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VIVACIOUS VERONICA KEY
...Outspoken young Pisces
Miss Veronica Key
Is Beauty Of Week
By Jeri Harvey
Post Staff Writer
Veronica Key’s friends did
not believe her when she told
them she was going to be a
POST Beauty of the Week but
now they know she wasn't
fooling. Selected as one of our
back-to-school beauties, Ve
ronica is the 11 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roosevelt Black and is in the
sixth grade at Tuckaseegee
Elementary School.
The highlight of her summer
has been a family reunion
which Veronica and her fami
ly recently attended in Laur
inburg. “We had a real good
time," she told us. “We played
games and had a dance and
there were all kinds of good
food, and lots of cousins and
aunts and uncles.’’
Now, however, this outspok
en young Pisces said she is
more than ready to go back to
school because “staying home
is boring." She doesn’t know
who her teacher will be this
year but hopes whoever it is
will be "as nice as Mr. McDo
nald,” who taught her last
year.
Veronica’s hobbies include
swimming, which she learned
to do this year, softball and
kickball. She also likes to cook
and rays she sometimes cooks
and lets her mother relax.
Cleaning house is something
she likes to do when she's “in
thAknood," which she says
isrrt often.
The Sylvers and the Emo
tions are Veronica's favorite
recording artists and Happy
Days is the TV show she likes
best.
When asked what she’d like
to be when she grows up, the
unhesitating answer was, “A
nurse, because my grandmo
ther is one and I’d like to be
just like her.” Mrs. Anise
Magee is Veronica’s grand
mother and works at Memori
al Hospital.
Veronica's father works at
Woonsocket Spinning Mill and
she has one sister, Sharon, age
12.
This week our beauty is
busy getting ready for an
exciting new year back in
school. She says l'uckaseegee
is “a nice school” and she’s
found that if you “treat people
nice, people will be nice
back.” A pity some older
people don’t have that kind of
insight.
GEToAid
Minority
Business
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., - To
aid in increasing the number
of minority business leaders in
this country, the General E
lectric Foundation has grant
ed $146,000 to two predomi
nantly black business schools.
The GE Foundation has
granted $75,000 to the School of
Business and Industry at Flo
rida A& M University, Talla
hassee, and $71,000 to the
School of Business and Econo
mics at North Carolina A&T
State University, Greensboro.
Both schools will receive the
money over the three year
period 1976-78 inclusive.
One important reason for
the grants will be to help these
business schools gain accredi
tation from the American As
sembly of Collegiate Schools
of Business (AACSB).
‘‘The General Electric
Foundation's grant comes at a
crucial stage in our develop
ment, at a time when we need
help to meet the demands of
an increase in the number of
outstanding students,” said
Dr. Sybil C. Mobley, Dean of
Florida A&M University’s
School of Business and Indus
try.
ine foundation grant
is helping us to engage out
standing visiting professors
during our period of rapid
development. Thus we are
able to move ahead without
lowering our standards. The
GE Foundation has been a
source of meaningful support
for many years,” she added.
“The General Electric
Foundation grant is helping us
in a number of important
ways,” said Dr. Quiester
Craig, Dean of North Carolina
A4T University’s School of
Business and Economics. It
helped us to expand our learn
ing laboratories where we
supply student tutors to help
others over classroom hur
dles. It is also helping us to
increase our faculty by two
persons, one in finance and
one in accounting. This, in
turn, made it possible to re
duce class sizes. The funds
from this grant have also sen*
some faculty members be.
- to school to get their docto
rates.”
The GE Foundation is an
independent trust established
by the General Electric Com
pany in 1952.
