Ivmg Medal Recipient By M. G. Bigger Special To The Poet "God made us broth ers and sisters, and we '-should live that way and set that way." says Dr. Douglas Wayne Olden burg, the winner of this . ■ J year's Martin Luther King Jr. Medallion Award given by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee. . "He has espoused—and lived—the basic ideals Martin Luther King tried to promote," attested Kitty Huffman, chairman of the sub-committee .. which planned the cele bration and gave the medallion. / Those ideals, accord ing to the criteria fog -!_z_ Dr. Douglas W. Oldenburg the award are "the worth v of every human being, that nonviolent meant of pursuing equal rights be maintained, that all people would live to gether in the spirit of love and acceptance. _ -— ■ ■ -—- _ • *> A-WALL / SEWING CENTER / 2506 BEATTIES FD. RD. L 393-2007 that each penon has the i right to dream and to pursue the dream of ex cellence and that each person should be en couraged to achieve his/ her potential." Caroline Myers, the director of Crisis Assis tance Ministry, nomi nated Oldenburg. She noted his "attention to those who are op pressed." "His leadership in the establishment of Crisis Assistance Ministry was critical,* she said. "He recruited our first board, wrote the by-laws, asked Covenant Church to give me to CAM as di rector. He served as Chairman of the Board several terms until he rotated off uid was re elected." Both Huffman and Myers told of his lead ing Mecklenburg Pres bytery in raising money and developing the Haiti Project, a ten-year pro gram to assist the resi In Memory of A Great Leader Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 WE SALUTE.. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KINGJR. TOE A GREAT LEADER TEST •OOtkm ■SWmmgra • Country Ham* WWw^wTTTZ 9 Beef jipy£jj(j^| ^ • Fish TNI MABKIT BLACI _3700_B<satties Ford Rd. 394-4805 dents of one region there to dig an irriga tion ditch (for a second growing season) and to get better health care and education. ---- Myers, who is a member of Covenent Presbyterian, says that he has preached peace and economic justice. See Oldenburg Oa 15C flWwdfrr % 2Va« /4mi | % &tA*w Salute to Dr. King9* Hours: Moa.'Fri. «:M. | «.». Sat. 7:3* - | a.». Sun. S:M • I a.ui. 633 Seigle Avenue The Dream Is of Freedom and Equality, for peace throughout the world for all, The dream of Is shared by all at AMERICAN NYCUANB8 1806 Grohom St. 333-6111 ..— pHipp ; yM £$ii. HRi' -v - I |£ |jaj§W* Lath**- King hmagmSS ! -v,/. • ; ft*' _*..,.ttiSK. ,v,' *• - \-,£fc&-mi'sa 'rsfcwa* n.iiiMP«;':***»' f«#rfi2ML-v ** v- v _^^^RR

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