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Leaders of Tomorrow! APRIL/MAY 1998 MBC Wolverine OBSERVER 9
Urch 1998 with Gerber Tours
Morris Brown College Washington.
Top Row/I.r: Kameca Loyd, Eric Johnson, Fernando Walker, Tonja Hicks, Reginald Bottom Row/I,r: Nerieda Andrew, Erica Lockhart, Lakeisha Preston, Tamika Green,
Dye, Priscilla Mapp, B.B. Ford, Kimberly Walker, Jakaun Barnes, Torriah Alexander, Jason Whitehead, Detrick Coates, Chantay Brooks, Carita Gee, Myesha Waring,
Versha Washington Datomika Mapp, Lakeisha Smith
Cultural Exposure for Student
Support Services Students
T he twenty students above of
the Morris Brown College
Student Support Services
Program spent two days in
Washington, D.C. and two days in
New York during their Spring Break
on March 13-19, 1998. The twelve-
hour bus ride nor the cold weather
did not deter them from being model
ambassadors of goodwill for Morris
Brown College and the Student
Support Services Program. The
Student Support Services Assistant
Director, Ms. Bertha Bernice Ford,
along with a parent assistant, Ms.
Priscilla Mapp, successfully
chaperoned the students in both
cities.
Funded by the United States
Department of Education to provide
eligible students with academic,
counseling, and support services, the
Student Support Services Program
met this requirement in great
measure on this trip. In both cities
the students were exposed
educationally, historically, and
culturally in ways that will enhance
their academic careers. Sites visited
in Washington, D.C. include the
White House, the U.S. Capitol
Building, Arlington National
Cemetery, Washington’s Memorials,
Metropolitan A.ME. Church, Lincoln
Park, the Frederick Douglass Home,
the Anacostia Museum, the JFK
Center for Performing Arts, the
national Museum of African Art, and
the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing.
Sites visited in new York included
the Empire State Building, the
Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall
Street area, Macy’s, Harlem, the
Apollo Theater, the Broadway play,
Bring in da Noise, Bring in da
Funk, and Columbia University.
Ms. Ford attributes the success of
the trip to the twenty students
whose trip participation is evidence
that they are striving to become
their best; the parent chaperone, Ms.
Priscilla Mapp, a representative of
the Student Support Services
Advisory Committee, for her support
and concern for the students and for
the program; Mr. Marvin King, the
Trio Director, for his leadership and
support, the Student Support
Services staff for their continued
dedication to the program; Mr.
Charles Barker, the former Student
Support Services director for his
massive fundraising efforts which
helped them afford such a luxurious
trip; the institutional offices of
Morris Brown College, especially the
Finance Department for the efficient
and timely manner in processing
their trip funds; the professional
tour guides, Kirk Johnson (D.C.) and
Louise Walker (N.Y.) for their
enthusiasm and knowledge; and the
courteous and patient drivers, Mr.
Jimmy Killens and Mr. Van
Wheelen, of Kingsmen Coach Lines.
After having visited the most
powerful city in the world, politically
(D.C.) and the most powerful city in
the world, materially (N.Y.), the
Student Support Services Programs
plans for the 1998-99 academic year
to tour the most powerful city in the
state of Georgia, ATLANTA!!
DISEASED FRUITS S VEGETABLES
'Washing and cooking distroys most harmful microbes"
utbreaks of disease
associated with contam
inated meat and dairy
products get the headlines, but new
research shows that the leading
cause of food-borne illness in the
United States is now fresh fruits
and vegetables.
Michael Osterholm, an epidemi
ologist, told the first International
Conference on Emerging Infectious
Diseases in Atlanta that much of the
nation’s produce is now imported
from other countries where health
regulations are less strict. For
example, the outbreaks of cyclo-
spora-contaminated Guatemalan
raspberries in 1996 and 1997.
Washing and cooking destroys
most harmful microbes, but Oster
holm says the increase in the num
ber of Americans eating outside the
home are sometimes exposed to
unwashed or uncooked foods that
causes an exposure to food-borne
microbes.
Current research suggests that
food-borne illness has increased by
about 80 percent over the past 20
years and now occurs in somewhere
between 6 million and 81 million
cases every year.
News Brief
The nation’s top health official
said she is seeking $25 million to
fight new and re-emerging infectious
diseases that pose a danger to the
United States. Donna Shalala,
Secretary of Health and Human
Services, said the federal budget
proposal includes $25 million for
prevention programs at the U.S.
Center for Disease Control and
Prevention. In addition, there is a
proposed $1.1 billion budget increase
for National Institutes of Health,
which will designate a significant
part of that for fighting diseases.