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New PSD Alumni Directory Published
A new PSU Alumni Directory has
been published and is now available.
Printed in both deluxe and regular
editions, the directory is a 187-page
publication with many features.
Its cost is $55.90 for deluxe
editions and $52.90 for regular
To order, make the check payable to
Harris Publishing Co. and mail to
that company at 3 Barker Ave.,
White Plains, NY 10601, making the
letter to the attention of Sandra
Hickey, customer service. To tele
phone an order, call Ms. Hickey toll
free at 1-800-877-6554.
"Hie directory has been enthusi
astically received by our alumni who
have responded to the offer erf a
quality product," says Glen Bumette
director of alumni affairs.
Bumette added that "every effort
has been made to ensure that our
directory is a top quality publication
which reflects positively on our
institution."
This i? the second time PSU has
GUn Bunette, director of alumni
affair* at PSU, proudly display* the
had an alumni directory published.
The first was in 1987 during PSU*s
centennial year. That publication
covered 113 pages.
This new issue includes a message
from the chancellor, a message from
Bumette, current PSU Alumni Asso
ciation officers, past alumni presi
dents, a history at the PSU Alumni
Association, past winners of the PSU
Alumni Association's "Outstanding
Alumnun" and "Distinguished Ser
vice" awards, past presidents/ chan
cellors of PSU, and the current PSU
Board of Trustees.
The directory contains alphabetical
listing, class year listing and geo
graphical listing of all alumni. IN the
alphabetical listing, each name in
cludes the graduation year, degree,
occupation, company's address and
phone, and residence address and
telephone.
More than 9,000 directories have
been printed, and 1,275 have already
been sold.
newPSU Alumni Directory, which it
now available.
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Chancellor Jo.epk Ozendine addreB.es an erimated audience of 3,700 at PSV. commencement Saturday when a record 503 graduated
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Hatteras mscarora
Tribe Updates
Tribal Roll
Hie Hatteras Tuscarore Tribe is
continuing toupdate their tribal roll.
AU thofe who enrolled in the
?evwntias and wish to remain on the
tribal roll are ashed to come ito the
office to give changes in address and
to add on any new family members. -
The Hatteras Tuscarora Founda
tion provides a weekly food distribu
tion program. For * donation,
all fow income families may partici
pate.
For more information call (919) i
844-5867 or write: Hatteras Tuscaro
ra Tribal Foundation, 231 McCaskill
Avenue, Mazton, NC 28364.
Supporters to Meet
The Very Special People Support
ers of Robeson County will meet
Sunday, May 17, at 3 p.m. at the
Baptist House across from Pembroke
State t Tni verattv ?
ACCOUNTANTS
ANNOUNCE MEETING
The Institute of Management
Accountants, formerly the National
Association of Accountants, will
hold a special meatlni ami awards/
family night at 6 p.m. oh May 19 at
the DeLafayette Restaurant in Fay
etteville. The featured speaker will
be Loleta Wood Foster, Executive
Director of Assessment Counseling
and Consulting in FayettevOle. Dr.
Foster will speak on the subject of
Stress Management. CFG credit will
be issued for qualifying programs.
For further information call George
anna Simpson, 488-8511 in Fayette- I
ville, or Judy Saudners, 692- 4771 in I
Southern Pine*
Spring Festival
Planned
Spring Festival of Dance '92 will
be presented by the Charlotte Blume
School of Dance and Modeling on
Mvy 29 at 8 p.ra. and May 31 at 3
p.m. at the Cumberland County Civic
Center Auditorium.
The festival will feature excerpts
from the Ballet Etudet and a variety
of Ballet, Tap, Gym and Jazz dance
and modeling. Tickets are $4.50 at
the box office. Call 919- 484- 2736 for
information.
Opera Tine ;
Open time in Robeson County, a
group of sixth grade students at
Orrum Middle School invite you to
join them May 15, 1992 at 8 p.m.
They are performing an original
open called Friendship'. See the
Obvious. The story is about a boy
that no one wants to be friends with
and a girl who discovers that her
friends only like her for what she has.
