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The Augusta News-Review November 17,1984
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MAKING CONTACT Evelyn P. Davis, vice president for
Community Education Services ofthe Children’s Television
Workshop presents a 3-2-1 Contact club banner to (I to rt.)
Leandro Burns, Gregory St. Plice and Katina Goodman,
youngsters in the after-school program at New York City’s
Uptown Branch YMCA. Their 3-2-1 Contact Club is part of
3-2-1; Making contact
3-2-1 Contact, the Emmy-award
winning daily television program
about science and technology
produced by the Children’s
Television Workshop, returns to
the nation’s more than 300 PBS
stations this month. But television
isn’t the only medium that spreads
3-2-1 Contact’s messages.
Beginning this season, 3-2-1
Contact after school clubs are part
of an extensive outreach program
involving classroom teachers and
youth workers that is designed to
assure that activities reinforcing
the lessons of the televisions series
are available to youngsters across
the country.
Black attorneys: imperiled species
Black attorneys are facing over
whelming obstacles in their efforts
to make it to the top ranks of their
profession, according to an article
in the November issue of Black En
terprise.
In New York, for example, there
are approximately 525 partners in
major law firms and only seven, or
1.3 percent, are Black. Nation
wide the percentage of Black at
torneys in major law firms
has devlined from 2.9 percent in
the last two years.
In most law firms, an attorney
must progress from associate level
to full part ner or leave the firm
but Black lawyers are regularly
passed over for partnerships.
Consequently, the number of
Black attorneys working with
Music ours to treasure
Jazz singer Betty Carter was on
target when she said, “We as Black
people are not cultivating our
(musical) art.” And Rock & Soul
magtazine is to be commended for
pointing out in a recent editorial
that we are “so caught up with
what’s fashionable that we tend to
forget some of the giants....
Newer generations are not even
Black unity
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his economic platform, viewing the
idea as alien and somehow un-
American. In November, 1984,
white Americans voted en masse to
accept the Reagan philosophy of
narrow individualism, me-tooism
and greed, elevating these ideas to
the highest levels of partiotism.
In this reactionary climate, the
direction Black America must
take, in my opinion, is clear.
First, we must build unity
among ourselves by developing
bold agendas and setting creative
priorities. During this period,
which is not unlike those dark and
distant days immediately following
Reconstruction, we cannot afford
the luxury of fractured fragmented
approaches to our problems.
I am not saying that we don’t
need allies and that the business of
building alliances should cease.
After all, nearly one-third of white
America is ph losophically
available for a positive alliance.
But to be effective, the direction in
which we wish this alliance to
move should be determined by us.
We must be about the business
of forging the kind of unity among
ourselves which makes such a
determination possible.
The clubs, which have been
developed by CTW’s Community
Education Services division, have
the enthusiastic support of the
nation’s Boys’ Clubs, Girls’ Clubs,
YMCAs and the New York Urban
League.
Under the aegis of these
organizations, and with guidance
from CTW, club leaders develop
activities that will help bring home
to children the messages of the
television program.
Activities vary according to the
interests of the leaders and club
members and the resources
available within the community.
“While one club mieht be
major firms remains small.
Dwight Greene, a former senior
asociate in New York’s Davis Polk
& Wardwell, who left the firm
because he was not promoted to
partner, feels that the closed doors
for Black attorneys are a reflection
of the political climate of the coun
try.
“It’s unfortunate that we’ve
moved to the point where moral
commitment is so scant but that’s
the way it is.”
Low motivation on the part of
Black law school students, lack of
mentors and poor recruitment ef
forts by law firms help contribute
to the absence of Black attorneys,
according to Black Enterprise.
Karen Randall, a partner with
Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman,
being exposed to these vesteran ar
tists due to tight formats in media
programming... There’s a whole
other world of (Black) music that
the most popular radio stations
and nightclubs don’t recognize.”
The bottom line is that we are
selling ourselves short, being
programmed to develop a narrow
approach to music appreciation.
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■The City of Augusta, Georgia, will conduct Public Hearings to®
■afford the Citizens of Augusta an opportunity to submit®
■suggestions as to how the City should spend its eleventh year®
■Community Development Block Grant funds. These funds are®
■estimated to be in excess of $2,000,000.
■These hearings will be held in the City Council Chambers,®
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a national outreach effort by CTW and major youth
organizations designed to assure that activities reinforcing
the lessons of the TV science series are available to
youngsters around the country. Information about how to
start a 3-2-1 Contact club is available from CTW, One Lin
coln Place, New York, New York 10023.
developing a unit on science in
sports, drawing on the expertise of
local athletes and sports doctors,
another group might be learning
about the food chain, as did the
youngsters in last year’s pilot
project at the New York Urban
League Manhattan branch, who
learned about seed germination
and then planted a thriving
vegetable garden in a vacant lot in
New York City,” says Evelyn P.
