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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Monday, June 13, 1988 Business Surplus Fulfills Colleges' Needs Cheaply You might miss the place if you're strolling downtown Cornelius. It's in an office on Main Street, near Carolina Cones ice cream shop and J.Jay's Tops and Bottoms, a women's sportswear store. But more than 100 colleges across the country have discovered Gifts-In-Kind Clearing House a unique enterprise, that, combines corporations', Gifts-In-Kind solicits colleges' surplus and needs. castoffs from businesses, then finds colleges that need the stuff. The businesses get tax deductions for their gifts, and the colleges receive furniture, computers and lab equipment at almost no cost.

The nonprofit organization coordinated more than $3 million in college donations last year. Jim Herring, who founded the enterprise five years ago, saw the need for such a system during his career at corporations such as Atlantic Richfield, where he'd held several positions, including director of new ventures. saw things being wasted," he said. "I also saw there was no system at the company level that made it easy to get rid of The original clearinghouse membership Davidson College, Queens College and Johnson C. Smith University and several other schools has expanded to include colleges nationwide, from Reed on the West Coast to Williams and Smith in the East.

For a fee, the schools receive points they use to bid on merchandise. That's how Johnson C. Smith got a collection of more than 100 paintings from NCNB and St. Andrews Presbyterian College received a mass spectrometer from RJR Nabisco. Colleges also trade unwanted goods among themselves.

Herring has worked to see that the membership includes a diverse mix of schools some well-endowed, some not so wealthy. Most members are small or medium- Noah Robinson Seen As A Generous Man By DIANE SUCHETKA Staff Writer Two things got Noah Robinson in trouble: who he hung out with and how he spent his money. But have a seat in Clenty Beauty Salon and folks will tell you those same Robinson two things prove Robinson presidential candidate Jesse Jackson's halfbrother is a generous and loving man. "He was always for the says Clenty J. Fair, operator of the six-chair beauty shop in a downtown Greenville shopping center owned by Robinson.

It's true, says his mother. "When I pray, I say, 'Lord what did I do to deserve such a kind says Catherine Smith Robinson, 79. But police and federal investigators are probing another part of Noah Robinson's life these days. And the charges involve attempted murder and drug rings, not testimonials of kindness and compassion. Noah Ryan Robinson, 45, and Jesse Jackson, 46, have the same father, Noah L.

Robinson, and grew up amid modest circumstances in downtown Greenville neighborhoods. Jackson lived with his mother, Helen Jackson. Like Jackson, Robinson travels regularly back to his hometown of Greenville for personal matters and business. That's where he was arrested June 4, charged by Greenville authorities with obstruction of justice, criminal conspiracy and accessory to a felony. Robinson is accused of conspiring with Freddie Elwood Sweeney, 34, a former Robinson employee, to murder Janice Denise Rosemond, 26, of Greenville.

Rosemond witnessed the 1986 murder of Leroy "Hambone" Barber, Robinson's childhood friend and former employee. Barber was shot in the back of the head in a phone booth inside Robinson's shopping center. Since Robinson's arrest, Chicago police federal agents have seized $21,000 and documents from his Chicago office and apartment. The papers include a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration report detailing Robinson's alleged ties to heroin dealers in Greenville, New York, and Boston.

Robinson has denied any connection to drugs or the murder. He claims federal prosecutors and are trying to turn him Billy Carter police, of the Jackson campaign. "Noah has a new name Jackson's says Fair. Jackson and Robinson have no business ties now. But in the 1970s, they headed Chicago's Operation Breadbasket, which offered marketing and management services to minorityowned businesses.

The criminal accusations don't matter to people who know Robinson. "He's as innocent as you or says his mother. There are other reasons, friends say, why Robinson, a former altar boy at St. Anthony Catholic Church, is being framed. One is that white businesspeople want Robinson's downtown, "When property.

you're a successful businessman you have more enemies than anybody," says Catherine Robinson. "That's whether you're black, red, yellow or Noah Robinson is one of the wealthiest blacks in America. The June issue of Black Enterprise lists two of Robinson's businesses in its Top 100 Companies. His Chicago construction company, Precision Contractors the magazine said, had 1987 sales of $10 million; Wendy's of Chicago Inc. 1987 sales reached $7.2 million.

