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THE NEW COURIER, SEPT. 14, 1968 Page 12 Boston Mr E. L. Jackson, executive director commends the Club Workers and contributors to the "dollar a month" requests for the help given during the past fifteen montshs. Visits to the Coming Street YWCA are welcome and out of town visitors are especially invited.

106 Coming, St. between Calhoun and Vander horst, Streets. Reports of the success of the membership drive for 1968 has been sent to members. Although the goal of 1000 members was not reached it was very near it. Memberships are received all through the year and you can still get into the worthwhile organization.

Mrs. Sylvester Jackson (Ida) chairman of Membership Committee and Mrs. 1. Jackson, executive director. 1 Miss Hi Louise Mouzon, was chairman of the Bible Dialogue at the South Carolina Con ference School of Christian Missions held at Claflin Col lege, Orangeburg, S.C.

Aug 12 16. The theme was "New Life New Forms Response in Obedience" The purpose of the School was to provide opportunities for members of the Women's Society and the Wesjeyan Service Guild to grow in understanding of the mission of the Church for the responsibilities of women in its fulfillment. Mrs. Margurite Robertson and son Richard have returned from a three weeks vacation with Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Kimber and twins Chynee and Carlos, in Lexington, Ky. Mr. Mortimore Ancrum the brother of Mrs. I. A.

Huger visited relatives and friends. A former Charlestonian is now a resident of NEW York, City. Mrs. Bessie Middleton recently visited the Expo 68 in Cana She is vacationing in Ja maica, L.I. Walter Beauford employed by the National Wrecking co.

his three weeks on the demoliton of one of Charles ton's historic buildings found bottles of the last of the 19th. century which bore distinct South a rolina Dispensary markings. Miss Eleanor Gray, visited Mr." and Mrs. Wm. Gray and children in Los Angeles, Calif.

She also attended the Jehovah Witnesses Convention. Before High School Youths Bridge 'Gap' BOSTON At least ten young men of high school age in the Boston community have been bridging the "generation gap" this summer through an exciting and unique project that has teamed them with skilled craftsmen from industry. At Greater Boston's Oppor tunitieg Industria lization Center (OIC, in the Roxbury section, ten high school juniors and seniors, under the direction and tutelage of three skilled craftsmen an electrician, plumber and a carpenter are renovating the top floor of the Dudlet Street head I 1 WATCHING YOUNGSTERS Gary Robinson (left) Executive Director of the Greater Boston Opportunities Industrialization Centers, watches as two participant! in the renovation project install modern lighting fixtures in new classroom facility at the OIC Dudley Street headquarters building. Charleston By The Sea dren Darryl, 2 and Kenneth, 4. Mr.

Johnson received master's degree in art from the New York Univ. Some of his art work was shown on TV recently. Irsis Anne Murray, of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Murray, 52 Parkwood, Ave.

at tended the Blue Ridge Reading Camp at Glade Valley School, Glade Valley, N.C. Skills in language, reading, art and independent Study were taught. The school was suggested to her parents by Mrs. B. J.

Whipper and Mrs. M. H. Porter, instructors at Burke High School. Miss Murray also had the opportunity to learn horseback riding.

quarters building for additional classroom space. The ten 'workmen" were recruited from the community by OIC and the Neighborhood Employment Center. The craft men and the work materials are being supplied by one of OICs "partners la Progress the Gillette Company. Ten week renovation project has included painting and plastering, plumbing, wiring and carpentry work such as repairing window frames and sashs. For the youtniui "workmen this has meant a regular eight hour work day at a wage of 2.00 per hour.

It has also been an introduc tion to the work world and the kinds of vocational careers which skilled crafts offer. In addition, there have been regular hours of tutoring in such subjects as English and Geometry. Most of the young people were not acquainted before the project began, but before very long they were working as a well coordinated team. The Gillette craftsmen and the OIC staff have been highly impres sed not only by their serious dedication, but by the quality of their work as well. Participants in the project include: Kenneth Wolley and Serge Limontos, English High School; James Ford, Boston Trade School; Fred Shaveries and Ed Heath, Thompson Aca demy; Alex Washington, Don Bosco Tch; Ed Clark, Browiey High, Joel Ingram, Brington High; David Bass and Henry Guscott.

