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GORGEOUS RACHELLE SWEETENBURG
."..Likes working with computers
Raeiielle Denise Sweetenbm^
Is “Beauty Of The Week”
By Teresa Burns
Post Staff Writer
Every once in a while you
run into a person who
brightens your day just
because they are there.
That’s the case of our
beauty, Rachelle Denise
Sweetenburg. Just her pre
sence enhances the atmos
phere. •
She recently graduated
from Olympic Senior High
School and plans to attend
Central Piedmont Com
mumty College to concen
trate on Computer Pro
gramming.
‘‘I like working with com
puters. 1 think they’ll take
over the world and replace
many things,” she explain
ed. Eventually maybe
everyone will have to ob
tain the knowledge to
operate computers. Our
beauty is making sure she
will be prepared. She would
later like to transfer to
Winston-Salem State Uni
versity.
Her grades in high school
consisted of all A’s and B’s
and one C in the tenth
grade. She was the com
mencement speaker at
Olympic's graduation ser
vices. Her speech was en
titled “Thanks For The
Memories.
Executive Council, Red
Cross, Interact Club, New
Images and the Interclub
Council just to name a few,
were some of Ms. Sweeten
burg’s high school activi
ties. She enjoys singing and
was a member of the choir,
Olympic Singers, Girls En
semble, and the Mixed En
semble. She was also
elected to the Homecoming
Court and is presently a
contestant in the Black
Elegant contest scheduled
to be held in .lulv
Our Aries beauty be
lieves that, “Nothing was
ever achieved without en
thusiasm.” And enthusi
asm is certainly present in
her character. Not only
was she active in various
ganisaUona, she also has a
Job at Service Msrchandtoe
Her concern for others is
evident and she sees the
gas situation as one of the
country's pressing mat
ters.
W1 could change some
thing." she began, "it
would be the gasoline
prices and the price of
A few hobbies include
dancing, discoing, movies,
singing and modeling. She
has modeled in several
fashion shows for Helen
Muhammad's Fashions.
Soon she would like to
design her own outfits.
“I’m in the process of
learning how to sew and I
want to make my own
clothes,’’ she confessed.
Favorites of Ms. Sweet
enburg include the tele
vision program “The Jef
fersons," singing artists
Pri^e and Chic. Her
favorite person is Earl
Morris. “He's nice and
helps me a lot when I have
problems. I enioy his com
pany," she stated.
She attends First Baptist
Church, and is the grand
daughter of Mrs. Katherine
Evans and Mrs. Fannie
Mae Crosby. Ms. Sweeten
burg has two sisters, Sha
ron Renee, and Dana; one
brother, Geoffrey. Her
mother is Mrs. Pearline
Morgan.
100 Senior Citizens To
Attend Bus Fare Hearing
nj c.iicen nanson
Special To The Post
Over 100 senior citizens
and supporters are expect
ed to attend the City Coun
cil hearings on the pro
posed bus fare increases,
Tuesday, June 24 at 7:30
p.rtt.
According to Senior Citi
zens United coordinator, L.
C. Coleman, “We expect
seniors from Cherry, Grier
Heights, Little Rock Apart
ments, Boulevard Homes
and Bethlehem Center. We
also expect a number of
handicapped citizens.”
The Transit System is
proposing a fare increase
from 40 cents to 30 cents.
Seniors and handicapped
would pay 20 cents, except
dflrtng peak hours, week
days, 3-€ p.m., when they
would pay full fare.
Under the current sys
tem seniors and handi
capped buy ticket books
allowing them to ride free
during non-peak hours and
pay half-fare (20 cents)
during peak hours.
The Transit System
wants to eliminate tickets
and issue photo identifica
tion cards which would
Local Bank
Invites Gtizens
To Test Sk3k
Charlotte residente will
have an opportunity to test
their skills at detecting
counterfeit currency this
week at the Metrolina Na
tional Bank, 4801 E. Inde
pendence Boulevard, Chac
lott, N.C., which will have
an exhibit of real and coun
terfeit money on display,
according to William X.
Wall, Jr., security officer
for the bank.
The exhibit, obtained
from the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, will
continue to be on display
through the remainder of
the week beginning on June
14 through June 30. 1900.
Denominations ot cur
rency in the exhibit range
from 15 to $100.
uic uctua iu pay
reduced fares.
“We agree with the I D.
card, but we want to keep
the fares like they are,”
said Mrs. Elizabeth Wig
fall, President of Senior
Citizens United. “Many el
derly people just can't af
ford the higher bus fare,
and they have no other way
to travel.”