Davis, vice president of the
Workshop’s Community Education
Services Division.
“By this time next year, we an
ticipate many thousands of
children around the nation will
Kuchel & Silbert in Los Angeles
and one of only five Black partners
in the city, says “I think one of the
reasons the number of Blacks is
down is because Blacks aren’t ap
plying...lt’s such a buyer’s market,
law firms aren’t about to increase
or enhance (Blacks’) motivation to
apply,” she said.
Rollin Chippey, an assciate at
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in
San Francisco, is the only Black in
the firm of 200 lawyers. He at
tributes the poor retention of
Black lawyers in San Francisco to
the lackof Black senior people who
could help young lawyers negotiate
for position in a firm.
Since promotion is often based
on intangible criteria, young
lawyers without mentors are often
overlooked at promotion time.
Moreover, so much indigenous
Black music is appreciated more by
whites than Blacks. The hot hits
are great but there is so much
more. It’s about being broad
minded. And about our roots and
our future.
Like Stevie Wonder sang,
“Music is a world within itself.”
(A world, not a village.)
participate in 3-2-1 Contact
clubs,” says Davis. Among the
states where 3-2-1 Contact clubs
have already been started this
season are Alaska, California,
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ken
tucky, Massachusetts, New Ham
pshire, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
A 3-2-1 Contact Club Leaders
Handbook, for inaugurating a
club chapter, and other resource
materials, including a club pen
nant, members I.D. cards, can be
obtained for $25 direct from the
Workshop (CTW, One Lincoln
Plaza, New York, New York
10023).
As a result of discrimination by
established firms, some Black at
torneys have started securing their
own clients and starting their own
firms. If an attorney can gather an
impressive group of clients on his
own, he will in turn become more
attractive to a larger law firm.
Black lawyers are also being
helped by Black businesses and the
Black politicians coming to power
in many large cities. It is in
creasingly possible, suggests Black
Enterprise, for Blacks in power,
whether in the corporate or
political arena, to push for and
demand the hiring of law firms
that employ Black attorneys.
The American Bar Assn., alar
med by the problem of declining
Black representation in the
nation’s major law firms, has for
med a Task Force on Minorities in
the Profession to develop recom
mendations for action. But, the
magazine concludes, no real
progress can be made unless the
nation’s major law firms them
selves address the issue of Black
under representation.
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GEORGIA LEAGAL SERVICES PROGRAM,INC.
AUGUSTA REGIONAL OFFICE
ANNOUNCES THE RELOCATION OF THEIR OFFICE
THE NEW SOUTH BUILDING
360 Bay Street
Suite 240 (Second Floor)
P.O. Box 2185
Augusta, Georgia 30903
Tel: (404) 828-2327
All clients and applicants with an emergency problem are
asked to call (404) 828-2327. —■
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Sealed proposals from general contractors will be received
by the City of Augusta, Owner, at the Office of the Clerk of
City Council, City-County Municipal building until 12 o’clock
noon at the time legally prevailing in Augusta, Georgia on
Friday, December 7,1984, for the construction of:
FACADE RESTORATION
915 ELLIS STREET
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 30901
At the time and place noted above the proposals will be
publicly opened and read.
Bidding documents may be obtained at the office of the
ENGINEER, K. P. Reddy & Associates, Inc., c/o Dort B.
Payne, Architect, 624 Ellis Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901.
Applications for documents together with a deposit of $25 per
set should be filed promptly with the ARCHITECT. Bidding
materials will be forwarded, shipping charges collect, as soon
as possible. The full amount of deposit for one set will be
refunded to each general contractor who submits a bona fide
bid upon return of such set of plans in good condition within
30 days after date of opening of bids. All other deposits will
be refunded with deductions approximating cost of reproduc
tion of documents upon return of same in good condition
within 30 days after date of opening of bids.
Plans and specifications are open for public inspection at
the following locations:
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
624 Greene Street
Augusta, Georgia
AUGUSTA BUILDERS EXCHANGE
304 Fourteenth Street
Augusta, Georgia
F. W. DODGE PLAN ROOM
360 Bay Street
Augusta, Georgia
The contract, if awarded, will be on a lump sum basis. No
bid may be withdrawn for a period of 35 days after time has
been called on the date of opening. Bids must be accom
panied by a bid bond in an amount not less than 5 percent of
the base bid. Both a performance bond and a payment bond
will be required in an amount equal to 100 percent of the con
tract.
The owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids and
to waive any technicalities and informalities.
The successful bidder must abide by the Davis-Bacon Act
and the Federal Labor Standard Provisions.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
Charles A. DeVaney, Mayor Pro Tern