The enthusiastic comment of OIC staff have been echoed by the young men. "Interesting experience, I've learned a lot," came from one fledgling elec trician. Welding a paint brush high on a scaffold, another offered: "I'd like to be a painter or plasterer, I found out the money is good." Still another shyly volunteered, "I'd like to work on this type project again." Greater Boston's Opportuni returning home she went to ties Industrialization Centers, Disney Land, the Sequoia Nat'l. Park and the Herst Monument. Miss Gray is a teacher at the Rhett Elementary School.

Hervert U. Fielding is serving on the State Agency for Vocational Rehabilition. Al though defeated in the Demo cratic Primary House Race in June. Mr. Fielding won the respect and admiration of the public because of his stand for the best for everyone.

His term of service will be until March 1971. Gov. R. E. Mc Nair made the appointment.

miss Aieomi MiKell vaca tioned abroad the Jamaica Queen leaving from Miami, Fal enroute to Kingston and Port Antonia, Jamaica. On her re turn to the states she stayed at tne snelborne Hotel in Miami. She enjoyed a tour of the Everglades, Fort Lauder dale, Hollywood, Dania and other historical places. Did you know that Mr. Mrs.

Earl Claiborne formerly of Charleston now of Log Angeles, Calif, has a beautiful "Home" for the aged? Mrs. Elmer Bowles has re turned to New York, City after attending the wedding of. the former Miss Maxine Smith. She was the geust of Miss V. E.

Fraser. Melvin Evans of New York, City was recently a guest of Mr. Mrs. G. T.

Fraser Leo Twiggs, a native of St. Stephens, S. C. was feature re cently in the dally paper Mr. Twiggs now working on a doctor of philosophy degree in art at the Univ.

of Georgia attended the educational semi nar at the Baptist College. His wife the former Miss Rosa Johnson. They have two chil which two years ago had only a temporary volunteer staff, supplemented by Peace Corps trainees and VISTA workers, are moving to expand programs and services to the community which will rank their operations among the foremost in the national self help chain. Under the capable leader ship of Executive Director Gary Robinson, and a staff of 73, the Fall of 1968 will see courses in Drafting. Office Machine Repair and Merchandising and Marketing added to the already impressive roster of Secretarial Science, Graphic Arts, Key Tunch, Carpentry and Brickmasonry, Electronics Technician, Blueprint Reading and others.

Housed in the Hibernian Lodge Hall at 184 Dudley Street, the OIC headquarters has a daily stream of students, visitors, staff and technical advisors, all of whom seem to keep the building in perpetual motion. An equally busy branch is WILBERFORCE, OHIO Are middle class white people cul turally deprived? Certainly if you look at it from the standpoint of Dr. Paul McStallworth, Central State University history professor. No person has been exposed to a balanced cultural diet, Dr. McStallworth avers, until that diet has included a balanced offering of historical and current information putting into perspective the factual plusses and minuses of all segments in our heterogeneous society." What Prof.

McStallworth means is that every team that played got some, kind of box score and if you don't know some Negro history, you don't know what the score is. And Prof. McStallworth is not alone in his opinion. "Within the last 18 months and especial ly within the last year," the CBU professor said, "I have been called upon repeatedly to lec ture on Negro history and to offer suggestions, bibliographies and other materials concerning the introducing of teaching of 1 WW1 I 'yAm' I ff DR. PAUL McSTALLINGS black history in public schools, private schools colleges." The pressure for teaching of Nero history, according to Dr.

McStallworth, "arises from the dislocations and disturb ances attendant upon the increased urbanization and ghet SKILLED 'ELECTRICIANS' New wir ing Is skillfully handled by two high school "electricians" participating in the Jointly sponsored OIC Gillette Company renova OTIS BOYKIN Invented Control Unit vices used a essential parts in the most advanced technological machines, both here and abroad in the multibillion dollar industries of the 20th Century. A black nan whose products are now manufactured in a ris and distributed throughout Western Europe. The implication is staggering! OTIS BOYKIN, after more problem." DWIGHT EISENHOWER Doctors Use Pacemakers equality." In other words, the Negro riots have shaken up educators to the point at which they appear to realize, along with Dr. McStallworth, that "We simply must know and understand what has happened in America in order to adjust our attitudes and behavior to cope with the industrialist in Dayton, Xenia, Yellow Springs, Wilmington, Springfield and Cincinnati on Negro history lectures or assistance in curriculm development. "At first there was great an xiousness to introduce the ma terials particularly to the black child," Stallworth said, "The notion was that this in formation would improve the child's self innge and fortify him for the abrasions he will sustain by showing that his people were significant doer and shakers in American I Boy kin's Electric Device Aid In Eisenhower Crisis Famed Chicagoan Owns 26 Patents By FRANCES T.

