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Paine Professor Dies
Dr. Santiago S. Richart of
312 Gardners Mill Court died
Saturday February 16 at
Doctors’ Hospital.
Dr. Richard was a native of
New York Gty, but he had lived
in Augusta for 13 years.
He received liis Ph.D. from
the University of Havana, Cuba
and did further graduate studies
there.
Congressman Andrew Young Urges Citizens
Campaign Against Chrome From Rhodesia
Washington --Congressman
Andrew Young has urged
citizens across the nation to
call upon Members of the
Congress to vote against the
imports of chrome in the U.S.
from Rhodesia, an African
country ruled by a minority
white regime.
Rep. Andrew Young
The issue is expected to
come to a vote in the House of
Representatives within about a
month, and Congressman
Young appealed to people to
contact Representatives from
their states and ask them to
vote for legislation banning
imports of Rhodesian chrome
and its processed product,
ferrochrome. ,
Native Blacks make up 95
percent of the population of
Rodesia, but the minority
white regime rufuses to agree
to effective Black participation
in the government. /
Although the United
Nations has imposed
international economic
sanctions against Rhodesian
products, the U.S. government
-- under the “Byrd
Amendment” adopted by
Congress - has permitted the
importation of chrome and
ferrochrome from Rodesia
since 1972. Last December the
Senate voted to repeal the
Byrd Amendment and halt
these imports, and the House
will take up the legislation
soon.
Young, who is the first
Black Congressman from
Georgia in a century, said in a
statement from his Washington
office:
“I urge citizens everywhere
to contact the members of the
U.S. House from their states on
this issue. You can write, call
or visit these Representatives
and ask them to end the U.S.
government’s support of the
Rhodesian regime by stopping
the imports of chrome ana
ferrochrome.
‘These imports are said to be
worth S3O billion a year to
Rhodesia. There are several
reasons why America should
not be giving this aid.
“First, it is bad foreign
po’icy to support this racist
regime in Africa. Black people
here and around the world are
opposed to this policy, as are
many whites.
“Second, America does not
need Rhodesian chrome oi
ferrochrome. It is available
from other nations, including
Turkey, and the Phillipines.
Even President Nixon has
proposed that we reduce the
supplies of these products
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He had been a professor of
Chemistry at Paine College since
1961. He was also chairman of
the Natural Science Division
there.
He was a member of the
American Chemical Society and
the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Silvia Garcia Richart, Augusta; a
which we hate already
stockpiled in this country.
“Third, Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger has said that
the Byrd Amendment is ‘not
essential to our national
security, brings us no real
economic advantage, and is
detrimental to the conduct of
foreign relations.’
“Fourth, we cannot expect
H.R. Scott, Sr., Honored
Recently Augusta Fire Chief
J.G. Fitzgerald presented a
plaque to Chairman Scott on
behalf of the Augusta Fire
Department expressing
appreciation for the important
roll Mr. Scott played during his
tenure of service.
In 1968 the citizens of
Augusta had never witnessed a
Black man serving on the
Augusta Civil Service
Commission. Many Black
leaders have encouraged the
appointment of a Black on this
commission for several years.
After years and several
meetings the Augusta City
Council voted to appoint H.R.
America’s Obligations To
Blacks 'Unfilled’
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Dr. Elias Blake, Paine
College’s Founder’s Day
Speaker said the Black college
is a “life on insurance
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son, Charles Richart, Augusta; a
daughter, Lourdes Mary
Richart; and his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Maria L. Gongolez,
Augusta.
Funeral services were held
Monday February 18 at 11 a.m.
at Platt’s Chapel and Monsignor
Felix Donnelly officiated.
Burial was in Westover
Memorial Park.
to continue to have good
relations and trade with other
African nations if the U.S.
supports the Rhodesirn
government. About «.nr-fiurth
of our oil imports come from
Nigeria, 90 per cent of our
cobalt comes from Zaire, and
Zambia is the world’s largest
exporter of copper."
Congressman Young
Scott as its first Black to serve
on the Civil Service
Commission, serving a five year
term which began in 1969.
On December 31, 1973
Scott ended bis five (5) year
term on the commission,
serving during the year 1973 as
its chairman.
