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SECOND WARD ALUMNI STEERING COMMITTEE
Vernon second Ward High School
graduates. Did you know the second
annual alumni reunion will be held
September 4-7 at the Quality Inn in
Charlotte'’ The pre-registration deadline
has been extended till August 28. The
steering committee consists of (seated
left to right): Daisy Mobley. Julia Doby,
Dr. Mildred Baxter Davis, Cecilia j’
Wilson, chairman, Mildred Aldridge,
I.ula W. Brown, Ailene McCorkle, Irma
Bland and Vermelle Diamond Ely.
(Standing): Jerod Green, Leonard
_ Miller, Charles Redfern, Price Davis
"AnfretTe'^Cewts Wttlrins;—Maxine—
Weathers, Tommy Williams and Dr.
Mildred Mosley. Persons on the steering
committee not pictured are Mary Martin
Jones, Ann Freda Wallace. Shirley Milli
gan, L.C. Coleman, Joel Hargrave,
James McKee, Minnie McKee and
Minnie Askhurst. Pre-registration fees
are $50 a person or $90 a couple, if both
are members. Regular on site registra
tion will cost $60 each. For non-members,
the pre-registration and on-site fee is $10
more than the members' cost. Fee covers
charges for the banquet hall, continental
breakfast at the first business meeting,
fellowship breakfast at the closing ses
sion, picnic and hospitality room for
cocktails. Contacts for pre-registration
are Dr. Mildred Baxter Davis at 377-6125
-or-Cecilia-JWrlson-at-392-393&: The 48gu
reunion marks the 50th anniversary
for the class of ’31 and the 15th anni
versary for the class of ’56.
NAACP Sums Denver RUrks?
By Tony Brown
Special To The Po6t
In Part I of this series on
the hostile behavior of the
national NAACP leaders
towards President Reagan
- when he acpe^rqd as a
guest at their annual con
vention in Denver, I ex
plained that their Ben
Hooks and Margaret Bush
Wilson -- behavior did more
Jharm poor Blacks than
to find relief.
In a furious view a young
Black woman questioned
why they kept zinging the
President: "Why did they
invite him, if they were
going to treat him like
that?"
On two occasions in his
speech - and in a general
philosophical senses - the
President was more in step
with Black America than
were the national leaders
of the host group when he
rejected the inherent su
periority of white children,
the premise ot mandatory
busing, and extolled the
necessity of Black colleges.
These leaders are "hot” for
busing for race mixing and
“cool" on keeping Black
colleges Black.
Therefore, the Denver
clash between the NAACP
national leaders and Ron
ald Iteagan was not racial,
but philosophical. The Pre
sident urged Blacks, as
Looker T. Washington did
at the turn of the century,
to recognize themselves as
a nation within a nation, to
develop their own economy
and to "turn over” the $140
billion they spend with
other Blacks.
“In most neighborhoods
what really brings pro
sperity is when the income
of that neighborhood is
then multiplied by turning
over several times within
that community ... in the
Black communities in
America the turn over is
less than once before the
dolias, those $140 billion,
go iflf into the community
at large. And that has to be
changed." the President
said.
This advice and common
WHIMm
It Isn’t travel that’s
broadening - it’s the rich
Second in a series
sense notwithstanding,
the so-called civil rights
leaders will march thou
sands of Blacks into con
ventions in major hotels
this summer to unload mil
lions of dollars into the
coffers of the white
establishment “enemy”
while blaming Reagan for
the economic ills of Black
people.
For all of their protest
ations of injured innocense
and fair sounding rhetoric
about programs to help
poor Blacks, the NAACP’s
leadership spent more than
$3 million with Denver’s
white business community
to protest white racism and
black poverty. Residents of
the Five Points area of
Denver, a Black neighbor
hood, complained that the
NAACP delegates were in
structed to avoid that part
of the city. The Black small
businesses and restaurants
found their welcome signs
to be of little use in at
tracting any of the money
from the NAACP’s "af
fluent poor.”
