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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 A MIND IS * TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE. There are people bom every day who could cure disease, make peace, create ait, abolish injustice, end hunger. But they’ll probably never get a chance to do 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. 10022. Whatever you can afford. Because we can’t afford to waste anybody. GIVE TD THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND. advert is nig pays! jM 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 Plain facts about beef • Shoppers have confidence in beef graded by the U.S Gov’t • The higher the grade the more tender the beef. • The highest grades are U.S.D.A. Choice and Prime. • The overwhelming shoppers favorite is U.S.D.A. Choice. • U.S.D.A. Choice beef is flavorful and Naturally Tender • Pantry Pride sells U.S.D.A. Choice beef... exclusively. • Not all beef is graded by the government. • Some stores sell beef that is not government graded. • Some stores add artificial tenderizers to their beef. • Beef graded U.S.D.A. Choice needs no tenderizers. • There’s nothing EMESufiMI artificial about mmemmlr Pantry Pride beef. We sell only U.S.D.A. Choice Naturally /, Tender K beef. pSjMR* • Discount Prices, Too! dflH . "S 2907 WASHINGTON wBL z* ROAD .• INTERSTATE 20 Satgfr augusta Georgia presient, Schenley Affiliated Industries; and membership and dues, Gloria E.A. Toote, assistant director of ACTION, the federal citizens volunteer ism agency. 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. r -1. ©!■*!,., BT i JuUI 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 Page 5