THE BETTER WE KNOW US ...
GREENSBORO—Attorney Ronald
Barbee is presently giving up his title
of attorney and taking on a new, more
important title of Judge. Mr. Barbee
was appointed Superior Court Judge
on Monday, July 7,1975, by Governor
Jim Holshouser. The Oath of Office
was administered to him on August 2.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Barbee
was an establidied partner in Ihe Greens
boro law firm of Frye-Johnson and
Barbee. The firm consists of Mr. Bar
bee’s personal friends, Henry Frye who
is a State House Representative and
the first black to belong to the N. C.
General Assembly, and Walter T. John-
SMi, Jr., vrfio is Chairman of the Greens
boro Public Schools and the first black
to finish Duke Law School.
Mr. Barbee became a partner of
this law firm in 1970. He is a native
of Durham where he attended public
school and N.C. Central University
Law School where he graduated first
in his class. While at North Carolina
Central he served as Editor-in-Chief
of the N.C. Central Law Journal and
received many awards for academic
achievements.
Judge Barbee was initially a biology
major and while pursuing this course
by MILLER CARTER
of study, he worked as a research as
sistant at Duke University Medical
School. He became interested in law
while talking to a friend -- gave it a
try and liked it! Working as a waiter
in a night club and working in the
library are some of his other jobs
while in school. Before his college
days, Mr. Barbee served in the army as
a paratrooper in the 82nd Air Borne
Division at Fort Bragg.
The month of September would
have marked five years of practice
as an attorney for Mr. Barbee; but.
I’m sure his practice being cut short
is worth it. Besides serving as an at
torney, Mr. Barbee served as a mem
ber of the National Bar Association,
North Carolina Bar Association, N.C.
State Bar Association, Greensboro Bar
Association, N.C. Academy of Trial
Lawyers and has fromerlly served as
Vice President and Treasurer of the
N.C. Young Lawyer Section of the
Greensboro Bar Association. Further,
Judge Barbee holds memberships and
offices in a host of other organizations.
Following his completion of law
school, Mr. Barbee commented that
he had over thirty job offers, includ-
JR.,
ing one with the U.S. Department of
Justice in Washington. He also com
mented that he was going to take that
job but he was called by the Frye-
Johnson law firm and asked to work
with them. However, he still had plans
to report for work with the U.S. De
partment of Justice. It was not until
the Saturday before he was to report
to the Justice Department that he
changed his mind. During the four
years he has been with Frye-Johnson
and Barbee, he says “I never regretted
coming to Frye and Johnson.”
When he was first appointed Superi
or Court Judge, Mr. Barbee had mixed
emotions about the job because of all
the power that he would have but after
a lot of thought, he decided to try it
and do his best at it. Mr. Barbee says
that there are certain advantages and
disadvantages that come with the job
but he is willing to face them. Some
of the advantages of the job are his
salary which is $30,500 per year, and
he says, “111 be able to sit on the ot
her side of the bench and learn law
from a judge’s point of view. The one
disadvantage he faces is the fact that
he will be away from his family all
week.
Though Mr. Barbee faces a diffi
cult job where the decisions are fi
nalized by him, he says he will do the
best he can and let justice be done and
that he will always remain reasonable
and fair. There are five main qualifica
tions that Mr. Barbee feels should be
displayed by every judge. He says
that these five qualifications will be
his guidelines and they are: 1) The
judge should be knowledgeable of the
law. 2) A judge should be a working
judge (he should be available at any
time). 3) A judge should have an im
peccable integrity. 4) A judge should
be open-minded and patient and, 5)
A judge should be fair and reasonable
to all parties in order that justice may
be done.
Mr. Barbee says that being appointed
Superior Court Judge is his greatest
achievement and he owes it all to his
mother and father. He also comments
that his parents were poor but hard
working Christians who supported him
and knew the value of a good educa
tion. He also owes a great deal to his
family and his law firm partners.
Judge Barbee is married to the
former Alice T. Murry of Savanna,
Georgia and they have a three year
old daughter, Stephanie Yvonne. The
family now resides at 4305 King
Arthur Place.
Mr. Ronald Barbee, the newly
appointed Superior Court Judge is a
good person to know, for the better
we know him, THE BETTER WE
KNOW US.
THE TRIBUNALAIO
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RESPONDING TO
BLACK NORTH CAROLINA
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VOLUME m, NO. 13
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20,1975
$5.00 PER YEAR PRESS RUN 6,400
Member
of NORTH CAROLINA BLACK
PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
Republican To Chair Women’s Political Caucus
Notes & Reminders
Question: Can one person
be black. Republican, feminist
and a fiscal conservative at
the same lime?
