THE BETTER WE KNOW US ...
by Don L. Bailey
FAYETTEVILLE - His middle
initial is “A” which stands for
“action”. Those who are familiar with
the man to whom this refers, can
surely testify to the fact that this is an
accurate description of his character.
To bring out of the dark those who
are unfamiliar with this personality,
this “Mr. Action” is DR. CHARLES
“A” LYONS, JR., chancellor of
Fayetteville State University in Fay
etteville, North Carolina.
Due to Dr. Lyons’ unceasing desire
for development and excellence, Fay
etteville State has been converted
from a small. Black North Carolina
college into a great institution for
higher learning and self-development.
To gain a better appreciation of this
man let us delve into his past and
follow his progression to his present
position.
Dr. Lyons began his successful
existence on April 5, 1926 in a small,
eastern North Carolina community
named Conetoe. Upon completion of
his secondary education, he set out
for Shaw University where, in 1949,
he graduated with highest honor with
a major in history and a minor in
English. Following this, Dr. Lyons
attended Ohio State University where
he received his M.A. degree in political
science, and his Ph.D. with South and
Southeast Asia as his area of speci
ality.
While involved in his advanced
degree studies at Ohio State, Dr.
Lyons had the good fortune to travel
abroad during the post-war era. “This
proved to be one of the real highlights
of my life,” stated the chancellor. “It
enabled me to gain a perspective in
the post-war era of what’s going on in
other countries and other cultures,
and to try to relate that to my own
life and to my own career.” Dr. Lyons
further stated that travelling to India
in the mid 1950s, where he attended
the Gohhale Institute for Politics and
Economics, was one of the real high
lights in his life.
The winter of 1962 saw Dr. Lyons
preparing himself for administrative
duties on the college level when he
attended an institute at the Harvard
University School of Business Admin
istration, in Massachusetts, concerning
College and University Administra
tion. There is an interesting tale to
this in that Dr. Lyons had not origi
nally set college administration as his
goal. He once stated that he backed
into administrative work, for his early
goal was to become a lawyer after
receiving his master’s degree and
teaching for awhile. He was coerced
into the Ph.D. program at Ohio State
and afterwards accepted a teaching
position. Then, “someone dangled an
administration job in front of me and
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Minority Firms Face Problems
WASHINGTON, D.C.-
Despite recent gains, a wide
gulf still separates most mi
nority-owned firms from the
mainstream of American bus
iness activity, Alex Armen-
daris, director of the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s
Office of Minority Business
Enterprise (OMBE), told
ment sponsored by the Busi- year) receive? (a) $800 (b) gpanish-speaking accountants
--- Round Table which $1000 (c) $1500 (d) $3000. «
Do You Know Much
About Economics ?
(This message is reprinted average American factory
from a three-page advertise- worker (making $9152 a
minority businesses depends
in part upon their abilities to
survive in today’s economic
climate.
“Inflation, the tight mon
ey market, rising fuel costs,
minority firms.
For their part, Armendaris
urged the minority CPAs to
pool their talents in order to
stand a better chance of
winning large Government
all of these threaten new contracts. “Many minoirty
businesses, and especially new firms are still too small to go
minority enterprises,” he told after larger, more profitable
ness
appeared in the June, 1975
issue of the Readers Digest.) (4) What determines the value
of the U.S. dollar? (a) How
much gold the government
The following is Part One of owns, (b) How much in
Two Parts. Part Two vrill ap- goods and services the dollar
pear in the Nov. 6th edition will buy. (c) Whatever the
of this newspaper. Federal Reserve decides it’s
and area business people in
San Antonia, Texas.
“Receipts of minority
the San Antonio conference
hosted by the American As
sociation or Spanish-speaking
Certified Public Accountants.
He assured members of the
firms are up in several major Los Angeles-based CPA group
industries according to the that his agency is aware of
latest figures we have,” Ar
mendaris noted, “but most
minority firms are still small
operations and are highly
worth, (d) Prices in the stock , ,
' ' concentrated m retail trade
market.
You’re deeply involved in
economics whether you’ve (5) Creating jobs takes capital
ever taken a course in it or for plants, machinery, etc. On
not. Every time you buy a an average, how much capital
can of beans or collect a would the steel industry, for
paycheck or put $20 in your example, have to invest to
savings account, you affect create one job in a new steel
not only your own economic plant? (a) $50,000 (b) $75,000
life, but the lives of others, (c) $100,000 (d) $200,000.
Yet, many of us have only a ANSWERS
vague understanding of
and selected services.”
According to the OMBE
director, the outlook for
the problems minority ac
countants and other profess
ionals face in their attempts
to bring more business into
their firms. OMBE, along
with other agencies in Gov
ernment, is now working on
steps aimed at directing more
improving the position of Government auditing work to
awards. By combining their
resources, however, the bigger
contracts come within the
reach of minority firms.”
The OMBE director also
suggested closer cooperation
among the memberships of
the associations and groups
within the accounting pro
fession as still another way to
help strengthen the com
petitive position of minority
firms, as well as to encourage
more qualified minority indi
viduals to enter the pro
fession.
