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The Augusta News-Review. May 17. 1973 - ■■Lz » 111 I i % X £ .■# -■ %? t w j;. ■®r'«l >*t vK IL f— ■ H 11 Champion Black Basketball Player-Coach Helped By Neighborhood Youth Corps CHATTANOOGA - Leroy Alexander is small for a basketball player -- five feet, 10 inches -- but he is good. When he joined the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) back in 1966, however, no one could have predicted he would become not only a champoinship player, but a coach of champoin teams as well. Alexander had made the Riverside High School team here as a sophomore, but it was in his junior year that he developed the strength, speed and agility of a top-level player. And when he wasn’t in class or out on the court, he was learning the behind the-scenes reality of basketball under the supervision of Dorsey Sims, then the basketball coach at Riverside. As an NYC teacher’s aide, he did everything from checking papers to washing lockers in the gym, sweeping floors and helping keep important papers in order. And on the basketball court he became a star guard, and as JOHANNSEN’S TROPHIES SPORTING GOODS ALL * ALL Colors All Sizes $9.95 COR. 12th & REYNOLDS We trade YOUR way to fit YOUR budget W QM with thrifty (flexible) GMAC-terms ■ Uni you can live with. • T WIPE-TRACK 111 fh| CORNERS TELFAIR STREET PONTIAC I st IMASTER •lifer ice sell—WE SEKI E—simee 1937 SICKLE CELL ANEMIA TEST SICKLE CELL CENTER SCREENING CLINIC OPEN MONDAY - FRIDAY 8:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. SATURDAYS 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. 1526 GWINNETT STREET PHONE 724-0104 REGISTERED NURSE ON DUTY NO CHARGE - - - NO WAITING Original JV f RED \ T JEgEZAft f WHITE \ jJffß JI n ffnl I &blue j vSk* gfpeaat tlI/i Awe. Dixie Beer of Augusta, Inc. 1113 WALTON WAY PHONE: 404-722-4618 Page 6 captain led his team to the Tennessee State Championship in 1967. He was named to the “All City”, “All Region”, “All State” and “All State Tournament” teams, and was also chosen as a member of the “East All Star” team and was the “Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce Player of the Year.” After graduation from high school, Alexander received a basketball scholarship to Alabama State University, where he continued his basketball career while acquiring a Bachelor’s Degree in physical education. At Alabama State, he was selected as “Most Valuable Player” in his senior year and chosen for listing inWho’s Who in American High Schools and Colleges. He graduated from Alabama State in the summer of 1971, and immediately hired by the Chatanooga Board of Education, and assigned to Riverside High School as physical education teacher and head basketball coach. That year, his team won the Tennessee State Championship. Alexander acquired the distinction of becoming the first man in Tennessee athletic history to win a state championship in his first year of coaching. As a consequence, he was named the Tennessee Basketball Coach of the Year. This past year, the team, handicapped by the loss of all but one starting player from last year, nevertheless rolled up a highly creditable record, only to be knocked off in the semi-finals of the state championship tournament. Alexander recognizes failure is inevitable. But in the last analysis, he believes “sucess is what you make out of failure.” He also believes everyone at some point needs help along the way, and NYC gave him that help at a time when he really needed it. and now, he’s trying to give the same kind of encouragement to two NYC enrollees working for him. Alexander and his wife, Lexiane, have one child, Michelle Denise, 2. Winner Announced In Goul Program Mrs. Georgia M. Chatman an Augusta Tech practical nursing student was named the local winner in the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) program in April. In luncheon meeting hosted by Augusta Kiwanians, D. Douglas Bernard of the Chamber of Commerce’s Education Committee announced Mrs. Chatman’s award and introduced the other students named as outstanding trainees at Augusta Tech. Mrs. Chatman was nominated for GOAL honors by Mrs. Linda Street, practical nursing instructor. The students in .heir divisions are: Richard Hirchauer, Instrumentation Technology; Jane Quarles, Business Education; and Joel Hawkins, Child Development. The State Chamber of Commerce, which also sponsors the STAR program in high schools, began the GOAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Richmond County has an immediate need for an electrical engineer. It is desired this person have some experience in design of street lighting and/or traffic engineering. Excellent working conditions and fringe benefits. Applicants should apply at the Richmond County Merit System office, Room 605, City County Building, Augusta, Ga. Phone 724-1831 Ext. 220 for more information. An Equal Opportunity Employer. 