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PAINE COLLEGE CAMPUS . . AUGUSTA, GA 50901 II ' frZ6lz-Wr <S1lI!a li THE PEOPLE’S PAPER 7 (f 20*)) I national black news service \\* VT z/ member *. 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 *” ’" ‘ Xv '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 PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! We want to print your news. But we MUST have it by NOON TUESDAY in order for it to be printed that week. There can be NO exceptions. Rease co-operate with us so we can better serve 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 la? 1 ■ lit, V 1* Ti FLASHIN’ IS ... Gold Anklets and Bare Chests! You’ll love staying home in a comfortable slink of a dress in red with shiny sequins appliques n the bodice. Show just enough to bare golden anklets on long slender legs. Sizes 6-14, $36. At most larger Sears fashion stores. He’ll make a good impression - under the tree or not, in a shawl collar cardigan worn loosely tied with nothing underneath. Sizes S-XL, S6O. At Dimensions, Philadelphia; Rogue, Miami. As seen in the December isaie of Essence. gee related photo, Page 5 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, S Kg* 4 f Dr. Alonzo Crim 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 ■ r m'" J. PHILLIP WARING A MINI IS A TERRIBLE THING Tl WASTE. Needy Families Receive Christmas Dinners Mfc i - ■ A . 4 I Jf It ? Uh Z I $ A-'- ; St 'r r ; s 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 K ■- wUi "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.