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The Savannah Tribune Wednesday, February 16, 2011-3
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Southern Region A. Philip Randolph
Institute Conference Held in
Savannah
The Southern Region A.
Philip Randolph Institute
Conference will be held
Friday-Sunday, February 18-
20, 2011 at the Hilton
Savannah Desoto.
Registration fee is $100
and includes opening recep
tion, luncheon and all confer
ence materials. Friday is open
to the public. Saturday midday
luncheon and conference will
have State Representative A1
Williams as the keynote
speaker. APRI Southern
Luncheon only is $50.
Sunday church services
will be held at First Tabernacle
Missionary Baptist Church,
310 Alice St., Rev. Clarence
Williams is the Pastor.
For more information
please contact Chester
Dunham, (912) 507-9940 or
Davita Capers-White (912)
507-9980.
To A. Philip Randolph
and Bayard Rustin, APRI's co
founders, the fight for work
ers' rights and civil rights were
inseparable.
Randolph (1889-1979)
was the greatest black labor
leader in American history and
the father of the modem
American civil rights move
ment. Rustin (1912-1987), a
leading civil rights and labor
activist and strategist, was the
chief organizer of the historic
1963 March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom and
Randolph's greatest protege.
Randolph and Rustin forged
an alliance between the civil
rights movement and the labor
movement.
Inspired by this success,
Randolph and Rustin founded
A. Philip Randolph Institute in
1965 to continue the straggle
for social, political and eco
nomic justice for ah working
Americans. Today, APRI is
led by President Clayola
Brown whose vision and ener
gy has sparked a new begin
ning for our organization and
for the movement as a whole.
Regents Approve Forensic Science,
Teacher Education Degree Programs
at Savannah State University
Earl Yarbrough, Ph.D
The University System of
Georgia Board of Regents
(BOR) approved three, new
degree programs at Savannah
State University — a Bachelor
of Science in Forensic Science
with a concentration in
Chemistry or Biology; a
Bachelor of Science in Biology
with a concentration in
Secondary Education; and a
Bachelor of Science in
Mathematics with a concentra
tion in Secondary Education.
The Forensic Science
degree program will be available
to students in fall 2011; the
teacher education degree pro
grams are expected to be avail
able in fall 2012.
The four-year, interdisci
plinary Forensic Science degree
program will be part of the
Department of Natural Sciences
in the College of Sciences and
Technology. The program is
designed to produce trained
graduates prepared for positions
in toxicology, law enforcement,
criminal justice, forensic science
laboratories, graduate-level
research and related fields.
Currently a minor, faculty
and administrators worked more
than three years to craft the
Forensic Science major,
expanding the curriculum to
include courses, seminars and
research opportunities in
Computer Forensics, Forensic
Photography and Crime Scene
Analysis. A state-of-the-art
crime lab and photography lab
have been set up in the Hubert
Science and Technology build
ing on campus to provide stu
dents hands-on experience in
combing mock crime scenes
and processing crime scene film
in a darkroom.
“It’s the full picture,” said
Karla-Sue Marriott, Ph.D., coor
dinator of the Forensic Science
program and assistant professor
of chemistry. “The whole point
is to make our students more
marketable — to add Forensic
Science puts an extra spin on
what they will be able to offer.
We want our students to be
competitive.”
The biology and mathe
matics teacher education pro
grams will prepare graduates to
successfully earn certification to
teach grades six through 12.
Students will have the opportu
nity to gain essential knowledge
of their subject area, participate
as student-teachers in the class
room setting and develop the
skills and temperament neces
sary to enhance student achieve
ment as professional educators.
Both teacher education
programs are also expected to
help meet critical staffing needs
in Georgia public schools, par
ticularly Savannah-Chatham
Public Schools and the neigh
boring Bryan, Liberty and
Effingham districts. The pro
grams align with the University
System of Georgia’s Educator
Recruitment and Preparation
plan to meet the “20,000 by
2020” goal of providing 80 per
cent of Georgia’s needed teach
ers by 2020.