MONUMENT TO OMKGA FOUNOERS TO
BE UNVEILED
A granite shaft on which is etched the
faces of the four late founders of the Omega
Psi Phi fraternity will be unveiled at
Howard University on November 16. The
founders were, left to right: Dr. Oscar J.
Cooper, who was a pre-med student at
Howard in 1911 when Omega was founded;
Dr. Frank Coleman who was a science and
math major; Dr. Ernest E. Just, renowned
biologist who served as faculty advisor; and
Bishop Edgard A. Love of the United
Methodist Church who was divinity student.
They organized at Howard the first
fraternity on a black coljege campus.
Thousands are expected to attend the
unveiling and dedication. Judge Marion W.
Garnett of Chicago, grand basileus of the
Omegas, will be one of the speakers.
To Keynote A&T Black-Tie Event
Black Lawyers Elect Officers
(1) (d) Employee wages,
“where the money goes’ and benefits account
by Ms. Barbara Carter The afternoon events in-
DURHAM— The North eluded a question and answer
Carolina Association of Black session, moderated by James
Lawyers held their bi-annual Ferguson and Charles Beck-
Bar Association, Jeffery Sim
mons, second year law stu-
UREENSBORO An
address by John P. Condon, a
retired Marine general and
currently president of the
National Alliance of Business
men, vtill highlight the third
annual Black-Tie Dinner
sponsored by the A&T Uni
versity Foundation, Novem-
meeting in Durham, N. C., on ton of Chapel Hill, on cross
and impeach-
“who gets what”. How weU g7 percent of the corpor
do you know the system of a^j^rding to U.S. ^4 through 26. The examination
which you’re a part? Circle Department of Commerce meeting was ment with emphasis on tne
the correct answer to the remainder, 16 “Changf'S Aspects of Crimi- police witness.
foUowing questions and see nal Justice”. A Bmlness Meeting foUow-
t. ® « ^ rtAw oificers
how you score.
. . , ^ 1 Professor Barry Nakell, ed and new officers were
cents to replace the tools j >
and machinery of production. Associate Professor of the elected. Officers ^
(1) How much of each leaving only about nine cents UNC-Chapel Hill School of lows; Resident -- Ch^le
corporate sales doUar goes to divided between divi- Keynote Speaker, Daye; Vice President - James
employees through wages, , , j stockholders and discussed highlights of changes Smith (Raleigh, N.C.); Sec-
salaries and benefits? (a) 25 ^ in the new criminal procedure retary - George K. Butter-
percent (b) 42 percent (c) 53
percent (d) 67 percent.
dent at Duke University, dis- ber 21.
cussed activities and programs The dinner, which annual-
of the Student Division. ly serves as a salute to the
The final event was a Hos- Foundation’s individual and
pitality Hour held at the corporate supporters, vrill be
hotel. held at 7:30 p.m. in the
Blood Test Push
State Lab Capacity
RALEIGH — Blood Assistant state health di
chemistry test increases per- rector Dr. Isa Grant said
formed by the State Ijibora- attention to chronic disease
tory indicated that North problems that plague many
Hilton Inn.
Special tributes vrill be
paid this year to J. W. R.
Grandy, a longtime teacher
and landscape design special
ist at A&T; B. H. Thornton,
Diurham civic worker who has
served for many years as
treasurer of the A&T Nation
al Alumni Association; and
Tal Williams, Greensboro busi
nessman.
Other honorees will be
members of the Chancellor’s
Council (persons who have
contributed $500 or more
annually to the Foundation),
and the Chancellor’s Scholars,
those students and former
students who received schol
arship assistance from the
Foundation.
tion, said more than 50U
persons are expected for the
dinner.
Condon, who is on loan
from the Rockwell Interna
tional Corporation, became
president of the National
Alliance of Businessmen last
year. At Rockwell he serves
as corporate manager of ur
ban affairs and manager of
Equal Employment Oppor
tunity at the company’s Pitts
burgh headquarters.
The Alliance is a partner
ship of business, labor and
government, working to se
cure jobs and training for the
disadvantaged.
Condon is a native of
Michigan and graduate of the
U. S. Naval Academy. He
act. Afterwards, there was a field (Wilson, N.C.); Treasur-
panel discussion moderated er - Cressic Thigpen (Raleigh,, Carolinians are no longer older people is mostly the
(21 (dl From each dollar of James Ferguson of Char- N.C.); Executive Secretary - content to suffer the endless result of education via the
(2) National income is the federal N.C., on the specific John Harmon (New Bern, agonies of chronic disease and media and public health per-
total amount of earnings of ^ collectors provisions of the new act. N.C.). The Executive Com- jo nothing about it. sonnel.
