By Bob Johnson
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ROCK SHOW FUN...Last Friday evening a
round 8 p.m., if you just happened to be driving
on East Independence Blvd., and were not going
to the Coliseum you were probably set ud. . .uhh
i mean upset to see the number of cars lined
along this busy thoroughfare. One consolation
that the people going to the Coliseum had was
that Parliament-Funkadelic was to appear last
on a rock show that featured other high riding
groups like Bootsy Rubber Band, Jimmy Castor,
and Rare Earth. So the traffic jam didn’t bother
these people as much.
A record setting
crowd was packed into
the Coliseum by 9 p.m.
and the foot stompin,
hand clappin, finger
poppin throng really got
off for the next 3 hours,
on some funky ole soul
music. Jo-Ann Jonnson,
Sylvia Johnson, Darryl
Wilburn, Johnny Out
law Betty-Jo Grier, Do
netta Williams, Doris
Crawford, Joyce Davis,
Wanda Fye, Troy Cole
man, Carl Lewis Johnson, Terry Grier, Thomas
Rorey, Raymond Grier, Thelma Foust, Patricia
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Taylor, Derrick Burrough, Rhonda Shipman,
Doris Given, Earl Davis, Abram Manning,
Anthony Drafton, Margaret Ann Crawford, Di
ane Young, Bop Jones, Isadore Clark, Sammie
Johnson, June-bug Lewis, Rickey Hoover, Dean
na Abraham, Diane Abraham, Tina Roberson,
Hosea James, Rhonda Subber, Juarez Moten,
Vanessa Withers, Net Perry, Derwin Abraham,
Brenda Stinson, Gary, John Douglas, Charlie,
Nick Abraham, Aaron Spears, Richard Owens,
Darlene Spears, George Smith, Deirdre Abra
ham, Donnell Taylor, Bro. Taylor, Delores
Taylor, Katrena Mills, Dean Wigfall, Ronald
Frieson, Earl Clark, Audrey Young, Tim Robin
son, Desiree Abraham, Eugene Stitt, Sharon
Beatty, Margaree Hill, Duke Graig, Clyde Graig,
Thomas Fleming, William Ervin, Jacob John
son, Mark Alexander, Daryl Hood, Sharon Phil
lips, Sandra Harris, Jackie Hailey, Larry Ash
more, Eric Davis and Bertha Lowery all were
very pleased about the show, I’m sure.
AWARDS DAY PROGRAM...This is the time
of year for many school related things, such as
proms, flunkers’ ball, graduating exercises and
awards programs, for those people who toiled a
little harder and burned midnight oil a little
longer.
One such Derson is Gree Davis whn wallrpH
away with 3 awards at the Black Studies Awards
Day, sponsored by (BAUG) Black Association
of UNCC Graduates, recently. Greg won the
Braille Watch Award, the BAUG special award,
and the Frederick Douglas Award.
Other award winners, for their outstanding
performances for the year, were Edsel Flowers,
Donna Blunt, and Joyce Melvin-Outstanding
Community Service Awards, Deborah Hearst.
Sojourner Truth and Callie B. Moore Awards.
Aileen Clyburn-Hariet Tubman and Treena Mc
Corkle Awards, Sheryl Westmoreland-Josephine
Summers and Outstandting Student Awards,
Ricky Pharr-Martin Luther King Jr. Award,
Terry Smith, Malcolm X Award, Maudine Mc
Fadden and Cedric Maxwell-Outstanding Stu
dent Awards.
The lovely Evadne Jones was seen in the
audience, along with Annette Johnson, Jeanie
Kinlock, Carolyn Walker, Nellie Pate, Barbara
Summey, Ed Flowers, Kevin Smith, Don Pearce,
Sheldon Shipman, Michael Blue, Johnny Hearn
don, Reggie Irby, Regina Irby, Kevin Maxwell,
James Brown and Joe Sherman Jr...
