MRS. SADIE HACKETT CALBERT
...Heart is fathomless
91-Year-Old Breaks
Grounds For New Gardei
By W. Clyde Williams
Special To The Post
Salisbury, N. C. - Last
weekend Livingstone College
was privileged to have on its
campus a distinguished ana
gentle lady, Sadie Hackett
Calbert, a slight, 91-year-old
whose heart is fathomless.
Sadie, who walks with the
assistance of a cane, was in
Salisbury at the invitation of
the Howard Thurman Trust
Fund and the Livingstone
College Poet and Dreamers
Garden Association.
Sunday afternoon, she broke
the soil in an area of the
college’s Poets and Dreamers
Garden, located on the east
lawn of the campus, which
was, at evening vespers ser
vices, dedicated by a litany
the Calbert California Garden.
A Korean Ligistrum will be
the first plant to be planted in
the area garden. The garden is
to be maintained by the
Thurman Trust, California
friends and the Sadie Calbert
family.
Sadie was born in Roaring
River, N. C. in 1885, just six
years after Livingstone was
founded at Concord, N. C. She
was brought by her parents
James and Alice Hackett, whc
pioneered and helped estab
lished the city of Allensworth,
Calif., recently declared an
historical landmark, to San
Francisco. In 1888, the family
moved to Alameda, the old
city in which she lives today.
Sadie's heritage was that ol
the African Methodist Episco
pal Zion Church, founded ir
New York City in 1796. Upor
arriving on the west coast, hei
parents, having brought thii
heritage with them, joined the
AME Zion connection in Sar
Francisco, and later th<
Cooper AME Zion Church ir
Oakland, carrying on th<
tradition of Frederick Doug
las, Harriet Tubman, am
Sojourne Truth, all of when
were members of the religiou:
body.
Sadie married William
Wiley Calbert, a minister, in
1917. Living and serving with
him 13 years in and through
the San Joaquin Valley, her
children, Edward, James and
Alice were bornin adjacent
cities in the area.
Her children, all profession
als. are Edward, a retired
leiutenant colonel, who is stafl
chaplain at St. Elizabeth
Hospital, Washington. D. C.,
James, an educational consul
tant to Adminstration. State
Department of Education
Sacramento, Calif.; and Mrs
Alice Calbert Royal, a public
health nurse. Oakland public
schools, Oakland. Calif.
Witty and possessing a
tremendous sense of humor
despite her years, Sadie has ;
remarkable memory am
unfaltering speech. Sh
admits to having no present
tion of longevity. She says tha
her doctor confides that sh
has the heart of a woma
much younger than her ag<
“He attributes my long life t
a very strong heart and a
equally strong will, ” she
beams.
She says that she has surv
ved numerous illness, an
within the last couple of year
has fractured her hip twic<
“Twice my doctor didn't thin
I would pull through, but
did,” says Sadie. "1 believ
God is keeping me alive i
order that I might fulfill som
mission.”
A prolific writer, Sadie ha
published a book of poems i
the insistence of Mrs. Su
Baily Thurman wife of Di
Howard Thurman, of Sa
Francisco. For many year
she was engaged in missioi
ary work in the state of CaliJ
and those whom she befriem
ed are numerous.
When she spaded the soil
the area of the Poets ar
Dreamers Garden, which no
bears her name, with a silve
plated spade from Englam
Sadie spoke the lines she hi
composed especially for tl
occasion: “My thoughts w
be with those who toil, in th
particular spot of soil.**
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Senator Jackson Praised For Using Black Business
Sen. Henry M. Jackson,
D-Wash., received broad
praise this week from Wash
ington, D. C. Councilman
Douglas E. Moore for his use
of black businesses, banks and
full time staff in his presiden
tial campaign.
Rev. Moore, who is Chair
man Pro Tempore of the Dis
trict of Columbia city council
lauded Jackson on local tele
vision tor taking his action
"without fanfare and without
coercion from the Black
Community.”
Rev. Douglas Mqore is
former pastor of Asbury
Temple Methodist Church in
Durham, N. C. He was also the
first Black to lead a sit-in in
the state of North Carolina
The extent of the Jackson
campaign involvement with
Black enterprises became
known as the result ol an
exchange of letters between
Moore and Walter Skallerup
Jr., treasurer of the Jackson
for President Campaign
Committee. On January 19
Rev. Moore wrote Senator
Jackson a letter calling upon
him "to select as your cam
paign depository one of the
respected Black financial in
stitutions Ln the District of
Columbia Such action would
pay tribute to the Black people
in this country." concluded
Rev. Moore.
Skallerup replied in the
following manner the very
next day: ' Shortly after the
Federal Election Commission
clarified the authority of the
Committee to place funds in
interest-bearing accounts out
side the campaign depository,
this Committee thereupon did
place a substantial deposit,
indeed, one exceeding the
amount covered by the
Federal Savings and Loan
Insurance Corporation, with
one of the banking institutions
named in your letter, namely,
Independence Federal Sav
ings and Loan Association."
