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Principal dies
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Volume 12 Number 42
Ex-Augustan is
nominated for
2 Grammy awards
by Nelson A. Danish
Jessye Norman, the inter
nationally-acclaimed Augusta
born soprano, has been nominated
for 1982 Grammy awards in two
categories.
Miss Norman’s work in the
recording of the Faure opera
Penelope was cited in the Full
Opera category. She has been
nominated in the Solo Vocal
category for her recording of the
Hector Berlioz work, The Death
of Cleopatra.
Both recordings have received
critical acclaim from other sources
as well. New York magazine
Dec. 13,1982 said: “She unleashes
her most fiery dramatic talents for
Berlioz’s La Mort De
Cleopatra...”
The January, 1983 issue of
Stereo Review lists it as a “recor
ding of special merit” and calls
both performance and recording
“excellent.”
In High Fidelity, Dec. 1982, an
international panel of critics selec
ted Penelope as one of only four
recordings receiving awards.
Reviewed in the same issue, it is
said of Miss Norman that she “is
almost ideal, both vocally and in
her commanding handling of the
French text. The warmth and am
plitude of her voice are doubly
welcome, in that they provide the
variations of color and shading
Caucus wants minority job plan
Blacks hold the majority of the
generally low-paying service and
maintenance jobs in state gover
nment, but occupy less than 3.5
ti percent of the state’s highest
c ranking administrative positions,
tj according to state records.
y The vast majority of black state
v employees make less than $14,500
a year. While black women have
r< made more gains than black men
Con the state’s employment rolls
h over the last four years, only a few
S black women earn a state salary of
| a more than $22,000 a year.
|S With those statistics in hand,
It;Georgia’s black legislative caucus
E held a press conference at the state
h Capitol Tuesday, calling on the
| a U.S. Department of Justice to
I N mandate a quota system and a plan
i ofor minority advancement in state
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-Milledgeville principal dies after
igiving eulogy for Paine student
MILLEDGEVILLE—The fun
-8 eral services held Saturday for
'' Paine College student Darnell Ar
nold were doubly tragic. Her high
school principal, Marion Heath,
gave a brief eulogy, then collapsed
and died moments after returing to his
seat at Flagg Chapel Baptist Church.
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vital for a role that is quite
narrowly conceived emotionally.”
The editors of Opera News, in
choosing outstanding vocal recor
ds of 1982, include Penelope and
La Mort de Cleopatre as well as
Miss Norman’s recording of
Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde
(Songs of the Earth, which High
Fidelity Jan. 1983 calls “an im
mediately striking performan
ce...’’Kudos for Miss Norman’s
The legislators cited statistics
showing that more than 72 percent
of the state’s highest-paying ad
ministrative jobs are held by white
men and 14.6 percent are held by
white women.
Black males hold 1.8 percent of
those jobs and black women hold
1.6 percent, the figures show. They’
also indicate that there are fewer
black men in Georgia’s top state
jobs today than there were in 1979.
The federal Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission found
the state guilty of racial exclusion
in hiring and promotions in 1980.
The case grew out of a suit that
state Rep. Billy McKinney (D-
Atlanta) filed in 1974 against 11
state agencies.
No official word has come down
since the U.S. Justice Department
took over the investigation, and in
High School in Milledgeville when
Miss Arnold was an All-American
basketball star at the school two
years ago.
At the time of his death, he was
principal of Sally Davis Middle
School. His funeral was held Wed
nesday.
Relatives said the two deaths
Millie Jackson
raked for visit
to South Africa
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voice are applied to her album of
sacred songs as well. “Jessye
Norman brings to them (the sacred
songs) unfailing beauty of tone
and true emotional involvement.”
The December 13, 1982 issue of
New York adds that “she
positively revels in the glorious
sound of her voice...” “Jessye Nor
man’s flexibility allows her to range
over an unusually wide repertoire,
from contralto to soprano.”
the meantime, the situation has
worsened, state Sen. Julian Bond
told reporters Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Justice
Department said the investigation
“is still under way,” and that “no
decision has been made.”
But Bond said black legislators
have heard through the Capitol
Rate increase
The annual subscription rate
for The News-Review will in
crease to sll per year in Rich
mond County and sl2 annually
outside Richmond County,
Publisher Mallory K. Millender
announced this week.
Street sales will increased to
.30. The new rates will be effec
tive Feb. 1.
were preceded by the death of Miss
Arnold’s grandmother Jan. 19 and
that of the coed’s brother in late
December.
