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WEDNESDAY, JATJUARY 23, 1974 THE TRIBUNAL AID PAGE 3 Navy Vet Of 20 Years MEET MAI ELLA BLACK by PHI J.A. Davidson with private indiislrv and With over 20 years of the econoniv, educational Navy service behind her, benefits, schools and irain- MA Black is still growing ing programs which give W'ith her Navy, MA Black - the individual with the the MA stands for Master aptitude a skill. The Naw at Arms - is the senior offers travel, Naw ships woman among four select- and stations literallv cover ed for the Navy’s new the world and could lead an Master at Arms rating. The individual to such places as new rating creates police the Orient or Europe, enforcement specialists for "There are things that may be negative about the service for some indivi- , T-,, r.1 I j , equals. For instance if vou Class) Ella Black departed , . , . , , , ' J. . could not take orders, be at today's Navy. In November, (Master at Arms MAI First Navy Recruiting District Seattle, to attend an Air Force-run five-week law enforcement school in San Antonio, Texas. After completion of the school Ella w'ill become a member of the Master at Arms (MAA) force on the Navy hospital ship Sanctuary. Calling Brownsville, Pa. home, Ella joined the Navy in 1953 just three years out of high school, and after being employed in a position w'hich showed no real hope, for promotion or future. "1 was going nowhere and getting there fast,” MAI Black quipped with a grin, “so I decided to look around to see what other opportunities were available." a certain place at a definite time, live and work in close proximity with people, maybe the Navy is not for them," she said. Ella worked initially at the main office of NRD Seattle, which is in Bellevue, Washington, where she was assigned to recruit only women; how ever, later she worked in a recruiting station in down town Seattle where both men and women are recruited. Parents have an intense interest in the Navy their son or daughter may be joining. They arc in many eases more anxious than their children to know what benefits are available, and may have c]uestions that ••1 had never planned on children wouldn't ask. making the Navy a career, however everytime my enlistment was up I w'ould do it again,” Ella explained with a twinkle in her eye. Once in the Navy, she was selected to attend Communication Technician School in San Diego, Calif., and from there to duty assignments in Washing ton, D.C., Hawaii, Ger many and Maryland. While working as a MAA in Bainbridge, Maryland, Ella did, however, see the problem some individuals had with adapting to the Navy. Many of the new Navy women just out of basic training and going through service school had problems. These problems, mainly of the personal adjustment nature, might have been related to adapting to the Navy. ”I could not understand how these people had gotten into the service in the first place." Ella mused. "I felt that they should have been able to spot these individuals with personality and adaptabili ty prior to joining the Navy.” The Brownsville Navy woman had seen the problem from one side, now she hoped to see what she could do on the other side, Ella was selected for an assignment as a recruiter with Navy Recruiting Dis trict Seattle. As far as telling the prospects what the Navy is all about, Ella is a very eloquent and and candid. She feels that the prospec tive recruit should know the good and bad of the Navy. The good being pay, which in the past has increased was important that they be there during the interview or have a chance to talk to the recruiter later. ”ln the long run,” Ella related, ”it is the prospec tive recruit who must open up to me. I want to be able to talk to the individual and find out what he or she is MAI ELLA BLACK really like. Sometimes this will there be a long wait? means getting out of the Can he be stationed near office and sitting down in a home or as far away as local restaurant where we Germany? These are things just talk informally. This that fit the Navy to the seems to relax a person and individual,” related Ella, enables me to see what he "She is honestly candid, or she is really like. Once I and when talking to a see the real person I can woman can give a vivid see if he or she will fit the picture of where and what Navy.” the Navy is all about,” said Next it is important t(i fellow recruiter Signalman try- if the individual fits the First Class Jon Tehan. Navy - to fit the Navy to the She feels as do many individual. “Does the Navy other Navy personnel that have the school the Admiral Zumwalt, the individual wants? Will he Chief of Naval Operations, be able to join the Navy had much to do with the right out of high school or many far reaching changes Things You Should Know ALPWDGE... W 1807—1867 .. 3oRN in freedom in I80TJ (eith er W ^.OR NY),SON OFA PRESBYTER- IAN MINISTER; HE BECAME THE FIRST WORLD-FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGRO AC TOR ./educated at the universityof glascow. HE played'^ THELLO’lN LONDON AT AGE 20 &TOURED EUROPE PLAYING BEFORE KINGS FOR SOME 40 YEARS/THE SLAVe”oPENED IN PLYMOUTH, ENG.