Coleman said, "These
people have been working
since they were kids. Many
weren’t even covered by
Social Security most of
their working years. Now
they get just a little bit to
live on, maybe a $180 a
month. It's just not right to
make them pay full fare."
The Transit System
authorities want the in
creased fare to meet
operating costs and to dis
courage reduced-fare ri
ders from traveling during
heavy periods
Persons wishing to speak
at the hearing should con
tact the Office of the City
Clerk, City Hall, 600 E.
Trade St. (374-2247). Com
ments may be made orally
at the hearing or submitted
in writing.
Black Trade Unionists
Focus On Voter Apathy
Florida Asks
NC Aid With
Refugees
Special To The Host
Florida church people
have challenged North
Carolinians to become
partners with them in
meeting nearly over
whelming needs of refu
gees from both Haiti and
Cuba. These are the United
States' “boat people.”
A letter in late May to
Rev. Collins Kilburn,
executive director of the
North Carolina Council of
Churches, appealed ur
gently for money for hous
ing and feeding Haitians,
as well as asking that
North Carolina settle a por
tion of the thousands of
Cubans who have recently
arrived but have no rela
tives to receive them.
Haitians in Florida, com
monly jailed on arrival in
the past, are receiving
somewhat better treatment
since mid-May statements
from the White House and
State Department. It is now
official policy that they and
the Cuban boat people -
both applicants for political
asylum rather than offi
cially recognized refugees -
should be treated alike.
Immigration services
have begun to process the
Haitian asylum applica
tions, give a health screen
ing, food stamps and a
60-day renewable work per
mit, usable until their re
quest for asylum is either
granted or denied. But
when the three days of
processing end, the Hai
tians are still turned into
the streets of Miami to fend
for themselves Many have
no relatives to help them
out, no sponsor, no place to
go even for shelter. Without
some cash, even the food
stamps are useless.
The Haitian Refugee
Center, run in Miami by
Church World Service, has
been almost the only
source of help. Some 2,500
new persons have arrived
in recent months bringing
the total number of Miami
Haitians awaiting a deter
mination of their status to
nearly 25,000. The Center
desperately needs added
funds for emergency
housing, food and other
services.
Mrs. Emmanuel Clark (center) is aided
down the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral
by Eugene Grier (left) and daughter
Shanta Clark (right) following her hus
band's funeral service. Emmanuel
Manny’ Clark died Friday, June 13 of a
heart attack while working in Charles
ton, S.C. More than 500 people attended
his funeral held at the Cathedral, includ
ing numerous leaders from the Charlotte
community, Motown executives from
Detroit, Mich., and the Commodores.
The burial of Manny Clark followed at
Sharon Memorial Park and Mausoleum
State, IN. C Central To Help
Educate Minority Groups
RALEIGH - North Caro
lina State University and
North Carolina Central
University are establishing
a joint program to help
educate members of
minority groups for state
and local government
management positions.
The two universities will
develop a public service
career program which will
coordinate the undergrad
uate public administration
program at N.C. Central
with the graduate manage
ment program at N.C
State.
The Mary Reynolds Bab
cock Foundation of Win
ston-Salem has given $47,
830 to the program and the
Universities will invest an
additional $45,000 in it
during the next two years.
University of North Caro
lina President William C.
Friday said: "We are deep
ly grateful to the Mary
Reynolds Babcock Foun
dation for making possible
this highly important joint
endeavor by two of our
universities.
"We have great hope for
the success of this under
taking and for its benefits
to our state.”
NCSU Chancellor Joab L.
Thomas said: “This
pioneering effort joining
the graduate resources of
this campus with the un
dergraduate resources at
North Carolina Central
University provides a mo
del for inter-university co
operation in a crucial area
“The faculty exchange it
provides, along with the
system of minority train
ing, is something we hope
and expect will become a
permanent feature of
North Carolina State Uni
versity.”
NCCU Chancellor Albert
Whiting said: “Philan
thropy and public higher
education are joining
hands in a meaningful ef
fort to improve the quality
of public management in
North Carolina.
“NCCU is delighted to be a
part of this pioneering
effort.
“The training in basic
public administration stra
tegies and skills provided
by our baccalaureate pro
gram in public administra
tion, coupled with the ad
vanced management train
ing offered by N.C. State,
will produce young women
and men who are sensitive
to the needs of all North
Carolinians, who under
stand the goals and limita
tions of public agencies,
and who have the skills to
provide superior services
as managers of govern
mental units."
