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Conference to focus
black-on-black crime
Black-on-black Crime
Conference will be held at
Paine College on Saturday,
Oct. 13, from 9 a.m. to 3:30
p.m.
The purpose of the meeting
is to identify the causes,
consequences of black-on-black
crime and to seek ways to cure
it.
Key representatives from
various educational, religious,
criminal justice and
Benedict receives
$266,939 grant
Benedict College has
received a $266,939 grant from
the U.S. Office of Education to
complete a two-year research
project on Contributions of
Black Women to America:
1776-1977.
The project, sponsored
under the Women’s
Educational Equity Act
Program of the U.S.
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, is
directed by Dr. Marianna W.
Davis, Professor of English.
During the past year
researchers across the nation
submitted information on
more than 1,000 black women
for inclusion in ten booklets
which will cover the fields of
business and commerce, civil
rights, education, law, media,
medicine and health, politics
and government, sciences,
sports, and the arts.
According to Dr. Davis,
“only those black women who
have made valuable and
noteworthy contributions to
the growth and development of
the United States during the
past 200 years will be included
in the booklets.”
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community service agencies
will speak.
Findings on this special
aspect of black crime will be
shared on Oct. 16 when the
Georgia Senate holds an
anti-crime hearing in Augusta.
The Oct. 13 conference is
open to the public. Off-street
parking is adjacent to the
Odeum at rear of the college
chapel. Registration starts at
8:30 a.m.
WEEA grant Dr. Davis reported
the addition of three
experienced writers to the
Benedict project staff to
prepare the ten manuscripts for
presentation to WEEA’s
Washington office by June 30,
1980.
The writers are Paula
Giddings, assistant editor of
ENCORE magazine; Dawn
Beasley, staff writer with
PHYLON, journal at Atlanta
University; and Janell Walden,
copy editor with Doubleday
Publishing Co.
Also joining the staff this
year are Dr. Robert Perdue as
evaluator, and Dorothy Grant
as manuscript typist.
The continuing local staff
includes Blondell Capell,
researcher; Bernard Hazzard,
graphic artist; and Gwendolyn
Finch, secretary.
Dr. Davis also released the
names of ten prominent blacks
-- all experts in the particular
research area - who will write
2,500-word introductory
essays for the booklets.
The essayists are: Business
and Commerce - Thomas
Shropshire, Senior Vice
President, Miller Brewing Co.;
Civil Rights - Lerone Bennett,
senior editor, EBONY
Magazine; Education -- Dr.
Donald Stewart, president,
Spelman College; Law - Judge
A. Leon Higginbotham, U.S.
Court of Appeals; Media --
William Matney, former
ABC-TV News Correspondent;
Medicine and Health - Dr.
Daniel Collins, D.D.S.,
Department of Urban
Education, Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Inc., San
Francisco, Ca.; Politics and
Government - Dr. Eddie N.
Williams, president, Joint
Center for Political Studies,
Washington ,D.C.; Sciences --
Dr. Herman Branson,
president, Lincoln
University .Lincoln, Pa.; Sports
- Dr. Leroy Walker, U.S.
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Coach, North Carolina
University at Durham, N.C.;
the Arts - Dr. George Kent,
Department of English,
University of Chicago, Chicago,
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steadman
Thacker-Steadman
Miss Lynette Thacker
became the bride of Sp. 5
Henry Steadman 5 pan. August
18 at Williams Memorial CME
Church.
The Rev. Gene R. Dean
officiated.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jordan,
The groom is the son of Mrs.
Alonzo Steadman and the late
Mr. Steadman.
Sp. 5 Charles Shipman was
best man. Ushers were Leon
Baker, Dominic Mack, Ira
Miller, John Mcßae, James
Germany and Larry Miller.
Miss Willianne Thacker,
sister of the bride, and Miss
Quenell Denise Collier were
maid of honor. Mrs. Debra
Burton Wells, cousin of the
bride, was matron of honor.
Bridesmaids were Miss
Vernocia Broadwater, Miss
Tina Bennett, nieces of the
groom, Miss Eloise Washington
and Mrs. Glenda Thomas
Neely admitted D.C. bar
Atty. Vernon J. Neely is
now eligible to practice law in
the District of Columbia
circuit.
A native Augustan, he
attended Lucy C. Laney High
School. He received his BA.
degree from the University of
Georgia and the juris doctorate
Mcßae.
The ringbearer was Robert
Johnson Jr.
Flowergirls were Miss
Michelle Renae Wells, cousin of
the bride, and Miss Tracy
McNeal.
The bride was given in
marriage by her brother, Ernest
Lee Thacker.
A reception was held at the
church fellowship hall. The
couple took a wedding trip to
Atlanta.
The bride is a honor
graduate of Lucy C. Laney,
class of 1977. She is presently
a junior at Paine College
majoring in business
administration.
The groom also is a graduate
of Lucy C. Laney, class of
1976. He is in the U.A. Army
and recently completed a tour
of duty in Heidleburg,
Germany. He is now stationed
at Fort Gordon.
degree from the University of
Miami, Fla.
He is amember of the State
Bar of Georgia and the Augusta
Bar Association, Superior
Court of Richmond County.
He is a partner in the law
firm of Flanagan and Neely.
Couple repeats wedding vows
Dolly Jay Blackmond
walked down the aisle
strumming her guitar and
singing, “I Will Always Love
You” to Marion Jessie
Blackmond.
The occasion was the
repeating of their vows on the
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second anniversary of their
wedding.
Dolly wore a black
plunge-neck dress with
spaghetti straps. The ceremony’
was performed by the Rev.
Harvey Holland.
The Augusta News-Review - October 13,1979
The couple’s teenaged
children, Cathy Newman,
Martto Blackmond, Larry and
Mackie Blackmond threw a
dinner in February at which
the Blackmonds announced
their respeaking of vows
ceremony.
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Dolly Jay Blackmond
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