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CLOSED SUN Mill I'Jill II'IB Tribune photo by OH Carter Ward Gallery of the University of Illinois at Chicago, 750 S. Halsted St. Dr. Marjorie Stewart Joyner stands by an exhibit of her life and times on display at the A. Montgomery Recalling beauty of a career CAR Production! Pmdentical, Ae'Snca, John JUlsfcate.

have all gone to the Chiropractor. These major insurance companies (among 700 others) are providing coverage to meet their subscribers' growing reliance on Chiropractic care. Care that has earned its acceptance. Perhaps you should think about adding vour name to the list you'll be in good company. their hair, trying to make it straight," said Dr.

Joyner. "Madame Walker came up with the idea of oiling the scalp and using the pressing comb. Most black women began using Madame Walker's products. "It's funny, we wanted our hair to be straight like the white women and they wanted their hair to be curly like ours." After the death of Walker in 1919, Dr. Joyner stayed involved in the company, working with Walker's daughter, A'Lelia.

She also was one of the founders of the National Beauty Culturists League in 1921 and helped write the first Illinois Beauty Culture Law in 1924. Under that law, she received her first beauty culture license and a registered barbers license. Dr. Joyner founded the United Beauty School Owners and Teachers Association, the first organization to require college credits for membership, and Alpha Chi Phi Omega, the first Greek-letter beauty culture organization, in Washington. In at the advice of her friend, Mary Bethune, Dr.

Joyner took about 195 beauticians to Paris and Rome for advanced training that they were unable to get in this country because of discrimination. Aside from her beauty career, Dr. Joyner has been chairwoman for Chicago Defender's Charities since 1929 when she worked with publishers John S. Abbott and John Sengstacke to organize the Bud Billiken Parade. She contends that she still goes to the Defender every day.

In 1935 she worked closely with Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt to build Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, where she is a trustee. In 1961 she received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Bethune-Cookman College and returned there in 1980 to receive a bachelor of psychology degree. These go along with a degree in dramatic speaking and elocution that she received from the Chicago Musical College in 1924. She also has been honored with more than 300 awards and citations for community service in Chicago and abroad, including a Distinguished Service Award from the Chicago Commission on National Defense that she received in 1944 for operating a servicemen's center in World War II, and various honors from U.S. presidents.

"I've touched the lives of every president of the United States, every mayor of the city and every noted person in my lifetime," Dr. Joyner said. "All of this had to do directly and indirectly with my career in the beauty business." At 89, Dr. Joyner has no intentions of slowing down and wants to continue to do things that will inspire blacks today and show them that anything' can be done. By Terrence E.

Armour The white-haired woman exhibits a sense of satisfaction as she talks about her trials and tribulations in the early days of the black beauty profession. There's a twinkle in her-eye when she talks about her good friend, Mary McLeod Bethune, the famous black educator. And she grins when she talks about her experiences and meetings with presidents of the United States. Her name is Marjorie Stewart Joyner, 89, and her career in the black fashion and cosmetics industry is the inspiration behind an exhibit, "Profiles of a Legend: An Historical Tribute to Dr. Marjorie Stewart Joyner," on display through Friday in the A.

Montgomery Ward Gallery of the University of Illinois at Chicago, 750 S. Halsted St. The exhibit features photos and letters depicting high points in her life, from receiving special plaques and certificates to her meetings with influential people in politics, business, religion and education. The anchor of the display, however, is her legendary career in the black hair industry, which is depicted by various black hair-care devices of the past. Her career started in 1916 at the old A.B.

Molar Beauty and Culture School in Chicago, where she was the first black to attend. "There were no black beauty schools, and they didn't want black students at Molar; the white schools wouldn't take any blacks," said Dr. Joyner as she is widely known. "I was very persistent, and I had the money to attend." After finishing at Molar, Dr. Joyner was married and opened her first beauty salon at 55th and State Streets, which posed her first predicaments: She knew how to do white people's hair, but she had no experience doing the hair of blacks, as she discovered when she tried to do her mother-in-law's hair.

"I washed her hair and it just shriveled up; I didn't know what to do," she said. Her mother-in-law gave her money to learn from Madame CJ. Walker, America's first black millionairess, who was in town trying to start a beauty school. Walker taught Dr. Joyner how to press black hair, a method of using oil on the hair and then straightening with a pressing comb.

In turn, Dr. Joyner taught Walker how to wave and curl hair. She became a Walker agent, traveling with her. to teach her students different techniques. She eventually became the national supervisor for the Walker Beauty Schools, receiving a diploma from Lena College of Beauty Culture in 1918 for teaching the Madame Walker method of hair grooming.

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