Miss Arnold, who was a
sophomore at Paine, suffered
from Lupus, a degenerative
disease. She died of an apparent
heart attack Jan. 17.
Dallas Cowboys’
Harvey Martin
denies drug use
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January 29,1983
Fort Gordon soldier
is court-martialed
for ‘fraternizing’
A 24-year-old Fort Gordon in
structor who was scheduled to be
released from the Army in Feb. 23
was court martialed this month for
“fraternizing” with a student.
Spc. E-5 Morris T. Holliman
was reduced in rank to pvt. E-l,
required to forfeit S2OO a month
for four months, and discharged
from the service with a bad con
duct discharge.
He said if the conviction is
upheld he will not be eligible for
benefits and will find it difficult to
get a job.
Holliman, who is black, is ac
cused of twice asking one of his
, white students for a date and at
tempting to kiss her, and soliciting
her for “physical contact.”
Holliman, accompanied by his
wife, Jernice, told The News-
Review, “Nobody asked me
whether I did it or not. The next
thing I knew I was being court
martialed.”
Holliman said that so much em
phasis is placed on the non
fraternizing regulation that
“there’s no way to beat it.”
He said his attorney, Capt.
Walter Jones, urged him to plead
guilty and fight for a lighter sen
tence since beating a fraternization
charge is so difficult.
Holliman insisted that he was
innocent and refused to plead
grapevine that the Justice Depar
tment has made its decision, and
that Georgia will be absolved of all
discrimination charges if it agrees
to step up its recruitment of
minorities.
“We’ve heard that the Justice
Department will not recommend
goals, but only that the state
should improve its recruitment
techniques,” Bond said. “The pat
tern of the Reagan Administration
has been to opt for solutions
which do not really meet the prob-
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guilty.
He said his six and a half years
in the service amounts to wasted
time. “I’ve just had six and a half
years of wasted time is what it
really means.
“Not only am I starting out all
over again, I’ll have a strike again
st me.
“They took away my manhood.
I’ve got a wife and two children
and no job.
“You know that Army slogan
‘Be all that you can be?’ It’s Be all
they’ll let you be,’ and no more.”
In his six and a half years in the
service Holliman said he has never
been the subject of disciplinary ac
tion and his superiours testified
that he was an “outstanding
teacher.”
He believes that might have been
his downfall. “I felt that I had to
gain their (students) respect as a
person by trying to help them more
than anything else, to show them
I’m not a god.
“The other instructors (he was
the only black) would talk about
war stories, and I had none to tell.
I’d go down and talk with the
blacks in Supply.
“Students found it easier to talk
to me because we are the same
age.”
Barnes appointed to
Aviation Authority
Marion Barnes, principal of T.
W. Josey High School, has been
appointed by Mayor Edward M.
Mclntyre to a seven-year term on
the Bush Field Aviation Authority.
Barnes is the second black to
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Holliman taught a course m
helicopter, radio repair and wiring.
Court testimony showed that the
female soldier who accused
Holliman of sexual advances had
previously threatened to accuse her
boyfriend of rape. During the trial
the woman was asked:
Q. Did you ever make or
threaten to make an accusation
against a former boyfriend of
rape?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And that was to what, keep
him quiet?
A. From what he was saying, sir,
from telling everybody else it was
going on; yes, sir.
Holliman, who was court
martialed Jan. 6, said of the
fraternization regulation,
“Everybody on that post is guilty
of it if they really want to push it.’’
The Army defines fraternization
as “Conduct which involves con
tact, verbal or physical, between
permanent party p-ersonnel and
soldiers in a traning status, which
conduct is not of an official
motive, is not mandated by lawful
orders or directives, and serves
more to promote the personal in
terests of the participants than to
promote the interest of good order
and discipline in the Army.”
He said ms conviction carries <ui
automatic appeal.
Henry Ingram was the first. He,
too, was appointed by Mclntyre.
The mayor also appointed
Carolyn Usry, third ward city
council woman, to the Daniel Field
Aviation Autbrity.
Mclntyres
go to the
White House
Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre
and his wife, Jaunita, will attend a
reception at the White House
Friday evening.
The mayor said he started not to
accept the invitation because of a
commitment to play the role of the
Mayor of Seville for the Augusta
Opera Co. in its production of
“Carmen,” being performed at
the Miller Theatre here this
weekend.
The mayor said he reconsidered
after his mother asked him, “How
many times do you get a chance to
go to a reception at the White
House? There are thousands of
mayors who loved to be invited.”
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