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THE BETTER WE KNOW US ...
by Miller Carter, Jr.
For one to study history as a major in
college and to make his career in banking
is an interesting story as told by Mr.
William Pickens, Vice President of the
Greensboro National Bank. But what
makes the story really interesting is that
Mr. Pickens got into banking by
“accident”.
Mr. Pickens is a native of New York,
but came to Greensboro in 1971 to take
his position as Vice President of the
Greensboro National Bank. After
attending public schools in New York,
Mr. Pickens continued his education at
the State University of New York in the
field of history. Upon completion of
college, he went into the Army where he
got his start towards a banking career.
From information obtained through a
friend, Mr. Pickens got into the Junior
Executive Program (J.E.T. Program) at
Bankers Trust Comapny in New York.
Being_ stationed in Staton Island, New
York, and living in New York, Mr.
Pickens realized where the economic
power was and felt that getting into
banking would be a worthy career to
pursue.
After his term in the Army, Mr.
Pickens returned to civilian life and found
work in the credit department of the
Freedom National Bank of New York. Mr.
■ Pickens was also one of the first, few
Blacks on New York’s famous Wall
Street. He got into commercial credit
while working at still another New York
bank. Chemical Bank.
When a Black man gets a good job or
high position, he is often hasseled, talked
about and even hated because of his
position. To this, Mr. Pickens remembers
the year 1962 and the problems he
encountered while at Freedom National
Bank. According to Mr. Pickens there
was one lady who made things
particularly rough for him. She would
find fault in many of the things he did in
order to discredit his name. The reason,
Mr. Pickens reveals, is because he
was placed in the position that she had
been working very long to get. But in this
case as in many others, it was a simple
case of who could do the best job or who
was more qualified.
Mr. Pickens has been with Greensboro
National Bank since 1971. He was asked
to work for the bank by the Hon. Henry
Frye. Mr. Pickens feels that his age is not
very important but that his 13 years of
banking experience are important. The
things he feels most important is that he
is known in the community as one who
can help. He looks upon himself as a
problem-solver. Not in the sense of a
social problem-solver but in financial
problems. He gets pleasure out of seeing
people come to him for help, and in some
instances, his customers cannot get help,
financially, from anyone else.
Mr. Pickens views his job as a great
challenge in trying to accomplish unity
among Blacks. He would also like to see
more Blacks get into the job areas of
finance because this is where many
Blacks are failing. His services are not
limited to Blacks but those of all races in
need of financial security or aid.
Some plans have been made for
expansion in the bank but none have been
actually put in effect. So far the
Greensboro National Bank is profiting
and has been every year since its
existence.
Mr. Pickens enjoys tennis and a large
variety of music. He and his wife,
Tullulah Pickens have one son, William,
Jr., who will be one-year old on January
30, 1976. Happy Birthday William, Jr.
Mr. Pickens presently resides in the
Young’s Acre subdivision of Greensboro.
Mr. Pickens is one who we all should
know and go to for financial aid for the
better we know him, THE BETTER WE
KNOW US.
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Students Learn About Free Enterprise
Notes St Reminders
GREENSBORO - The
Torchbearers Pledge Club
of TAU GAMMA DELTA
SORORITY, INC. will
sponsor a night of BINGO
at the Hayes Taylor YMCA,
E. Market Street, Greens
boro on January 9 beginn
ing at 7:30 p.m. Lots of
prizes to be won including a
skillet and a blender as
“black-out” prizes. Bring
your friends and join us for
a night of fun.
WINSTON-SALEM
Reynolds Memorial Cafe
teria, operated by the
CITIZENS NEIGHBOR
HOOD COUNCIL, INCOR
PORATED, is now open to
the public and is serving
meals two times a day
(breakfast, 7:30 a.m. until
10 a.m. and lunch from
11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.).
In addition to the regular,
daily meals, facilities and
services are available for
private accomodations as
well as outside catering.
All food is prepared on
the premises in the Class
“A” rated, spacious and
modern kitchen. A wide
choice of menus is at the
disposal of customers, such
as: The choice of “The
Elite”, “Southern Cui
sine”, “The People’s
Choice”, “Chef’s Specia
lity”, “The Gourmet’s
Delight”, a favorite
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RALEIGH - Many citi
zens across the nation,
particularly those in busi
ness, have recently ex
pressed concern that young
people are graduating from
public schools with what
seems to be a lack of
knowledge of the American
economic system.
In the spring of 1975, the
North Carolina General
Assembly underscored this
feeling by enacting legisla
tion requiring that the free
enterprise system be a part
of every Tarheel child’s
education.
The General Assembly’s
emphasis was on the high
schools of the State,
according to John Elling
ton, director of the
Department of Public
Instruction’s Division of
Social Studies. State agen
cy consultants are suggest
ing however, that the
program be extended to
include children at all grade
levels.
In a pamphlet titled
“Free Enterprise” the
State agency recommends
several alternatives that a
school system may use for
incorporating the free
enterprise program. One
alternative is a spiral
curriculum in which eco
nomic institutions princi
pals, concepts, and analy
ses are dealt with as they
arise in content area
designated for the various
grade levels. Another
alternative is that of an
entirely separate course
that would provide an
in-depth study of econo
mics and free enterprise.
A third approach for
incorporating fi-ee enter
prise is the use of blocks of
time which means teaching
specific units on economics
and free enterprise within
the contect of United States
Record Indicated
and World Studies at the
junior and senior high
level. There is also the
possibility of pattern com
binations, incorporating
two or more of these
approaches.
“Free Enterprise” out
lines specific results which
Blacks Named
educators can expect if
students are provided
adequate instruction on
free enterprise during their
school years. The publica
tion points out eight major
areas in which educators
can expect changes in
students.