MATLOCK CHICAGO Another dra matic Negro 'first' came to light this week when it was revealed that an invention of industrial electronics engineer Otis Boykin of Chicago made a significant contribution to prolonging the life of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower who lies critically ill of heart failure at U.S. Army Walter Reed General, hospital in Washington, D.C. During the first desperate efforts to save his life after his 7th severe heart attack on Thursday, August 16th the president was given artificial heart stimulation when' doc tors implanted the Pacemaker machine whose component part, the control unit; was invented by Boykin in 1958 and patented in 1963. The Pacemaker is worn, tucked away, neatly implanted in the abdomen just above the waistline, by thousands of cardie patients who go about their daily work the world over.

Without Boykin's tiny elect rical resistance svstem there could be noj Pacemaker! The tiny electronic part was termed the "Heart of My Heart" in a doubl page article which appeared in the South Bend (Indiana Tribune on May 26, 1963 which identified Boykin as senior project engineer in the C.T.S. Corp. (for merly known as Chicago Tele phone Supply Corp), labora tories team, acknowledging that "Boykin played a leading role in the development of the cermet resistance element, vital component part of the Pacemaker." Working witn them was Wilson Greatback, M.S. inventor of the Pacemaker. OTIS BOYKIN.

of a tiny electronic part of a machine which helped save a president's life. BOYKIN. of a tiny electronic device used in ALL guided missiles and electronic I.B.M. computers! BOYKIN. Holder of 26 patents issued, pending and operated at 11 Windsor Street.

applied for on electronic de pliiti I'M risL Culturally Deprived Whites Study Of Central St. Prof. 1 mm A tion project at Greater Boston OIC headquarters. The young men, recruited by OIC, work under the supervision of skilled craftsmen from the Gillette Company. Me The Boykin than twentv years of experience in industrial electronics design with major companies, now is a private re search consultant.

Entering a lucrative field, he is now ready to apply his Intentive genius to the production of his anti air pollution devices by his own company serving manking in yet another vital life saving area of sincere! OTIS BOYKIN now takes his place in Negro History along with other inventors whose genius has made no table contributions to the in dustrial devebpment of Am erica. He ranks in importance with: When interviewed this week the elusive inventor Boykin proved to be a reserved, soft spoken, yet eloquent, well dressed individual who golfs on week ends, advises youth on sports and takes frequent trips to Europe in his busi ness interests. His is a typical beginning of talent emerging in spite of handicaps of lowly birth and Race. Born to Mr. and Walter B.

Boykin ini Dallas, Texas in 1920, he lost bis mother at the age of twelve, worked at odd jobs until his quiet courteous manner drew the attention of a kindly white woman for whom he worked, Mrs. Bentlet Young of Dallas who urged him to go to col lege. "If you don't go I won't give you a dime," she chal lenged him. She has followed his career and visited him in Chicago recently, Off he went to the school of his choice, Fisk University, where he studied math, physics and chemsitry. On leaving college ne beaded for Chicago, the city of opporutnity.

Later be was to enter Illinois Insti tute of Technology for two terms, (1946 47) where he mastered the fundamentals never found time to return for a degree," he says ruefully, While working as a parcel post clerk at Electro Manufacturing Co. (1941 43) he was discovered by Dr. Hal F. Fruth, a consultant for the company. He had observed Boykin.

daily in his rounds of the plant, carrying out his responsibilities of andling the personal bank account of the president of the company, i making bank deposits and re turning recipts to him, chauf 1 fering him to and from the toization of black people and i airport on his frequent busi their demands for dignity and ness hops "Dr. Fruth always nodded pleasantly to me, but one day he stopped at my desk to ask, "how much education do you have?" I detailed the extent of my training in science and ne exciaimea, i could use a youngster like you in my laboratory'. Working with him as laboratory assistant we set up laboratory pro cedures for testing Automtie Pilot Con. McStallworth said he hasitrol units which were used on consulted with educators and Dianes during the war. Asked how he accounts for his phenomenal knowledge of the i ustrial engineering field and its potential be said reverently, "I must be touched by God! An idea is a gift of God.

.1 get an idea. thing says try this. that. and boooom! there it is! "Many things make youl aware that there is a Supreme Being. If a tiny flea can have legs, a body and heart, can perpetuate itself, one simply MUST believe that someone Supreme created this world," he added.

