N.C. Shriners Support Shaw University
With Charlotte Banquet And Ball
The North Carolina Desert of
Shrine Temples. A.E.A.O.N.M.S.,
of North and South America,
Inc. Invites you to attend their
annual Past Deputies Banquet
and Ball Januraiy 29-30, at the
Adams Mark Hotel, Charlotte,
NC.
This years event will be held In
honor of the late Past Imperial
Potentate James E. Lytle, former
athletic director of Shaw Uni
versity. Sixteen temples and
courts are expected to attend
this conference.
On Friday, January 29 the con
ference will begin at 12 p.m.
There wlU be a t,alent show and
pagent from 7:00-9:00 p.m. This
Is open to the public with no ad
mission fee. Contestants will be
vying for the title of Queen of
North Carolina Desert Confer
ence. Later that night at the
Rameses Temple No. 51, the
Night In Egypt program will be
held from 10:00 p.m. until 1:00
a,m.
On Saturday, January 30 at
8:30 p.m. they will have toeir an
nual banquet. The speaker will
be the Most Worshipful Grand
Master of the State of North
Carolina Honorable William
Parker. Tickets are $15.00 each
and may be purchased by any
member of Rcimeses Temple No.
51.
The proceeds will go to Shaw
University, Raleigh, NC.
Everyone is Invited to attend.
Alumni and friends of Shaw
University are especially urged
to attend.
For more Information contact
Eugene Marsh at 332-2943.
Grand Master Honorable William Parker
Richness Of Black Culture Is Tenth
Brown Symposium's Main Topic
Georgetown - Roots author
Alex Haley and anthropologist
Donald Johanson, known for his
discovery In Ethiopia of the 3.5-
milllon-year-old hominid "Lucy,"
will be among the participants
In Southwestern University's
annual Brown Symposium Feb
ruary 17-19.
The symposium, titled "Africa
and Afro-Amerlca," will focus on
Africa as the place where hu
mans and early civilizations
originated, and will relate the
experience of black Americans
to a deep heritage going back to
the beginning of humankind.
"Black people, including black
Americans, have often been
treated as a people with no cul
ture, who haven't contributed
anything to civilization," said
symposium organizer Dr. Wel
don Crowley, Professor of His
tory and holder of the Lucy King
Brown Chair in History.
"There Is a lot of evidence,
however, that being black has
greater depth to It than perhaps
anything else we know about. In
other words, the black experi
ence Is the human experience,
.and by giving greater attention
to what It means to be black we
may be able to understand our
selves more fully," Crowley said.
For example, there Is almost
; no doubt that human life had Its
origins In Africa, Crowley said.
Erect walking homlnids found in
Africa by Johanson have been
carbon-dated back about four
million years. Homo erectus Is
generally thought to be no older
than 1.6 million years and prob
ably migrated out of Africa
around one million years ago.
Thus, all of the proto-human de
velopments occurred in Africa,
homo sapiens emerging in the
last 500,000 years. Although the
origin of race Is a mystery. It has
been suggested that current ra
cial differentiation Is no more
than 35,000 years old, and that
prior to 35,000 years ago all the
world's human population was
bl
professor of anthropology at
Stanford University. His book
Lucy: The Beginnings of Human
kind was published In 1981. A
world-renowned anthropologist,
he has conducted numerous
field surveys in Africa and has a
National Science Foundation
Grant In anthropology to con
tinue paleoanthropological re
search there.
Alex Haley, also author of The
Autobiography of Malcolm X
published In 1965, will keynote
the symposium, giving an over
view of the black American's
search for Identity, perhaps be
ginning with "pan-Afrlcanlsm,"
the post-ClvlI War Idea that
See Brown On Page 13A
Haley
"Blacks can now say that the
study of their homeland Is not
the study of something illiterate
and sub-human but of one of the
earliest centers of civilized life
and the locus of the origin of hu
mankind. One can look at Africa
now and assert that it Is where
the whole process began."
During the symposium, Donald
Johanson Is expected to update
"Lucy"—to give his own and other
experts' new estimates on how
and when humans developed,
and to talk about the search for
human origins in Africa. Johan
son is director of the Institute of
Human Origins at Berkeley and
ADVERTISEMENT
God mM, “For M the rain
cometh down, and the snow
llrom heaven, and retnmeth
not thither, bat watereth the
earth, and maketh It brUg
fdrth and bad, that It may
give s^ to the sower, and
bread to the eater.”
Isaiah 55:10
God said, ”So Shan my word
be that goeth forth oat of my
mooth: it shaU not return
onto me void, but It shaU ac
complish that which I please,
and It shan prosper In the
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