“Black History Month is a constant «
reminder of what the Mack American
has done, is doing and will continue to '
-do that 4s positive and uplifting. So, £
let us continue studying Mack history
and in so doing, prepare ourselves (or t
the future,” said Benjamin L. Hooks,
executive director for the NAACP.
Our black children need role
models. Who is willing to pay the
price?
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The NAACP offers scholarships.
The awards are made on the basis of d
financial need, academic achieve
ment, and NAACP activity. Join the tl
NAACP.
Your succees depends upon you. p
Your happiness depends upon you.
You have to steer your own course, h
You have to shape your own for
tune. b;
You have to educate yourself.
You have to do your own thinking.
‘ You have to live with your own con- a
science.
Your mind is yours and can be used
only by you.
You come into this world alone.
You go to the grave alone.
You are alone with your inner
thoughts during the journey between.
You must make your own deci
sions.
You must abide by the conse
quences of your acts.
“I cannot make you well unless you
make yourself well," an eminent doc
tor often tells his patients.
You alone can regulate your habits
and make or unmake your health.
You alone can assimilate things
mental and things material.
You have to do your own assimila
tion all through life.
You may be taught by a teacher,
but you have to imbibe the
knowledge.
~ He cannot transfuse it into your
brain.
You alone can control your mind
cells and your brain cells.
You may have spread before you
the wisdom of the ages, but unless
you assimilate it you derive no
benefit from it; no one can force it in
to your cranium.
You alone can move your own legs.
You ahme can use your own arms.
You alone can utilise your own
hands.
You must stand on your feet,
physically and metaphorically.’
You must take your own steps.
Your parents cannot enter into your
skin, take control of your mental and
physical machinery, and make
something of you.
You cannot fight your son’s battles;
that be must do for himself.
You have to be captain of your own
destiny.
You have to see through your own
Rhamkatte
BY LUaLLE ALSTON
RHAMKATTE—Sunday School
began at 9:30 a m. The subject at the
lesson was “Dealing with Conflict,”
II Corinthians 1:10-17, 3:1-9.
Superintendent Albertine Sanders
presided. All classes reported. Bro.
Thomas Burt taught the Adult Class.
The lesson was reviewed by Bro. Otho
Kearney. After the report from the
acting secretary, Barbara Burt, the
school closed.
At 11 a.m., Rev. A.D. Terrell spoke
from Genesis 12:1-4, using for his sub
ject, “Response to the Can of God.”
Music was furnished by the Senior
Choir, with Emmanuel McNeil at the
piano. Morning prayer was offered by
Bro. Burt. Mini-church came from
Doris Williams. Altar call was by
Bro. Otho Kearney.
Rev. Terrell left the congregation
with a message on how we must res
pond to God’s calling by gotng out and
being active in the church. We should
pray to God four our getting up this
morning. We need to listen when God
talln to us. Godis-calling ns to forgive
and forget. We are In the world hut
not of the world. God win Mesa you.
Invitation to Christian disdpisship
was extended. Rev. Terrefl served
Communion. The general confession
was followed by the closing.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bible study will be held Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m.
.March 10 wUl bo Family Day. Doris
Williams and Louvania Coleman wUl
be in charge of the service. Dinner
wUl be served.
On March 17, the Glory Road
Pageant will be presented at 3:30
p.m. Loretta Brooks and Shelia
Raeford win be in charge.
March 34 wfll be George Tucker’s
Day. Otho Kearney and Levi
Beckwith will be hi charge of the ser
vice.
On the tick list are Kathleen Hem
by, Mary Utley, John Singletary,
Denise Kearney, Ms. Lola MdClain,
Idell Hinton, Ella Fletcher,
Margbaret Kearney and Junits
Johnson. Let us visit with the sick
more and keep praying for them. AB
of us need prayer. God is stiB in the
healing business.
ym.
You have to use your own ears.
You have to master your own
iculties.
You have to solve your own pro
teins.
You have to form your own ideals.
You have to create your own ideas.
You must choose your own speech.
You must govern your own tongue.
Your real life is your thoughts.
Your thoughts are of your own
taking.
Your character is your own ban
Iwork.
You alone can select the materials
tat go into it.
You alone can reject what Is not fit
i go into it.
You are the creator of your own
srsonality.
You can be disgraced by no man’s
ind but your own.
You can be elevated and sustained
r no man save yourself.
You have to write your own record.
You have to build your own
onument—or dig your own pit.
Which are you doing?