Major elements of the
program will include five
fellowships for NCCU stu
dents to do graduate work
at NCSU, exchange of fa
culty between the two cam
puses and seminars
NCSU officials noted
"The need for more grad
uate management educa
tion by minorities and the
placement of more minori
ties in the management of
state and local govern
ments is documented by
statements from govern
mental agencies "
After the two-year pilot
program is completed. Uni
versity officials will
evaluate it to see if it
should be continued under
regular University
funding
North Carolina State Uni
versity offers the Master of
Public Affairs Program in
its Department of Political
Science under the direction
of Dr. G. Oliver Williams.
I
From October 12-January 4
Mint Museum Will Exhibit Major
Works Of Former Charlottean
By Susan Ellsworth
Post Starr Writer
Duke Ellington, Pablo
Picasso, Henri Matisse,
Earl Hines and Jan Ver
meer have something in
common.
They all influenced con
temporary American artist
Romare Bearden.
This native Carolinian is
said to combine elements
of the 16th century Dutch
Masters, 20th century
cubism, and blues rhythms
of the Harlem Renais
sance. *
Bearden, 66, will have an
exhibition of his major
works since 1970 at the
Mint Museum in Charlotte,
October 12-January 4.
Romere Bearden
.. Renowned Artie
Sixty pieces will be in
cluded in Bearden's first
I
exhibition at the Museum
of Modern Art in New
York. It's being funded by
Philip Morris, Inc and the
National Endowment for
the Arts.
Although Bearden was
bom in Charlotte, ho spent
his childhJOd ia Pittsburgh
and adolescence in New
York City (Harlem) where
jazz music was influential.
His works use "visual
orchestration.”. Music
pieces and stjfes that he
was exposed to earlier in
life later influenced his
work
After he graduated from
New York University with
a degree in mathematics,
Bearden decided to become
one and one-half years of
study under George Grasz
at the Art Students League
Following a two-year
hitch in the Army, Bearden
was granted a series of
one-man shows in New
York.
In the early 50s he lived
and worked in F^ris
Bearden's works have
appeared in gallery shows
in the U.S., Canada and
France. • - *
He also designed covers
for New York Times Maga
zine. Fortune, and port
folios of black American
painting such as Contem
porary Art of Afro-Ameri
cans and Works by Black
Artists
Unionists
Urge Huge
Voter TumcHrt
Black trade unionists
must take the lead in mo
bilizing a huge voter lurn
out in 1980 to guarantee the
defeat of conservative can
didates for Congress and
the presidency . President
Norman Hill told more
than 1,300 participants at
the A Philip Randolph In
stitute's Eleventh National
Conference in New York
City
Thi> Inctitutfk ti-lti. Vi U
180 local affiliates m it;
states, works closely with
the AFL-CIO and civil
rights organizations in or
ganizing voter registration
drives and labor support
activities in the minority
community.
Hill criticized economic
policy-makers for relying
on measures that “carelul
ly allocate economic suf
fering by class.
“We have workers, many .
of them union members,
being used as cheap and
plentiful cannon fodder in
the war against inflation
We are lectured repeatedly
by conservatives, business
leaders and economists
about the immense values
of suffering and sacrifice
But workers arc the only
people suffering today lie
declared
Pointing to widespread
disillusionment among
blacks with President Car
ter, Ronald Reagan and
John Anderson. Hill
warned that political apa
thy could produce a sweep
ing conservative victorc in
November
"If that happens, the dis
appointments of the last
three years will look like
achievements as we arc*
forced into a defensive bat
tie against an onslaught of
right-wing legislation, he
said
Hill said that black trade
unionists can counter voter
apathy by educating peo
ple "about the real issues
the economic issues." and
by reminding people that
"we have never had a
perfect candidate, and w<*
never will."
Recalling the late A Phi
lip Randolph's support for
a black labor alliance. Hill
insisted that "in defending
the labor movement, we
are defending ourselves
"We do not look to labor
simply because it is power
ful We look to labor tie
cause it uses its power to
advance the interests of all
workers, including
blacks"
"The labor movement is
our home, it is the one
stable institution in an un
stable political environ
ment," he said
Kenneth Young, execu
tive assistant to AFL-CIO
president l.ane Kirkland,
praised the Randolph Irtsti
tute for being “the first
among the major black
organizations to tie civil
rights to economics "
“It doesn't do you any
good to win the right to sit
down in the lunch room if
you don’t have the price of
a hamburger in your
jeans," he said.
Young called upon Insti
tute leaders "to build coa
litions with other minori
ties, with the elderly, with
the young, with the church
es, and with all others of
good faith."
VKIMM
Nothing to more depress
ing than to feel bod in the
morning without having
had any fun the night
before.