Blue Slipper ^.ub held its 5th Anniversary
Dinner and Dance at the Excelsior Club, June
23, from 10 p.m. til 2 a.m. The Blue Slipper
was originally called the Blue Bus Club
because it was organized on the Blue Bus
which carried domestic workers back and
forth to work everyday. After the blue bus
stopped running, the social club continued on.
The name was changed to the Blue Slipper
n..k
Shown above are Lure ne Harris, president,
Virginia Winchester, vice president; Nora
Halmer, secretary; Carrie Huey, assistant
secretary; Mattie Fredricks, treasurer;
Francis Patterson, business manager; Mild
red Price, program chairman , Mae Francis
Holly, Mary Ann Stratford, Addie Neal, sick
committee chairwoman, Mae Elmer Kilgo,
Geneva Elder, and Thelma Young, contact
committee chairwoman.
In New Financing
Minorities Win $192 Million
During the first half of fiscal
year 1878 (Oct. 1,1977 - March
31, 1978) minority business
owners won $192 million in
new financing and $35β million
in procurement contracts with
help from the U.S. Depart
ment of Commerce's Office of
Minority Business Enterprise
(OMBE).
The figures are based on
reports from 250 business
development centers around
the country which are under
contract with OMBE to offer
free management and techni
cal assistance to minority
business owners. During the
β-month reporting period, they
helped owners of 14,101 firms,
a 19 percent increase over the
same period last year.
Thirty percent ot client
firms were involved in the
construction industry reflect
ing in part OMBE's role in
carrying out the minority con
tracting provision of the Local
Public Works Act of 1977. It
requires that 10 percent of the
H billion in Federally funded
Steward To Attend Governor's School
Emmett Steward, a rising
junior at West Charlotte High
School, will be attending
Governor's School at Saint
Andrews College in Laurin
burg, N.C.
Steward completed bis
sophomore year at West Char
lotte with advanced courses in
"frraich, AlgcUa II Trigono
.^metry, Biology, English-TD,
Sjpriver Education, . ,and
Personal Issues.
g
He will be taking Natural
Science courses at Saint An
drews; he left for school on
July 2.
Emmett is the son of Mrs.
Sidney Steward of 2501 Senior
Dr. and attends Simpson
Gillespie United Methodist
Keep yoiuf pifcofctown v
frtendi iufumml on wEat's—
happening in Charlotte by
construction work authorized
under the law go to minority
contractors and subcontract
ors.
Another 24 percent of the
OMBE client firms were
involved in retail trade, 19
percent in services and 10
percent in manufacturing.
In terms of minority busi
ness activity, the States of
California. Texas and New
York led all oOïërs. In Calr
fornia alone, clients won $67
million worth of procurement
contracts and $31 million in
financing.
OMBE Director Randolph
Blackwell noted that the busi
ness activity generated re
presents a return of thirty
dollars for every OMBE dollar
invested to provide manage
ment and technical assist
ance.
"This represents a healthy
return on our investment and
the return will continue to
grow as thgse businesses hire
workers, pay taxes and pur
. chase supplies and services in
their own communities."
Memorial
Welcomes
House Staff
Thirty-six new interns and
residents arrive this week lo
begin training in Charlotte
Memorial Hospital and Medi
cal Center's Graduate Medi
cal Education Program.
This is the 16th consecutive
year Memorial has filled its
internship positions under the
National Intern and Resident
Matching Program. No other
non-university teaching hospi
tal in the country has consecu
tively filled all its internship
positions for as many years as
Memorial.
The 29 interns are among
top graduates of 14 American
medical schools and represent
eight medical specialties
including: Dentistry, Emer
gency Medicine, Family Prac
tice, Medicine, Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Orthopedics,
Pediatrics, and Surgery.
mere are also seven resi
dents in Memorial's graduate
program: two in General
Surgery, two in Thoracic Sur
gery, and one each in Emer
gency Medicine, Internal
Medicine, and Family Pract
-ice.
With the incoming interns
and residents. Memorial's
House Staff will number 103
for 1978-79.
Dr. Bryant Galusha, direct
or of Memorial's Medical Edu
cation Program for the past
16 years, has nothing but
praise for the new interns.
"The incoming group of
House Staff is indeed a 'class
group.' All are academically
strong and have exhibited a
keen desire to learn. It is safe
to predict they will contribute
greatly to our graduate Medi
cal Education Program," Dr.
Galusha says.
David Avenue
To Close For Sewer
Construction
Beginning Friday, July 7,
Daivd Avenue will be closed
between .Little Rock Road and
Ashford Road for approxima
telv one week Hie purpose of
the closing is to permit con
struction of a sewer line
across David Avenue.
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