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Vol. 3
Augustan Heads St. Louis
Augusta native and
News-Review columnist J.
Phillip Waring recently
returned to St. Louis where he
is Director of the St. Louis
Urban League’s Community
Organization Department. He
has also served as
Commissioner of Community
Services in St. Louis.
Waring is the author of the
recent proposal to rename
Augusta’s Gwinnett Street
“Laney/Walker Blvd.”
Until recently Waring was
head of the Urban League at
Fairfield County, Conn., which
he organized in 1969.
Dr.Crimls Emancipation Speaker
Dr. Alonzo A. Crim,
Superintendent of Atlanta
Public Schools, will be the
guest speaker for the 111th
Emancipation Celebration at
Tabernacle Baptist Church on
January Ist at 11 o’clock.
He is the first Black
superintendent for the Atlanta
Public Schools.
Dr. Crim received the B.A.
degree from Roosevelt College
in Chicago, the M.A. from he
University of Chicago and the
Ed.D. from Harvard University.
He has been a teacher,
principal and superintendent of
schools in Chicago, 111., and
Compton, Calif.
He is an educational
consultant for ABT Associates
and Ginn & Company.
He is the author of “To
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'Adopt-A-Child Month’
Proclaimed By Mayor
Mayor Newman has
proclaimed January as
Adopt-A-Child Month for the
city of Augusta.
Sponsored by the NAACP
Adoption Project, this is the
latest in a series of events
focused on educating the Black
community on the need of
children for adoptive homes
and to encourage as many
persons as possible to become
Adoptive Parents.
The NAACP, a viable civil
rights and community service
organization for 62 years in the
Black community, has for a
number of years recognized the
need to find permanent homes
for Black and racially mixed
children. Through the NAACP
Adoption Project the number
of Black children adopted will
be increased through a program
that includes recruitment of
adoptive homes, education of
potential adoptive parents,
community education on
adoption and the adoptive
process and advocacy for
prospective doptive children.
The organization aware of
the less affluent condition of
Black families to comparable
white families spear headed
passage of a bill during the last
General Assembly that will
enable many hard-to-place
children to find permanent
homes. The bill provides
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He was honored with two
receptions and citations from
the United Fund Council and
the Urban League upon leaving
that position last summer.
Waring was appointed
Commissioner of Community
Services here in 1963 and was
the first Black commissioner in
St. Louis’ 200 year history. In
this position he coordinated
activities for the St. Louis
observance of the centennial of
the Emancipation
Proclamation and was also
co-author of the historic
booklet, “Negroes - Their Gifts
to St. Louis.”
Improve Learning, An
Evaluation of Instrumental
Technology” published by the
R.R. Bowrer Co. in June of
1971.
He is affiliated with many
organizations: American
Association of School
Administrators, member
Resolutions Committee;
American School of
Curriculum Development;
National Alliance of Black
School Superintendents;
Harvard Graduate School of
Jiducation, member
Committee to Visit; Harvard
Graduate School of Education,
President - Alumni Executive
Council; Fulton County Board
of Directors; Close Up;
Southern Council on
International and Public
financial assistance to families
adopting children with
physical, mental or emotional
handicaps or other problems.
Mrs. Ruby Hurley,
Southeastern NAACP Regional
Director and administrator of
the Adoption Project, hailed
the passage of the bill as a
break through in he adoptive
process. “Passage of Senate Bill
177 will decrease the number
of Black children in
institutional care nd increase
their placement in permanent
homes,” she stated.
The NAACP, a viable civil
rights and community service
organization for 62 years,
announces the beginning of a
demonstration project to:
(1) Recruit Black and/or
transracial adoptive homes.
(2) Community education
on adoptions and the adoptive
process.
(3) Education of potential
adoptive parents.
(4) Advocacy for children in
need of adoptive homes.
The NAACP feels that this
program will decrease the
number of Black children in
institutional care and increase
their placement in permanent
homes. We hope to decrease
juvenile delinquency and
crime.
The primary thrust of the
program will focus on
P.O. Box 953
He has served as an Urban
League director in Jacksonville,
Fla., Springfield, 111. and Bronx
County, N.Y. and was cited for
his leadership activities in each
assignment.
The St. Louis Federation of
Block Units honored him with
its Leadership Award in 1958
for helping it expand into the
largest neighborhood
improvement association in the
nation. This was when he
headed the C.O. Department of
the League.
