Aileen Miller
.86 years young
Festive Affair Given
For Mrs. Aileen Miller
More than 40 friends and family
gathered recently at the White Hill
Apartment Center in Huntersville to
tell Aileen Miller “Happy Birth
day.”
According to Mrs. Miller, “When
you reach 16 you always think of
inviting your friends and family to
your birthday party. ” She was show
ered with a cake, good food and
lovely gifts.
This festive affair was given to
Mrs. Miller by her daughter,
Virginia Williamson, her son-in-law,
Samuel Williamson, and her grand
daughter and grandson-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Lenwood Edwards of
Greensboro.
A long-time resident of Shelby,
N.C., Mrs. Miller moved to Hunters
ville about four years ago and be
came a resident of White Hill Apart
ments. ■..
Very contented in her new sur
roundings, Mrs. Miller replied, “I
love my new home. I have so many
friends and wonderful neighbors.
And, although I’m the oldest resi
dent, I know I’m the youngest at
heart.”
Mrs. Miller is also the oldest
member at the church which she has
attended since infancy. “I’m called
the mother of the church.” With that
title she has watched over the
leaders of the Chapel Hill Baptist
Church and asserts, “Rev. Gray and
Rev. Gibson are men of God. I love
them and the members as well. They
make you feel so at home and wel
comed.”
A warm, jubilant t person, Mrs.
Miller enjoys reading, cooking,
(especially pies and cakes) and
flower gardening. Traveling, meet
ing new people and Seeing new
things are additional things Mrs.
Miller enjoys.
Rape Crisis Funds Awarded
Seventeen community rape crisis
programs in North Carolina have
received Brants totaling $262,500 to
be used to 'tfsslst victims of sexual'
assault. '
The grants are awarded by the
Council on the Status of Women
(CSW) in the N.C. Department of
Administration. Funds include fe
deral and state monies which are
used to match locally generated
funds.
"We are pleased to be able to
make these funds available to help
sexual assult victims in our state,"
said secretary of administration
Grace J. Rohrer.
More than 30 counties in North
Carolina have programs to assist
sexual assault victims. More than
$538,500 was requested by 27 pro
grams. ,
The following 17 programs will
receive funds: Rape Crisis Center of
Asheville, Options of Burke County,
Sheltered Home of Caldwell Coun
ty, Family Violence and Rape
Crisis Volunteers of Chatham
County, Rape Crisis Volunteers of
Cumberland County, Durham
YWCA Rape Crisis Center, Family
Services-Rape Response of Win
ston-Salem, Turning Point of
Greensboro, Family Services of
High Point, Family Violence and
Rape Crisis Association of Lee
County, Victim Assistance of Meck
lenburg, Cape Fear Substance
Abuse in -Wilmington, Orange
County Rape Crisis Center, Crimes •
Against Women Task Force in Eliza
beth City, Union County Crime
Prevention and Interact in Wake
County.
The grants will help local pro
grams provide 24-hour crisis inter
vention and victim advocacy as well
as counseling, volunteer training,
and community education.
iV.C State Research
Supreme Court Voting Behavior Studied"
By Matalie Eason Hampton
Special To The Post
Even United States Supreme
Court Justices, the country’s top
judicial decision makers, have a
right to a change of heart.
Although the nine justices seldom
change their minds on matters of
law, a North Carolina State Uni
versity researcher and his colleague
hope to learn more about why
justices vote as they do by exam
ining cases where justices have
changed their minds.
The study by Dr. Robin H. Dorff of
NCSU and Dr. Saul Brenner of the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte will focus on Supreme
Court voting from 1946 to 1975, years
Dorff describes as those of the
"modern court.”
Two votes are taken each time the
nine Supreme Court justices make a
ruling on a case, with a time lapse of
about one to three months between
votes. Usuallv. Dorff said, justices
WPEG Earns Billboard Award
By Audrey C. Lodato
Post Staff Writer
One of Charlotte’s own has re
cently been recognized in a national
competition sponsored by Billboard
Magazine.
Radio station WPEG won the
“Medium Market .Station of the
Year” award based on its perfor
mance and ratings. As far as gene
ral manager Nancy Cooper knows,
WPEG is the only station in Char
lotte to win a Billboard award this
year
Says Cooper. “No one person or no
one experience is being given credit
for our success. It’s been a team
effort. Everybody, from the presi
dent, Bill Rollins, to the bookkeeper,
has been working toward the same
goal." That goal, she states, is “to be
the very best urban contemporary
station that could be. Every em
ployee here deserves some credit.”