^UGUST 15, 1055/hE DIED ON TOUR IN LjODZPOLAND; AGE 60/ IN HIGH POINT IT'S BOYLES For lasting elegance^ enhance your home with famous names in furniture Evrything sold at a aiscount . Larg* display of furnhuro for your shopping pitasur*. Shop Fridays til 9 • free parking • convenient payments lnt»rior Dacorcrfors To S«rv« You! Furniture Sales TWO LOCATIONS Saturday 8:30 to 5:30 fM. and Fri- 781 North Main St. PJi. 883-4147 9^ cLoseo 1634 udojn |*h. 882-0519 High Poin(, N.C. in today's Na\y. These changes have not only opened up more opportuni ties to the black sailor, but also to the women. This career Na\y woman is also an umpire for the King County Northwest Umpire Association. An avid softball player w ho has been to all three All Navy Softball Tournaments - her team finished first in two tournaments and placed third in the other - Ella became involved as an umpire in 1964. She has uniped in Washington. D.C., Maryland and San Diego. When she arrived in Seattle in 1971. it took 20 phone calls before she w as able to contact the right organization. ■'1 received some ribbing outreach Human Resources in Action in North Carolina by ' Jerry Blackwelder An elderly lady calls to say that her public assistance check for the month has not been delivered, and her bills are due. A frustrated parent has recognized an emotional problem in his child, and docs not know where to turn. An employee telephones to tell of a problem on his job. All these callers have dialed HOTLINE, a direct toll free number into the office of Secretary of ''The call is catalogued, I'fs instituted a gi\ en a case number, and HOTLINE system to handle written up on a four-part inc]uiries and complaints, form. The Division heads have designated indivi duals to be responsible for handling our calls. They arc required to respond to the caller within three days. ■'We work closely with the Governor's ombtids- man's office.” Souza said. "If they have a Human Resources problem, they refer it to us and we handle Human Resources David T. when I first umped m King , , .,,, ., ‘ ‘ Flaherty. 1 he calls are County, but once they understood that I nieanl business and knew whai I was doing, they left me along,” Ella said. lerty. handled by Craig Souza, a member of Secretary Fla herty's staff. "We get approximately 15 days a day,” Souza said. After her tour aboard the “About 70% of them are hospital ship Sancttiary, from citizens, and the MAI Ella Black plans lo remainder come from our retire and live in the San employees.” Diego area. When^ asked The HOTLINE number what type of work she can be called without would be interested in, she charge from any telephone said, “I will probably gel a in the state. The number is job in a bank so I can have 1-800-662-7950. At nights my weekends off.” and on weekends and It is hard to visualize Ella holidays, the telephone is working in a bank, for it answered by an automatic seems too sedate a job for recording device. The someone who has done so callers are asked to leave much. MAI Black is still their names and telephone growing in her Navy, and, numbers and the calls are working in a bank might be returned when the office too boring for someone w ho reopens, has seen and gone through Souza traced the path of so many changes. a HOTLINE call: ■fhe contact person is the it in the same manner as a division cither takes the call HOLLINE call, up w ith a local office or with Many of the callers are a section of the division, empU>yees ot the Depart- depending on the nature of meiit, and they feel that the problem. HOTLINE is the quickest “The answer is sent back avenue to the Secretary's to the caller, with a copy to office. our office. A record is kept They call concerning new on the call, in case further programs being implemen- follow-up is needed.” ted, problems with longe- Some callers cannot wait '"'ty oi' other personnel three days for an answer to matters, and rumors that their problem. “If we say they may have heard. Often ■rush', then the divisions they are encouraged to know that the call requires discuss the problem with immediate attention," Sou- their supervisors, or other za said. What type of people use the HOTLINE? Those who are frustrated with personal says Souza. "They can get help faster appropriate officials. The number has received wide-spread distribution, and as a result some of the problems, do not pertain to services available through the Dejiartment of Human by calling rather then by Resources, writing a letter,” he In those cases, Souza explained. said lie informs tlie state Many people call just to government agcncy con- have someone to listen to cerned with the problem them. “It’s like a long-dis- area and asks that they tance counseling service." return the call, he added. HOTLINE - a new way of The idea of an in-WATS providing answers and service is a new concept to niore efficient services to state governement. The North carolinians. 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