the American system - from 25 members included Pro- mittee included: Acie Ward Blood chemistry tests, a “Physicians have come to
corporate profits to workers’ * Washincton If Nakell, David Dansby (Raleigh, N.C.); Michael Lee procedure that can indicate depend upon them in diag-
paychecks or a landlord’s rent p„n«nue ts'xes Greensboro, N.C., and (Greensboro, N.C.); William any one of 100 different nosing disease to the extent
Marshall (Durham, N.C.);
from each doUar of natiomU A luncheon was held at Fr^k Balance (D^h^
income by the year 2000. ‘he Ramada Inn. The Key- N.C.); Jj^es Beaty (W—-
note Speaker was Charles Salem, N.C.) and James Fer-
(3) (d) The average factory Day®- Associate Professor at guson
(3) How much extra in fringe
benefits " health plans, paid
holidays, etc. - does the
diseases from a single vile of that they are now ordered
blood serum, reached 617,000 almost routinely,” she said,
during fiscal 1974-75 - eclips- “It is far better to try to
ing the previous fiscal year by prevent disease by early de-
over 100,000. Specimens tection and eliminate, in so
worker mking $9152 hta UNC School of Law. Profes- Following the business ses- were submitted from 188,000 far as possible, the chances of
wor er, ^ benefits ^®y® president of the patients - an increase of later complications.”
collections. What portion of ^ James Ferguson
each dollar of national in
come goes to taxes? (a) 13
cents (b) 17 cents (c) 25
cents (d) 37 cents.
$3020
Conltoued on Page 2
the Black Bar.
Student Division of the Black 30,000 over 1973 -74.
Only Black Professor At Meredith
Phillip DeBerry, son4n-law broaden their horizens and
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Welbom tackle a worid that has often
of Thonuiville, has earned been closed to them. dominantly white school,
the distinction of being the He feels qualified to teach One of DeBerry’s main
only Black professor at a tjje course because he, too, problems with Black students
predominately white south- represents a minority group. wmjm |g jjis firm belief that Blacks
em women’s college. His jie says that women, like W |jp can further themselves by
assignment also is unusual Blacks, have often been de- ^ accepting the challenge of a
because he teaches women njed access to many major ^ _ ^ white institution in much the
about women. institutions for a long time. «— same way women are success-
DeBerry Is a sociology The course he teaches at ■Hhl^ fully moving upward in pro
professor at Meredith College Meredith is centered on a ]>een aoceptcd euOy at the fessions that were previously
in Raleigh. historical analysis of the college by white students. He totally male.
A professor at Meredith woman’s role in society and says, however, that many of A native of High roint,
since 1972, the 27 year old established institutions. his Black students have caus- DeBerry graudated
Blood chemistry tests are
particularly beneficial to pa
tients who must undergo
weekly dialysis (mechanical
cleansing of the blood) as a
don’t know whether to trust He earned his master’s degree and
retired from the Marines in
More than 300 students 1962 as a Major General,
have been assisted by the Reservations for the din-
Foundation since it was re- ner may be secured in the
activated in 1969. Office of Development and
Marshall Colston, execu- University Relations in Dud-
tive secretary of the Founda- ley Building at A&T.
Preyer Wants Control
WASHINGTON— Sixth Often the Congress finds that
District Congressman Richard- the public is being saddled
son Preyer recently reported with rules Congress never
on a new congressional effort intended,” Preyer declared,
to place controls on the Preyer said examples of
federal bureaucracy. congressional intent being
Preyer announced that a violated had occuned in
subcommittee vrill begin hear- every government agency,
ings this week on a bill which “Businessmen are finding
gives Congress the authority frequently that they are being
to review rules and regula- hit with regulations which are
tions adopted by federal close to harassment, which
>u b - *» dialvsis The State Labora- wons auopiea oy leaerai ciubc w uoicusiiicni.,
Black professor in a pre- in sociolo^ at the University ^ ^ are imposed under threat of
01 North Carolina at Cnapei ’
tests for the state s 58 dialysis
Hill in 1973.
patients last year.
He is married to the Phenylketonuria (PKU), a
former Pauline Welbom of disease that causes mental
ThomasviUe. She received a retardation in the new bom,
B.S. degree in nursing from detected by examina-
A&T University and a mas- ® blood sample taken
ter’s degree from the Unlvers- Wrth. The lab performed
ity of North Carolina at 81.000 of these teste last
Chapel Hill. She is presently y®“- t*»®
an instructor at the Univers- specimen a test may also be
from ity of Nort;h Carolina School “«d® determine the pres-
DeBerry teaches women to DeBerry feels that he has- ed problems because they North Carolina A&T in 1970. of Nursing in Chapel Hill.
Continued from Page 6
penalties for violation. criminal penalties and which
The Congressman is one of the public is told are required
those sponsoring the bill by laws passed by Congress,
which would allow either Yet when we in Congress
House of Congress to disap- examine the facts we find
prove such rules and regula- that there was never any
tions when they are found to intention for such legislation
be excessive or outside the to be enforced in such a
intent of Congress in delega- manner.”
ting the authority originally. The Congressman describ-
“We have found in recent ed the review bill as “only a
years that government by first step in bringing a more
bureaucracy has taken a dang- reasonable attitude to the
erous trend in Washington, bureaucracy.”
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