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Volume 10
Paine Awards
Posthumous Degree
to Bussey
The Paine College
faculty voted
unanimously last week to
confer posthumously the
degree of bachelor of arts
in history to Marron
Bussey -- the college’s
oldest student. He died of
Cancer Dec. 27 at the age
of 72, after seeing that his
eight younger brothers
and sisters and his
daughter all received
college degrees.
According to
Bussey’s wife, Hope, one
of his lifelong dreams
was to graduate from
Paine College. He nearly
made it.
At the time of his
death he had completed
all degree requirements
except for 11 hours,
according to Paine
Registrar Helena
Thompson.
He was an honor
student with a 3.6
average (on a 4 point
scale) in history and a 3.2
average overall.
“We’re not giving
him a degree; he earned
it,” George Brightharp,
coordinator of history,
told the faculty prior to
the vote.
The college can
award up to 23 hours of
credit for “experiential
learning” (based on life
experience).
Ist Black to Head
Legal Aid Board
WAYNESBORO-
Herman Lodge was
recently elected the first
black president of
Georgiai Legal Services
Program, Inc.’s state
wide board of directors.
Lodge has served as
vice president of the
board of directors since
1978. He also is the first
“non-attorney”
president.
A native of Burke
County, he attended
Waynesboro High and
Industrial School and
received his bachelor of
science degree in health
and physical education
from Fort Valley State
College. He served in the
U.S. Army during the
Korean Conflict.
A steward and
treasurer of Mt. Olive
AME Church, he is
executive secretary of
the Burke County
Improvement Association,
Inc., and former
president of the Burke
County Council of PT As,
and a former member of
the board of directors of
the Burke County
Chamber of Commerce.
He is a member of the
board of directors of the
Burke County Child
Development Center, the
Burke County Chapter of
NAACP, the Epislon
Gamma Sigma Chapter
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Marron D. Bussey
Paine President
Julius S. Scott Jr. said the
school’s opening
convocation will be
dedicated to Bussey’s
memory and the degree
will be conferred at the
June commencement.
Dr. Scott said the
students held Bussey in
such high regard that if
there was ever noise in a
class, “a simple turn of
his head would bring
order quicker than any
word or action by the
teacher.”
Bussey placed high
value on a college
education and helped to
send each of his five
brothers to college, and
they, in turn, helped him
to educate their sisters.
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Waynesboro Community
Development Block
Grant Committee, the
Aurora Lodge No. 54, and
the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 3887.
He is a working
official (football and
basketball) in the
Augusta Official
Association of the
Georgia High School
Association and Water
Safety Instructor with the
Augusta Chapter
American Red Cross.
Lodge has served as
Commander of American
Legion Post 270. He has
served as a member of
the Policy Advisory
Committee of Headstart,
member of the board of
directors of the CSRA
EOA, Inc., a member of
Waynesboro-Burke
County Recreation
Commission, and as a
member of the
Waynesboro Citizens
Task Force Georgia
Certified Cities Program.
He is employed as a
corrective therapist at
the Veterans
Administration Hospital
in Augusta, and is a
member of the American
Corrective Therapy
Association.
He is married to the
former Anna Roberts, a
teacher Waynesboro
Elementary School. They
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tribute to Roy Wilkins
is Sad, Hoppy Affair
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Mrs. King. Keeper Os The Flame
By Charlotte Johnson
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For Coretta Scott King there is the
cause, the eternal flame, the dream to
keep alive in a monument Martin
Luther King Jr. - and it is all
encompassing. She has made a
ponderous, solemn commitment that
runs her life, dictates her identity,
limits her personal choices, eats up her
time, drains her energy.
She would not be human if she
didn’t chafe against it at times, express
vague yearning for a different style of
life with more privacy, with more
freedom, with more choices.
In an intertivew this week at the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for
Social Change, in the midst of planning
the annual activities surrounding what
would have been King’s 52nd birthday
Jan. 15, she talked about life’s choices -
those she made, those made for her by
circumstances, about being alone and
groping for strength, about frustrations
and exhaustion, both emotional and
physical.