From: Forbes
“Keys to Success”
CAREER
(Continued from page 9)
.ving instruction and direction
where needed. The program was
planned by the guidance department
with the help of Linda Underhill and
Ms. Diane Van Buhler.
The organization was greatly
assisted by Principal Dan Bowers.
Classroom teachers welcomed
presenters and assisted in execution
of this activity. Presenters spoke of
the friendly atmosphere.
The presenters for Career Day 1991
were accountant Tom Oxholm, actor
Mario Griego, architect Ron Collier,
athlete Jeff Compher, biological
scientist Dr. Jim Mickle, classical
musician John Feddersen, computer
programmers Maggie Thomas and
Brenda Stinson, computer systems
analyst Wilbert Williams, dancer
Alyson Colwell, dentist Dr. Curt
Schweitzer, and designer Sharon
Glazener.
Also, Engineer Ron Wilson,
forester Mike Perry, graphic artist
Dave Saholsky, hair designers Silas
Foster and Patti Hinton, preschool
specialist Joreen Debnam, law en
forcement officer A1 Sternberg, at
torneys Scott Templeton, Lori Nelson
and Don Soule (attorney Carlton
Fellers will make it next year), army
officers Jessie Cameron and Jeffrey
Johnson.
In addition, model Jennifer Lintic,
nurse Dottie Oakes, optometrist Dr.
Charles V. Holland, painter Kurt Col
eman, pharmacist Susan
Kochanowicz, physicians Dr. Tom
Brammer, Dr. Milton Quigless, Dr.
George Tosky, Dr. Robert Lenfesty,
physicist Gerry Lochfelm, pilot Sam
Robinsoin and American Airlines
representative Jim Lofton,
psychologist Jean Olson, radio/TV
personality J.D. Lewis, secondary
education representative Johnny
Farmer, veterinarian Dr. William
Rodgers and writer/editor Steve
Spiwak.
Ligon students enjoyed the Career
Day activities and learned something
about career areas that will cause
them to continue on the path they’ve
set for themselves or to reassess their
career plans. Career Day 1991 at
Ligon was viewed as a success.
NEIGHBORS
(Continued from page 9)
written an award-winning book on
race, said some black students
believe they are less black because
they come from white communities.
To fight their isolation at Mack
campuses, some black students adopt
a militant posture. They shed their
polo shirts for African kente cloths.
"They overcompensate and
become ‘superMack,’” Steele said.
“And then they gather around them
all the symbols of being black.”
But that stage is usually tem
porary, Allwood said. “We have to be
bicultural if we are going to make it
in this world.” ..
STAKES
.(Continued from page 9)
need to stay the course on the BEP,
Senate Bill 2 and the teacher salary
schedule. Also high on the superinten
dent’s list is funding for small school
systems.
Etheridge was joined in a recent
legislative presents ton by three local
superintendents, Dr. Mary Jo Martin
of Alamance County, Dr. John
Thompson of Warren County and Dr.
John Dunn of Edenton-Chowan.
Pram a local perspective, these
education leaders described the com
mitment of teachers and other
educators to make needed changes in
North Carolina schools.
Superintendent Thompson told
legislators the BEP, Senate Bill 2 and
the salaries spell “relief” for schools.
This relief comes in the form oi
rowMitti. evaluation, leadership, in
novation, effectiveness and flexibili
y
The superintendents stressed that
ocal educators are willing to be held
iccountable for school Improvement
but the continuity of funding plays an
important role in school improve
ment.
Etheridge said he believes
educators are being realistic. With
the state’s serious financial pro
blems, he know it will be impossible
'or legislators to fully fund each of the
items. However, he has asked
legislators to provide at least some
money for the BEP, Senate Bill 2 and
teacher salaries.
Progress is being made. Etheridge
points to fewer students dropping out 1
>f school and higher test scores as in- <
iicators that education reform is real
in this state.
One concern of local educators, a ]
negative reserve or cut required in
the budget of 1990, is another issue
Etheridge is addressing with <
legislators. The cut forced hardships
in many systems, particularly rural |
systems that do not have the local
funds to replace lost state dollars.
Many rural systems were forced to
cut back on summer school, teacher <
training and program expansion, t
And, in smaller school systems, the •
cuts often meant supplies were cut off
In the middle of the year, textbook
purchases had to be delayed and ac- I
meditation could not be met. I
REINVESTMENT
(Continued from page 9)
try, where they will shadow their
American counterpart for one month 1
to learn firsthand how U.8. enter
prises are developed and managed.” 1
This program called Enterprise |
Development Program, created in ,
1990 by the Center for U.S.-USSR In- ,
itiatives, is one prime example of how
white America is willing to bend over '
backwards and forward to help I
everyone In the world—except ]
African-Americans—to enter the free .
enterprise system. Since ,
“perestroika,” put out by President
Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the 1
Soviet Union, the United States has
started to offer “free schooling” for
Russian entrepreneurs.