The 1987 market value of his Greenville property totals $469,000, according to tax records. His mother brags about the $1 million retirement home he owns on top of Sandy Mountain in New Mexico. Apple' Nickname May Have S.C. Origins Continued From Page 1B den, all in New York, and then the the mid- and late '30s, going on show hit the road. in receive international recogni- It attracted writers from the to tion." New York Times and Life MagaIt was Spivey's brother, Bill zine.

and two Columbia high By the end of 1937, the dance Spivey, school chums was so popular "that the young Harold ladies of Sarah Lawrence College -Goo' in Bronxville, N.Y., hired the ArWiles and Don- thur Murray studio to teach it to Davis the student body," Adams wrote ald in his letter to Van Buren. who first wanAt home, the dance got mixed dered into the Columbia juke reviews. thought it was Parents joint called Fat vulgar, with its abrupt improvisaSam's Big Ap- tions and unpredictability. Adams has written Koch the same explanation, said Brad Jerple Night Club in the summer genson, assistant to the Columbia of 1936. From a bal- Adams mayor.

cony, they watched the all-black clientele dancing wild improvisations. Bill Spivey, who died in Charlotte last year, and his friends took the dance to Myrtle Beach the following summer and wrote a tune called "The Big Apple Swing." Both caught on quickly. From the S.C. coast, the dance which led to other dances such as the shag, the jitterbug and the twist spread to Carolinas towns and then all along the East Coast. Soon Gae Foster, a choreographer at the Roxy Theater in New York, was on a train south to see the new dance.

She chose Bill Spivey and 15 other Carolinas teenagers to dance at the Roxy premiering on Aug. 29, 1937. After that, the dance went international, becoming popular with European teenagers. Three weeks later, Creighton Spivey joined them and they danced the Big Apple at the legendary Hollywood Club, the Trocadero and Madison Square Gar- Pam Kelley College Notes sized private schools. "We don't have the very large ones.

They us." The clearinghouse sells those that colleges can't use such closed textile plant in Lowell few years ago by Guilford Mills Herring, who's now working an incinerator plant and some aircraft drills, says his varied experience has come in handy. says, "is the most diverse can imagine." Cruising Ban Continued From Page 1B they're doing," said Brenda Brooks of Charlotte, who came with her five children. "It's a lot safer for the kids now." But the majority of about 20 park patrons interviewed expressed displeasure with the new rule, saying it unfairly discriminated against the predominantly black visitors. "I thought it was a free park, that's why they called it Freedom Park," said Erica Hughes, 14, of York, S.C. "People ought to be able to park Academic Awards Abound University of North Carolina system President C.D.

"Dick" Spangler Jr. recently was, awarded Harvard Business School's Alumni Achievement Award. Spangler received his MBA from Harvard in 1956 Duke Power Chairman Bill Lee is the Central Piedmont Community College Alumni Association's first honorary member. Trustees voted that Lee receive the try to honor for his support of CPCC. don't need The alumni association, formed last donations year, now has about 170 members.

as the The membership is one of several donated a higher educational honors bestowed on Inc. Lee recently. Three colleges Davidson on selling College, UNC Charlotte and Johnson C. surplus Smith University awarded him honorcorporate ary degrees in May "This," he business you Tom Stogsdill is Wingate College's new development director. Stogsdill, an Ar- Thins Crowd At kansas native, has been senior consultant for firms that managed church fundraising programs.

He'll be in charge of Wingate's $30 million Second Century: Vision for Excellence campaign The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected UNC-Chapel Hill professors Glen Elder Jr. and Edouard Morot-Sir as fellows. With about 2,300 members, the 200- year-old academy honors achievement in science, scholarship, the arts and public affairs. Elder, a sociologist, is known for his fourgeneration study of social change in the family and life course. He's written several books, including "Children of the Great Depression." Morot-Sir, a retired French professor, also has written several books, including "From Surrealism to the Empire of Criticism" and "French Thought College notes is published every Monday.

