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THE PEOPLE’S PAPER 7
Vol 4
Did James Brown’s Honorary
Doctorate Die With Dr. Pitts?
The name of entertainer
James Brown was among six
others recommended to the
Paine College Board of
Trustees by the late President
Dr. Lucius Pitts to receive
honorary doctorate degrees
from the local institution.
The six names were
approved by the board,
according to a trustee. Two of
the degrees were conferred last
February, shortly before Dr.
Pitts died of a heart attack.
The News-Review talked
with Brown about the
honorary doctorate.
He said nobody has said
anything about the degree
since Dr. Pitt’s death and that
Sears Gives 74,000
To Black Colleges
Paine College is recipient of
a $5,425 grant from the
Sears-Roebuck Foundation.
The grant is part of $74,000
being distributed by the
Foundation to the forty
member colleges of the United
Negro College Fund.
In Georgia, six member
colleges, are sharing Sears
Foundation grants totaling
$17,600.
BOGGS’CHAMBER GROUP TO SING IN GERMANY
This chamber group from the Boggs Academy a cappella choir, Keysville, Ga., will
be sponsored on tour by the U.S. Army in West Germany for three weeks starting
January 10th. The performers in the chamber group are: seated (L-R) Felicia Felder,
Yvonne Garrett and Rubenetta Dicks; standing (L-R) Daily McDowell, Mr. John
Williams (choir director), Gerald Huggins, Mr. Roosevelt Simpkins (accompanist),
and Don Van Story.
The concert and workshop appearances by the chamber group will include sacred,
spiritual and gospel selections. The tour is in commemoration of the life and work of
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Performances will be before both military and
national audiences.
Boggsites To Tour Germany
To Remember A "King”
Six students from Boggs
Academy, Keysville, Ga. along
with two faculty members,
have been invited to tour
Germany to help
commemorate the birthday of
the late Reverend Doctor
Martin Luther King, Jr., noted
civil rights leader and Nobel
Prize winner. The trip is
sponsored by the UJS. Army.
They will be performing
throughout Germany in such
areas as Frankfurt and
community, Kaiserslautern,
Mannheim, Heidelberg,
Karlsruhe, Stuttgart,
he has not pursued it.
The honorary doctorate
doesn’t really make a
difference, Brown said. “I
appreciate it. But there’s only
one Dr. Pitts. I’d like to be
honored that way. But that
will only happen if the right
people start thinking.
“To give me an honorary
degree would only boost up
the school and give it an image,
because I’ve received things
from Morehouse, Clark, Morris
Brown, A & T, Bethune and
Cookman and Florida A & M.
I’m on the advisory board at A
& M. I’m on the advisory board
at A & T, Tennessee State,
Southern University, but I’m
When presenting the grant,
local - foundation
representative W.F.
Fortenberry said the fund were
to be used for unrestricted
purposes.
The grants are part of a
continuing foundation program
to strengthen private,
regionally accredited colleges
and universities throughout the
country.
Wuerzburg, Nuernber,
Augsburg, Muenchen and
Berchtesgaden. The tour will
last three weeks beginning Jan.
10. Thousands of military
personnel will gather daily to
hear this Chamber Group from
the Boggs Academy a Cappella
choir perform.
The students travelling to
Germany include Felicia Felder
(Georgia), Gerald Huggins
(New York, Daily McDowell
(Georgia), Yvonne Garrett
(New Jersey), Rubenetta Dicks
(South Carolina) and Don Van
Story (Massachusetts). Also
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not on anything that pertains
to Paine in Augusta.
“But I understand, there are
a lot of shortcomings, and they
have been well taught to be
divided.
“A & T turned down
Rockefeller’s nephew for
James Brown. A Black woman
did that. She said “I don’t
want Rockefeller’s money. I
need James Brown’s spirit,
concept, his image, and most
of all I need his face because
he’s Black.
Brown’s records have sold
more copies than any singer
ever.
Brown arrived in Augusta
from Africa where he is making
The Sears-Roebuck
Foundation, last year ranked
fifth among corporate
contributors to the United
Negro College Fund.
A. Dean Swift, president of
Sears and a director of the
Sears-Roebuck Foundation, is
serving during the current year
as chairman of the college
fund’s corporate campaign.
accompanying the students will
be John Williams, choral
director and Roosevelt
Simpkins, accompanist, both
of South Carolina.
Boggs Academy is a college
preparatory school related to
the United Presbyterian
Church through the Synod of
the South. Boggs is the only
regionally accredited boarding
school that serves primarily
Black youth in the US. today.
Virtually all graduates go on to
college each year and prepare
for professional and leadership
roles in later life.
Augusta, Georgia
a movie in Senegal,and
performed some concerts.
Senegal was the last stop for
slave ships leaving the West
coast of Africa.
Brown said he is more in
semi-retirement but plans to do
more movie work. “A lot of
young people are looking up at
me and I know they are
expecting a lot of things. And
I’m in a position to be able to
start a lot of those things to
happening. And I guess that
movies are about the only way.
They’ve got to see it. Seeing is
more believing than hearing..
He said he could have gone
into movies two or three years
ago. But those movies
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SUSAN NOONEY
Integration In Reverse -
White Student In Black School
Susan Nooney has lived a
rather typical life for an
18-year-old Augusta white girl.
Or at least she was typical -
until she enrolled as a freshman
at Paine College this fall.
Why Paine? She asks why
■ot.
As a high school senior at
Richmond Academy, she knew
she wanted to stay in Augusta
to go to school. But she didn’t
want to go to Augusta College.
