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Dr. Gregory Headen
'.1; ’ Jerttae Woodley ■;^ ■
.Enjoys cosmetology
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friends to go bowling for fun.
But most of all, jerline enthuses,
“I love being a mother. I love
children, caring and being with •
them and buying them things." ■
About her children, Jerline com
menta, "Raising them in the right
manner is of moat importance to me.
1 want them to learn how to make it
in life independently. To get an
education and to reach for the best In
life.”
Married at the young age of 1»,
Jerline recalls, "1 had no worries
about getting married. I felt I was
ready." She enjoys married life. The
best things about it being, “Sharing
things, and doing things together.”
"I like the way my husband and I
understand each other," Jerline
adds. Her husband is the person this
week's beauty most admires. She
respects him for his accomplish
menta and his kindness. “He’s very,
very supportive,” relates Jerline
“And he’s responsible towards his
family.’’
A native of Huntersville, N.C.,
Jerline has lived in Charlotte three
years. Charlotte is a great city to
her. “The place has more activi
ties," she notes, comparing
Charlotte to Huntersville “There
are a ldt of places you can go here
and enjoy yourself . ”
Jerline describes herself as
having a nice personality “1 can get
along with everybody,” she smiles.
Her plans for her future are to
continue In cosmetology. “To keep
growing in the profession,” she
claims Maybe she’ll own a beauty
shopped one day. And, of course,
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This week’s beauty attends
Ostowbe^eebyterlan Church In
.Marriage Enichtnent
Tit* "Association of COuplea for
Marriage Enrichment" (for mar
rtodoouptea only) will meet on April
SB, Friday, 7:3*4 p.m at the
WomanRaach Canter. ■ -W
FTan and Jim Saxon will be the
boat couple. F
For more information, call a
WomanRaich peer counselor
Monday • Thursday, 1*4 p.m ,
Friday - Saturday, 1M p.m., at
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flggi1,000 Isn h Raised
rThere May Be No Summer
or Anita Stroud’s Kids”
By Loretta Manago
Post Managing Editor
Without $11,000 a 50-year-old tradi
tion of camping in the Anita
Stroud Foundation, Inc. will die a
premature death.
Without $11,000, 50 inner city kids
will miss out on a cultural, nur
turing program that exposes them to
. a different environment.
Without $11,000, the faces of the
children that always beam and glow
at the thought of spending two
weeks at camp will be replaced with
expressions of sadness and dis
appointment
Ethel Guest, director of the Anita
Stroud Program is working hard to
prevent any at those things from
happening. She has made pleas and
continues to solicit donations from
those individuals, organizations and
But Mrs. GliesM»e«!±^rn(ln!^hSp.
According to her, there Is no way of
tallying what will be lost if "Miss
Nita’8” kids miss out on this en
riching experience.
“Right now," she emphasized,
"we have just enough money for
one week of camp. We may not even
have that.”
Facing the grim possibility that
there will be no camp this year, Ms.
Guest, who worked alongside Anita
Stroud for 25 years and assumed
more of the program’s responsibi
lity as Miss Stroud’s health failed,
recalled her own memories of camp.
“We’d start out with 50 kids who
had signed up for camp. But by the
time the bus got under way, we’d
notice there would be some stow
aways. Often we’d have an addi
tional number of 20 kids whose
parents put them on the bus without
a suitcase of clothing or anything.”
Ethel Guest
.Needs community support
Even today, Ms. Guest responded
that as soon as the children have
returned from camp, a number of
them are approaching her and in
quiring about when they can go to
camp again
What is it about camp that causes
such an enthusiastic response from
parents and their children?
As Ms. Guest sees it, camp
provides several outlets for these
kids who often are culturally de
prived. “For one thing, it takes them
out of their environment. For the
first time, many of these kids will
get three, well-balanced meals.
They get good nutrition, as well as
spiritual nourishment.”