"Our confidence in the sign
ificance of Black businessmen
is not limited to Black savings
and loan associations. Early
in this campaign the
Committee placed all of its
travel business with a Black
owned travel-agency in the
District of Columbia.
"The preponderant propor
tion of stationary and office
supplies for the headquarters
office are puchased from a
minority owned office supply
business, S & S Office Supply,
inc., 711 G Street, S. E.. Wash
ington. D. C., and we are well
pleased with the service, the
materials, and the prices
charged by S & S.
"In addition, the Committee
engaged the services of a
Black-owned public relations
firm to assist the Committee
in its efforts in disseminating
information to the press,"
concluded Skallerup.
In 1972 through the good
offices of former White House
Associate Press Secretary,
Andrew Hatcher, the Jackson
campaign engaged the ser
vices of Proctor and Gardner,
an award winning Black
advertising firm based in
Chicago.
Earlier this month the New
York Times reported that
Jackson's was the only cam
paign to have a full time black
staffer. Actually there are
three on the Jackson staff
including Yancey Martin of
Atlanta who is the statewide
coordinator for Florida.
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11,004 Motorists Assigned To
Driver Improvement Clinics
n « • _ L J_J t r\ T? Ji.Mntinn DnnrnCOnlQ.
naicigu.,,.tiuwaiu u.
Powell, Commissioner of
Motor vehicles, announced
Tuesday that 11,004 North
Carolina drivers were assign
ed to attend the North Caro
lina Division of Motor Vehi
cles Driver Improvement
Clinics during 1975. This com
pared with 8,721 drivers
assigned to these clinics dur
ing 1974. The Clinics are
taught by the Traffic Safety
Education Section of the
Division of Motor Vehicles at
k 44 locations throughout the
L State.
Powell said, ‘‘The large in
' crease in the number of
| drivers assigned was due, in
Miss Blackmon
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! To Serve As
a
1 Governor’s Page
Miss Donna Elise Blackmon
of Charlotte, North Carolina
j will serve as a “Governor’s
s Page” in the office of Gover
, nor Holshouser in Raleigh
lc during the week of July 26.
I Donna is a student at J.
e Mason Smith Junior High
a School, where she is Co-head
e Cheerleader, member of
School Publications, school
s choir, Junior ROTC and main
t tains a high scholastic aver
e age.
‘ She’s the daughter of Mr.
n and Mrs. G. E. Moore of
s Wickham Lane, Charlotte,
North Carolina.
j’ Donna is also a member of
Friendship Baptist Church
n where she is on the Junior
d Choir and Usher Board.
w While in Raleigh, Donna will
r work in the Department of
I Administration. In addition,
tours of the capitol, legistla
e tive building, executive man
II sion, and museums will be
js arranged. She will also have a
chance to pose for pictures
with the Governor.
pari, 10 me new empnasis oi
the new emphasis of the Div
ision of Motor Vehicles on the
use of the clinics in lieu of
suspension of the driver’s li
cense of deserving drivers. We
also extend sincere apprecia
tion to our Trial Judges in the
State who assigned 1,629
drivers to attend the clinics
during 1975 compared to 789
drivers during 1974. The
monthly "Highway Accident
Perspective” which we began
publishing in July, 1975 is
mailed to all Trial Judges,
District Attorneys, Sheriffs
and Chiefs of Police. It details
the offenses causing traffic
accidents and is having an
apparent impact in helping to
improve highway safety by
greater utilization of the
clinics.”
The Driver Improvement
Clinics emphasize that each
driver should be made more
aware of the hazards of unsafe
driving. The driver is taught
the techniques of avoiding and
preventing accidents. Some of
the many topics covered dur
ing the four week course are:
1. The six positions of the
two-car crash and the key
defenses
2. How to analyze accidents
in terms of preventability
3. The most dangerous mile
4. The dangers of passing
the being passed
5. A fool-proof method for
judging following distances
6. The steps for evading the
head-on crash
A variety of teaching aids
are utilized including filp
chart, flannel board, and an
enlightening color film series.
Each driverattending the
clinic is furnished by the
Division of Motor Vehicles
with a copy of the National
Safety Council’s “Student
Workbook and Defensive
Driver’s Manual". The
student is encouraged to keep
this workbook and use it as
reference material after com
pleting the clinic.
The courses are taught by
tives who are all college grad
uates with at least one year
teaching experience before
employment by the Division of
Motor Vehicles. The course is
eight hours in length of two
hour sessions one night a week
for a four week period.
‘The clinic improves driver
attitude, and attitude is the
key to highway safety,”
Powell concluded.
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