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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 I 4"’ I I I I I I xZ I .44 4~>' V' S' : Is I 4\\> >F I xt'4 I Z V<" Z 4 I lIWTv 7 a .4. x 4 .Z. Ilk itwsW - \ xP’ -v z ' V\<z 4v (z •'z KSE\ \O 4v A zV ■ W i \sßi ZZ' x 4X A v z I ZW’ \Z aZ <Z Z" *' | I 44 ZaxZz- '' v I I - Z I I ' I I National Hills Theatre I I National Hills Shopping Center I I Washington Road I 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 '-W'S’K A? AREHOTFORSPRING gSghMB 1 Hi I ■ Aww ww- fiv \ / / /1 « B II CHAMBRA Y f Ife |LJL, Il DROP WAIST > ' / I J®*'-ill DRESS / H ® I I for Half-Sizes f k WW * aww ' I I Button-front polyester /cotton ' ' I chambray dress with full long /w® Wl W I / sleeves and a wide ruffled bot- 1 /■ ■ s Wlt » I x -Qi forn 9 a,hered onto f^e long shirt I Bify 11 '‘B 1 aUS style bodice. 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Regency Mall I j V \ National Hills. & Aiken \ I \ \ 3 * x - - SHOP REGENCY MALL, NATIONAL HILLS, DANIEL VILLAGE and AIKEN DAILY 10 a.m. 'til 9 p.m. • SUNDAY 12 noon 'tHßp.m. (Aiken Closed Sunday) The Augusta News - Review Januury »M, 1985 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. Page 3