/
Dr. King Fund Drive Nears Goal
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NAACP Offers To Help With Welfare Reform
NAACP Pledges Support
Of “Meaningful Bill”
Mrs. Margaret Bush Wilson,
chairman of the NAACP Na
tional Board of Directors, said
that the Better Jobs and In
come program outlined by
President Carter on Saturday,
August 6, was “encouraging”
and pledged the support of the
NAACP in working to achieve
the enactment of a meaningful
bill in Congress. In a state
ment, Mrs. Wilson said:
The proposed program for
Better Jobs and Income out
lined by President Carter on
Saturday, August 6, seeks to
eliminate the negative aspects
of the present welfare system
while striving to provide a
minimum income for the poor.
The proposal is encouraging in
that it seeks to provide:
(1) Jobs for those in need and
who are able to work;
(2) Income support, such as
part-time jobs for those un
able to work full-time;
(3) Earned income tax credits
as incentives for the working
poor.
Clearly, in a program of this
complexity, President Carter
sought to stress the positive
aspects of his proposals. He
Alphas To Raise $1
Million For NAACP
A plan to raise $1,000,000
over the next two years for the
NAACP, National Urban Lea
gue, and the United Negro
College Fund was unvailed
last week by James R. Wil
liams, General President of
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Inc.
The $1,000,000 drive, under
taken by the nation’s oldest
black Greek letter organiza
tion, was announced at the
public meeting of the Frater
nity’s 71st anniversary con
vention this week in Georgia
at the Atlanta Hilton Hotel.
Attending the convention was
Benjamin L. Hooks, NAACP
Executive Director.
also sought to blunt the at
tacks of those who are ada
mantly opposed to any form of
public assistance programs.
The NAACP, however, per
ceives a real danger in just
such an approach. The danger
is that, in attempting to scrap
the old system, Congress will
devise one that increases the
burden of poverty on the most
disadvantaged segments of so
ciety.
Work incentives, therefore,
should not penalize the poor.
They should instead relieve
the burden of poverty while
providing meaningful jobs for
those able to work. The need
for readily available daycare
centers for mothers wanting
to work should be adequately
met.
The proposal to reduce the
burden on local governments
is praiseworthy. But it does
not go far enough. It should
comDletely relieve local gov
ernments of the responsibility
for income support payments.
The states should be made to
assume this obligation.
There is also the danger of
robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Income support benefits in one
area of the country should not
be reduced just so that assis
tance to the poor in other
regions can be increased. The
essential benefits of the pre
sent food stamp program
should also be maintained
within the Better Jobs and
income program.
The NAACP especially wis
hes to commend the President
for recognizing the stigma
that is attached to welfare and
for seeking to eliminate this
negative aspect of the pro
gram. We also commend the
President for wanting to
strengthen the family struc
ture.
The NAACP is prepared to
work with the President to
achieve the enactment of a
meaningful Better Jobs and
Income Program.
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TAILOR JIMMIE GKlEtf
.~~Discusses Fitting With Nestor La Veau
Grier Becomes Master Tailor
By Jen Harvey
Post Staff Writer
When Jimmie Grier was 12
years old his father bought
him a new suit which Jimmie
promptly cut up and restyled
with a belt in the back. That
episode resulted in the worst
whipping he ever got in his life
but it proved to him that he
was good with scissors and
needle and started him on the
path to becoming a master
tailor.
“I’ve always liked clothes,’’
Jimmie said with a smile,
“and I found the only way to
get the look and the fit I
wanted was to learn to do it
myself."
“Dave Moore had a tailor
shop in the Arcade in down
town Charlotte and he was
kind enough to let some of us
come in and train under his
expert eye. (Older Charlot
teans will remember the Ar
cade as a small shopping
center for blacks located be
tween College and Brevard).
By the time I was 17 I was an
expert at bushelling," he add
ed. For the benefit of those
who, like me, don't have the
foggiest notion what bushell
ing is - it means "altering or
fixing clothes,” especially
men's clothes.
After high school at Plato
Price, Jimmie went off to
Hampton Institute to study
tailoring but, after a year,
decided to enter Lovings
School of Tailoring in Rich
mond. Virginia. "The only
way to learn tailoring is by
doing," Jimmie pointed out.
