Procrastination!
Darnell Ivory Encounters
Common “Characteristic”
By Audrey C. Lodato
Poet SUIT Writer
Churchworker contes
tant Darnell Ivory of Faith
CME Church (medium ca
tegory) has encountered
that common characteris
tic, procrastination, in her
efforts to raise motley for
her church and, possibly,
win a trip tor herself.
“People are saying, ‘I’ll do
it; when is the last day?’
They’re waiting til the
end,” she reports. “I’m
expecting the people on my
committee to go forth these
last few weeks.” r - w •
Her committee consists
of Edna Barnett, Juanita
Curry, Valerie Houston,
Charlie Williams, Mary
Battle, Cloie Jones,
Josielyn Thompson, and
her sister-in-law, Carlenia
Ivory. •
Ivory admits, “I need to
become more committed
on a dally basis,” to sell
ing Post subscriptions. “I
don’t thini I've done all I
can do. It’s a question of
discipline and commit
ment.” The contestant has
been surprised that so
many of the people she has
called already subscribe to
the Post.
Faith CME’s pastor, the
Rev. Willie Sturgess, is a
relative newcomer to the
Charlotte community, hav
ing moved here about a
year ago from Florida.
This provided, the initial
motivation for Ivory to be
come involved in the con
test. “Rev. Sturgess ap
proached several of us
about the contest. I vo
lunteered to help be
cause our pastor is new to
Darnell (very
.Faith CME contestant
the area. My concern was
to introduce the communi
ty to Faith CME and to
Rev. Sturgess.”
An additional' motivator
for Ivory was ”to see if I
could do it.” Although she
didn’t become a contestant
in order to qualify for
prizes, she admits she
would enjoy winning the
trip. “I do enjoy travel and
would like to travel more,
especially in Christian min
istry,” she says.
Challenge is nothing new
for this contestant. Ivory
worked in Barbados, The
West Indies, for six years,
five of them in the Peace
Corps, and the last year for
the government. Previous
ly, she had spent a sum
mer in Togo, West Africa,
as part of the cultural ex
change program. Opera
tion Crossroads, begun by a
black minister in New
York. So when she saw an
advertisement for Peace
Corps volunteers while
job-hunting after grad
uate school, she jumped
right in.
"The Peace Corps was -
an invaluable experience,”
she recalls. “I learned a lot
and, professionally, I think
I grew.” With a B.S. in
physical education from
Spelman College in Atlanta
and a masters in educa
tion from Springfield
College, in Springfield,
Ma., Ivory’s work in Bar
bados was as a physical
education specialist, first
in a primary school and
then at a teachers’ train
ing college.
Since returning to the
States, she has been em
ployed as a recreation spe
cialist with the Mecklen
burg County Parks and
Recreation Department,
working at the Davidson
Community Center.
Ivory is active in her
church, which she joined in
1961. She is secretary of the
Sunday School, a member
of the Commission on
Membership and Evangeli
zation, and just this week
was elected president of
the Young Adult Council.
The Ivorys moved to
Charlotte from Rock Hill
when Darnell was in the
sixth grade, following the
death of her father, a Pres
byterian minister. Her
mother, Emily Ivory, now
lives in Los Angeles but is
in Charlotte visiting for a
month. One brother, Cecil
Ivory, is a judge in New
York. Her other brother,
Titus Ivory, is employed at
Wachovia.
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