There was no particular reason,
she says, she just didn’t want
to go to AC.
She applied at Georgia
Southern but it cost more than
she could pay. Her Biology
teacher asked if she has ever
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B Day Speaker
DR. JULIUS S. SCOTT
Dr. Julius S. Scott, newly
elected president of Paine
portrayed “every Black woman
as a prostitute and every Black
man as a dope pusher. That’s a
lie. And if I’ve got to tear my
people down I’d rather not get
into it.”
Billed as the “Godfather of
Soul”, Brown said he plans to
score some more movies but
found that his scoring was
selling a lot of movies that
shouldn’t have been sold. And
the money was going to Italy,
France and Germany, Israel
and every place but the Black
community. He scored, “Black
Caesar,” “The Harder They
Fall” and “Slaughter”.
“We were supposed to score
“Hell Up In Harlem”. I wrote
considered a Black college. She
had not.
But during the summer, a lot
of things “hit” her. “I knew I
wanted to go to college and
major in Biology. And I guess I
put the two together, a biology
teacher had mentioned going
to a Black college. And I
decided I wanted to major in
biology, so I ended up here.”
Paine, she said, was more
helpful to make sure you got
financial aid. “As a white
student, I found that I could
get money at Paine, and that
most students can get all the
money they need.”
Susan has just completed her
first semester at a
College, will speak for the
Emancipation Day celebration,
January 1, at the Tabernacle
Baptist Church.
The theme of Dr. Scott’s
speech for the 11 a.m.
celebration will be' “Slipping
into Darkness”.
Dr. Scott received an A.B.
degree from Wiley College; a
bachelor of Divinity degree
from Garrett Theological
Seminary; a Ph.D. degree from
Brown University and an A.M.
degree from Brown University.
The Houston, Tx. native had
been the chairman of the
sociology department and
special assistant to the
president, at Spelman College
in Atlanta - before coming-to
Paine.
The public is invited to
attend the celebration.
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FIRST FAMILY OF SOUL
Singer James Brown poses in yard with Black Santa. Left to right are his father,
Joe Brown; wife, Deidre, and father-in-law, Clinton Jenkins.
the score for it, but they come a nigger and I refused to take then was that, in turn, I got an
up with a deal to treat me like that deal. And what happened album out called “Pay-back”.
predominantly Black
institution. Was it like she
expected? “Really,” she said
with a smile, “I didn’t know
what to expect at Paine. 1 just
took a wait-and-see attitude.”
“I like it here. I have been
well received. I expected that
Paine would be easier than AC.
But it’s not. It’s not that easy.”
Susan said that sometime!
she “forgets” that she is white.
“One day I was sitting with a
group of girls in the snack bar,
and I saw a white girl pass by,
and I went, There’s a white
girl over there!’ Because I don’t
see me, and I saw her,, over
there and I said, ‘I wonder
what she is doing here?’.”
Julian Bond Scores 7th In
Gallup Presidential Poll
State Senator-elect Julian
Bond, a potential presidential
candidate has scored 7th in a
rating of 31 Demoncrats who
are possible contenders for
their party’s 1976 presidential
nomination.
He scored above both
announced candidates,
including outgoing Georgia
Govenor Jimmy Carter, whose
name did not receive enough
mention to place him among
the 31, and Rep. Morris Udall
(D-Ariz.).
Bond outscored Ralph
Nader, Senator Walter
Mondale, Senator Lloyd
Bentsen, and Senator Birch
Bayh. Bond also outpointed
former Senator and 1968
candidate Eugene McCarthy,
Florida Governor Reuben
Adcew, and both 1972
Democratic vice-Presidential
candidates, Senator Thomas
Eagleton and Sargent Shriver.
Ranking above Bond were
Alabama Governor George
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C.O. Hollis Jr. (left) is presented plaque for
“outstanding service to youth” by Pilgrim Insurance
Company executive H.R. Scott.
Hollis took over as chairman of the Inner City
Scouting program of the Georgia-Carolina Council in
Sept, of 1973, and under his leadership the program
grew to a total of 34 scouting units with a membership
of over 700 boys actively taking part in the program.
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Santa (center) is kept busy by wide-eyed youngsters
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Wallace, Senator Hubert
Humphrey, Senator Henry
Jackson, Senator Edmund
Muskie. Senator George
McGovern and former New
York Mayor, John Lindsay.
In a separate poll of
independent voters, Bond
ranked 10th behind Wallace,
Jackson, Muskie, McGovern,
Nader, Lindsay, Humphrey,
newly-elected Ohio senator
John Glenn and Illinois
Senator Adlai Stevenson.
The poll, conducted by the
respected George Gallup
organization, was conducted
between November 8 and 11,
before Senator Mondale
withdrew as a candidate, and
before Governor Carter and
Rep. Udall announced their
candidacies.
Carter, who announced
December 12th that he will be
a candidate, was not
mentioned as a choice by
independent voters either,
although Rep. Udall did place
2oe
26th among these non-aligned
voters.
Carter, who announced
December 12th that he will be
a candidate, was not
mentioned as a choice by
independent voters either,
although Rep. Udall did place
26th among these non-aligned
voters.
“These results are more than
encouraging,” Bond said, “I
still intend to reserve a final
decision until late May or June
of 1975, but this showing, and
the slow but steady trickle of
mail into my office convinces
me that 1976 may be the year
in which a candidacy like mine
would find a willing and
receptive audience.”
Bond said that he had talked
with Montgomery, Ala.
attorney Morris Dees, who
raised S2O million for the
McGovern campaign, about
“putting together a similar
fund raising effort for my
campaign.”