Highest Grade-Point Average
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RALEIGH NC 27611
Wake Student Takes l op Honors
BY IRENE R. CLARK
8p«l»l To The CAROLINIAN
This year the competition for the
number one spot among high school
graduates for the Wake County area
wfs very intense. The title of “top
valedictorian’’ for 1988 goes to
Kimberly Camille West, 18, of the
William G. Enloe Magnet High School
in Raleigh.
Out of the 4,538 seniors to be
gradauted in the 22 public, private,
and church-related high schools in
the Wake County area, Ms. West had
the highest grade-point average of
4.835, which was also tops for her
class of 460.
Ms. West was born in Fayetteville
in 1970 and grew up in Raleigh. She is
Brawley Story
Denounced As
“Pack Of Lies”
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)—A
former aide to the Rev. Al Sharp
ton told the Daily News and
WCB8-TV that he’d left the team
of advisers working on the
Tawana Brawley case because
"It’s all nothing but a pack of
lies.”
Perry McKinnon, 39. who serv
ed as an aide to Sharpton from
January until May, told the
News that even Sharpton ex
pressed doubts about the teen
ager’s charge that she had been
kidnapped and raped by six white
men last November.
“I brought it up to [Sharpton]
that all the information didn’t
Jibe to me,” McKinnon told the
“There are too
many lies. And I’m
not going to live with
all those lies...”
—Perry McKinnon
News. “That it just didn't show
where some whites had done it.
And that we shouldn’t be taken
off the beaten path by any rumors
or any writing that was on her
body.”
The 16-year-old was found lying
on the side of a road in Wapp
ingers Falls, her hair shorn and
racial epithets written in animal
excrement scrawled on her body.
“He said to me, ‘That sounds
shaky to me, too,'” McKinnon
said, recalling the conversation
with Sharpton.
“Sharpton told me, ‘It don’t
matter whether any whites did it
or not. Something happened to
her,”' McKinnon said, referring
to Ms. Brawley. “But I said,
‘That’s not enough,'” McKinnon
told the News.
He also told the news organiza
tions that Sharpton admitted the
whole Brawley situation was “not
about the story, it’s about them
(See TAWANA BRAWLEY, P. 2)
Adoption Wait Shorter
For Healthy Children
Couples who wish to adopt black in
fants will have an even shorter wait
than ever before at the Children’s
Home Society of North Carolina.
“More black young women are
choosing to place their children for
adoption,” said Sandy M. Cook, direc
tor of the Inter-Agency Program at
the Children’s Home Society. “This
means there’s not only school-age
children but also infants available to
couples who wish to increase their
family through adoption.
“So often, myths and half-truths
keep many families from knowing
about adoption or from experiencing
the joys of being parents. This is so
unfortunate when there are so many
children who need families and so
many couples who are either
childless or who would like to be
parents again.
“Unlike what many people believe,
couples do not have to be rich or own
their own home to adopt. Our
guidelines are just good common
sense. We want our families to have
enough income to support another
child, to have enough room in their
home for another child and to be
young enough to watch the child grow
up.
“When couples contact us, they do
not have to wait a long time to meet
with a caseworker. Our caseworkers
meet with the families several times
to get to know them and for the family
to understand the components of
adoption,” said Cook.
Most of the infante at the Children’s
Home Society are with their adoptive
families by the time they are six to
seven weeks of age. Infante must re
main with foster parents for at least
30 days from the time that both birth
parents sign consent forms for adop
tion. As soon as an infant is legally
free to be adopted, the agency places
the child with an adoptive family that
has been selected for that particular
child.
“Adoption is a wonderful way to
one who strongly believes that she
can achieve any goal through hard
work and determination. As proof,
she has achieved numerous signifi
cant accomplishments.
Some of her academic
achievements include being inducted
into the National Honor Society and
being elected an officer of the Enloe
Chapter. In the 10th grade, she was
accepted at the North Carolina School
of Science and Mathematics, but
decided not to attend in order to con
tinue the numerous activities in
which she had become involved at
Enloe. During the summer of her 10th
grade, she attended the North
divergent thinking. While still at
Enloe, Ms. West was a part-time stu
dent at North Carolina State Univer
Enloe High School has a student popula
tion of 2,200. This year Ms. West served effec
tively as student body president, involving
fellow students in many creative council pro
jects.
Carolina Governor’s School where
her mind was opened to futuristic and
sity (1986-87), where she earned A’s
in both Calculus HI and Differential
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VOL. 47, NO. 57
Park Finally Gets Gym
Council
Approves
Facility
BY R.P. CORNWALL CHUNN
sun Writer
Raleigh City Councilman Ralph
Campbell, Jr., said last week that
after several years of “pushing,” a
gymnasium will be constructed at the
Roberts Park Recreation Center.