If any of the noble rhe
toric of the civil rights
groups is going to have
meaning, they will have to
recognize that the Black
underclass is hurt more by
class segregation from
middle-class Blacks than
from separation from
whites by race. The go
vernment is obligated to
share the tax resources
with this impoverished
community and the middle
class is needed to pry them
loose.
But even if the federal
government wanted to eco
nomically emancipate
Black ghettos, it lacks the
expertise to do so. Help for
the new Black underclass -
including 32 percent of un
employed Black teens who
have succumbed to drug
addiction - will come from
one source only: the Black
middle class. And the so
called civil rights leaders
fail to grasp that fact or
UIVII LI UL I UIC.
That $150 billion the Pre
sident referred to is equal
to the Gross National Pro
duct (GNP) of Canada or
Australia and equal to the
GNP of the ninth largest
nation in the free world.
Delicately, he told them
that Blacks were spending
their money in a 180 degree
angle - in a straight nne
directly away from them
selves - instead of in a 360
degree angle with one an
other as do other ethnic and
religious groups.
May Cost Headstart Its Life?
850Million Dollar Boo Boo!
*** *** ***
Solidarity Day March Set
Massive
Campaign
Launched
A busload of demonstra
tors will be pouring into the
nation's capital from as far
away as California as
NAACP branches gear up
for the September 19 Soli
darity Day March. NAACP
Executive Director, Benja
min L. Hooks, announced
from national headquart
ers in New York.
' 1'he massive Uemunstra-v
tion sponsored by the
NAACP, the National Ur
ban League, the Southern
Christian Leadership Con
ference and Operation
PUSH, in conjunction with
the AFL-CIO and a coali
tion of civil rights, labor
and other social organiza
tions is being organized to
protest the Reagan Admin
istration’s budget cuts.
Hooks explained. "The po
licies of this Administra
tion to balance the budget
on the backs of the poor
d(K*S not havP unit/z»rcoI on
proval. We must raise the
level of consciousness
among the members of
Congress and the federal
government by making
them aware of our unalter
able opposition to this Ad
ministration’s effort to
make the poor, the elderly,
the handicapped and mi
norities, the scapegoats for
the economic ills of our
society.”
In his appeal for wide
spread community sup
port, Hooks said, “Lifting
up our voices today will
ultimately save our coun
try tomorrow.” Visible
public support, he said, will
help deliver the urgent
message that more than
seven million people are
out of work and they need
jobs now
Demonstrators will as
semble on the west slope of
the Washington Monument
at 15th and Constitution
Ave., N.W., starting at 10
a.m. with the march ex
pected to begin at noon
The march route will ex
See SOLIDARITY Page i
ALLURING EDNA FIELDER
...Pursues degree in music
Liana Fielder Is
Beauty Of Week
By Teresa Burns
Host Staff Writer
She seems to have been
dipped into the tranquili
ties of talent...immersing
with a sweet soprano voice,
a flare for being photogen
ic, and even a touch of
acting ability.
Edna Fielder is now fine
tuning her talents. She is
attending Central Pied
mont Community College
and will soon receive her
Associate Degree in music
with a concentration in
voice and piano.
She also sings occasion
ally on the church choir at
Pleasant Hill Baptist
Church.
Upon completion of her
child care certificate from
Central Piedmont, Ms.
Fielder decided to broaden
her scope of interests. "I
love children but my main
goal is to become a pro
fessional model." she
stated.
She is now modeling for
Fashion Design Express
and designing outfits for
Future Shock, a local
musical band
Her hobbies include sew
ing and modeling. And at
CentrgLPiedmont she is a
member of Football Club
and performed in the CPCC
production of "The Wiz."
"It ran about a month and
a half. I enioved it tre
mendously," she stated.
“My part in the play was a
munchkin and a winkie,
one of the slaves of the bad
witch."
If Ms. Fielder is not in
school or busy with her
endeavors she is romping
with her children Shantelle
and Sanchez
Her mother is Daisy
Fielder and she has four
sisters and one brother
Ms Fielder is employed by
Knight Publishing Co.
