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VOlamC^|?S^ra THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, October 30, 1986 PHre ™ Tents
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Students, Staff, and Friends
Homecoming 1986 i
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Wanda Scales Enjoys
Of Hobbies
By Russell Clark
Peat SUff Writer
It’s your senior year in high school
and the* pressure to graduate is
crumbling on your shoulders like
rocks touching down on the bed of a
dump truck.
Nagging parents,' hard driving
teachers, and two-faced friends,
sometimes ignite sparks that cause
one to give up. but Wanda Scales
didn't. “I had considered dropping
out of school," she began. “I felt a
lot of pressure coming from my
teachers and also peer groups, but I
decided to stick in there and make
something of myself,” related
Scales, a 1985 West Charlotte
graduate.
Now the 19 year old is pursuit^ a
career as a legal secretary. She la a
student at the American Business A
Fashion Institute In Charlotte and
plans to graduate next spring "I
have wanted to become a legal
secretary for the past couple of
years. I have been to court to
observe a few trials and I like the
courtroom atmosphere," she
' mentioned.
At ABAF, Wand* faces typing,
shorthand and other business
courses "My„ favorite course is
i speedwriting,” said Wanda. 'TU be
: very proud of myself when I finish
this spring because it's something
; that I decided to do for myself.”
As a Ugh school student, aha was
active in the Future Business
Leaders of America Club (FBLA)
and the Spanish Chib. ”1 was a C
student at West Charlotte, but now I {
maintain an A average,” she
smarted. They say that behind
every ambitious person, there is s
motivator. ‘‘I admire my mother,”
Profanity In ttio mo of atrong
war in by weak people.
she replied. “She is raising two kids
by herself and I will never be able to
thank her for all that she is doing for
me.” .
The daughter of Lauria Scales,
Wanda is a member of University
Park Baptist Church.
When not busy, she likes biking,
shooting pool, cooking and listening
to mellow music. "I like Shirley
Murdock, Tina Turner and New
Edition because they all have a
message in their songs.”
Peer pressure has been a major
factor for young people to do things
to please others. “I learned that it is
best for me to stay away from the
crowd. There is too much stuff going
around that I don’t want to get
caught up in,” concluded Scales,
who describes herself as a friendly,
forgiving person.
Black Elected
Officials To Hold
Town Meeting
The Charlotte-Meddenburg Black
Elected Official* will hold an
incoming town mooting on Sunday.
November t, from 4-6 p.m at
FrlentMiip Community Centar,
The 16-member organization will
meet with dtlaen* in the com
munity to dtacuaa local govern
mental concern* and hoppwitng*
Citizen* will al*o give feedback to
the official* a* to what they are
doing poeitlve and what they could
Improve upon. " ■'
NAFPE Passes Resolution To
Support National Hack United Fund
New York. NY - In the coming
months, “the helping hands” of the
National Black United Fund
(NBUF) will be more far-reaching
as a result of a new bond. When the
membership of the National
Alliance of Postal and Federal
Employees (NAPFE) recently
passed a resolution supporting
NBUF*, a link was established
between those two unique organi
zations. “One of the concepts of the
Alliance is to build an economic base
in the black community," said
Robert L. White, president of
NAPFE, the oldest and largest
independent, black-led federal,
Industrial union organized 73 years
ago in Chattanooga, TN. “And since
the Black United Fund is also
committed to economic develop
ment, we are naturally supportive of
their efforts."
In 1968, Walter Bremond founded
the BUF as a catalyst for im
proving the quality of life for black
people. Reliance on self-help and
mutual aid was the ideology, and
/ pushing employed-blacks to donate
to BUF through payroll deductio'as
was the methodology. “From its
inception, the Fund has fought to get
into payroll deductions because it is
the _most effective and efficient
means of raising money known to
us.” said Dana Alston, president of
NBUF. Also, the need for the BUF is
equally as important now as when it
was formed. Getting a piece of the
over $100 million pie from the
Combined Federal Campaign, the
yearly drive to solicit charity from
government employees, was a
difficult struggle that BUF won.
Kermit Eady, president of BUFNY
and secretary of NBUF, states,
"Black workers, for the first time,
now can contribute to a charity that
looks after their needs. However, we
are still trying to gain access into
more corporate markets."
Despite past and present battles,
both the Alliance and the Black
Unitgd Fund have held to their
commitment of developing financial
resources and allocating them back
to the community, while main
taining their independence The
National Alliance's continuing com
mitment to protect workers’
interests, provide essential
benefits and to further unionism is
From South A frica
AFSC Calls For
Total Disengagement
Philadelphia • The IBM. General
Motors and Coca-Cola changes in
South Africa must be seen as in
terim steps toward the necessary
t6tal U S economic disengagement
in that country, the American
Friends Service Committee
declared recently.
"While we welcome their recent
announcements,” said Jerry
Herman of the Quaker organize
tion, "theae firms still will be
supporting and making profits from
the apartheid system. We call on
them to totally disengage economic
ally In order to bring a aew
beginning for that troubled land
and its oppressed majority.”
Thomas Conrad, an AFSC
researcher-author, who ia one of the
nations foremost authorities on
computer (sports, said IBM’s
equipment has bssn used for years
in sensitive and military strategic
ways aa well as to reprees the Blacks
and other peoples "IBM technology
Is wtdsto used by local govern
ment officials, who are in the
forefront of enforcing the apartheid
system,” ha said. Their sale of South
African operations will tn no way
limit their sales to South African
authorities.
