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Page 2A - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, May 5, 1988 Leadership Charlotte Taps Into The Community’s Pool Of Leaders BY JIMMY BROCK Post Staff Writer Sen. Teiry Sanford (D-NC) will be the keynote speaker at the 10th Anniversary celebration of Leadership Charlotte. A ban quet honoring the ten years of the community leadership edu cation program's existence. A banquet reception will be held on Tuesday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Charlotte's Adam's Mark Hotel. The public is Invited (o attend the $20-per-person event. Fifty graduates of Lead ership Charlotte Class X will be recognized at the celebration. Leadership Charlotte is the result of a brainstorm of UNCC's Dr. Schley Lyons. He remains the guiding spirit of the organization, which is adminis tered by the Urban Institute. "I modeled Leadership Char lotte on a program the Charlotte Chamber had for people in business," Lyons said. "It all be gan in the late 1970s—a period of political flux in Charlotte. Women and blacks were de manding a piece of the political pie. It was the beginning of dis trict representation in citv- county politics. And the neigh borhood groups movement was just getting a toe- hold." The first Leadership Charlotte class had 35 graduates. For the first two years the program sur vived on federal grant funds. ' Lyons attracted corporate sponsorship for the third class. The organization has been pri- , marily corporate-sponsored since . Class X will have 50 graduates, most of whom are sponsored by businesses. "I remember the early days," . Lyons said. "It was a relief when ' Duke Power and the Charlotte Observer came on board to sponsor employees in the pro gram. Others soon followed." Numerous community leaders came out of Leadership Char lotte. Michael Evans, Lecil Hen derson, Carla DuPuy and Dr. Paula Newsome are typical of the kind of leaders the program prides itself on producing. Newsome, a Wilmington na tive, is no stranger to success. She is from a family of achiev- Richard Lancaster ...Member Class X Michelle Thomas ...Member Class X Rickey V. Hall ...Member Class X Laura S. McClettie ...Member Class X Stmya McLaughlin ...Member Class X Denise H. Jones ...Member Class X ers. Her cousin, Tim Newsome, is a fullback with the Dallas Cowboys. And she has single- handedly built a successful medical practice and a politi cal-community service base for herself since coming to Char lotte four years ago. "Leadership Charlotte helps to Improve our community by tap ping its natural diversity," Dr. Newsome said. "It is a most ef fective way to achieve a cross pollination of ideas. It provides exposure for emerging leaders via a system of networking among their peers an a pool of potential mentors." In addition to being a graduate of Leadership Charlotte, Dr. Newsome is also an executive Titus L. Ivoiy ...Member Class X with the organization. A mem ber of its board of directors, she serves on its Steering Commit tee and is Director of Alumni Af fairs. Dr. Newsome also serves as Vice President of Focus On Leadership, a similar organiza tion begun early this year for minority people. Titus L. Ivory, a Wachovia Bank executive, and Michelle Thomas, who is with the Meck lenburg County Women's Com mission, are two representative members of Leadership Char lotte Class X. "Leadership Charlotte draws upon a broad spectrum of Charlotte's population," Ivory Said. "It has given me the op portunity to meet many people 1 Beatrice Thompson ...Member Class X might not have otherwise." "The program also gives the individual an opportunity to en hance personal goals," Thomas said. "And it is a great crucible for ideas affecting our corpo rate, political and socio economic environment." The May 10 celebration will also honor previous Leadership Charlotte Circle of Excellence recipients. Past winners in clude Bob Goodale, Carla Du Puy and Ray Gooding. "This is a creative way to tap our pool of leadership," Gooding said. "And it is a good barome ter of where Charlotte came from and where it is going." Griffin Faces Runoff In May 31 School Board Contest Continued From Page lA McIntyre, who was elected last November to fill an unexpired term, was happy with her show ing but didn't take anything for granted. "1 think I'm in pretty good shape," she said. "I'm not an eternal optimist, so I'll have to see it for sure." McIntyre said the election sig naled discontent with inequi ties In education and pupil as signment. Martin and Rikard will bring a new look to the board regardless of the outcome of the runoff. "You'll see some changes with three different personalities coming together," she said. Griffin, who served on the board from 1985 to 1986, ex pressed satisfaction with being among the top finishers but was disappointed by the low voter turnout. Resigned to facing four more weeks of campaigning, he said there is more work to be done. "It looks that way " for a run off. Griffin said. "I'm going to immediately start to plan for the runoff." Griffin said he would've pre ferred avoiding a runoff, but It beats not making it to one. "I'm somewhat concerned with the low voter turnout," he said. "I