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*n. Anno Haywood. Mrs. Bessie Dudley. Mrs. Elsie Glenn,
Mn. Mary Una. Mrs. Etaaboth Pugh and Mrs. Helen Rogers.
Back row: Mrs. Irene Peppers, Mrs. Bessie Lee and Mrs.
Clynla Upchurch. Absent members: Mrs. Betty Pollard,
treasurer; Mrs. Laura McLain, vice president; Mrs. Josephine
Cameron and Mrs. Bertie Hunter.
Black Business Leader
Says Plan For Future
Joshua I. Smith’s managerial and
entrepreneurial skills have gained
him and the company he founded in
1978 national acclaim.
Smith, the founder of the Maxima
Carp., has thrust himself and his
Rockville, Md. data processing
business into the national limelight in
just 10 short years.
Smith was in Raleigh recently as
part of St. Augustine’s College’s an
nual Career Week. The businessman
spoke to the college’s 1,700-plus
students, during an all-college
assembly, and came close to missing
Ms flight home as he continued
rotating his experiences to afternoon
olasses.
Smith told students that in order to
achieve success, the most important
thing to remember is not only to plan
for your future, but concern yourself
about the community from whence
you came.
Smith practices what he preaches.
Mo has recently joined forces with an
Atlanta-based historically black col
lege, combining his company’s
managerial abilities, marketing
techniques and technical skills with
the college’s computer facilities and
the capabilities of its faculty and stu
dent body to deliver data processing
services to the Atlanta community.
Maxima has beCn featured in the
Washington Post, Baltimore Sun,
Atlanta Journal and Black Enter
prise magazine for its swift rise to the
top 20 of black-owned and operated
private companies.
The privately held computer ser
vices and products firm was founded
in 1978. Today, it is the ninth-largest
Mack-owned firm, grossing $41.53
million in eight years, while employ
ing 1,300 people, according to Stan
dard and Poors.
Smith has not neglected to share his
wealth with the black community. A
graduate of a historically black
university himself, he spends a great
deal of time talking to minority
youngsters urging them to prepare
for their future.
Black economic empowerment is
the most important area of concern
for black Americans, he says.
Growing up in Loveland, Ohio, just
northeast of Cincinnati, where his
family moved from Kentucky, he
knows what it means to a young black
male in a home where his father had
to leave a job as principal and take a
job as a laborer in an illuminating
plant, and he learned the value of
hard work. Despite that experience,
education always remained a priority
in the Smith household, he says, and
it’s obvious he works hard at passing
on those values to the black youth
with whom he talka~
Voters To Hold
Political Forum
With Candidates
The Organization of AME Voter* In
North Carolina will hold a political
forum on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 3 p.m.
at St. Paul AME Church, 402 W.
Edenton St., Raleigh. State and na
tional candidate* and/or their
representative* will be present to
discus* relevant issues. This political
action group represents the more
than 90,000 members of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church in the
Bute.
According to the Rev. L.O.
Saunders, organization chairperson,
and chairman of the Democratic Par
ty of Lenoir County, Bishop H.H.
Brookins, presiding bishop of the Se
cond Episcopal District which in
cludes North Carolina, has asked that
all of the AME voters In the state be
nH)hin«d into an effective political
coalition.
“There may be some endorsements
from the group after the executive
committee has closely screened each
candidate,” says Rev. Saunders. “We
believe that we can be the difference
and the difference in the
political community in North
Carolina.”
Any person or political candidate
interested in the forum is invited to
attend.
Dr. Prezell R. Robinson, president
of St. Augustine’s, says it is impor
tant for our young people to be able to (
relate to role models like Smith, and !
students showed their interest as they
crowded around Smith after his ad
dress.
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Survey Shows Families
With Kids At Home
A majority of the nation’s 65.1
million families have no children
under age 18 living at home, accor
ding to a report released last week by
the Commerce Department’s Census
Bureau.
The bureau’s March 1988 Current
Population Survey showed more
families without children- at
home—33.2 million—than famlies
with children at home—31.9 million.
The reverse was true in 1980, when
31.0 million families had a child living
at home and 28.5 million did not.
Both the number and percentage of
two-parent families have declined.
The bureau said there are more two
parent families with just one or two
children under age 18 in 1988 than in
1970, “but the increase in the number
of these relatively small families has
been more than offset by a significant
decline in the number of larger two
parent famlies with three or more
children.” The 1988 survey showed
married-couple families with their
own children at home accounted for
27 percent of the nation’s estimated
91.1 million households, down from 40
percent in 1970.
The report also notes that the
number of unmarried-couple
households has been increasing more'
slowly than in the last decade. Their
number grew by 63 percent from 1980
to 1988, to 2.6 million, compared with
a 117 percent increase during the
same period in the 1970s. Some 31 per
cent of unmarried-couple households
in 1988 included one or more children
under age 15, slightly higher than in
1980.
The report shows an average of 2.64
persons per household and 3.17 per
sons per family, the lowest ever. It
notes that interacting factors have
contributed to the general trend since
the mid-1960s toward smaller
households and families, including
“fewer children per family, more
one-parent families, postponement of
marriage, and more people living
alone.”
Singer's Wif
Withdrawing
Guilty Plea
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)—The
wife of singer James Brown
withdrew a guilty plea to two
drug charges Friday, the day she
was scheduled to be sentenced,
her attorney said.
John Fleming, who represents
Adrienne Brown, said he has
received new information about
the drug possession cases.
Fleming said he will “need
time to investigate and document
that information before deter
mining how to proceed with the
case.”
He did not say what the new in
formation included.
District Attorney Sam Sibley
said the case will be set for trial.
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“There was a common
bond,” says Lt. Governor Lawrence
Douglas Wilder of Virginia,
speaking of his college experi
ence. “We all knew who we were
and where we needed to go, and
what we needed to do to get there.”
Wilder, the nation's highest-rank
ing Black elected state official,
attributes that world-beating
attitude to the inspiring role
models he found at Virginia Union
University, one of America's Black
colleges.
In an atmosphere of high
intellectual quality, young Douglas
Wilder discovered what he calls,
“the high possibility of the
individual.”And following in a
tradition that has produced
outstanding scholars, profes
sionals and public servants, he
went on to a brillant career as an
attorney, state senator and civic
activist. Is it any wonder that,
though they enroll only 20% of
Black college students, Black col
leges produce 40% of Black college
graduates?
When you’re considering
colleges, doesn’t it make sense to
consider the ones that educated
achievers like Lawrence Douglas
Wilder? Attending one could lead
to a great future.
America's Black Colleges
Are You Smart Enough To Go?
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