She is interested in music
and loves the variety of
entertainers on "Solid
Gold." the range of C.'haka
Khan's voice and messages
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duCille: Black
Fresbyterian Churches
Are Small, Weak And
Dependent
By reresa Burns
Post Staff Writer ,
When Frank 0. duCille
was just a child growing up
in Jamaica, West Indies, he
saw much poverty. There
were many winos in the
park, he recalls. And his
dream was to build a mis
sionary on his grandfath
er’s property for the needy,
winoe and poverty strick
en.
His mother's father was
a school master, a lay
preacher who carried on
church services until the
pastor came. And the
pastor usually came to a
particular church only
once a month.
"I used to talk and argue
a tot," Rev. duCille re
membered, "and everyone
said I would either be a
lawyer or preacher."
Bom into the Episcopa
lian Christian faith, Rev.
duCille in later years de
cided that Presbyterianism
and its doctrines were
more in tune with his
beliefs.
For three years he stu
died intensely the Presby
terian theology of the Bine
and has pastored for seven
years in the Presbyterian
Church U S.
He most recently was
installed as pastor of Amay
James Presbyterian
Church. Amay James is
located at 2400 West Blvd.
He previously pastored
in Detroit. His tenure there
was one year and a half
During that time he facili
tated. a 40-member church
and progressed it into a 336
member congregation.
Since his installation at
Amay James, June 21,
seven members have
joined and on August 2 five
of the new members were
Baptized
Rev. duCille has noticed
that Black Presbyterian
churches all over are
small, weak and dependent
regardless of the social
economic status of the
members
As a candidate for the
Doctor of Ministry degree.
Louisville Presbyterian
Theological Seminary, his
dissertation will address
the question: Why are
Black Baptist and Black
t
Rev Frank O duCille
Amay James pastor
Methodist churches flou
rishing while Black Pres
byterian churches are not?
Through research and
surveys Rev. duCille has
started to formulate his
hypothesis. It is as follows.
The origin of the Pres
byterian came from John
Calvin in Geneva in the
16th century. The religion
spread from Europe into
America and Scotland. The
Baptist church, howevter,
stemmed from the black
experiences of slavery
Black Presbyterians
have, therefore, been
viewed as elite, exclusive
and the Presbyerian
church has been stereo
typed as looking for the
"creme of the crop.’'
"Many feel that the ser
vice is dry and they go to
sleep inspite of the mes
sage offered," Rev duCille
explained. "But my goal
for Amay James' congre
gation is to present the
Presbyterian faith and
practice it in such a way
that it will become more
attractive to black people
This does not mean change
the Presbyterian, but it has
to do with how you package
the product," Rev. duCille
continued.
Rev. duCille has taken on
the duty of presenting
Presbyterianism to the
black people in such a way
that it can appeal to them
This appeal will be a way of
expressing faith without
denying the richness of
black religious experience
“We understand preach
ing to be unfolding or ex
plaining of the scriptures
taking the scriptures from
history and making them
come alive in present hu
man situations." Rev
duCille remarked
"While God talks to us in
scripture. God deals with
us from where we are now.
not from where Moses
was.” he continued.
Rev. duCille would like
his sermons to speak to hu
man needs, “ with every
one going away having re
ceived something from it "
Another objective for
Rev duCille is to bring the
church into the community
where people can look for
all kinds of needs to be met
"People can come and
feel that they are joining
with an organization that
will give the opportunity to
serve and to be served,"
Rev duCille conferred
“One of my main con
cerns,” Rev duCille ex
plained, "is how people live
and how to tap the mighty
resources that God has
provided in the world for us
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Washington Sources Say
Omission Was Deliberate?
Inadvertent or intention
al - no one seems to know
for sure, but Congress'
passing of President Rea
gan's budget recommend
ation on June 26, threatens
Headstart Centers nation
wide because the $850 mil
lion portion slated to fund
the Headstart program na
tionally was omitted
As part of the Omnibus
Reconciliation Act
Gramm Lotta III, the
Headstart-: budget -would
have fulfilled President
Reagan's promise to pre
serve the Headstart Pro
gram despite the numer
ous budget cuts he had re
commended.
