The Muskogee - Okmulgee Oklahoma Eagle (Muskogee and Okmulgee, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1983 Page: 1 of 4
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newspapers and television and radio
marchers.
In Piqua, Ohio, Ronald and Betty
Stewart housed the whole group in
Uieir tnree oeurooin nouse. Mrs.
Betty Stewart said, “I couldn’t Join
them on the march, because I have
to work, but I wanted to do
whatever I could to help.”
MattressM and tired bodies lined
to floors of her ’ asemenl, living
and dining rooms and filled the
family's camper as well. Her
motber-inplaw came to help wash
sheets and make beds and a neigh-
bor, came by often with coffee,
biscuits and home made wine.
The marchers averaged 5 miles
an hour and 20 miles a day.
Twisted and swollen ankles, 100
degree temperatures and a few
coids seemed to be their biggest
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Charles L. Brown, Chairman and
CEO, American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, and James E.
Burke, Chairman and CEO, Johnson
& Johnson, are spokesmen for
UNCF's public service campaign for
the business press.
The United Negro College Fund's
public service campaign, sponsored
by the Advertising Council was
created by volunteer advertising
agency, Young & Rubicam, Inc.,
the nation's largest ad agency. This
is the tenth campaign that the Ad
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portance and answer question
pertinent to police involvement and
the community.
President Thelma Johnson will
conduct the business session with
several items on the agenda.
All interested Muskogee residents
are encouraged to attend this im-
portant meeting.
The NAACP has 1*» branches
nationwide. Through its branch
system, they signed up 880,ON
voters last year.
Muskogee Police Chief Henry
Sharp will be the guest speaker for
the monthly meeting of the
Muskogee Branch of the National
Association for Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) Saturday,
September 10, at 4 p.m. at the
Martin Luther King Center.
He will discuss matters of im-
The graduates are Pat Gilbert of
Guthrie, Betty Oswald of Crescent
and Shirley Fry of Coyle.
Director of the Nursing Program
Muskogee county students to graduate
from Oklahoma State Tech, Sept. 16
Twenty-two students from Muskogee County are
among 350 students scheduled to graduate Friday,
September 16, during Oklahoma State Tech’s summer
trimester commencement exercises.
They are members of the 105th class to graduate
from Tech, a technical branch of Oklahoma State
University.
Commencement ceremonies will begin at 7:30 p.m.
in Covelle Hall on the Okmulgee college campus.
Dr. Kenneth B. Hoyt, distinguished visiting scholar
at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Bunnell,
Fla., will deliver the commencement address.
Dr. Hoyt was a frequent visitor to the Tech
campus when he was director of the U.S. Department
of Education’s Career Education Program.
He is scheduled to return soon to his former status
as a member of the Senior Executive Service in the
U.S. Department of Education.
Wayne W. Miller, vice president of Oklahoma State
University and Director of Oklahoma State Tech, will
present appropriate awards to each graduate. He will
be assisted by Dr. L. L Boger, OSU president, and
The United Negro College Fund
represents 42 private, historically
black colleges and universities.
honking horns to show their
port,” Mr. Madison said
The U.S Justice Department was
on hand In Middletown, and Lima,
Ohio in case the Ku Klux Klan
honored their threat against the
marchers when they arrived In
those cities. The Klan did not show
up
In Troy, Ohio, a small town
between Dayton and Toledo, there
were 750 eligible black voters, only
50 of tnem registered. In a couple
of hours, the NAACP marchers and
branch members had registered. In
a couple of hours, the NAACP
marchers and branch members had
Columbus. Governor Richard Celeste
honored the marchers, donated 1400
and symbolically signed a tali
which has already been passed
allowing high rJwol administrators
to register those students eligible to
vote.
One outstanding feature of the
march is the ability of the network
of branches of the Association to
organise and motivate people In
institutions. In each city, they
mobilized volunteers to register
voters and made arrangements with
schools, churches and YMCA’s to
house and feed the group and hold
rallies and registration clinics
THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH
FOR JOBS, PEACE AND FREEDOM in
Washington, D.C. attracted more than
300,000 supporters from across the country
on Saturday, August 27 in front of the
Lincoln Memorial. Reminiscent of the INS
March «i Washington led by the late Dr.
Martin lather King, Jr., march
organizers, civil rights leaders and par-
ticipants (above) joined Coretta Scott King
and her family in singing the song, “We
Shall Overcome.”
Rev. Jesse Jackson, president, Operation
PUSH and Dr Benjamin Hooks, executive
director, NAACP, were among many civil
rights leaden who criticized the Reagan
Administration’s record on civil rights and
strongly urged more blacks to register to
vote. At a press conference held here
three days later, D.C. Congressman Walter
Fauntroy, the march's national director,
announced the establishment of the “New
Coalition of Conscience” to be
headquartered here. The coalition,
Fauntroy explained, will be working to win
approval in Congress of 14 measures in-
cluding a bill to make Dr. 8 arttn Luther
King, Jr.’s birthday a national holiday and
legislation to create about 1 million jobs
for the long-term unemployed. Photo by
Akmal.
director, Georgia State Senator
Julian Bond and the world’s hjme-
run hitting champion Hank Aaron,
among others.
The rally was held at the Second
Baptist Church in downtown Detroit,
the oldest black church in
Michigan.