“At our last council meeting we
were able to get approval... for
$325,000 for the building of a gym
nasium onto Roberts Park,” Camp
bell said.
“It will not be a large gymnasium.
Roberts Park is designed as a
neighborhood park,” he said, noting
that the facility will not be of the
magnitude of the Chavis Park gym
nasium or similar structures.
A Roberts Park master plan com
mittee has been appointed to guide
the building of the gymnasium and
additional landscaping at the site. Dr.
David Mallette, Sr. is chairman of the
committee which includes as its
members Ed Worth and A.W.
Solomon. '
Campbell said the gymnasium had
been the focus of promises and
discussions for years. A decision by
the city to allocate $30,000 for gym
nasium study, and the inclusion of the
facility in a bond issue, resulted in a
heightening of community interest in
the additional construction.
W.A. Rainbow, a resident of the
Roberts Park community, and many
others in the neighborhood have
shown a strong interest in the
upgrading of Roberts Park with a
gymnasium, Campbell said.
He stated that the precise location
(See NEW GYM, P. 2)
start or to add to a family. Our ser
vices are. free but many of our
families make donations to help us
find homes for other children,” said
Cook.
“With our eight offices located
across the state, we are easily ac
cessible to any families who may
need our services,” said Ruth Mc
Cracken, executive director. The
agency’s offices are located in
Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville,
Greensboro, Greenville, Jackson
ville, Raleigh and Wilmington. A
telephone call or a letter to any office
will begin the adoption process.
Legislature Funds
Fourth Year Basic
Education Program
North Carolina public school
students will get more teachers, more
summer school and more textbooks
and supplies, the General Assembly
has decided.
As part of the 1988-89 budget, the
Legislature invested $260.5 million in
the Basic Education Plan, a plan
begun by the Legislature four years
ago to underwrite a core education
for all public school children in North
Carolina.
The single largest expenditure, $88
million, will go to fund additional
teachers in grades K-12, at the
discreation of the individual local
school unit. Another $7 million will go
to reduce class sizes to one teacher
per 28 students in grades 10-12.
The second-largest single expen
diture, $40.6 million, will allow the
staste to pay the full salary of the
previously locally-funded vocational
education teachers. The state had
been paying half the salaries of the
vocational education teachers.
Approximately $17 -million goes to
complete tUll lunaing oi me remeuiai
summer school program begun by
the Legislature in 1985. As of the 1988
school year, the intensive program
and its related transportation costs
will be available for all students who
need remedial instruction in all
grades from 1-11.
In addition, the General Assembly
will invest $12.5 million more in
1988-89 to raise the per-student
allotments the state makes for in
structional materials and supplies for
textbook funds.
Legislators voted to put $30.5
million ipto funding to help handicap
ped, gifted and exceptional students
throug the BEP. The budget bill pro
vides $7.5 million to eliminate inter
nal caps for funding programs for
handicapped students and $5 million
to extend programs for handicapped
and gifted students to include those
between the ages of 18 and 20.
Another $18 million will be used to
pay for related services like visual
See LEGISLATURE l* 2>
Hrst Mack national security adviser, Lt.
statement flanked by (left to right) former
President Reagan and Secretary of
emerged as one of the most powerful black
interview With Dr. Nthato Motlana
South Africans Israeli Dilemma
JERUSALEM—Isreals president,
Haim Herzog, hosted visiting
diplomats and 130 African students
currently studying in Israel to
celebrate 25 years of African-Israeli
relations and the anniversary of the
Organization of African Unity. The
130 students at the president’s recep
tion are part of Israel’s International
Development Cooperation Program
(Mashav) which, since its founding in
1958, has provided advanced training
to thousands of African students and
professionals in such fields as
agriculture, community health, in
dustry, business and communica
tions.
Among the visitors from 23 African
countries was Dr. Nthato Motlana,
the most prominent black South
African leader ever to come to Israel.
Dr. Motlana, in his capacity as presi
dent of the Soweto Civic Organiza
tion, said that he was in Israel to in
vestigate the change in Israel’s policy
toward South Africa.
Following are his remarks to Voice
of Isreal radio in an interview.
Q. What is your impression regar
ding Israel’s relations with black
Africa in general and black South
Africa in particular?
A. We were saddened a few years
back when relations between Israel,
black Africa and black South Africa
soured... black South Africans have
over the years enjoyed a very special
relationship with the Jews of South
Africa, rneretore it was most disap
pointing when the relationship
soured, when black African nations
broke relations with Isreal over the
question of Israel’s relations with
Arabs. There are indications now that
the relationship may be repaired. I
am more than favorably impressed
by the number of African nations
represented at this gathering. Many
of them have not renewed diplomatic
relations with Israel. Many of these
people are students. Over the years it
is apparent that the best am
Dassaaors Ol isreai are mese
students. Black students from South
Africa are noticeable by their
absence. I would hope that in the
future they will play an important
role in this relationship... I hope that
Israel will regain the kind of pre
eminent position it had; sending its
emissaries, sending its experts,
medical, engineering, but most im
portant its agricultural experts in
order to help in the development that
Africa needs so much. I do hope rela
tions will improve.
v^. Arc uic ouuui rnuuiuo wiw wc
already receiving training in places
like the Afro-Asian Institute having
any impact?