Answer: Yes. Meet Audrey
Rowe Colom.
Ms. Colom (pronounced
kuh-LOAM) is the newly
elected chair (not chairwom
an, chairperson, or chairman,
just “chair”) of the National
Women’s Political Caucus, the
nationwide feminist group
with 36,000 members which
is currently fighting an increas-
in^y uphill battle to secure
ratification of the proposed exactly chock-full of blacks, ■
Equal Rights Amendment to and decided to register Re-
GREENSBOKO—The Hayes-Taylor YMCA Kiddie
Kollege program for youngsters, ages 3 - B, is now regis
tering for it’s fall program.
The Kiddie Kollege program will offer recreational
swimming, inside and outside physical eduacation and
recreation, arts and crafts, trips, special events, and a well-
balanced curriculum to mix fun with learning.
The Hayes-Taylor YMCA Kiddie Kollege program is
equipped with spacious classrooms; large, fenced-in back
playground; modem fire alarm system; year-round, indoor
heated swimming pool; gymnasium and an acticity bus.
Mrs. Angie Wiley, pre-school director, says, “Several
minor renovations such as painting, replacement of dim
and old light fixtures and other tasks will be completed
in order to make our building even more safe and func
tional for children and adults.”
The pre-school program will meet five days a week,
Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
For further information call or come by Hayes-Taylor
YMCA, 1101 E. Market Street, Greensboro, N.C. Phone:
272-0197 or 272-0198.
HIGH POINT
There lately has been a resurgence in craft work and just
plan save-money, do-it-yourself projects. Recognizing this,
the Parks & Recreation Department is going to sponsor a
two-class session in fabric printing.
The classes will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.,
August 19 and 21, 1975 at the Southside Multi-Purpose
Center on Taylor Street. There will be a charge of $3.00
for each participant which will cover the cost of materials
provided. This fabric printing calss is open to all.
Instruction will be given in modem dance to all who
wish to participate at the Southside Multi-Purpose Center
on Taylor Street. Classes will be held August 18,1975 from
10 a.m. to 12 noon, and on August 20, 1975 from 1:00
p.m. to 2:30 p.m. There is no charge for these classes, and
all are welcome to attend.
The Karate-craze is sweeping the nation. Leam this an
cient form of weaponless self-defense at the Southside
Multi-Purpose Center on Taylor Street. Classes will run
from 6 - 9 p.m. They will begin on August 18,1975. These
classes are sponsored by the High Point Parks & Recreation
Department and will cost $7.00 a month.
Are your terpsichorean endeavors all that they should
be? If not, come to the Southside Multi-Purpose Center’s
Jazz Dance Clinic on Saturday, August 23,1975. The clinic
will run from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon, and will be open to all
dancers ages 10 and up.
Harold Davis Elected
To NIA Post
DURHAM“Harold R.
Davis, Certified Life Under
writer (CLU), Regional Agen
cy, NORTH CAROLINA MU
TUAL Life Insurance Com
pany, was elected Vice Presi
dent of the NATIONAL IN
SURANCE ASSOCIATION
at the NIA’s annual conven-
oisrf^«
tion held recently in Memp
his, Tenn.
The National Insurance As
sociation is comprised of 39
black - managed insurance
companies throughout the
country.
Davis has served the NIA in
several capacities in recent
years. He was assistant secre
tary of the Agency Section in
1973, and the following year
he was named secretary of the
Agency Section. He has been
an instructor and dean of the
NIA’s institutes in Agency
Management in 1974 and
1975.
He has been associated with
North Carolina Mutual since
1947, and he now directs the
company’s agencies in North
and South Carolina.
Davis, a former resident
of High Point, N.C., now
resides in Durham, N.C.
the U. S. Constitution.
She is a registered Repub
lican in the DktrifiTof Colum
bia.
Bom into a firmly Demo
crat family in an intergrated,
middle-calss neighborhood in
New York City, Ms. Colom
noticed that her parents and
the other adults in the area
voted Democrat without ever
finding out anything about
the party’s candidates, much
less ever meeting them. “I
just never saw a candidate in
our community.” She decided
then that she would neither
vote blindly for one party nor
let herself be taken for
granted by it.
She heard about tlie Re
publican Party being “the
party of the open door”,
observed that it was not
publican when she tumed 21
seven years ago.
“Besides, I have this under
lying feeling that I am a fiscal
conservative,” she adds.