A core gruup of marchers ranging
in age from 16 to 76 left Louisville
on August 13, to follow the
Underground Railroad route used by
blacks fleeing slavery in the 1800s.
Key cities were chosen where the
marchers - which included a judge,
a cartoonist, several students and
athletes - stopped to conduct voter
education clinics and door-to-door
registration.
In those . ..les, local NAACP
members arranged sleeping and
eating accommodations for the problems.
Dr. Ed Darby, Associate Director, Academic Affairs,
Oklahoma State Tech.
An honors and awards ceremony is scheduled at 2
p.m. in Covelle Hall to recognize graduates receiving
special academic and leadership awards.
Each instructional department will host an open
house following the evening’s commencement
program.
Stuart K. Dowdy, Monty L Hobbs,
Howard T. Javine Jr., Shelia K. Qualls, Kelli L
Smith.
Muskogee: Joen R. Allen Jr., James E. Bryson,
Norma R. Calhoun, Nancy L. Jackson, Robin M.
Kelly, Gordon P. McGee, Debra L. Morgan. Brent C.
Newlon, Stephen L. Pratt, Paulette L. Robinson,
Charles R. Smith, F. Bruce Smith, Stella A. Smith,
Dien Van Vu, and Austin Walker.
Oktaha: Paul M. Brown.
Porum: Melvin L. Wacoche.
Muskogee County graduates and their hometowns
include:
Haskell:
United Negro College Fund unveils 1983
celebrity public service campaign
NEW YORK - Linda Doughty's
childhood dream of becoming a
doctor was almost dashed when
financial difficulties nearly forced
her to drop out of college. Thanks
to the United Negro College Fund,
which assists 42 private, historically
black colleges and universities,
Linda was able to continue her
education at Xavier University and
complete medical school. Today, she
is Dr. Linda Doughty White, a
pediatrician, practicing at a clinic
in the Desire Projects in New
Orleans.
The capspulized case history is
featured in the United Negro
College Fund’s 1983 public service
te.evision spot, unveiled recently.
The spot is narrated by actor
Howard Rollins and features actress
Charion Woodward. Background
music was composed by Marvin
Hamlisch.
UNCF also launched its radio,
consumer and business print and
transit public service campaigns at
the same time. Singer-songwriters
Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson
perform their version of "Reachin
For The Dream" the current UNCF
theme. In previous years the spot
has been recorded by Ray Charles,
Dionne Warwick, Marilyn McCoo
and Billy Davis, Jr., and George
Benson.
Former heavyweight boxing
champion Joe Frazier is featured in
UNCF's new consumer and transit
public service ads. The theme line
reads: "Some students are fighting
(or more than grades."
NASHVILLE, TN - Meharry Medical College has been
awarded a four year $300,000 grant from The Spencer T. and
Ann W. Olin Foundation of St. Louis, Missouri. The grant is to
be used for the establishment and support of a program of
teaching and research in geriatrics-gerontology as related to the
health problems of the aged.
Dr. Walter Strong, vice president for Development and Public
Relations, noting that Meharry’s traditional mission of empathy
for the underserved makes the college ideally suited to address
the needs of the aged, said, "We are very pleased by The Olin
Foundation's interest in our Plan for Academic Renewal and we
appreciate their generous assistance We are particularly happy
that Spencer T. Olin has demonstrated a personal interest in
Meharry and our programs. With his aid we will be able to
contribute in a substantial way to the advancement of geriatrics
research and to the delivery of health care services to the
elderly.”
The Olin Foundation is funded through a charitable lead trust
established by S. Truman Olin, Jr., of which the foundation is
the charitable beneficiary.
Sunday, September 4.
The NAACP’s Overground
Railroad March, conceived as a
method of dramatizing the
Association’s efforts to register
more than a million black voters,
ended in a rally featuring Benjamin
L. Hooks, the NAACP’s executive
DETROIT, MI - Marchers in
support of the NAACP’s massive
national voter registration campaign
ended their 360-miie trek along the
“Underground Railroad” route from
Kentucky and through Ohio with a
massive Voter Registration March
through downtown Detroit on
The first graduates from the
Langston University Nursing
Program on the main campus
received a on* hundred per cent
pass rate recently when they took
their state board examination
LU nurses pass board
Mary Smith said she is very
pleased with the quality of the
students she has received and the
effort and hard work they
willing to put forth.
In the meantime, the graduating
students had nothing but praise f-r
l^ngston’s new nursing program.
"We hold this program as equal to
or above any other we know of,”
they said.
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UNCF. It features UNCF’s well- and print ads are being distributed
known tag line: "A mind is a to radio, television, magazines and
terrible thing to waste.” Robert r—7““ “ ----
Haynes, Director of Creative Ser- magazines,
vices, General Foods Corp., is
volunteer coordinator of the cam- stations donated air time and print
paign. space worth more than $30 million
Since the first UNCF public to
service campaign was issued in
1972, contributions to UNCF have
tripled. UNCF raised $11.1 million
in 1972 and more than $25 million
in 1982.
whelmed with the enthusiasm we’ve registered 200 additional people. In
received." said Joe Madison. "----—-
Director of Voter Education and
Registration. “In most cities, blacks
and whites met us, waving and
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The Muskogee - Okmulgee Oklahoma Eagle (Muskogee and Okmulgee, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1983, newspaper, September 8, 1983; Tulsa, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1810312/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.