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-— " ■ 1 April E. Cousart • v- .A principal scholar April Cousart Earns JELD-WEN WENCO Scholarship April E. Cousart, daughter of Samuel R. and Helen E. Cowart, 310 s- Itamsey St., Charlotte, has been awarded the $1,000 JELD-WEN, WENCO Foundation Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. \ ' The one-year scholarship is in- > tended to help a new student get started in college. Awarded to an incoming freshman, the criteria in-! eludes academic achievement, and the recipient mwt be from a com munity in which a JEDL-WEN or WENCO plant 1b located. A senior at Harding High, Cou sart ranks sixth academically in a class of 249. She plans to major in engineering at UNCCi At Harding, she is a member of the marching band, KeyKtes, Spanish Club, Beta Club and Science Club She was selected senior girt to at tend the 100 Senior Women Lead ership Conference In 19*4. An honor roll student and m*mh«r of the newspaper staff, she was nominated for the top senior in 1965. She is a Principal Scholar. She also is a member of the NAACP and was archonette for the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. 250 Receive Degrees During the commencement exer cises at Winston-Salem State Uni versity on-May 19, approximately 250 seniors received bachelor’s de gress. Marva Collins, noted edu cator and founder of the Weetside Preparatory School In Chicago, de livered the keynote addreas. After wards, the university presented a citation in recognition of outstand ing contributions to Colons for her work in education. ' 'JjF*' Winston-Salem graduates front the Charlotte area, along with their respective majors, are as follows: Michael D. Baker, Magna Cum Laude graduate in Business Ad ministration; Johanna Alexander, Business Administration; Gilbert L. Forest Jr., Business Administra tion; Sandra E. Ervin, Business Administration; Norma J. Mcll wain, Cum Laude graduate in Ur ban Administration; Ralph McKnight, Business Administra . tkn; Greta E. Miller, Business Art; Paulette ’D.RteottT^Bui^tt^ Administration; Darryl L. Sigler Business Administration; Mozell A. Thomas, Office Administration; and Michael A. Welch, Burineas Ad ministration. Juneteenth Coatinned From Page 17A tiled for the evening, along with, the full court of the Juneteenth King had Queen. Special guest, Bob Law, of Ngit Talk (which la heard on WGIV),wtD be in town on June 21 and 22/ Other events planned as 'part of the Juneteenth Celebration include a cornrow contest and a highlight of fashion, featuring African attire, the drees of famous blacks, and cloth ing of the slavery period. Local seamstresses are being recruited to help in tMs endenvor. Anyone interested In helpii* with this year’s Juneteenth-whether as seamstress, talent, or in any other capadty-is urged to caO 374-0607 or 3924740. Reginald L. Woods Navy Seaman Reginald L. Woods, son of Robert L. and Zads L Woods of 2217 West Bird , recently re turned from a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific. He is currently serving as a member aboard the tank landir* ship US8 Tuscaloosa, homeported in San DtegO Woods’ ship took part In several major training and combined arms exercises and logged over 22,000 nautical miles during the Journey. READ THE CHARLOTTE PORT - ? Jf"X.t‘’',- .f‘ T * Education Group Places Emphasis On Minority Enrollment 1W • mc: r . .Santa Monica, Ca. - A program to address the decline in minority participation in management edu cation has been announced by an association of the nation's leading graduate business and management schools. The three-year, nationwide effort by the Graduate Manage ment Admission Council (GMAC) will include development of new in stitutional programs and a com - munications campaign for potential * .v » minority graduate management students., According to the GMAC, minor ity enrollment in graduate manage ment education programs increased dramatically during the 1970s, with a peak 50 percent increase between 1974 and 1978. Figures for the period from 1960 to 1962, however, show a flve^percent decline in minority • “Over the past several years there has been a continuing decline in the number of minority students apply ing for admission and actually completing MBA programs,” said William Broesamle, GMAC presi dent. “This trend has significant con sequences for the structure and composition of our nation's business es and other institutions.” The GMAC is a non-profit or ganization ot 75 schools which pro vides information to all graduate business and management schools and prospective students to help both make reasoned choices in the admission process. It sponsors the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and also provides a forum for the exchange of informa tion through research, educational programs and other services among the broad constituency of indivi duals and institutions concerned with management education. In 1983 the GMAC convened a special Task Force to Increase Minority Participation in Graduate Management Education. The tack force recommendations form the elements of the new campaign. The GMAC campaign includes ad ditional research to identify the causes of the decline in minority enrollments, programs to strength en institutional commitments to ad mitting more minority students, and - a comprehensive communications . . . i
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