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Sickle Cell Symposium Held
By Joyce Terrell
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The Health Careers
Recruitment and Counseling
Center in conjunction with the
Pasquotafik County Health
Department held a sym
posium on Sickle Cell Anemia
on Saturday, January 15, 1977
in the Little Theatre of the
G.R. Little Library. The
seminar was chaired by
Walter Winborne, Director of
the District Health Careers
Recruitm.ent and Counseling
Center, and Ernest Brown,
who is employed by the
Pasquotank County Health
Department as a genetic’s
counselor.
A film was shown ex
plaining the disease, dif
ferentiating the actual
disease of Sickle Cell Anemia
and the Sickle Cell Trait.
Some important fact brought
out about the disease and its
trait were:
(1) One out of every 500
Black Americans are born
with the disease itself.
(2) One in every 12 blacks
have the Sickle Cell Trait.
(3) There is no cure, as of
this date, for the disease.
(4) It can’t be predicted,
how long an individual with
the disease will live.
(5) Individuals with the
disease often have low blood
pressure and tire very easily.
(6) Having the Sickle Cell
Trait does not affect an in
dividual’s life span.
(7) The trait cannot change
to the disease itself. (If you’re
bom with the trait and not the
disease, you will not get the
disease later on.)
(8) Sickle Cell Anemia is a
serious disease, but not a
common one.
(9) You cannot catch Sickle
Cell Anemia nor the Sickle
Cell Trait from anyone. It has
to be transmitted to you from
your parents at birth.
(10) If two parents with
Sickle Cell Traits have a child,
there is a good chance the
child will have Sickle Cell
Anemia.
(11) Sickle Cell Anemia and
its traits can be detected by
an Electro Thoresis Test.
The Pasquotank Arts Council will present its annual Art
Show and Sale at the Southgate Mall in Elizabeth City, N. C.,
from Wednesday, March 30th, through Saturday, April 2nd,
1977. Plans are now being made to publicize the show as widely
as possible.
ENTRIES—The Art Show and Sale is open to all artists 18
years of age and over. Only original work may be entered.
Wall or A-frame spaces 8 feet by 4 feet will be available, but
because of increasingly limited space, no artist will be
assigned more than two spaces in advance. Tables will be
available for sculpture and ceramics. Artists interested in
bringing their own display facilities are encouraged to do so
but are asked to include the dimensions on the enclosed
registration form.
FEES—An entry fee of $5.00 per space or table will be
charged. This fee must accompany the registration form.
Spaces and tables will be assigned as registration forms are
received. Registration will be closed on March 1st or earlier if
all spaces have been reserved. Checks, made payable to the
Pasquotank Arts Council, should accompany the registration
form and be mailed to Mrs. Mary Crutchfield, Route 1, Box
457, Elizabeth City, N. C. 27909.
LOCATION—Artists should come to the Mall entrance,
eigher front or back, between 8:00 and 9:00 A. M. on March
30th to be assigned spaces and to set up their work. Arts
Council personnel will be at the Mall at all times to transact
sales and to watch your art work, so that it will not be necessary
for you to remain at the show unless you wish to do so. Arts
Council personnel will not be responsible for any theft of or
damage to any art work. All work must be removed between
6:00 P. M. and 8:00 P. M. on April 2nd.
JUDGING—Judging wiU be on Wednesday morning at 11:00,
with winners announced and ribbons awarded in the af
ternoon.
AWARDS—Best in Show: $150.00; Runner-up Best in Show:
$75.00; Most Outstanding Pasquotank County Artist: $75.00;
Ribbons will be awarded in the individual media.
media—Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pastel, Mixed Media,
Graphics, Drawing, Original Ceramics, Sculpture.
NOTE: There must be a minimum of five artists competing
in a medium in order for the medium to be eligible for judging.
SALES—Only original works may be offered for sale. There
will be a 15 per cent commission charged on all sales.
For further information write to or call Mrs. James Watson,
109Seldon Street, Elizabeth City, N. C. 27909 ( 919-335-2058), or
Mrs. William Hix, Route 1, Box 87, Elizabeth City, N. C. 27909
919-330-4545).
Sickle Cell test at ECSU
Alumni Artist Praised
By Sylvia Peele
O’Neal Pullie, the oldest of
two children was bom in
Jacksonville, Florida, almost
twenty-six years ago. O’Neal,
with his family, moved to
Norfolk, Va., remaining there
until he entered Elizabeth
City State University in
August of 1970.
He was exposed to art in
childhood and during his
adolescent years. He felt that
the person who influenced
him was Mrs. Helen Cop-
pedge, one of his art teachers.
He discovered art to be a
wonderful medium of ex
pression. During his late high
school days, he became
absorbed with painting
techniques, methodology,
stylistic qualities, textural
considerations and the like.
Pullie discovered that it
was football “that was to
open the door to college,”
entering ECSU, originally as
a {rfiysical education major,
but changing over to art
education in his sojAiomore
year. At ECSU, O’Neal
became immensely involved
in sports and student affairs.
Currently, he is contracted
as a Cultural Arts Coor
dinator in the Elizabeth City-
Pasquotank County Public
Schools, servicing six of its
elementary schools, O’Neal
seeks to coordinate, from
humanistic standpoints
diverse areas of the art, thus
servicing children in
becoming aware of the wide
range of the arts.
PuUis, a highly versatile
individualist, in the realm of
painting, sculpture and the
graphic arts, has always been
keen on experimentation in
diverse media. Of all media.
it appears that painting,
sculpture, and drawing ap
peals to him most.
Progressing extensively
through the years, one
discovers, as Dr. de Gregorio,
that “in artistic development,
that O’Neal was never at a
standpoint. . .always seeking
new avenues, new ways, new
panoramic realms to explore
...so that his work is never
always realistic, naturalistic,
geometric and assuredly, not
always abstract.”
His feeling for glowing,
fluorescent, rich coloration; a
dominant advocacy for ex
pressiveness; a preference
for the study of character and
personality; effective design,
subjective clarity — are
qualities that persist in work
viewed in this large and
unusual one-man art
exhibition.
Regional NOBUCS Meeting To Be Here
At the second regional
meeting of the National
Organization of Black
University and College
Students (N.O.B.U.C.S.)
Elizabeth City State
University was chosen to host
the next Mid-Atlantic
Regional Meeting on March
25, 26 and 27th. Jasper Am-
stead, Vice-President of the
Student Government
Association was elected
treasurer of the region.
Thomas Armstrong,
President of SGA and James
Finch, Attomey General of
Student Court also attended
the meeting.
N.O.B.U.C.S. is a newly
formed organization of
Student Government
Associations of
predominately Black in
stitutions of hi^er education.
The organization had its
inception at Morgan State
and Howard University
during the early summer.
Fifteen other schools joined
togetha* to form a National-
Unity-Alliance Pact later
during the year. The
organization has now
spreaded across the United
States and is seeking the
membership of all Black
institutions.
N.O.B.U.C.S. is dedicated
to the perpetuation,
protection and preservation
of Black Institutions of
Higher Learning. It sees
unity as the imperative and
essential key to the collective
survival of Black Institutions.
During the conference the
proU'ems of the respective
schools were discussed. Lack
of adequate funding, apathy
among students, faculty and
administrators, lack of ef
fective community relations
and student rights were found
to be common proWems. As a
national body, NOBUCS will
aid its members through
extensive research, lobbying,
and direct protestive action.
Officers elected during the
Conference were: Luther
Brown, Chairman (Howard
University); Duane Orr,
Vice-President (Morgan
State); Debra Freeman,
.Secretary; and Jasper
Amstead, Treasurer
(E.C.S.U.).