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THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, November 28, 1985 „ . _ .
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enjoy* the business classes she’s
taxing now. “I love the experience,”
she enthuses. She chose the execu
tive secretary profession because,
Carlotta remarks, “1 like working
with computers and have found busi
ness communications to. be very
interesting, I also love meeting new
people and talking op the tele
phone.” Carlotta says, she will con
tinue bar education ai either Kings
College pr Central ffcdmont Com
munity College, f
Pot fun, this yoiing lady spends
time it the movies, or bowling, or
jogging. “To go to the perk to watch
a baseball game or gat a breeze, Is
nice too,” Carlotta points out. She
also Hkea to; pose for photographs
- and the thought of being e model had
crossed he# mind. Bat being a petite
beauty, elk’s Carlotta had to
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NCM District Manager
Gala Reception Welcomes
Willie Nowlin To Charlotte
Willie Nowlin Jr., newly appointed
manager of the Charlotte district for
the North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Co. (NCM), was officially
welcomed to Charlotte Sunday at a
reception held at McDonald’s Cafe
teria.
Nowlin, 52, a 30-year veteran
with NCM became the seventh man
ager of the company’s Charlotte
district on November 3. Nowlin will
head the Charlotte district office, at
1101 South Boulevard - headquarters
for about 25 sales managers and
agents who work in the Charlotte
area. The area makes up Mecklen
burg and eight surrounding coun
ties.
With an annual Income of about
$1.5 million, the Charlotte district is
the largest of the company’s eight
districts in North Carolina.
At Sunday’s reception, Nowlin, a
Florence. S.C., native, told support
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district will continue as a leader in
the state.
”1 will be an aggressive and
contributing citizen economically
and spiritually while maintaining
excellent service,” Nowlin said.
Nowlin joined NCM in 19M as an
agent in Washington after he grad
uated from South Carolina State
University in Orangeburg, S.C. He
worked for the company for a few
months, and was drafted into the
Array. After serving as an Army
administrative clerk in Germany,
Nowlin went back to Washington to
continue as an agent. From Wash
ington, Nowlin went to Chicago as
NCM’s staff manager of the South
side Chicago office. He was trans
ferred back to Washington to the
company's northeast district office.
In January 1971, Nowlin was pro
moted to district manager of the
Charleston, S.C., district. He
became manager of the Goldsboro
district office in 1978.
Nowlin and his wife, Sarah, also of
Florence, are parents of five
children: Leon, 22; Brenda, 20;
Willie Nowlin, Charlotte district manager of North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. (I.), Mr. and Mrs.
Kennedy <c.), and Mayor Harvey Gantt <r.), strike up
an amiable conversation at the recent reception held
for Nowlin at McDonald s Cafeteria (Photo by Bernard
Reeves)
Andre, 19; Kervin, 17; and Sharon,
11. I
At a meeting last week with
Charlotte district sales managers
and agents, Nowlin challenged the
group to become the No. 1 district in
the country. He painted a positive
picture of Charlotte, citing the grow
ing number of middle class blacks
and corporations, all of which he
considers potential policyholders.
William J. Kennedy III, president
and chairman of the board of direc
tors for the Durham-based North
Carolina Mutual, called Nowlin “a
long-time member of North Carolina
Mutual who will be doing a great job
for Charlotte and for you ”
Kennedy cited the Charlotte dis
trict as "the largest area in our
(North Carolina) market,” ahead of
the second-place Raleigh-Durham
district.
Kennedy also recalled the com
pany’s long history In Charlotte: The
Charlotte district opened in 1906 in
the old Second Ward community and
today has about 20,000 policyholders
in the immediate Charlotte area.
Connia Watson Jr., NCM vice
president and Agency Director, who
served as master of ceremonies at
Sunday’s reception, called North
Carolina Mutual "one of the finest
businesses in America and one of the
largest black businesses in
America "
The company, with a million black
policyholders in the country, is the
nation’s largest black insurance
company. North Carolina Mutual
ranks about 150 in the insurance
industry.
The elegant cookie-and-punch re
ception was hosted by Charlotte
Mayor Harvey Gantt and was at
tended by about 200 NCM officials,
employees and policyholders and
community leaders
Gantt was applauded when he re
vealed he is an NCM policyholder.
“When I was a senior at Clemson
(University) and married, a North
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Bhfk Churches Should:
People To Economic Prosperity
By Jalyite strong
Poet SUM Writer
"Why aren't the black churches
doing something to help educate end
mdttvate black people to economic
prosperity?" a caller to a religious
radio talk show asked. A few
minutes later, another caller re
sponded, “The church is not a place
to discuss money. It is a place for
saving souls."
"The church cannot save the soul
and lose the body," assures Rev. A.
B. Sutton, pastor of Ebenetsr Bap
• 1st Church. -
j And the debate begins
■ 'Whet role should and could the
black church play in the strive for
Made community economle parity?
"You can take all this world But
■t Give Me My Jssus,”go the words of
taught to adhere? Discussions with
Rev. Sutton, Bishop l. Howard
***** of 0»Pentecostal TWn
4 L,
r tor
Plague* of Mack people: unemploy
meat, black-on-black crime, atngle
family houaehoMa. drug abuse,
to*ftT SSntSttm&S S£d?
tloa of black neighborhood*
If the black preacher baa the ear
o# the largest concentrated groups of
Nastf Majeed
.WT8FRMA presMeat .
bualiMMM and creating business
ee. We have to get out of the
syndrome that there is nothing on
earth for us. an is in heaven "
“Week pastors hive to take the
whodatic approach,” mandates
Majeed "As far as a human being is
eoneerned, spirituality is very tm
portent but the economic aspect la
part of the whole also, tt is 1m
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fat (he material world.'
Rut genera By, there Is far more to
Rev. A. B. Sutton
-Ebeneser Baptist Church pastor
the economic plight «' blacks than
the securing af money For It is com
monly known (hat blacks handle
billions. BILLIONS, of dollars The
essential problem is blacks are not
keeping the billions in their com
munity, thus creating an economic
void. "We spend only • • percent of
our money with other blacks,”
states Majeed And here be points to
the problem of images "It Is the
he claim* ''images which
support a Caucasion superiority
complex and a black inferiority
complex.” '
What type of white superiority
images can be found in (he church.
How many showcase a blue eyed
Jesus? “We also have images of
angels with white faces and golden
hair,” agrees Bishop Sherman.
“Remove the images Remove that
problem, ' claims Majeed. “Our
religious institutions can play a very
important part in setting our minds
in the proper order.”
In another matter, though he
agrees that ministers have a re
sponsibility to address the economic
problems in the black community,
Rev. Sutton brings up a Just point:
“Black prachers wear to many hats
as it is He blesses the born, buries
the dead, counsels the troubled,
marries the wed, preaches the sal
vation gospel to the lost, preaches
the strengthening gospel to the
saved He Is the business admin
istrator, psychQlogiat. and some
times the scapegoat
“And most often the black com
munity t» not interested in what Ret
thinks about how they handle their
money,” Sutton reveals. "They
think ministers are not knowledge
able in that area.
“But,” he points out, "all the
money I spend is black. All the
money black pastors manage coma
fr<m the black community.” A fact
which should directly involve the
black pastor in regard for the eco
nomics at the black community.
Bishop Sherman believes that
many pastors have succumbed to*
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