Riots To Endow Future Mothers (Fifth and last installment) Three generations of black women have spoken for them selves. There is no spokes woman for the fourth. The black woman who will reap the rewards of the revolution is a child, or is yet unborn What is the legacy black pride will lay by her cradle? The pride and power of the post slavery black woman will be manifested in her strength Having been born out of the depths of human despair and suffering, she will possess the strength to endure adversity. The aggressiveness and intellectuality of her grandmother will be perpetuated in her spirit. She will possess the imagination and the will necessary to maintain a creative personality and position in a rapidly changing world.

The uhuru spirit of her mother will be expressed in her in dividuality. She will not be forced to imitate. She will be proud of her own beauty, and express this beauty in every facet of her life. Born with pride, she will not have to adjust herself to its manifestations. She will not have to cope with belated man hood in her contemporaries.

She will see, from the cradle, the roles clearly defined. Three will be no emascula tion, there will be no domi nance. In a world made color blind the black man and wom an will be able to function free ly as complimentary forces. She will not be forced to take over the reins of economic sur vival, as was the post slavery black woman. There will not be the necessity to seek status on another man's terms that forc ed her grandmother into the role of emasculator.

Unashamed of her past, ef fective in her present, and hopeful of her future, there will be no points to prove Hopefully, for the world may not change that fast, she will be freed of the necessity to prove herself as a black per son before bemg allowed to function as a person. GREENSBORO, N.C. Wal ter T. Johnson, a 1961 graduate of State University and Air Force veteran, was sworn in as assistant solicitor of the North Carolina Superior Court, 12th Solicitorial District here. The swearing in ceremony was conducted by Judge Harve A.

Lupton, following the ap pointment made by Charles A. Kivett, solicitor for the. Dis trict, comprising Guilford and Davie Counties. Johnson thus became the first of his race to hold this post since Reconstruction. The Greensboro native, while at was an Alumni Scholar, became president of the University Student Govern Hopefully, too, her male counterparts will not be victimized by society's false as sumption that men are white and black miles are eternally Tomorrow's black woman will not De a fragment of time.

Misplaced through slavery, dispossessed by racism, unwanted and unrecognized by society. She will not be history's drop out. Black power is build ing the foundation of her life anew. Her heritage, her culture, her traditions are being resurrected now. She will not have to cast about for images.

The image will be everpresent in the history of her people. A black image, built by pride, and upheld by the sweat and blood of her men. Freed from the stranglehold of racist domination, she will create her own beauty, her own image, on her own terms. Respected and protected, she will achieve her own femininity. She will respect the struggles of her men, recognizing their past failures, but never condemning them.

Though soft, her voice will not be muted in the world. Her sons will learn their values at her knee. Just as her predecessors were credited with the beginnings of black power, tomorrow's woman will receive the credit for its maturity. Perhaps the revolution will be taken out of her hands, but that is the way of the world. Life begins, grows, matures in the hands of women.

But to achieve its goals, to become reality, it must go out. Into the world. of men. If it is thus with life, it must be true of a revolution. For what is this revolution but the birth, growth, and maturing of an idea? Where do we go from here? Neither the black man or the black woman could tell you, but the black women of today agree that the path will bi blazed by proud black men.

spurred on by proud black women. zyy 1 yym Kv.w is NOW, A KY. COLONEL! Karl V. Moore, of Nashville, presently a staff training administrator at Breckenridge Job Corps Center in Morganfield, has been commissioned as a "Kentucky Colonel" by the Hon. Louie B.

Nunn, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Moore, a graduate of Tennessee State University, went to the Job Corps In 1966. The colonelcy was awarded in recognition of the outstanding contributions Moore is making In the Poverty Programs. Mr. Moore Is doing graduate study this rammer at TSU.

Air Force Vet Carolina's First Black Solicitor ment and graduated magna cum laude. Commissioned as a second lieutenant of the U.S. Air. Force, his active duty status was delayed to accept a scholarship to the Duke University School of Law. He was the first of his race to graduate from there in 1964.

Johnson served his entire military career at Stewart AFB, Newburgh, N.Y., as first assistant staff judge advocate, 4603rd Air Base Group as staff judge advocate, and later as assistant staff judge advocate, First Air Force. Following bis separation from the service, he opened private practice here in April 1968. i mi mi llSlilll 1 TAPPED BY SOLICITOR Walter T. Johnson, left, Greensboro, N.C, is sworn In as assistant solicitor for the North Carolina Superior Court for the 12th Solicitorial District comprised of Guilford and Davidson Counties. At right is Charles Kivett, District Solicitor, who made Johnson's appointment..