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nj rc 5 % Established January 18, 1973, Published Each Thursday 1(<^Gft3QEte) Lto?lteiGQ c ? !t ? fi Peml^ % "Building Communicative Bridges In A Tri-Racial Setting" Robeson County , ? g tt VOLUME 1". '^wiviotfC43 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1989 25? PER COPY _ Charlotte Youth Served as Page Tonka Maynor, 17, a resident of ? Charlotte served as a Page in Raleigh the week of September ' 11-15. He was selected to represent his district as a part of Gov. Jim IMartin's program for high school \ students. Ibnka's representation and . ? participation occurred after being - nominated by leading members of ' ? the Charlotte community. " Tonka is a senior at South I Mecklenburg Senior High School in !; Charlotte. He participated in varsity |v baseball this year where he was 1 of 2 I juniors starting. He finished the season batting 296 wt 1 homerum. and H RBI |second on team), and ' base average of 510 (third on team), i During the season. Tonka commited t- one error and struck out only 3 times. J S Tonka batted Ith and 5th enroute to tSouth Meck's State IA Champion ship. # Tonka, a former resident of jdRobeson County, is the ton of Leon y-Maynor of Lumberton and Brenda IKay Maynor of Charlotte. Grand Iparents are Jordan and Myrtle Maynor of Lumberton and Jessie ^titchell of Lumberton. Stipends for Religious Journalism Students Two annual academic stipends for study in religious journalism--one graduate and one undergraduate? again are being offered by the United Methodist Church's general com munications agency. Offered for the 1990-91 academic year is the $6,000 Stoody-West Fellowship for graduate study in journalism designed to assist a Christian engaged in religious jour nalism or one planning to enter the field. The fellowship honors the long time service and professional contri butions of the Rev. Arthur West and the late Ralph Stoody, leaders in United Methodist news and public relations activities. Dr. Stoody retir ed in 1964 and died in 1979. Dr. West retired in 1975 and today resides in St. Marys, Ohio Awarded for graduate study at an accredited school or department of journalism, the fellowship is to enhance the recipient's professional competence as one means of perpet uating high standards exemplified by Dr. Stoody and Dr. West. Religious journalism is interpreted to include audio-visual, electronic and print media. A $1,000 Leonard M. Perryman Communications Scholarship for Ethnic Minority Students is designed to aid ethnic minority students who will be junior or seniors during the 1990-91 academic year and who intend to pursue a career in religious communication. The scholarship is named in recognition of the late Mr. Perryman, a journalist with the denomination for more than 30 years. He died in 1983. The term communication is meant to cover various media such as print, electronic and audio-visual. Appli cants must be attending an exccre dited institution of higher education. Completed applications for both programs are due Jan. 13. For application forms and additional information, contact: Nelson Price, United Methodist Communications, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1901, New York, NY 10115. \ETERANS DAY PARADE NOV. 11 Loeklear-Lowry VFW Post 2843 will observe Veterans Day Saturday, November 11 by sponsoring a Veterans Day Parade in downtown Pembroke beginning at 10 a.m. The annual fish and chicken plate sale wi)^ be at the post home from JL1 a-ntTr p.m. ? - ?- ? ? Schools, industry, and the public are invited to participate. For more information contact Bobby Dean Locklear at 521 3253 or 521-2502. PROSPECTHIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1969 REUNION The Prospect High School class of 1969 is planning a reunion. Class members are asked to send name, address, and phone number to: Reunion, c/o Daris Brayboy, Route 1 Box 431, Pembroke, NC 28372. You may also call (919)521-2297 for more information. College Scholarships Available High Sehool indents who are interested in applying Tor $1,000 college scholarships should request applications by December 1, 1989 from Educational Communications Scholarship Foundation, 721 N. McKinley Road, Lake Forest, Dlinois 60045. To receive an application, students should send a note stating their name, address, city, state and zip code, approximate grade point average and year, of graduation. Sixty-five winners will be selected on the basis of academic performance, involvement in extra curricular activ ities and need for financial aid. Self-Defense Seminar Planned at PSU Kenny Buffaloe. ihe North Caro lina Representative of Kyoku-Shin Kai Karate, recently returned fromt wo weeks of grueling training in Muay-Thai 'Thai Boxing), the world's most devastating conUct sport. Buffaloe was invited to Los Angeles, California to train at the Thai-Boxing Camp at Surachai 'Chai' Sirisute. Chai, as his friends and students call him, is the leading trainer of Thai-Boxing in the world outside of Thailand. He