Responsible handling of
money was drummed into her
in a series of jobs with unde^
funded activist groups, and
she says that as head of the
NWPC she will consider very
carefully what it can do most
effectively with the money it
raises.
She also promoted the
idea of activist groups staying
in touch with both major
parties. In her year with the
National Welfare Rights Org
anization, she urged director f j
George Wiley to approach the '
Republicans for support as
well as the Democrats. “It
would have blown my mind if
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Lott Carey Baptist Foreign
Audrey Colom
Mission Convention
TOLEDO, Ohio— Lott
Carey Baptist Foreign Mission
Convention is scheduled to
hold its 78th Annual Session
here at the Commodore Perry
Motor Inn, 505 Jefferson
Avenue at Superior Street,
with the Third Baptist
Church, Pinewood Avenue
and Division Street, the Rev.
WSSU National Bicentennial Campus
WINSTON-SALEM-
Winston-Salem State Universi
ty has been designated as a
National Bicentennial Campus
by the American Revolution
Bicentennial Administration.
In announcing the designa
tion, Rev. Henry S. Lewis,
Jr., Chairman of the WSSU
Bicentennial Conunittee, out
lined some of the activities
scheduled by the university as
a part of the nation’s bicen
tennial celebration.
On September 28, the
university will hold its Found
er’s Day Convocation at 4:00
p.m. in the K. R. Williams
Auditorium. California Con
gresswoman Yvonne Brath-
waite Burke will be the guest
speaker.
WSSU’s Homecoming Pa
rade will be held on Saturday,
November 15 at 9:00 a.m.
The parade theme will focus
on the contributions by blacks
to the nation’s growth in
general and on the contribu
tions of WSSU to the progress
of the Winston-Salem Com
munity in particular. Areas to
be highlighted include busi
ness, education, health and
medicine and religion.
During the first quarter of
1976 WSSU, WXII - Channel
12, and Winston-Salem/For-
syth County Bicentennial
Commission will present a
series of television programs.
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H. Clarke Nabrit, D. D., as
host pastor, September 1 - 5.
According to Dr. C. R.
Edwards, pastor of First
Baptist Church, Fayetteville,
N. C., convention president,
and Dr. W. C. Sommerville,
the organization’s executive
secretary of Washington,
D. C., this year’s meeting will
be a new experiment for Lott
Carey whose receipts total
over $500,000 this year. In
keeping with the modem
trend, Toledo’s session will be
in a Convention Center,
where housing, lodging and
other essentials will be pro
vided.
President Edwards plans to
lead over two thousand dele
gates to the Ohio setting
where he has been program
med to delivery his second
address as Lott Carey’s chief
executive officer.
Programmed to open here
on Monday evening, Septem
ber 1st, at 8 o’clock with a
pre-convention musicale, di
rected by Mrs. Juanita David
of New York City, depicting
the assembly’s theme, “The
Divine Concem For The
Troubled”, a history of Lott
Carey will be dramatized. The
Executive Committee has ar
ranged its meeting for Tues
day.
Dr. Sommerville’s report
that will be heard on Wed
nesday will show a total
receipt of over a half million
dollars from the constituency
which is composed of Black
Baptist churches. This is the
largest amount reported in
Lott Carey’s history with
Convent Avenue Baptist
Church and Salem Baptist
Church of New York and
Trinity Baptist Church of
Columbus reporting more
than $5,000 each and the
executive secretary’s report
shows more than 150 church
es have contributed more
than $1,000 each for foreign
missions this convention year.
This year’s annual meeting
will be the Diamond Jubilee
Session for the Women’s
Auxilary with Mrs. Nettie
Gaither, president of McKees
port, Pa., programmed to
preside at Holiday Inn, 141
N. Summit Street, the Wom
en’s headquarters.
Joseph 0. Maker, presi
dent of the Laymen’s League,
Pittsburgh, Pa., is to direct
this department; and Willie
Battle, Columbus, is to pre
side over the Youth Division
whose advisor is Mrs. Louise
Slater, Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. Sommerville’s report is
listed to be heard at a joint
session on Wednesday morn
ing when Dr. C. H. Jordan,
Portsmouth, Va., is expected
to be elected new chairman
of the executive board to
succed the late Dr. W. L.
Ransome who served more
than fifty years. Mr. Sommer
ville will make special recom
mendations for extension of
Lott Carey’s program into
several of the emerging nations
of Africa. At present, the
organization has stations in
Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Haita
and India.
Mrs. M. A. Home, Winston-
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