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At HUD Dr. Toote will be responsible for administering HUD’s civil rights and equal opportunity programs in housing, employemnt and business opportunity. She will also be responsible for assuring that all HUD Department’s policies and activities effectively promote equal opportunity for all. Dr. Toote was president of Toote Town Publishing, Inc. and in the private practice of law in her native New York City. From 1966 to 1970 she was president of Town Sound Recording Studios, Inc. Dr. Toote is a former aide to New program in 1972 to recognize the achievements of technical students and their teachers. As local winner, Mrs. Chatman received a certificate of recognition and two SSO gift certificates. She will compete at the state level with other technical students for a new automobile next week. The cited students were chosen by their division instructors at Augusta Tech. Mrs. Chatman and other students in statewide competition will be judged on the basis of their grades, quanity and quality of work output and personal standards of character. CURTIS CENTER DISCOUNT DRUG 1596% LINDEN STREET Open 9:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M. Monday Saturday Sunday 10:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. DISCOUNT PRICES Phone 722-1802 York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Dr. Toote worked with several presitgious law firms in New York, and is a former member of the editorial staff in the National Affairs Section at TIME Magazine. She ran for the State Assembly from New York City. A scholarship student at the Howard University School of Law, Dr. Toote was the youngest graduate in the history of that school when she earned her J.D. degree in 1954. She received her LL.M, degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Law in 1956, writing her thesis on Constitutional Law. While at Howard, Dr. Toote worked with Dr. James M. 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Martin, the church’s minister. “Working with community people in the 17 cities where Job Corps-YWCA operates, 1 see examples of strong leadership by Black people together with Whites accomplishing important mutual goals, such as better day care facilities and improving the educationa processes,” Miss Gardner said. Miss Gardner has been associated with YWCA programs since 1957 following her graduation from Knoxville College in Tennessee and her studies leading to a Master’s Degree in music and music education from Columbia University’s Teachers’ College. She is the daughter of Mrs. C.L. Gardner, Associate Executive Director of the Augusta R. 5.0., and the Reverend J.C. Gardner of Barton Chapel Road. “I will talk to old friends and new ones at the Springfield Baptist Church about the stunning progress of women, and especially Black women just in my lifetime. I will relate some of the examples I have seen in various countries in the world where severe discrimination against women still exists. I want to talk about how Augusta women are using their extra time and energies these days. And 1 look forward to a visit at home again.” she added. Miss Gardner has been with the JC-YW operation since the fall of 1970 and assumed her present position as Director in January, 1973. The program moves Job Corps Center trainees into YWCA residence settings where they live while getting their on-the-job work experience. The National Board of the YWCA, under contract with the U.S. Department of Labor, operates 17 such residence programs across the u’S., to which corpswomen (ages 16 to 21) voluntarily transfer for supervised work experience, job counseling, personal and social development. Representing the U.S. last year, Miss Gardner was on of 40 persons from 40 countries to attend a Leadership Institute of the World YWCA at Cret-Berard, near Geneva, Switzerland. Preceding the Institute, she was in the midlands area of England < << MARY IDA GARDNER where, together with YWCA representatives from Europe and Canada, she» visited programs for youth and adults sponsored by local agencies and religious groups, as well as by the YWCA. She worked on the Bord of Education in Augusta and in Philadelphia and served as a club director with Army Special Services in Korea. For over 100 years, the YWCA has geared its program and services toward enriching the lives of girls and women. Bible Study Bible Study classes are now in progress at the S.C.L.C. Building, on the corner of Mill St. and Anderson Ave., each Tuesday 6 o’clock until 7:30 P.M. Classes are taught by outstanding Ministers of Augusta. The public is invited to attend the classes. The Bible Study is sponored by the Concerned Mothers Club.