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Schedule
Workshop
The North Carolina Democratic
Youth Council will hold its biennial
winter seminar February l at
Meredith. College in Raleigh. The
seminar includes workshops in cam
paign organization; publicity, fund
raising and membership for youth
organizations; get-out-the-vote and
voter registration, the luncheon
speaker will be Senator Paul
Simon (D-IL).
North Carolina Young Demo
crats President Kathy Wilson said
she expects over 400 Democrats to
participate. "For the first time,
young Democrats, including Teen
Dems, College Dams, and YDs, will
be assigned specific roles in tar
geted congressional and legislative
races. We’re getting ready to do our
part."
Wilson expressed appreciation for
the Democratic leaders who are
supporting the seminar. Attorney
General Lacy Thornburg is provid
ing a continental breakfast from 9
-10 a.m. before the seminar begins at
Due to the support of theae Demo
cratic candidates and officehold
ers, all events are free to seminar
participants. .
College Democrats President
James Vann said that there was
much enthusiasm about the lunch
eon speaker, Illinois Senator Paul
Simon. “Senator Simon has led the
fight to protect college loans and
grants, and he has always involved
young people in his campaigns,”
said Vann. “He’s probably one of the
smartest people in Washington. It’s
a great opportunity to get to meet
him and hear him talk."
For more information about the
seminar, call Harry Kaplan at 919
821-3777. • ,
Golden Bulk Face
Winston-Salem State
Saturday
•{ The Bulls are on the road Saturday
•'at Winston-Salem State In a 7:30
; p m hookup with the Rams.
The Rams are on top of the
: Southern Division and have
; emerged as a top challenger to the
- Bulls ar\$l St. Augustine’s.
The Bulls are led in scoring by
■ Dante Johnson 10.0; Vincent Brown
: 15.9; Jeff Erwin 11.1; Rodney
! Richardson 0.0; and Reggie Moses
6.6.
Vincent Brown is one of the lead
ing three point shooters in the CIAA
with 17 of 38 including a fine four of
five performance at St Augustine’s.
The leading rebounder for the
Bulls Is Daote Johnson with 9.1 per
puns.
Vincent Brown is leading in assists
with 5.5 per game. <■
leading field goal shooter on
KteU Mf Erwin with a 63.0
Happiness makes up In height
;; for what it lacks in length ^
14-Year-Old lesha Gist
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Iesha Gist spends Fun
Time Shopping At Kndanii
By Jalyne Strong
Pott Staff Writer
Fourteen-year-old, Iesha Gist is
this week's beauty. An eighth grade
student at J. T. Williams Junior
High School, she's a member of the
Eighth Grade Chorus; an assistant
to her physical education teacher
and she plays junior varsity girls’
basketball.
Iesha has played basketball since
she was in the seventh grade at J. T.
“I went out with a friend and liked it,
so I stayed,” she recalls of her first
experience with the game: Her po
sition is forward and “shooting
from the free throw line” is the best
part of the game to Iesha. “It’s the
easiest shot to make,” she admits
with a smile. Iesha informs, J.T.
Williams girls’ varsity has won two
games and lost four. But who’s
counting?
inis young may also enjoys U>e
sport when she’s not in school. “I
play with friends at Sugaw Creek
Park sometimes,” she tells. The
boys give the girls respect on the
courts ~ in a way, according to
Iesha. “But then again they don’t,”
she counters. "They find some of the
things we do to be funny. Such as,
walking all the time and playing
wild,” she laughs
When Iesha and her friends put
down the basketball, they like to
spend more fun time at Eastland
Mall for shopping. Iesha says she
; likes buying shaker sweaters and
stretch pants. “Sometimes
dresses.” she adds.
This week’s beauty alsoJlkes to go
to the movies and walk around her
neighborhood visiting friends.
Her musical enjoyment is pro
vided by New Edition; "They’re
cute guys plus they can sing,” Iesha
praises She’s also partial to the
' nice voice" of Whitney Houston
These days, this young lady is
weighing the options of a career in
modeling or one in architecture. “I
like clothes and have been told my
small slse would be gaod for mo
deling.” Iesha relates aa her assets
for a fashion job. Aa fer arcMtec
Election Board Meet*
mas,
ture, Iesha says, "I want to be able
to do blueprints.” Her dream is to
build her own home, one which is
“sort of big with plenty of windows.”
Describing herself as “quiet at
times and sometimes wild,” Iesha
says the best thing about being 14 is
"being able to get boy phone calls.”
Laughing, she reveals that she
spends a lot of her time thinking
about "school and boys.”
Yet, Iesha’s mother has nothing to
worry about, she’s still her daugh
ter’s favorite person. Iesha admires
her mother, Caroline, she notes,
“because she holds a Job and takes
care of her family and it doesn’t
bother her at all.” ,
Iesha’s siblings are Tanica, 12,
and Mike, 17. A middle child, this
week’s beauty says the position suits
her fine. “I would have liked to have
had an older sister, though,” she
confesses.
Iesha attends New Hope Baptist
Church.
Right Rev. Ruben Speaks Is CMF Guest Speaker
By Jalyne Strong
Pont Staff Writer
Right Rev. Ruben L. Speaks,
presiding prelate of the Eighth
Episcopal District of the AME Zion
Church, will be instructor and key
speaker for a three-day seminar and
worship service, sponsored by the
Christian Minister’s Fellowship of
Charlotte, February 4-4 The pro
gram will be held at C. N. Jenkins
Memorial Presbyterian Church, lo»'j
* cated at 14X1 States vine Ave. Rev.
George C. Goodman is boat paster
* The Christian Minister's Fellow
ship. an Interdenominational or
annually DrJrt^g'tMgga, pastor of
Mayfield Memorial Baptist Church,
l* j^esioeni at me r eiiownnip. hot.