teaches Thai-Boxing to the Dallas Cowboys Football Team; every year at their training camp as a part of their conditioning. Mr. Sirisute has appeared in all the leading martial I arts magazines demonstrating the an I of Thai-Boxing. He also has two I instructional videos, "Thai Boxing 1 Basics" and "Thai-Advanced" which are best sellers. Thai-Boxing is featured in the new movie "Kick j Boxer" starring Jean Claude Van Danne currently playing in movie theatres. j Kenny Buffaloe is planning to ! present a Self-Defense Seminar at PSU in the near future. This seminar ' will contain valuable information on [ self defense and physical condition ing- | For more information, contact | Kenny Buffaloe, P.O. Box 615. [ Seaboard, NC 27876 or call (919L 589-4281 and leave your name and number. Magnolia Classes to be Reunited; Magnolia High School, classes of , 1949, 1950. 1951. 1952. 1953. and | 1954, will hold a Class Reuion on | December 23. 1989 at the Old | Foundry Restaurant at 7:00 p.m. For I more information call 919-521 4622 ' or write to P.O. Box 346, Pembroke, j NC 28372, North Carolina's Kenny Buffalot [center] is shown with Dan htosanto, Bruce Lee's best student \left\, and Susachat "Chai" Sirisute [ny/it], North America's top Thai-Boxing Trainer at the Los Angeles, Califor nia Thai-Boxing Camp. OOOQOOOOeOOQQOOOOOOOOOOOBOBuuuy" I ' II** Chancel lor's I naugural 1 Schedu le 1 FRIDAY, OCT. 27 | | ' 9:00 a.a. Native American Art Exhibit (all day) i | " ? 1 Native American Resource Center . , 9:00 a.a. Student Art Exhibit (all day) Lobby of Givens Performing Arte Center I I ' 9:00 a.a. Past Graduates Invitational Art Exhibit (all day) I , Chavls University Center (Upstairs Gallery) 11:00 a.a. Delegates' Registration I I Lobby of Jones P. E. Center | | Noon Pre-Installatlon Buffet Luncheon . (For delegates, guests, PSU faculty and adalnlstratlon) Auxiliary Gya of Jones P.E. Center Noon Alumni Board of Directors and Chapter Officers Luncheon) I (By Invitation only) Auxiliary Gya of Jones P.E. Center , I Noon Chancellor's Pre-Installatlon Luncheon S(For Board of Trustees, Board of Governors, Platform Party) . (By Invitation only) ' Chancellor's Dining Room and Cafeteria ! i ' 2:00 p.m. Installation .Gjtfemooles ^ _ .. X I I Given* Performing Arts Center j 3:15 p.m. Chancellor's Reception Jf Tented Area outside Glvens PAC I ! 4:00 p.m. Meeting of Alumni Association Board of Directors I and Chapter Officers In Room 251 of Chavls University Center ( 6:30 p.m. Chancellor's Inaugural Banquet . (By Invitation only) . Chancellor's Dining Room I 8:00 p.m. Inaugural Ball | (Open Admission) I Chavls University Center I I (Black Tie optional) i 9:00 p.m. Students' Inaugural Dance | Auxiliary Gym of Jones P.E. Center I "Inauguration ceremonies will be broadcast live beginning at I 2 p.m. on Cable TV Channel 3 in the Pembroke area. iBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOBmmmmmmmmml 1 Brooks dedicated to public service Recently appointed judge and Robeson County native is first Indian to serve Superior Court bench I BY JACK CREECH Daily Journal Staff Judge Dexter Brooks, who presided over last week's session of criminal superior court in Bladen County, was appointed to the bench in January of this year by Governor Martin. iWhile the judge was overseeing t usual variety of cases here, his ime was raised in court in his res eat county of Robeson by Eddie stcher to defy Judge Robert timer's ruling that Mr. Hatcher >uld not use the services of New ark lawyers William Kunstler and Earlier Judge Brooks had ruled, tspite the fact that Mr. Kunstler id Mr. Kuby were not licensed to jactice law in North Carolina, they luld represent Mr. Hatcher, who is ?ng heard on state kidnapping fYou have absolutely no respect | Judge Brooks and his order," jr. Hatcher is quoted as shouting I: declining to comment on cher courtroom hoopla, in rmal interview last week rooks revealed a tempera ' profound balance ... his milar to a tennis court net, g the various sides and an ife, and distilling them. erhaps the natural outcome lerging of his intelligence experience. Perhaps the ling example of this merger mong a welter of academic ons. Judge Brooks became st American Indian tc graduate from the law school at UNC-Chapel Hill.. And at 46-years-old, he is the first Indian to occupy a superior court bench in North Carolina. His age places his maturing youth in precise overlap with the struggle of the civil rights movement, as it toiled non-violently against the walls of segregation. Growing up in Pembroke, in a rights; and he denies any deep hos tility between Indians and blacks, citing the example of Sydney Locks, a stale representative from Robeson County who as a black candidate won the support of over whelming numbers of Indian voters there. Dexter Brooks community or unjust splits, may have imbued him with the passion to attain just unity. "Before Martin Luther King, there were three bathrooms in the tobacco warehouse -- one for Indi ans. one for whites, one for blacks," Judge