We learn taht a person's inner self is
important
This project was funded by the
Metropolitan Open Education De
partment the State of Alabama, the
National Endowment for the Arts,
and the Public Schools of Robeson
County.
PSU described as "a model of ethnic integration
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Chevy Chase, MD- Citing a failure of
justice in the Rodney King ease,
directors of a national church agency
have described last week's unrest in
Los Angeles as "The violent re
actions of people in despair who can't
tabs any more."
Hie words were in a May 2
statement Ly the directorate of the
Office for Church in Society of the 1.0
million-member United Church of
Christ Made up of 17 United Church
ministers and lay people from
throughout the United States, the
directorate voted the statement
during its April 80-May 2 meeting in
Chevy Chase, new Washington, D.C.
In other matters, the directorate
passed resolutions on the American
Indian Religious Freedom Act and
the welfare of children in Iraq qd
installed a new executive director.
With offices in Cleveland and hi
Washington, D.C. the agency do*
advocacy work on social and political
issues and develops resources to
empower local churches and relate
biblical teachings to social concerns.
"Hie beating of Rodney King is
symbolic of widespread police viol
ence against minorities and the
marginalised," the directors' May 2
statement says. "When Rodney
King was felled by police violence it
was not only wrong, it was visible.
, Surely the system of justice failed.
Hie courts compounded the injustice
through legal maneuvers, such as
changing the place at trial."
Hie statement criticises President
Bush and other national leaders
"who play cynical political games of
racism, who Mama the victims of
poverty and injustice, who promote
violence through their own use of
violence."
Hk outpouring of violent acts after
the April 29 acquittal of four police
officers who had beaten King in 1991
were "the violent reactions of people
in despair who can't take any more,
who have stopped counting the cost
and who have forgotten the humanity
of bystanders," the statement says.
In other matters, the directorate
voted support for legislative efforts
to win back the right of American
Indians to traditional religious prac
tices-rights rescinded by recent U.S.
Supreme Court decisions.
In s resolution, the directorate
voted to affirm the basic principles of
currently proposed amendments to
the American Indian Religott free
dom Act of 1978. Hie amendments,
"Urahfd by Sen. Daniel Inouye (DJ
Hawaii) and a coalition of Native
Americans, call for the protection of,
sacred sites, ceremonial use oil
peyote, ceremonial use of eagle
feathers and the religious rights of
prisoners.
The resolution says the Supreme
Court's 1988 decision withdrawing
constitutional protection from sacred
sites and its 1990 ruling against the
use of peyote, teh central sacrament
of the Native American Church, were
blows to religious freedom.
The directorate also passed a
reeohition expressing continuing con
eern for the welfare of the people'of
Iraq- children in particular, and the
civilian population aa a whole--who
| am itill auffeirng the effects of the
Gulf War.
The resolution says the United
Hates, through the United Nations,
tas a moral obligation to find a
solution to the impasse between the
U.N. Security Council and the
government of Iraq. The impasse is
preventing sn end to the food and
health crisis of Iraq's civilians.
"Saddam Hussein is to be held
accountable for his unconscionable
policies toward Iraq's citixeniy," it
says, but the U.S. "is also to be held
responsible for the continuing hu
manitarian consequences of the air
war against Iraq." The resolution
urges the U.S. government to pursue
the broader goals of "a just peace"
for the Middle Bast
On May 2, the directors and
hundreds of guests installed Valerie
. Russell as executive director of the
denomination's Office for Church in
Society in s service at People's
Congregational United Church of
Christ in Washington, D.C. Russell,
60, an African American lay woman,
was elected to the post last Septem
ber.
The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes
Jr., senior minister of the Riverside
Church in New York City, preached.
Other participants included the Rev.
Paul H. Sherry, president of the
United Church of Christ, Rev. Dr.
Avery D. Post of Norwich, VT,
former United Church president; end
Edith A. Guffey of Cleveland,
national secretary of the denomina
tion.
The United Church of Christ, with
national offices in Cleveland, is a
1967 union of the Congregational
Christian Churches, and the Evan
gelical and Reformed Church.
