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PALLBEARERS—More than 30 C.M.E. ministers from across the
state attended the funeral of the Rev. Luther R. Neal Tuesday in the
Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel of Paine College.
The active pallbearers were ministers. They included the Revs.
Timothy Green, Robert L. Davenport, Cecil Gresham, John Jordan,
John Cook, Lacey J. Cochrane, Raymond Thompkins and Willie Crew.
Gov. appoints Kathryn Jasper
Kathryn Pitts Jasper was
recently appointed to a five-year
term on the Eighth Congressional
District State Board of Education
by Gov. Joe Frank Harris. She is
the first and only Black woman to
hold that position.
The board has responsibility for
policy for all public education in
Georgia.
The governor has also appointed
her to the Education Review
Commission where she serves
along with Augusta banker Eugene
Hunt and insurance executive
Joseph D. Greene.
The Education Review Com
mission is an ad hoc committee
which examines the educational
process to see what can be done to
provide quality education in the
state, to create more achievers
among Georgia students, and to
find out why our students are not
achieving, she said.
Mrs. Jasper, a 1949 graduate of
Paine College, is the wife of Albert
Jasper of Augusta. When he was in
International dental academy
honors Walker, Melcher
W.J. Walker Jr. D.M.D. and*
Neil Melcher, D.D.S. were awar
ded fellowships into the Academy
of Dentistry International during
Convocational Services recently at
the 124th Annual Meeting Os the
American Dental Association in
Anaheim, CA. Walker and
melcher were the only two
Georgians in this year’s class of 63
which represented candidates from
20 different states and three dif
ferent countries.
Walker is a 1966 graduate of
Paine College and a 197 S graduate
of the Medical College of
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the military, she taught in 14 states
and 21 countries and North Africa.
She said that her most rewarding
years were when she worked at the
Georgia’s School of Dentistry
where he received the 1975 senior
award from the International
College of Dentists honoring his
outstanding achievement while a
student. He received his M.S.
degree from Wayne State Univer
sity.
Walker is currently in private
practice in Augusta and has a part
time faculty appointment at MCG.
He also serves on the Richmond
County Board of Health and the
Georgia Human Services Advisory
Committee for the state’s Public
Health Department.
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Academy of the Blind, where she
taught beginning braille to
physically and mentally handicap
ped students.
In 1958, she was named Teacher
of the Year while teaching the
Academy of the Blind.
On May 13,1982, Macon Mayor
George Israel proclaimed the day
Katherine Jasper Day in Macon in
recognition of her exceptional work.
“I love people and have always
enjoyed working with people. I
believe in doing my best and every
morning I fall on my knees and say
thank you, sweet Jesus,” she said.
After 35 years in education, she
retired in 1982 as the principal of
Burdell Elementary School.
Since her retirement she has served
as president of the State Board of
Christian Education of the C.M.E.
church.
The only girl among seven
brothers, her goal is to write a
book on her seven brothers, one of
whom was Dr. Lucius H. Pitts, the
ninth president of Paine College.
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Fraternity, he is also a member of
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October 29,1983
Heart attack claims
Rev. L.R. Neal
Funeral services were held
Tuesday for the Rev. Luther R.
Neal, presiding elder of the
Augusta District of the C.M.E.
Church. He was 67.
Neal died in Atlanta Friday
while attending the fall meeting of
the Paine College Board of
Trustees of which he was a mem
ber.
Bishop Joseph C. Coles, vice
president of the board of trustees,
delivered the main eulogy in the
Paine College chapel. Recalling the
moments leading up to the heart
attack that claimed Neal’s life,
Bishop Coles said, “Thirty
minutes before he passed, I was sit
ting at a table having lunch with
him. Thirty minutes later he was in
a struggle with death. ’’
As the trustees were taking their
seats to begin the afternoon session
of their meeting, Neal reportedly
slumped over his chair and fell to
the floor.
Mrs. Ann E»vrn Neal, his wife,
was contacted and flown to Atlan
ta while paramedics fought to
revive her husband, but by the time she
arrived in Atlanta, he was dead.
He had no previous history of a
heart condition, according to sour
ces close to the family.
Born in Warren County in 1916,
he graduated from Paine College
and earned the master’s degree and
the sixth year certificate from
Atlanta University. He was a prin
cipal in Elbert County for 23 years
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GUION BLUFORD after triumphant space journey
Lt. Col. Guion Bluford,
America’s first Black astronaut to
fly into space, is a living role model
with positive advice foir young
people, reports the November issue
of EBONY Magazine.
Bluford, who has been described
by colleagues as “extraordinarily
and in Richmond County for eight
years.
An ordained minister, was the
founder and pastor of Farr’s
Mission in McDuffie County. He
later pastored St. Mary’s in Elber
ton, and Rock of Ages and Trinity
in Augusta.
On two occasions, he served as
presiding elder, for six years in the
Elberton District and seven years
in the Augusta District. And he
was dean of the Leadership
Training School at Paine College
for 17 years.
He also served on the clergy staff
at University and Georgia
Regional hospitals.
He was Teacher of the Year in
Elbert County, Minister of the
Year in the Georgia Conference,
recipient of the Paine College
Presidential Alumni Award, and
was recently named Poet Laureate
by the Augusta Black History
Committee.
The author of numerous poems,
he published a book of poems en
titled “The Church, the Home, the
School.”
During the funeral, Paine
College President William H.
Harris read a poem that Neal had
just written and handed to him at 5
p.m. Friday. After reading the
poem, Harris added his own
couplet: “A man of dedication,
generosity and zeal, that’s how 1
remember Rev. Luther R. Neal.”
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bright, very dedicated, and well
organized,” suggests young people
follow these same guidelines if they
want to achieve their goals.
He says, “If you want to suc
ceed, prepare yourself, work
hard,...above all be diligent and
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Dear God and Father of mankind,
We give Thee thanks with soul and mind.
We trust in Thee with faith and hope,
To solve problems we can not cope!
You are our doctor of body and mind,
Who makes every call right on time!
We trust in Thee, beyond any doubt,
To meet our needs and lead us out!
When the way is dark and hills are high,
You stand ready to hear our cry!
We depend upon thy saving grace,
To guide our feet to keep the pace!
Thank you dear God for night and day,
And for bringing us thus far on our way!
We are sometimes up and sometimes down,
But still our soul feels Heavenly bound!
Give us the patience, on Thee to wait
For showers of blessings, never too late!
Here is my hand Lord, lead me on;
I will follow Thee to thy Throne!
Stand by me Lord, as a pillar of stone;
Hold my hand, I am never alone!
I am not afraid walking with you,
For you are my doctor and my Saviour too!
From: The Home, The Charch, The School
by Rev. Luther R. Neal
yourself you should doggedly pur
sue them until you achieve them.”
Bluford also has intriguing
thoughts on what it means to be
the first Black astronaut and why it
took so long for NASA to put a
Black man into space.
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