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Monique Morrow
.Sports enthusiast
'r' By Jalyae Strong
Sixteen-year-old Monique Marrow
^graduating from J.T. Williams
Juaior High School this month and
, she’s very much looking forward to
attending Harding «gh School next
fall.
Tm eager to see what high school
is like,” says the beauty. “I want to
see how much I can accomplish.”
Monique enjoyed her yean in
Junior Sigh, noting, ”1 loaned a
Tot.” She participated in volleyball
aa an extracurricular activity
A sports enthusiast, this week’s
beauty claims she loves all sports. In
her leisure time she plays tennis,
swims, and jogs, p
For bar future prospects, Monique
B loafcjng towards a dual career
First of all, she’s interested
•octal work pcnfeseul
working with children,
mentions Monique. “
answer for everything,” she smiles,
explaining why she chose this career
field.
Monique, who’s currently an
amateur model, is also coosidsring
expanding her modelii^ work into
the professional realm. “I’d like to
model in my spare time,” she has
decided. Modeling for her will only
be a part-time Job because Monique
feels it’s not a reliable line of work.
However, since she’s participated on
the Belk’s Teen Board and in the
Pink Dress Pageant at Barber
Scotia College as a model, Monique
is still attracted to the work,
especially taking pictures.
As a matter of fact, a career in
modeling is the primary thotq(ht
that stays on Monique’s mind these '
days "I wander what it will be like
to model in a couple of years,”
comments the attractive, 5’6” tall
young lady. Realizing that the ambi
Griffin Vows To Stay Involved
Although school board candidate
Arthur Griffin received more votes
on Tuesday’s runoff than be did In
the May primary. It wasn't enough
to make him one of the winners
! Despite the results, Griffin has
fvery reason to bold his heed high
he finished very close to second
place winner Karen Gaddy.
It was really ctoee," Griffin
stated. "We ran a good in
my opinion. We worked really herd.
I’m pleased with the effort that went
Into the cefipalgn.
“I’m going to continue to be
involved with public education,” be
continued. “I’ll do whatever I can to
advocate for black youngsters in the
school system, as well as all
children.”
OrtWln aald he doesn't know if he’ll
run again tar school board. He
Intends to devote a lot of time
developing the Charlotte chapter of
the National Balck Child Develop
1 meat Institute, of which he to presi
tion will probably entail hard work,
Monique relates, “I can handle it.”
She describes herself as “talk
ative and outgoing.” And further
portrays herself as a “nice, under
standing young lady.”
For fun, Monique goes to the
movies and out with frietxfc She
loves shopping, music and some
dancing. She prefers the sounds of
Fatti La Belle, Luther Vandross,
Janet Jackson and Stephanie Mills
over most recording artists and she
doesn’t like breakdancing, rather
she takes to dancing with slower
moves.
The oldest child in her family, this
week’s beauty has one sister,
Mekole Miston, two, and one
brother, Furhann, five-years-old.
She likes being the oldest and
concedes she really didn’t have
much choice about it. It’s not too
difficult for her being the one with
the moat responsibility, Monique
claims she doesn’t have to babysit
too often.
The greatest lesson she feels she
has learned in her 16 years is, offers
Monique, “always listen to your
mother because she’s right most of
the time.” Her mother, Mary, is the
person she most admires. “No
matter what happens she always
stands by me," relates Monique
Asked her advice to other teenage
young ladles, this week’s beauty’s
reply Is straight and to the point.
“Stay In school and do the right
thing,” she irgss.
Monique attends East Stonewall
AME Zion Church.
Why Aren’t Black Male
Assistant Principals
Being Promoted?
By Audrey C. Lodato
Post Staff Writer
Are the school system’s black
male assistant principals really
unqualified to be promoted to princi
pal? That’s what former Charlotte
Mecklenburg school superintendent
Dr. Jay Robinson would have every
one believe.
Not everyone agrees, obviously. ■
Principals are ostensibly selected
from a pool of applicants throuah a
screening, a cut-off point is desig
nated, and those above it make up
the pool from which principals may
be selected.
Sounds fair enough.
But somewhere along the line,
objectors say, something is amiss.
Spaugh Junior High principal Bob
Davis doesn’t mince words when he
says, "I think it’s outright dis
crimination.” Davis has been a
principal since before the schools
became integrated. As a principal'
he has been Involved on the screen
ing teams.
"If you’re not fit to be a principal,
you’re not fit to be assistant
principal,” he states. Under prior
administrations, Davis says, the
position of assistant principal was
the training ground for the top
positions in the schools. Dr
Robinson, however, has made it
clear that one will not necessarily
lead to the other.
Area superintendent Kathleen
“Kat” Crosby cautions however,
against making a racial issue of the
situation, saying it was just a single
episode. "Numberwise, we are very
highly respectable,” she remarks.
"I’m not ashamed of our track
record, but we can do better."
Crosby thinks some assistant prin
cipals who were not promoted are
ready for the Job. “I think one (black
male) could have been included,”
she says.
Sam Caldwell, assistant principal
at West Mecklenburg High School,
comments, "There are some very
talented blade assistant principals
.Area superintendent
who operate the schools on a day-to
day basis. Surely there ought to be
some who ought to be promoted, but
Dr. Robinson said he couldn’t find
any.” Many are capable of operat
ing the schools, he says, and if some
are as incompetent as Dr. Robinson
has implied, then they shouldn’t be
assistant principals.
