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NEWS / The Charlotte Post
Thursday, December 18, 1997
Anthony wins FBI honor
By John Minter
THE CHARLOTTE POST
■ Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Fighting Back director Hattie
Anthony is proud of the what the
Organization has accomphshed,
particularly its two school-hased
puhstance abuse programs.
. ; But being selected as one of 56
JiSnorees in ttie nation to receive
tKe FBI’s 1997 Community
Leadership Awards was a siu"-
prise, she said,
j ■ “I did not have knowledge of it
] until a day or so before the award
ivas given (Monday),” Anthony
said. “I was surprised on the one
hand, but certainly the work this
organization has done with the
community deserves to be recog
nized.”
Anthony said the school-based
substance abuse treatment pro
grams, the first in Charlotte, are
especially worthy of honor,
i The “Then Care” programs oper-
; dte at a middle school and a high
^hool, in conjunction with the
^hool system, the McLeod
Addictive Disease Center and the
county’s Health, Mental Health
and Community Services.
Fighting Back officials said
school officials have insisted that
those schools not be named to
avoid stigmatizing them as hav
ing more of a drug problem than
any other campus in the system.
Other accomphshments cited by
the FBI are: demolition of several
PHOTO/CALVIN FERGUSON
Fighting Back director Hattie Anthony (right) was named a recipi-
entof the FBI’s Community Leadership Award Monday. Making the
presentation were Juanita Miiier and Victor O’Kom of the FBi.
drug houses; community educa
tion efforts about health and safe
ty regarding substance abuse and
a decrease in narcotics arrests
and DWI arrests in Fighting
Back’s targeted areas in West
Charlotte.
The FBI award has been given
since 1990. 'The FBI said it was
given to Anthony for her “active
involvement in crime, gang, and
violence prevention/education.”
“Fighting Back has driven the
community to give substance
abuse the attention, manpower
and political clout needed in our
community,” Anthony said. “We
are building bridges government,
institutions and the community.”
But some dark clouds are on the
horizon, Anthony said. The
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s funding for Fighting
Back ends next November. The
foimdation’s annual $1 milhon
grant funds 70 percent of the
organization’s budget.
Fighting Back’s mission is to
reduce the demand for illegal
drugs and alcohol in north and
west Charlotte.
Anthony said plans are already
underway to decide what initia
tives win get direct coimty fund
ing and a grant writer has been
hired to secure additional money.
Phillips was westside supporter
Continued from page 1A
ery man for Myers Park
Pharmacy provided the stimulus
for Mr. Phillips to open a phar
macy in Charlotte’s African
American community. After serv
ing four years in the Army, he
helped open Wemer-Phillips
Pharmacy at 422 E. Second St. in
1946. In 1948, Mr. Phillips
bought Werner out. Briefly he
was in business with Robert
Rimmer, but took over complete
control of the pharmacy in 1951.
I;Ih the early ‘60s, urban renewal
Ibrced Mr. Phillips out of Second
Ward and he reopened Queen
City Sundries at 2206 Beatties
fcg-d in a then-evolving West
Cljarlotte community. He operat
ed there for more than 35 years,
■serving up sodas and hot dogs
■finm his popular snack bars, in
addition to filling prescriptions.
Mr. PhiUips had to give up the
Ipharmacy portion as it became
jmpre difficult to find pharmacists
to work in his small, one-man
shop and as competition from the
■big drug store chains took away
■his customer base.
I But neither competition nor a
declining customer base took
laway from “Doc” what those who
knew him say he always kept: his
;sense of caring for the community
;and the people he served. He was
■described as “feisty” and “fnend-
■ly.”
I “He always had that bubbling
ipersonality and big smile, and he
)msd for everybody, especially
the teenagers and children
around his store,” says Marion
PhiUips, his wife of 29 years. “He
was also active in a lot of social
circles and worked quietly in poli
tics, too.”
Mr. PhiUips was also known for
hiring neighborhood teens to
work for him, like Sharon Murray
Wheeler, now 33.
“I did everything - stocking
shelves, making sodas and hot
dogs, and cashier,” Wheeler said.
“He was a wonderful person to
the neighborhood, and especially
to the kids. They would come in
just to talk to him about anything,
from neighborhood stuff to school
and even about how he started his
business.”
In later years, Mr. Phillips
worked a more irregular sched
ule, opening fewer hours a day,
but stUl caring about the neigh
borhood that was now in decline.