“It’s hard to understand the life
that I’ve chosen,” she said. “I made
the choice early, as early as when I
decided to marry Martin. I may not
have been conscious of that fact - it
certainly wouldn’t have been a choice
that I could have made easily. I knew
then it was to be a life of service, of
commitment to the community, but I
couldn’t know just how it would turn
out.”
Now, day to day, it’s a life of
meetings and speeches and
appearances.
“I enjoy the work most of the
time,” she said, “but there are times
when I get tired and I wish I didn’t have
to do it.”
Those are times when she thinks of
things she would like to do for herself
had she not committed to the work.
“There are things that I would want to
do. I’m a person who’s attracted to the
arts,” she said, (she trained as a singer
at Antioch College in Ohio and the New
England Conservatory of Music). “I
would enjoy going to concerts and to
plays, doing more with music.”
The words tumble out, her eyes
sparkling: I’d like to learn two
Tenth Anniversary Salutes
Dr. C.S. Hamilton, pastor Tabernacle
Baptist Church:
I would like to join with the citizens
of the CSRA in saluting the Augusta
News-Review for ten years of
dedicated service.
Your voice has been a constant
reminder to us to stay on the case for
freedom and justice for all. The News-
Review has spoken out for justice when
other voices were silent. So I
congratulate you and challenge you on
this tenth anniversary that you will
continue to speak for a segment of the
community which is seldom heard.
I also pledge my continued support
for this voice for the progress of this
area.
William Brown, Chair, Laney-Walker
Neighborhood Association, Inc.:
f Warm greetings on your 10th
birthdate. We here at the Laney-
Walker Neighborhood Association wish
to thank you for coverage of our
activities. We are attempting to
upgrade and enrich the heart of the
Augusta Black Community. We aim to
improve its cultural, residential,
educational and physical facilities and
services. The special kind of interest
you have given to our problems and
aspirations is most important. Many
more years of success from all of our
members.
Mrs. Ruth Crawford, Executive
Director, Shiloh Comprehensive
Community Center:
January 17,1981
languages - French and Spanish, to
take courses in theology, yes , I think
I’d like that. If I hadn’t married
Martin, I’d still be stuyding, I wanted
to learn things, to be knowledgable
about everything that exists.
“I enjoy ideas,” she said, leaning
forward in her chair. “I like discussing
serious issues. In college, small groups
of friends used to get together to talk
about an important book or a new idea.
I miss that stimulation. I’m so
absorbed in administrative detail.”
The small get-togethers, the
private intimate dinners with a few
close friends? "Yes, I’d like that,” she
said emphatically, then, her voice
rising slightly, “but, I don’t have
anyone to go with me.”
And, there is a nebulous “they”
who “don’t want me to go anywhere by
myself,” she sighed, leaning back into
her chair. “I like discussing serious
issues.
Taking the time for simple things,
like shopping for clothes for herself, is
lost to her. “I can’t remember the last
time that I just wandered through a
department store alone,” she said.
“Since 1968.” Now, her clothes are
picked out and brought to her for
choices at home.
‘*My life is pretty much
circumscribed,” she continued, closing
her eyes and brushing a hand through
her hair.
“There is so much to do, and I get
frustrated when I can’t get all the
things done. I can’t seem to get
organized and I’ve always been an
organized person.
Except when I’m tired. Then I
know I’m difficult to get along with.”
She smiled, and lifted an eyebrow.
“Yes, yes, I know I sometimes take my
frustrations out on my staff when
things pile up. But, luckily, I think most
of them understand this. They know
me.”
At home, on particularly bad days,
she sits at the piano and plays and sings
for fun and therapy. “That helps
sometimes.” But, she admits, not as
much as having another set of
shoulders to bear the burdens she
carries alone. “I’m a very directed
Review on its 10th anniversary. It has
provided the community with
unadulterated facts. It is the pride of
Augusta and electrifies proudly for our
heritage. The News-Review is the one
place where we can express and
cherish past history and use them as
useful blocks on which to build for our
future. May you have many more long
and useful years.
S.B. Gandy, Executive Director,
Bethlehem Community Center:
Happy Birthday. Yours is a
remarkable service rendered under
difficult circumstances. The
Bethlehem Community Center has
benefitted immensely from your
coverage. Mallory Millender deserves
the highest commendation.