CLASS MEETING...Hail, Hail...All members
of the West Charlotte graduating classes of 1941
thru 1945, there will be a very important meeting
Sunday, May 16, at 6 p.m....“Where?” you ask,
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John McKee of 1726
Irma Street, of course. All of you are asked to be
there and the ball can continue to roll, so to
speak.
BABY SHOWER...Someone once said,
“Friends come a dime a dozen,” if that’s so
Edwina Hayes must have imported two of hers,
and they had to cost her much more. I am
speaking of Hattie Ardrey, and Edna Johnson,
the ladies that were responsible for her baby
shower, held last Saturday afternoon at the
fabulous “Mr. Silks” restaurant and lounge on
Statesville Avenue.
The affair was quite intimate with all kinds of
wines served with a variety of cheeses.
Among the ladies invited to share in this
mother to be function were Jackie Thompson,
Jo-Ann Graham, Dorothy Richmond, Bernadine
Coles, Carolyn Hailey, Emilene White, Queen
Whaley, Carolyn Evans, Elloree Erwin, Mrs. E,
T. Lewis-Edwina’s mother, Minnie Allison, John
nie Mae Brown, and Laura Shirley.
Until we rap some more, ROCK EASY!
1 At hie tit' Banquet, May 29
Ambassador Club To Fete Local Athletes
By James Peeler
Post Staff Writer
The 10-member AMBAS
SADOR SOCIAL CLUB will
sponsor an Athletic Banquel
and honor several local athle
tes May 29 at the Downtowner
East Motor Inn on South Mc
Dowell beginning at 7:30
P.M.
Johnson C. Smith Unversity
Athletic Director, Eddie
McGirt, will be the guest spe
aker for the occassion.
The Ambassador Social
Club was founded and orga
nized in November, 1967 by a
group of young mem from the
Grier Heights Community.
According to President Gor
don Boulware, "The idea of
forming a club was born from
two previous clubs of the com
munity during high school
days. The two clubs, The
Sheiks and The Syndicates,
had served well socially and
had aided the community in
ways we felt were very much
needed."
He continued, “after return
ing to the community from
school and the military, a few
members of the two previous
clubs began organizing the
Ambassadors Social Club with
the objective of working to
wards social and civic achie
vements."
The original members and
officers of the Ambassadors
Club were: George Wallace,
President; Eugene Price,
Vice President; Gordon Boul
ware, Secretary; A. Eugene
Grier, Treasurer; William
Simpson, and William McVay.
The Ambassadors Social
AMBASSADORS SOCIAL CLUB MEMBERS
who will sponsor Athletic Banquet for local
athletics on May 29 are, left to right, seated,
Gordon Boulware. president; and A. Eugene
Grier, treasurer. Standing, left to right,
Clinton Singleton, Jerod Green, George Wal
lace, secretary; Alexander Cauthen. Photo
by Peeler
v/iuu lias im uugiiuui me years
sponsored many social events,
including serveral formal
dances, and has contributed
financially to community
churches and organizations.
They have given food baskets
to needy families at Thanks
giving and Christmas.
As a group they have at
iciiucu iuctu> apui 11115 cvciua
including a trip to Indiana to
see a Purdue-Wake Forest
football game in October of
0969, and to Atlanta. Ga. to the
Gridiron Classic in 1972.
The club's motto is: "Lead
ership Is The Pillar Of Suc
cess’’, their colors are blue
and gold, and the present
members and officers are:
uoraon tsouiware. presiaeni;
Eugene Price, vice-president;
George Wallace, secretary;
William McVay, correspond
ing secretary; A. Eugene
Grier, treasurer; William
Simpson, financial secretary;
Alexander Cauthen; Jerod
Green; John Hood; and Con
ton Singleton.
Wingate Gives Rickey Livingston Special Treat
Kickey Livingston of Char
lotte will receive a special
treat just after he graduates
from Wingate College on May
16. On May 18 he will travel to
New York to meet his father,
W.C. Green, for the first time.
