NEWS/ The Charlotte Post
2A
February 1, 1996
Fund raising priority for UNC
Cultural Center director Horne
PHOTO/ DAN SEARS
Gerald Horne, director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, is trying
to raise money for the center’s $7.5 miiiion building..
By Liz Lucas
SPECIAL TO THE POST
CHAPEL HILI^ One month
into his tenure as director of
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Sonja
Haynes Stone Black Cultural
Center, Gerald Horne knows
what will top his agenda: fund
raising.
As the man destined to lead
the move from the existing
900 square?foot facility in a
small corner of UNC’s Frank
Porter Graham Student Union
to a planned building off
South Road, Horne has a
major task before him. But
rather than being daunted by
the difficulty of raising the
remainder of the estimated
$7.5 million needed for the
new building, Horne says the
challenge is part of what
attracted him to the job.
“I've been in academia for
too many years," saysHorne,
chuckling as he perches in an
office filled with cartons of
yet-to-be-unpacked momentos
and books. "I've always had
the desire to become involved
in some sort of building of an
institution, something that
goes beyond teaching and
writing. This offered an oppor
tunity to build an institution -
literally to build the center —
to help it raise the funds.
"It's very exciting, the
prospect of what potentially
we could do with tne center in
terms or education,” said
Home, who assumed the post
Jan. 1. "It may actually repre
sent a new stage in the evolu
tion of education here
because, as we see it, this cen
ter would not only be a boon to
the campus, I think it would
be a boon statewide. Some of
the things we could do with
the center in terms of educa
tion, in terms of appropriate
programs and the like, would
benefit this entire region.”
The existing center, which
opened in 1988, compares
favorably with others around
the nation, Horne says. Its
popular programs include a
cross-cultural communications
institute, a "Communiversity"
program that mobilizes under
graduates as mentors for area
youth and the "Blacks in the
Diaspora" lecture series.
The center has been a light
ning rod for friction at UNC,
with some white campus lead
ers saying a free-standing
facility would foster segrega
tion. Black students countered
with demonstratons support
ing the center. Adminstrators
agreed with them, provided
the facility be built with pri
vate funds. So far, more than
$1.84 million has been
pledged for the new center,
ranging from gifts as small as
$10 to pledges as large as $1
million from NationsBank. A
blue-ribbon team including
poet Maya Angelou; Deloris
Jordan, mother of basketball
star and UNC alumnus
Michael Jordan; Charlotte
businessman Jack Tate; for
mer UNC-CH trustee chair
man Robert Eubanks; and
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Mandela defended
Farrakhan's contacts with
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were unopposed in thp
November balloting by dele
gates to the NAACP state con
vention.
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the Raleigh/Apex chapter, was
elected third vice president,
and Gina Pettis-Dean of
Charlotte was elected youth
advisor, beating Mary Reid. Z
Ann Hoyle of Hickory beat
incumbent treasurer James
Florence.
The vote totals were close,
with about 184 delegates cast
ing ballots and only 8-10 votes
difference between winners
and losers. For example,
Woodard beat Waddell 96-88
and 96-83.
Pickett and Hoyle said they
wanted to take the organiza
tion in a new direction.
“Sometimes when we do not
make changes, people possess
positions, which in turns
equals possession of the orga
nization,” Hoyle said last
month. “It is not their fault. It
is the fault of those around
them who don’t make the com
mitment to make the proper
changes to keep life in the
organization.”
Mary Reid, who lost the
youth advisor race to Pettis,
filed the complaint, alleging
ineligible youth delegates
were allowed to vote. Only 22
votes were cast in the youth
election. Reid got four votes.
Penn held a hearing at the
state NAACP headquarters in
Greensboro on Dec. 30. He
told The Post then that he is
following organizational pro
cedure and would make a rec
ommendation on the validity
of the complaints to a commit
tee of the NAACP national
board. That committee makes
a final determination.
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