The Muskogee - Okmulgee Oklahoma Eagle (Muskogee and Okmulgee, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1989 Page: 3 of 4
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had received a scholarship for a
three-weck study program in
joint. He had undergone a sickle
cell crisis.
The gcnctK blood abnormality
strikes about one of every 500
black Americans, as well as
Caucasians of Mediterranean origin,
and blacks from other global
regions.
An estimated 50,000 persons in
the United States suffer from this
disease in which, as the result of an
abnormal hemoglobin, the red
blood cells have sickled shape,
rather than the normal round shape.
’Although there is no cure for the
these five African symbols
represent powerful, shared cultural
ideals and values central to the lives
of African peoples,’ Andrea
Since then, Wyatt has had some
eight to nine blood transfusions.
Creek District Camp Davis
Recreation-Scholarship Committee
will present the 10th Annual
Pre-1 hanksgiving praise and
testimonial service at Eaitsidc First
Baptist Church, on Nov 4, at 9:30
a m. Rev. H.L. Stidham is host
pastor. The message will be
delivered by Rev. J.L. Stidham,
vice-president of Creek District
Congress. Alternate is Rev. J.W.
Henderson, pastor of Old Agency
Baptist Church, Muskogee. Musk
will be furnished by both churches.
V.M, Davis is chairperson.
Camp Davis
Recreation-Scholarship Committee;
L.V. Nunley, is president of district
Women's Auxiliary; and Rev. G.
Calvin McCutchen, is moderator of
Creek District Baptist Associauon.
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history, politics, and architecture.
But just weeks earlier, in June,
he had been hospitalized in his
native Georgia, suffering from
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The exhibition and accompanying
poultry) that almost killed him
After spending three weeks in the
hospital, he returned home for a
week when, all of a sudden, his
right shoulder became inflamed.
The salrfionclla had spread to his
them all. But I know that $ a bit
ambitious.*
Asked if he plans to raise a
family someday. 'Wyatt, who has a
steady girlfriend on campus,
responds cautiously. ’I have to
consider carefully before dealing
with the possibility of parenting.’
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In his senior year of high school
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images of a king and his wives,
two equestrians, women with
children, bicyclists, colonial clerks
holding papers, soldiers, capuves
and other images of late-19th
century Yoruba life.
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JAMES WYATT, a political science junior at Howard
Uthversity, begins his school year knowing that his studies
maw—be interrupted by a medical "crisis." In his struggle to
combat sickle-cell disease, the 20-year-old is one of Howard s
a member of its Honors Program (Photo
college. He had been inducted into
the National Honor Society a year
earlier, and had scored
approximately 1,200 on his
years old. He had been nding in his Scholastic Aptitude Test, ranking
father's car when, suddenly, he
passed ouL
Later, at the hospital, he and his
parents discovered that he had
undergone a sickle ceil crisis. He
England at Oxford University. He was given a blood transfusion.
He notes that both his mother
and father carry the sickle cell trait.
If he had inherited the gene from
only one parent, Wyatt would have
also had the sickle cell gene, but
not the disease
Other members in Wyatt's family
cither have the trail or the disease as
well. He says he had an uncle with
sickle cell anemia who died six
years ago, in his early forties.
'Death is not something that I
worry about,' he emphasizes. “It’s
only by God's will that I've been
able to survive, and that I'm able to
have the life I do.’
Wyatt seems to lake his medical
condition in stride, and looks pretty
much like any other collegian. He
is restricted, however, from
disease, advances in early detection, engaging in strenuous physical
patient care, and management have activity
led to longer life spans of the
disease's victims,’ Says Dr. Roland
B Scott, director of the Howard
generous grant from the Special
Exhibition Fund of the
Smithsonian Institution. The
National Museum of African Art is
sculptural tour de force composed of part of the Smithsonian Institution,
numerous intertwined human and
animal figures representing a
miniature cosmos. Complex
display sculptures were often
The film ’Togu na and Cheko:
Change and Continuity in the An
of Mali’ is available on loan
through the museum's education
commissioned by Igbo men's department,
associations; the one in the
exhibition was created in the 1930s
and includes imagery influenced by
the colonial era. Also in the
courtyard is a pair of Yoruba palace
exhibition coordinator at the
museum, says. "These ideals are
embodied in the images as
attnbutes of physical beauty, power black-and-white photographs and
or accomplishment in the social, 100 color illustrations. Published
or economic by Smithsonian Insutution Press,
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economic by Smithsonian Insutution Press,
realm the cloth bound ediuon sells for
The exhibition is organized S24.95 and the hardbound ediuon
around a central courtyard with
seven extraordinary beacon
examples. Two of them combine publication are supported by a
many of the themes while five
other objects illustrate the
individual icons. Included is a Igbo
display piece made of wood- a
Please. Give to United Way.
By Henry Duvall
Contributing Writer
Unlike many college students,
James B. Wyatt, a junior at Howard
University has more at stake in life intense, excruciating pain in his
right now than just producing good
grades.
The 20-year-old poll leal science
student has relumed to Howard this
fall knowing that his studies may
be interrupted by a medical 'emit ’
Yet, in his bouts with a
sometimes-fatal blood disorder
called sickle cell disease, Wyatt has
surmounted adversity to become
one of Howard's top
undergraduates—a member of its
honors program.
"He has been an inspiration to
me," says Dr. Theodore Bremner,
director of the program. 'He is an
individual who lives with hope *
Adds the professor, 'He has
shown me and others that sickle
cell disease is not a death sentence '
In his struggle to combat the
incurable disease, the bespectacled
young black man, who appears
healthy and younger than age 20,
has managed to cam 3.7 cumulauve
grade-point average on a 4.0 scale
"The only class I did poorly in was
golf. I earned a "C," he says in an
interview.