“Savannah State
University has a long legacy of
providing quality teacher educa
tion, dating back to the trade and
industrial education in-service
trainings first offered here in the
1930s and the full degree and
certification programs first
approved in the 1960s,” said
Earl G. Yarbrough, Ph.D., uni
versity president.
Established in 1890,
Savannah State University is on
the move to become the best
value-added university in the
nation. The university’s 4,100
students are enrolled in 23
undergraduate and five graduate
programs in three colleges:
Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences, Business
Administration and Sciences
and Technology.
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In the early 1950s Williams
married Juanita Terry and
worked for the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Williams had four sons:
Hosea L. Williams II, Andre
Williams, Torrey Williams,
and Hyron Williams and four
daughters: Barbara Emerson,
Elizabeth Omilami, Yolanda
Favors, and Jaunita Collier.
Williams was preceded in
death by his wife and son
Hosea II.
He ended up in a hospital for
over a month after being seri
ously beaten for using a
drinking fountain marked
"whites only". He was arrest
ed for other protests more
than 300 times.
He first joined the NAACP,
but later became a leader in
the SCLC along with Martin
Luther King, Jr., James
Bevel, Joseph Lowery, and
Andrew Young among many
others. While organizing dur
ing the 1965 Selma Voting
Rights Movement he also
lead the first attempt at a
1965 march from Selma to
Montgomery, and was tear
gassed and beaten severely.
The Selma demonstrations
and this "Bloody Sunday"
attempt led to the other great
legislative accomplishment
of the movement, the Voting
Rights Act of 1965.
After leaving SCLC,
Williams played an active
role in supporting strikes in
the Atlanta area by black
workers who had first been
hired because of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
In politics, he served on
the Atlanta City Council and
in the Georgia General
Assembly. In 1972 Williams
was a candidate in the pri
maries for U.S. Senator from
Georgia.
He founded Hosea Feed
the Hungry and Homeless, a
non-profit foundation widely
known in Atlanta for provid
ing hot meals, haircuts,
clothing, and other free serv
ices for the needy on
Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
and Easter Sunday each year.
Williams died November 16,
2000 at Piedmont Hospital in
Atlanta, after a three-year
battle with cancer.
Union Mission Names Frances Carter
New President and CEO
Frances Carter
The board of directors
at Union Mission, a leading
non-profit organization ded
icated to reducing home
lessness throughout the
greater Savannah area,
recently named Frances
Carter, Ph.D., M.S., the new
president and CEO of Union
Mission. Dr. Carter has
served as interim president
and CEO at Union Mission
since July of 2010.
“During her tenure
with Union Mission,
Frances Carter has demon
strated exceptional leader
ship skills and a real com
mitment to making a differ
ence,” said John M. Tatum,
president of the board of
directors for Union
Mission, Inc. “She has the
full support of our board of
directors and is certainly
well-qualified to lead the
charge to reduce homeless
ness in our community.”
Dr. Carter’s career has
been defined by service to
communities throughout
Georgia. Before joining
Union Mission, she served
as the associate director for
academic program develop
ment at the Mercer
University School of
Medicine in Macon, Ga., as
well as the assistant director
of the Master of Public
Health Program in the
Department of Community
Medicine.
Dr. Carter joined the
faculty of Mercer
University’s Department of
Community Medicine in
2004 and formerly served
as an adjunct assistant pro
fessor in the Department of
Community Medicine,
teaching courses in Public
Health Systems and Policy,
Infectious Disease &
Bioterrorism,
Communications in Public
Health and Grant Writing.
In 2002, she became
the program coordinator for
the Central Georgia Cancer
Coalition, a 25-county col
laborative working to har
ness the power of commu
nity to eradicate cancer.
Over the years, she has dis
tinguished herself as a com
munity leader and catalyst
for improving the health of
the citizens across Georgia.
Dr. Carter has also
served as a successful facil
itator and consultant for
issues surrounding public
health, leading several
cities within Georgia and
developing plans for a con
tinuum of care for children
and adolescents. In addi
tion, she served on the
board of directors for the
Central Georgia Affiliate of
Susan G. Komen for the
Cure, the Georgia Public
Health Association and the
Martin Research Institute
Dr. Carter earned a
Ph.D. in Educational
Leadership in Higher
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