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. I >TTE Pi >ST /»/-#! V A -LACK MAMIT UJ •"* IU(uk (s mini unity” cail ar6-049* ---Price: 40 Cents ■ki Toly Wins Color I Television Set, Top * •WOT PH«e TMs Week >• - Story On Page 7B Mr*. Talley I ' 1 ’* Story On Page 4B ATTRACTIVE RENE GLOVER — _ - Hopes to work for major corporation By Jalyne Strong Post Staff Writer "Meeting people, the opportunity to learn and prepare for a career ” says Rene Glover, are the most important things high school has to offer. A1985 graduate of North Mecklen burg, Rene speaks from experi ence. Now that she has obtained her diploma, her future plans are to attend Central Piedmont Communi ty College to take business courses. After which, she says she will transfer to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to eventually receive a B.S. in business admin istration. iJSiS More immediate plans for the 18 year-old are to visit her home town, Binghamton, N.Y., for a cou ple of weeks and, upon returning to -v Charlotte, to find summer employ ment. Having lived in Charlotte for a little over four years, Rene has found this city to be very nice. Yet she has noticed h few contrasts between it and the upstate New York town from where she comes. “The parks aren’t as crowded,’,’ she notes. Rene has also discovered “country blocks”; “it takes a long time to walk places here,” she says. “The work in school is much easier,” she adds. “And I believe there are more job opportunities here.” Though she agrees that people are essentially the same everywhere Rene relates, "It is easier to get along with people in New York. They are more open. Here people are very shy.” However, she admits she’s made many friends in the Queen City. And all told, Rene reveals, “I’ll be here for awhile.” Her family is here, too; her father, Dennis Glover, and mother, Ethel Glover, one sister, Pamela, and four brothers, Roger, Dennis, Randy and Phillip. “We all get along well,” says Rene of her family. "I’m glad I have them.” She says her mother is the person she most admires. "As I grow up I follow in her footsteps.” Rene con fesses. In this manner, it was her mother who influenced Rene to go - into a business profession. “I became interested in business through my mother,’’ confirms Rene. Mrs. Glover works for IBM. Also, through high school where I took several businesses classes.” Like mother, Rene hopes to work for a major corporation once she’s established in her business career. Aside from career interests, Rene has many hobbies. She en joys sports: - tennis, softball, basketball and swimming. She en joys traveling, too. Rene is also an artist. “I like to draw people, houses, and nature scenes,” she tells. With this love of art, Rene had considered careers in both archi tecture and commercial art but these aspirations were dropped when she discovered the exciting world of business. '* Rene also likes Gospel music. "I grew up with it,” she says. Her favorite Gospel musicians are Andre Crouch, the Hawkin Singers, and Donnie Peebles. Maybe not on the same scale as those celebs, but Rene gets her turn at singing Gospel on her church’s choir. She attends the Church of Open House Deliverance where she is also a member of the Pastor’s Aide and the Usher Board Jesse Jackson: Report On Black Famities Is “Painfully True” Special To The Post The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson described as “painfully true” a report by a Chicago urbanologist saying American Black families are at the point of disintegration due to an increasing number of illegiti mate births and poverty. Jackson urged that Blacks should come together, face the crisis and resist it. Commenting on a widely publicized study by Pierre DeVise, which was presented at a recent Urban League seminar, Jackson said, We have got to face the crisis without letting pride color our actions. There is not anything innately wrong with us that a Marshall Plan, a comprehensive educational and economic development plan won’t help ” ^ Jocksonwas among several Black. other factors causing the apparent breakdown of Black families include President Reagan’s cutbacks in job training and other programs and the “social acceptance of" racial uiau uiiiiicxuuil. In his study, DeVise, a population expert, states, “Economics, a more open sexual climate, the subculture pf poverty and racial discrimination are among the factors that explain the escalation of illegitimacy and single-parent households to epidemic proportions in poverty impacted ghettos. “For an increasing number of Chicago’s Black underclass, welfare motherhood has become the role model for girls, and drug-dealing and pimping the role model for boys," DeVise states. “This disintegration is the most important and alarming demographic development in our time, yet little is being said about it and even less is being done about it. “Nowhere in the nation and nowhere in the world where birth statistics are kept is the evidence of rapid family disintegration more glaring than in Chicago’s ghettos," he asserts. However, Jackson heaped some blame on the media. Kev. Jesse L. Jackson .Well-known spokesman “Blacks tend to get a lot of their role models from television which projects Blacks are less intelligent, less patriotic, less work-oriented and more violent," he said. “Our families are hurting. We need help, some self-help and some government help.” Also commenting on the study noted Chicago Atty Chester Blair, said, "What has happened to the Black family is that essentially you have a government that is not sympathetic to the people when they are in need. It is a breakdown of government systems that have been in place for years. And I am not talking about welfare. I am talking about the opportunity to find a job And I am talking about the opportunity to be able to afford a college education “The government plays a dominant role in the lives of people all over this world,” Blair said DeVise said his study was based on data from the U S Census Bureau and the Illinois Dept of