feel better being in fifth that the last time when I didn't get In at all. I'm happy to have gotten to the runoff." Protestors Rally For Increases In Wages BY WILLIAM SCHULZ Associated Press Writer ATIVlNTA (AP) -- Some 10,000 union members and civil rights activists rallied last Saturday to demand jobs with better pay and better benefits. "People aren't poor because tliey don't have jobs, but because of the low pay for the jobs they've got," Texas Commission er of Agriculture Jim Hightower told the crowd. The rally in the Atlanta Civic Center parking lot marked the end of a four-state "pilgrimage for economic justice" by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The journey began in Mem phis, Tenn., on April 4, 20 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in that city. The pilgrimage demonstrated the "rebirth of the coalition of labor unions and civil rights workers seeking full employ ment with decent wages," said the Rev. Joseph Lowery, presi dent of the SCLC, which King founded. "The cunent minimum wage ($3.35 an hour) just won't do it." "We have come to protest the policies that have turned the world's mightiest industrial power into a declining nation," said Bernice King, daughter of the slain civil rights leader. Lowery saw several contrasts between April's SCLC march and civil rights marches in the 1960s, including the presence this lime of many black elected officials and greater police sup port. Drugs joined poverty as a theme in the latest march, Low ery said. "We're calling the drug pushers the new lynch mob, and they're much more threatening than the old lynch mob," he said. Jackson Pushes On Despite Recent Primary Setbacks Continued From Page lA lighten his work load until just two weeks before the end of the campaign; 2. ) A viable agenda that blacks, the poor and the left- outs can feel a part of (what programmatic document will the new President aci on? That's a key question, says Wal ters); and 3. ) Appointments. There are 1.006 e.xecutive level positions a President has to fill. Blacks and other minorities should expect to garner their fair share of these positions. Walters says. Walters said Jackson's "backward" leverage has to do Willi "all those resources he can bring to the table -- his proven ability lo arouse the voters on substantive issues and the 10 million votes he won in 1984. His "forward" leverage are those 12 million votes in 1988. When the while and Hispanic vote is added, Walters declared, "there are a total of between 15 or 20 million, twenty fiv'e per cent (or more) of the base Democratic vote stipport. This is the kind of thing that Jackson and his or ganization can bring. That's a lot of voles and anyone who wants lo run to win will have lo deal with Jesse and this fact." Dr. Walters, who has written a book. "Black Presidential Poli tics In America" (Stale Univ'ersi- ty of New York Press) shrugged off suggestions that he specu late on who the Jackson cam paign might put forward for top cabinet, policy making. Com mission. Department, Agency or Runoff Is Likely In District 2 Race Contmued From Page lA nated by religion, morals and, lately, by advertising controver sy. Walton blasted the media for paying more attention to his 1987 assault conviction than his years of service to the black community. Majeed pledged not lo make the conviction an issue, but tried to hammer home the need for a role model for the dis trict. Walton had the backing of ministers groups, which cited his accomplishments and ac knowledgement of his mistakes dorsements from the Black Po litical Caucus and two local newspapers. in giving their endorsements. A Walton ad that appeared in last week's Post drew fire from some persons who said their names were included as support- eis without their authorization. Walton called the mLxup inad vertent. Some concerns were raised about Majeed's Islamic faith, but that didn't stop him from getting support from former city coun cilman Ron Leeper, former mayor Harvey Gantt and en- judicial posts. Said he; "There are thousands of people within the Rainbow Coalition consti tuency wh:i would be eligible for these positions. So it would be idle to speculate on that at this point." He emphasized that "the cam paign is not over, in spite of the setbacks," adding, however, "if we would stop the race right now, the more than 800 dele gates he has won and the tre mendous strengths he has al ready gained in caucuses and primaries give him credibility and clout to bargain for all kinds of things at the Atlanta convention." Community Watch Crime Exliibition Area citizens are invited to at tend a Community Watch meet ing and forum to be held Wed nesday, May 11,2 to 10 p.m., at Ovens Auditorium. The meeting of the chairper sons of Community Watch pro grams will begin at 7 p.m. This meeting is open lo the public and will be attended by district po lice captains who will answer ciuestions about crime preven tion. City Councilman A1 Rous- so will speak at this meeting. From 2-10 p.m. there will be an on-going exliibition of bur glar alarms and home security devices. orthopedics SALES GRAND OPENING ' .tSALE ■') Days Only! Hurry! 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