African American
Prepares For First Flight
Bernard A. Harris, Jr., 36,
*M.D . will make his first flight
the U.S. Space Shuttle
CoiumbtM. in hue Tebruan . to con
duct experiments exploring the
; behavior of humans, living organ
isms and materials.
I';" The Space Shuttle flight, desig
nated STS'55. is scheduled to be
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?launched from the Kennedy Space
t Center (KSC), Fla. The mission is
I planned for nine days with a landing
KSC.
*XvT Columbia, the flagship of the
- Shuttle fleet, uill make its 14th voy
-Jige into Earth orbit earning a crew
-t>f seven, including two German
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Vpayload specialists. The primary
v*y load i> Spacelab D2, names for
the second Shuttle mission dedi
cated to Germany. Spacelab is a
' selt -contained. space-based research
laboratory carried inside the Shut
tle's 60-foot-long cargo bay.
The crew will be divided into
two teams, red and blue, so that sci
ence operations can be performed
around the clock.
Harris, selected as an astronaut
in Januarx 1990. was born in Tem
ple. Texas He graduated from Sam
Houston High School in San Anto
nio in 1974, received a bachelor's
degree in biology from the Uniycr
sit\ of Houston in 1978 and
? received a doctorate of medicine
from Texas Tech School on Medi
cine in 1982.
Harris completed a residency in
internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic
in 1985, completed a National Harris joined NASA in 1 9S"\
Research Council Fellowship at serving as a clinical surgeon and
NASA's Ames Research Center of flight surgeon at the Johnson Space
Medicine at Brooks Air Flight Base Center until his selection 'a* an
in San Antonio in 1988. astronaut.
Visionary Art
Greensboro \rtist Vandorn Hin
nant (left) and Linda Brown view
work by artist Juanita Rogers at
the Diggs Gallery exhibit at Win
ston-Salem State University.
"Ashe: Improvisation and Recy
cling in African-American Vision
ary Art" will be on display
through March 29.
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Black History Symposium Sponsored
The third Annual Black History
Symposium sponsored by the N.C.
Slate Association of Black Social
workers will he held on Saturday in
Greensboro. The symposium, "Our
Rich African-American Legacy in
Social Welfare: Preserving Our Past
f or Future Reference." will begin at
10 a.m. in C iihhs Hall at NC A & T
State Lniscrsity.
Small breakout groups -will,
tociu on early black social workers
in North Carolina and learning help
ful tips on preserving your family,
organizational records an artifacts.
The Keynote address will be
delivered by Audrey E. Johnson of
the School of Social Work at UNC
Chapel Hill.
Representatives of fraternities,
sororities, churches, agency direc
tors, principals and teachers,
masons, eastern stars and other pro
fessional organizations are encour
aged to attend.
? The cost of the symposium is
S10.
For more information contact
Deborah Thompson 727-8305 or
788-6204.
r We Have a Career
I v Waiting for Yoil!
Forsyth Tech will accept entering students
for spring quarter in the following programs:
AAS degree
Accounting
Administrative Office Technology
Banking & Finance
Business Administration
Horticulture
Marketing & Retailing
Law Enforcement
Microcomputer Systems Technology,
Vocational
diploma
Auto Mechanics
Welding (part-time)
Certificate
Clerical Processing
Customer Service
Microcomputing
Many programs offer both day and evening classes.
Special credit and pretechnical courses are also
available. You are encouraged to contact Forsyth
Tcch even if yonr desired program is not listed.
Spring Quarter Begins
March 2
Call 919-123-0371
ext. 253
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Negro National Anthem It was first performed
on January 12,-1900 by SCO school children at
a celebration for Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
In the years that followed the school children
continued to sing the Aruhem. And when sOTTie
of them becamc teac hers, they taught it to their
pupils. In less thn? ' ;i!\ s. the moving
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promise and perseverance. R J Reynolds
salutes and supports Aftlc^Ameicans in
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