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Post Staff Writer
Attractive Michelle rielda le
carving out a career in modeling for
herself. Add, the le-year-old
Independence High Sdtwl sopho
more Is being helped along by her
mother and manager.
Michelle says she became inte
rested fat modeling by way of her
mother, who has previously done
modeling wort. "I picked it up from
her," Michelle reveals, concerning
this chosen profession. As far as
her own modeling ambitions, this
week’s beauty contends, "My
mother’s 100 percent behind me.
She's very helpful."
Such support is essential to
Michelle, who notes that breaking
Into the modeling Held la grueling
hard work. For Instance, ^Michelle is
right now working on getting
together e MO- to lOOfage portfolio
“That’s five to six hours taking
P*ctnres, without breaks, and taking
them over end over until I get It
right," she relates.
A portfolio, says Michelle, "can
make or break" a modeling career.
Therefore she’s intent on making
hers as perfect as possible. She does
her best in front of the camera and
Ernest Mackey, Michelle’s photo
grapher and manager, handles the
rest.
"Modeling is something I really
want to do," Michelle states earnest
ly. “It’s in me. I’m leanjt£ dif
ferent things every day. IB it’s
going to all pay off in the end?’
Then, her modeling enthtMasm
notwithstanding, Michelle points out
that she has another interest. She
plans to attend college, either
Spelman dr Howard, as a student of
computer engineer!^
"Computer* are real interesting,"
•ays Michelle, "I like using my mind
to figure out problems on them.”
An added Incentive towards her
considering the computer field is,
according to Michelle, "the wages
are real high."
Describing hersalf as "outgoing,
and eager to learn,” MichaOe lists
her favorite activities as "going to
the movies, eating plus, going out
with friends, especially to bashatball
games, talking on the telephone and,
of course, modeling.”
She's a native New Yorker who
claims she likes Charlotte. "But
Charlotte is so small,” Michelle
laments. "It will be hard to start a
career here.”
Michelle says she’ll probably
move back to New York once she’s
ready to seriously embark on her
careers. For her, modeling will be a
part-time activity, while she con
centrates moreso on her computer
career. She claims that there are
good points about modeling, such
as: "meeting new people and
traveling” but it is not the stablest of
professions.
Michelle learned such things
about modeling from her mother,
Dorothy Taylor, whom she says is
her absolute favorite person. "She’s
not only a mother but a friend,"
Michelle reveals. "She’s always
there when I need her."
She also learned about per
severance, the act of which is
definitely getting her through.
Asked her advice for others,
Michelle declares, "Don’t give up
You can jump over walls or you can
bust through them, too.’’
Neighborhood Circulation
Contest Kicks Off Monday
By Joe Brown
Post Staff Writer
Seven more established neighbor
hood organizations join the already
rising number of area neighbor
hoods this week to participate in the
Charlotte Post’s "Neighborhood of
the Year Circulation Campaign.”
The campaign unites the neighbor
hoods with the Charlotte Post to
create a mutual and professional
relationship between public and
media. The Post will kick-off this
city-wide campaign Monday,
March 17.
The organization leaders of the
newly joining neighborhoods are
entbueed about the program and the
benefits ..it has to offer their
communities. “We are ready to
Incited organization
leader, Velma Looey, the new
Alexander, Pitts Drive. Residents^
Organization; Ms. Betty Sanders,
Washington Heights Community
Association; Ms. Annie Massey,
Dillehey Courts; Ms. Louise Sellers,
Biddleville-Five Points Community;
Ms. Ellen Sanders, Ramblewood
Neighborhood; Ms. Juanita
Crawford, Seversville Community
Organization; and Ms. Velma
Loney, Westside Village Community
Tenants Association.
The first four weeks of the
campaign will feature a contest with
a grand prize of $1,000 to the
organization that sells the greatest
amount of subscriptions over 100
plus commission of sales. The
second place winners will receive
$500 plus commission. The third
place winners will receive $250 plus
commission. The fourth place
winners will receive $100 plus
commission and the fifth place
winners will receive $50 plus
commission.
Many of the neighborhood leaders
spoke about many uses for the
money that will be gained through
the subscription campaign.
"We will be able to take trips and
provide events for the children like
cookouts and parties. We are going
to officially start on the 10th,"
asserts Ms. Massey
"The money gained will be used to
operate expenses for our neighbor
hood. We want to revitalize our
neighborhood and we also need to
hire an executive for our area," Ms.
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.KtmhUrwood leader
Sellers claims.
The subscription program allows
the neighborhood organizations to
have a continuous funding source of
their own to help in their area needs
and programs. In addition, the
neighborhoods can call in their
community news to increase the
awareness of the entire Charlotte
community to the neighborhoods
that make it up.
The response of working hard to
provide for the needs of their neigh
borhoods reflects in the voices of the
area leaders. “The money will go
toward getting more software for
the computers at the Learning
Center. It will also help in getting
books for the black library, ” assures
Ms. Daisy Alexander
“It will help finance our com
munity with a new entrance sign,”
reveals Ms Sanders.
