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VOLUME 1, NO. 28
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On Sickle Cell Anemia
Doctors Urge End To
Misleading Statements
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The Bennett (College) Underground
They don'i have ihe polish of the Temptations nor the fine costumes of the Supremes, but they do
have the determination, the lalent, and the dedication of seasoned performers. “The Bcnneli
^'nderground is the latest addition to Bennett College’s Music Department
Th(' group performs jazz, pop, blues, rock, and gospel music on the campus in Greensboro N C
and for activities elsewhere, including several radio appearances.
Members of the group are; Juliet Smith, Goldsboro of N.C.; Sheila Ginn of.Estiell, S.C,; Donna
Edwards and Kim Clark of .New York, N.Y.; Brenda Greer of Washington, D C ■ Bernie Sisco of
Philadelphia, Pa.; Jacqueline Hemphill of Buffalo, N,Y.; and Johanna Lee of Montclair N J
“The Bennett Underground” symbolizes a distinctive change in Ihe image of Bennett College. It
represents a nontradition outlet for expression on a church-related campus while at the same lime
begin a learning experience and a fundraising effort.
ATLANTA—Writing
December issue of Urban
Health, two physicians have
urged “confidentiality in sickle
cell screening” and “an end to
dissemination of information on
sickle cell anemia that is in
accurate, unduly alanning or
misleading.”
Dr. Rudolph E. Jackson,
director of the National Heart
and Lung Institute’s National
Sickle Cell Program, and Dr.
Charles F. Whitten, president of
the National Association for
Sickle Cell Disease, are among
seven prominent physicians
who have come together in
articles appearing in the
current issue of Urban Health to
discuss sickle cell anemia.
I.N TIIK introductory article.
Dr. Jackson points out that
“discriminatory tactics have
made confidentiality a
prerequisite for all testing
programs,” and that all
participaiion in sickle cell
screening programs should be
on a voluntary basis.
In another article, Dr.
W’hitten points out that efforts to
provide mass information on
sickle cell anemia “have not
been as valuable ... ,
because some ol the ' in-
lormation has been in
accurate; unduly alarming
and misleading. ' Hoih
physicians call for “an ac
curate, sound understanding of
sickle cell anemia and sickle
cell trail by the public.”
The December issue of Urban
Health marks the first time lhat
a professionaj journal has'
devoted an entire issue to
discussions of sickle cell
anemia.
IX .ADDITION to ,Iackson and
W'hitten, articles for the issue
have been written by Robert M.
Schmidt, M.D., direc'or of Ihe
National Hemoglobinopathy
Laboratory; Roland B. Scott.
M.D., director of the Center of
Sickle Cell Disease at Howard
University College of Medicine;
Marilyn Gaston, .M.D., director
of the Sickle Cell Center at
Children's Hospital in Cin
cinnati, Ohio; Robert F.
Mr.rray, director of the
Genetics Counseling Section of
the Ilow'ard University Center
for Sickle Cell Disease; and
Joseph R. Phillips. M.D.,
associate professor of
psychialrv at .Meharrv Medical
College
Tlu‘ series will continue in Ihe
l-'ebruary issue of lirban Health
\\'ilh articles discussing op-
ilialm.ological and urological
;ispects of sickle cell anemia
vocalional rehabilitation of
sickle cell patients, and cimi-
nuinity involvement in sickle
cell programs.
.Al'TII()l!S KOI! the con
cluding articles are Maurice
l-;abl>. M.D.. of the Universitv of
Illinois Sickle Cell Center'
Robert I' . Blyiii, M D ,
Washington, D.C. urologist '
Calvin H. Si;ine|ie, M.D., and
Ruth Gillman of the Harlem
Comprehensive Sickle Cell
Center and Edward J. Hicks,
Ph.D., of the University of
Indiana Comprehensive Sickle
Ce'l Center.
Urban Health is a
professional journal dealing
with medical care and a wide
variety of issues related to
health and medical care
delivery in the black com
munity. Additional information
on the sickle cell edition may be
■secured by writing The Journal
of Urban Health, Atlanta,
Georgia, 303)1,
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NAVY ROCK BAND
TO PLAYSATURDAY
Gavel Passing Makes History
Dr. Louis C. Dowdy, chancellor of A&T State University.
(Jreensboro. N.C.. receive.s gavel from Dr, Hobor! Parks, president
o( Iowa Slate University. Dowdy became ihe first black to serve as
pi(“sidcn! ol (h^‘ National Associalion of Slate l.'nivcrsilics and
Land-urant ('olleges. (Dick Moore F’hoto),
Concern Noted
For Disabled
’Nam Veterans
full
Miss Saint Augustine’s College
Miss Pauline Darlington (left, a senior history and government
major from New York, receives her crown as “Miss Saint
Augustine's College'’ from Miss Jacqueline Jackson, a graduate of
1973, oul-going queen from Wilmington, N. C. The occasion was the
Sixteenlh Annual Coronation of “Miss Saint Augustine's College on
November 16. in the Emery Health and Fine Arts Center. Sealed
are; Little Miss Rhonda Partin, crown bearer (far left) and.
Master Bryan Jenkins, her escort (far right)
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The
Long Island Sound i.s much
more than the placid body
of water abutting the New
■york and Connecticut
shoreline. It's also the
name of the U.S. Navy’s
newest and most exciting
rock band which is
appearing in High Point,
Saturday.
The band is in town as
part of a community
activities program to show
area youth that the service
has lived up to its slogan,
“Be Someone Special in the
navy.” Long Island Sound
will give a free public
concert Saturday at 11:30
a.m. at High Point College
Cafeteria.
