The Muskogee - Okmulgee Oklahoma Eagle (Muskogee and Okmulgee, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1989 Page: 2 of 4
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Workshop for all
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Alex Reed, Jr.
An acknowledgement
Research
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By Clarence W. Wiley
Contributing Writer
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Part 11
by Clarence Wiley
Contributing Writer
THE MUSKOGEE-OKMULGEE
OKLAHOMA EAGLE
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking
Causes Lung Cancer, Heari Disease,
Emphysema And May Complicate Pregnancy.
pageant this year. Luster Products
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I will always remember Alex
Reed Jr., in many ways. He was a
dedicated husband and father who
loved his family very much. He
would have you believe he was a
hard taskmaster who ruled his home
with an iron fist, but we all knew
who was really the boss; as his
wife would smile and go about her
business. He was a proud man who
never forgot from whence he came.
Alex never met any strangers. He
liked to talk with anybody about
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plenty black people or poor people w
in Muskogee who arc sleeping on
the floor in the projects; no beds,
Recently, the Prince Hall Masons tables, or food. Let's get together
family (mon and women) has and help.
become closer together toward The other night, a friend
Anderson says that one of the
had reached a new plateau in terms high points of his career as the head
of offering cash aw arils and p« izes to
the thousands of talents women
As a sportsman, he was active in Alex s athletic activities included
hunting, fishing, and all athletic support of the Okay Mustangs,
Jory Luster, vice-president of d
Luster Products says, "There can I
only be one major black pageant in I
America, therefore, we must stand I
behind this one, and make it the 1
Products purchased three minutes of best that it can be."
"However, this year," Anderson commercial lime on the Miss Black
says from his Philadelphia offices,
"sponsors I— -----------
of the Miss Black America Pageant
was to welcome Luster Hair
who compete in the event each Products as a major sponsor of the
year "
The Miss Black America Pageant
was
aired on national television ever
since as a means of providing a
stage, a microphone, and a platform
from the performance of the black
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promotion of charitable programs telephones to say that the Pan
and community work. When you
see some Prince Hall Masons
working for the betterment, ask
wliat you can do to help.
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It is times likes these when friends prove to be friends indeed.
During the hours of grief and bereavement, when we needed someone
to hold our hands, to lift our spirits, and to encourage us, you were
there. For all of these things, we shall be eternally grateful. Our
prayers shall be that the good Lord will guard and keep you.
Special thanks to Jannie, Joyce, Mary, and Clarence; Okay
Schools, Rev. J. Ballard and congregation (our church); O.S.B.
Park view, Vian School; Ragsdale Funeral Center; Rev. C. Jefferson,
St. John Church: Gibson Station; Rev. Dick Knox, First Baptist
Church, Okay; Rev. C. Ashley, First Baptist Okay; other ministers,
neighbors, and friends.
The Reed and Porter families
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1 have always felt that a fraternity
and Christmas baskets. They said or a sorority does not make a man
that the black couimunity had been or a woman. I should know because
donating and would receive some my family is mostly Pan Hellenic,
baskets. "How many baskets had I have four sons, and all belong to a
been out last year?" I asked. Several different fraternity: Dr. Clarence
I hundred, I was told. "How many Wiley, Brown University—Omega
went to black families?" "Maybe Psi Pi; Rev. Stephen Wiley,
ten," he answer, and went o.i to Oklahoma University—Alpha Phi
state: "Black people don't ask for Alpha (also a grandson at OU);
I baskets" This person was the Floyd
! second one asking for the FOP
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I Salvation Army, Gospel Rescue
I Mission, and lots of others arc
| given food baskets, but that blacks
? may not be receiving their share,
I even though that community is
I contributing.) I know that there arc
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Cash and career awards escalate
in Miss Black America Pageant
Contestants wishing to enter the fl
America Pageant TV special which MBA Pageant for 1990 may write
have commenced to is being aired on the Black America
adding fortune to the fame which Syndicated Commercial Television
Wiley, Langston
University—Kappa Alpha Psi,
along with his father. Donald
Wiley, Drake University, decided
that he will follow Prince Hall
Masonry #33; Christine Wiley,
Langston University and NESU,
£eta Phi Beta; daughters Sundra
Wiley Everly, LU and OSU, was an
Alpha Kappa Alpha pledgee; Janice
Wiley Cribbs, Langston, LU,
Kappa Queen and Kappa
Sweetheart; Charlotte Wiley
Mitchell, OU, Zeta Phi Delta.
We ail belong to different Greek
organizations and we all love each
other, even if 1 did tell my sons, "If
you want to go to heaven when you
h die, you have to be a Kappa Alpha
Psi man."
grandparents, and al1 who care about
children to be held Dec. 11, 7—9
p.m., al Parish Hall Grace
Episcopal Church.
Dr. Antoinette Harrison, assistant
professor in children's literature,
will be maui speaker.
Registration is nominally priced,
but please register early, as space is
limited. There will also be
registration at the door if there are
vacant seats. The church is located
at 218 N. Sixth Street
There are so many good things 1
could say about Alex Reed Jr., but
the one I like best is that he was
my friend. When I say friend, I
mean it in the true meaning of the
activities. He shared his hunting Vian Wolverines, Muskogee word. We fussed a lot. but called
and fishing game with his Roughers, and Bacone College. He each other every day of the last
neighbors, friends, and senior felt he knew everyone in and around three years. Checking each other's
citizens. He prided himself on Okay, and he sometimes visited health or getting ready to play
dominoes, he was the only man in
Muskogee to have a key to my
house. When 1 went out of town,
he always look after my house. He
was my friend and brother.
He will be missed.
Network culminating during Black "
History Month. Check local 4
listings for air dates.
"I am proud of the fact that
Luster Products made a real ■
commitment to the thousands of 1
contestants who enter the Miss I
Black America Pageant annually. I
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has stepped forward with such vim j
founded in 1968, and has been be split among the winners of the and vigor," Anderson says. )
swimsuit, talent, and projection
competition, the first, second, and
third runners-up and Miss Black
America. In addition to offering
woman's talent, and the airing of prizes to the contestants. Luster
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HELEN MOORE OF AMERICAN AIRLINES
America, with round-trip tickets to Europe.
A tribute to Alex Reed, Jr.
A friend and brother (as I knew him)
anything. Any person who came in fishing or being a Kappa man at
contact with him was treated as if
he had known that person for years.
As a sportsman, he was active in
Okay, and he sometimes visited
making deer and rabbit sausages, Mr. O’s Store just to visit and talk
and they were something to be with his former students and
proud of. He would go to western friends. When we meet many of his
Oklahoma, west Texas, Colorado, former students at stores where they
Kansas, and Nebraska to hunt game work, fishing off the wall, or
with his friends and relatives unul anyplace, they always state that Mr.
his health confined him closer to Reed was a very good teacher who
home. He never stopped hunting or motivated them to learn.
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J. Morris Anderson, who has the Miss Black America Pageant
produced the Miss Black America has amassed for the last 21 years."
Pageant for the last 21 years, says
"The Miss Black America Pageant
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Postmaster: Send address changes
to The Muskogee-Okmulgee
Oklahoma Eagle, P. O. Box 326’,
Tulsa, OK 74101.
Hellenic Council was giving a
Christmas dinner. This news made
me happy, as 1 had for a long lime
tried to encourage more
had several togetherness of the Greek
organizations call and ask for organizations.
donations for both Thanksgiving 1 have always felt that a fraternity
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