Brooks recalls. "Go to the movies and there were three designated sections." The judge openly acknowledges how much the black movement helped the Indians acquire Similar But the judge doesn't use his past as a crutch, affirming that there is now, especially with the 1982 amendment to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, sufficient legal appara tus to insure justice for all minori ties in America. He does adn\it, however, that there are vestiges of racism in Robeson County. Such haunts. Judge Brooks believes, can be eventually exorcized by the use of the ballot to encourage interaction among all peoples. He offers the recent instance of 90 percent of the Indians in Robe son voting for the merger of the school systems. "This will allow children to receive equal opportu nity, with one set of resources," the judge says. Another way to relieve racial tension, according to Judge Brooks, is for people in power to be sensi tive to the "tri-racial community" in Robeson, when appointing ac tion committees. The judge is happy with his new post, considering it the fulfillment of a turn he made to public service after he had started on an academic track. "I liked the university atmo sphere," he says, explaining why he had entered and indeed nearly com pleted all the requirements for a doctorate program in math. Stirred by the civil rights move ment, however, and finally acting on that inspiration in the early 1970*s, the judge dropped out of the program at N.C. State to return to Pembroke State University where he got a whiff of the power of the law. He became involved in legal action against the university when officials there decided to destroy a building of historical significant*. Today, Judge Brooks views drugs as a threat to the structure of civilization. Describing President Bush as a "very moral" man, the judge urges even harder action against the purveyors of addicting narcotics. "It's going to take a much stronger effort, including use of the military to keep drugs out," he says. "I don't think we've used the military to the extent we should." To help dispel the mystique about drugs, he advocates wider education, especially among youngsters in the schools. "There's no one road to solve the drug problem ... it's going to take education 'as well," the judge af firms. "We have enough experience to know that drugs are destructive," he adds, citing the death of Len Bias, basketball star, from cocaine use. For a method of education about the horrors of drugs. Judge Brooks advocates letting children view ac tual films'about the effects of dope, similar to the vividness of the ones he saw in Jhe military about the re sults of reckless driving just before soldiers were given leave. "These films were quite grue some," he recalls. "The idea was to sensitize the viewer. You couldn't look at it without walking away with those images in mind." The judge's trust in education was paradoxically formed out of public school discrimination against him. But again, he makes no excuses; rather he possesses the sort of inde pendent discrimination, the inci siveness of mind, to draw a line children went to college or univer between the experience of segrega- sity. lion and acquiring a sense of inferi- ft .. . ,. orilv ^ 6 ? appears his healthy view of -rv ? a- u i k a himself has rubbed off on others. The Indians have always had a ?rm .. , lt . ? . ' . . i tn pleased with the reception , ve bad'" f" we ve never accepted tne iaea mat new appointment. The judge has we are second-class citizens," not- already held court in several coun ing that from his family, all seven ties. Dr. Adolph Dial To Be Grand Marshall for Chancellor's Inauguration Grand marshal for the inaugura lion of Chancellor Joseph B. Oxen dine of Pembroke State University on Friday, Oct. 27, will be one of his long time friends. Dr. Adolph Dial, resident consultant in the PSU Department of American Indian Studies. As grand marshal. Dial will carry lNUs golden mace, the university's symbol of authority. Dial was named to this honor by the 12 member PSU inaugural committee. Dial was co-chairman of a commit tee that strongly supported Oxendine for the chancellorship during the selection process, holding public meetings in seeking community support for Oxendine. Dial, as spokesman of the commit too, said at the time: "We do not support this man because he is a liimhee. We do not support this man because he is an Indian. We support hint because he is a scholar" with the leadership to help l"Sl* confront problems effectively. Dial was one of those who initially encouraged Oxen dine to seek the office. Dial was the founder of PSirs American Indian Studies Department and served as its chairman until his retirement in 1988. He is considered an authority on the Lumbee Indians and is consulted on a continuing basis about their life and heritage. Ihal is an author as well as a business, community, political and church leader. Pr. Ailolph Dial
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