Elena Khohna, a cook and baker,
can barely speak English, but is
eager to learn how to bake and sell
her cakes and cookies in Moscow
from ~ Just Desserts, a specialty
bakery dessert seller in San Fran
cisco. So too is her companion,
Dmitry Fainshtein, who has dual pas
sions of music and “saving street
children” from boredom with his
“orange drop project,” a semi-disco,
restaurant, retail center planned for
downtown Moacow. Many of the
Soviet entrepreneurs say there is
evidence of a “mafia-type" establish
ment controlling free enterprise
development in the Soviet Union.
Unless these Russians are more
naive than appears, they will
discover as have African-Americans
that in each country, there is already
a set of shopkeepers that keep new
shops from being set up in their own
country. That is why there are revolu
tions.
Clinton
BY A.M. JOHNSON
BEGINNING AGAIN
I wish there was a wonderful place
called the Land of Beginning Again,
where all our mistakes and all our
poor selfish grief and all our hear
taches could be dropped like a shabby
old coal at the door, and never be put
on again. There is a Land of Beginn
ing, where we can drop our mistakes.
It is in our own minds and the time to
do it is now.
—Louisa Fletcher
CLINTON—Ms. Camella Timmons
of College Street is back home after
spending a week or more at Cape
Fear Hospital in Fayetteville. She is
always happy to see her friends come
in.
Wellie Faison is a patient at Samp
son County Memorial Hospital. Our
prayers are that he will have a short
stay.
Happy birthday greetings to Ms.
Grace Faison. Her birthday was Feb.
28. Hope that she enjoyed a happy
one.
Happy birthday greetings to Ms.
Mae D. Holmes. Her birthday was
March 6. We hope that she enjoyed
that birthday.
We also beard that Ms. Katie
Faison’s birthday was March 8 and a
little bird told us that Ms. Mary Tate
also will be celebrating a birthday on
March 15.
We wish all of them a happy birth
day. They all live close together.
Mr. and Mrs. George Cousin have
moved to Winston-Salem where they
will make their home. We hope that
they will enjoy their new home.
Ms. Luvernia Williams of Lee
Street is a patient at Cape Fear
Hospital. We hope that she won’t have
to be gone long.
A joint Easter sunrise service will
be celebrated at Lisbon Street Baptist
Church at 8 a.m. on Easter Sunday
morning. All members of First Bap
tist Church are asked to worship with
the Lisbon Street family on that day.
Rev. Edmond, pastor of First Baptist
Church, will deliver the Easter
sunrise message. Breakfast will be
.served following the service.
I | *»
African-American Women Make History
by Bonnie Freeman
PM Editorial Swv<cm
Sixty-five years have passed since
ristorian Carter G. Woodson started
Megro History Week toheighten cultural
twareness among blacks at a time when
segregation and racial unrest were a
vay of life around the nation. That
veek has since evolved into Black
history Month celebrated in February.
It continues to showcase excellence
imong individuals in the fields of sci
ence and technology, politics, lit
crature, arts and entertainment, and
ithletics.
Martin Luther King Jr.—leader of
he civil rights movement—is perhaps
he most recognizable individual asso
ciated with Black History Month. Others
nclude Frederick Douglass, who was
x>m into slavery and devoted his life to
ibolition; George Washington Carver,
he scientist who developed hundreds
>f products from the peanut, revolu
ionizing Southern agriculture;
rhurgood Marshall, who remains the
>nly African-American to be ap
xjinted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the
lighest court in the nation; and
Douglas Wilder, who made history in
1990 when he took the oath as governor
>f the Commonwealth of Virginia —
lecoming the first African-American
governor in modem history.
The accomplishments of these ex
ceptional men are equaled by the
lioneering efforts of countless Afri
can-American women. Rosa Parks,
Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm'
riaxine Waters and, most recently,
Sharon Pratt Dixon, along with
rfarian Anderson »nd Leontyne Price,
ire just a few examples of women
vho defied the odds to direct the
course of history.
