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News—Review, July 8, 1971,
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HEALTH CARE AND
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by Willis J. Walker, Jr.
MEDICAL SCIENCE MINORITY POOL NEEDS INCREASING
It has been recognized of late, more so than ever before, that
there must be an increase in the medical science pool among the
minorities if the blacks, poor whites, and other communities are
going to begin to have a portion of the health care delivery
system which they so badly need. Many foundations and other
agencies are now pitching in in an attempt to help identify and
assist young blacks and other minorities make real their desires to
become members of the health care team. Medical schools and
some undergraduate colleges across the country are now in the
business of bringing minority groups to their campuses for
summer sessions. Among these are Harvard, Duke, Fisk, Meharry,
Howard, Emory, and the Medical College of Georgia.
Last summer the Medical College of Georgia held a pilot
program for Afro-American students in the health sciences. There
were seven (7) participants from predominantly black colleges in
Georgia. Os the seven, four have been accepted for the September
1971 class in Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and one
placed on its alternate list. Os the two others, one is interested in
attending dental school and the other, after completing his
college work, wishes to enter graduate school. By these
parameters, the pilot program certainly has proven itself a
tremendous success. This summer the Medical College of Georgia
has twenty-two (22) participants in its college portion of its
Health Science Project for Afro-American Students. The
participants range in college classification from rising sophomores
to graduate student. Two are attending the program as auditors.
Orientation was held last Friday and Saturday and classes began
this past Tuesday. July 16, 1971, will see the initiation of a pilot
program for high school students. The program will involve 34
high school students from the CSRA. The participants, composed
of 16 recent high school June 1971 graduates, 12 high school
rising seniors and 6 rising high school juniors, will be involved in
classes in biology and chemistry as well as some delving into
research. More, they all will be thoroughly introduced to the
various health science areas available at the Medical College of
Georgia and in the health professions in general.
The two programs are being directed by Dr. Loren Williams,
Director of Educational Research, MCG, and the two associate
directors, Dr. Sam Singal, Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology,
MCG, and W.J. Walker, Jr., Assistant Director for Minority
Student Affairs, MCG. Faculty for the college program is being
drawn from the Medical College of Georgia. They are are Drs. E.
Bresnick, E.S. Borenstein, A.N. Brown, G.H. Brownell, J.R. Byrd,
T.H.J. Huisman, F.H. Leibach, T.F. McDonald, S.A. Singal, J.
Wilson, S. Lefkowitz, and A.G. Liebelt. The program has been so
structured that students will not only have an opportunity to
have courses in molecular and cell biology pertinent to human
health and disease, but will also be involved for eight weeks in
research, clinical observations, and Wednesday night “rap
sessions” - the latter as related to health care and its delivery
dealing with certain sociological implications and their
ramifications. A very important aspect of the program is the role
of the student moderators who literally live with and work
closely with the participants. The college student’s moderators
are J. Hobbs and R. Spearman. They are both second year
medical students.
The high school program brings to the MCG campus Drs. J.
Hayes, Assistant Biology Professor at Paine College and F.
O’Neal, Chemistry Professor and Chairman of the Chemistry
Department at Augusta College to handle the teaching duties.
Working with Drs. Hayes and O’Neal will be a high school science
instructor, Mrs. Rosa Beard, and three student moderators, R.
Scott, a second year medical student, M. Mcßae, a second year
dental student, and Miss A. Sims, an entering medical student and
a participant from last year’s program. Participants in both
programs, with the exception of the high school rising juniors will
receive stipends. Scholarships will be awarded to the college
participants and recent high school graduates.
Hopefully, this program and the several others at MCG and
across the country will begin to rectify the shortage of minority
group health care delivery personnel. It is needless to add the
importance and significance of these and similar programs. In our
continuing efforts, we must remove the ill health which lessens
the chance for poor people emerging from poverty. Can we but
not say and resound the fact that the present personnel numbers
and composition is missing its mark such that the rate of disease,
disability, and premature death is higher for the poor, the black,
and other minorities than for the rest of our population and that
the right to health care is but a privilege?
This summer’s Health Science Project for Afro-American
Students is being sponsored by the Medical College of Georgia
with funds from the Josiah Macy Foundation, the Weir
Foundation, the Trebor Foundation, and the National Urban
Coalition.
The participants are as follows:
COLLEGE PARTICIPANTS
Ayers, Katherine, Clark; Baker, Dwight R., Savannah
State;Burley, Dorothy, Paine College; Chapman, Brenda E.,
Savannah State; Crawford, Lonnie D., Savannah State; Dunbar,
Arrie L., University of Chicago; Dopson, James E., Morehouse;
Frails, Roberts, Paine; Griffin, McArthur, Mercer; Jackson. Gullie
L., Morris Brown; Lewis, Lavaern, Paine; McMillan, Ronald,
Paine; Payton M. Gwendolyn, Mercer; Morgan, Richard L.,
University of Chicago; Perrymond, Hazel V., Morris Brown;
Tanner, Wilma, Fort Valley; Taylor, Samuel, Fort Valley; Turpin,
Lucille, Paine; Welcher, Freddie, Notre Dame; Wright, Edward V.,
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In Higher Education
By Dr. DuPree Jordan, Jr.