A. There have been too few black
South African students who have
come here to make a real impression.
I came here to see this organization
called ORT. We are engaged in a bat
tle to extend training, not only
academic training but vocational
training, to black South Africans.
There are very many technical high
(See SOUTH AFRICAN, P. 2)
Largest Prison Construction
In NC History Bearing Fruit
The largest prison construction
program in state history is beginning
to bear fruit with new dormitories at
Sanford Advancement Center and
Guilford, Forsyth and Davidson
County prison facilities.
During the dedication of two 50-bed
dormitories at the Sanford Advance
ment Center, State Correction
Secretary Aaron J. Johnson stressed
the need for continuing the correc
tional reforms of recent years.
“This construction is just a start,’
Johnson said. “There is much mort
than needs to be done."
In his remarks, Secretary Johnsor
added, “We will need even more con
struction to bring our prison systeir
up 10 appropriate standards, is or in
Carolina’s prison system is currently
facing a number of legal challenges
in which prison overcrowding is a
major issue.
The dormitories that were
dedicated last week are part of the
state’s $29.3 million Emergency
Prison Facilities Development pro
gram, under which 2,554 new beds are
being built system-wide to help ad
dress the problem of prison over
crowding. Gov. Martin’s 1988-89 sup
plemental budget requests almost $28
million for the construction of an ad
ditional 976 medium-custody beds
and support facilities.
“As Gov. Matin noted in his 10 Year
r nsun nan mure uian iwo years ago,
we need to build prisons for those that
pose a threat to public safety,”
Johnson said. “But we also need
alternatives for those who can pay
their debt to society without in
carceration.”
He added, “Otherwise, we may
have to build a new prison every year
to meet population pressures.”
The first construction completed
under this program, at the New
Hanover Correctional Center near
Wilmington, was formally dedicated
in April. The dedication of two new
50-man dormitories at the Carteret
Prison Unit near Newport was held
(bee PRISON, P. 2)
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Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Sara Lee'Annual Benefactors’ Luncheon in Chicago. Chain* by Imu
Corporation; The Honorable Andrew Young, mayor of Atlanta; the fund-raising event saluted Johnson lor his (amort of
The Honorable Judge Abe Marovitz and John Johnson, UNCF.
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A versatile person, Ms. West is also
involved in many community and
extracurricular activities. While at
Enioe, she actively participated in
the girls' tennis team, the Symphonic
Honors Wind Band, served as vice
president of the French Club, was a
1986 state finalist on the Speech and
Debating Team, and was elected by
the student body as its 1987 homecom
ing queen.
Enioe High School has a student
population of 2,200. This year, Ms.
West served effectively as student
body president, involving fellow
students in many creative student
council projects. She also found time
for swimming, drawing, modeling
with the Hudson-Belk Teen Fashion
Board, and playing the flute and
piano.
(See KIMBERLY WEST, P. 2)
MS. KIMBERLY C. WEST
Mutual Savings And
Loan Ranks As Tops
For Serving Blacks
DURHAM—A Durham savings and loan association that has
made a tradition of lending to blacks unable to get money from
white-owned banks has received national recognition after 67
straight years of profits.
With more than $22 million in assets last year, Mutual Savings
and Loan is ranked among the top 200 SALs in the nation. It also
received an A-plus rating last year from Sheshunoff Rating Services,
the highest mark given by the firm.
In 1987, Mutual earned $306,906 in profits, up from $298,344 in the
previous year. That translates to a two percent return on assets.
Among banks and SALs, a one percent return on assets is considered
good.
The company was chosen savings and loan of the year by the
magazine Black Enterprise in its June issue.
“We know our niche and we stick to it,” said F.V. “Pete” Allison,
president of Mutual. “We’re here to serve the community—not that
we're not out to make a profit. We’re small, so we can get to know our
customers and design a savings and loan plan for them.”
Founded in 1921 by a group of black business leaders. Mutual's
clientele is still mostly blue-collar blacks.
George K. Quick, Mutual’s senior vice president, told the
magazine the institution has never suffered an annual loss or lost
money on a loan in 67 years.
“Over the years we’ve gradually built up our reserves so when
the bad years hit we were able to make it through,” said Allison,
who’s been with Mutual for 35 years.
Making loans is not a perfect business, he said.
"It doesn’t take but two or three bad loans to take an SAL down,”
he said. "We tried to make small loans to individuals but we stayed
(See MUTUAL SAVINGS, P. 2)