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The Augusta News-Review November 17,1984 ■ Mf' JBpjp i W *£. 4i -- jMMK & W B: / r - ’ it^'«_. k WS 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 From Page 4 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. I NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS I ■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,® ■Room 803, Augusta-Richmond County Municipal Building,® ■530 Greene Street on the following dates: MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1984, 12:35 P.M. J 1 (or immediately following the 12 o’clock noon City Council® ■ meeting) ft WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1984, 7:00 P.M. For additional information, contact: The City of Augusta Department of Community Development C 2 624 Greene Street || ’2 Augusta, Georgia 30901 M [ Telephone 724-3706 ® Page 2 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. Keep your eyes on > j||g the numbers and // ? watch the savings add up. x ,O / A Learning how to read your . •' ‘T7 electric meter can really be worth F EL- ’- ' • 3 money to you. And it’s as easy to do as reading the speedometer in a car. Once you know how, you can watch the amount of electricity you use daily and control it. To get a free brochure on how to read your electric meter. Jw I call or stop by your local £ Georgia Power office. 22 S% * I Georgia Power JSII 11R We Keep You 0 9 Plugged Into Savings. Q 2 2 | ® /'fOgV ® 3Jt © 1984 Georgia Power ■ H 29 * 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