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WORDS OF WISDOM I don't want smart men—l want only plain, hard-working, honest fellows. —Frank A. Vandeilip Speaking without thinking is shooting with out aiming. — Anonymous No matter what your lot in life may be, build something on it. — Teamwork VOLUME 51 NUMBER 25 CHURCH COHFIRIHCE HELD AT SHAW JUNE 12 -16 The Church Has Role M liberation "The Role of the Church in the Liberation of the Op pressed," was the focus of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Ministers' Institute at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 12-16. Dr. William A. Jones, Minis ter to Bethany Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York, was the principal resource participant. Dr. Jones preached the opening sermon, Monday, June 12, at Memphis Project Helps Black Women Get Jobs MEMPHIS—Special job in formation and placement ser vices will be available to black women and others here who are unemployed or underem ployed. These services will be made available under a $47,000 one year grant which is funded under the Manpower Develop ment and Training Act and ad ministered by the Manpower Administration of the U.S. De partment of Labor. Sponsor of the project is the Memphis and Shelby County Health and Wel fare Planning Council. "Although barriers to em ployment of women are still in existence, we have high hopes that the resources and com munity spirit of Memphis will be enough to overcome them," said Elizabeth D. Koontz, De puty Assistant Secretary of Labor and Director of the Women's Bureau, which will monitor the project. "The unusually strong support by Durham Native Receives Howard Medical Degree Brenda Joyce Thompson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ray Thompson of 923 Plum Street, was the recipient of the degree, Doctor of Medicine, at the recent commencement exercites at Howard University, Wash ington, D.C. Thus a childhood dream, from the age of five, becomes a reality. At the Honors and Oath Day Exercises held at the Univer sity Auditorium, Dr. Thom pson, whose area of speciality will be pediatrics, was awarded seven prizes: Induction into Gamma Chapter, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society; the Matilda D. Cunningham Award to the best all-round and most outstanding woman in medicine; the James E. Sim pson Memorial Award in in ternal medicine; the Endocri nology prize—Endocrinology of Adolescence and Childhood I _ - Coolf Awarded Honorary Doctor Of Laws D i • DURHAM, N.C.-Dr. Samuel " Dußois Cook, Duke University political science professor, has been awarded )an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Morehouse College. The honor came during re cent 150 th anniversary com mencement exercises at the Atlanta college, where Cook * received his bachelor of arts degree 24 years earlier. Cook, 43, came to Duke in 1966, the university's first black faculty member. Earlier, he 8:00 p.m. and delivered a daily lecture on the theme, Tuesday through Thursday, at 10:30 a.m. Dr. J. Archie Hargraves, President of Shaw University delivered the theme address, Thursday at 11:30 a.m. All sessions were held in the Uni versity Union on the Shaw campus. Additional features of the five day meeting were sermo s by noted North CArolina past- volunteer groups makes us feel confident that measurable pro gress will be made." One of the major aims of the project is to find work for women who lost their jobs when a large electronics plant shut down last year. Some 1,000 of these women are still unemployed and about 650 of them are black A recent Government analy sis of black employment pat terns in Memphis found that black women, despite some gains in the late 1960's are disproportionately concentrated in unskilled and semi-skilled jobs. The new project will seek to ease the conditions in hibiting employment not only of the women displaced by the plant closing, but all Memphis women. It will try to influence employers—public as well as private—unions, and trade asso ciations to let more women enter jobs not traditionally open to them. 1 BRENDA THOMPSON by Gardner (Book); Honorable mention, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Honorable mention, the De partment of Surgery; and the Departmental First Prize of SIOO. This annual award is given to the most outstanding Adolescence and Childhood student in the Department of pediatrics. Brenda graduated with hon- Continued On Page 2-A taught at Southern University and was a departmental chair man at Atlanta University. After a two-year-leave as a program officer with the Ford Foundation, he returned to Duke last fall and was pro moted to full professor. Last November he was elected president-elect of the Southern Political Science As sociation. He automatically becomes president of the re gional organisation during its Continued On Page 2-A €ht Car§fip Wsm 0 ors: Reverend Percy High, minister, Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Durham, Tuesday, at 11:30 a.m.? Reverend Aaron Johnson, minister, Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.; Dr. J. R. R. R. Mcßay, minister, Corner stone Baptist Church, Elizabeth City, Wednesday at 8:00 p.m.; and Reverend T. L. Steele, minister New Ahoskie Baptist Church, Ahoskie, Friday at 11:30 