Rosa Parks gained notoriety in 1955
vhen she was arrested for refusing to
Photo courtMy 0* Moort»nd'Sptno«rn
nintH CfiWf. Howfd UnHwtHty
Leontyne Price, the first International
opera “prima donna assoluta.”
give up her seat on a Montgomery,
Ala., bus. Paries’ arrest ignited the
historic Montgomery bus boycott, and
her arrest was a catalyst in the civil
rights movement She challenged die
system and helped dismantle the laws of
segregation on public transportation in
Alabama.
The political arena was taken by storm
in 1966whenBarbaraJordanwaselected
to the Texas Senate. She became the
first black senator to serve in the Texas
Senate since 1883 and the first black
female senator ever ih Texas. In 1972,
Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives where she served three
terms.
Meanwhile, Shirley Chisholm
shaped history by serving the state of
New York in the U.S. Congress from
1968 to 1982. Chisholm was the first
black Woman elected to the U.S. Con
gress. In 1972, she launched an un
precedented bid for the presidential
nomination of the Democratic Party.
Another accomplished politician,
Maxine Waters is considered the most
owerful woman in California politics
x)ay, as well as the most influential
lack woman in the Democratic Party.
Elected to the California Slate Assem
ly in 1976. Waters was instrumental
i passing a wide range of legislation.
Waters maintained her political mo
nentum by being elected to the U.S.
louse of Representatives in 1990.
Politically, 1990 proved to be astei
ar year for African-American women,
knottier landmark accomplishment was
ecorded when Sharon Pratt Dixon
lecatne the first female, Afirican
kmerican mayor of Washington, D.C.
Accomplishments of blade women
in other areas have been equally out*
standing. One of die most compelling
:vents in the world of arts and entertain
ment took place on Easter 1939, when
Marian Anderson — considered to be
die greatest contralto of her generation
— performed outdoors before a crowd
of 73,000 in Washington, D.C., after
being denied permission to sing at
Constitution Hall. In 1933, Anderson
made history by becoming die first
black soloist to sing at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York City.
Anderson demolished racial barriers in
classical music.
Vestiges of Anderson’s efforts re
named in place, and in 1961, when
Leontyne Price debuted at the Metro
politan Opera House, she received a42
minute ovation for her performance in
die opera “II Trovatore.” Price was the
first to achieve international status as a
‘prima donna assoluta.”
All these women faced daunting
obstacles, yet they waged battle against
incredible odds using their courage and
perseverance to eliminate inequities in
this country — not only among die
races, but among the sexes — further
enriching life for us all. lit
NEA VIEWPOINT gg
Media's war undermines U.S. effort
By William A. Rasher
It is now as plain as the birthmark
on Gorbachev’s head that the coali
tion forces in the Persian Gulf will
shortly commence ground operations
against the Iraqi troops in Kuwait
This is a good moment, therefore, to
pause and reflect oh the role of the
American media in covering the bat
tle that is about to begin.
A good deal has been written —
much of it true, I am sure — about the
hostility of high American military
officers to the media. They are sup
posed to believe that the media seri
for Ute Vietnam war, and to be deter
mined not to give them a similar op
portunity this time if they can help it
If that is indeed their attitude, all I
can say is, I share it.
We have heard much less, however,
about the hostility of many represen
tatives of the media toward the mili
tary. Any reader who supposes that
the reporters covering the Gulf war
are simply bloodless technicians neu
trally reporting the facts can stop
reading this column now.
The truth is that the vast majority
of these reporters not only know that
military mistakes and/or incompe
tence make a better news story than
military efficiency and success, but
— being the ripe spawn of a very dif
ferent tradition — affirmatively de
test the military mind-set and will ex
ert themselves mightily to discredit
it.
You can bet your bottom dollar,
therefore, that most of our reporters
in the Gulf will zero in on and empha
size every negative aspect of the war
that they can uncover. Even in the re
cent pathetic little skirmish in Khaf U,
it took far longer to root our media
out of their effort to make it look like
a defeat for the coalition than it took
to root the Iraqis out of Khaf tt. And
nobody who watched CNN’s obscene
coverage of “dying* babies in a Bagh
dad hospital, to whom the reporters
had been led bv their Iraqi friends and
concerning whom no American re
sponse was allowed, can doubt the
message being delivered.
In the weeks ahead the American
media will dwell lovingly on the casu
alties — the American dead and
wounded, of course, but also the inev
itable civilian victims as well. (“Was
this really necessary?*) Every mili
tary maneuver will be second
guessed and implicitly criticized as a
mindless bloodbath.
