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Augusta plagued by rash of handgun shootings Page 7 ta Netus-Heutew Volume 12 Number 30 Climax of centennial year Dr. Harris to be inaugurated Dr. William H. Harris will be inaugurated Saturday during the fif th of five major weekends celebrating the Centennial of the founding of Paine College. He is the 11th president of the college. The first event of the week will be a colloquium on Thursday, at 2 p.m. in the Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial Chapel. The speaker will be Homer A. Neal, provost, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Neal received a B.S. in Physics from Indiana University, and both the M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. Prior to his appointment with the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Neal was professor of physics and dean of research and Graduate Development at Indiana University. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 1980-81, is a member of the National Science Board, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Internationally renowned for his research in higher energy physics, he was the visiting scientist at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in 1974. In addition, he has been' an invited visitor at the Russian Institute for Higher Energy Physics in Serpukhov, RuSsia and at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Peking. In addition to his academic accom plishments,' Neal has authored and co-authored several articles that have Augusta gets first black orthopedic surgeon Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of articles on black doctors wed to black doctors. Dr. Michael D. Paul—Augusta’s newest black physician and first black orthopedic surgeon—has come a long way in a short time. As an orthopedic surgeon, he treats problems of the bones and join ts. This includes spine problems, treatment of arthritis, foot problems as well as sports-related injuries. Until four years ago, he had spent his entire life in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) where he began practicing when he was 28. Because of the shor tage of doctors in that country—there are now only four orthopedic surgeons (his specialty) for seven I million people—he went into general practice. “If you wanted to have a dental checkup, you’d have to wait six months for an appointment,” he said. He practiced dentistry, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, and general surgery. In addition to his practice, he was ; president of the National Association lof Colored People. His father is white, his mother black. He was ac tive with the United African National ’ Congress—subsequently the Patriotic Front that later came to power. However, the political climate, became “life threatening” and he was I forced to leave the country. the United States. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency last year at the University of Pen nsylvania where he won the top prize, The Edgar Ralston Award, for having written the most outstanding research paper by a senior resident. That was in June. He then came to Augusta to look at prospects for set ting up a practice now located on Wrightsboro Road opposite St. Joseph’s Hospital. Why Augusta? While he was in ’Pennsylvania he fell in love with the 'daughter of one of his patients. The Christopher F. Edley been published in scholarly journals. He is married and has two children. A second colloquium will be held on Friday at 2 p.m. in the chapel. Christopher F. Edley, executive direc tor of the United Negro College Fund will be the featured speaker. Both men will speak on topics related to the central theme of the weekend, A Celebration of the Black College. Prior to his appointment to the UNCF in 1973, Edley was the program officer in charge of gover nment and law at the Ford Foun dation. He also served as the Middle Atlantic States Regional Counsel for the department of Federal Housing and Home Finance. Edley graduated Maena Cum « IL NEWLYWEDS—Drs. Micheal and Jeannette Paul daughter, Jeannette South, was also a doctor, living in Augusta, where she is a member of the teacher faculty at Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort vioraon. She is research coor dinator of the Department of Family Practice and she also helps to coor dinate the behavioral sciences program at the hospital. She said they met in October of 1979, when she flew to Philadelphia to see her sick father. She was allowed to see her dad although visiting hours were over. About 11:15, Dr. Paul came in and took her into the X-Ray Room to see her father’s x-rays. She insists that he was YWCA objects to ‘racist nature? of video game Page 3 .xtw- x. ■ - Dr. Homer A. Neal Laude with an A.B. from Howard University, and received the LL.B, degree from Harvard Law School in 1953. Edley is married to the former Zaida Coles. They have two children and reside in New Rochelle, New York. Friday night at 8 p.m. in the chapel, William E. Christmas, Paine College organist, will perform a special Inaugural Concert. No ad mission will be charged. An academic processional will begin from Haygood-Holsey Hall in cluding academic delegates from colleges, universities and learned sciences across the United States, the Paine College faculty and the board “very professional,” and things didn’t get serious until around Christmas time. Sne said that he struck up a relationship with her parents and when she’d talk to them, her mother would ask, “Do you remember that nice Dr. Paul? He said he’s going to come by the next time you’re in town.” She said her parents felt sympathy for him because he was black and a foreigner, since they, too, are black and foreigners, having come from Jamaica, in the West Indies. The Pauls were married in