"The White House hasti
ly put together Gramm
Lotta II and then Congress
approved it,' said Marvin
Hogan, director of Friends
of Children of Mississippi.
Inc. "Somehow' Headstart
was left out in what
seemed to some to be a
typographical error "
According to Hogan, the
"error" would mean that
as 01 September 30, 1981,
Headstart would no longer
receive funding.
The confusion concern
ing the Headstart omission
seems to emanate from
Congress itself.
According to Nehemiah
Flowers, Mississippi Sena
tor Thad Cochran's aide, no
one is certain whether the
omission was inadvertent
or intentional.
"Personally, 1 think
someone is trying to wheel
and deal and I don't know if
they are on our side of the
fence or the other side," he
volunteered.
Flowers said that he was
certain that the president
supported Headstart and
'ordinarily one would think
that it would sail right
through."
"Because of the fact that
it was left out. somebody
probably wants to toss it
around a bit," he stated
Richard Brandon, direc
tor of Hinds County Head
start offered a similar per
spective.
"There is some specula
tion that the omission was
deliberate according to
Washington sources who do
not wish to be quoted," he
said “In fact, they say
this could be a lacesaving
way for President Reagan
to renege on his promise to
support Headstart .”
miui :>ay mai
the Democrats could be
hoping to use the Head
start omission as a poli
tical football in an attempt
to tie up the entire Rea
gan budget package, ac
cording to Brandon
"Either way. it means
that the destiny of Head
start all over is in the hands
of the politicians," Bran
don injected, adding. “Un
less Congress does some
thing, it will spell the doom
of Headstart, at least as we
know it."
There are significant in
dications however that
Congress has not written
off the Headstart program
entirely
In a separate action, the
House Human Resources
Committee approved *950
million for headstart in
1982. *1 7 billion for 1981
and 158 billion for 1984.
according to Hogan.
Further, according to
Flowers, the Senate passed
its version of the Act which
included the Headstart pro
posal
"What's needed now is
for the House Conference
Committee to get together
and come up with a figure
that is agreeable to both
the Democrats and Repu
blicans so that it can be
amended to the bill in
time." he explained
However. Brandon mdi
cated that some sources
speculate that Democrats
may attach so many de
mands_iQ_the . proposed
amendment that President ~
Reagan may be forced to
reject it
To what extent this will
affect the program this
year, no one seems to
know
Washington Headstart
officials are not worried,
according to Hogan, be
cause the President pro
mised his support.
Hogan, a longtime ad
vocate for children's rights
stated that his agency is
calling for full commun
ity support in getting the
Skot) million reinstated into
the budget package
Voting Rights
Act Is Vital
The President of ADA.
F’ather Robert F. Drinan.
called on Congress to re
authorize the Voting Rights
Act and to defeat proposals
to weaken “the most im
portant and effective civil
rights law ever passed "
Father Drinan said, “As
it now stands, the Voting
Rights Act is fair, econo
mical easily enforceable
and Constitutional. It has
enabled hundreds of thou
sands of minority citizens
to participate in America's
political life"
In letters to the mem
bers of the House of Re
presentatives, Drinan
urged support for HR 3112.
sponsored by Rep Peter
Rodino <D-NJ>, without
further changes and op
posed the provisions of HR
3948. sponsored by Rep
Henry Hyde < R-Ill >
Drinan noted that me
alternative Hyde bill “is so
loosely worded that it
would allow covered juris
diction to bail-out even
though they may still be
violating minority rights"
Governor Hunt
Appoints McKoy
Deputy Secretary
Governor Jim Hunt has
appointed Henry McKoy,
35, to be Deputy Secretary
for the Programs in the
Department of Administra
tion.
McKoy received his
bachelor and master de
grees from A4T State Uni
versity He has been with
the Department of Admin
istration since he was
named Executive Director
of the Human Relations
Council in 1968
He held the position of
Assistant Secretary for the
Advocacy Programs in
1975
In his new position
McKoy will be responsible
for the department's Ad
vocacy Programs which in
clude Human Relations. He
vill also oversee the state i
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