a.m. Speakers for the daily early morning worship services at 8:00 a.m. were the Reverends Alfredo Winslow, Belvidere; W. E. Mills, Blounts CreeH; Eli McEachern, North Wilkesboro, and John Lessane, Lumberton. Meeting simultaneously with the Ministers' Institute was the Thirty-Fifth Annual Woman's Training conference and the Twenty-First Annual Youth Bible Camp. Special features of these conferences was a spe cial Youth Hour, Wednesday at 2:50 p.m., and an address by Mrs. Jennie E. Hall, Editor, Lott Carey Herald, Washington David Stith Returns To Durham As State Level HUD Director David Stith of Durham,who has been national director of business development for a divi sion of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment, will return to North Carolina to head a new state level HUD program. Stith confirmed Sunday he will direct manpower and econ omic development projects in Business Opportunities Conference For Women Held Washington, D. C., June 8, 1972. The First National Con ference on Business Opportuni ties for Women opened here today with approximately 500 women gathered from across the country to participate in two days of general sessions, workshops and panels to iden tify problems faced by busi nesswomen and those expecting to go into business, particularly minority women, and find ways to solve the problems. In her opening remarks Inez Kaiser, chairwoman of the con ference, and president of her own consulting firm in Kansas City, said, "to all of you ■L *• I K*mm * IT iA ■ I URBAN LEAGUE SUPPORTERS—C. C. Gar vin Jr. (left), Executive Vice President and Director of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), and J. E. Queen (right), National Coordinator of Community Relations of Humble OH A Re fining Co., present 60.—0 check to Vernon Jordan, Executive Director of the National Ur ban League. The gift represent! the Jersey DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17,1972 Graduates Told Freedom jV| Jf J£r*^A «* Ifl ,-g-Jk %atfHMfaß "v .jfllMMißM^^^RdflP A W f y^k HBl'' • jflj ■tok LINDSEY MEBRITT (RIGHT), Placement Di rector of North Carolina Central University, discusses job opportunities for college grad statewide HUD-related pro grams. Sitith declined comment on whether the new job is part of the Nixon administration move to broaden minority participa tion in federal programs. But Stith said he has no predecessor in the job, which carries an annual salary of about $30,000. Georgia is the only other state with such a program. women let me charge you that if any of us are to become a success today we have to stick together, work together, sup port each other and share our pitfalls. We must help build and support each other's busi nesses and dreams." Honorary chairnoman Sally Peterson, wife of Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson, said the conference was a his toric first of its kind. She said she believes minority women are facing a far less hostile world today than "the one Martin Luther King dared encounter." John L. Jenkins, director Standard family of companies' continued ray port of tjhe League since 1946 with eontrtba tions totaling almost a half-million dollar*. Programs of the League are concerned with education, employment, and training oppor tunities and the maintaining of positive Inter group relations. uates with F. M. Mailer, Recruiting Manager at Proctor A Gamble, during a recent tour of the Company's Cincinnati headquarters. He has worked the last 18 months in Washington in the office of the assistant HUD secretary for equal opportunity. The new position is expect ed to offer a team approach in providing technical assistance and review in such federal pro grams as Model Cities, urban renewal, rehabilitation loans and grants and community of the Commerce Department's Office of Minority Business Enterprise, sponsorer of the conference, said one of the purposes of the conference is to bring together successful business women with those considering a business career to share experiences and in formation. "Our program is to find ways to increase oppor tunities for minorities to open their own businesses," he gaid, "and we are concerned that women, too, must share in these opportunities." Other speakers appearing on the program werearnita Young Continued On Page 2-A planning and management. Model Cities programs are in progress in four North CArolina cities—Asheville, Charlotte, High Point and Winston-Salem. Under terms of the program, blighted areas in participating cities are designated for up grading and federal grants are appropriated to finance im provements in housing, re- mm 1 DAVID SUTH creation facilities, streets, and transportation. The rehabilitation program, Continued On Page 2-A New Program To Aid Bind And Other Minority Businesswomen O.C WASHINGTON, D.C.