Wyatt has returned to Howard
after studying this past summer m
at the third annual Awards of
Excellence dinner Wednesday,
subsequendy developed an interest
in politics and law after
matriculating at Howard University.
Says the honors student, 'I also
like philosophy a lot. and I like
foreign languages. There are so
shoulder, facilitated by an antibiouc many interesting subjects at
drug therapy that he had been
undergoing to prevent an infection
associated with sickle cell disease,
he explains.
Wyatt underwent seven
! operations on his right shoulder,
and almost had to have his arm
i amputated. He was released from
the hospital two days before
I graduating with honors from his
r high school.
• Medical and insurance expenses
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I his parents to make ends meet My
enure family has had to chip in to
In 1987, he won a full, four-year
National Compeutive Scholarship
from Howard, making him the first
University Center for Sickle Cell member of his family to attend
Disease
The mild-mannered, soft-spoken
Wyatt says that the disease was
diagnosed when he was about three
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION H* SICKLE CELL DISEASE. INC.
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Expensive research continues toward finding a cure for the
1 out of 12 Black Americans who has Sickle Cell Trait.
.And the 1 out of 500 who has Sickle Cell Anemia
Support the National Association for sickle Cell Disease. inc
and its local Chapters
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A new exhibition at the
Smithsonian's Nauonal Museum of
African Art, "Icons: Ideals and
Power in the Art of Africa,'
explores the vanoas ways African Nicholls, assistant curator and
peoples have depicted and
interpreted five icons; the mother
and child, the male and female
couple, the forceful male (such as
* the warrior and the hunter), the nder
and the stranger. The exhibition of pohucal, religious
125 works opens Oct. 25 and
continues through Sept. 3, 1990.
The oldest sculptures in the
exhibition are terra-cotta works
created by artisb a millennium ago.
Others, such as watercolors and oil
paintings, were created in the 20th
century. The majority of the objects
were sculpted in wood, but there are
also ivory and metal sculptures;
* banners, etchings and linocuts;
sculptures adorned with goldleaf or
beads; and paintings on glass.
"Icons" includes several objects
from the museum's permanent
collection; the others are on loan
from private lenders and public
institutions around the world.
"Unhkc European religious icons
that focused on Christian imagery.
Each pledge helps support more than 60 local health
and human care chanties, like the Frances E. Willard
Home for girls. No other gift does so much for so mans in
our area
help,' says his mother Mary Wyatt,
a machine operator at a textile mill
in Calhoun.
’I've tried to make his life as
comfortable as possible." she
stresses. "I tell him to try to reach
all the goals he can."
t When Wyatt has a bout with a
sickle cell crisis, he says that most
of his professors are understanding
and let him make up his school
work. Wyatt has never had to drop a
t course
During his academic year, W’yatt
[ receives treatment from Howard
Calhoun. GA, he contracted University Hospital. 'A lot of S
times, my friends will visit me al
the hospital to tell me what I've
been missing in class, he says.
Rather than dwell on his
condition, Wyatt plans for the ™ |
future, preparing tor a career in
what he calls legal medicine. By ■■
combing a major of political
science with a minor in allied
sciences, he hopes to study law and
medicine, with aspirations on
becoming a lawyer specializing in
malpractice cases.
His interest in medicine stems
from his high school days,
especially after he had been selected
as one of 20 students by the State
of Georgia to study at the Medical
College of Georgia.
He chose to conduct research on
sickle cell d^case, ^nd won
xond-placc honor', for a paper on
his work. - • *
But after his fight with
salmonella, he decided that a ,OP undergraduates
medical career wasn't for him. He by Harlee Little*.
Thursday. October 26. 1989 -THE Ml SKOGEF-OKMl LGEE OKLAHOMA EAGLE-PAGE 3
Sickle cell victim has more at stake than just producing good grades....
McDonald Children's Chanties.
Dr. C. Everett Koop, former
October II at the Hyatt Regency U.S. Surgeon General, and Jaime
Chicago. The award carries with it a Escalante, renown East Los
$25,000 contribution to the Angeles educator featured in the
children's charity of the recipient's mouon picture "Stand and Deliver,’
choice Burkes selected the United received the Awards of Excellence
Black Fund to receive the for their efforts to benefit children,
contribution. Each award includes a $100,000
Burkes donates his lime and contribution from RMCC to the
support to numerous children's chanty of the recipient's choice.
organizations. In 1988, he helped
raise $15,000 for Leadership
* Cleveland a college scholarship product that would revolutionize
program lor 7-12 grade students, j
I'hc money is placed in a fund and (
later credited toward the student s r
collcge tuition.
He also helped develop the
Martin Luther King Foundation
which provides scholarships to
black students attending Cuyahoga
Community College (Tn-C), where
Burkes is a member of the Board of
Trustees.
Another of his chantable projects
collected $25,000 to purchase 2,500 :
• pairs of shoes for needy children.
Burkes also works with school
faculty and administrators
encouraging students to improve
their attendance records. The class
with the highest percentage from
each school of attendance each
month is treated to a free lunch at
his McDonald's restaurant
Burkes serves on the lUxaid of Big
Brothers and Big Sisters, the
Society of the Blind, the Board of
Hearing and Speech. Ronald
McDonald Children < Chanties of
Northeastern Ohio and the Ronald
McDonald House in Cleveland
Several of these organizations
have received giants from Ronald
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