. 1 ?Vol. 1, No. 4 - - H J3 " r~"" One of Winston-Salem's most coveted athletes lies almost still in Forsyth Memorial Hospital. As the result of a Sept. 6 automobile accident, tsadore McFadden, 19, ^ is in a coma and doctors aren't sure when he will come out of It nor if he will at. ail. . & The accident occurred near the intersection t)flhS. 311 and Union . ^ Cross Road. He was returning . ' home from High Point College, where he had just entered on a basketball scholarship. The former Bishop o.McGuinness High School athlete has been in the intensive care * unit at the hospital for almost three weeks. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. George McFadden, take turns waiting at the hospital for word of their son's-improvement. In a recent interview, Mrs. McFadden spoke through swollen - eyes about her boy. 4'There's not another 19 year-old like Isadorc, she said proudly.? "I'm real proud of my boy." Mrs; McFaddensmoking nervously, was very moved as she talked about her son: t4We went to orientation on Sunday*(Isadore is a freshman) A & T Si ' *28,800 1 The Transportation Institute of North Carolina A & T State University announced that grants have been awarded to 16 students . totaling $28,800. The students were each awarded $1,800 for the 1974-75 academic year and will serve as research assistants on projects being conducted by the Transportation Institute. I n*fe .*c>.-\. -14.?. - - i/VINSl tlcFadden Rt ?IT1 ft Sept. 1 and Isadore had tests all day Monday. He was coming home when the accident happened. He really liked it there." Mrs. McFadden seemed surprised that Isadore liked being at High Point College, but was auite Dleased that hp rfiH During Isadora's Tiigh school days at BishcHa^McGuinness he was selected as most outstanding athletSf^All-Northwest North Carolina basketball team for the 1973-74 season, as chosen by the Winston-Salem Journal, and was runner-up for the 4'player of the year- award. Sister Martin Anthony of Bishop McGuinness High Schoolis a daily visitor of Isadores and spoke - about him in a recent telephone conversation. 'He is a Christian gentleman to the nth degree," she said convincingly. 'He's a very pleasant young mail. He was great for the morale of this school. Sistpr Martin AnfKAntr ? ?4*aua Kill ruiuiuu^ ddiu lsadore was "a very fine student and ^always had a smile for the other fellow." She concluded, he is the greatest." Ludents \ [n Award These students are assigned as assistants to faculty members who are r conducting transportation research or training projects. The students will work a minimum of ten Hours per week with faculty members in charge of the projects. In addition to the training and education the research assistants will receive, they will also be able ! WJSiHHI? aB^Y* 33 INI ' " ' mIM I *^K H mSam ' i jobs traditionally held by < more than 5 black female ? gej. * jnize Equc ' ""V * roN-s * 20 cents mains At Foi Wt Isadore also won the ^E. Hill Award. The award is given to the most outstanding athlete in Winston-Saleni Forsyth County schools. It is inscribed with: "Scholarship, Manhood, Integrity, Sportsmanship." ' Doctors at the hospital describe a coma as a near lifeless state. mt . - - mere is almost nothing that can be done to bring a person out of it. But because of Isadora's age and his excellent health, the chances aren't as bad as an older person who is out of shape. Doctors aren't saying, however, whether he will make it or not. So, in the solarium of the intensive care unit, small groups of people huddle* together... reaching out to each other for strength. They try to make the wait painless, but one can feel the grief... the jsorrow... the hope. Mrs. McFadden and her husband wait and-smoke and wait She jsmiles occasionally andTsays: "I'm real proud of my son. He's a remarkable boy." She holds the A I ? tears DacK, ana one can see the mother in a very strong, beautiful black woman. ^in s to participate in many of the Institute's activities including field trips, seminars and, conferences, as well as provide them with the background for employment opportunities with mass transit operators, transportation consultants and others in the transportation sector. In announcing the awards, the associate director of the Transportation Institute, Dr. Marion R. Blair, said that the grants^ were .awarded the. students from a number of academic departments based on a r?r?nr? t\?f 1 f iiro w wuipviiiwf? appnv.ai.iuii procedure. He stated that, "the Transportation Institute awards doubled in number from the 197374 period as a result of new grants from the Urban Mass Transportation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. "There is a national commitment to train and educate more students for careers in transportation, and we are proud that A & T has been able to expand its transportation program," said Blair. Arthur Saltzman, director of the Transportation Institute, said "the Institute believes in having students involved at each level of research and training. "This involvement affords the students the opportunity to *t>ecome familiar wifh the fold of transportation while receiving financial aid, which motivates the students to choose a career in transportation," he said. The students receiving the grants are:* Andrew Barnes, il Opportu v ^ -r-'T?TK ?? ALEA/ ? * - * rgyth Hogpjla :kiti ) - t < M^v bS^^l ' .^^k. mmmmm hf Isadore Mi **?A^ Receives Gr; Update Mino Wilson Li^r^ry UNC Chapel Hill recedes HEW funding for minority studies for a second year. The library. has been successful in its application (or H.E.W. funding under the provisions of Title II-A for Minority Studies. The scope of the acquisitions under this grant t of $4,235.00 (down 15 percent from last year) will be 44to acquire materials with regional relevance dealing with ethnic and national minorities primarily located in the American South. Materials to be collected would emphasize education, urban and rural sociology and the acquisition of sources concerning the political organization gf the Afro-American, American Indian, Cuban refugee and other Southern ethnic and national minority groups. Four special " areas would also receive high priority in terms of acquisitions: labor history, crime, delinquency and social justice. Conway, N.C.; Claudette 1 Bennett, Greensboro, N.C.; James Blackmon, Greensboro, ! N.C.; Waymond Blackmon, I Greensboro, N.C.; Julius 1 Douglas, Greensboro, N.C.; I Paula Dudley, Englewood, N.J.; Kathy Hatcher, Mount Airy, N.C.; Ted Mangum, Raleigh, N.C.; Charles McDougle, Chapel 1 if? ll m. t ^ _ _ : - * mil, cassanara iNasn, Greensboro, N.C.; Anita Nunley, ' Rochester, New-. York; Milton 1 Siler, Seat Pleasant, Maryland; Shirley Spivey, Wilson, N.C.; Lennard Tucker, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Joseph Urieto, Lagos, 1 Nigeria; Johnny Wilder, ..J Greensboro, N.C. nity Adver 4 * I \ Thursday, September SI, 1974 I : . ~ Tfi ~ " 1 .JJJC-J - ?? - ~ V LAL C JT .* ' i V Hi j^^H^ET 3T- ^ w ; m dMP r*? zFadden . J 4X ant To ? - :- . rity Record In addition, a portion of the Title II-A funds would be utilized to develop a significant ethnomusic and folklore collection, reflecting the impact of these ethnic groups on the development of American music and culture." >haw Begins 110th Year Shaw University President J. Archie Haigraves spoke to a capacity audience at the institution Friday saying "a new leadership has to emerge to meet today's problems". Dr. Hargraves remarks came at thp Opening Convocation for the 110th academic year at Shaw. He said,4 Education is a means by which you get illuminated and enlightened in order to be . endowed and empowered and enriched and transformed so as to be of service to others and to participate in the resolution of problems and issues and experiences that are necessary For survival". . Hargraves noted students' experiences at Shaw would only be the fl beginning of their education. "If the process stops, we stagnate an^lose our ability to survive when the pressures come", he said. We begin all inquiry from human concerns, he, continued. "Higher education focuses on things as they are and plotting and mapping out things as they might be". . v tisers