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Gina Pettis _.West Charlotte senior " Gina Pettis To Participate In Debutante Rail Gina Pettis, a senior at West Charlotte High School, has been selected to participate in the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Debutante Ball, to be held in Raleigh, N.C. this November. This will be the 47th annual AKA Debutante Ball sponsored by the Raleigh Alumni Chgpterof the AKA Through the ball, the sorority assists deserving young ladies to matri culate to an institution of higher learning by awarding various scho larships to the debutante partici-. pants. -7 Last year the sorority donated ap proximately 156,000 in scholarships to participants. Actively involved at West Char lotte High, 17-year-old Gina is a member of the Modern Mt»ic Mas ters, the Senior Gass Council, the Red Croas, NAACP, Student Coun cil, Future Business Leaders of America and the Keyettes. She attends First Baptist Church, where she’s on the Junior Choir and attends Sunday School As part of her effort toeam the title of Out-Of-Town Queen at the Debutante Ball, Gina will be host ing a fund raising disco party and dance at McDonald’s Cafeteria on Saturday. September 28, from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. Captain Rossi, DJ with WPEG radio station, will be spin ning the latest and best record ings. High school juniors and se niors from throughout the city have been invited. Donations will be IS. Chandra Snail Named SenafinaKst Chandra Y. Smith of 1008 Squirrel Hill Rd., Charlotte, is one of 13 students at the N.C. School of Sci ence and Mathematics to be named semiflnalists in the 1988 .National Achievement Scholarship Program for Outstanding Negro Students. Smith formerly attended West Charlotte High School. Students selected from the state residential science and mathema tics school are among some 1,900 semifinalists nationwide remaining in competition for about 700 Nation al Achievement Scholarships, worth more than 32 million, to be awarded next spring. “The National Achievement Scho larships are among the highest ho nors a student can receive,” school director Charles R. “Either said. "We’re very proud of these 13 young people, and I’m spre their farmer high schools Are just as proud.” Semifinalists were chosen from among High school juniors, now seniors, who last fall took the Pre limary Scholastic Aptitude Test National Merit Scholarship Qualify ing Test and who requested consi deration "M the Achievement Pro gram. In order to beedme finalists, semifinalists must document high academic performance as well as other accomplishments. Achievement scholarships are provided by businesses, < “ Mathematics^llTthe^r public residential high_ students gifted in science and mathematics. hkww: ...KNOW NOT Duke Pediatrician Stresses Importance Of Immunizations By David Roberson Duke Medical Center Special To The Post ..Durham * Recent lawsuits and other adverse publicity regarding children's immunizations may be obscuring the potentially life-sav ing effects of commonly used vaccines, according to a Duke Uni versity Medical Center pediatrician Despite some recent fears about side effects from children’s vac cines. the benefits far outweigh the potential risks, according to pr. Samuel L. Katz. c “ “These vaccines' have been very successful - so successful that many young parents have never seen these diseases and are unaware of them,” Katz said. “That very success can be a liability when parents forget about the importance of proper im munizations." Katz is Wilbert C. Davison Pro fessor and chairman of the Depart ment of Pediatrics at Duke and an j internationally known authority on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. He Is currently chairman of the U.S. Public Health Service’s Immunization Practices Advisory Committee. Although most children have al ready received their immunizations before entering school, Katz said youngsters in highly mobile seg ments of our society - military families and migrant workers are examples - may not have fulfilled their immunization requirements. Many families also travel over seas, particularly during summer vacation months. Even though their ' children may be immunized, if the children are exposed to an infec tious disease, they could pass it on to unimmunized classmates at school, Katz revealed. Polio.is now rare in this country, and only about 10 cases per year are seen in the U.S., informs Katz. "But the virus is still widely pre sent," he said, noting that out breaks occurred in Finland this year, in Latin America in 1964 and in Taiwan three years ago. Cases also occurred in 1979 in Pennsylvania's Amish community, where children were not immunised. “We need to maintain immuniza tions," Katz said. "Polio ian’t a disease like smallpox that you can say is gone for good." C I I _ _ $498 T USDAl H u, (choice) Choice Boof Mb - HMJ (be Sliced FREE! | , We reserve the right to limit quantities. USDA Choice Beef Round - Fall Cot Boneless Round Steak | ClAlAAi Dfllnlnnn jfl 4W6W rota toes i /^aLLaa* 1 Cabba»* HIKj $489 Half Gallon ft OM FtiMo##4 Rm#4 Ctflm Borden's lee Cream _ *J99 I.S IMh • Urirmi, Kmm, IbMto Celia Wine *]15 1 liter - Pte» Pafti. Ptfti FrH PM P»f»l Fm Pepsi Cola Er? *189 ■ 4*0* berried *S«0ff gP Tide V Detergent,
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