• —£- •
Rev. George E. Battle Jr. ^
.Gethsemane’* pastor
NANBPW
.
To Honor 12
Miranda Mack, Community Rela
tions Field Manager at ttoa Adolph
Coow Company, will be the keynote
speaker for the Charlotte Club of the
National Association of Negro Busi
and Professional Women’s
;Clubs, Inc.’s ninth annual Founder’s
i*Day-Awards Luncheon. The event
■„wiU he held on Saturday, April a,
“Center ** McDon*,d’8 Banquet
> Several persona from the Char
> lotte community will be recognized
-/or their outstanding contributions
to the Club and the community,
namely: Jamee Barksdale, Rev.
.George Battle, Nathaniel macks, .
George Goodman, Bill
: Johnson, Rev. E. B, Newberry and
-^Thomas Taylor.
:
•’Others to be honored are: Esther
-«tergrave, for Community Service;
- Jticole Willis, in Youth Achleve
-tnent; Mary GUI, In Professional
‘Achievement; Connie Smith, Club
’Appreciation; and Dorothy
Lipecomb, Sojourner Truth-Award.
Tickets, at a cost of HO each, may
*$• purchased by contacting
gfbercsea Elder at 598-1681 or Anna
?Hood at 333-4685 after 5:30 p.m.
- Proceeds wUl benefit the Club's
Z scholarship fund for worthy students.
• Minority Affairs
;• The Mecklenburg County Office of
Minority Affair* ia in the process of
compiling a Minority Directory.
Any local minority business, or
or church that wishes to
should contact the
of Minority Affairs, 336-4100,
grtOO N. Tryon St. Deadline is April
. . — _ will offer a
’ Personal Growth Support Group the
first and third Mondays each
month beginning in April and con
? Uniting through June from 7-6:30
* p.m. at the WomanReach-North
' Center, Davidson Community
- Center, Davidson, facilitated by
I Jabe Taylor. Call 808-3349 to register.
The WomanReach Center is a
- United Way Agency. The facilities
: are handicapped accessible and
- services are freely given and freely
*?received. /V .
For more information, call a
WomanReach peer counselor
Monday - Thursday 10-8 p.mi, Fri
: -day and Saturday 10-4 p.m., at
::»4^814.
: Absentee Ballots
:• Registered Mecklenburg voters
-! who are physically unable to enter
::the voting-place, are 111, disabled,
-rfeeWe, or who will be out of the
county May 6, are eligible to vote by
absentee ballot. The balloting in
cludes Democratic and Republican
- primaries for U.S. Senate, Board of
v County Commissioner seats, four
l Charlotte-Mecklenburg School
Board seats and two statewide
D questions TO obtain an absentee
; ballot, write the Mecklenburg
County election Office, 741
t Kenilworth Avenue, Charlotte, N.C.
SjiaaM. Deadline for filing absentee
ballots for the May 8 primary is
Tuesday, April».
Carolina T&T Establishes Memorial
Scholarship Fund
. r By Jo* Brown
Past Staff Writer •**-'
XjQw Carolina Telephone and '
Telegraph Company salutes one of
history’s black leaders by donating
money to establish the Kelly M.
Alexander ST. Memorial Scholarship
Fluid. The fund is named after the
late Kelly M. Alexander Sr., who
was president of the North Carolina
NAACP and served as Chairman of
the NAACP’s national board of
directora.
_
During 1988 three scholarships
wtU be awarded of $1,000 each for the
1980-87 academic year. The scholar
ship* will be distributed so that one
student will be selected from the
Eastern, Piedmont, and Western
Regions of the state.
Kelly M. Alexander Sr. became
president of the North Carolina
NAACP in 1948 and served as
president for 35 years. He also
served as the Chairman of the
NAACP national board of directors
since the early 1960s. Mr. Alexander
contributed during his public career
his steadfast devotion to youth
development and training for
leadership. Kelly M Alexander Sr.
served the last 13 years of his life as
the number one volunteer in the
NAACP. Mr. Alexander is featured
in the May 1965 edition of Crisis
magazine, giving him a memorial
tribute. He leaves two sons, Alfred
and Kelly and wife Margaret.
“He was a man of his convictions. -
He truly loved young people.
Throughout his life, he spent most of
his time steering them in the right
direction. That was something about
him that was for real,” praised his
son Kelly Alexander Jr. v
The Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company created the
scholarship fund to recognize signi
ficant persons and hopes that other
“corporations would do the same
thing in the future to help scholar
ship funds to grow.”
Hie eligibility rules and appli
cation forms are beh* sent to area
high schools to the guidance coun
selor* and all NAACP chapters in
the state. Other applications can
also be found at Alexander Funeral
Home, 1X2 N. Irwin Avenue,
333-11S7.
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