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out of their reach. ThlsjFS a good
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that a lot of aeddsats happen to
children and they are usually not to
blame. I think that inspired me
because I want to help them," the
explained.
The daughter of Willie Mae
Lowery, she gets a lot of support
from her family. "I support her 100
percent,” Mated Ms. Lowery, who
once studied nursing at CPCC. "I
was forced to drop odt because I had Si
three girls to raise. I think Theda
will make an excellent nurse ”
"I’m inspired by my mom because
she wanted to be a nurse hot she
couldn’t because she had to take
care of me and my sis tars. Now, I
have the chance to become a nurse
and to make her proud,” she
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Health Watch Maps Strategies
Improvement
The National Board of Advisors of
the New York-based Health Watch
Information and Promotion Service
met recently at the Marriott
Marquis to finalize health pro
motion plans for reaching and in
forming Black Americana about
cancer and other high risk disorders
that disproportionately affect the
black population. Health Watch, Is a
unique communications research
and development project, headed by
Dr. Norma J. Goodwin, and funded
by the National Cancer Institute, to
improve the health and longevity of
blacks in America.
“The development and distribu
tion of culturally sensitive
Health Watch messages and
services concerning the prevention,
early detection, and control of major
black killers and Osablers,” said
Dr. Goodwin, “will help to Increase
! awarenesb and promote more
healthful lifestyles And be
havior." High riak disorders iaV
x;
tension, heart disease, diabetes, and
Among planned Health
Watch services endorsed by the
advisory group far execution in 1M7
are: a series of Wellness Seminars
which will address Issues ranging
from prevention and early detection
of specific diseases especially
prevalent In Macks, to approaches
for enhancing wellness through
better nutrition, physical and
emotional fitness; a Health
Watch newsletter - Health In
formation for Self Preservation, and
the dissemination of customized
brochures and pamphlets. This
health information and promotion
system will be supported by direct
mailings through national black or
ganizations, as well as major
media Awareness Campaigns to
Norma S. Goodwin, M.D., (second from right),
director of Health Watch Information and Promo
tion Service, met recently with the National Health
Watch Board of Advisors to plan '87 programs and
services. Health Watch, a Black conceived and
directed research and development project, is funded
by the National Cancer Institute to improve the health
and longevity of Black Americans. Among the group of
distinguished health professionals and experts from
the public and private sectors represented on the
Board of Advisors were (L-R), Dr. Robert L. Polk,
Executive Director, The Council of Churches, City of
New York: Toni Fay, Director, Corporate Community
Relations, Time, Inc; Louis W. SuUivan, M.D.,
President, Morehead School of Medicine; Dr.
Goodwin, and Fred Rasheed, Director of Economic
Development. NAACP.
provide continuous reinforcement of
Health Watch messages.
The Health Watch National Board
of Advisors, comprised of dis
tinguished health professionals and
experts from the public and private
sectors, considered it imperative to
issue the following statement con
cerning high risk disorders in the
black population: “It is important to
understand that the disproportio
nately high incidence and
mortality rates among blacks
associated with cancer, hyperten
sion, heart disease, diabetes and
obesity, are not due to genetic
differences, but to inadequate in
formation, frequent denial of early
warning signals and delay in seeking
care, as well as decreased access to
quality health services for many
Black Americans. ”
"Health Watch is committed to
this war on major killers of blacks,"
said Dr. Goodwin "We believe that
knowledge, followed by positive
action is power, and that if the black
population is armed with appro
priate information, they will take
the needed steps to reverse the
premature, and often unnecessary,
high incidence of disease and early
death."
Proposals To Raise Retirement Age For
Full SS Benefits Could Be Considered “Racism”
New York • Pointing to the
average American black male’s
less-than-65 lifespan, the eldest son
of President F D Roosevelt, James
Roosevelt, says proposals to raise
the retirement age for full Social
Security benefits could easily be
considered “institutional racism ”
Roosevelt, chairman of the four
million member National Commit
tee to Preserve Social Security and
Medicare, raised the issue during
recent hearings in Harlem held by
the Forum on Income and Employ
ment Issues Affecting Older
Blacks The forum, moderated by
Black Enterprise Creates New
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Approach To Networking Process
business relationships with them,”
Phillip Purcell, chairman of Dean
Witter, told Black Enterprise. "The
networking forums cultivate new
business and staffing contacts for
Dean Witter while providing edu
cational Information for Its
participants,” he adds
The Forum begins with remarks
by Earl G. Graves, publisher of the
magazine. Participants then
proceed to different seminars
designed to help them consider a full
range of money management
tactics, offer strategies for success,
and give expert advice on career
enhancement. The program is
followed by a business card
exhange recaption. 44
At each Forum, Dr. Pries Cobbs, a
noted psychiatrist who has a Ban
Frandsco-baaed management Arm,
PadAc Management Systems, also
conducts a seminar exploring the
psychological and sociological
a Mask
t« America
a,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and
Chicago. Black Entrrprise secures a
local professional organisation to
co-sponsor the Exchange in each
city. "This committee helps us
Identify the peopletre are trying to
reach in our forums," Barkers
Graves, vice president and general
manager of Black Enterprise,
explains. The organisation receives
a small percentage of each regw*
tratien fee for its involvement,
Graves adds '*
More than 330 black professionals
end entrepreneurs attend each
session, the magazine reports. A
forum is planned in Philadelphia,
PA, on December II, In IMP, H
networking forums are currently
scheduled.
Far more information on the
Black Enterprise Professional
Exchange, oall toll-free, 1-MO
343-0831.
of the November taana of
i is available at
•l postsgsbVT1tbeni
¥■1 Fifth A ve .Naw York,
Congressman Charles Rangel, a
ranking member of the House and
Ways and Means Committee, was
sponsored by the National Caucus
and Center on Black Aged
“Fewer opportunities for varied
employment and lower rates of
compensation make It difficult for
black workers to amass adequate
retirement incomes,” said Roose
velt "For over 50 percent of the
elderly black, Social Security is the
only source of retirement income.”
This fact alone makes the stabi
lity of the Social Security system
especially important to black
retirees, the former Congress
man told the forum
Roosevelt also noted that the
progressive nature of laslal
Security - returning proportio
nately higher benefits to lower In
come workers - makes Social
Security • significant tool for
social equality. He testified that
attacks on Social Security in recent
years in the name of deficit re
duction had undsrminded confi
dence in a critically important pro
gram to elderly Mack people and
that elected leaders must work hard
to reators that oortdsnce
On the Issue of raising the
retirement age to 87 (due to begin
phasing In by SOOO), Roosevelt said
that he thought the impetus for tbs
change in legislation was Innocent -
but ill-coneetved - and that it would
vWt an injustice on blacks