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The Augusta News-Review April 23,1983
With a catch of excitement in
her voice, Alice Walker said Mon
day that she “didn’t even know
they had a Pulitzer Prize for fic-’
tion.”
Well, she knows now. She just
won it.
The Georgia native had just
found out that she is the 1983
recipient of the fiction award for
her novel “The Color Purple,” the
story of two sisters told in a series
of letters.
“Isn’t that something? Isn’t it
wonderful?” she asked, slightly
stunned, over the telephone from
San Francisco, where she’s lived
for the past five years. “Someone
Artist to be presented
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Black Georgian wins Pulitzer Prize
from a radio station just called—l
thought it was a joke.”
It’s no joke—but it has been the
sort of week that’s hard to believe ’
Just a few days ago she found out
that “The Color Purple” had won
the 1983 American Book Award
for fiction. But to Ms. Walker, the
novel has always been special,
awards or not. In fact, the charac
ters in the book are so real to her
that she is more excited for
them—for Nettie, Celie and “the
gang”—than she is for herself
upon hearing about the awards.
“Well, I feel fine, but I guess I
feel really happy for the people in
the book. They’ll really like this,”
Internationally recog
nized batik painter Leo
Twiggs will be presented
in a lecture-demon
stration by the Augusta
Chapter of Links, Inc.,
April 24, at 4 p.m. in the
Odeum at Paine College.
Twiggs is currently
professor of art and
executive director of the
I.P. Stanback Museum
and Planetarium at South
Carolina State College.
He is a widely known ar
tist whose works are
represented in numerous
private and public collec
tions, including the
Atlanta, Georgia
Municipal Collection, the
U.S. State Department’s
Art in Embassies
Program, Johnson
Publishing Company,
and the City of
Orangeburg, South
Carolina Collection.
Reproductions of his
paintings have appeared
on the cover of the Crisis
magazine, Design, and
the Instructor magazine.
Twiggs’ paintings are
done in a unique batik
painting process which he
began developing in 1965.
He has had over 40 one
man shows and has
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exhibited at the Mint
Museum, Charlotte;
Carnegie Institute, Pit
tsburg; the Mississippi
Museum of Art; Cornell
University; the Studio
Museum, New York City
and others.
In 1980, Twiggs
received the governor’s
trophy, the Elizabeth
O’Neil Verner award for
outstanding contribution
to the arts in South
Carolina, the first visual
artist so honored.
More recently he was
one of 20 artists selected
nationwide for inclusion
in “New Directions in
Afro-American Art,” a
national exhibition held
at Cornell University. He
has juried several shows,
including the National
Scholastic Art Com
petition in New York.
Twiggs has also served on
the State Arts Com
mission and is currently a
member of the South
Carolina Museum Com
mission.
Augustans attend NAACP workshop
Augustans Geraldine
Hogan and Otis Smith
she said, laughing. The characters
are “composites of people I love
from my childhood —my gran
dmothers and my really stylish
aunts —the ones who would visit
from up north wearing those furs
with animals heads and little beady
eyes....
“Actually, I think life is the
award. I’m really happy to be alive
and writing.”
Ms. Walker, 39, has been
writing all her life. She grew up as
the youngest of eight children of
Eatonton, Ga., sharecroppers.
“Don’t say sharecropper meaning
just my father,” she admonished.
“Both my parents worked hard.”
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He was born in St.
Stephens, S.C. A
graduate of Claflin
College, he earned his
M.A. degree from New
York University. He
studied at the Art In-
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Her father died in 1973, but her
mother still lives in Eatonton, and
Ms. Walker visits her several times
a year.
An accident with a BB gun blin
ded Ms. Walker in her right eye
when she was eight. The disability
entitled her to a partial scholarship
at Spelman College; her talent ear
ned her another scholarship. She
stayed at Spelman a little over
two years, then won another
scholarship to Sarah Lawrence in
Bronxville, N.Y., where she wrote the
poems for her first book, “Once.”
“I put these poems under the
door of the cottage where my
teacher, Muriel Rukeyser, lived,”
Leo Twiggs
stitute of Chicago and
received the doctorate in
art from the University of
Georgia.
He was named an Out
standing Young Man of
America for his accom-
Southeast Regional
NAACP Training
Development Institute in
Jackson, Miss., earlier
this month.
Smith, president of the
Augusta branch of the
NAACP, stated that one
of the Institute’s slogans
was “Each member get
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Community Development Block Grant Program
Additional Appropriation for Jobs Bill
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) has notified the Council of Augusta, Georgia that It
is to receive approximately $621,000 In additional
appropriations from the “Job Bill” signed by President
Reagan on March 24,1983.