Caldwell thinks the screening pro
cess itself is a fair one. The pro
blem, he says, is that an appli
cant gets the impression he has done
very well and then learns his score
is low. In fact, he adds, an appli
cant’s score seems to get worse over
the years, indicating that older
applicants are seen as less desir
able Caldwell has been an assist
ant principal for eight years.
"A lot of us feel the process is a way
of choosing whomever they choose,”
Caldwell states. The superintendent,
he says, has not been sensitive to
minorities.
But in all fairness, he admits that
many white males have experienced
the same kind of frustration in not
being promoted to principal. “A lot
of people want to come to Charlotte
Mecklenburg," he says. “The
system can pick and choose. You
have to be the very best "
Talmadge McDow Jr., who was
recently named Assistant Principal
of the Year for North Carolina, says
he continues to be amazed that
assistant principals can hold the
same certification as principals, be
given excellent evaluations from
year to year, and yet be considered
unqualified for the higher level Job
•* Bob*ftravl»' ’ rfV
.Spaugh principal
McDow has been an assistant
principal a total of 13 years. He
presently serves in that capacity at
Myers Park High School.
In his view) “it’s been a problem
all along” but has been heightened
in the past several years, he says.
The screening process could be
objective, but it comes subjective in
the end result, he contends, echoing
Caldwell’s comment that applicants
have gone through the process
thinking they’ve done well, only to
receive low scores.
While in some school systems, the
assistant principal position is an end
in itself, at CMS that is not the case
“It lends itself to being a training
ground for principals,” he states.
School board member Arthur
Griffin, one of four who voted
against the principal assignments
last week, is concerned about a
lack of black male role models. He
also says he fears that talented
black male assistant principals are
turned off by the whole process or
become discouraged.
Caldwell states that some become
disappointed, hurt, or angry and feel
the area superintendents don’t help
Croeby admits those who have
advanced could do a better job of
acting as mentors for aspiring
assistant principals. “I think all of
us could do a better job of giving
them exposure, ” she states. She also
thinks applicants need honest feed
back about what’s keeping them
from promotion. Some also need
practice with their interview skills,
she says.
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Freedom Fighter Spiver Gordon
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To Speak At Juneteenth Celebration
AlabamaTfroedom fighter Spiver
Gordon will to the keynote speaker
•t thte year’s Juneteenth Freedom
Dny cotehretkm, June M, In Hero
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Gordon la ana of eight voting
rights activists Indicted by the U.S.
Justice Department last year follow
ing a year-long, $2 million FBI
Investigation of “vote fraud” in the
West Alabama Black Belt.
‘Tim Federal Government has a
veeted Interest In how black people
vote in Alabama....the lead stats for
the civil rights imr—1. the
Voting Rights Act, the a vll Rights
Act," according to Oorton, a Na
ttonal Beard member of the So*
foresee “AO these' .b3'
at a result of black people mobilis
ing, and I guess there Is a tremo*
d«m amount of fear on the pert of
tf* [Admfadsfamtion^8o they see a
“This win be a ninth annual
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...lavslved la rslatoaltaa
“Junetemfh,” • day rich la Mack
history, commemorates several
events that happened on June 19th
On June 19, 1982, the U.S. Congress
first outlawed slavery in the terri
toriee. One June 19, IMS, Union
troops landed in Galveston, Texas,
and for the lint time enforced the
end of slavery following the Civil
War. Again on June 19. 19M, Con
i'** paeaed the Civil Rights Act,
following 791 hours of heated debate.
For over a century the Juneteenth
celebration baa been the Mggsst
holiday among blacks In Texas,
observed with picnics, rallies and
parades, storytelling, ballgsmes.
and staging.
"It’s fitting to have Splvsr Gordon
b*re to enlighten us about the
struggle for political power in the
eaid Thelma McKoy,
who recently returned from and
ERC-apoaeored tour 0# the Alabama
Black Balt la export of the voting
righto project Sbt Charlottes™
spent three days on the project May
2949.
“Juneteenth marks the end of
slavery in the iMOs, but we all know
that even then we were not free,”
said McKoy, a retired history teach
er at Weat Charlotte High School
“When the federal troops pulled out
of the South and ended Recon
struction, everthing turned back
Now, a century later, after we won
the vote and basic civil rights, the
Federal government is again trying
to turn things back, attacking the
freedoms we have won.”
Gordon, a former dty council
man in Eutaw, Alabama, has
worked for IS years for votii*
rights. He worked in the movement
with thelate Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. to secure the Voting Rights Act in
INS.
Wedidnothing wrong by helping
people to vote absentee ballot,” said
Gordon.
"Hie federal Investigation and
trials were aimed at tntlmidetii*
especially elderly blacks into not
voting. This is a very dangerous
thing because it sends a signal that if
you are actually involved in the
political process, 1/ you’re trying to
make democracy work, you’re sub
ject to be called to court, indicted,
fingerprinted and your ballots
revealed to the world. It sends a'
message to people that this could ^
happen in your community, not only
In Greene County (Ala.) but all
across the United States.”
Other Juneteenth activities In
clude a program with choirs, <
honored workers from the Beverly'
Nursing Homes In Charlotte, a talent
show for all ages, games and relays,.'
s watermelon eating contest, story
telling and refreshments.
“This Is a family celebration for
all ages,” said MdCoy. "We want ■
our children to know that freedom Is
not free, and that (hare la stiB a '
struggle going on.”
For more information call
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