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By Bob Johnson
NOVA LIGHT PARTY...Joe and Minnie Alii,
son, two very congenial people, hosted an
impromptu party at their lovely home recently.
The party started at a bewitching hour and
lasted until a time that would have sent dracula
scurring for this casket. _
However, in between,
Joe and Minnie enter
tained friends amid the
different, darkling co
lors and designs produc
ed by a recently acquir
ed Nova Light, what
ever that is. Anyway, I
do know that it added a
totally new dimension to
the party as can be at
tested by people like
Dwight and Chocolate
Sullivan, Patricia Wil
stn, Bill and Edna Johnson, Steve and Edwina
Hayes, Kitt Massi, Ulyses Ford, Richard and
Madge Hopkins, Vinson and Patricia Thompson
from Orangeburg, S.C., Cliff and Joyce Johnson,
Charles and Vickie Owens, Frank and Christine
Gadsden, and Cheryl Williams
Now Joe, about that multi colored light....
QUEEN CITY OPEN...Early last Saturday
morning Dean Hart left his apartment on Tom
Hunter Rd., and spent the major portion of the
next two days at the Holiday Inn on Tryon St.
participating in his first chess tournament.
The tournament sponsored by Leland Fuerst
man lasted for two days, May 1st and 2nd, was
broken down into two sections pro and ameteur,
and boasted over $1,000 in cash prizes and
trophies.
Dean, playing in the amateur section, conjured
up all of his knowledge and skills of the game to
emerge Sunday afternoon with a trophy and
some cash, as a result of winning four out of a
possible five games.
Gary Carpenter, a brother who attends the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, also
participated in this event. Even though he didn’t
win any of the prizes, his 13 years experience and
1675 rating put him in the professional category
with the masters and experts.
COOL JAZZ TRIP...The Westside Five Social
Club is sponsoring a jazz excursion to the Atlanta
Kool Jazz Festival. The fesival featuring such
stars as The Crusaders, The Temptations, Do
nald Bryd, B.B. King and many others will be
held in Atlanta, Ga., June 25 and 26. Persons
interested in the excursion should contact Jack
Hill at 377-9854 or Jimmy Redic at 376-1780 on or
before May 19. Tickets - Hotel and transportation
included.
KAPPA DISCO...The Zeta Delta Chapter of
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity at UNCC held a
Disco-Connection in the John Paul Lucas room
on the campus of the University last Friday night
from 10 until 1. The Disco Connection featured
Dave Wilson of WGIV who provided the sounds
for the grand occasion, a final party of the year
for several 49ers and guests. Exams started this
week.
Seen grooving and getting down to the sounds
of Parliament, B.T. Express, and the tops in
disco-music were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reeves,
Kevin Smith, Michael Crawford, Marconi Buc
hanan, Horace Drumming, Robert Terry, Deb
bie Hearst, Evadne Jones, Teresa Graves,
James Cuthbertson, Jimmy Davidson, Joyce
Walker, Richard Wright, Mamie Webb, Carolyn
Walker, Hal Sugars, Michael McDowell, Lewis
Woodley, Devera Pearson, Cora Pearson, Clyde
Deforest Ray, Anthony Allen, Dave Richards
and a host of people out of the city who came out
to do-a-thing with the Kappas.
FACULTY-ALUMNI AWARDS BANQUET...
The Black Student Union of UNCC always
keeping in step with progress sponsored an
awards banquet recently at the Cone University
Center.
Clara Lowry WBTV personality won the Mary
McLeod Bethune Outstanding Citizen’s Award,
while Brenda Glenn, Brenda Hogue, Fred Dilla
hunt, Kenneth Foster, Paul Hemphill, David
Sanders, Dr. Victor Pollack, Dr. Newton Bar
nette, Dr. R. J. Mundt, Dr. Sherman Burson,
Jean Parrish, Rev. David Frye, Donald Pearce,
Sheldon Shipman, Coach Lee Rose, and Coach
Everette Bass were recipients of other awards.
Councilman Harvey Gantt was the guest
speaker as Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Springs, Mr. and
Mrs. Mack Stedman, Winnie Mac Neely, Elaine
Nichols, Roberta Duff, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Dew, Zachariah Springs, Terry Smith, Greg
Davis, Herman Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Harper, Dr. Ann Carver, Rodney Page, Annette
Johnson, Avis Huston, Dee Jones, Maudine
McFadden, Fern Springs, Deborah Springs and
Sheryl Westmorland looked on while dining on
broiled chicken, roast beef, steamed corn, but
tered white potatoes, tossed salad, mixed veget
ables, fruit salad, buttered rolls, ice tea and
cherry tots.
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tf.c. Mutual NATIONAL INSURANCE WEEK
uriV- t0 Thoma* E- Moore, agent; Cashier, Joanne Dawkins, Secretary-Clerk
william C. Forney, Staff Manager; Virginia and Thomas Porter, agent.