Wheeler remembers that even
when he caught kids stealing, he
would caU their parents instead of
police, or take extra time and talk
to them.
“He was robbed once and some
of the kids and other people in the
neighborhood were telling him he
should just close up or move out,”
she said. “But he told the kids if
he did that, then they would not
have any place else to go and they
wouldn’t be able to come in and
pester him.”
In 1995, PhiUips was awarded a
certificate by The Charlotte Post
for business exceUence.
“Mr. Phillips was community -
caring, mild and never-changing,”
said Fran Fairer, The Post’s
advertising manager.
Except for his studies at what is
now N.C. Central University,
“Doc’s” entire 85 years of life were
spent in his native Charlotte as a
highly regarded businessman
with a quiet, yet caring communi
ty presence.
He was a 1932 graduate of
Second Ward High School. Class
President Wilhelmina Childs
WiUiams said Mr. PhiUips was
dedicated to his class. She
remembers that he always move
slowly and always smiled. They
often sat together in classes and
studied together. Only five mem
bers now remain from that class.
Mr. PhiUips was a quiet yet
influential member of the First
Baptist Church-West, serving as
a member of the male chorus and
working in other capacities within
the church.
He is survived by his wife,
Marion; two MUdred P. Aldridge
of Charlotte and Helen P. Brooks
of Gastonia; one brother. Dr.
Robert PhiUips of Baltimore; one
nephew. Dr. Robert PhiUips II of
Michigan; and two nieces. Dr.
Stephanie Philadelphia of
Birmingham, Ala. and and Gail
PhiUips of Baltimore.
Alexander Funeral Home of
Charlotte is in charge of funeral
arrangements. FamUy visitation
wUl be from 11 a.m. Friday to the
start of the funeral at noon from
the First Baptist Church-West at
1801 OaklawnAve.
Black colleges step up recruiting
^HE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GRAMBLING, La. - 'The com-
^tition for black scholars is get
ting fiercer - and Grambling
State University is in the thick of
the fi'ay.
■ GrambUng and the rest of the
nation’s 103 historically black
schools could die out unless they
can fight off predominantly white
coUeges’ offers for top black stu
dents, says acting president
Leonard Haynes.
“We have to change the idea
that these coUeges become a stu-
ijents choice when they have
powhere else to go,” he said.
; It’s not a crisis, he said, but aU
bleick coUeges must rebuUd their
images. “That’s a non-negotiable
mission that we wiU face as we
enter the 21st century,” he said.
: Black coUeges want to fiU class
rooms with students like C.E.
Byrd High School senior Tferri
Jackson of Shreveport, who has a
3.8 grade point average and 22 on
the ACT. She's been offered fuU
scholarships fiom coUeges like
New York University and the
University of Miami, but wants to
attend a black coUege for its her
itage and culture.
SchcxDls try to improve collective image
to attract top African American students
“I don’t look at these schools as
just black coUeges, but real col
leges with as much or more edu
cational opportunities as any
where else,” said Jackson.
However, she said, black coUeges
aren’t recruiting her hard because
they can't compete with her offers
from other schools.
Low operating budgets, ever-
changing administrations, pro
gram cuts and financial problems
already have shut down 10 black
coUeges since 1977. But keeping
their doors open throughout the
next century will force many
schools to hurdle several obsta
cles.
Among the chaUenges: dumping
an image that .black coUeges are
training groimds for students
with average grades and a last
choice for smarter high school
graduates.
Louisiana’s black coUege offi
cials said ensuring survival may
mean redefining their mission.
They must:
• Fight harder with predomi
nantly white coUeges to recruit
top black students.
• Increase entiy standards and
decrease remedial courses to
avoid pubUc criticism.
• Raise more money for endow
ments emd scholarships and
straighten financial troubles.
Black colleges got a morale
boost this year when the
Princeton Review Board named
Florida A&M coUege of the year.
Florida A&M, which enrolled
more national achievement schol
ars than Harvard in two of the
past five years, is the first black
coUege to receive the honor.
Louisiana’s four black coUeges -
Grambling and Southern are pub
Uc; Xavier and DUlard, both in
New Orleans, are private - want
to emulate Florida A&M. They
are setting up booths, pushing
pamphlets and doling out scholar
ships throughout the state this
winter to attract some 1,000 black
seniors with at least a 3.5 grade
point average and high scores on
the ACT.
Grambling officials wUl be in
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