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A maestro in the ‘hood’
BFor two decades T.W. Josey’s band
director has consistently fielded
winning ensembles. With his young
est and largest marching band ever,
“The Sonic Boom’s” master musician
is showing no signs of letting up.
By Mark Oliphant
AUGUSTA FOCUS Correspondent
AUGUSTA
“Believeinit! Conceiveinitinyourmind and youshall
achieveinit’Dr. CharlesJ. Smith Sr.shoutstothe T.W.
Joeey“Sonicßoomoffl\eSwfl:'marchingbanddming
rehearsal. Dr. Smith seasons his rehearsal with liberal
doses of motivational pieces punctuated by shrill whistle
blasts — TWEEET!! — “Five-six-seven-eight!” he
shouts as his musicians go through their paces.
TWEEET!! “I said 16-beat count! If I hear an extra
beat again, you owe me a lap!” -
TWEEET!!“One of my bass drum’s not playing their
part and I know who it is. Il see you after practice!”
TWEEET!!!
“Good sound! I feel good!”
The preeminence of T.W. Josey’s marching band is a
continually growing legend. Under the guidance of Dr.
Charles Smith, '
“The Sonic Boom of the South”has wonfive “Best Band
in the Nation” awards by the SCLC Drum Major for
Justice Paradein St. Petersburg, Florida, has performed
won national awards from Virginia Beach and
Gatlingburg, Tennessee. The band has won “Best School
Band” in Augusta honors in 1996 and 1997 and has been
featured on the cover of Augusta Magazine,
~ Current and past band members agree that “Doc” is
one of the hardest working and toughest menin the field.
Students and parents alike have grown to know and
appreciate Dr. Smith’s brand of tough love.
“He’sallabout business,” said Josey senior Eric Bland,
head drum major. “He knows his work. Hemay be mean
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ByFrederick Benjomin Sv.
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
This past Labor Day weekend,
acouple ofhighly publicized youth
marches were staged in New York
and Atlanta. While the Atlanta
march attracted relatively little
media attention, the New York
march was the big topic — that is
— before Mark McGwire did his
thing with the number 62.
The furor was over Khalid
Muhammad —the reigning black
bogeyman.
Khalid has learned how to get
the media’s attention and he has
made the most of it.
The former protégé of Minister
Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of
Islam has the hate-monger stage
all to himself thanks to his in
flammatory statements about the
white race and its.heroes a few
years ago at a small New Jersey
College.
Since that time, Mr.
Muhammad has continued to re
play his biggest hits — especially
the one about the blood sucking
Jews and how all white folks
should just go ahead and die.
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in some highly spirited trash talk
ing in the face of some three thou
sand armed New York City po
licemen. It wasall captured on C
SPAN for the world to see. The
slight skirmish that concluded the
meeting was hardlvworththe tons
of ink it generated, but then
that’s show business.
The phenomenon of the black
bogeyman is not new. America
has always sucked at the breast
an overimaginative media. The
country, for the most part, likes
its heroes white and its devils
any other color — black, red or
yellow will do just fine.
The spectacle of a black ball
headed man dressed in black
and telling black youth to re
spond with violence if attacked
by the police is too inviting for
the media to pass over. While
Mr. Muhammad railed against
whites, Jews, “Uncle Tom”
blacks and an assortment of
other folks, white Americans —
mostly of the right-wing conser
vative variety — wondered out
loud how he could get away with
saying the stuff that he does.
In black America nary an eye
brow was raised, except maybe
to wink at the foolishness of tak
ing Khalid’s rhetoricas anything
more than sucker-baiting and
wondering why anyone is dumb
enough to take him seriously.
It’s rather like the phenomenon
encountered in the War of the
Worlds W where stupid,
and radid listéners ac
tually thought they were being
invaded by Martians. The same
mentality is at work in those
whites and some blacks who be
lieve that Khalid Muhammad is
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largest group ever, is preparing defend its “all-superior”
title at the Southern Invitational Band Festival on
October 17 in Marietta, Georgia.
Although the marching band has become synony
mous with half-time excitement during football games,
the school’s entire music program, including the concert
band and the jazz ensemble, has scored superior ratings
in state competitions every year since Dr. Smith took
over in 1977. ‘
The concert band and jazz ensemble superior ratings
almost every year since he became the school’s third
band director in 1977.
Band members are not only exposed to the direct
motivation of Dr. Smith, but their tenure with the band
provided lifelong memories. Dubbed the “Aristocrat of
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The nation’s winningest football coach, Eddie Robinson will
be is Augusta as keynote speaker at the CSRA Classic Ban
quet on October 22, 1998.
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Coach Eddie Robinson, former
coach of Grambling State Univer
gity and the winningest coach in
college football history, will be
the keynote speaker at the 1998
CSRA Classic Formal Banquet,
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Colored Industrial and Agricul
tural Institute of Lincoln Parish
(later becoming Grambling) in
1941, and for 56 glorious seasons
roamed thesidelines, winning 405
games and producing all-star pro
football players, from the first
Study shows old
south has vanished
By Estes Thompson
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
RALEIGH, N.C
Forget the black and white South. It’s gone, re
placed by a racially diverse region that has picked
up brain power as a result of migration to Southern
states and the growth of cities.
“The South heads into the 21st century with the
look and feel of prosperity, but also with a sense of
having been all shook up. The cultural foundations
of a society that long held rural-rooted values and
operated under Faulkner’s universal truths now
seem shaken,” said a report titled “The State of the
South.” '
Major findings of the report are that the once
black-white, mostly Protestant region has become
diverse in race and religion; that blacks and people
from abroad are moving into the South, and that the
region is more urban than rural. ‘
“The report shows the dramatic migration to the
South, which has reversed the brain drain,” said
George Autry, president of MDC Inc., the nonprofit
research firm that was to release the report Sun
day. “We used to export our best and brightest ...
Now, they’re coming back.”
Autry is one of the authors of the study by MDC,
4 31-year-old nonprofit in Chapel Hill that works to
expand the economy, develop the workforce, and
increase per capita income in communities gcross
the country. It has a special focus on the 14 states
of the South.
MDC found more women in the workforce since
the mid-1970s and more women than men attend
ing colleges in the South. Women’s income was
growing at a more rapid pace than men, although
men still led in income. The study found that men’s
participation in the workforce and in college was
declining.
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black in the NFL, Paul “Tank”
Younger, to Super Bowl MVP
Doug Williams.
Not only did Coach Robinson
have the same job for 56 years, he
also had the same wife for all
those years — his childhood sweet
heart, Doris.
The CSRA Classic is truly hon
ored to bring this legendary coach
and American icon to Augusta.
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