Comunity
Clean Up Day
There will be a community clean
up day at the Pembroke Middle
School site on Saturday, May 16,
beginning at 9 a.m. Interested
persons are encouraged to bring
lawn mowers, weed eaten, hoea,
rakes, trucks, etc.
The site haa been leased by Indian
Solidarity, a non- profit corporation,
and will be developed Into a
community center.
Community involvement is needed
and encouraged to clean up and work
toward the restoration and preserva
tion of the first state supported four
year high school for Indians.
by Gene Warren
Pembroke State Univereity__wss
described "a model of ethnic
integration" by Charles & (Chuck)
Stone, s syndicated columnist in over
90 newspapers and holder of the
Walter Spearman Professorship in
Journalism and Mass Communica
tion at UNC- Chapel Hill who spoke
ito the institution's largest graduating
/class, 502, Saturday at Commence
ment. A total of 419 undergraduates
and 83 graduate degrees were
presented.
"My entire life- and it's been a
long life," said ' 67-year-old
Stone, "has been dedicated to just
humanity, is s many-splendored
humanity colors--red, white
black, brown and yellow-as rich in
chromatic beauty as they are bounti
ful in religious faiths--Protestant,
Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu,
and Buddhist--and theya re all
entitled to the enjoyipent and the
protection of three bask freedoms
freedom of speech, freedom fromw
ant and the freedom to be happy."
1 Former editor 01 three of Amen-,
's best known black newspapers.
Stone said because of his beliefs,
"To come to the black-and-gold
spertdor of PSU-the one University
in North Carolina with the highest
percentage of Native American stu
dents--a model of ethnic integration
and chancellor (Dr. Joseph Oxen
dine) with a magnificent obsession
for justice for all people is about the
hippiest thing that has ever hippi-n
-itd-to jpa."
PSlT s enrollment of 2,944 ia made
up of 6S.8 percent white students,
2S!4 percent Indian, and 10.9 percent
Black.
Stone said he applauds Chancellor
Oxendine's decision earlier this year
concerning the banning of an Indian
atheltic mascot which he believes is
offensive to Indian people. "A
university's mascot should not de
scribe the pride of any group of
people-male or female, white or
red." said Stone.
In praising PSUs ethnie_role In
higher education. Stone aaid to the
estimated 'audience of 3,700 who
jammed PSUs English E Jones
ge&Jm an a mysiemi uiuciuonucn
ter, "In the constellation of higher
education in North Carolina, PSU is a
star that illuminates the heavens
with its high voltage of ethnic
diversity."
Stone referred to the violence in
Los Angeles, saying: "Last week,
most of us watched television and
were horrified by the barbaric
imaged of mobs violently attacking
innocent people, looting stores and
destroying their own neighborhood
stores. Yes, the mob violence was a
bmtalisation of humanity. Repeat
edly, television and newspaper
commentators offered this philoso
phical non sequitur that "two wohrgs
don't make a righ. And they were
right But a first wrong that goes
unpunished will birth a second wrong
incubated in the despair of forgotten
justice for forgotten people."
Stone told the graduates, "Today,
if there is any over riding imperative
that confronts you after you leave to
begin your new life, it is to focus your
intelligence and harness your ener
gies on behalf of the rest of
humanity. We are not isolated atoms
in the unknown expanse of the
heavens, but persons linked together
in a vast nuclear family on earth.'*
Stone added for emphasis: "You
have made it. Now it is time to help
the world to make it--to win sotfte
victory for humanity, to make your
presence felt as a North Carolinfeb,
as a PSU graduate, as a member of
that religion orjfctt ethnic gipta.
which commands your greatest
affection."
Stone was presented an Honarny
Doctor of Human Letters at s'
the commencement as waa L Glenn
Orr, Jr., chairman, chief exeoiUee
officer and president of Southern
Rational Corporation.
; Also presented for the first time
wees three Adolph L Dial Bwlesef
Faculty Awards, eachof which ?
included a cash gilt of $1,000. lira
awards went to Dr. Bonnie A. KeOey,
professor of biology, for teaching
excellence; Ralph L Steeds, aaeoci*
ate professor of art, for scholarship/
creative work; and Dr. Andrew N.
Ash, associate professor of M^gj
for community service.