According to the general man
ager, Billboard's station awards are
an annual event. The magazine so
licits radio stations to enter the
competition, and then chooses win
ners in a number of categories
according to performance. WPEG,
Cooper notes, is one of the top
ranked urban stations in the coun
try.
What makes this radio station so
special? Cooper thinks the number
one ingredient is “giving the au
dience what they want to hear.”
Another important component of
success is "letting the community
we serve know we are here to serve
them.”
Among past instances of such
Nancy Cooper
.VVPEG executive
service to the community are tree
concerts every year and fund rais
ing for sickle cell and the United
Negro College Fund. The station is
involved in the Family Outreach
Adult Care Center auction and is
developing a "feed the hungry of
Metrolina" promotion.
Program manager Fred Graham
adds, “We provide listeners with
answers to questions that they might
have about artists.” Listeners, he
notes, “like to know what's hap
pening in urban music."
According to Graham, an urban
format attracts both black and white
listeners. The station has been play
ing urban contemporary music since
1979. Graham has been program
director since 1981
spotting Dependency Syndromes
Alcoholism and drug dependency
probably are here to stay
It’s only in recent years, how
ever, that physicians, other health
care professionals, and the general
public have begun seeing the al
coholic or drug-dependent person as
someone with a disease that can be
treated.
“Dependency Syndromes” is the
topic to be addressed during this
Friday’s Mercy Hospital Grand
Rounds series Charlotte physician
Dr. Henry C. O’Roark and counse
lor Tom McLaughlin, who jointly
operate Total Level Care, a short
term detoxification and treatment
program located at Mercy, will pre
sent the program
“Alcoholism and drug dependency
are often the ‘great masqueraders’
to doctors,” says O’Roark, “because
they can hide as symptoms of other
diseases. And,” he adds, “while a
patient would never think of denying
the existence of diabetes, for ex
ample, denying alcoholism is a
major roadblock toward treat
ment.”
It's important, therefore, thatphy
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fessionals are aware of symptoms
that signal drug or alcoholic de
pendency and respond accordingly,
says O’Roark
The 30-minute presentation by
O’Roark and McLaughlin will be
given in the Mercy Hospital Au
ditorium on Friday, September 20,
after a buffet lunch. Reporters are
welcome to attend The actual pre
sentation will start at 12:30 pm.
vote the same way both times But in
roughly 10 percent of the cases,
justices switch their votes from
minority to majority opinions, he
said.
Since justices’ votes usually are
based on their own liberal or con
servative views, Dorff believes the
pressures of the small-group situa
tion come into play when justices
reverse themselves.
One explanation for vote reversing
may be solidarity-giving the court s
decision the appearance of greater
unanimity, he stated. Another pos
sibility is that a justice makes a
strategic decision to switch to create
a favorable situation for encourag
ing others to vote with him on future
issues^ he said
The study will be based on court
records for the 29-year period as
well as persona] notes of Justice
William J. Brennan Jr. Dorff said
Brennan's notes on cases, archived
in the Library of Congress, offer
detailed information about court
deliberations not available through
other sources Brenner has received
permission to use the notes for
scholarly study.
While it is impossible to know
exactly what goes on behind the
closed doors where the court de
liberates, Dorff says he plans to
develop a set of hypotheses to
explain switching behavior as it
relates to circumstances surround
ing vote reversals.
He believes a Justice is more likely
to switch his vote from minority to
majority opinions on cases of less
importance to the court.
Switching is more likely on eco
nomic cases and less likely on cases
of civil rights, he revealed And a
persuasive opinion writer may be
more skillful at luring other jus
tices to his side, Dorff explained
Cases where vote reversals
caused the entire court to reverse its
opinion will not be considered in this
study. Dorff said. Cases of the court
reversing itself are very rare, he
claims.
Dorff does not yet plan to make
broad generalizations about the
court years he will study, years
remembered for many landmark
decisions He and Brenner will
examine annual court terms as well
as individual voting records of the 25
justices who served during those
years.
Data will be compiled and ana
lyzed by computer. Results of the
study are expected by April
Funding for the study wasj pro
vided by a $27,200 grant from the
National Science Foundation. In
formation acquired through the
study will be incorporated into the
U.S. Supreme Court Data Base
Project, a nationwide research ef
fort also funded by the National
Science Foundation.
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