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2-THE CAROLINA TIMES-SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1988 Dr. John Hope Franklin To Receive Doctorate From Bryant College Smithfield, R.I.—A Duke Uni versity professor who is one of America’s most distinguished his torians receives an honorary doc torate along with the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and a prominent Itotford business execu tive at the 125th Commencement of Bryant College on May 21. Dr. John Hope Franklin, the James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus at Duke, will receive a Doctor of Humanities at the 125th anniversary year ceremony. With him to receive a Doctor of Science in Business Administration will be Alan Greenspan, who will address the Class of 1988, noted MIT economist Dr. Robert M. Solow, and Norman Sarkisian, a Bryant trustee and alumnus who is the owner and president of The Beacon Group, Inc., near Hartford, CT. Franklin is one of the most honored historians in America. The awards and honors he has received for his work fill a page, and include a citation from Who’s Who in America for "significant contribu tions to society." Franklin has been teaching at Duke since 1982, when he assumed the history chair. He also has been teaching at Duke’s law school since 1985. Before Duke, he taught at the University of Chicago, Brooklyn College, Howard University, North Carolina College, SL Augustine’s College, and Fisk University. Visit ing appointments have taken him also to Cambridge; Harvard: Cornell; the Universities of Wis consin, Califomia-Berkeley, and Hawaii, and universities in Ausba- Journey TUSKEGEE!! TRIANGLE AVIATORS FLYING CLUB is spon soring a Chartered bus Trip to TUSKEGEE, Alabama for the ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY FLY- IN sponsored by NEGRO AIRMEN INTERNA TIONAL, INC. Join us in reliving the excitement that abound in visiting the BIRTHPLACE OF BLACK AVIATION$$$ Several exciting activities are planned and we would like to have you with us for this enjoyable and educational weekend. The Trip wiil ieave Durham on Friday, May 27 and return Monday, May 30. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION & TO MAKE RESERVATIONS, CALL RALEIGH: 828, 6551, 848-1792 DURHAM: 471-2791,544-1221 or471-9609 HILLSBOROUGH: 732-4842 John Hope Franklin r I 1 ilom Seventeen years of experience. Awards ranging from National Coaches Distinguished Service to recognition as one of the three top Sportscasters in the Country. His own Extra Effort Award coveted by young athletes. Suiter & Sports... The Team That Works... Action News 6pm Si 11pm An institute professor (a rank of special distinction) and professor of; economics at MIT, he is widely recognized as an outstanding eco nomic theorist; At MIT since 1950, he has been an institute professor since 1973. Sarkisian, a Hartford native, has taken a 10-man machine company and turned it into a holding compa ny of five corporations: Beacon In dustries, Inc.; Beacon Winch Com pany: Smyth Manufacturing Com pany: Smyth-Horne Ltd., of London, and Beacon Racing Stables, of Ocala, Fla. Long a sup porter of Bryant, the 1953 graduate established the college’s first aca demic chain The Norman Sarkisian Chair in Business Economics. More than 1,000 students will receive degrees from Bryant, one of New England’s leading colleges of business administration. It enrolls more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students at its rural campus near Providence, and pro vides an additional 8,000 men and women aimually with consulting and professional development seminars and courses through its Small Business Development Cen ter and Center for Management De velopment Pictured: (left to right) Dr. Caroline Lattimore, Academic De Sociology at Duke, Dr. James Comer, Dean of the Yale Scb Medicine, and Dr. Lucy Davis. Professor of Education airu Ass in Child Psychiatry at Duke discussed issues with Dr. Comer i his recent visit to the area. lia and New Zealand. An Oklahoma-native, Franklin is the author or editor of 18 books and more than 100 papers and articles. The organizations he has served in clude a host of historical, humanities, and nonprofit associa tions and Fisk University as a Uustee. He holds an A.B. degree from Fisk and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees fiom Harvard. Alan Greenspan was sworn in as chairman of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors in August, 1987 for a four-year term. In that post, he also chairs the Federal Open Market Committee, the reserve sys tem’s principal monetary policy making body. His term as board member runs to 1992. Before his appoinnnent as Feder al Reserve Board chairman, Greenspan was chairman and presi dent of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Inc., an economic consulting firm in New York City. He also has served as chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Robert M. Solow won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for seminal contributions U) the theory of economic growth. Dr. James Comer Addresses Area College Professors, Personnel WTVD/Capital Cities Make Grants To Four Colleges WTVD Channel 11 and the Cap ital Cities/ABC Foundation have announced grants totalling $40,000 to four historically black institu tions of higher learning in the area. Grants of $10,000.00 each will be made to Shaw University and SL Augustine’s College in Raleigh, Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville and North Carolina Central University in Durham. The grants will be made in two pay ments in 1988 and 1989 and are aimed at benefitting the schools in their media-related courses. "WTVD and our parent compa ny, Capital Cities/ABC are com mitted to enhancing education," said WTVD President and Gener^ Manager G. Alan Nesbitt "We are, of course, especially in terested in helping better develop the future leaders in our industry." The institutions