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VOLUME 18 NUMBER 3 6 September 7, 1989 2b? rtK COPY
Madie Rae Locklear
announces Candidacy
for LREMC Boards
Madie Kae Locklear
Announces for LRKMC Board
Madic Rac Locklear, Super
visor for the Red Springs
Neighborhodd Service Center,
has announced her candidacy for
the at-large seat on the Lumbcc
River Electric Membership Cor
poration (LREMC) Board of
Directors. Long time active in
local and stale politics, Ms.
Locklear stated that her ex
perience in working with the
economically disadvantaged
through I our County Communi
ty Services, Inc. could be utilized
in serving on the LREMC Board.
In making her announcement,
Ms. Locklear released the follow
ing statement:
"I consider mvsell to be
eminently qualified to serve on
the LREMC Board of Directors.
I have participated in the elec
tions actively, and have sup
ported various candidates. I have
been an interested observer of the
operations of the local
Cooperative and am familiar
with the by-laws.
"Ihe rural cooperative was
organized to provide electricity to
people in the rural areas, the
original intent of the Cooperative
was to provide a much needed
service at an affordable price.
Since that lime, the cost for this
service has escalated. Much ol
this is due to the spiraling
economic conditions in our state
and nation.
"I believe the local EMC needs
a board member who is compas
sionate with people-oriented pro
blems and can relate to individual
needs. That board membet
should also be familiar with the
struggle involved in running a
household, meeting monthly bills
in a timely fashion and in just
'making ends meet.' I would be
just such a board member.
"In my twenty-one years ol
service with I our County Com
munity Services, Inc., I believe
that I have proven my ability to
assist and offer advice anil
counseling. My record as a jf
people-oriented person speaks
for itself. My committment to
people has been demonstrated by
21 years of assisting clients in
home wealheri/ation, obtaining
emergency food and shelter, anil
demonstrated by effective refer
ral to agencies that offer quick
and humane answers to people iw
need. I have responded to thi
best of my ability to any client
who came or was referred to me
with compassion, concern and
dedication to the relief of those
who found themselves indire cir
cumstances.
"If elected to the LREMC
Board of Directors, I promise to
carry this same committment,
concern and compassion to the
service of the LREMC member
consumers.
"In conclusion," Locklear
continued, "Your support and
vote will be appreciated. I am not
running on a slate, nor at the re
quest of any particular person or
persons. I am seeking the at-large
seat on the LREMC Board of
Directors out of a heart fell desire
to beof service. I do urge all
members of the LREMC to at
tend the October 17 annual
meeting to be held at the PSU
Performing Arts Center.
Registration is from 6 p.m. until
7:30 p.m. I also wish to remind
the voters of the policy concern
ing the election. You must vote
for four candidates in order for
your ballot to be counted. Please
vote for Madie Rae Locklear as
one of those four. Thank you."
Locklear serves on the
Robeson County lair Housing
Board, is a member of a commit
tee to bring a much needed rest
home to the area, as well as many
other boards and committees.
She is married to William
Locklear, Jr. and they have two
daughters, both of whom are
graduates of Pembroke Stale
University.
Pamela Locklear Receives
Triangle Native American
Scholarship
Pamela Lock tear
. Pamela L. Locklear, PSU
senior who is majoring in
sociology, has received a $500
scholarship from (he Irianglc
Native American Society based in
Raleigh. She is one of (wo Native
Americans to receive a scholar
ship.
Official name of the scholar
ship is the Mark K. Ulmer Native
American Scholarship. It was
presented to Ms. Locklear
August 26 ina special program at
the Brownstone Hotel in Raleigh.
Miss Locklear is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Locklear.
She plans to use her sociology
degree to pursue a career in
hospital administration.
At Pembroke State, she has
been a Dean's List student, reci
pient of the David Osterneck
Scholarship in sociology,
treasurer of the N.C. Native
American Council on Higher
Education, vice president of the
Sociology Club, and fund raising
chairman of the PSLI Native
American Student Organization.
A graduate of Fairmont High
School, she was there an honor
roll student and a member ol the
Spanish Club and Native
American Student Association.
Miss Locklear is a member of
Cedar Grove Baptist Church of
Fairmont.
Open House Planned for
Indian Education Resource
Center
Hidden just 300 feet off one of
Robeson County's most traveled
highway intersections is perhaps
the best kept secret of the Public
Schools of Robeson County.
"It's a secret about to be
discovered by 5,000 school
children who will gel a peek into
a 10,000 year-old history of apeo
ple during the last three weeks in
September," says May belle Elk
of the scheduled Open House of
the Indian Education Resource
Center.
Operating under the auspices
of Compensatory Indian Educa
tion Project, Title V, the eight
year-old ctnter will open its doors
to students during the weeks of
September II, 18 and 25.