-Students will recognize
that one of the benefits of
our economic system is that
we have one of the highest
standards of living in the
world.
-Students will recognize
that they live in an
economic world and will be
aware that there are'
economic factors they must
consider if they are to cope
with contemporary chal
lenges.
-Students will better
understand the rapid and
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Governor Makes Appointments
RALEIGH - Governor
Jim Holshouser
announced the appoint
ment of Dr. George C.
Simkins, Jr., a Greensboro
dentist, to the North
Carolina Human Relations
Council.
Dr. Simkins will serve at
the pleasure of the
Governor rather than for a
fixed term.
A Greensboro native. Dr.
Simkins graduated from
Herzl Junior College and
Talladega College and
received his D.D.S. degree
from Meharry Medical
College School of Dentistry.
He is president of the
Greensboro Branch of the
N.A.A.C.P. and holds
memberships in the
Greensboro Medical Socie-
/
MEAC Ticket Sales Jump
GREENSBORO - The
ixciting MEAC Tourna-
nent is being billed as
‘everybody’s Homecom-
ng,” and the flurry of early
eason-ticket buying for the
vent indicates that a
ecord may be on hand for
he event which opens in
tie 16,000-seat Greensboro
Coliseum Feb. 26.
Area hotel and motel
iperators reported here
his week that many of the
ans are already reserving
heir rooms for the
three-day tournament.
As an added feature,
alumni of the seven
colleges have already
established their head
quarters hotels for the
tournament and organiza
tions in the city are also
promoting a variety of
social • events for the
weekend.
The fact that the
hometown A&T basketball
team is threatening to run
away with the visitation
title, and the fact that the
lipt shooting Aggies are
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ty, Greensboro Citizen’s
Association, Greensboro
Men’s Club and the St.
James Presbyterian
Church.
In 1960 he was named
“Man of the Year” by the
Greensboro Men’s Club.
He also received the
“Dentist of the Year”
award in 1964 from the Old
North State Dental Society.
He and his wife, Anna,
have two children.
Governor Holshouser
announced the appoint
ment of a six-member
Office of Minority Business
Enterprise Advisory Board.
Among those members
are James F. Hansley, of
Winston-Salem; Marion
Rex Harris of Fayetteville;
and Kenneth Lee of
Greensboro.
The appointees will serve
at the pleasure of the
Governor rather than for
fixed terms.
Harris is owner and
president of two firms, the
A&H Coin-Op Laundramat
and A&H Cleaners. He
served in the U.S. Army.
Harris received the award
of excellence in business
from the U.S. Department
Loans Fight Shortages
RALEIGH - In spite of an
overall surplus of elemen
tary and secondary school
teachers in North Carolina,
teacher shortages persist in
certain subject areas.
The supply of teachers
for kindergarten and ex
ceptional children has not
yet caught up with the
sudden growth of those
bounties To Study Juvenile Needs
The real McKov for ’76 - It may be the
Centennial year for 1976 but Black
Beauty Pam McCoy is the real thing for
the New Year. The curvy [34-24-34]
Junior coed from Fayetteville State
University [N.C.] wishes to good health
and happiness to all for the brand New
Year ahead.
[FSU Photo by John B. Henderson]
RALEIGH - Responding
o the pressing need for
;ommunity programs for
uvenile delinquents, 51
North Carolina counties
have indicated they have
authorized studies of ju
venile needs in their areas.
Judge A. Lincoln Sherk,
chairman of the Technical
Advisory Committee on
Delinquency Prevention
and Youth Services, said
that the committee is
pleased with the response.
“Apathy has been the
problem,” he said. “Part of
the difficulty in the past has
been getting communities
to believe that local
children ought to be
handled on a local basis.
It’s tragic that too many
communities find it easier
to ship their children out of
sight.”
In just a year and a half,
Sherk said, it will become
illegal for status offenders
(truants, runaways or
children adjudicated “un
disciplined') to be commit
ted to state training
schools. In the meantime,
counties participating in
the state program to
establish community-based
alternatives will be study
ing their needs.
Rep. Lura Tally of
Cumberland County, chair
man of the eastern
subcommittee of the Tech
nical Advisory Committee,
reported that 24 easterly
counties have announced
their intention of participa
ting in the program which
will entitle them to state aid
in both program planning
and advice on funding, Ken
Foster, chairman of the
western subcommittee, re
ported that 27 western
counties had responded
affirmatively. The chair-
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programs, according to
State Superintendent of
Public Instruction A. Craig
Phillips.
For the past several
years, state education
officials have used a
scholarship loan program
'funded by the state as one
method of tackling the
specialized shortage pro
blem. The Scholarship Loan
Fund for Prospective
Teachers was set up by the
General Assembly in 1957
to encourage qualified
students to enter the
teaching profession.
This year about 325
prospective teachers were
awarded scholarship loans
to attend universities and
colleges in ‘the state
through the department of
Public Instruction. A total
of more than 1,600 students
in North Carolina are now
attending college with the
help of a state scholarship
loan, according to Jim
Speight, coordinator of
scholarships in the depart
ment’s Division of Staff
Development.
Between 1972 and 1975
the highest percentage of
awards was made to
students interested in early
childhood education and
exceptional children,
Speight noted. Those two
areas have experienced
acute shortage of certified
teachers. This year two
awards in reading were
made for the first time.
Exceptional children in
cludes teachers interested
in working with the hearing
impaired, crippled, learn
ing disabled, emotionally
disturbed, mentally retard
ed and gifted. Other areas
of shortage include indus
trial arts, health, agricul
ture, distributive educa
tion, science, mathematics
and media personnel.
The state scholarship
loans are made to outstand
ing students who have a
financial need and indicate
a desire to teach in areas
where there are teacher
shortages. The awards are
$900 for each year of
coH^e study. Most appli-
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