The nine-piece band was
formed late in 1972, but not
primarily for concert enter
tainment. Its purpose wa'
to accompany two Navy
patrol boats which were
enroate from New York to
Chicago via the New York
State Barge Canal. Accord
ing to the band’s director.
Warrant Officer John
Geary, the tour with the
patrol boats was such an
overwhelming success, that
Long Island Sound was
made a permanent unit of
the Third Naval District
Band. During the year, (he
Navy’s musical ambassa
dors, headquartered in
Brooklyn, N.Y., made
twelve road trips in New
York, Connecticut and New
Jersey, playing more than
350 performances.
Most of the band’s
performances take place in
high schools, colleges and
Grant Given A&T Professor
GREENSBORO- Dr. W
J. Craft, an engineering
professor at A&T State
University, has been a-
warded a S23.199 federal
grant to develop a ceramics
handbook for the engineer
ing profession.
The renewable grant was
awarded to Craft by the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in
California, through funds
supplied by the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
Craft, on a loan to A&T
from the Martin Marietta
Corporation in Orlando,
Fla., said the new text will
carry design information on
such areas as modules of
James Farmer With Officers Of 54fh Class
James Farmer second from left, who spoke at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk recent Iv
IS shown from left with Majors Charles H. Bailey of Los Angeles, Richard Mashburn Jr ^f Chii'
tahoochee, Fla, and Normal A. McDaniel of Greensboro, N.C., members of the StarCo.lege’s 54th
elasticity, coefficient of
expansion, thermal con
ductivity, and fracture
surfaces versus tempera
ture.
“The ceramics are be
coming increasingly impor
tant in the continuing
development and refine
ment of everything from
exo-atmospheric rocket
missions to the pursuit of
more efficient, cleaner
internal combustion en
gines,’’ said Craft.
He said that one reason
ceramics are d&sirable is
they have a generally low
thermal conductivity, which
can be used to reduce heat
loss from combustion
processes.
“If food design data were
available,” said Craft,
“then the ensuing selection
of a ceramic would prevent
cracking or fracture. Cera
mics are also replacing
certain other materials due
to their toughness, hard
ness and reduced cost.
at public functions. Audi
ence reaction, as Geary
terms it, is “wild." “We do
all rock music,’’ he said,
“and our style can be
compared to a mixture of
Gliicago, Blood, Sweat &
Tears and mandrill. After
our concerts, it’s not
unusual for the audience to
mob the stage. They’re
really enthusiastic.’’
Geary credits much of
the audience acceptance to
the band’s professional,
quality sound. “Most all of
the musicians were profes
sionals before they entered
the Navy,” the band
director explained. “How
ever, all the band members
have graduated from the
Navy’s School of Music in
Norfolk, ’Virginia. I believe
that the training we
received in music is typical
of all the opportunities the
Navy offers in any of the 70
job specialities we have
available.’’
Geary mentioned that
while the Navy is stressing
quality and professional
ism, it is also taking a more
liberalized approach to the
individual. “We are treat
ing everyone as adult men
and women,” he noted.
“But at the same time we
are reinforcing individual
ism with traditional Navy
discipline.”
All members of the band
are active duty sailors and
performing is their only
duty. On tour they can give
as many as five concerts a
day and often work for 12
hours at a stretch. As Geary
noted, there are compensa
tions. The sailors are now
making twice the salary
that recruits used to make
and receive such extras as
free medical and dental
care, 30-day paid vacations
each year, housing, food
and automatic pay raises.
A nationwide effort to insure that the
find suitable and rewarding spectrum of VA benefits
jobs for Vietnam-Era dis- has been used to the
abled veterans has been maximum toward helping
launched by the Veterans the individual veteran
Administration, the Natio- overcome disabilities."
nal Alliance of Business- The Veterans Admini-
men and the Department of
Labor.
Acting on a letter from
President Nixon in which
he expressed concern for
suitable careers for dis
abled veterans, VA Admin
istrator Donald E. Johnson
has mailed employment
questionnaires to 41,000 of
the 368,000 Vietnam-Era
veterans who have service-
connected disabilities.
Designed to identify
veterans who want further
training to qualify for jobs
or those who want help in
finding a suitable job, the
questionnaire will be sent
to all Vietnam disabled
veterans during the coming
months.
“Special help - over and
above GI Bill education - is
available to veterans with
service-connected disabili
ties,” said H. W. Johnson,
Director of the Winston-
Salem VA Regional Office.
“This is a follow up to
stration pays disabled
veterans who are drawing
compensation an additional
$170 per month while they
are in school.
ihe monthly stipend,
which is increased when
there arc dependents, is in
addition to VA payments
for tuition, books and other
expenses. It does not affect
compensation payments
that range from S28 (for a
10 percent disability) to as
high as $1,232 (for 100
percent when loss of limbs
is involved.)
The 66,000 member
National Alliance of Busi
nessmen is developing job
openings for disabled
veterans to be identified by
the VA survey. The
Department of Labor is
cooperating through its
state employment offices.
Veterans who respond in
the survey will be contacted
by VA counselors. Those
who want, jobs will be
referred to a NAB job
opening. Suitable job
training programs will be
found for others.
‘Push-Out’
Is Challenged
ATLANTA — Federal
agencies, state departments of
education and local school of
ficials responsible for
guaranteeing non-discrimin-
atory education are being
challenged to bring a halt to the
pattern of racial discrimination
and arbitrary actions of school
authorities emerging in
desegregated Southern schools
— a phenonenon known as “the
student pushout problem.”
A&T Foundation Awards Mr. And Mrs. Parker
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Parker of Mt. Gilead, N.C. (at right) hold award presented by the A&T
wZ^m^s^be lOchildren^o A&T StL UnTvers" y GreinsbofJ
Peder Phoio, businessman and teacher at A&T. (William
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