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Lyndon B. Johaami
VOLUME 58 - NUMBER 44
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA -SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1980
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NCCU Founder's Day Principals
Dr. Charles E. Cobb, left, will be principal speaker as North Carolina Central University
observes its Founder's Day at 11 a.m., Friday, November 7. Dr. Cobb, a 1940 graduate of
NCCU, Was a student during the presidency of Dr. James E. Shepard, the university's
founder. He is now executive director of the Commission for Racial Justice of the United
Church of Christ. The late Harold W. Alexander, center, and the late Wayne M. Dunn, right,
will be honored by the naming of NCCU's old cafeteria the Alexander-Dunn Building. The
building houses the Career Counseling and Placement Center and the Academic Skills Center.
Alexander founded the Academic Skills Center, and Dunn was an employee of the Academic
Skills Center at the time of his death in a heroic rescue of a co-worker.
notations Sought for SBA Week Honors
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The U.S. Small
Business Administration
(SBA) has urged small
business leaders and small
business associations,
other trade associations,
chambers of . commerce,
SBA's Advisory Council
members, state and local
officials and bankers to
submit nominations of
persons to be honored
durmjr the 198 1 " Small
Business Week.
Each year, SBA notes
the achievements of small
business by sponsoring a
week-long national pro
gram. During this pro
gram, called National
Small Business Week, the
beneficial role of small
companies in the national
economy is stressed and
outstanding small business
pefsons around the coun-.
try ;are honored,
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Selected to be honored
during the week is the
"Small Business Person of
the Year," whose ac
complishments are tradi
tionally cited by the Presi
dent in a White House
ceremony held during
Small Business Week. The
Small Business Person of
the Year is selected from
among persons chosen as
state small business per
sons of the year, 'v
AKA Voter Blitz Set For Saturday
Alpha Zeta Omega
Chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority is sponsor
ing a Voter Blitz at 11
a.m. on Saturday,
November 1, at St.
Joseph's AME Church.
This meeting is designed,
to insure high voter par
ticipation on election day,
November 4.
Community leaders and
citizens interested in work
ing with a coalition to get
out the vote on election
day are asked to attend.
The meeting is a project
of the Alpha appa Alpha
connection, a mechanism
for communication, coor
dination and collective ac
tion in responding to
issues.
Some 100,000 citizens
are expected to be involv
ed in the nation-wide
Voter Blitz. From
Chicago, the sorority's
board of directors will
hook-up by telephone
with thirteen cities and the
sorority members will visit
churches on November 2
to remind and encourage
citizens to vote.
"No ,one anywhere
must get up on Wednes
day, November 5, and
say, I should have voted,"
said Ms. Barbara K.
Phillips of Winston
Salem, AKA national
president.
By Trellie L. Jeffers
The Durham City
School Board voted 4-1
Monday night, Octdber
27, to support Superinten-
dent Cleveland Ham
mond's recommendation
and reject the Police j
Liaison Program that was
being suggested by board :
member, Mrs. Beth Up-
church, for the city junior
high schools.
In his recommendation
against the program, Dr.'
Hammonds said that he
was not opposed to'
policemen, but that "the
concept of a police liaison
program does not fit the
philosophy of the Durham
City Schools."
Dr. Hammonds also
said, "I have trouble with
personnel over whom I
would have no control."
The Police Liaison Pro
gram would have placed
policamen in the junior
high schools under; the
command of the chief of
police and who would
have had the authority to
keep logs on students as
well as conduct investiga
tions independent of
school authorities.
Dr. Hammonds said in,
his statement against the
program, "I am concern-
ed.that the log the officers
would keep would violate
the confidentiality-of , ejiis. .
tected by both federal laws
and a board policy."
W.L. Bradsher fro,m the
Education : -Sub-
Committee of the Durham
Committee on the Affairs
of Black People; Linwood
Blount from the NAACP,
and Attorney Judith
Washington, the parent of
two Hillside High School
students, also spoke
against the program.
Attorney Washington
pointed out that students
had fifth amendment
rights and that such a pro
gram would be in viola
tion of these rights since
students are entitled to
have legal counsel when
questioned by a police of
fleer.
Mrs. Upchurch said she
thought "the program was
a fine one and it would be
a chance to help our
young people." Mrs. Up
church had proposed the
program as one that
would strengthen the rela
tionship between students
and policemen as well as
one that would enable
police to counsel students
on undesirable conduct.
She said that she had ask
ed principals to conduct
surveys at their various
schools, but had been
unable to obtain the
results. She said that she
was for the program,
nevertheless.