Herman, coordinator of AFSC
U.S. programs on South Africa, said,
"GM, IBM, and Coca-Cola, through
payment of corporate taxes and in
the case of GM and IBM, through
provision of strategic items, will not
cause South Africa’s military budget
to shrink Therefore, there will be no
restraint on South Africa's ability to
wage violence and war against its
neighbors and its own citizens ”
League Of Women
biterviews Candidate)!
Hometown Cable Television,
Cablevtsion channel S, and the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg League of
Women Voters present the most
comprehensive televised political
campaign coverage available in the
area with the series, Election: 'St.
Election 'St features interviews
with each candidate for local and
congressional office. LWV president
Bernadette Parker boats candidates
for U.S. Senate, U.8. House, N.C.
Senate, N.C. House, Mecklenburg
County Commission, and Mecklen
burg County Sheriff
Pictured above are : (left to right) Hermit F.ady,
President of the Black United Fund of New York and
secretary of the National Black United Fund, Dana
Alston. President of the National Black United Fund
and Robert White. President of the National Alliance of
Postal & Federal Employees.
reflected in the broad range of
programs and services it offers its
membership The Alliance’s Health
Plan ranks among the nation’s top
Federal Health Benefit Plan;
NAPFE has a National Federal
Credit Union that has been operating
since 1977; a $1,002,900 NAPFE
grant funded the Institute for Labor
Management Relations at Howard
University in Washington, DC; and
NAPFE is building a future through
its National Housing Program,
which has built apartment buildings
in Chattanooga, Tampa and New
Orleans for the elderly and is
building a fourth one in Atlanta; and
the National Headquarters was
built with the Alliance’s own,
unborrowed money at a price of $2 2
million Additionally, NAPFE
provided the initial funds for the
founding of Air Atlanta, and is now
encouraging its members to support
BUF during the Combined Federal
Campaign
NBFU has shown similar progress
during its short existence with its 14
affiliates, providing assistance to
thoasands of black organizations
ranging in services from direct
grants, i.e , support to community
based organizations, land reten
tion and development (Emergency
Land Fund, Federation of South
ern Cooperatives!, housing
developments (West Harlem
Community Organization), to
technical support and computer
services Overall, in its short
history, BUF has given over $10
million in grants and services to
black community-based organiza
tions and institutions.
From here on NAPFE and
NBL'F will be working together to
develop a sound, economic base in
the black community. Both or
ganizations understand that only by
being mutually supportive, and
networking and interlocking, can
this Herculean task be
accomplished
NAACP, WPEG Help
Get Voters To Polls
Alfred L Alexander, chair of the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Co.
NAACP's Political Action Com
mittee, has announced that an
agreement had been reached with
WPEG radio, whereby the NAACP
would use a city bus chartered by
the radio station to take voters to the
polls on November 4 The NAACP
has targeted precincts 9, 39, 31, 11,
13, 10, 15, 54, 27 and 12 Each has a
large black voter registration and
contains a public housing project
The NAACP has been concerned
that residents of public housing, who
in many cases do not own cars, will
be able to get to the polls
"It is critical,” Alfred Alexander
said “that everyone who desires to
vote has the means to vote Last
time only a few votes decided who
wouia represent inis district in
Congress. This time turnout will
decide our Senate and congressional
races. Black voters must turnout in
large numbers or we will have no
one to blame but ourselves ”
In order to show support for
voting, the NAACP is asking that
once you have voted to turn on your
porch light. "Let every shining
porch light In the black community
demonstrate that black dtlsens are
concerned about the quality of
representation and that the black
vote will grow stronger each year,"
Mr. Alexander continued.
Precinct •: Charlottetown
Terrace, 1000 Baxter St . s oo,
Dilworth School, 405 E Park Ave
Addison Apt , Morehead St S.
McDowell St., 8 20, Dilworth School,
405 E Park Ave .
Precinct 39: Boulevard Homes,
1620 Brooks vale Ave 10:00, H O
Graham Church, Old Steele Creek,
Precinct 31: Dalton Village, Clan
ton Rd , 10:15, Barringer School,
1500 Walton Road;
Precinct 11: Edwin Towers, 201 W
10th St., 9 00 , First Ward School.
400 E 10th St,
Precinct 13: Hall House, 300 N
Tryon St.. 9:10 , First Ward School,
400 E 10th St.,
Precinct 9 Red Carpet Inn, 615 E
Morehead, 8 40, Dilworth School,
405 E Park Ave.;
rrecinct 10: Strawn Apt , 1225 S
Caldwell St., 9:15, St. Andrews
Presbyterian, 2201 Springdale Ave.;
Precinct 15: Piedmont Courts, 831
Seigle Ave., 1:90, First Ward School,
401 E lOthSt.;
Precinct 54: Fslrvlew Homes, 1QM
Oaklawn Ave., 12:20, Oaklawn
Elementary School, 1810 Oaklawn
Ave.;
Precinct 27 Dillehay Courts, 2600
N. Pine St , 11:00, Tryon Hills
School, 2800 Grimes St.; and
Precinct 12: Belvedere Homes, 132
Judson Are., 4:00, Clinton Chapel
Church, 1001 Ronells Ferry Rd
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company to
underwriting the coat of the bus
transportation