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Black Journalists Sponsored Workshop
Atlanta Mayor Maynard
Jackson was the keynote speaker
at a workshop entitled “A Com
munity Awareness Day on the
1980 Census" which is sponsored
by the AABJ (Atlanta
Association of Black J oumalists)
on Oct. 13.
The workshop was held from
10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. a t the Martin
Luther King Community Center,
450 Auburn Ave., NE, in the gym
nasium.
Following Mayor J ackson’s
speech, panelists outlined the
. economic, political and social im-
> plications which make it a
necessity for people to par
ticipate in the census process,
especially minorities.
AABJ invited community and
group leaders to participate
because members of the regional
Census office here will give a
training session on how to fill out
the 1980 census form. People
trained in this session will be able
to serve as advisers to their
family and friends and to mem
bers of their organizations when
the census date arrives, April 1,
1980.
Persons interested in getting
more information should eontact
Cecilia Morris at 758-8118.
Roz Abrams, co-anchor for the
noon edition of 11-Alive News
was the panel moderator.
Workshop participants in
cluded:
Paul E. X. Brown is executive
director of the National
Association of Market
Developers (NAMD), a position
he has held since 1968. From
1962 to 1975 he worked for the
Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Brown has also worked as news
and public affairs director for
WAOK radio, as editorial
manager for the Georgia edition
of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Courier,
and as program director and an
nouncer for WERD radio.
Among his numberous af
filiations, he is a member of the
board of directors of the George
Washington Carver Boys Club
and Goodwill Industries of Atlan
ta.
Maynard Holbrook Jackson,
Jr. is serving his second term as
Atlanta’s mayor following his
Morris Brown College—Who Are We?
The college is located on the
old Atlanta University campus on
one of the highest elevations in
Atlanta. It is the only college
founded by Blacks in the state of
Georgia which continues .its
legacy of rich, Black heritage.
Its membership in the Atlanta
University Center makes it a part
of the largest center of Black,
private higher education and the
second oldest consortium in the
nation.
Miss Linda Rucker, daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. Minder Rucker
of Thomaston, reigns as “Miss
Morris Brown College” for the
academic year, 1979-80.
She is an active member of Phi
Beta Lambda, Alpha Kappa Mu
National Honor Society, Student
Government Association. The
NAACP and serves as President
of the Pre-Alumni Council.
Miss Rucker’s hobbies include
table tennis, swimming, cooking,
and meeting people. She is an
avid and competitive Chess
player, is a mathematics tutor in
the College’s Upward Bound
Program and has been a Cer
tificate of Merit Winner from the
University of Georgia.
Miss Rucker is a member of a
Morris Brown is a small college
with unlimited resources and op
portunities with other Atlanta
University Center and Metro
Atlanta institutions. It is a four-
year, co-educational, fully ac
credited, liberal arts college,
founded in 1881 by the African
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Today it offers courses in 34
academic areas in both day and
evening classes and confers the
B.A. and B.S. degrees.
family where more than 13 have
graduated from Morris Brown
College. Additionally, she is a
senior at Morris Brown College
where she is majoring in Ac
counting and minoring in
Business Administration.
In representing Morris Brown
College, Miss Rucker said. “I feel
the public image of a school is im
portant and I will actively
represent ours.”
Wanda Walden, a 21 year-old
pisces from Louisville, Georgia is
the first attendant to Miss MBC.
She is a senior majoring in
Special Education of Behavioral
Disorders. She is' an honor
student and a member of the
Golden Key Honor Society. Iota
[See RUCKER, p. 3)
Morris Brown is the first Black
college in Georgia to have a nine-
week, organized program of
student teaching; it was also the
first AU center college to have a
continuing education school.
Special Morris Brown
programs include: University
Year for Action, Restaurant and
Institutional Management,
Cooperative and Continuing
Education, Human Resources,
Linda Rucker
Development Skills, Career Plan
ning and Placement, Duel Degree
in Engineering, Criminal Justice
and Special Education.
Morris Brown’s student body
of 1,700 enjoys a wide variety of
extra curricular activities. All
eight Black national sororities
and fraternities are represented,
in addition to departmental clubs
and organizations: Other ac
tivities include all athletics, the
Marching Wolverine Band which
has distinction from its exposure
in such events as Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade and the
Tournament of Roses Parade in
Pasadena, and the Morris Brown
Concert Choir which goes on an
annual tour throughout various
sections of the United States.
These activities are designed to
augment the academic program
and enhance the development of
well-rounded students.
A fully accredited institution
with the Georgia State Board of
Education and Southern
Association of Colleges and
Schools since 1942, the college
holds membership with the
Association of Colleges, the
United Negro College Fund and
the National Association for
Equal' Opportunity in Higher
Education.
The College is an Equal Op
portunity Employer and admits
. (See MBC. p. 3)
Rucker Reigns as Miss Morris Brown
initial election in 1973 which
made him the city’s first Afro-
American mayor.
J ackson holds a bachelors
degree in political science and
history from Morehouse College
and a law degree from North
Carolina Central University in
Durham. In addition, he has been
awarded honorary doctorates
from five colleges and univer
sities.
J ackson’s first elected office
was as Atlanta’s vice-mayor and
president of the Board of Aider-
man, a position he held from 1970
until hs election as mayor. He has
also worked as a general attorney
with the U.S. National Labor
Relations Board and as managing
attorney of the Neighborhood
Law Office of the Emory Com
munity Legal Services Center.
Time magazine named J ackson
one of the “200 Young Leaders of
America,” and Ebony magazine
named him one of the “100 Most
Influential Black Americans.”
Jackson is an active member of
the United States Conference of
Mayors where he serves not only
as a member of the Board of
Trustees but also chairs the
Special Committee on Inquiry on
the Census Undercount, the
Committee on Criminal and
Social J ustice and the Arts Task
Force.
In addition, J ackson serves on
the Board of the National League
of Cities and was the only mayor
appointed to the National Com
mission on Neighborhoods by
President Jimmy Carter.
J ackson’s professional,
political, legal, civic and social
affiliations are numerous.
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