H.R. Scott, is 2nd vice
president, secretary and
treasurer °f The Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance
Company and is married to the
former Betty DuMetz and they
are the proud parents of two
sons, H. Randolph Scott, Jr., a
student at the Medical College
of Georgia, and Wayne 14
years old.
Dr. Elias Blake
nd not decreasing term.”
Speaking on the subject
“Preventing a Black Backlash
P.O. Box 953
Dr. Santiago S. Richart
observed that these reasons for
stopping import of Rhodesian
chrome can be communicated
to members of the House by
telephoning, visiting, or writing
them in W ashingte n or at their
District office in their home
states. AU House members can
be reached at the House of
Representatives,
Washington, D.C. 20515.
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Photo by Roscoe WUBams
in High Education”, Blake
noted that the nation no longer
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The combined choirs of Paine College, Benedict, Voorhees, Claffin, Morris, and
Allen University culminated Black effort with the Singing of “Lift Every Voice and
Sing”. The program, sponsored by Paine College, saw each choir perform several
Negro spirituals then combine for tne finale. An enthusiastic crowd at Bell Audi
torium stayed to hear the choirs do several numbers after the program had ended.
Former Augustan Honored
As "Human Resource”
Dr. Captolia D. Newbern,
Professor of Sociology and
Social Welfare at Lane College,
has been designated ‘an
important and valuable human
resource of the United States
of America living during the
closing decade of the First
American Bicentennium
(1776-1976)” by the American
Bicentennial Research
Institute.
The honor, made in
conjunction with national ■
preparations for celebrating the
Bicentennial in 1976, carries
with it inclusion in the
A.8.R.1.’s “Library of Human
Resources" ano is made "in
recognition of Dr. Newbern’s
professional and civic
attainments within the
Community of Man”.
The award comes to Dr.
Newbern after a long and
distinquished career in higher
education, social work, and the
church. Currently listed in
several “Who’s Who”, including
Outstanding Educators of
America (1970), Outstanding
and Distinquished Personalities
of the South (1970), Tennessee
Lives (1971), Dictionary of
International Biography
(1971), Two Thousand Women
of Achievement (1972), and
American Women and World
Notables (1974), she has been
professor or department
chairman at four Southern
colleges, administrative
assistant to the Presiding
Bishop of the Seventh District,
The Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church, social and
rehabilitation services
consultant to the U.S.
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, and,
since 1972, co-director of the
Two noted educators will
serve as lecturer-consultants for
the Research Training
Workshop to be conducted at
Paine College Monday,
February 25, 1974. Dr. Ewa U.
Eko, Political Scientist, will be
the featured speaker at 11:00
a.m. in the Gilbert-Lambuth
Memorial Chapel. Dr. Joseph
S. Himes, sociologist, will be the
featured speaker at 8:00 p.m. in
the Odeum, Music Building.
Dr. Ewa U. Eko, Assistant
Director, Consortium on
Research Training, is Associate
Professor and Coordinator of
Political Science at Bennett
College. He formerly served as
Coordinator of the Six
Institutions' Consortium on
Africa and Afro-American
Studies. He is a former Ford
Foundation Intern in Higher
Education, Washington, D.C.,
and former Assistant to the
President at Ohio University. He
has earned the Doctor of
Philosophy degree in Political
Science and has authored a
variety of articles on
international and higher
education along with fifteen
publications on African and
Afro-American Studies.
Dr. Joseph S. Himes, Program
Augusta, Georgia
Research Training
Workshop
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Dr. Captolia D. Newbern
Lane-Lambuth College
Undergraduate Scoial Welfare
Consortium.
Dr. Newbern holds a B.S.
degree from Paine College,
Augusta, Ga.; A.B. Mus. from
Talladega College, Talladega,
Alabama; and M.S.S.W. from
Columbia University School of
Social Work; and an Ed.D.
from Columbia University
Teachers College. She has been
at Lane College since 1962.
As part of the Bicentennial
award, Dr. Newbern will be
expected to serve as lecturer,
community organizer,
workshop leader, and general
consultant to the Bicentennial
Institute.
The widow of the late Rev.
Samuel H. Newbern of the
CME Church, Dr. Newbern is
active locally as a member and
officer of Mother Liberty CME
Church.
