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Miss Joyce Tutt and Mrs. Marilyn Cook Sullivan
A baby shower was recently held at the Pilgrim Civic Center
for Mrs. Marilyn Cook Sullivan hosted by Miss Joyce Tutt.
Thirty-five friends attended and Mrs. Sullivan received many
beautiful gifts for the expected baby.
Harris, Oliver to head
local VNCF drive
Gordon Oliver, executive
vice president of the Citizens
and Southern National Bank
and Herman Harris, director of
the Sickle Cell Center at the
Medical College of Georgia,
have been named co-chairmen
of tlie 1978 Paine College -
United Negro College Fund
Campaign. The announcement
was made by Dr. Julius S.
Scott Jr., president of the
college.
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The drive will open with a
Kick-off Luncheon on April
14, and will climax the end of
June. The goal of this year’s
drive is 535.000, which
represents a 26% increase over
last year.
The United Negro College
Fund (UNCF) represents a
consortium of 41
predominantly Black colleges
and universities.
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Local briefs
Summer school
registration June 8
Students interested in attending Richmond County public
school summer school may register June 8 from 9 a.m. until
noon. Registration and classes will be held at Glenn Hills
Elementary School for grades one through seven, at Josey
High School for make-up work for grades eight through
twelve, and at Glenn Hills High School for new work for
grades nine through twelve.
Elementary classes will be held from June 12 through July
21. Secondary classes will be held from June 12 through
August 4.
The elementary center will offer reading, English, math,
science and social studies. All major subject areas except
foreign languages will be taught in the secondary centers.
Driver education will be taught at Glenn Hills High School.
Paine registers March 28
Registration for the spring quarter at Paine College will be
held on March 28 from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. in the
Ethel-Edmund Peters Campus Center.
Evening class registration will be held on that same date
from 6 to 7 p.m. in the campus center.
Registration for the spring quarter closes March 31.
Classes begin March 29.
For further information, contact the Dean of Student
Affairs Office.
Clinic relocates
The Laney-Walker Clinic has moved to 1322 Laney-Walker
Blvd., across the street from the Tabernacle Church.
Medical services are available for low-income citizens on
Thursdays only. Starting at 6:30 p.m.
For an appointment, call the Laney-Walker Neighborhood
Service Center at 724-9898.
Club to hold record hop
The Paine College Special Services Club will sponsor a
disco record hop March 29 from Bto 11 p.m. in the Randall
Carter Gymnasium.
The public is invited.
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Delta Alpha Sigma hosts
regional conference
Grand Basileus Evelyn Hood
and Regional Syntakes
Verneka Silva will be in
Augusta for the Regional
Conference of Sigma Gamma
Rho Sorority, Inc. Friday and
Saturday. The conference will
be hosted by the Delta Alpha
Sigma chapter.
Mrs. Hood will speak at the
banquet on Saturday night at 8
p.m. at the Executive Fbuse
Convention Center.
A native of Atlanta, she is a
Paine College graduate and
holds a master’s degree from
Atlanta University.
She is included in the eighth
edition of “Who’s Who Among
American Women” and
“Bronze Women of the Year in
Education.” And was chosen
outstanding Soror of the
Southeastern Region of Sigma
Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
She is a member of the
National Education
Association, the Georgia
Association of Educators, and
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CHAMBER HONORS TOP CIVILIAN - Miss
Doretha G. Davis, Ft. Gordon’s Civilian of the Month
for March, is presented gifts from Augusta merchants by
Wilson Farr, representing the Chamber of Commerce of
Greater Augusta. Miss Davis is a clerk typist in the post's
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Control Clinic.
U.S. ARMY PHOTOGRAPH BY PV2 BROWN
Wiss Teenage Black 9
competition now open
DANVILLE, Va.
Teenagers interested in
participating in the 1978 Miss
Black Teenage World Pageant
as At-Large-Contestants have
until' June 1 to get their
applications in.
Pageants Unlimited, Inc.
(PUI) and Touch A Teen
Productions, producers of the
pageant, announced that so
many inquiries have come into
their headquarters that they
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Mrs. Evelyn Hood
the Atlanta Association of
Education.
Her religious affiliation is
with the West Mitchell Street
CME Church where former
Paine College Chaplain Dr.
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were extending the time to
enter the Sixth Annual affair.
The pageant is open to
teenagers 15 to 17 years old.
Each contestant is judged in
Sportswear, Creative
Expression, Talent,
Eveningwear and Personal
Projection.
Teenagers interested in
entering this years pageant
should write PUI, Box 1139
Danville, Va. 24541.
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Mrs. Verneka Silva
Maurice S. Cherry is the pastor.
Mrs. Silva is a native of
Miami, Fla. She received the
B.S. degree from Florida A&M
University, the M.S.W. from
PFC Cook
finishes course
Marine PFC Laurence F.
Cook, son of the Rev. and Mrs.