Stepteau, Cashier; Lelar Caldwell, Assistant
mock companies
“National Insurance Week”
Will Be Observed May 10-15
me 42nd annual National
Insurance Week, with a goal of
$100,000,000 in new business,
and sponsored by the National
Insurance Association, (NLA),
will be observed May 10-15,
1976. NI Week is a national
sales campaign in which a
gents acquaint families with
the investment and protection
roles of life insurance and
urge them to increase their
financial security through
planned purchases of insur
ance.
During this week span, more
than 8,000 agents of 37 Black
owned and managed life insur
ance companies, members of
NIA, will remind the public
that like insurance itself, they
are "Always Needed; Always
Ready,” to serve.
“The theme of NI Week this
year emphasizes the role of
the Black life agent and the
role of insurance,” says NI
Week Chairman Donald Solo
man of Birmingham, “Both
are always needed. Both are
always ready to do their job.
“Life insurance, as people
in the industry know,” he con
tinued, “offers a more impor
tant economic underpinning
Queen College’s
Pre-College Students
To Present Recital
The final recital of pre-col
lege-adult division music stu
dents of Queens College will be
presented on May 7 at 7:30
p.m. in the Suzanne Little
Recital Hall of the E. H. Little
FineArts^enter^^^^^^^
for the stability of low income
minority families than does
any other form of thrift. The
theme, ‘Always Needed; Al
ways Ready,’ is intended to
help raise the level of aware
ness of minority people of this
great social invention.”
In their joint announcement,
NIA President Edward D. Da
vis, president, Central Life
Insurance Company of Flori
da, and Soloman, who is vice
president and agency direc
tor, Booker T. Washington In
surance Company, slated that
in addition to seeking $100,000,
000 in new business during the
national sales drive, "A pri
mary concern is strengthen
ing the economic base of the
people who make up the majo
rity of our present and poten
tial policyholders so that when
the twin misfortunes of death
or disability strikes, the fami
ly structure will not disinte
grate because of financial in- \
stability.” J
To inspire the field force to 1
go all out in its effort to reach j
the $100,000,000 goal, special 1
prepared promotion materi- I
als, imprinted with the NI J
Week theme, will be used by I
agents in 34 states and the' J
District of Columbia. In addi- 1
tion, local insurance associa- J
tions and individual compa- 1
nies are launching NI Week i
with their own special pro- ]
grams, rallies and activities. I
First held in 1935, NI Week ]
is designed to call attention to I
the important roles Black life - J
firms play in strengthening -4
the economic welfare of, not i
only their clients, but the en- *]
tire Black community. Collec- j
tively, these firms assets a-' ■M
■ mi
mount to nearly 1600,000,000.
Insurance in force is over S8
billion.
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Southern Board
James H. Martin, Jr. has
been elected to the Southern
Regional Board of Wachovia
Bank & Trust Co., N.A., in
Charlotte.
Martin, President of Tex
tiles-incorporated graduated
from Auburn University with
a B.S.Degree in Textiles and
from the University of North
Carolina’s Executive pro
gram. He was employed with
Dixie Yarns and American
Efird Company prior to his
association with Piedmont
Processing, a subsidiary of
Textiles, Inc., as Executive
Vice President in 1954.
Currently President of the
North Carolina Textile Foun
dation, Martin served five
years as a member of Gaston
Memorial Hospital's Board of
Trustees. He has served as
a member of the Board of
Trustees of Charlotte Country
Day School, Director of the
Gaston County YMCA, head of
Belmont’s United Fund, and
active service with the Red
Cross program.
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It seems to me that it's about time for Black people to
start putting on the brakes
To sit down. Settle back. And take a good, hard look
at where we've been. And where we're going.
In the 60 s. we all talked a good deal about the impor
tance of Black history and Black culture. It is important
to know about our heritage. Our self-image. And our
sense of accomplishment. Important, because we aren’t
looking for patronizing approval from white America, to
our demands for equality of opportunity and justice.
Why should we? We've been an important contribu
tor to the growth of America, through cultural, scientific,
industrial, and patriotic efforts.
So we marched. We shouted. We boycotted. We
sang. We've had riots. And we've made some strong,
meaningful socio-economic gains.
Our family median income has doubled. More of our
young people are attending colleges And more of us
own our own homes.
But. is that all there is? Shouldn't nearly two decades
of social revolution lead to something more ? Something
called social responsibility.
It seems to me that some of our gains are drawing
dividing lines, in the Black community. And I'm not
taiKing about haves and have-nots.
I'm addressing this to the middle and upper class
Blacks who are stepping on the fingers of their Brothers,
who are simply trying to climb the same ladder.
Greed and envy are bad companions. And they're
beginning to make Black America a leaderless, self
destructive community. What's happened to respect?
And unity?
Where are the heroes we need for our young people to
follow? The helping hands?
If the better educated, higher income-earning Blacks
are too busy looking to their own selfish interests, and
not taking time to give a boost to a Brother who wants
to come up—then we're all in big trouble.
Maybe it’s time for some of us to look back a little.
And get back in touch a lot.
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Vice President
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