James E. Carter, 111, Chair,
Augusta Black Heritage Commission:
Our sincere congratulations on
your tenth anniversary! You have
provided our only means to truth about
the Black Community and the only
vehicle by which our voices and
opinions can be projected. Your
courage and forthrighteness is to be
commended. May we urge you to keep
on the struggle and continue to provide
the sterling service that has been so
superbly rendered in the past. All of us
realize that there are forces out there
bent on destroying you. Remember we
support in every way your fight for
survival. It’s sad that here in the 20th
century there are still black folks who
can be influenced to turn against their
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person,” she said, ‘but I’m open to
direction, too.”
She is described as a strong
woman, and she doesn’t dispute that,
but there are times for all women when
strength wanes and there’s a need for
reinforcement. “At those times, I pray
for strength and I face it.”
Remarriage is something that she
hasn’t ruled out. “I’ve chosen to
remain open about that, given that it
is, indeed, my life. But, with the
circumstances of my life...it would
have to be someone that would share
what I’m doing.;
She pauses and looks around the
room at the numerous portraits and
photographs of her late husband, then,
laughing, “But who?”
But, she is quick to point out, "it’s
not as though I’ve never had love,
support, someone. I’ve had it. I haven’t
been deprived.”
omen and warning that the old slave
mentality is alive and well. This poses
great danger to our very survival.
These forces should be recognized for
what they are. And elimination of these
elements should be the order of the day
for the good of the community.
Remember, no one person or clique is
greater than the overall community.
And may we say, beware, black folks,
beware( Again congratulations for the
very fine job you are doing and best
wishes for conutinued success!
Willie Louis Reid, A Detroit, Mich.,
Subscriber and supporter :
In wishing the News-Review a
Happy Tenth, I’d like to tell you how
much we enjoy reading the paper up
here in the Greater Detroit area! We
enjoy your courageous editorials, the
columns, church activities and general
news. Your attractive paper fills a
great need and keeps us informed on
what is happening with our relatives
and in the Negro Community. We
realize, however, the glue which holds
the paper together the past ten years
has been Mr. Millender, his staff and
those close to the paper. They have the
guts and courage.
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And her four children a ;
continuous reminder. And now, “th *
ties at home, when we’re all together t
dinner” are the good times, the qu: t
times. But the children are scattering.
Yolande, 25, lives in New York, whe >
she works with an acting compa
Marty, 23, is considering law sc>
Dexter, 19, is at Morehouse College
working toward an engineerin'
degree; Bunny, 17, graduated from
high school last summer.
“I think both of the boys are
struggling with a call to the ministry
That may explain why they don’t see: i
to have made any definite li •
decisions. There are so many ministe ;
in the family that there is a push, an
a pull toward it. But, the pull isn’t
strong enough yet for either of them.’
With the demands of her cause i
her, she said, there were many ti> t
when the children missed her atter
“But, I know they understood. T’< '
had grown used to their father ben ;
away much of the time, and after b:j
left they would say, ‘Mommy’s got >
do daddy’s work now.’ But, they had
many surrogates - Daddy King
(Marting Luther King Sr.), the re- f
the family.”
Coretta King’s life is not one th :
most of us would envy, but it has i
compensations in achievement. The j
is the sl4 million Martin Luther K ’
Jr. Community Center, scheduled t s
finished this fall. There is ti •
continuous work to comb i
unemployment with the Humplire -
Hawkins Full Employment Bill i
Congress, there is the annual workshop
of the Institute of Non Violence.
“Each year I’m rejuvenated by
that workshop. It gets me through tl
preparation for the Janua r
celebration of Martin’s birthday. Th? ,
I’m ready to collapse.”
Will there be a time, in the futur ,
when the center is finished, when she
can relax, think of herself, perhaps
think of remarriage? She shook h r
head, smiling wryly. “I’m looks. {
forward to at least 10 more years f
work raising money to support ;
center, and I’m not getting anz
younger.” She’s 53, though her clear
skin and glossy black hair belie the
years.
“There’s still a lot of work to de.
The center has to be endowed. It has j
continue.”
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