Thanks to the miracle of modern
television, it may even be possible to
switch effortlessly, in “real time* or
nearly so, from a battlefield in Ku
wait, where an American soldier can
be seen lying dead or mortally in
jured, to the little frame house some
where in Middle America where his
mother, wife and children sit, puffy
eyed from weeping, while some re
porter asks them if they think the sac
rifice was “worth it*
Above all, we must be on our guard
against the sort of sheer distortion
whereby a military victory can be
twisted, by dishonest reportage, into
latte
an apparent defeat That i
dia’s triumphant i
case of the Vietnamaaa i
guerrilla attacks
(including, briefly, the i
bassy) in the so-called “Iht offensive*
of February IMS.
It is now weU established that this
was a desperate attempt by the esaa
munists to turn the tide of war la thrir
favor — and that bi military tanas, it
failed utterly. T.
dia, fastening on the
that communist
pea red in the South1
tal, persuaded the
that Tet was a triumph for the (
The public "
greatthatT
bother to run for i
In the days ahead, we 1
to think of the ground war in Kuwait
as having not two bat three malar
participants: the Iraqis, the U.LM
coalition, and — perched on the tat
ter’s shoulders like i
bus — the American i
®an>
Winning Against Childhood Leukemia
Each year, in 6,000 families na
tionwide, a normal, healthy child
develops a lingering fever, becomes
lethargic and starts to bruise too
easily. The diagnosis? Leukemia.
However, unlike 26 years ago,
when childhood leukemia was
nearly universally fatal, a child di
agnosed today has a more than 60
percent likelihood of being cured.
Despite the increasingly positive
news on survival rates, a diagnosis
of childhood cancer is always trau
matic. “In many families, a parent’s
first reaction to a diagnosis of can
cer is denial,” says Dr. Elizabeth
Thompson, physician-in-chief at St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital
and director of the research center’s
After Completion of Therapy (ACT)
Clinic for cancer survivors. “Sev
eral times, parents have insisted
that their child’s blood sample must
have been mixed up in the lab with
that of another child.
“While we can’t take away all of
their fears, the statistics show that
most children now survive cancer,”
Dr. Thompson said.
Jonathan Watson is a case in
point. When he was brought to St.
Jude in March 1981, he was hours
from death. Today, the teenager is
both an “A” student and a success
ful young entrepreneur who raises
and sells chickens.
Like most other childhood leuke
mia patients, Jonathan’s disease
struck quickly and quietly. When
the diagnosis came, his doctor made
arrangements to have Jonathan, an
Most children now survive leu
kemia, thank* to treatment ad
vance* pioneered by St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital,
founded by Danny Thomas Inl962.
Oklahoma resident, travel to St.
Jude for treatment. (Although St.
Jude is located in Memphis, 90 per
cent of St. Jude’s patients come frbm
outside the Memphis metropolitan
area, including many from foreign
countries.) *
Because St. Jude is primarily a
research facility, Jonathan not only
received treatment, he also became
part of St. Jude’s research into the
causee and curea for leukemia and
other childhood cancers.
Jonathan now has been off
therapy more than five years—an
important milestone for cancer pa
tients. Over the next 10 years, his
growth and development will be
monitored through St Jude’s After
Completion ofTherapy (ACT) Clinic.
Among ether tilings, the ACT Clinic
tracks how former cancer patients
fare socially, academically and pro
fessionally. Studies of St. Jude’s
long-term survivors have shown
very positive results—overall tharet
little difference between those
who’ve beaten cancer and those who
have never faced it
Despite the medical, social and
emotional difficulties, many child
hood cancer survivors and their
families feel the experience was, in
some ways, positive. “If I oould go
back and live my life over sgain, I
wouldn’t change a thing—not even
my experience with leukemia,” said
22-year-old Charlotte Booeer, on
other St. Jude survivor. That may
sound strange, butte I wendsr’why
me?*, I realise that I wouldn’t trade
the experience of having.fought a
serious fight and won.”
The outlook for children with
cancer is brighter today than over
before. However, there still are some
cancers that are resistant to treat
ment. For those, St. Jude's re
searchers are looking for new thera
pies—improved bone marrow
transplants, new drug combina
tions, gene therapy. Ihey’re also
searching for the causes, from envi
ronmental influences to genetic
glitches. At St. Jude, there is no
financial test for admission. After
initial evaluation, the hospital can
help with transportation and local
livingwqpOTsesforfMailiee in need.
But, thanks to research at plaosa
like St Jude, for more and asoreof
those children, life goes on.