Ceremonies
To Highlight
Bus Week
City Council last week re
viewed the program for Char
lotte Bus Week. July 12-16. The
week, proclaimed June 25th
when the City lormally pur
chased the bus lines from City
Coach Lines, Inc . is the start
of a new marketing program
to promote ridership and in
crease revenues.
The Square on Monday. July
I2at 11:30a.m. will be the site
of the formal dedication of the
system Mayor and Council
will take part in ceremonies
that will reveal the new name,
logo type and system colors.
County. School Board and
State officials. State Trans
portation Board members,
CMTA il'rban Mass Trans
portation Administration > re
presentatives and leaders of
organizations with a strong
interest in mass transit have
been invited to the Square.
lucsday. July 13, will be a
special day in Bus Week for
Senior Citizens and the Handi
capped. Ceremonies at 9:30
a.m. at Strawn Village will
highlight anticipated improve
ments in the bus system for
elderly. Representatives of
the Council of Aging, Char
lotte Area Fund and other
organizations will participate
in the Tuesday ceremonies.
The Strawn ceremonies will
be followed by a visit of a
special demonstration bus to
Charlotte .Housing Authority
homes for the elderly at Addi
son Apartments (Morehead
and McDowell Streets), Ed
win Towers, Piedmont Courts
and Earle Village.
Wednesday, July 14, is Up
town Day. The demonstration
bus will be at the Main Li
brary (9:30 a.m.), Latta Ar
cade (11:30 a.m.), City Hall
(1:30 p.m.) and at 4:00 p.m. in
front of the Commerce Center.
The Charlotte Chamber of
Commerce will host a recep
tion in honor of the new transit
system at 4:30 p.m.
Visits of the display bus to
Central Piedmont Community
College, Johnson C. Smith
University, and UNC-C will
occur on July 15. On the day,
THE DAVISON FAMILY AT CAROWINDS HOLIDAY INN
-Pose for Post photographer James Peeler
50 Attend Davison Family Reunion
The DAVISON FAMILY, o
beying the wish of matriarch
Cora Davison, 76, of 310 Mar
tin Street, held their first
family REUNION last week
end.
The idea of the REUNION
started when, according to
Mrs. Marie Davison Steele,
"My mother said last year she
wanted us all here (in Char
lotte) at the same time.” Mrs.
Steele added, "They (the chil
dren and other close relatives)
all come home at some time
or another during the year.”
With Mrs. Steele and her
sister, Delora Davison,, coor
dinating the activities "highly
successful and very enjoy
able” the Davison’s held a
3-day reunion, July 2,3,and 4
with approximately 50 clan
members and friends attend
ing from as far away as
Detroit, Michigan.
Clan members resulting
from the Marital union of
lata Qam T
.inarcn Lora Davison. Della
and Palmer Sullins live in
Tuskeegee, Alabama
Also attending were: Bennie
Davison, and his wife Iona,
and son, Daryl; Mrs. Allie
Davison Hughley, a former
secretary who is now a house
wife, and her daughter Del
cenia Holland, of Tuskeegee,
Alabama; Marie Davison
Steele, a teacher in the Char
lotte-Mecklenburg School Sys
tem, and her husband. Wood
row, and daughters Karen and
Yvette; Mrs. Dorothy Davison
Johnson, a Registered Nurse
with the U.S. Public Health
Hospital, Baltimore, Md., and
her. husband Andrew and
daughter Andrewetta; Miss
Delora Davison, a Literature
Chemist with Celanese Chemi
cals, of Charlotte; Mrs. Vivian
D. Firth, owner of .The Four
Forty Eight Hotel and Apart
ments complex, Detroit,
Mich.,“and her son Deweese
Gilyard of Charlotte.
Of Mrs. Davison’s 8 child
ren, 1 son and 7 daughters,
only one, Mrs. Delcenia Davi
son Bell, of Denver, Colorado,
was unable to attend their first
reunion.
Special guests at the Family
Reunion were: Mrs. Delcenia
Simpson, of Charlotte, and
Mrs. Mirian Glenn, of Balti
more, Md., the only two living
aunts of the Davison children.
Alana Slocum, 2, daughter
of Marsha and Milton Slocum,
was the youngest family mem
ber attending the reunion, and
Mrs. Vivian Firth, of Detroit,
traveled the furthest to be
with the group.
Reunion activities began
Friday, July 2, with the ga
thering of family and friends
for a COOKOUT at the home
of Marie and Woodrow Steele
on English Drive.
Saturday's activities con
sisted of a visit to Carowinds
Amusement Park from 10
a.m. until 3:30 p.m. and a
cruise on Lake Norman
aboard the pleasure craft The
Outrigger from 7 p.m. until
10:00.
Family members attended
Sunday Morning Worship Ser
vice at their home church, Mt.
Zion AME Zion Church on the
Fort Mill Highway, pastored
by Rev. Ira Benson, where
clan members Yvette Steele,
10, of Charlotte, and Andre
wetta Johnson, 10, of Balti
more, Md., were baptized.
A Family Dinner at Caro
winds Holiday Inn followe th
Morning Worship Service. Ap
proximately 53 family mem
bers and friends attended the
dinner, of chicken, Salisbury
steak, corn, green beans,
mashed potatoes, peach cob
bler, and beverages, which
was highlighted by the relat
ing of comical incidents which
occurred during the “growing
up” years of the children and
the presentation of gifts to
matriarch Davison.
New Personnel
Director At
Mercy Hospital
Thomas R. Krejci has joined
SifercyTlospital as Director of
Personnel Relations. Krejci
holds a B .S degree in Business
Administration from Nebras
ka Wesleyan and a Masters of
Science in Hospital and Health
Services Administration from
Ohio State University.
A native of Nebraska, he
was formerly with Doctors
Hospital in Columbus, Ohio,
and Bryan Memorial Hospital
in Lincoln, Nebraska. He join
ed the staff of Mercy Hospital
on June 21.
He and his wife Jeanne live
at 4202 Knobb Oak Lane in
Charlotte.
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bus displays will be named by
Explorer Scouts from the City
sponsored Post. Literature
will be available at all stops.
Rider Appreciation Day will
end Bus Week on July 16...but
the appreciation will be shown
throughout the week. A bus in
the new system colors will
operate from Monday through
Friday on varying routes. Its
farebox will be capped and
riders lucky enough to ride the
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caster County, and S.C. and
Cora Glenn of Laurens, S.C. 60
years ago, who attended the
first festive occasion were:
mrs. Della Davison Sullins, a
retired Veteran Administrate
tion Hospital Nurse, who is
now Associate Professor at
the School of Nursing at Ala
bama State University in
Troy, Alabama; Mrs. Sullins,
and her husband, Palmer,
were accompanied by their
children Alan Sullins, Marsha
and Milton Slocum, and
child, Alana Slocum, the only
great grand daughter of ma
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