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24 Business Leaders Attend,
Including Representatives of
Seven Trade Associations
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
second strategy session on
restructuring and reorganizing
the National Business League
(NBL) held recently at the U.S.
Department of Commerce feat
ured John L. Jenkins, Director
of the Office of Minority
Business Enterprise (OMBE).
The strategy session - con
vened by NBL President
Berkeley G. Burrell, and con
ducted by H. Naylor Fitzhugh,
Vice President of the Pepsi
-Cola Company -- reported on
an expansion of task force
groups concerned with the
problems and opportunities of
restructuring the NBL and the
membership of those very
special units. The task forces
resulted from special sessions
held during the last NBL
Annual Convention held in
Dallas.
Jenkins urged the group of
24 Black Business Leaders to
accept the challenge of the
problems and opportunities of
Black business entrepreneur
ship in the Seventies.
The newly restructured
NBL, Jenkins stressed, must
have the manpower, know-how
and facilities to be of greatest
possible service to the small
businessman in the minority
sector. He said that the key to
the whole operation “is and
Recording Stars Donate Talent
For Martin Luther King Benefit
As part of nation-wide
observances of the forthcoming
January 15th birthday
anniversary of the late Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., a
group of top national television
and recording stars will present
the Second Annual Martin
Luther King, Jr. Birthday
Benefit in Dr. King’s home city
of Alanta.
The concert on the night of
Monday, January 15th, will
feature Flip Wilson, The Main
Ingredients, The Friends of
Distinction, Jose Feliciano, the
Jimmy Castor Bunch, and
Linda Hipkins. All will donate
their talents under the auspices
of RCA Records.
The benefit will be held at
the Omni, Atlanta’s new
entertainment and sports
center. All proceeds go the The
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center
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hunger.
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those things if they don’t
get an education.
We’re educating over
45,000 students at 40
private, four-year colleges
every year.
Most of these young
people would never get to
college (>n their own. Three
quarters need some kind of
financial aid. Well over
half come from families
earning less than $5,000
a year.
You can help us help
more. By sending a check.
To UNCF, 55 East 52nd
Street, New York, N.Y.
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Because we can’t
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NBL Holds Strategy
Session At Commerce Department
will continue to be effective
communications.”
The 72-year-old NBL, foun
ded by Booker T. Washington,
is currently in the planning
phase of developing into a
minority multitrade and prof
essional association.
Toward this end, the OMBE
director said that by restructur
ing itself into a multi-trade
service organization, the NBL
would be in an ideal position
to fulfil the mainstream mis
sion. “But to do this,” he
added, “greater emphasis must
be focused on communications
among the membership, its
constituency, government of
ficials, leaders of private in
dustry, and the general pub
lic.”
COMMUNICATIONS
Most of the businessmen at
the strategy meeting repeadly
stressed the big need for
communications across the
broadest spectrum.
This point was stressed at
the very beginning of the
meeting by Fitzhugh and
Darwin W. Bolden, executive
director of the Interracial
Council for Business Opport
unity, when they spoke of
“linkages” between the impor
tant elements of the minority
business community, with such
linkages being dependent upon
communications.
Among the trade association
for Social Change, the
organization entrusted with the
continuation of his work and
teachings. The Center is
designed to be a lasting, living
effort to bring about
nonviolent social change,
helping to build a society free
of poverty, racism, hate and
violence.
The January 15th benefit
concert was announced at a
news conference in Atlanta by
Mrs. Coretta Scott King,
President of the Center.
Among those contributing to
the production of the benefit
and also present at the news
conference were Buzzy Willis, a
Division Director of RCA
Records; Willie Jones,
Administrator of Urban Affairs
for RCA Corporation; William
Putnam, President of the Omni
Group; and Junius Griffin,
President of Junius Griffin
Association, Los Angeles, and a
member of the Center’s Board
of Directors.
Howard Offers Course In
Conversational Spanish
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
Department of Romance
Languages at Howard
University will offer a 4-credit
course in conversational
Spanish during the Spring
Semester.
The course, according to Dr.
Moraima de Semprun
Donahue, Associate Professor
of Spanish, will be of benefit
to persons involved in some
way with the city’s
fast-growing Spanish-speaking
community.
Beginning January 16, 1973,
the course, “Applied Spanish
for the Social Services,” is
especially designed for
physicians, nurses, policemen,
social workers, teachers,
librarians, and others who must
communicate with individuals
and families whose only
language is Spanish.
“There are several thousand
Spanish-speaking families in
the Washington area with no,
or very scant, knowledge of
English, who are in desperate
need of communicating with
the people who provide the
various social services,” said
Dr. Donahue. “Many of them
are children and old people
who in a number of cas*? face
serious psychological
difficulties because of this lack
of ability to communicate.”
leaders advocating better com
munications were: Benjamin F.
Scott, executive director,
United Mortgage Bankers of
America; Waymon S. Wright,
president of the National As
sociation of Market Develop
ers; Sherman Briscoe, executive
director, National Newspaper
Publishers Association; Eldon
T. Winston, association devel
opment officer, American Sav
ings and Loan League;
Lawrence N. McClenney,
executive director, National
Association of Minority CPA
Firms; Herbert Long, liaison
officer of the National Associ
ation of Black Manufacturers;
and Kenneth I. Brown, a
representative of the National
Association of Minority Con
sultants and Urbanologists.