Freedom Park where they want to do, but I think the heavy police presence is Anthony Fewell, 20, of Charlotte said the really hurting us." new rule "just doesn't make sense. I think they're doing this because we are black and City parks officials say they plan to continue they don't want us in their neighborhood." enforcing the cruising ban on Sundays throughVendors who normally do a vigorous busi- out the summer. Mecklenburg County Deputy ness sat idle at the traditional peak hour of 6 Sheriff B.J. Johns called the effort a success. p.m.

"I think if we keep this up, they're going to "Business has been very, very bad," said be looking for a new place to he said. Trish Smith of Concord, who sells frozen "There is obviously some cruising still going lemonade. understand what the city is trying on. But it's not as easy anymore." Deaths And Funerals In Mecklenburg County Mrs. Annie Crawford, 68, of 604 N.

Alexander St. died June 9, 1988, at home. Funeral is 2 p.m. Tuesday at Middle Street AME Zion Church. Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery.

Grier Funeral Home is in charge. Mrs. Crawford, a Sumter, S.C., native, was a homemaker. Survivors are her husband, Edward of McCain; sons, Anthony Crawford, Gary Crawford, Charles Crawford, Allen Crawford, Billy Gilliard, Bobby Gilliard; daughters, Ms. Frances Graham of Kannapolis, Ms.

Doris Clinton, Ms. Virginia Gilliard, Mrs. Gloria Tobias, Ms. Deborah Crawford, Ms. Jeanett Crawford; mother, Ms.

Ora Gilliard; sister, Mrs. Edna Hammons; 14 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Visitation is 7 to 8:30 tonight at Grier. Mr. Robert Heath, 96, of 240 W.

Kingston Ave. died June 10, 1988, at home. Funeral is 2 p.m. today at Beasley Funeral Home. Burial will be in Beasley Memorial Gardens.

Mr. Heath, a native of York, S.C., was a farmer. Survivors are his daughter, Ms. Shirletha Heath; two grandchildren. Mr.

Clifford Ray Lambert, 66, of 1212 Choyce Ave. died June 11, 1988, at Mercy Hospital. Funeral is 11 a.m. Tuesday at Southview Baptist Church, where he was a member. Burial will be in Ashlawn Memorial Gardens, West Jefferson.

McEwen Funeral Home, Charlotte chapel, is in charge. Mr. Lambert was a native of West Jefferson. Survivors are his wife, Stella Mae; sons, Roger Lambert of Columbia, William Lambert of Virginia Beach, daughter, Mrs. Margaret Ann Keeffe of Fort Mill, S.C.; brothers, Roy Lambert, Evert Lambert, both of West Jefferson; seven grandchildren; one greatgrandchild.

Visitation is at the residence. Mr. Rufus A. "Bub" Shu, 88, of 2517 Lola Ave. died June 11, 1988, at Mercy Hospital of respiratory failure.

Funeral 11 a.m. Tuesday at Sunset Memory Gardens. McEwen Funeral Home, Charlotte chapel, is in charge. Mr. Shu, a of Mooresville, Mr.

Shu yard conductor for Southern Railway, retiring after 49 years. He had been security guard for Burns, Stegall and Stroupe security agencies. Survivors are his daughter, Mrs. Jakie Freeman; one grandchild; two great-grandchildren. Visitation is 7 to 8:30 tonight at McEwen Charlotte chapel.

ALBEMARLE Mr. James Benard Caudle, 64. BADIN Mrs. Artie Cross Pegram, 89. CHINA GROVE Mr.

Collie Edgar Honeycutt, 84. CLAREMONT Mr. Joseph Mitchell Revis, Ada Mae Moser Cloninger, 91. COLLETTSVILLE Mr. Bernard A.

Barrenger, 56.. CONCORD Mrs. Willie Maxwell Blackwelder, 80; Mrs. Imogene Shepherd Carter, 61. CONOVER Mr.

Elmer Garland Smith, 76. DENTON Mr. Ralph Ecra Cashatt, 78. FAYETTEVILLE Mrs. Margaret Best Jensen, 29.