ATLANTA (PRN) - The
Supreme Court has prohibited
parochial school aid through
high school. In an 8 to 0
decision handed down June
28, the high court ruled
invalid state laws in
Pennsylvania and Rhode
Savannah State; Fletcher, Edward B. (auditor), Morehouse;
Joyner, James (auditor), Florida A&M;
HIGH SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS
Bell, Bernard C., Boggs Academy; Briscoe, Charlie H., Laney;
Briscoe, Willis F., Laney; Freeman, Kevin, Richmond; Hill, Walter
H., Laney; Irvin, Thomas L., North Augusta; Johnson,
Gwendolyn, Josey; Johnson, John H., Josey; Lewis, Leia 1.,
Sparta High; Mason, Michael E., Westside High; Moody, Joyce L.,
Laney; Powell, James, Josey; Saxon, John H., Waynesboro High;
Singleton, James R., Aquinas; Thomas, Floyd V., Laney;
Anderson, Lorenza J., Josey; Bain, Raymone K., Aquinas; Clark,
Josephine, Laney; Dunber, Liza, Laney; Green, Lillie M., Laney;
Hobbs, Charles T., Jr., Josey; Jenkins, Mary P., Laney; Jones,
Vivian M., Josey; McClellan, Frederick, Richmond; Nobles, Debra
A., Laney; Reid, Joycelyn D., Josey; Slappy, Ronald L., Laney;
Hobbs, Calvin L., Josey; McQueen, Sherron D., Glenn Hills;
Powell, Otis S., Josey; Cooper, Cheryl D., Josey; Seymore, Willie
J., Glenn Hills; Williams, Ronald, Josey.
NURSING ENRICHMENT PROGRAM UNDERWAY
Among the several programs which the Nursing School at the
Medical College of Georgia is sponsoring this summer is a Summer
Enrichment Programs for Minority Group and Appalachian
Students. As MCG students, the participants will spend the
summer in studying in math, chemistry, English, and reading
enrichment courses at Augusta College. They will enter the
regular curriculum this fall working toward the B.S. degree in
Nursing. To assist the Medical College of Georgia, funds were
secured from H.E.W. This summer’s participants are: Marguerite
Carter, Augusta; Arlene Davis, Atlanta; Antonia Dixon, Augusta;
Gwendolyn Fryer, Augusta; Judy Hunter, Sylvania; Regina
Philpot, Augusta; Betty Polk, Augusta; Ann Taylor, Union City;
Annie Kate Williams, Madison.
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Island authorizing state
payments for teacher salaries
in parochial schools. Chief
Justice Warren Burger
expressed the majority
opinion in stating “the
arrangements involved
excessive entaglement between
government and religion.*’
While the decision would
seem to void, in effect, similar
laws already passed in New
Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio and
Louisiana (at least nine other
state legislatures are actively
considering the same kinds of
laws), the concensus seemed
to be that it will not affect
state or local aid in the areas
of school-bus transportation,
nonreligious texts, tuition
payments to parents, or
similar devices. The justices
made a special point saying
the federal government can
provide construction funds to
church-affiliated colleges and
universities for nonreligious
facilities.
Chief Justice Burger wrote:
“There is no evidence that
religion seeps into the use of
any laboratories and
gymnasiums on college
campuses built with federal
funds.”
From the explanations
given in the formal judgments
of this significant case, there
would seem to be at least two
basic distinctions in the
thinking of the court. One is
the difference between
tax fund support of the staff
and structure of religious
institutions which only
incidentally offer secular
education also, as opposed to
the general activites and
services of institutions which
happen to have religious ties.
Obviously the distinctions
between the two groups are
sometimes quite clear, while
on other occasions the
differences might seem to be
only a matter of degree.
A second way in which
strong and logical lines can be
drawn is between secondary
and higher education. The
whole history, background
and tradition of education in
the United States is different
on these two levels. The goals,
purposes and pattern of
operation of our public
schools below the college level
are designed to meet the
educational needs of our
citizens through tax-supported
schools. Private institutions
(many of the highest quality,
and rendering outstanding
service to their respective
communities) have served
special interests or purposes,
and have their own private
(non-tax) sources of support.
Independent colleges and
universities have served much
broader purposes in the life of
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institutions were started by
churches or religious groups.
Most of them are still
concerned with maintaining
the highest moral and ethical
standards, and in offering
opportunities for spiritual as
well as mental growth. But
very few of them would
promote narrow sectarian
purposes.
These independent colleges
are only private in the sense
they are not tax-supported.
They are open to all,
concerned with all, and serving
all our people. They are truly
public institutions in their
mission and objectivies.
our nation from the very
beginning. They have provided
a wide spectrum of services, to
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communities and the country
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