He first got in touch with his
father by telephone during the
•college spring break in March.
He had visited an aunt in
Myrtle Beach after a separa
tion of nine years, and she
showed him pictures of his
father, stepmother, and their
two children living in New
York. It took Rickey a couple
of days to work up the nerve to
call his father, and from then
on they have been in Irequent
contact.
Rickey lives in Charlotte
with his stepfather and mo
ther, Mr and Mrs. Charles C.
Sanders, and his two brothers
and two sisters He attended
Billingsville Elementary
School and Randolph Junior
High School and graduated
from East Mecklenburg Se
nior High School in 1974. In
high school he was on the
track and cross country teams
and a member of the NAACP
He has been active on the
track --ind cross country teams
at Wingate during his two
years there. Last year in spite
of an injury to his foot he
finished second in the mile run
in Region ten. Earlier this
year he set a new school
record for the mile run in a
meet at Chowan College. Re
cently he finished second in
the 880 run, setting another
new school record. He is a
member of the campus Black
Student Organization and the
Gospel Choir which has per
formed in various local chur
ches.
Rickey is an active member
of the Weeping Willow AME
Zion Church, and is a member
of the choir and the Christian
Explosion Club.
After his return from a week
in New York with his father,
Rickey hopes to work for
Mecklenburg School Supplies
and in the Grayson Recreation
Center. He will enter Metho
dist College in Fayetteville in
the fall, where he has been
awarded a full scholarship to
study physical education. He
plans to become a coach and
physical education teacher.
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Queens College of Charlotte
has scheduled commence
ment activities for May 21 and
22. The 117th commencement
for 93 baccalaureate candi
dates of the women's college
will be observed at 10 a.m. on
May 22 in Charles A. Dana
Auditorium of the E.H Little
Fine Arts Center.
Speaker for the occasion is
Ms. Barbara Simpson, former
chairman of Queen’s econo
mics department and member
of the state utilities commis
r— _
sion, recently appointed Dy
President Ford to the federal
power commission.
Honorary degrees will be
awarded to Professor Emeri
tus Sarah Nooe and Mary
Elizabeth Sewell, professor of
humanities at the University
of North Carolina at Greens
boro.
On Friday, May 21. at 4p.m.,
graduates and their families
will hear Dr. Carswell Hughs,
pastor at First Presbyterian
Church, preach the baccalau
reate sermon.
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It's time for a litbo s:ru ght talk
Some no jive t.;A about communicating
Communicating .v •• • another Communi
cating with the 'A • ■: at large
We sing W'c " r V'.y make speeches All
to make ourselves, and t ur cause known We
do pretty we1! a* a that
But wher we op.e me-tc one leve1 o‘
common, atir : . ave a hard tim«
making-ourseivr- -rim's* c l
Why7 Is t b-- i so wo a!1 don't deal in
"soulese" 7
/ Is the co°ceot *• at Were is > Black lanquaae
' making us seer- "'< •' > .• i: ferior to whites 7
I certainly hope not
Of course. i‘l! be the first to admit Wat cur
grandparents even jr parents helped foster an
iiiicimji imtiyc vvi. suu minus vve
"He done it." and "Axe him " But their lack o'
communication skils was the result of made
quate education O' no education at all
The same isn't so' for our generation, and
those to come We ail have the opportunity of
education The opportunity to learn instead o'
being lazy and cc-r
The choice is c . s Tne chance to use tne
minds that God gave us. and learn to conjugate
verbs and make dear sentences The chance to
help and encourage other Blacks to iearn the
language that w-' av.e been exposed to for
more than three c e tunes
Improved Black life styles depend on ou'
bridging tne gap of misunderstanding But how
can we do this, if .ve can t make ou'selves
understood 7
Remember, u la. mouth is hooked directly
to a lazy mind
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