F. Francis Cook of 2703 Hazel
St., has completed the Bulk
Fuel Handling Course.
During five weeks of skill
training at the Marine Corps
Base, Camp Lejeune, N.C., he
received instruction on the
operation and maintenance of
gasoline pumps, filters and fuel
“PROTEST” Continued from 1
man-eating gorilla who’s a sex
maniac up there, so they are
now sending Blacks and
women up.”
The nationally renowned
activist also exhibited letters
written by the FBl’s J. Edgar
Hoover which purportedly
urged the Chicago FBI office
to entice the Mafia to execute
Gregory. Gregory has been a
long-time critic of Hoover and
his failure to solve civil rights
murders in the South.
Other speakers included the
Rev. Joseph Lowery, president
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference; Atty.
Margaret Bush Wilson, NAACP
chairperson; Wilber Davis,
president of the (Black)
American Tennis Association;
“POLITICS” Continued from Page 1
would confirm only that it was
holding serious discussions
with Bond and others), he
probably would leave Atlanta,
which is now his home, and
move to New York.
“I would have to give up my
life; there would have to be a
substantial guarantee,” he said.
“You know how risky
television is.”
The job he really wanted, he
said, was the directorship of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, a post that went to
Benjamin L. Hooks. “It seems
to me the most powerful job a
Black American could have,”
Bond said.
However, he said that he did
not feel that taking a television
job and leaving politics would
mean silence on social issues.
Bond first came to
prominence as one of the
spokesmen and strategists for
“BOGGS” Continued from Page 1
French speaking West Africa
(He is fluent in French. And
his wife teaches French in the
New York City School
system). The school had 400
students and 40 different
tribes.
in addition to teaching, he
and his wife served as house
parents in a dormitory,
director of sports, business
manager and treasurer.
Upon his return to the
United States in 1966, he
joined the executive staff as
associate secretary for
education of the Commission
on Ecumenical Missions and
Relations of the United
Presbyterian Church, USA.
He had responsibilities in the
Far East, Africa, Japan,
Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong,
Taiwan and Thailand.
He has made two trips
around the world as well as
numerous shorter trips abroad
Atlanta University and has
done doctoral study at New
York University, Barry College
and the University of Miami.
She was the first Black
elected secretary of Social
Christian Education Diocese.
She is listed in the “World
Who’s Who of Women,”
“Who’s Who Among American
Women” and “Who’s Who of
Women of the South.”
She is a member of Christ
Episcopal Church, the NAACP,
YWCA National Council of
Negro Women, the American
Association of University
Women, the National
Association of Black School
Educators, and the National
Association of Social Workers.
She is assistant principal of
administration at Coral Gables
High School in Coral Gables,
Fla.
Tickets can be purchased at
Tutt’s Grocery, Augusta Ave.,
or from Sigma Gamma Rho
members.
monitoring systems, meters
and gauges. He also studied fire
fighting techniques and
equipment, security measures,
communications and other
subjects related to the
operation of fuel storage and
distribution systems for ground
and aviation units.
A 1977 graduate of Westside
High School, he joined the
Marine Corps in June 1977.
Judge William Booth of the
New York State Supreme
Court ; Franklin Williams of the
Phelps-Stokes Fund and head
of the Coalition Against South
Africa; and Dr. Charles
Kimbrough, president of the
Nashville NAACP.
Music and songs were (
furnished by students from
Tennessee State and Fisk
Universities.
With the crowd singing “We
Shall Overcome,” Dr. Hooks
urged them to ' “depart in
peace” as he alluded to a small
outside group that had
attempted to disrupt the
program by urging participants
to go over to the Vanderbilt
Gym and “raise hell.”
the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee,
headed successively by John
Lewis, Stokely Carmichael and
H. “Rap” Brown.
He was elected to the
Georgia House of
Representatives in 1965, but
that body refused to seat him
because of his antiwar activity.
The legislature’s action was
upheld by Griffin B. Bell, then
a federal judge and now
attorney general, but was later
overturned by the United
States Supreme Court. He was
reinstated in 1967 and elected
to the State Senate in 1975.
At the 1968 Democratic
convention in Chicago, he was
nominated from the floor as a
candidate for vice president.
With a roll-call vote under way,
Bond requested that his name
be removed because he had not
reached the age of 35 required
by the Constitution. He was
28.
related to international
educational problems.
In 1970, he became
secretary for planning and
research of the Commission on
Ecumenical Missions and
Relations.
In 1973, he was appointed
associate for planning of the
newly formed Program Agency
of the United Presbyterian
Church and remained there
until January, 1975, when he
was named associate in
educational service holding
responsibility in minority
education as well as African
education.
The Whitneys have two
daughters, Saundra and Karen.
Saundra is a graduate of
Cornell University and is
preparing for medical study.
Karen is a Swarthmore
graduate and is working for the
United Negro College Fund in
New York.