“1 was wasting my time wjth
books. At Loving, the instruc
tion was combined with lots of
practical experience and I left
there feeling confident and
sure of myself. I came back to
Charlotte and went to work for
Robert Hall, doing alterations
and stayed there for IP years
before I opened this shop."
The shop he speaks of is
located in a small house on
Seymour Drive. The front of
the building, where he works,
has a small fitting room be
hind a curtained doorway,
three sewing machines, a
pressing table and clothes,
clothes, clothes everywhere.
There are suits waiting fo be
altered, pants needing short
ening or the waistbands let out
or in, skirts to be hemmed and
so on. Space is at a premium
but expert workmanship a
bounds
"My customers come from
all over Charlotte," the youth
ful looking man with a slightly
graying afro said. "They ran
ge from working class to
millionaires and none of them
mind coming over here to my
shop A few times it was
suggested that 1 move to a
more convenient location but
why should I when my custo
mers will come w here I am'.’ A
couple of years from now
when my two sons finish
school we’re thinking of tear
ing this down and building a
place right here where we can
go into the retail end of the
business, with emphasis still
on alterations, of course But 1
don't intend to leave this
location "
One of the two sons is
studying at Belmont Textile
School, and helps out in the
shop now. The other is study
ing business law and will
handle the financial affairs
end when the new venture is
under way. Jimmie and his
wife, the former Ella Grant,
also have three daughters and
seven grandchildren
Right now, besides his son,
Jimmie is assisted-by a
charming young man from
Trinidad, BWI by the name of
Nestor LaVeau and by pretty
Joyce Watt Joyce has been
sewing all her life and receiv
ed her formal training from
Belmont Textile School She's
a secretary at Industrial and
Textile Piping and helps Jim
mie part-time Nestor began
sewing as a hobby a few years
ago and quickly found out he
had a natural talent for it. It's
truly awe inspiring to see him
take a piece of fabric, cut a
shirt with no pattern and have
the garment completed in an
hour and a half
See GRIER on Page 10
J- L>. smith Alumnus
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Hayden Renwick Appointed Special
Assistant To UNC-CH Chancellor
By Gale Jones
Special To The Post
CHAPEL HILL - Hayden B.
Renwick has been appointed
special assistant to the chan
cellor at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
for the 1977-78 academic year,
Chancellor Ferebee Taylor
has announced.
In making the announce
ment, Taylor indicated Ren
wick's responsibility will be
"to advise and assist the
chancellor in the implemen
tation of Phase II of the
Revised North Carolina State
Plan for the Further Elimina
tion of Racial Duality in Pu
blic Higher Education which
is expected to be adopted by
the Board of Governors on
Aug. 22. “
"The main thrust of my job
will be recruitment," Renwick
says, "but I’ll also be working
to keep students in school once
they get here, possibly using
special counseling and tutor
ing when nedessary.”
Recruiting black students is
becoming increasingly diffi
cult. Renwick says. "In 1969,1
was the first full time black
admissions officer in the state,
and UNC-CH had no competi
tion in its recruiting efforts.
Now every predominantly
white institution is actively
seeking the same students we
are. We are all going out for
the top black students in the
state," he says.
This year UNC-CH is wel
coming 235 black freshmen,
which is up slightly from the
194 of last year. Renwick says
the recent HEW suggestion of
a 150 percent minority enroll
ment increase over the next
five years is unrealistic.
"I think a reachable goal Is
* 400 students in each class by
1900," he says, “and that’s a
tall order because of keener
competition and more stu
dents who are questioning the
value of a college degree
However with the reputation
of UNC-CH and the excellent
recruiting Job of the admis
sions office, I believe the
number can be increased and
our goals accomplished ”
Renwick will continue as
assistant dean of the College
Hayden B. Renwick
...Native of Statesville
of Arts and Sciences. He has
developed an advisory pro
gram to provide academic and
personal counseling for mino
rity students He is currently
active in a pre-orientation
program for new black stu
dents.
