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12-TH E CAROLINA TIMES SAT.. MARCH 31. 1979 .
Author To Bo lloynotor At Dcdicaiion Off
Nov; Humanities Center
DURHAM - A man who
holds honorary doctorates
from 56 colleges and
universities andis a leading
writer on the black exper
ience in the United States
will be one of the principal
speakers when the $2.5
million National Humanities
Center building in the Re
search Triangle Park is de
dicated in ceremonies start
ing at 10:30 ajn. April 7.
He is Dr. John Hope
Franklin, a distinguished
professor at the University
of Chicago and president of
the Americal Historical
Association.
Dr. Charles Frankel, pre
sident of the center, will
be the other main speaker.
North Carolina Gov.
James B. Hunt, Jr. will
deliver greetings.
Dr. John T. Caldwell,
president of the Triangle
Universities Center
for Advanced Studies, Inc.,
will preside. The Human
ities Center is the first
building to be construct
ed on the 120-acre campus
of the Center for Advanc
ed Studies.
The Center for Ad
vanced Studies was formed
in 1975 by three triangle
universities-Duke, North
Carolina State and the Uni
versity of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Franklin was the first
Nora and Edward Ryerson
Lecturer at Chicago. In
1976 he was named the
fifth Jefferson Lecturer in
the Humanitiesf for the
National Endowment for
the Humanities.
Also in 1976 President
Ford appointed him to the
National Council on the
Humanities, a post he re
signed this year when
President Carter appointed
him to the Advisory
Commission of the Intern
ational Communications
Agency.
He has been a visiting
professor of Harvard Univer
sity, the University of
Wisconsin, Cornell Univer
sity, the University of
California at Berkeley,
ad the University of
Hawaii.
He has served twice as
professor at the Salzburg
Seminar in American Stud
ies in Austria and has been
visiting lecturer at the
Seminar in American
Studies at Cambridge Uni
versity in England, where
he was Pitt Professor of
American History and
Institutions.
In 1960 he was a Ful
bright professor of several
Australian universities.
The first of his
books, "The Free Negro in
North Carolina, 1790-1860"
was published in 1943 while
he was teaching in North
Carolina. He taught at
St. Augustine's College
in Raleigh from 193943
and at North Carolina
College, now North
Carolina Central Univer
sity, from 194347. He
also taught at Fisk Uni
versity and Howard Uni
versity. Among his other books
are "From Slavery to
Freedom;: A Test of Negro
Americans," now in its
fourth edition; ' "Recon
struction after the Civil
War;" "Emancipation
Proclamation," published
in American and British edi
tions; "Land of the Free,"
a collaborative effort wide
ly used as a tesxt in junior
high courses in U.S. his
try; , and his most recent
"A Southern Odyssey;
Travelers in the Antebellum
North."
The latter book won
the Jules Landry Award
from the Louisiana State
University Press for the
best manuscript submit
ted in 1975 in history
biography, or literature.
A native of Oklahoma
who has been named to the
Oklahoma Hall of Fame,
Franklin is a graduate of
Fisk University and
received master's and doct
oral degrees ' from Har
vard. His honorary degrees
have been awarded by uni
versities as geographically
separated as Arizona State
and Yale.
Frankel took leave form
his Old Dominion Professor
ship of Philosophy and
Public Affars at Columbia
University to become presi
dent of the new center.
Other participants in
the dedication ceremonies
will be Dr. William C.
Friday, president of
UNC-CH; Morton
Blumfield, chairman, the
National Humanities Center,
iiugh Holman, trustee of
:he National Humanities Cet
Center and the Center for
Advanced Studies; and
Martin E. Marty, a Uni
versity of Chicago tholo
gian. Support for the Human
ities Center and the building
come from the National
Endowment for the
Humanities, the state, pri
vate foundations and cor
porate and private donors.
The three universities in
volved also have pledged
$75,000 a year in support
ing funds for five years.
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JAMES O. TRICE, ATLANTA LIFE INS. CO., Nathaniel Payne, North Carolina Mutual Life Ins.. Co., Anderson
M Schweich, Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Co., Goerge E. Johnson, Johnson Products, John H. Johnson, Su
preme Life Insurance Co., of America, Earl Joyce, Golden State, Mutual Life Ins., Co.. and Charles A. Davis, National
Insurance Association. '.
Five Insurance Companies Insure Life of
Geo. E. Johnson For $1 Million
Historians claim that the game of cat's cradle goes back
to the Stone Age.
Black life insurance com
panies scored a historic
first on Wednesday when
five of them insured the life
of George E. Johnson, presi
dent of Johnson Products
Company, for $1 million.