In accordance with applicable HUD regulations the City
Council of Augusta, Georgia will hold a public hearing to
obtain citizen views and comments on how the additional
Community Development Funds should be spent. The
public hearing will be held
MONDAY, MAY 2,1983
immediately after Noon City Council Meeting
City-Council Chambers
Augusta-Richmond County Municipal Building
530 Greene Street
Citizens are invited to submit their comments and views
on how these funds should be spent to the Community
Development Department, 624 Greene Street, Augusta,
Georgia 30901, telephone 724-3706. After consideration
of the citizens views and comments the City Council of
Augusta will develop a Proposed Statement on how these
funds shall be spent for publication.
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BY: Edward M. Mclntyre, Mayor
she has recalled. “She gave them
to Hiram Hayden, an editor at
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. They
published those poems and they
published my next five books. So,
I didn’t have any difficulty getting
published.”
Ms. Walker still isn’t having
trouble getting published—she’s
written 10 books, including poetry,
essays, biography and short
stories. “The Color Purple” is her
third novel.
From 1967 until 1974 she lived in
Mississippi. She was married at the
time, but is now divorced. She and
her ex-husband share joint custody
of a daughter, 13.
plishments in teaching art
to Black disadvantaged
students.
This program is open
to the public and ad
mission is free.
three,” referring to the
emphasis on enrolling
new members into the
NAACP.
Mrs. Myrtle B. Evers,
wife of the martyred civil
rights leader Medgar W.
Evers, was the speaker
for the Freedom Awards
Banquet.
“I got the South out of my
system,” she said about living and
working in Mississippi during the
civil rights movement. But she
does feel being a Southerner in
fluences her writing.
“I think being from the South
means I’m more influenced by the
land and natural things. Actually,
I love being a Black Southern
woman. All three add incredible
enlargements to being a writer.”
Her next book, a collection of
essays titles “In Search of Our
Mother’s Gardens,” will be
published in the fall by Harcourt
Brace Jowanovich.
(From The Atlanta Constitution)
History committee
meets at Springfield
The State Committee
on the Life and History
of Black Georgians will
hold a forum at
Springfield Baptist Chur
ch on April 21, at 7 p.m.
The forum is entitled
“The Black Church In
Historical Perspective.”
The project has been en
dorsed by the State
Commission on
Georgia’s 250th Anniver
sary as an “official
event.” Funds for the
project came from the
Commission, Georgia
Endowment for the
Humanities, and The
Citizenship Education
Microcomputers
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Microcomputers will
one day be as common in
the classroom as chalk
and erasers are today,
predicted Mrs. Winnette
Bradley, principal of
Houghton Elementary.
In St. Louis, during the
national convention of
the National Association
of Elementary School
Principals, Mrs. Bradley
said that as a result of this
growing trend, securing
top-quality instructional
“software” (the
programming for com
puters) will be a major
concern of educators in
the coming years.
“From my own ex
perience and observation,
and from the discussions
and demonstrations here
at this meeting, there is
no question that
microcomputers will
become a fixture in the
classroom,” Mrs.
Bradley said.
However, she
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Speakers for the forum
include Drs. Marcellus
Barksdale, Morehouse
College; Donnie D.
Bellamy, Fort Valley State
College, Alton Hornsby
Jr., and Roswell F.
Jackson, Morehouse. Dr.
Bellamy is project director.
The Fort Valley Ministerial
Alliance is a co-sponsor.
The Rev. E.T. Martin is
pastor of Springfield
Baptist Church, and it is
located on Twelfth and
Reynolds streets. The
program will be open to
the public without
charge.
structionally sound
programs into the har
dware, the micros will be
far less useful than
well planned textbooks.”
Mrs. Bradley, along
with nearly 5,000 other
elementary and middle
school educators from
throughout the country,
listened as top educators
and other experts
discussed the impact of
technology on education ■
and many other issues at
the convention, called
“Technology: Gateway
to Learning.”
Among the major con
vention events were:
General Session ad
dresses by Secretary of
Education Terrel Bell,
(“Technology and
Education: Partners for,
the Future”); former
Congress woman Shirley
Chisholm, (“The Impor
tance of Public
Education”); Jonas Salk,
M.D., developer of the
polio vaccine,
(“Education for New
Reality”); James Tun
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League referee, (“Here’s
to Winners); and
National Teacher of thd
Year Bruce Brombacher,
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