Philadelphia last month. Dr. Paul (Mr*.) was bom in Green- Burglars take SI,OOO from Holley Street home Page 3 October 30,1982 Dr. William H. Harris of trustees. The Inauguration Con vocation will begin at 1 p.m. in the chapel. At this time, Dr. William H. Harris will officially accept the office of president and make his first major statement concerning the role of the black college in higher education. Saturday evening, the weekend ac tivities will conclude with a reception honoring President Harris, followed by an Inaugural Ball. The reception will begin at 7 p.m., the ball at 8 p.m. Both will be held at the Hilton Con vention Center. The final weekend of the Centen nial celebration commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of Paine’s founding. sboro, Alabama. Her father was an interdenominational minister, and since that time they have lived in a lot of places in different parts of the country. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and at tended the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. “In elementary school I wanted to be a teacher. In junior high, I wanted to be a social worker. By the time I got to the ninth grade, I wanted to be a physician, and now I’m doing all three.” What’s it like for the newly wed doctors trying to maintain family and careers? One pight last week she didn’t get home until 3 a.m. A patient who was due to deliver a baby took longer than expected to deliver. She was up again at six to be on the job at seven. “The days can be very long,” she said, “the weeks can be very long.” “Then we have a certain time to go to Bible study at the church, and our own devotions,” she added. “I wouldn’t want both of us to be in private practice. Private practice takes a lot out of you. I’m on call only once a week as a member of the teaching faculty.” Eventually they may have another problem. Last year Dr. Paul, who now has a specialty in sports medicine stemming from his association with top experts in the field at the University of Pennsylvania, was offered the position of Minister for Health in Zimbabwe. And the Olympic Com mittee of that country is keen on having him back and working with the athletes. Dr. Paul will return to Zimbabwe this vear to “review the trating on his orthopaedic board examinations, which have to be done two years after setting up private practice. Then he added, “I’m married now, and I’d have to discuss it with my wife. “The Army has been nice to Jean nette and we have to consider that, too. And she is very happy with her career and with life in Augusta. ” Less than 75 percent Advertising A proud moment When Dr. William H. Harris is inaugurated as the 11th president of Paine College Saturday it will not only be the culmination of the centennial year, but it will mark the official laun ching into the college’s second century. It is a proud moment in the history of the college, and especially for Dr. Harris, his family, and those who have watched him develop from the time he arrived at Paine in 1962 from Fitzgerald, Georgia to this crowning achievement Saturday afternoon. His achievement should say to every student at the college, no matter how deprived their backgrounds, “I can do it too!” Dr. Harris’ achievement is also a statement about what goes on at Paine College. It demonstrates that students there are being prepared to take office throughout society at the very highest levels. While Dr. Harris is a Paine College graduate, he was not chosen for that reason. He was chosen because he was the most out standing candidate out of more than 70 applicants. He McConner earns doctorate Former Augustan Ora McConner recently received her doctorate from Nova University. She is one of a family of five graduating from Paine College. Her sisters, Betty Beard and Nor ma Delley, and her brothers, Landon and Vernon Williams, are also Paineites. Dr. Ora McConner Don’t Forget VOTE /vuguata’s young black doctors wed to doctors Page 1 can feel proud of that and so can Paine, both from the stand point of what the college has produced and because of the promise that his leadership portends. It is noteworthy that the president of Clark College is a Paine graduate. The president and vice president of Miles College are Paine graduates. In fact Miles’ last three presidents have been Paine graduates. Those institutions also recognize the quality of students that Paine produces. So while Dr. Harris has made exceptional achievements, he is not unique among Paine College graduates. At 38, he is young. The challenge of leading Paine into its second century will surely test his stamina. It will test his will and his commit ment. College presidencies can be very lonely jobs. But the job is not his alone. All of those who are committed to the noble pur pose of black higher education must share the load and insure that the producing of William H. Harrises is the rule and not the exception. Dr. McConnor is also a member of Paine’s trustee board. Last November she was appointed assistant superintendent of the Chicago public school system. She is one of two blacks holding that position and the only woman. After graduating from Paine she earned the master’s degree from Boston University and received a Danforth Fellowship to pursue a doc torate at the University of Chicago. She spent three years at the Univer sity of Chicago before deferring to motherhood. She later went back and earned an associate degree there. She taught in the Chicago school system for 21 years, held several prin cipalships, and was appointed direc tor of curriculum for the Chicago Board of Education in 1970. In 1975 she became director of the magnet school program in Chicago. Os Chicago’s 540,000 public school students, 66 percent are black, 20 percent Hispanic, 12 percent white and 2 percent other. 25 s