Waring was one of the two
co-founders of the St. Louis
Frontiers Club in 1957, was
Affairs; Educational Program
Association of America;
Georgia Council on Economic
Education, Member - Board of
Trustees; American Cancer
Society, Fulton County Unit,
Member - Board of Directors;
Georgia Accrediting
Commission, member; National
Alliance of Black School
Educators; Georgia Association
of School Superintendents.
Dr. Crim has received the
Vincent Conroy Award from
the Harvard Graduate School
of Education.
He is married to Mrs.
Gwendolyn Crim nd the father
of three children. The public is
cordially invited to attend this
celebration.
educating the Black
community on the need of
children for adoptive homes
and to increase their awareness
to the problems surrounding
adoptions as well as to improve
their understanding of and
participation in dealing with
socail agencies.
Foster parents will be
encouraged to accept the
obligations of doptive parents.
The advocacy phase of the
program would insure
concerted efforts to protect
and advance the rights of
children in need of homes by
encouraging the use of
subsidies, changes in agency
standards, regulations and
procedures, influence the
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later elected local president,
national secretary and was
presented a special award by
the local club in 1969 for
leadership. He is also a
co-founder of the St. Louis
Council of Black Social
Workers and was its first
president. He was also a
national vice president of the
National Association of
Intergroup Relations Officials
(NAIRO) and a co-founder of
the local chapter.
A graduate of the Columbia
University School of Social
Work, he has been a part-time
teacher at Atlanta, New York,
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introduction of new legislation
and mobilize concerned
elements in the community.
We will advocate the human
rights of children in need of
homes.
The NAACP has found that
while white children are readily
placed in either adoptive or
foster homes the same does not
hold true for Black children.
The observation is supported
by reports from child caring
agencies which report that less
than 50% of all Black children
in need ever find adoptive
homes. One reason why the
NAACP can be an effective
recruitment agent for adoptive
homes lie in the fact that the
NAACP is a people’s
St. Louis, Washington and
Connecticut Universities.
His wife, Marian, is a
community relations specialist
with the national Girl Scouts,
USA office in New York City.
She will return to St. Louis in
mid-summer of 1974.
In addition to his
membership in Frontiers and
the Black social workers, he is
also a member of the Royal
Vagabonds, N.A.S.W., All
Saints Episcopal church and
the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity.
organization whose whose
membership embraces all levels
of economic and social strata
in the community. We have the
built-in capability to reach a
broad span of people and
potential adoptive homes.
Augusta offices are located
at 1223 Gwinnett St. the staff
of five has been recruiting
contacting agencies, and
gathering information since
may 1972, in the metropolitan
Atlanta area.
The NAACP declares that
the situation can and must be
changed and offers this
comprehensive education
advocacy, program - NAPREP -
that would achieve this change.
Augusta, Georgia
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J. PHILLIP WARING
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Needy Families Receive
Christmas Dinners
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An estimated 1,500 - 2,000
needy people were served
Christmas dinners at Bell
Auditorium on Christmas Eve.
The idea
grew out of a conversation
between entertainer James
Brown and Henry Hayes, a
Minnesota Mutual Insurance
The Women’s Civic Club
held its annual Christmas Party
f or under-priviledged children
it the Pilgrim Civic Center
rhursday afternoon.
Over forty children were
entertained with gifts,
Civic Club Christmas Party
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"A SCOUT is concerned about other people. He does
things willingly for others without pay or reward.”
Pictured, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader Marcel Harris,
presents toys to Jay Bell of WRDW’s Toys For The
Needy Program. Marcel is a boy scout of Troop 41,
Scoutmaster is Mr. Willie Harris.
agent working out ot the trank
Straus Agency.
Hayes said of the affair, “If
we can get personally involved,
we can solve some of these
problems.”
Brown was performing in
California.
Hayes gave much of the
refreshments and two film Insurance Company, brought
strips, “The Christmas Story" each child a gift.
and “Christmas Around the Mr. J.E. James is chairman
World”. To add to the of the Welfare Committee and
festivities planned l?y the Club, W-A. Sanders is president
Commissioner Ed Mclntyre, of °‘ t " e Club.
the Pilgrim Health and Life
December 27, 1973 No. 41
credit ror tne success of the
effort to “Miss Perfect”
(Emma Austin) “she raised all
the money. She was the
sweetheart of the whole
thing.”
Citizens were asked to
contribute SI to help feed the
needy at Christmas time.