The life insurance policy
which will be owned by
Johnson's company, is the
largest every issued by a
Black insurer, according to
Anderson M Schweich,
president of Chicago Metro
politan Mutual Assurance
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pany in the group. It is
also the largest known
single policy issued on the
life of a Black person, in
the U.S., he said.
Other companies
participating with
Chicago Metroplitan Mutual
in the coverage on John
son's life, are Supreme Life
Insurance Company of
America which is. located
in Chicago, Atlanta
Life Insurance Company of
America -which is located
in Chicago, Atlanta Life
Insurance Company of
Atlanta, Golden State
Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Los Angeles, and
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, Durr
ham, North Carolina.
"Minority companies in
combination have long had
the capability of providing
million-dollar coverage,"
Schwich said, "but the
Black community has not
developed a large number
of wealthy businesses or
individuals who require
such levels of protection."
He said it is general prac
tice for major corporations
to insure the lives of key
executives for large
amounts. Sometimes, the
company and the insured in
dividual's family both have
an interest in such policies,
according to Schweich.
Sometimes comapnies will
use the accumlated cash
value of the policy at the
time the key executive
reaches retirement age to
fund his pension, he added.
The historic sale resulted
from negotiations begun
last summer after Johnson
addressed the National
Insurance Association Con
vention in Las Vegas. In a
widely quoted statement,
Johnson said that Black
economic development
will accelerate as Black
companies and individuals
do more business with each
other.
"George Johnson put
his money where his moufh
is," Schweich said.
All five companies part
icipating in the coverage on
Johnson's life are mem
bers of the National Insur
ance Association, along
with 32 other Black life
insurance companies.
Returning to the
theme of Black insurance
comapanies capability of
providing high levels of
coverage, Schweich
said the five companies
in the sale to Johnson
have almost half a
billion dollars, in assets
and have insurance con
tracts to provide over
$9 billion in insurance
benefits. The other
Black companies have near
ly $200 million in
assets and an additional $4
billion in coverage, he said.
Participating in the de
livery ceremony with John
son and Schweich were
John H. Johnson, president
of Supreme Life Insurance
Company of America
Nathaniel Payne of
North Carolina Mutual;
James 0. Trice of Atlan
ta life and Earl Joyce of
Golden State Mutual.
IVSSU To Hold Parents
Honors Day Program
WINSTON SALEM,
-Winston-Salem State
University's Parents
DayHonors Day Program
will be held on the campus
ofWSSUinthe Kenneth R.
Williams Auditorium on
April 1, 1979. The theme
for this years program is
WSSU: Pride and
Excellence. The speaker for
the Parents i Day
Convocation will Dr.
Kenneth R. Williams,
Chancellor Emeritus, WSSU.
For the Honors Day
Program the address will be
delivered by Mr, Marshall B.
Bass, Corporate Director
Peronnel DevelopmentR.J.
Reynolds Industries, Inc.
The purpose of Parents Day
is to bring parents, students,
and teachers together so
that they can meet and
discuss the progress the '
student is making at WSSU.
Dr. Haywood L. Wilson,
Jr., Vice Chancellor for
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Day Steering Committee,
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. especially designed for
freshmen parents because
it gives them an opportun
ity to see where students
eat, live, study and socialize."
The idea of setting aside
time for parents to visit the
University originated with
Dr. Williams' reign durini
his tenure as Chancellor o:
WSSU. Since that time,
Chancellor H. Douglas Cov
ington, has added the aca
demic thrust by superimpos
ing an academic honors day
program. The honor awards
will be presented to full
time students with B or
above grade point averages
in a separate afternoon pro
gram. Special arrangements
wll be made to seat parents
of the honored students
directly behind their sons
and daughters.
Last years Parent's
Day Pogram was highly
successful attracting over
1100 parents and it is
anticipated that this
year's program will
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amental change has taken
place in Rhodesia, since
power is being traferred to
the black majority through
the government which is to
be installed under the new
constitution," Father Hehir
said. But he quoted the Catho
lic Commission for Justice
and Peace in Rhodesia as
saying the internal settle
ment "does not gurantee
a genuine transfer of power
to the African majority, nor
does it provide any mechan
ism, such as a referednum to
ascertain whether the
African majority accepted it.
"The right of rejection
was reserved, typically, to
the whites," the commission
said. "The agreement retains
firmly in white hands effect
ive military and economic
power, as well as effective
control over the civU service
and the judiciary."
Fathf Hehir said: "The
new constitution, approved
by a parliament predomin
antly white and an elector
ate which excluded the
entire black population, en
shrines the objectionable
elements described by the
commission."
"It is 'majority rule' only
in a cosmetic sense, and de
serves to be treated as
such by the United States
and the rest of the interna
tional community," the
USCC official asserted.