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Forward Communications Lends Broadcast Executive
To Minority Investment Fund
To Spank Or Not To Spank
ByTrellie
WASHINGTON
Robert Ferguson has been
named director of fun
draising activities for the
National Association of
Broadcasters' Minority
Investment Fund.
Ferguson is senior vice
president, Corporate Pro
jects, Forward Com
munications Corp.,
Wausau, Wise.
Donald A. Thurston,
who chairs the NAB Task
Force which organized the
Minority Investment
Fund, announced that
Forward has donated
Ferguson's time and
salary to support the Fund
in helping minorities ac
quire and operate broad
cast facilities. Thurston
commended Forward for
its "continued commit
ment to the Minority In
vestment Fund." Forward
also pledged $60,000.00 to
the Fund. Thurston, resi
dent, Berkshire Broad
casting Company in North
Adams, Mass., also is a
member of the Board of
Trustees which directs the
Fund.
Ferguson will begin his
fundraising duties im
mediately. Ferguson was named to
his present position with
Forward in August. Prior
to that he was president
and general manager of
Foward's WTRF Televi
sion and Radio, Wheeling,
W. Virginia. He has been
general manager of the
WTRF Stations', for the
past 26 years.
Ferguson has served as
chairman of the NBC-TV
Affiliate Board, Chair
man of the NAB Televi
sion Code Board, presi
dent of the Broadcast
Pioneers, and president of
the W. Virginia Associa
tion of Broadcasters.
The NAB serves a
membership of over 4,600
There have been four
separate interviews con
ducted on spanking in the
Durham community.
They have been conducted
among educators in the
Durham community,
among social workers,
psychologists, and
counselors, among
parents and, finally,
among pupils. These inter
views were pompted by
the recently revised city
school board policy on
spanking.
While educators
(principals, vice
principals, teachers,
deans, board members
etc., (said that they did
not oppose the North
Carolina law on spanking,
many stated that they did
not think highly of spank
ing as a disciplinary
method. Many principals
stated that they were im
plementing more modern
ways to achieve discipline.
It was concluded from
the interviews of social
L. Jeffers
workers, counselors and
psychologist that this
group did not rule out
spanking entirely, but
recommended it only as
the very last method to
achieve discipline
Some of the parents
said, "Maybe teachers
should spank when all
other methods to achieve
discipline fail." Others ex
pressed the opinion that
teachers should not spank
their children.
All students interview-
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.serving the south since 1875
ed, above third grade said
that they believed teachers
should not spank pupils.
Only two pupils interview
ed said that they had been
spanked only once during
their, schooling. At least
eighty per cent of the
students interviewed said
that they had never been
spanked at school and that
they had rarely been
spanked by their parents.
The imolications here may
be that pupils whose
parents reason with them
and "talk over problems"
can apparently be
disciplined without being
spanked.
Another conclusion that
can be drawn from hc
student interviews is that
students apparently have
no faith in spanking and
that pupils must respect
any disciplinary method
before it can be effective.
The overall conclusion
oh spanking from these in
terviews is that the com
munity is moving away
from spanking for a more
. effective, more modern
method. Spanking,"
' however, is a North
Carolina law.
The revised city school
policy passed its final
reading Monday night,
November 26. Attached to
the policy was a resolution
introduced by board
member Dr. Robert
Ghirardelli which states,
"The board wishes ;it
understood that "in
establishing this policy
that it neither endorses
nor encourages the inflic
tion of corporal punish
ment (spanking), but acts
only to control such inflic
tions within the con
straints imposed by the
statutes of North
Carolina."
Many principals say
that some parents would
rather have their children
spanked than to honor re
quests by school officials
to visit the school or . to
have their children
suspended.
No effective
disciplinary method
relieves parents of the
responsibility of helping
the school discipline their
children. .
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Formed For
Mnmen's P.pntnr
CHAPEL HILL-As an
outgrowth of the highly
successful organizational
meeting for an Orange
County Women's Center,
working committees have
been established and
meetings scheduled. The
committees will make
progress reports at the next
general meeting of persons
interested in establishing
a center, Thursday, Jan. 24
at 7:30 p.m., at A Woman's
Place, ,110 Henderson St.,
Chapel Hill.
All interested people are
invited to join committees
and to attend general meet
ings. 1 The committee chairmen
are: Ms. Elain Barney, 929
6136, Fund-Raising; Ms.
Miriam Slifkin, 929-2451,
Board Selection; Ms. Jane
Ryan, 942-5590, Member
ship; Ms. Nancy Park, 967
1090, Site.
The Membership Com
mittee will meet January
14 at 7:30 in A Woman's
Place.
An anonymous contri
bution of approximately
$30,000 has been given
toward formation of a
women's center. For more
information, contact the
people listed.
LATE CALENDAR
HEMS
the West EndCommum
ty Action Group is holding
its first annual Christmas
Wty on Thursday, Decem
ber 20 at 7:30 pjn. All
members are invited to-attend.
The party will be in
the basement of Morehead
Avenue Baptist Church at
1008 Morehead Avenue.
HOOKS CHALLENGES
JOHN CONNALLY, GOP
CANDIDATE FPJtPRES..
NAACP Executive Direc
tor Benjamin L. Hooks has
called John B. ComuOyY!
critical retofrki' about'
affirmative action programs
'irresponsible and- unrea
sonable" and invited- he
Republican Presidential
nomination candidate to a
frtBc ot private discussion
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