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NEWS/The Charlotte Post
Thursday, March 13,1997
Simms takes promotion to Los Angeles
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to Charlotte for a planned race
summit this fall and will work
hard on making sure the event
takes place.
“That’s still one I want to
make sure we get done,” Simms
said. “I’m going to work real
hard on this between now and
the time I leave in June. It
should represent all the people
in Charlotte and we have good
honest conversations. I will be
back in the fall.”
Simms said he is pleased with
his accomplishments since he
came to Charlotte five years
ago, including construction of a
new track and field stadium at
UNC Charlotte, the Community
Pride Awards program and sup
port for the arts. Simms chaired
the Arts & Science Council of
Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
“Another thing I’m really
pleased with is the quality and
importance of the Urban League
dinner, particularly the one we
had last ’Thursday,” he said. “We
honored a wonderful person
(NationsBank executive Joe
Martin). It is one we took to a
nice level.”
Simms, an Indianapolis, Ind.,
native, has worked at
TransAmerica Life for 25 years.
He joined the firm after earning
a MBA at the University of
Southern CaUfomia.
Simms was in line to become
head of the Charlotte Chamber
in 1998 and is a partner in the
Carohnas Panthers NFL fran
chise.
Former Charlotte-
Mecklenburg NAACP chapter
president Alfred Alexander said
Simms will be missed. Simms
was a major contributor to the
group, which helped put on the
NAACPs national convention
here last summer.
“He made an outstanding con-
Howard students protest mergers
By Mtircia Davis and
Valerie Strauss
THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON - Dozens of
Howard University students
occupied the administration
building Tuesday to protest a
planned merger of two colleges
and possible disciplinary action
against students who disrupted
a class on relations between
Jews and Afiican Americans.
More than 100 other students
huddled under blankets outside
on the building's steps, pledging
to remain all night to block uni
versity President H. Patrick
Swygert from entering the
building today until he heard
their demands.
University officials said last
night that there were no plans
to remove the protesters.
Students had blocked the
doors early 'Tuesday evening in
hopes of keeping Swygert from
leaving, but he was escorted out
a side door by a phalanx of cam
pus police officers.
The protests erupted after
weeks of tension about a plan to
merge the College of Fine Arts
with the College of Arts and
Sciences. Some fine arts stu
dents said they fear the merger.
The college has produced
numerous African American
entertainers and artists.
“Students are Concerned that
the college is losing its autono
my with this merger, and basi
cally that legacy of excellence is
going to be snuffed,” said
Russell Rickford, a Howard
senior and one of the leaders of
the protest.
Some arts and sciences stu
dents said they feared the merg
er would cause more crowding
in classes and reduce the quali
ty of their education.
The merger is part of
Swygert’s plan to reorganize
Howard’s colleges and schools to
eliminate course duplication
and save money. About 60 fine
arts students disrupted
Howard’s 130tb Charter Day
ceremony last week in Cramton
Auditorium by walking on tbe
stage during Swygert’s opening
address and singing “We Shall
Not Be Moved.”
Westside group opposes third airport runway
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
A proposed third runway at
Charlotte-Douglas
International Airport is the
last thing a westside watch
dog group wants to see.
Neighborhoods for Airport
Change II plans to gather at
Tuesday’s public hearing on
the airport’s master plan. The
group is distributing a news
paper to explain its opposition
to the runway and generate
grassroots opposition, co-chair
Sue Friday said.
NAC charges that the expan
sion places an unfair burden
on westside residents and is
environmentally dangerous.
Charlotte-Douglas’ growth has
erased several westside com
munities and remaining
neighbors complain the poten
tial destruction to the area
isn’t worth expansion.
“We feel a strong residential
westside is more important
than another runway,” Friday
said.
Opponents claims a third
runway will be of no benefit to
the region compared to the
investment required to build
it. Tbey fear a new runway
would bring more planes over
residential areas, disrupting,
if not endangering, more lives.
Supporters say expansion
would spur future growth,
although Charlotte-Douglas is
predicted to have no substa-
tial increase in operations
over the next eight years.
tribution, not only to the
NAACP, but to this communi
ty,” Alexander said. “His contri
butions will be missed greatly.
We are sorry to see him go. Tm
glad to know he will be involved
in this community some-
what...with the Panthers and by
keeping a home here.”
Simms will supervise
TransAmerica’s institutional
and bank marketing division,
but it will remain in Charlotte,
as will the reinsurance division,
which is relocating uptown.
Simms led the relocation of that
division from Los Angeles five
years ago.
Good
deeds
routine
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on my conscience too much.”
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money around often,”
MacCallum said. “I had the
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to use the money to pay off the
usual monthly bills.”
Choking with emotion,
MacCallum thanked Myers.
“She was a very warm lady,” he
said. “In this day and age no one
is that honest. This was a veiy
profound experience.” He
rewarded Myers with $300, feel
ing a sense of relief the money
didn’t get into the wrong hands.
Myers, 50, has been employed
at the Arena Inn for almost two
years. She’s seen people lose aU
types of possessions, only to
retirai them.
“I’ve found jewelry,
radios,cameras and clocks and
returned them all to the front
desk for the owner’s to claim it,”
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