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Mother Of Four Mrs. Cousar Supports Optional School Concept By Sidney Moore, Jr. Post Staff Writer A greater emphasis on dis cipline and basic learning skills such as reading, wri ing and mathematics is the characteristic difference bet . ween an optional traditional . school and a conventional school. - Mrs. Dorothy Cousar of 1509 Chelveston has three children in the optional traditional school at Myers Park Elementary School. She has one child in a conventional school and insists that she “can see the results" that optional traditional schools have to offer. Because she thinks the job an optional traditional school does in teachingher children what she thinks they should be learning, Mrs. Cou sar is working with a parent group to get the School Board to establish an optional tradi tional junior high school and an additional optional tradi 1~". ~ tional elementary school, the parent group wants to get enough applications from stu dents and their parents to get the board to reconsider the proposal for additional opt ional traditional schools. The board had set March 1 as a deadline for applications to the optional traditional pro gram. At that time, not enough applications were submitted for the board to add the new junior high and ele mentary school programs. But supporters of the program have not yet given up their effort. Parents supporting optional traditional schools have set March 27, as their deadline to get more applications so that they can again ask the board to reconsider additional pro grams.' Mrs. Cousar advises students and parents who want to apply for an optional traditional school program to get an application from any school in the district or from -1 the education center. She said several parents in her group are willing to pro vide information on the pro gram to those interested. Mrs. Cousar can be contacted at 332-6370. Other parent counse lors are Mrs. Betty Collins, 364-2066 and Mrs. Barbara Long, 364-3315. Because the board has adopted a guideline that opt ional traditional schools must have a 25 per cent black stu dent ratio, the parent group is especially interested in gett ing black students to apply for the optional traditional school program. Under this restrict ion, three white students can be accepted in the program for every black student who elects to enter the program. According to an administra tive official with the Charlotte Mecklenburg School district, the school board ultimately want the ratio of black-to white students to vary no more than 8 percent from the overall ration of black-to white students within the dis trict. This means the fate of opt ional traditional schools, more-or-less, rests in the hands of black students and parents. If enough black stu dents apply for the program, the board may reconsider es tablishing a junior high school optional traditional program for next year and possibly an additional elementary school program. As it presently stands, Myers Park Elementarv School remains the only school in the school district with an optional traditional school program. League Of Women Will Consider Energy Problems A self-contained house that produces its own energy as well as handles its own waste disposal and water treatment may be one solution to the energy crisis. Such a proposal, drastically changing life sty les, and other alternatives to the energy problems will be considered at meeting of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Lea gue of Women Voters March 23-25. Study groups will meet Tuesday, at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the League office BEARS CHEERLEADER Attractive Patricia Ann Howie, a 19-year-old sophomore major at Livingstone college is an enthusiastically, energetic ' second-year cheerleader for the football and basketball “Fighting Bears” at the Salisbury, N.C. college. A native of Monroe, N.C., "Pat” is a 1974 graduate of Monroe High School. The 5-3 lass in a “dy-no-mite” exhorter of the i 'Bears” and fans at Livingstone. She is the oldest of three •’ ^yo““8Sters bom to Mrs. Annie Mae Howie of 312 Green Street, Monroe. Extra-curricularly, “Pat” is a member of j thePrayer Meeting Choir, Sweetheart of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, lnc„ and chairperson of student activity. A Leo, her hobbies are dancing, singing, and getting to know different people. (LC Photo by Kelsey) To School Of His Choice Eric W. Law Wins Four-Year National Achievement Scholarship Eric W. Law of 2937 Botany St. has won a four-year $1,000 scholarship to the school of his choice from the National Ach ievement Scholarship Pro gram. The 17 year-old is the first Black graduate from the Cha rlotte County Day School. He is interested in psychology as a potential major in college and he has several awards for his participation in his school activities. He won the 1975 Harvard Book Award and has received two awards from the Ameri can Association of Teachers of French. Eric serves as treas urer of the National Honor Society at his school, is co-' president of the Latin Club, a sports editor of the school newspaper called "Monitor." a member of the Frnch Club and is active in the athletic program. The young scholar plays on the tennis team and has var sity letters in track and soc cer. Scholarship awards of this type were given to 135 minor ity students around the coun try. Another 298 awards are made on a one-time nonre newable basis. The awards are valued at $1 million and most are underwritten by bus inesses, industrial firms, foun dations and professional asso ciations. The scholarship Eric is rec eiving was underwritten by PPG Industries Foundation. I k Eric W. Law ...Brilliant Student The company is a worldwide manufacturing and marketing firm Its products include g!.i ss. chemicals, coatings and resins, and fiber glass Twenty-five other black stu dents in .North Carolina also will receive awards Eric is the only such student in Char lotte to be named a recipu nt Winners of corporate spon sored four-year Achievement Scholarships named Wednes day March 17. will receive between Sl.otio and $6,000 iot more in some instances; for their college undergraduate study The amount each win ner receives in individually determined and ranges trom a minimum of St!5o annually to a usual maximum of $1,500 per year. Because confidential fi nancial information is used in determining each w inner's sti pend. the amount is not made public; howeVer. winner's sti pends average about $1,375 per year, or $5,500 over the four college years Recipients of four-year Achievement Sc holarships are chosen from a pool of Achievement Program Finalists who meet preferen tial criteria specified by the organizations providing sup port lor tneseawards. lor this reason, four-year scholarships are awarded without regard to regional or geographic distri bution of the winners. Corpor ate-sponsored four-year Achi evement Scholarships are generally! designateds for Finalists who reside in areas where !hccompany has opera s' us i hose who plan to pursue particular lields of studey the sponsor wished to encourage, or Achievement Program Fin alists who are children of em ployees of the organization underwriting the award. Over An.non black students, mostly high school juniors en rolled in more than 6.UOO scho ols entered the 1976 Achieve ment Scholarship competition by taking the 197-1 Preliminary St holastic Aptitude Test-Nat ional Merit Scholarship Qual ify mg. Test t PSAT-NMSQT) and indicating their desire to participate Th£. highest scor ing black students in each of the geographic regions estab lished for the competition were designated Semifinal isls The names of about 1.450 Achievement Program Semi IMidlists were announced nat ionwide in October 1975. By meeting further require ments. over t.luo of the Semi finalists advanced to Finalist standing and qualified to be considered for Achievment Scholarships. In additon to the winners being named today, about 100 black students will be named Achievement Scholars later this spring Most will receive a third type of award offered annually, winners will be an nounced on an iduvidual basis between mid-May and early June. Some 35 colleges and universities are expected to sponsor four-year Achieve ment Scholarships for black students who attained Achie vement Program Finalist sta nding and who plan to enroll at a sponsoring institution next fall The Achievemnt Program was created in 1964 by a Ford Foundation grant to NMSC for the specific purpose of iden tifying academically able bl ack students and making col lege scholarships available to the most outstanding among them. Between 1965 and 1975, Achievement Scholarships were awarded to over 3,800 black students: of these, about one-half have now completed college study and some 1,700 are currently attending more 300 U.S. institutions of higher education. At the completion of the eleventh (1975) annual com petition.' funds totaling $11.3 million had been expended or committed for Achievement Scholarships, of which Achie vement Program sponsor sup port represented 65 percent. 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