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ack alumni to gather for reunion this weekend
By BILL EDWARDS
Tar Heel Staff Writer
Social activities and informational seminars highlight the
. program for this weekend's Black Alumni Reunion. This year
marks the third opportunity for approximately 3,000 black
alumni of the University to return to Chapel Hill and renew
old acquaintances while recapturing the social life that
helped bond them as black undergraduates.
Alumni Association members Pam Chisholm and Richard
Epps organized the first two reunions with the help of the
general Alumni Association, which provided the pair with
names and addresses of many of their classmates.
"The main obstacle was locating these people," Chisholm
said. "There are so few of us, and we've scattered over the
years."
Chisholm, along with Co-chairperson Phil McAlpin,
worked with a committee of five other alumni to organize
this year's program. Their efforts are responsible for the ex
pected turnout of well over one hundred alumni, a substan
tial increase from the approximately forty who came in 1981 .
A Friday night social at Granville.Towers tops the reunion
agenda. The alumni will register at Granville Saturday morn
ing and be welcomed officially by Chancellor Christopher C.
Fordham III and Alumni Affairs Director Douglas S. Dib
.bert. Following the opening ceremonies, alumni will attend
three seminars. The first seminar features Charles Byrd, pres
ident of the N.C. Association of Minority Businesses, who
will discuss "Business Opportunities for the '80s." Delores
Faison of the N.C. Association of Black Attorneys will then
speak on the benefits of the N.C. Black Land Loss Preven
tion Project. The final seminar, will feature UNC alumnus
Ernie Pitt, publisher of The Winsion-Salem Chronicle, who
will present "The Black Journalist and the Black Commu
nity: Challenges for the '80s," a look at mutual relationships
and responsibilities.
Sonja H. Stone, assistant professor of African and Afro
American studies at UNC, will address Saturday's luncheon,'
after which the alumni will be free to socialize or just roam
the campus and reminisce. Hayden B. Renwick, associate
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Kevin Monroe,
student body president, will comment on the current status .
of black faculty and undergraduates at Saturday night's
awards banquet at the Carolina Inn. Charlotte attorney and
UNC alumnus Melvin Watt will provide the keynote address.
Although patterned after the annual general alumni re
unions, the Black Alumni Reunion caters to the unique needs
of black graduates.
"It's more than just a social affair," said Chisholm- "We
want to provide things they can take home and apply."
Area clubs out of business;
Cat's Cradle, Stephen's close
(Gampus Calendar
Live entertainment reaches a new low in
Chapel Hill with the closing of two nightclubs, .
Stephen's ... after all and Cat's Cradle.
Both clubs went bankrupt in the first half of
May, although differing factors were involved.
According to a prepared press release ap
pearing in The Chapel Hill Newspaper on May
23, Stephen Barefoot, owner of Stephen's. . .
after all, said that Chapel Hill simply was not
ready for the New York style entertainment
that the club provided. ,
Barefoot said that people were not willing to
pay the cover charges that quality live enter
tainment demanded. '.'::"T1 -
Former technical director Freddy Jenkins
said that although attempts to bring this type
of entertainment to smaller Southern cities
had failed in the past, Barefoot still considered
it possible.
Proprietor, Dave Robert of Cat's Cradle
claimed bankruptcy when unable to pay a
$22,000 debt to the state for penalties on ad
mission , charges. According to The North
Carolina Anvil Robert is not ruling out a pos
sible relocation.
Haleh Moddasser
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES
Fellowship and Bible Study. Campus Chris
tian Fellowship every Thursday (beginning
May 26) at 7 p.m. At CCF House; 204 Glen
burnie St. Call 942-8952 for directions, a ride
or information.
COMING EVENTS
The UNC Outing Club meets every Monday
this summer in Forest Theatre at 7 p.m. New
members welcome. Rain location: Campus Y.
Book Sale:. For good, light reading for hot
summer days, attend the annual Hammock
Book Sale sponsored by Friends of the Chapel
Hill Library, to be held Saturday, June 4, from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the library meeting room.
Thousands of books offered at bargain prices,
both hardback and paper.
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