This becomes the second year
the center has held lours in con
junction with Indian Heritage
Week in North Carolina says Elk,
director of Indian Education for
the Public Schools of Robeson
County.
The small, schoolhousc red
center, located behind (he cen
trual office of Public Schools of
Robeson County, is sandwiched
between two remodeled school
units and is slowly becoming
discovered by people interested in
the history of the state's seven In
dian tribes says Barbara
Brayboy-Locklear, its coor
dinator and curator.
Brayboy-Locklear adds that
the beliefs, ways of life, and roles
of the American Indians are in
terwoven so intimately with the
cultures and histories of all the
modern nations of the Americas
that no civilization of the
Western Hemisphere can be fully
understood without knowledge
awl appreciation-oI-them. ?
"And yet, from the time of t,<e
Europeans's first meeting with
the Indians in I492, until today,
the Indian has been a familiar but
little known-and, indeed often an
unreal-person to the
non-Indian," Brayboy-Locklear
says. "What has been known
about him, moreover, frequently
has been superficial, distorted, or
false."
The Lumbee curator says
public school text books fail
miserably in telling the history of
the American Indian. "The
history books tell less than half
the story of a people who have
walked the land of this state for
more than 10,000 years," she
laments.
"There is a multitude of ideas
that continue to hold numerous
Indians apart from non-Indians.
More common among most non
Indians are the false understan
dings and images which they re
tain about Indians," she says.
Brayboy-Locklear says for
many, the moving pictures,
television, and comic strips have
firmly established a sterotype as
the portrait of all Indians: the
dour, stoic, war-bonneted Plains
Indian. He is a a warrior, he has
no humor unless it is that of an
incogruous and farcial type and
his langugage is full of 'hows,'
'ughs,' and words that end in
um.
"Only rarely in the popular
media of communiciations is it
hinted that Indians, too, were,
and are, all kinds of real living
persons like any others," the
curator says. "So enduring is the
stereotype that many a non
Indian, especially young children
living in an area where Indians
are not commonly seen, expect
any American Indian he meets to
wear feathered headdress."
Brayboy-Locklear says she ^
hopes to disspell some of the false v
images and understandings dur- t
ing the students' visit to the In- c
dian Education Resource Center. I
"Once they're inside the center, r
my duty becomes one of presen- ^
ting in 30 minutes the history the
text books have failed to report in v
over 200 years," she says of the
tour each class will receive during <
Open House. f
The location and prescrvcaiion
of historical materials, ?
documents and relics which tell '
the story of the Indians who settl
ed in Robeson and adjoining
counties is the primary purpose
of the Robeson County Indian
Education Resource Center.
The center houses a vareity of
primary and secondary sources
which student and professional
researchers alike may use to trace
the history and culture of North
Carolina's Indian population. .
I be center afco serve*-- m*. ?*
resource Tor classroom teacher^-'*
who wish to provide theif?*1
students with an orientation to; '
and training in (he use of, those j
tools of research which can help ;
them discover a new and exciting <
history of Indians of North
Carolina. The center also houses ?
artifacts of other tribes. I
Unique in its purpose in bring t
ing the past and present of the d
N.C. Indian into focus, the d
center showcases (he traditions, n
proud cultures and special events t
which illustrate the rich diversity v
of North Carolina's Native j
American cultures. d
This year's Open House
festivities include tours of the
center, samplings of Indian fry
Bread cooked on the outside g
grounds, and professional Indian ^
dances by the Turtle Dancers of a
Pembroke. ,
Those teachers in the Public c
Schools of Robeson County
wishing to visit the center during [
Open HOuse are encouraged to <.
contact Mrs. Brayboy-Locklear
for a scheduled appointment.
Tours are tjy reservations only.
Robeson Counly School students are seen during the "friendship"
dance last year at Open House during Indian Heritage Week at the In
dian Education Resource Center.
THE PEMBROKE KIWANIS !
REPORT
by Ken Johnson j
(
Program Chairman Prank
Daughtry presented Miss Necia
Brayboy, a soloist, and Miss
Gina Revels, pianist, gospel
singers in a beautiful duet,
thoroughly enjoyed by the
members. They sang, "Keep
Your Head IJp Hich. "All My
Trials," "Sweet Beulah Land," I
and "Memory," and several en- i
cores. Miss Bray boy ius in her I
freshman year at Pembroke Slate r
and Miss Revels is the church s
Kianist at Sandy Plains United !
Icthodist Church. It was a very
enjoyabc program
i
Von Locklear Scholarship
Being Established at PSU
A Von S. Locklear Endowed
Memorial Scholarship in social
*ork is being established at Pcm
irokc State University in memory
it this '74 graduate who taught ai
'SU trom 1982-83 in the Depart
neni of Sociology and Social
Vork.
