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she Augusta News-Review September 29, 1984
Symphony Sid dies
MIAMI -Jazz radio personality
“Symphony Sid” Torin, whose
radio programs were credited with
helping to legitimize jazz, died in
Miami Friday. He was 72
Torin, who lived in Islamorada,
Florida, dies of emphysema and
heart disease at the Miami Heart
Institute, where he had been
hospitalized for 12 days, Dr.
Richard Berger said.
“He was known as the gran
dfather of jazz radio,” Torin
biographer Flora Wilhelm Bush
said. "He originated live broad
casts from places like Birdland in
the late 1940 s and throughout
19505. During that time he intor-
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duced some of the greatest jazz
musicians of the era, including
Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and
Sarah Vaughn.
His radio program at station
WJZ was credited with introducing
jazz to the general public.
“If there was a dean of jazz
radio, Symphony Sid certainly
would be that person,” Browne
said.
Bush said 20,000 people turned
up at Madison Square Garden two
years ago for a benefit for Torin.
Torin was divorced three times
and is survived by sons who live in
Miami, Bush said. She said plans
for his funeral were incomplete.
parade will be Friday, Oct. 5 at
3:30p.m.
The parade will originate at
Laney High School and proceed
down Laney-Walker Bolevard,
South on Eleventh St., up to
Wrightsboro Road, to Augusta
Avenue and back to Lanev.
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NAA CP launches
‘Stay in School Drive 9
Benjamin L. Hooks, NAACP
executive director, today announ
ced that the association is laun
ching a “Back to School/Stay in
School” program in selected cities
to combat the drop-out crisis
among Black students.
As an example of this crisis,
Hooks noted that in New York
City on any regular school day,
more that 200,000 students are
truants. This situation, he said,
poses devastating threats for the
future. This crisis, he said, is not
isolated but a national one.
The NAACP is therefore
mobilizing its resources to work
with private and community
groups to reverse this trend and
encourage young people to stay in
school and complete their secon
dary education.
“It is clear,” he said, “that
neither Morehouse nor Harvard
can solve this problem” on the
higher education level. “It is too
late then.” Society “must act in
the first 12 years if we are ever
going to find a solution to this
worsening crisis.”
The program will involve back
to-school rallies in September and
luncheons and other formal
programs in the spring when
students with perfect attendance
records are given special awards.
Students will be honored for each
year they maintain excellent atten
dance records.
The first of these programs was
held Sept. 15, in New York at the
State Office Building, on 125th St.
and Adam Claytaon Powell
Boulevard in New York. The
program featured actors Ossie
Davis and Ruby Dee and
Congressman Charles Rangel.
McDonald’s restaurant and the
Pepsi-Cola Company are
providing refreshments for this
rally. The NAACP plans to enlist
the support of other companies
elsewhere to underwrite the cost of
lunches and activities related sto
the awards programs and rallies.
The Mobil Oil Corporation has
provided funding for the program.
The stay-in-school program will
not be focused on academic
studies, which could limit par
ticipation. The central thrust will
be personal discipline required by
students to show up in school each
day. Incentives will be directed to
achieving this result.
The program will be made in
tegral to the activities of the
NAACP Youth and College
Division in 1985. The Assoc
iation’s education department will
provide appropriate support in set
ting up tutorial sessions, which will
also be provided in churches and
community centers, which will be
involved in the program.
As the program develops, the
NAACP plans to provide inter-city
visits and cultural opportunities
for students. Those of voting age
will also be encouraged to register
and vote in csitizenship develop
ment efforts.