Program coordinator Joe Brown
plans to work closely and provide
assistance in the progress of each
and every organization participat
ing in the campaign.
“It is important for the organiza
tions' leaders to keep in contact with
me during the first few weeks of the
See NEIGHBORHOOD On Page 15A
Black High School Graduates
At Record High, Bureau Says
Special To The Post
Three-fourths of young blacks -
nearly three million -- were high
school graduates in 1984, according
to a report from the Commerce
Department's Census Bureau
The rate of high school comple
tions has improved for blacks age
18-24, from 56 percent and 13
million graduates in 1967 when such
statistics were first tabulated
The number of young blacks en
rolled in college also grew in the
period, from 300,000 to 800,000
Twenty-seven percent of the grad
uates were enrolled In college in
1984, four percentage points higher
than in 1967 One of the highest
college attendance rates for black
high school graduates was in 1976,
when one-third were enrolled
For whites the proportion who
were high school graduates rose
from 78 percent in 1967 to 83 percent
in 1984, and the proportion of grad
uates enrolled in college remained
near one-third
The proportion of the Spanish
origin population age 18-24 who were
high school graduates rose from
one-half in 1972 when the data first
were tabulated to 60 percent in 1984
The proportion enrolled in college
did not vary from 30 percent.
Mayfield Memorial Baptist Church
To Observe Its 17th Anniversary
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Mayfield Manorial Baptist
Church win obeerve its 17th anal
vsrsary as aa organised Church
FeUoWthip o« Sunday, March is,
during the 11 o’olock Worship lor
vice,
Bar. John Milton BurreU, pastor
of Prince of Peace Baptist Charah in
Akron. Ohio, win be the special
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ini; a Baale Adult Education
Schoo^apenai la 1V77; aad ground
Novambar ltn, for the areetiea of a
new wnctuary.
In 1*T7, approximately two more
acraa of land wore aurohaoed at the
corner of Sugar Creek Rd and
Muntee St. to eerve aa a parking lot
lUv. Mm M. Sorrell &
.apeelei guest speaker
In INS, the church fellowship
purchased another acre ofland and
two houaes on Sugar Creek ltd. The
Sugar Creek Ad School of Religion
was opened at Mayfield In 1M3 In
December, INS, Mayfield held
groundbreaking ceremonies for the
erection of six units of housing forthe
elderly and handicapped on an S.4
acre tract on Oneida ltd. The unite
are built around a two-acre lake and
are known as Mayfield Memorial
Apartments
Mayfield Is affiliated with Mt
Peace Association and Its au
xiliaries, Mecklenburg Association,
Mecklenburg County Missionary
Union, General Baptist State Con
vention of N.C., Lott Carey Foreign
Missionary Convention, Progressive
National Baptist Convention of
America, Inc., National Council of
Churches, and the World Baptist
Alliance.
In 1U mlulon and education
thruats, Mayfield glvea financial
support to the Mt. Peace Associa
tion, Mecklenburg Association,
Mecklenburg County Union, General
Baptist SUte Convention of N.C.,
J.J. Johnson Baptist Assembly, Lott
Carey Foreign Missionary Conven
tion, Central Orphanage of Oxford,
N.C., Mayfield Memorial Day Care
Center, Sugar Creek Road School of
Religion, Friendship College of
Rock Hill, S.C., Shaw University of
Raleigh, N.C., Shaw Divinity Sated
of Raleigh, N.C , Morehouse School
of Religion in Atlanta, Oa.,
NAACP, United Negro College
Fund, Christian Rehabilitation
Center of Charlotte, N.C., and pays
the salary of a teaching missionary
in Haiti. Through the Foreign
Mission Bureau of The Progressive
National Baptist Convention 01
America, Inc., Mayfield sponsored
an African student for 2l* years and
the student received a degree In
diesel mechanics at Central Pied
mont Community College.
With approximately 40 auxiliaries
working within the Mayfield church,
the church seeks to minister to the
total man.
Mayfield's special gueet for Its
anniversary celebration, Rev.
Burrell, Is a graduate of Michigan
Baptist Theological Seminary and
Cornua Bible College.
Rev. Burrell served ss President
of Akron Ministerial Alliance,
Baptist Conference of Akron and
Vicinity, Chairman of Civic Com
mittee of the Alliance and Con
ference, member of Akron's Human
Relations Commission, Pair Hous
ing Contact Commission, Senior
Qtlsen’s Commission, and Boadi*
Commission of Akron, Ohio. He has
also served ss Secretary and
teacher In the Progressive National
Baptist Congress of Christian Edu
cation, member of The Christian
Education Board of the same
Congress, Executive Board of
Progressive National Raptint
Convention, and President of the
Midwest Region of The Progressive
National Baptist Convention, bus.