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LOCAL SOUTH FLORIDA 4B Tuesday, July 6, 1999 MS SOUTH FLORIDA Bulletin Board Compiled by YVONNE MCCLAIN Pompano educator's' home itory museum REMEMBERING: John Ringo Reed, who graduated from Pompano Beach's Ely High School in 1959, looks at a picture of Principal Blanche Ely. Ely died in 1993, and the city has since bought her house. In October, the house will open as the city's first black history museum. PhotoNam Y. Huh 1 Hack hi logued.

Volunteers of the Ely Education Foundation are envisioning ways to display pictures of the school's famous alumni including the first student to become a doctor; an Olympic athlete; a county politician; and actress Esther Rolle, who played the mother on the television series Good Times. The love the black community has for Ely is unwavering, said Fre-drekia Manuel-Forde, the foundation's vice president and a 1966 graduate of the high school whose mascot was the Fighting Tigers'. "She always instilled in us pride," Manuel-Forde said. "We admired her a lot. She wasn't just my principal, but my mother as well.

"Our motto is that as long as there's a Tiger on the face of the earth, Blanche Ely will live. The school, the woman, that's all in one. The nucleus of that town is Blanche Ely High School." 9 i mGr" will be 'She instilled in us pride' By LISA J. HURIASH Staff writer POMPANO BEACH Blanche Ely was known to meet new teachers at the bus stop, take them by the hand and tell them if they were single where in Pompano Beach they would live when they taught at her school. She demanded her students dream and achieve their goals through education, and told teachers to not dare be "dream killers." At parent-teacher meetings, she got standing-room-only attendance.

Everyone knew Ely had something important to She fought, although unsuccessfully, for year-round education not wanting "her" children to leave school in the winter to pick beans. And she managed to get better facilities and scholarships for her students. Ely and her husband lived in Deerfield Beach when she was principal at the school that would later bear her name, but they eventually moved to Pompano Beach, near the school where she served as principal for about two decades. Now her three-bedroom house at Northwest 15th Street and Northwest Sixth Avenue is being fixed up with $44,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funds approved by the City Commission. The city bought the house from her heirs for $84,000.

In October, the house will open as the city's first black history museum. The painting is almost complete, the air conditioner is installed, and new tile is on the floors. Trophies her students won are being cata- Everyone Your Today's highlights The South Florida Jaguar Club meeting, 7 p.m. at the Porterhouse Restaurant, at Palmetto Park Road and Powerline Road, in Boca Raton. Call 954-349-3213.

Save Hollywood general membership meeting, 7 p.m. at 310 S. 62nd Ave, Hollywood. Call 954-989-1 971. South Florida Blood Banks launches Hispanic donor campaign, 7-6 p.m.

today-Thursdayat the Stephen P. Clark Center, 1 1 1 NW First in Miami. Call 305-559-9840. Coming Wednesday Fabric painting class 2-5 p.m. at Griffing Adult Center, 12220 Griffing North Miami.

Cost is $16 for North Miami residents and $32 for nonresidents. Class will be instructed in English, Spanish or Creole. Call 305-893-3771 or 305-892-8639. Looking ahead Flamingo Gardens Orchid Society meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thursday ctThe Schott Memorial Center, 6591 SW 1 24th Ave, Cooper City (Sunshine Ranches).

Call 95.4-434-1329. Hurricane clinics, sponsored by Home Depot, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursdays throughout the Hurricane season at 2300 S. University Drive, Davie; 1245 NE 163rd St, North Miami Beach; 3401 Oakwood Hollywood, and 1 2800 Pines Pembroke Pines. Free admission.

For more information, call 305-520-2000 or 305-520-9005. Bowling for middle school students, 3-5 p.m, and high school students, 7-9 p.m, every Monday at Holiday Lanes Bowling Center, 1 09 ambroke Road, Hallandale. Sponsored by the Broward County Health Department and S.W.A.T. (Students Working Against Tobacco). Call 305-377-5010.

