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‘Wings ToAwaid1st Scholarship On January 7thFive prominent c i t i zens, sometime this week, will be I luncheon guests of Wings Ov- I er Iordan, at which time they will select a winner from a-1 mong scores of Cleveland high j school students who submit-1 ted essays in the Scholarship Contest sponsored by the in-1 ternationally-famous choir.Contest judges, announced last week by Director Glynn T. Settle, arc Rev. Wade H. McKinney, pas-tor of Antioch Baptist CJiurch;] Dean Charles S. Spivey, pastor of] St. John’s A.M.E. Church; Municipal Judge Perry B. Jackson, William O. Walker, editor of the Cleveland Call and Post; and John | Frew Morning, member of the Cleveland Board of Education.The awarding of the initial 1947 scholarship from the WINGS OVER JORDAN SPIRITUAL PRESERVATION FUND will be made by Rev. Glynn T. Settle, Founder, President and Director of WINGS OVER JORDAN, who! is making a special trip Into | Cleveland from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for the specific purpose of personally awarding some lucky youngster of Cleveland, a scholarship in music in keeping with lt;the plan of WINGS OVER JOR- lt;DAN to preserve ad to perpetu- ]' ate the Negro spirituals. lt;The general public will be in- i vited to attend the ceremonies attendant to the first of twenty such ] j awards to be made by WINGS lt;OVER JORDAN during the year lt;1947. Cleveland was selected by Rev. Settle as the city in which WINGS OVER JORDAN will launch their series of scholarship | (Continued on Page NINE-A) | *
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Call and Post
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 04, 1947
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