"Beginning college is a big
psychological change so yre
bring them in two days before
the onslaught of 20,000 stu
dents and show them around
*
campus Several deans and
representatives of campus or
ganizations speak or hold
workshops and explain avail
able services.
"The appointment as spe
cial assistant to the chancellor
came as a pleasant surprise,
and I’m honored," Renwick
said.
A native of Statesville, Ren
wick graduated from J.C.
Smith University in Charlotte
in 1956, and received his mas
ters in education from UNC
CH in 1965. He was named
assistant director of under
graduate admissions at UNC
CH in 1969, and assistant dean
of the College of Arts and
Sciences in 1973.
Prior to joining the Univer
sity, Renwick was director of
the Statesville recreation cen
ter from 1956-58, a teacher and
coach at Horton High School in
Pittsboro from 1960414, a phy
sical education instructor at
A&T State Univ from 1965 - 67.
and a teacher-coach then as
sistant principle at Guy B.
Phillips Jr. H S from 1967-69
Blacks
Raise
$24,372
Bv Hoyle H. Martin Sr
Post Staff Writer
After a slow start and nearly
8 months of work, the drive to
raise funds for the erection of
a statue of the late civil rights
leader Dr Martin Luther King
appears to be approaching a
successful conclusion
The Rev James Barnette,
chairman of the Mayor
appointed Dr Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Commis
sion, said Wednesday, "Af
ter a very slow start in terms
of community response, we
are pleased to report that our
efforts have not been in vain.
The black community partly
through their churches - has
responded admirably by con
tributing $24,375 in cash and
pledges "
Barnette appeared to be
particularly elated over the
fact that the black churches
had exceeded their original
goal of $15,000 by contributing •
$17,000. The remain $7,375 was
contributed by individuals and
families. Barnette pointed
that a group of white churches
have also pledged to contri
bute at least $15,000. These
churches are expected to re
port on their efforts on Sep
tember 11
The Rev Barnette also an
nounced a series of activities
related to the memorial statue
effort. These will be highlight
ed by a visit to Marshall Park,
the site of the statue, by Ms.
Selma Burke, the 76-year-old
sculpture who will contract to
make the statue
Ms. Burke will visit Mar
shall Park on September 9 at
10 a m. This will be followed
by a brief visit with city
officials and a 12 noon news
conference at City Hall '
Among the other activities
announced by Rev Barnette
are:
--A car wash sponsored Sep
tember 10 by the Young Demo
crats with elected officials and
candidates 'hopefully) serv
ing as washers Location:
• NCNB Branck Bank on Kings
Drive.
--A tea, sponsored by the West
Charlotte Sr High (.'lass of
1960 Location: Mid Way
Lounge. Statesville Avenue
-Record City Discount Store.
101 West Trade, and Disco
Records on LaSalle Street will
hold record sales with a por
tion of the receipts going to the
MLK Fund
-At Freedom Park: 7 p m a
speech by Ms Burke; at 8 30
p m. a film: "From Montgo
mery to Memphis''
-Sept. 11 - Ms Burke will be
interviewed on Channel 18
(WCCB TV) at 11 am, Sep
tember II
--A Gospel Program, spon
sored by Barnette Promotions
and Radio Station WGIV. Lo
cation: Crockett Memorial
Park, 3 • 7 p.m
--Fashion Show directed by
Careliss Brown, 7 p.m Loca
tion: Holiday Inn North, North
Try on Street.
Radio Station WGIV will re
view many of these highlights
on the show “Black Rap," 9:45
p.m
"Money from these activi
ties," Barnette concluded,
"will also be added to the
MLK Fund Drive.
Ms. Burke is expected to
begin work on the bust in
January of 1978
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get for a DOLLAR these days
to CHANGE