Food distribution every first and second Tuesday of the month at the Church of Christ True Gospel, 5513 Pembroke Road, Hollywood. Call 954-985-0505. Dads Against Discrimination forming a chapter group of divorced fathers, second wives, grandparents and others interested in changing present laws which discriminate Sgainst divorced fathers. Call 954-578-0297. Fort Lauderdale Comedy Sportz will perform at 1 1 p.m.

every Friday at the Hollywood Boulevard Theater, 1938 Hollywood Hollywood. Cost is $7. Call 954-269-4086 or 954-929-5400. The International Club of Argentine Tango will have a milonga (public dance), Sundays at the Hallandale Cultural Center, 41 0 SE Third St, Hallandale. Group cjasses p.m.

and dancing 8 Pasta buffet, coffee, soda and dessert. Cost 1 0. Call 954-458-6645. Clubs and organizations Ely, born in North Florida on Jan. 4, 1904, graduated from Florida University and received a master's degree from Columbia University.

She taught at Deerfield Beach Elementary and in Hialeah before becoming principal of the high school in Pompano Beach in 1 95 1 The school was then named Pompano Beach Negro High School. In 1954, its name was changed to Blanche Ely Negro High. By the next year, the name had been shortened to Blanche Ely High School. It closed on a desegregation order in 1970, and reopened in 1974 to honor Ely and her husband, Joseph Ely, also an influential black educator in Broward. He died in 1984.

She died in 1993. The Ely Educational Foundation will turn Ely's reading room into a study center for young adults. In it Clara Gelfand Good Morning Toastmasters Club meets at 8:1 5 a.m. every Saturday at Morrison's Cafeteria, 4500 Hollywood Hollywood. Communication and leadership skills are taught.

Call 954-476-8066. South Florida Depression Glass Club meets at 7:30 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at the Hollywood Multi-Purpose Center, 2030 Polk St, Hollywood. Call 954-964-8073. College Gardens Neighborhood Association Inc, a civic and crime-watch organization for southwest Dania Beach residents, meets at 7 p.m.

the second Wednesday of the month in the cafeteria of Attucks Middle School, 3500 N. 22nd Ave, Hollywood. Call 954-921-7959. Big Pine and Sawgrass Model Railroad Club meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month and work sessions take place 7-1 1 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4960 SW 52nd St, Davie. Call 954-435-5369 or 954-431-7096. The New to You Thrift Shop, open a.m.-1 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at Holy Sacrament Church, 2801 N. University Drive, Hollywood.

Call 954-432-5437. "Nearly New Shoppe," is open 1 0 a.m.-5 p.m. at 6480 Pines Pembroke Pines, across from McArthur High School. Items include clothing, furniture, bric-a-brac and more. Sponsored by Women's American ORT.

Call 954-894-1979. Saturday Morning Shipwright's Society meets every Saturday 9-1 1 a.m. at the Model Expo Warehouse Store, in Hollywood. Experts on the art of ship modeling offer free hands-on and how-to sessions. Call 954-925-5651.

The Service Agency for Senior Citizens, through its Senior Employment Program, is offering free training and job placement to people 55 and older interested in working as home health ades or security guards. Candidates must be low-income Broward County residents with transportation. They will be paid while in training. Call 954-563-8991. Memorial Adult Day Care Center, in Hallandale, is seeking volunteers to assist in daily activity programs.

Individuals are needed for arts and crafts, music, dancing, exercise, singing, reading, playing games and more. Call 954-457-0505. The Service Corps of Retired Executiveschapter for South Broward and North Miami-Dade counties in Hollywood is seeking retired business people to serve as volunteer counselors. The U.S. Small Business Administration sponsors SCORE.

Call 305-966-8415. The Miramar-Pembroke Pines Chamber of Commerce Toastmasters Club meets at 7:45 a.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at the Pines Conference Center, 1021 1 Taft St, Pembroke Pines. Call 954-450-9119. Support groups American Cancer Society Man To Man prostate cancer support group meets 1 1 a.m.

the second Friday of each month in the Outpatient Conference Room of Memorial West Hospital, at Flamingo Road, one block north of Pines Boulevard in Pembroke Pines. Call 954-433-71 71; the north Miami-Dade County group meets at 1 1 :30 a.m. in the Biscayne Medical Plaza, 21 1 10 Biscayne Miami. Call 305-654-4460. The South Florida Brain Tumor Association support group meets the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Memorial Regional Hospital, 3501 Johnson St, Hollywood, seventh floor.

Call 954-755-4307 or 561-852-8067. Parents Without PartnersSouth Broward Chapter new member orientation, p.m. the first and third Wednesday of the month at Memorial Hospital-Pembroke Recreation Building, 2261 N. University Drive, Pembroke Pines. Call 954-474-5657.

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