MINI-CONVENTION
The main purpose of the
League’s second strategy ses
sion was to review the progress
of several task force groups
charged with the responsibility
of setting the guidelines for
restructuring the organization.
Also reviewed were the plans
for the first of two-mini-con
ventions.
Burrell said that the mini
conventions - in addition to
the annual national convention
in October - were as important
in setting guidelines and pol
icies for the restructuring pro
cess as is the work being done
by the task force groups. He
said that the first mini-conven-
Other activities in tribute to
Dr. King across the nation on
January 15th include a
commemorative morning
service in his Atlanta Church,
hundreds of showings of an
authentic documentary film on
Dr. King’s life and movement,
and literally thousands of
services and ceremonies in
churches, schools, community
organizations, and state and
local governments.
Many school systems, local
and state governments, trade
unions and businesses
recognize the birthday as an
official holiday; and
Congressional legislation is
pending in the drive to make
the day an annual national
holiday.
Additionally, community
groups and civil rights
organizations across the nation
each year observe the birthday
with direct action programs
and movements in the tradition
of Dr. King.
Members of the House Staff
at Freedmen’s Hospital had
asked the University to
establish a course which would
teach them conversational
Spanish because members of
the Spanish-speaking
community are utilizing
Howard University’s health
facilities at an ever increasing
frequency. Staff members of
the hospital’s Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, for
example, are assigned to a
Department of Human
Resources clinic at 14th Street
and Park Road, N.W., an area
of the heaviest concentration
of Spanish population in the
city.
The course will meet three
times weekly for 50 minutes
with a professor and twice
weekly with a teaching
assistant who will work with
pronunciation and individual
problems of the students. The
class schedule has been
arranged for morning, early
afternoon and early evening
hours to accommodate
students interested in the
course.
Additional information
concerning the course may be
obtained from Dr. Donahue,
Department of Romance
Languages, Howard University,
Telephone 636-6760 or
525-2840.
tion will be held in
Washington, D.C. on January
27-28, 1973, at the Washington
Hilton Hotel.
Advance registration indicat
es that some 300 people will
attend, including representat
ives of minority trade associa
tions.
TASK FORCE GROUPS
The current lineup and res
pective chairmen of the task
force groups are as follows:
financial planning and fund
raising, Theodore R. Hagans,
Jr., Washington, D.C. business
man; advocacy, Darwin W.
Bolden and Jeanus B. Parks,
Jr.; education planning, Dr.
Flournoy A. Coles, Jr.,
Vanderbilt University manage
ment professor; research and
development planning, Charles
Tate, director of Community
Development Resources Pro
ject, the Urban Institute, tech
nical assistance planning,
Samuel E. Harris, Sam Harris
Associates, Ltd.; communicat
ions, Dr. Freddie B. Lucas,
urban affairs representative,
J.C. Penny; organization and
staffing and current year activi
ties, Charles T. Williams, vice
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Attending the second strat
egy meeting were: Darwin W.
Bolden; Sherman Briscoe;
Kenneth I. Brown; Berkeley G.
Burrell; Dr. Flournoy A. Coles,
Jr.; W. Ronald Evans, presi
dent, D.C. Chamber of Com
merce; H. Naylor Fitzhugh;
Udo Gallop, NBL’s St. Louis
chapter president; Lewis Giles,
Jr., OMBE program officer;
Theodore R. Hagans, Jr.; John
L. Jenkins; K.P. Joseph, NBL
program director; Herbert
Long; Lawrence N. McClenney;
Jeanus B. Parks, Jr.; UPO
executive director; Charles E.
Porter, NBL administrator,
David E. Rice, NBL assistant to
the president; Ferdinand C.
Sasse, NBL consultant;
Benjamin F. Scott; Charles
Tate; Gloria E.A. Toote;
Warren K. Van Hook, executive
director of business and econo
mic research and development
at Howard University; Eldon T.
Winston; and Waymon E.
Wright.
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NBL RESTRUCTURING STRATEGISTS - The National Business League held
recently at the Department of Commerce its second strategy session on its current
restructuring program to develop the 72-year-old NBL into a multi-trade association.
Among the 24 business leaders participating and advocating better communications
were representatives from six minority trade associations shown in a discussion with
Berkeley G. Burrell, NBL President. They are, from left, Benjamin F. Scott,
executive director, United Mortgage Bankers of America; Eldon T. Winston,
association development officer, American Savings and Loan League; Burrell;
Sherman Briscoe, executive director, National Newspaper Publishers Association;
Waymon S. Wright, president, National Association of Market Developers; Herbert
Long, liaison officer, National Association of Black Manufacturers; and Lawrence N.
McClenney, executive director, National Association of Minority C.P.A. Firms. Not
shown is Kenneth I. Brown, representative of the National Association of Minority
Consultants and Urbanologists.
The Augusta News-Review, January 4, 1973
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