Locklear died of cancer this
ear at the age of 36.
Irom Maxton, hewas
mployed in social work by the
si a (i o n a I Association of
American Indians. He also work
d with the Lumbce Kegional
iX'velopment Association.
Locklear earned a 15.A in
?.ociology from PSU, a Master ol
Arts in Education from PSU, a
Master of Social Work from the
University of Maryland, and a
Ph.D. from Ohio State Universi
ty
I he scholarship in his name
will be offered to a PSU
sophomore or junior majoring in
social work. It will be for a year
of study.
Preference for the scholarship
will be given go: (I) Native
American students; (2) those
students who demonstrate a com
mitment to the social work pro
fession; and (3) those students
with a good grade point average.
Dr. John Bowman of the PSU
Sociology and Social Work
Department said of Locklear:
"During his short adult life, he
consistently demonstrated an un
conditional commitment to the
profession of social work."
Contributions for the scholar
ship may be made payable to the
Von S. Locklear Endowed
Scholarship and mailed to
I li/abeth Mclntyre, resource
development officer, Pembroke
State University, Pembroke, NC
28372. l or more information,
telephone Mrs. Mclntyre at (919)
521-4214, EM. 533.
Special Program to be held
to Bless the Grounds of
NC Indian Cultural Center
tcj.
? A special program ?o hi ess die
gfounds of tlie Noith Carolina
Indian Cultural Center will he
field on September 15. at X p.m.
it the site ol the Indian Cultural
enter.
Aeeordint to Dr. Helen
icheirbcck. Development Direc
01. Indian leaders I torn around
he stale and nation will gather to
ledicate the grounds lor the
levdopmcnt ol the proposed
nullimillion dollar tourist altrac
ion. " l itis is a traditional Indian
ray to begin the development ol
his major facility devoted to In
lian people." said I > ? .
>c heir beck
"We vvill have officials I'rom
tale government and the federal
[overnment to join its lot this
tistoric event to honor the Indian
investors anil to bless our el toils
o develop facilities that will
elebrate the history, heritage
tnd culture of Native \inencans
>f North Carolina and the
Southeast." said Or. Nchcirbcck.
I he special aTvoiuii) to bless
the grounds will be held before
the opening dances ol the an
nual pou wow of the I umbec
tribe which will be held
September 15 and 16 at the In
dian Cultural Center. I he public
i\ cordially invited and welcome
to attend the blessing ceremony
and pow wow.
Dr. Scheirbcck noted that an
honors dance will be held at the
beginning of the pow wow lor
special guests of the blessing
ceremony. I he honors dance will
be followed by a friendship dance
for the pow wow participants and
audience.
Ihe North Carolina Indian
Cultural Center is a proposed
educational and entertainment
tourist attraction that will be a
tribute to North Carolina's
Native Americans on a 500 acre
tract on highway 74 near Pem
broke.
Local Student Studies
in Spain
Sean Stephen Jones, a 19*9
(raduage of W ake forest I'niver
>il>, left for dadrid. Spain on
\ugusl 30 to join a group of 30
students who will he slud>ing the
spanish language at the liniversi
> of Madrid. Sean will he purso
ng his Masters Degree in
Spanish. He is attending the
University of Madrid through the
?uspiees Of Howling (>rern Stale
University of Ohio. Sean received
i lull academic year abroad
scholarship while sludving in
Spain.
Sean is not a stranger o Spain
is he spent a semester in
Salamsinca, Spain during his
junior vear at Make forest.
While attending Wake forest,
Sean was a Deanfs List student
and participated in intramural
sports. He also was th< first
Lumber Indian to serve an
academic >ear as a Congres-.ional
Page in Washington, D.C,
Ihgoulh the sponsorship of Con
gressman Charlie Rose.
Sean is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Jones opf Rowland, and
the grandson of the late John L.
Carter, Sr. and Mrs. Mary L.
Cartervand the late l)r. Lnglish
L. Jones and Margaret Jones.
Whether by coincidence or
fate, Sean at the age of 21 is in
Spain studying the Spanish
language as was his mother, Mrs
Dolores Jones, at the same age in
Sallillo, Mexico studying
Spanish. His mother is a Spanish
teacher at Purnell Swett High
School and Pembroke State
University.
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CHANCELLOR OXENDINE
TO BE
GUEST SPEAKER AT PEM
BROKE YEW
Locklear-Lowrvu VFW Post
2843 of Pembroke will hold their
regular monthly meeting Monday
night, September II at 7:30p.m.
Guest speaker will be Dr. Joseph
Oxendine, Chancellor of Pem
broke Slate University. All
members are urged to attend by
W illiam D. Oxendine, Post Com
mander.