son of Sgt.
Major and Mrs. Churchill
Graham. Sr. _
4* local NAACP awarded nine Char
Ateaai with "Outstanding Service to
Dtoteunity" plaques recently during the
freWom Fund Dinner. The following
yyord recipients are l-r: Bob Davis,
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Lugene Price. Nasif Majeed. Lillie
Beckham, Phyllis Lynch, 8am Johnson,
Ron Leeper, Sarah M. Coleman and Rev.
T. W. Samuels (Photo By Divine Re
flections)
Attack Experience Workshop To Be Held
topic* to be discussed atthe
fifth annual Black Ex
perience Workshop Friday,
March 23 at the University
of North Carolina at Cha
pel Hill.
A free, public open forum
featuring Dr. Charles V.
Hamilton, Wallaces. Sayie
professor of government at
Columbia University, will
be held March 22.
Council On Adolescent
Pcejgriancy Welcomes Input
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In 1960, with the leader
ship of the March of Dimes,
the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
PTA Council, 'the Char
lotte-Mecklenburg Schools
and concerned area health
educators, the Mecklen
burg Council on Adoles
cent Pregnancy held a
Community Awareness
Conference and mobilized
traders from all facets of
Charlotte to become in
volved in addressing the
problem of adolescent
pregnancy.
Following the confer
ence, nine permanent Task
Forces were created:
Agency, Business, Clergy,
Pa rents-Comm unity,
Peers, Media, Govern
ment-Legal, Medical and
Schools. These Task
Forces are led by know
ledgeable and dedicated
volunteers who make up
part of the 25-member
Board of Directors.
The model under which
the Council functions pro
vides for a unison of volun
tary and public supports in
primary prevention activi
ties and permits the Coun
cil to serve as an um
brella organization to fos
ter cooperation among ex
isting agencies.
Initial funding was pro
vided by the March of
Dimes, Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation and Mary Rey
nolds Babcock Foundation.
Continuing funding needs
have been met by the
United Way of Mecklen
burg County, local founda
tion grants, corporations,
civic groups, health organ
izations, educational as
sociations, parent groups
and individual supporters.
The Mecklenbure Coun
cil on Adolescent Preg
nancy has worked to pro
vide information and
awareness to Abe com
munity regarding the inci
dence and prevalence of
adolescent pregnapcy in
Charlotte. As a^dunteer,
non-profit organization, the
Council welcomes com
munity input on all levels.
“The Council has been
effective in raising the con
scious ness of professionals'
parents and youth to the
fact tfrat adptsgcgpt preg
nancy is a social, econo
mic and health ibsue that
affects us all, and that
we must work cooperative
ly to effect change-there
are no quickr easy reme
dies to this problem,”
wrote Barbara Ziegler,
Executive Director of
MCAP.
Throughout 1983 the
Council has reached out
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and developed new and in
novative community pro
grams such as the “It’s OK
To Say Not” media cam
paign which encourages
and supports young people
in exercising their choice of
saying no to early sexual
involvement. Individual
TV and radio stations de
signed and played their
public service announce
ments throughout the
month of May. With the
media’s cooperation, they
were able to reach thou
sands of homes with “It’s
OK To Sav No!”: the
‘ 'I'm Askable” physicians
project working with the
Charlotte Area Health Edu
cation Center and Char
lotte Memorial Hospital,
the Council coordinated
iour seminars (or physi
cians, nurses, clergy, al
lied health personnel,
teachers and community
volunteers. Esther Ann
Grace, M.D., from Boston
Children’s Hospital and
Harvard Medical School
and Robert Hatcher, M.D.,
of Emory University in
Atlanta raddressed the is
sues of adolescent health,
reproductive health care,
parent-youth communica
tion and community in
volvement; Information on
Service Cards for Teens;
Newsline and the MCAP
quarterly newsletter with
resource materials de
signed and developed by
MCAP and made available
to the community upon
request. MCAP’s materials
and programs have pro
vided the standard for si
milar groups being de
veloped throughout the
state and Southeast.
Along with these pro
jects, they have also con
tinued those that have
proven to be successful in
1982: the, Junior, Health
Fairs whigh-eonsisUd-of **
community health, agen
cy participants In 1983
hosted by Cochrane, Mc
Clintock, J..T.,Williams and
Smith Junior Highs. Over
3,000 students, along with
parents and school person
nel attended and.received
information about health
and health services avail
ably in Charlotte; the
Teen Hot Line; “Let’s
Talk” Week which was ce
lebrated in Charlotte on
October 2-9,1983, as part of
National Family Sexuality
Education Week, to give
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support to parents as the
primary sexuality educa
tors of their children. The
Council coordinated 21 dif
ferent programs through
out the week, offering the
community a variety of
activities from which to
choose. Participating in
this celebration were 19
groups representing
ehurches, synagogues,
health care agencies,
schools and community or
ganisation* anri the Agen
cy to Agency Roundtable.
“I would like to thank the
many contributors who
have supported the Coun
cil’s goals. Their contin
ued interest has enabled us
to keep moving ahead,”
stated Ziegler.
“We are proud of our
accomplishments,” she
added, “and will continue
to focus on unintended
adolescent pregnancy in
Charlotte by working to
bring the community to
gether im primary preven
tion activities.”
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