-(CNS) The first phase of a "new thrust" to bring more Black and other minority women into the economic mainstream as entrepreneurs was begun in Washington this week. Under the sponsorship of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) at the De partment of Commerce, the first National Conference on Business Opportunities for Women brought together more than 500 women from through out the country to identify the unmet business needs of exist ing minority businesswomen and to outline the needs of minority women interested in entering business. Mrs. Inez Kaiser, as National Coordinator of the conference, 1 said, "The women came to this GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE YOUR BOND By WflHaa Thorp* CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By B. L. Kmrmty PREGNANCY PLANNING * HEALTH By G. muiilil DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mr*. gjmlmn Day WRITERS FORUM By Gwf B. Ram HIGHLIGHTS AT DURHAM HIGH WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CHAPEL HILL HIGH Dr. Van S. Allen of Wash ington, D.C. challenged the 125 graduating seniors at Living stone College Tuesday to pay the price for freedom by going back into their various com munities and developing pro grams to reclaim the lives of black people. The executive director of TACTICS, speaking on "What Price Freedom?" noted that mankind has always had an interest in freedom, but free dom has a price. Americans who fought the English over taxation without representation paid the price of many losses of lives, he said. And those who fought the Civil War over the question of the freedom to own slaves paid a terrible price in human lives. "The freedom that we black people enjoy today has been bought with the blood of countless blacks who started their rebellion against enslave ment by taking their own lives," he explained. "And insur rections were not uncommon." Dr. Allen cited the history of the AME Zion Church and Livingstone College, noting that these churchmen and their fol lowers had to pay the price of living with the insecurity of Rosa Steele Wanted A Degree So Duke Helped Her Go To College DURHAM, N. C. - You'd think that a young woman with registered nursing credentials and a good job would want to relax and enjoy her position. But Rosa Steele wasn't satis- - ROSA STEELE fied. After more than two years of working and studying at the same time, she received a bach- meeting because they have strong interest in either im proving their present businesses or going into business for the first time. They all recognize that they don't have the know how and need technical assist ance and training." Mrs. Kaiser, who is the pres ident of Inez Kaiser & Asso ciates, Inc., in Kansas City, Mo., added, "It is encouraging that both people and the govern ment are beginning to realize that business is a woman's world, too, that we can contri bute and perform on an equal basis with our male counter parts. And the women who attended the conference were emphatic in stating their deter mination to develop more local interest among women in their respective communities to ex PRICE: 20 GENU poverty which became their lot once they separated themselves from their parent body, the John Wesley Methodist Episco pal Church. 'This separation brought with it, in adddition to the economic hardships, the re jection of the parent body church," he said. He added that this rejection thrust upon a disadvantaged people the responsibility for supporting and maintaining an institution. 'This was the price that Varick (a founder of the AME Zion Church) and his followers were willing to pay for free dom," he asserted. "Freedom to become leaders of men, free dom to teach Christianity as they perceived it, freedom to determine their own destinies, and freedom to be men." Dr. Allen told students that freedom can never be paid for, but each generation must make its payment. "If any generation refuses to prepare itself to protect whatever freedom is handed down to it, such a generation breaks faith with the past, undermines the present, and destroy* the future." Continued On Page 2-A elor of science degree in nursing from North Carolina Central University this spring. When she marched in NCCU's commencement ceremonies. Miss Steele became the first college graduate sponsored by Duke University's PEP Program. PEP, which stands for Paths for Employe Progress, is a plan to help Duke employes move up the job ladder through edu cation in the health professions. It pays tuition for its partici pants and then supplements what the employe makes work ing part-time while he or she is in school. Miss Steele has been working as the nurse in charge of the evening shift on one of Duke Hospital's general medical wards. With the ink barely dry on her diploma, she's been promoted to the post of head nurse on Drake Pavillion, a 35-bed am bulatory patient ward. Miss Steele liked the idea of working part-time while going to school full-time. "I felt like I was contributing something, not just taking help from Duke Continued On Page 2-A pand opportunities for minority women in the private sector." Mrs Arnita Young Boswell, sister of the late Whitney Young, and Executive Chair woman of the League of Black Women in Chicago, said, "I was particularly impressed by the age span of women attending th« conference, from young minority women to the middle aged." She added, "The role of the Federal Government is impor tant in creating more oppor tunities for women in business. I suggest the establishment of a new Department for Minority Businesswomen with more con sultants and support services to help prevent business failures." Mrs. Polly Gallardo, confer- Continued On Pafs 2-A
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