Associate for Consortium on
Research Training, holds the
Doctor of Philosophy degree
from Ohio State University and
is currently Professor of
Sociology at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro.
He has published more than
ninety articles in professional
journals, and is the author of
two outstanding books. His
book, THE STUDY OF
SOCIOLOGY: AN
INTRODUCTION, is a widely
used textbook, and his latest
work is RACIAL CONFLICT
IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. He
has held visiting professorships
in Canada, Finland, and India.
He is a former president of the
Southern Sociological Society
and contributed immeasureably
to changing the image of that
professional group.
Paine College is one of 20
colleges participating in the
Consortium on Research
Training, which is funded by the
U.S. Office of Education under
the provisions of Title 111 of the
Higher Education Act of 1965.
The purpose of the Consortium
is (1) to encourage participating
colleges to assign to research
and its concomitant acitivites a
higher priority on their
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February 21,1974 No. 49
EDITORIAL
Our Fair Share
Federal Judge Anthony Alaimo’s decision last fall to
make the Augusta Police Department reflect the
approximately 50-50 Black-to-white ratio of the city’s
population was monumental. He saw discrimination and
called it that. Then he took steps to correct it.
While many whiles did not agree with Judge
Alaimo’s order, they reluctantly accepted it. The Black
officers who filed the suit very properly named the City of
Augusta, the Augusta Police Department, and the Civil
Service Commission as defendants. So far, only the police
department has been found guilty. But the blame goes
much further than that.
The Civil Service Commission is responsible for the
composition of the police and fire departments. The Civil
Service Commission is responsible for hiring, promoting
and firing in these departments. So that the
discrimination which ie«ulted from hiring, promoting,
firing has to be attributed to the Civil Service Commission
which tolerated the discrimination if not originated it
And the fire department’s Black-to-white ratio is far
worse than that of the police department.
Augusta mayors must also share the responsibility for
this condition because the mayor appoints the persons
who serve on the commission.
If it is true that the police department had about
20% Blacks on its force when found guilty of
discrimination in hiring, then it is equally true that Civil
Service Commission is equally guilty. This year, a Black,
Rev. C.S. Hamilton was appointed to succeed H.R. Scott
who was the first Black appointed to serve on the
commission in 1968.
Since there are five members on the Civil Service
Commission and only one is Black, the Civil Service
Commission is only 20% Black, and reflects the same
disproportionate white-to-Black representation as the
police department. The majority of Augusta’s citizens are
Black Then why shouldn’t that majority be reflected in
the composition of the Civil Service Commission and
other decision making bodies of this city?
While it’s true that the first Black was appointed to the
Civil Service Commission only six years ago, we cannot
settle for more token representation. W’e are the majority
and we should settle for no less. Mayor Newman cannot
be blamed for the failures of previous mayors. But he now
has the opportunity to correct the unjust imbalance in the
racial composition of the Civil Service Commission. We
are not asking that the years of Black exclusion from the
Commission be reversed to exclude whites. But we are
asking for our fair share from now on 50% and no less.
campuses; and (2) to generate a
research stimulus and growth
factor for both teachers and
students. One of the
requirements of consortium
membership is that each college
hold workshops in order to
acquaint its campus with the
work of the Consortium and to
encourage the development of
research projects. Tlie following
topics will be considered in the
workshop, among others,
“Relationship of Research to
Scholarship and Teaching,”;
‘‘Steps in Research”;
“Guidelines for Writers of
Research Proposals’’; and
Methodological Sources for
Researchers in the Social
Sciences and Humanities.”
The full program of the
workshop for Monday,
February 25 is as follows:
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11:00 a.m. -- Address by Dr.
E.U.Eko, Paine College Chapel
Remarks by Dr. Joseph S.
Himes.
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Workshop
Session on Research Training -
Odeum.
6:30 - 7:45 p.m. - Workshop
Session on Research Training -
Odeum.
8:00 p.m. - Major Address by
Dr. Joseph S. Himes - Odeum.
The general public is invited
to all sessions.
Dr. Vivian U. Robinson,
chairman of the Division of
Humanities at Paine College, is
coordinator of the Campus
Consortium on Research
Training. Mr. George Brightharp
and Mr. William Candley are
research participants.