GASTONIA Miss Jennifer Nicole Selph, 9. GOLD HILL Mr. J. Henry Hill. 72, tard, 72, of 3200 died June 10, 1964 Photo Mrs.

Mustard Kline MusHigh Ridge Rd. 1988, at Gaston Memorial Hospital, Gastonia. Funeral is 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church, Gastonia. Burial will be in National Cemetery, Salisbury.

Carothers Funeral Home is in charge. Mrs. Mus- tard, a native of Atlanta, was a former service representative for Southern Bell Co. and a homemaker. She had attended Mercer University in Macon, Ga.

Mrs. Mustard was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Gastonia and William Gaston Chapter of the National Society of the DAR. She also was a member of Circle One at her church. Survivors are her daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Toepffer; brother, William Kline Jr.

of Loxahatchee, Fla. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Covenant Village 1351 Robinwood Gastonia, N.C. 28054. Visitation is 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Carothers.

Mr. William Edward White of 5025 Isaac Dr. died June 9, 1988, at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Funeral is 11 a.m. today at Johnson C.

Smith Unversity, Jane M. Smith Memorial Church. Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery. Grier Funeral Home is in charge. Mr.

White, a native of St. Pe- Mr. White Mr. White tersburg, retired from CharlotteMecklenburg Schools. He had taught Science at West Charlotte High, Northwest Junior High and Alexander Graham Junior High schools.

Survivors are his wife, Wilhelmenia; son, William White: mother, Mrs. Jessie White of Tampa; sister, Mrs. Wedra Mims of Tallahassee, two granddaughters. Memorials can be made to Johnson C. Smith University Athletics, 100 Beatties Ford Charlotte, N.C.

28216. Visitation is at the residence. Mr. Harry Irving Sobell, 82, of Atlanta, formerly of Charlotte died June 12, 1988, at Northside Hospital, Atlanta. Funeral is 11 a.m.

today at Arlington Memorial Park, Atlanta. Sandy Springs Funeral Home of Atlanta is in charge. Mr. Sobell, a native of New York, was a retired jewelry and carpet salesman. Survivors are his wife, Florence of Atlanta; son, Stephen Sobell of Marietta, two grandchildren.

North Carolina GREENSBORO Mr. Garland Palmer Stout, 80. HARMONY Mrs. Blanche Pearl Brookshire Watts, 90. HICKORY Mr.

H.A. Heavner 74. MARION Mr. Robert Grant Blankenship, 82. MONROE Mr.

Robert Lee Norwood, 48. NEWTON Mr. Fred McRae Crawford, 44. NORWOOD Mr. Julius Hathcock, 80.

ROCKINGHAM Mr. Haywood Curtis Bowers, 56; Mrs. Daisy Pearl Layton, 81; Broadus Ray Rushing, 81. RUTHERFORDTON Mr. James William Hammett, 52; Mr.

Douglas Landers, 75; Mr. Robert Lee Lewis, 44. SALISBURY Mrs. Rebecca Ruth- Shinn, 65. Miss Ellen Catherine Miller of Jacksonville, formerly of Charlotte, died June 11, 1988, in Jacksonville.

Funeral is 11 a.m. Tuesday at Sharon Memorial Park. Harry Bryant Funeral Home is in charge. Miss Miller, a Salisbury native, was employed by Seaboard Coastline, retiring after 40 years. She was a member of Central Church of God.

Surviving is her brother, Otto Miller of Bangkok, Thailand. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Hospice of NorthFlorida, One Prudential Plaza, 841 Prudential Jacksonville, Fla. 32207. The following obituaries were incomplete: Mrs. Tammy Pierce Anderson, 28, of 4500 Shea Hill, died June 12, 1988, at Charlotte Memorial Hospital.

McEwen Funeral Home, Mint Hill chapel, is in charge. Mr. Pete Weldon Bacote. 77, of 1315 Clay Ave. died June 11, 1988.

at home. Beasley Funeral Home is in charge. Mr. Luther Caldwell of 2430 Statesville Ave. died June 12.

1988, at Presbyterian Hospital. Long Son Funeral Home is in charge. Mrs. Rose Mae Hamrick, 80, of 3209 LaSalle St. died June 12.