In other matters of
business, the school board
approved the School
Record Policy on its se
cond reading; it selected a
seventeen-member com
mittee to study the junior
high and the middle
school concept. This com
mittee will study
literature, research and
visit school systems and
make a recommendation
on either the junior high
or the middle school concepts.
Dr. Hammonds also an
nounced a system-wide
Parent-Teacher , con
ference to be held on
November 17 from 2:00 m
8:30 p.m. This conference
period is scheduled to gKe
parents a chance to talk
with the teachers of their
children in order to
establish relationship and
to keep abreast of their
children's intellectual progress.
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A rainy Saturday did
not dampen the pleasure
of North Carolina Central
University faculty and
staff members conducting
the university's Youth
Day Program October 25.
NCCU personnel, in
cluding Chancellor -Albert
N. Whiting, were
delighted to find more
than 500 high school
students, along with
parents and advisors,
braving the gusty rains
Saturday morning for
what Mrs. Nancy
Rowland, director of ad
missions, described as an
"Old Fashioned High
School Day."
Mrs. Rowland said the
high school students
responded favorably to
greetings by Chancellor
Whiting; Undergraduate
Dean Dr. Walter H. Pat
tillo, Jr.; Business School
Dean Dr. Tyronza Rich
mond; Quinton Brown,
ADL Opposes Prison
NEW YORK THe
Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith has asked
the U.S. Supreme Court
to prevent California from
using racial quotas to hire
and promote prison
guards. The League called
the practice
discriminatory and un
constitutional. ADL's participation is
the case Minnick vs. the
California Department of
Corrections marks the
fourth time in three years
that the human relations
agency has gone to the
Host Barbara Baptist Church Co lob rates 88th Anniversary
The West Durham Bap
tist Church on Athens and
Nixon Streets ended its
88th"Anniversary Celebra
tion Sunday, October 26,
at its regular 11 a.m. ser
vice. The occasion also
marked the Annual
Homecoming and the bur
ning of the mortgage on
the present church struc
ture. Many friends, along
with members, witnessed
the event.
The Church was
organized in the autumn
of 1892 by The Reverend
W.H. Stanfield of
Durham County, A
daughter, Mrs. Era Noj
ris, along with a grand
daughter, still hold
membership with the
church.
The first church
building erected was
located on Ferrell Street
and under the leadership
of Reverend J.T. Peace of
Oxford, and Reverend
Simmons, the church was
enlarged. During the
pastorate of Reverend H.
Johnson of Virginia, the
lot ; on Thaxton Avenue
was purchased at a cost of
$1,800.00. During the
years of service by the
Reverend T.A. Grady, the
indebtedness was reduced
to $350.00.
The late Dr. T.C.
Graham of North
Wilkesboro t"c?me pastor
of the West bm Bap
tist' Church in March.
1921, and served the
church until his death in
July, 1964, a period of
forty-three years. The se
cond church structure was
erected during his
pastorate in August, 1924.
In 1939, an Educational
Building was completed
which provided facilities
for religious education
and wholesome recreation
for the church members
and the community. In
1947, all buildings were
brick veneered at an ap
proximate cost of fifteen
thousand dollars
($15,000.00).
In 1950, a complete
renovation of the church
interior was done at a cost
of $9,000.00. The entire
church plant was valued at
more than one hundred
thousand dollars
($100,000.00).
In 1960, an addition of
a classroom and a ladies'
lounge was made to me
church structure at a cost
of ten thousand dollars
($10,000.00). Deacon
W.L. McAuley was the
contractor and builder.
In 1965, the Reverend
Frederick Douglass Terry,
a native of Ellerbe, North
Carolina, who now serves
as the Chief of the
Chaplain Service,
Veterans Administration.
Center, Marion, Indiana,
became pastor. Prior to
the pastorate of Reverend
Terry, it became apparent
that the church and com
munty would be affected'
by the final plans for the
western link of the Ex
pressway. It became the
task of the church, under
the administration of
Reverend Terry, to seek
the aid of all services
available -including At
torney E.K. Powe of
Powe, Porter, Alphin and
Whichard, P.A., to pro
tect the interest of the
church congregation.
In August, 1967, the
first phase of the expan
sion program was com
pleted. Two acres of land
had been purchased on
Nixon Street for the pur
pose of building a church
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Quotas!
High court to "oppose such
quotas in employment and
school admissions. ADL,
which in the 1980's waged
successful campaigns
against quotas then used
to bar minorities, is com
mitted to affirmative ac-'
tion based on individual
merit.
In a friend-of-the-court
(amicus curiae) brief filed
with the Supreme Court
for its October term, ADL
arugued in behalf of two
white correctional of
ficers, Wayne Minnick
and Henry J. Darden,
who were denied promo
tions in 1975 under a
California plan to increase
minorities among prison
personnel.
A'fter winning their case
in a trial court which
ruled that the California
hiring plan violated both
the Civil Rights Act of
1964 and the Fourteenth
Amendment Minnick
and Darden lost in the
California Court of Ap
peals, which reversed the
lower court decision.
Meyer Eisenberg, chair
man of ADL's Law Com
mittee, said the League's
action in the Minnick case
was part of its "long and
vigorous campaign oppos
ing racial quotas as un
American and racist."
Since 1978, he said, ADL
had filed friend-of-the-court
briefs in the Bakke,
Weber -nd Fullilove cases.
vice-president of the stu
dent government; Ms.
Cathy Price, Miss NCCU;
Dr. Jerry Schooler, chair
man of the chemistry
department; and Dr. S.
Dallas Simmons, vice
chancellor for univeruity
relations.
Others participating in
the morning session in
B.N. Duke Auditorium
were Mrs. Roland, Carl
Durham, Ms. Ella
Bridges, Ms. Elizabeth
Outlaw, Ms. Dianne Mon
tague, and Ms. Daren
Melchionni of the admis
sions office, and Ms.
Golda Ellis of the niversi
ty's financial aid office. .
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various student groups,
including the Scrolkr
Club of Kappa Alpha Pa.
The students who were to
have served as tour guides
also joined the entertain
ment, including members
of the sophomore dan,
students in the university's
honors program, and the
"Ladies of Black and
Gold."
Lunch gave the high
school students a literal
taste of college life, as
they braved the four lines
at NCCU's W.G. Pearson
Cafeteria as the universi
ty's guests. They were
guests as well, at One
Elizabeth City game --the
cheers they had, learned .
coming - . in nanw . in
the NCCU cheerleaders
conducted a mini pep rally
and then led the group to
the old Women's Gym
nasium to await lunch and
the start of the football
game agaisnt Elizabeth Ci
ty State.
At the gymnasium, the
cheerleaders continued
their pep rally and enter
tainment was provided by
Mrs. Rowland, wfto
planned the program, said
students, parents, and ad
visors came from acrase
Piedmont - and Eastern
North Carolina. Invita
tions had been sent to all
North Carolina high
schools, and students
came from as far away as
Plymouth.
A! Dass, Jr. Appointed
To W Canli Sfdfv1
Al Bass, Jr., has been
appointed vice-president
and Loan Administrator
for Mechanics and
Farmers Bank, Durham.
The announcement, made
by J.J. Sansom, Jr. presi
dent, came after recent ap
proval by the Board of
Directors of the newly
created position.
Bass, a Durham .native
and the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Al Bass, Sr., of
Durham, has seven years
banking experience with a
major southeastern bank.
He holds a degree in
Business Administration
from A&T State Universi
ty and is a third year stu
dent of the Carolina
School of Banking in
UNC-Chapel Hill. He also
has completed several
courses through the
American Institute of
Banking and has com
pleted the real estate
brokerage program at Lee
Institute.
Bass will have prUjaary
responsibility v for the
soundness, profitabChy
and growth of the bank't
loan portfolio and will
report directly to the presi
dent. Bass is a member of
Bankers Educational
Society, Durham
Chamber of Commerce
Contact Club and North
East Baptist Church. He
has previously served as
Group Team Member for
United Way of Durham.
He enjoys fishing,
reading, and bicycling.
Bass is married to the
former Virginia Austin of
Durham. They have prm
child.
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la thi photo it left, itudontt from Eastman High School in Enfield discuss North
Carolina Cantral University's programs with Mrs. Nancy Rowland (right). NCCU
Dlnctor of Admissions, Tho students attended NCCU's Youth Day Program Satur
day. October 23. From left to right are Ms. Phyllis I. Silver, senior; Timmy
.Hedgepeth. eighth grader; and Ms. Wanda Nicholson, eleventh grader. Looking on
Is Ms. Michefe Deen, a student aide In the NCCU admissions office.
accepting mrotnATioN
Center photo shows Mrs. Ullis Jones Solomon (center), NCCU alumna, and her
daughter, Miss Karia Solomon, accepting, information about North Carolina Central
University from Ms. Ella Bridges of the NCCU Admissions Office as thev register for
the Youth Day Program. Mrs. Solomon, guidance coordinator for schoSTs ft the En
field tjea. aeeoisnsjled a large group of students to the program.
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In the photo at toft, Youth Day Program participants eeet North Carsa Cl
University Chancellor Albert N. Wtlang. right Soma S3 high tcfcsd iisirZj t
tended the October 25 event sponsored by the NCCU Office of Adis&sJssa. '
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