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
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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.
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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
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member of Covenent
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he has preached peace
and economic justice.
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