J. T White ef Walls Memorial AME
Zien is tie# president or.
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Local church choir* will provide
music for the worship asrviaes
Bishop Speaks Is recogslsed as
one of the nation's leading scholars
and sermoniiers. Me was bom in
Lake Providence, Louisiana, whore
he received Ms aarUast training.
La tar, ha received hit A.B. degree
from Drake University, Dae Moines.
Iowa, his matter's of divinity de
gree from Drew Theological Se
minary. Madison, *1.4., and S.T.M.
degree from Temple University.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bishop Speaks served as an in
Bishop Rohe* Spooks
.Seminar Instructor
■tractor of Systematic Theology at
Hood Theological Seminary, Living
stone Collage, Salisbury, N.C., and
has pastored a few of the major
churches of the AME Zion
denomination.
In 1173, ho was elected the 78th
Bishop of the AME Zion Church and
for eight years tarred as presiding
Bishop in West Africa.
A.regular contributor to several
religious journals, Bishop Speaks
has also authored the following
books: "Higher Catechism for
Ministers and Lay Leaders," "The
Rev. George C. Goodman
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Minister and His Task,” “The
Church and Black Liberation,”
“God in an Age of Scarcity,” and
"Prelude to Pentecost: A Theology
of the Holy Spirit.”
Additionally, he is affiliated with
many religious and civic organisa
tions includii* the Greater Com
munity World Methodist Council,
World Council of Churches, Na
tions! Academy of Arts and Set -
encee, the National Council of
Churches, and the NAACP Ha fc
chairman of the Overseas Mission
Board of A ME Zion Church
Jacob: Economic Recovery
Fails To Reach Blacks
The present economic recovery
has failed to reach black America
where the income level now is lower
than it was at the start of the 1980
recession leaving it in the grips of
the most severely depressed eco
nomic condition of the past-war
period, John E. Jacob, President of
the National Urban League (NUL),
declared here last week as he re
leased the NUL’s annual report on
the status of blacks, “The State of
Black America-1986.'’
Speaking of the mood within black
America, Mr. Jacob said:
“There is a growing movement
within this community that empha
sizes doing more for ourselves. And
it is not a movement of despair, but
rather one of high hopes borne out of
the conviction that while we cannot
change some circumstances, there
are many things that we can do to
ment assistance is "indispensible
such as hunger, poverty and unem
ployment.” He added:
“A major challenge in the coming
year will be to reorder national
priorities, for we can’t allow people
to suffer more-they’ve already been
driven to the wall by earlier cuts in
survival programs that helped in
crease poverty and hunger in this
rich land.”
To deal with unemployment-and
specifically black male unemploy
ment which Mr. Jacob said has had
a "devastating” effect on black
America--he proposed (1) the
establishment of a National Youth
Employment Program that includes
John Jacob
4' .NUL president
erfunfefg. training and wort coin
■ a Universal Employ
ment and Training System that
would guarantee the unemployed
productive work and the skills
training necessary to obtain and
hold a job; and (3) the establish
ment of a full employment policy
that would have a multitude of ele
ments including macro-economics
policies and tax reforms that sti
mulate expanded economic activity
and encourage maximum use of the
less skilled and educated workers.
Describing the Reagan Adminis
tration's civil rights record as
“voodoo civil rights," he said that
while professing to be supportive of
civil rights, the Administration has
shown by its deeds that it is actually
against civil rights and deserves the
observation of the Leadership Con
ference on Civil Rights that it has
"the worst civil rights record of any
administration in more than half a
century."
This year’s edition of ’’The State of
Black America” contains eight _
papers prepared by outstanding ex
perts in their fields The papers and
authors are:
"The Case For Social Policy,” Dr.
Bernard E Anderson, Visiting
Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International
Affairs, Princeton University;
“National Housing Policies and
Black America: Trends, Issues, and
Implications,” Professor John O
Calmore, Associate Professor of
Law, North Carolina Central Uni
versity, School of Law; "The
Black Middle Class: Past, Present
and Future,” Dr. Robert B. Hill,
Visiting Professor of Sociology at
the University of Pennsylvania;
"Teenage Pregnancy; The Impli
cations for Black Americans.” Dr.
Joyce A. Ladner. Professor of Social
Work, Howard University.
‘"BeyondCivil R,ight»” Dr. Glenn
C. Loury, Professor of Public Po
licy at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard
University; “Equity and Excel
lence: An Educational Imperative,”
Dr. Charles D Moody Sr., Profes
sor of Education and Director of the
Program for Educational Oppor
tunity, and the Center for Sex Equity
in Schools. University of Michi
gan; "Political Choices: A Realign
ment in Partisanship Among Black
Voters,” Dr. Dianne M Pinder
hughes, Assistant Professor of Po
litical Science and Afro-American
Studies and Research Program,
University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign; “Economic Status of
Blacks 1985," Dr, David H Swinton,
Director, Southern Center for
Studies in Public Policy, Clark
College.
Special Service Planned For Visually Impaired
Duke Power Company this week
announced a special service for the
visually impaired.
“From January 27, customers
who are visually impaired will be
able to receive billing information
and valuable energy saving ideas
printed in Braille,” said Fred West,
vice president for Duke’s Charlotte
division. “This service, called Ener
gy Information in Braille, will be
available at no cost to the custom
er."
Customers who participa te in this
program will continue to receive
their regular bill, which they will use
for payment purposes. Two to three
days after they receive their regular
bill, the customer will receive bill
ing information and a copy of
Currents printed in Braille Cur
rents is a Duke Power publication
that provides customers tips on how
to save energy and hold down costs
It is included with monthly bills
Other special materials or an
nouncements mailed to Duke Power
customers during the monthly bill
ing process will also appear in
Braille