Public Health, with a conclusion that family life deterioration is most evident in Chicago's poor Black areas. Among his findings are: -As of 1983 , 66 percent of Chicago Black children lived in household headed by women, compared to only 33 percent in 1970 and only 33 percent of Black children nationally as of 1983. -Nearly 75 percent of the Black children born in Chicago two years ago were illegitimate, compared to 46 percent in 1970 and 50 percent nationally in 1983. -More than 95 percent of births to Black teenagers in Chicago in 1985 were illegitimate, compared to 7: percent in 1970, and 80 percen nationally in 1983. -More than 25 percent of the Blacl ,,Whildreij born in Chicago are bom ti teenage mothers. DeVise said he also found thai among non-Blacks, the number ot illegitimate births in Chicago increased from 8 4 percent to 20 1 percent between 1970-83 Summer Schoooi Enrollment Increases CMS summer school enrollment is expected to increase again this year because of the stricter attendance policy for secondary students that was implemented during the 1984-85 school year That policy states that any student who misses more than 10 classes in a semester course or more than 20 classes in a year course will not receive credit Many students who lost credit because of the new policy are expected to enroll in summer school to repeat cours »s In 1983, summer school enroll ment was 6,800 I^st year, it jumped to 10,800 because of the system’s strict promotion and re tention policy that mandates sum mer school for some students It’s not yet clear how much enrollment llrill tiron> ♦ if Dr. Cleon F. Thompson iWected Chancellor Of Winston-Salem State Special To The Post . .Chapel Hill - Dr. Cleon F. Thomp son Jr , vice president for student services and special programs for the University of North. Carolina General Administration, was elect ed chancellor of Winston-Salem State University by the UNO Board of Governors this week. His election, effective Aiyiat 1, 1985. followed a recommendation by UNC President William Friday at i meeting of the board In the General Administration Building in Chapel Hill Dr Thompson, S3, who served as Interim chancellor at North Caro TURUk’Wg jK^pen are «o wicked with reMMh. what would they be ■r _ Una A&T State University from 1900 81. has been responsible for all university programs relating to stu dents, with the exception of im structural activities. He also has had responsibility for facilitating dese gregation of the 16 UNC campuses and developing institutions with en roUment of less than 10,000 In the university system. Bern In Harlem where his mother was a social worker and hi* father a contractor, Dr. Thom peon grew up in Bennettsville, 8.C. He waa Inte rested in a medical career but after • two-year stint in the Army working with a bum surgical research unit, he turned to biological research and science teaching. After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees from North Caro lina Central University he was a Senior Research Assistant in the UNC-CH School of Medicine. In 1960 he joined the faculty of North Carolina AAT State University, then moved to Tuskegee Institute to teach and conduct research at the Car ver Foundation His administrative career began at Shaw University in Raleigh where he taught and also served as a di vision chairman and provost. His interest in administration brought him to enroll in the doctoral pro gram in educational administration at Duke Untveraity where, as part of a political science assignment he Interviewed President Friday, Sub & Dr. Cleon F. Thompson Jr. .Veteran administrator ••fluently, he worked in the Ge neral Administration offices on a part-time basis and in lf7S was l;V- * "**"«» to a key position aa vice president for student services and special programs In announcing the appointment, President Friday noted Thompson's substantial contributions in working with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and in the university's fulfillment of obliga tions under Title VI "There have been difficult and painful times - often unjust and unfair - yet. with him, a time for quiet courage be cause a great principle of univer sity existence -- freedom to govern itself - has to be sustained once again.” It was his year as interim chan cellor at North Carolina A&T that led to his interest in heading a university, particularly a historical ly black institution "The decade of the 1990s will be crucial in terms of ensuring that historically black col leges survive," Thompson said "I would like to be a part of that particular effort " He is married to the former fidwina White, Director of the Peer Mentor Program in the office of Student Affairs at North Carolina State University He has one daugh ter, Cleondra Thompson Jones, of Goldsboro. tornado Warning System Expanded me unanoue-MecKlenbirg Emer gency Management Office has an nounced an expanded alert system to notify city and county residents in the event of a tornado warning. A tornado warning means that a tome do has been detected and that per sons should take shelter immediate ly In the future when the National Weather Service issues a tornado warning for Charlotte and Meek lenburg County, the following ac tions will be taken: *• Sound the four community warning sirens located on Laurel Avenue, South Boulevard at Tre mont, Sumter Avenue and South Tryon Street 1 Sound all or part of the sirens located on equipment at Charlotte's 24 fire stations 3. Sound all or part of the 21 sirens located at volunteer fire stations in Mecklenburg County 4. Activate the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) for Meck lenburg County. This service pro vides emergency information to area residents. i "If s tornado warning la issued, we will sound the sirens for three minutes This uninterrupted tone means that residents should turn on their radio* and televisions for emergency information,” said Luther Fincher, acting director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emer gency Management Office.