1988. at Wesley Nursing Home. Alexander Funeral Home is in charge. Ms. Lisa Robinson of 401 Echodale Dr.

died June 11, 1988, at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Grier Funeral Home is in charge. Mrs. Luna Nell Sloop, 99, of Monroe, formerly of Charlotte died June 12, 1988. Harry and Bryant Funeral Home is in charge.

Mrs. Betty Jane Davis Young, 48. of 2105 Canterwood Dr. Apt. 7 died June 12, 1988, at home.

Alexander Funeral Home is in charge. Compiled by Tamalia Moore Mary Curlee Harrop, Cancer Society Leader By MARIA DOUGLAS Staff Writer Mary Curlee Harrop knew how to give back to her community. was one of those people that gave everything," said Marjorie Gray, a friend and board member of the Mecklenburg Unit of the American Cancer Society while Mrs. Harrop was executive secretary. "She always walked that extra mile.

"She was one of those people that could inspire you to do things because she worked hard herself." Mrs. Harrop, executive secretary of the Mecklenburg Unit from 1959 to 1974, died Saturday, June 11, 1988. The Charlotte native was 79. Earlier, Mrs. Harrop worked for the Tuberculosis Association in Charlotte and in Camden, S.C.

"She wanted to move into community service," recalled Gray. "I heard her say this: She wanted to do something with her life to truly serve her community," said Gray. Gray said the Mecklenburg Unit grew under Mrs. Harrop's direction. "They went into schools and clubs with educational programs about cancer." She said the unit won national awards in the 1960s for educational programs and outstanding visual displays.

As executive secretary, Mrs. Harrop, duties education included for the fundrais- American Cancer Society in Charlotte. "She enjoyed what she did and felt it was very important her contribution to society," said her daughter, Betty Salmond. Mrs. Harrop was a member of Selwyn Avenue Presbyterian Church.

SHELBY Mr. Walter Cline Swink. 75. VALDESE Mr. John Bertalot, 76.

YADKINVILLE Mr. Carl Edward Wilkins, 59. South Carolina DILLON Mrs. Clara Ammons Bennett, 78. DOVESVILLE Mr.

Monroe Gainey, 62. LANCASTER Mrs. Mary Kathleen Jones Adams, 56; Mrs. Dorothy Thurman Hegler, 71; Mrs. Helen Trull, 87.

McCOLL Mrs. Lula Thelma Shuford, 82. YORK Mrs. Edith Darr Dover, 60. Gray recalled years ago when Mrs.

Harrop was a Sunday school teacher at Caldwell Memorial Presbyterian Church. "I talked to some of her students and they said they didn't like to miss her class because she was such a wonderful Sunday school said Gray. "She was very remarkable," said Gray. Survivors are her son, Ben Harrop of Lakeland, daughter, Mrs. Betty Salmond of Rock Hill; and four grandchildren.

The funeral is 3 p.m. today at Sharon Memorial Park, Charlotte. Bass Funeral Home of Rock Hill is in charge. Memorials can be made to the American Cancer Society, 500 E. Morehead Suite 211, Charlotte, N.C.

28202; or to a church of the donor's choice. An Obituary For Catherine Hillis Hovis Also Appears At The Beginning Of The Classified Section And, on June 23, officials with the City of Columbia and Columbia Development Corp. will reopen the Big Apple club, completely renovated. The club, Jergenson said, was rundown and had been moved to a new site at Hampton and Park in downtown Columbia. streets, development corporation bought the building.

Even the stained glass dome was rehabilitated, as was the balcony where Bill Spivey and his friends first watched the dance. The club is leased to a Columbia catering firm, and the hall will be open for catered functions. On June 25, the city will host a party at the club, with music from the 1930s. There will be contests of dances during the '30s and other periods, including the shag, the S.C. state dance.

"All this has had very nice timing," Jergenson said. "'We were getting ready to open up the Big Apple and saw this as an opportunity to get some BEASLEY'S FUNERAL HOME All Funerals are Price Casket Service Cremations Starting $250.00 2706 Newland Rd. Charlotte 704-399-1666 the buzz? Find out June 14th in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER..