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AKA’s to sponsor Calendar Pagent
By Angela D. Turner
The Mobile Alumnae Chapter of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
will present its first annual
Pageant/Concert May 4, at the
.Mobile Municipal Theatre at 3
p.m.
Thirty high school juniors and
seniors of the Culturama Club will
try for the title of “Calendar
Girl/Guy ’BS” by raising monies
through the sale of subscriptions to
a 1986 community calendar. The
calendar will be distributed in the
Fall of 1985 and calendar blocks
will be sold to individuals and
organizations for the listing of
special events.
Roosevelt Green receives doctorate
Roosevelt Green, Jr. received
the Doctor of Philosophy degree
from The Pennsylvania State
University during Fall Semester
1984 graduation ceremonies. Dr.
green received the degree in Com
munity Systems Planning and
Development with a concentration
in community social services. His
dissertation was entitled, “A Fun
ctional Analysis of the Black
Church: Baptist Churches in
Augusta, Georgia,” and it was ac
cepted with distinction.
Dr. Green also has a B.A. degree
Jazz musicians receive bad rap
Sales for jazz records have
declined steadily for the past four
years, and though many jazz
musicians see signs of a revival, the
deck still seems stacked against
them, according to an article in the
December issue of “Black Enter
prise.”
One major sign that things may
pick up was the 12 minutes of air
time trumpeteer Wynton Marsalis
received on the Grammy Awards
presentation. Those 12 minutes
were arranged by George Butler of
CBS records who discovered Mar
salis four years ago.
“My intention was to take ad
vantage of a television audience of
at AO million people who wuld
watch the awards,” says Butler.
“We made a major breakthrough
byway of that show.”
Marsalis’ albums are selling
rapidly now, and there are 13 jazz
festivals each year in the U.S. The
number of New York City’s jazz
clubs and restaurants is at its
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The pageant participant who
raises the highest amount of
money from this project will be
featured on the cover of the calen
dar.
Ms. Tolbert said that runner-ups
will also be featured in the calen
dar from January throught
December (1986) and every par
ticipant in the pageant will receive
scholarships to be distributed at
die Pageant/Concert.
The featured concert artist will
be Mr. Wintley Phipps, the inter
nationally acclaimed singer who
performed at the 1984 Democratic
National Convention.
Alpha Kappa Alpha will be the
first organization to present this
kind of program in the city of
from Paine College, a Master of
Divinity degree from the
Morehouse School of Religion of
the Interdenominational
Theological Center in Atlanta, and
a Master of Social Work degree
from the University of Georgia.
He will continue to serve as the
Assistant to the Dean of the Penn
State Graduate School for
Monority Affairs, and will assume
a half-time role as an assistant
professor in the University’s
College of Human Development.
He will eventually devote full time
highest point in years.
Yet jazz records comprised only
2 percent of total retail record sales
in 1983, and jazz musicians lace
overwhelming odds against
making a good living even if they
are popular and can sell albums,
reports “Black Enterprise.”
A new artist may receive 4.5 per
cent of the suggested retail price of
an album in royalties, but he also
must pay the costs of producing
that album. Unless the record is
unusually successful, it is very dif
ficult to make a profit.
Marsalis has yet to make a profit
on his first album which cost
$75,000 to produce and has sold
more than 200,000 copies, he told
“Black Enterprise.”
“Jazz gets the very worst of
both pop and classical,” says Mar
salis. “From pop it gets the con
tracts, which are based on a large
number of sales, which the records
Mobile.
This project is being given to
promote scholarship and leader
ship as well as to introduce an
evening of cultural music to the
community,” said Ms. Tolbert.
The Calendar Cover Scholarship
Project will become an annual
event for Alpha Kappa Alpha and
the Mobile community. Ms. Jean
Tolbert is the general chairperson
for 1985 and Mrs. Lula Turner is
the assistant. Mrs. Joycelyn Hunt
is the chairperson of Culturama,
Ms. Mocenya Smith, is chairper
son of the Ways and Means Com
mittee and Ms. Lizzie Bolton is
president of the Mobile Alumnae
Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Inc.
to research and teaching while
completing his first book.
