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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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featuring
Women in Retail”
Frances Hamlin &
Sandra Frazier
The National Association
of Negro Business
And Professional
Women’s Clubs, Inc.
By Fran Fan'er-Nash
WE CHARimiE P05T
Living out the mission of The
National Association of Negro
Business and Professional
Women’s Clubs, to promote and
protect the interest of African
American business and profes
sional women; to serve as bridges
for young people seeking to enter
business and the professions; to
improve the quality of life in the
local and global communities and
to foster good fellowship. Sandra
Frazier and Frances Hamlin con
gratulate the four ladies The
Charlotte Post has chosen to fea
ture during Women’s History
Month. What better time to lift up
and promote Barbara Howie
LaShanda Millner-Murphy.
Robyn Massey and Carla Brown
than during their 48th convention
in Charlotte. These ladies are the
epitome of what NANBPWC is
all about, Frazier said. This gives
women across the world an
opportunity to network, make
new friends and business partner
ships while fostering our global
goals.
Founded in July 1935, when
Ollie Chinn Porter, president of a
New York business club, extend
ed an invitation to other clubs
organized as business and profes
sional women's clubs, to join and
form a national organization,
NANBPWC was first organized
with women from New York,
Philadelphia and Atlantic City,
N.J.
After a year of meetings, the
first convention was held in
Atlantic City July 9-11, 1936, at
the Asbury Methodist Episcopal
Church. Porter was elected the
first national president. The aim
was then, as it is today, to attract
women of high caliber to organize
similar clubs within their commu
nities, Facing the realities of the
times, their daring and inspiring
goals were to share their experi
ences and to encourage and devel
op opportunities for black women
in businesses and professions.
The founders were owners, man
agers, college graduates and other
professionally licensed women,
who had managed to realize some
measure of personal success.
In 1976, Peggy Beckwith and
Anna Hood did the initial plan
ning to form a club in Charlotte.
After several meetings, 10 ladies
gathered at the home of Clara
Mitchell to elect officers. On July
23, 1977, Southeast Governor
Carrie S, Hudson formally oiga-
niz^d the Charlotte Club.
Seventeen women were inducted
at the home of Beckwith. The,
inductees and charter members
were: Beckwith, Marion
Campbell, Victoria Cleaves,
Jacqueline Creech, Thereasea
Elder, Theresa Gaston, Charlotte
Hampton, Ocie Harrison, Anna
Hood, Hester Jones, Betty
McCain, Betty McCarroll, Betty
McLaurin, Clara Mitchell, Wilma
Powell. Kathleen Robertson and
Shirley Smalls
Hamlin shared that program
directives include, but are not lim
ited to, addressing women’s entre
preneurial issues locally, national
ly and internationally; sponsoring
seminars and workshops on top
ics that enhance professional
development; award scholarships
and promote educational achieve
ment for youth; and serve as pos
itive role models to youth and
women within their respective
communities.
Frazier, a candidate for gover
nor said, ‘The main reason for
joining NANBPWC is the net
working opportunities. You have
the opportunity to meet other
African American business and
professional women in your own
community, state and nationally
to exchange ideas, information
and experiences."
In addition to North Carolina,
members will travel from,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, South Carolina,
Tennessee and . West Virginia.
There are eight levels of member
ship that include youth, young
adult and even ombudsmen,
which is a men’s auxiliary com
prised of the husbands, male rela
tives or friends of adult club
members.
Frances Hamlin cun-ently
serves as president of the
Charlotte chapter, while Sandra
Frazier is a candidate for
Governor of the Southeast
District. For more information,
call (704)536-0112.
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