are being a^ed to apply the monies to the educa tional process in journalism, televi sion and radio arts, television pro duction or communications. Dr. James Comer, nationally known educator, recently addressed a gathering of area college {xofes- sors and support personnel. Comer who currently serves as Maurice Fralk Professor of Child Psychiatry and Associate in addition to his responsibilities as Dean of the School of Medicine at Yale Univer sity in New Haven, Connecticut ad dressed the topic of "Educating At- Risk Children." Comer placed special emphasis upon the need for educators to util ize a wholistic approach when working with students in the educa tional arena. Educators were urged to work with the intellect as well as with the child’s environment The approach includes working with the child, the parents, and the teachers, the total environment of the child. With all areas of the child’s exis tence working together, this en courages an atmosphere of accep tance of the child for who he or she might be and what the child brings to the classroom. The bottom line in the approach is the fact that the educational supportive systems and the parental supportive systems work as one with the child, the wholistic approach. Comer who is co-founder of the Black Psychiatrists of America maintained an extremely hectic speaking schedule durinv his two day meeting with edi physicians, administrators, personnel, and others. Dt special breakfast, he address portant issues with Dr. Lucj Duke University Professor a’ cation and Associate in Psychiatry. Dr. David M Psychologist and instructa Duke’s Academic Support! Dr. Lee Willard, Office of d* of Trinity College at Dukell sity. Dr. Betsy Feifs, ! Psychologist with the h County Schools, and Dr. C Lattimore, Academic Dei Sociology at Duke/Minoti fairs. According to Dr. Lai "Dr. Comer is, indeed, legea the field of child and add growth and development 1 proach treats every single with respect and sensitivity, truly an honor to have ll portunity to converse direcll] him. I would recommend his BLACK CHILD CARE, educator and parent alike." Comer’s visit to the Ti was a part of the Distinji Visiting Scholars Series spa by Duke, North Carolina ( University, North Carolina University, and the Univen North Carolina at Chapel HI Community Speaks Out About Schools In County Survey Schools in the Durham County district earned a place on the honor roll recently as 64% of the adult district residents surveyed assigned the system an overall grade of A or B. Shelter (Continued From Front) batterers and, in some instances, by their communities, ends when they enter a shelter. The staff of the shelter to be opened in Durham, and its volunteers, will seek to give vic tims support and encouragement, to restore lost confidence and renew their courage in order to help them build new lives for themselves and their children, coalition spokesmen say. Hampton, who was a member of he Greensboro Police Department for several years and more recently a ranking official in the Columbia, S.C. Police Department, is Dur ham’s first black chief of police. He said he has been "well received" in the local department an has experienced no problems. Approximately one-third of Dur ham’s police officers are black. In a recent telephone survey of county school district residents, the system fared 20% better then the national average in its overall evaluation. When the question was posed verbatim to national survey respondents, 43% gave their com munity’s schools an A or B. Survey respondents also voiced their support for the Durham County Schools in another key is sue. Of the residents surveyed, 8% (and 88% of those with a opinion on the subject) indicated that they would support tax increases "to meet school needs the board of ed ucation identifies as essential." Slightly more than half of the respondents felt that schools are a top priority in Durham. Most respondents cited students or their own children, plus newspa pers, as their best information sources about the Durham County Schools and said they would most like to know more about school curriculum and school policies and rules. Teachers and the instructional program were the top two items listed as good things about the Dur ham County Schools. Grow planning edged out adi facilities and discipline as ll gest problem facing the systei Two-thirds of the responde scribed their most recent ence with the county school positive one, with the tnosi mon experience being a coni or other type of visit at the stl Improving student discipli creasing teacher pay and imp the teaching staff were among top areas respondents' work on if they were board o cation members. Overall impressions were I able, with 75% of respondenl ing that students like Seventy percent said they that the school staff merabij warm and caring individuals 82% said they believe that tel and administrators expect sn to do their best. The great majority said tlit| that county school graduaH competent in basic skills a* ready to go on for further edf or to enter the work force. (Continued On Page 3) ^ Chicago (Continued From Front) ‘fire him, fire him.’" Sawyer fired Cokely last Thurs day, almost a week after it was learned that a Jewish group had met with the mayor to complain about tape-recorded statements Cokely had made against Jews. Relations between blacks and Jews have been strained since the Cokely controversy, and Sawyer on Monday sent the city’s chief opera ting ofacer, Sharon Gist Gilliam, to ask Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Beroardin to head a team to heal any rifts. Cokely’s controversial com ments included claims that Jewish doctors were injecting blacks with the AIDS virus. He has often ap peared before Farrakhan’s fol lowers. Got A Friend Or Family Member li JAIL 24 HR. SERVICE CALL 683-2434 Ask For Ric Lanning or Tony Woods 121 E., Parrish St. Suite #101
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