Continuing, Ms. Guest added that
the two weeks they spend at camp is
a creative structured program that
exposes the children to music,
arts and crafts, environmental
On Wednesday, April 23
Benjamin Hooks Is NAACP
Freedom Fund Banquet Speaker
By Bonita Hardin
Post Staff Writer ■
Benjamin L. Hooks, national
president of the NAACP, will speak
during the annual Freedom Fund
Banquet sponsored by the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Branch of
the NAACP on Wednesday, April 23,
at 3 p.»n. at the Adam’s Mark Hotel
on S. McDowell St.
Hooks can be readily identified
with Ms association and involve
ment with the oldest civil rights
organisation In the world, the
NAACP. However, his highly suc
cessful career spans a number of
fields. He first gained nationwide
recognition upon his nomination in
1973 to serve on the Federal Com
munications Commission. He be
came the first Mack judge to serve
in the Shelby County (Memphis)
Criminal Courts. Known for his
highly effective and persuasive Ora
became the first national
figure ever to address both
and political conventions in
is also served as a lawyer,
minister and prominent
hooks aiso continues tna naack a
tradition of providing technical and
It a—iatanoa to the Mack
mi barn in MWinhii, TN,
LeMoyne Oailage in
MlIttMtdtMvattty in
oJaurtidJiaiy0 ,
Benjamin Hank.
i' ■ * national president ^
Collage of Law, Chicago, IL
Ha la a World War I! veteran and
•anted In the ttnd Infantry Dlvt
sion campaign In Italy.
A tribute to Kelly Alexander Sr
wlU be presented by the OM
'production#, « real dent theatre .
company ter tea Atav American
Cultural Center OeraMtaia Mason,
member of St. Paul Baptist Church
will do a solo a
Ticket, for the dlmier will be *»
The general public la invltwi to
attend. l; . ”i* t *■
education, recreation and Bible
classes.
Beyond the surface rewards of
camp, Ms. Guest “informed,
“Through camp, we try to develop
within the child, a better self
image and better communication
skills. We try to motivate them to do
well and to develop a love of
learning But most importantly, we
try to give the children a sense of
belonging and worth. So many of
them need that badly.’’
But none of those things will be
accomplished if the money needed to
make this activity a reality isn’t
donated to the Anita Stroud Foun
dation.
The Anita Stroud Program, a
nonprofit organization needs money
not only for camp, but for its other
worthwhile projects also. A program
which has in the past been strong
ly supported by the community, 6u> w
Anita Stroud program seems to have
lost supporters Ms. Guest said that
during the last years of Miss
Stroud's illness and especially since
her death, contributions dropped off
considerably
“I think that a lot of people feel
that since Miss Stroud passed that
her program has ceased to exist.
Even though the money shortage
has become an acute problem since
her death. I want people to know
the Anita Stroud program is
growing stronger and is
flourishing ”
Ms. Guest, a retired art teacher
and an exhibiting artist knows the
blood, sweat and tears Miss Stroud
put in her kids. “She worked too
hard for what she believed in to die
I’m going to do all that I can to keep
the program alive.”
You can, too. Send a tax deduct
ible donation to the Anita Stroud
Foundation, care of St John's
Church, 300 Hawthorne I-ane,
Charlotte, N C 28205
Mayor Harvey B. Gantt was pre-1
sented a special plaque by W T
Hopkins of Professional Business
Systems recently on behalf of the
North Carolina Independent Bus!
ness Forms Distributors and
Manufacturers
April 23 has been officially
recognized “Buckle lip North
Carolina Day" by Governor James
Martin Martin and mayors in cities
statewide were honored at special
plaque presentations in appreciation
for their support in this vital pu
bHc service campaign
Sponsored by the National
Business Forms Association in
Washington D.C., the campaign
goal is to produce enough business
fotms carrying the "Form of
Swety" logo to circle the glebe
Ndrth Carolina is the first state to
sdopt this program on a statewide
hails The N C membership has
«r supported this dhftM
y thousands of forms have
bean manufactured