He is a member of the Voluntary
Academy of Political and S6cia’
Sciences, the Association oi
Voluntary Action Scholars, The
National Association of Social
Workers, The Pennsylvania Black
Conference on Higher Education,
and the Phi Delta Kappa
educational fraternity. He is also a
life member of the Kappa Alpha
Psi fraternity, and an advisor to
the Penn State undergraduate
chapter.
don’t get. From classical it gets
small sales and an elitist type of
“The time has come,” asserts
Harper, “when a musician can’t
make it by just playing his music
and sleeping until four in the af
terno<on. That’s gone now.
Musicians have to be business
people to survive.”
following. The contracts need to
be changed.”
Walt Harper, a jazz
pianist leader from Pittsburgh, has
decided that the only way to ma Ke
a decent living in the music industry
is to treat it as business instead of
art.
Harper owns the two-year-old
“Harper’s” a plush restaurant jazz
club in Pittsburgh that has to gross
nearly $2 million a year just to stay
even. “Harper’s attracts many top
acts, such as Joe Williams and
Carmen Mcßae, and Harper’s own
group also makes regular ap
pearances.
Growing In Grace
On the in between times
iy Cynthia Butler Omololu
While sitting in a local club last
week, I overheard the following
conversation. •
He: Take my
telephone num
ber.
She: No, no. '
I can’t. Please
don’t offer it
again.
He: What is
wrong? I don’t
mean any harm. I’d like to keep in
touch with you.
She: If you give it to me, I’m
afraid that I will use it too much. I
will use it at the wrong times. I
can’t stand rejection. I’ve been
rejected too many times. Now, I
prefer meeting men in clubs,
having pleasant conversations and
going home without telephone
numbers.
He: This is the first time I’ve
heard this line.
She: I just can’t stand my
behaviours when I meet someone
that I like. If you don’t call me as
often as I need you to, then I’ll call
you too much. The beginning of
the relationship moves too quickly
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and the end is abrupt. No, don’t
ask for my telephone numoer and
d-m’t nivc me yours.
He: This is certainly un
believable. I love challenges.
Usually women offer me their
telephone numbers and here I am
begging for yours. Am I too ugly
for you?
She: Obviously you have never
been rejected. If you had, you
would be more understanding.
You would understand my desire
to protect my emotions. In protec
ting my emotions at this point in
my life, I am protecting you. Just
supposed you dated me a few times
and simply decided that I am not
your type! There’s nothing wrong
with such a decision, but I am
trying to tell you that I am not
emotionally stable enough to han
dle normal rejection. I would in
terpret a perfectly normal decision
as a rejection of my person. I
could be crushed.
He: Hey, baby. Let’s not get
excited. I can take care of you, I
have experience with all types of
women. Don’t fear. Come on give
me my chance. You won’t regret
it. I am good.
She: You still don’t understand.
I’m trying to help you understand
me and you are interpreting every
message as a reference to you. I’m
trying to explain that at this point
in my life, I could appear desperate
to you. I’ll call all the time, drive
past your house and maybe even
track you down from time to time.
He: Well, why don’t you just
move into my apartment? I know
how to settle this.
She: No, I am not up to that.
The magic would last one night. I
am not emotionally or cognitively
ready to try to live up to your ex
pectations and I am confused right
now about my expectaions.
He: Well, you meet all kinds.
You win some and you lose some.
Wait until I tell the boys about
this.
She: I’m not going to get angry
about your attitude. I like you.
Why don’t we arrange to meet here
for the next two months at 6 p.m.
on Wednesday? At that rate, we
can get to know each other and
maybe become friends. You may
get to care for me as a human
being. To me, that would be a
greater experience.
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