Black actors on TV see mixed progress and risk
Black actors say TV today offers more work and better parts, with 17 in continuing network roles this season and more expected. Yet some warn the trend could fade, risking backlash. Actors like Nichelle Nichols and Ivan Dixon cite improved opportunities and merit-based advancement, while noting a prior shortage of visible role models.
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Percy Rodriguez
Peyton Place
Ivan Dixon
Rodriguez
Dixon
Hogan's Heroes
Work Upstages Tokenism in Laugh-In Era
Hollywood talks tokenism as black actors push for real parts. Chelsea Brown and peers say they are judged as humans not tokens while embracing new opportunities in Peyton Place and Julia. They defend progress despite mixed views on role types and preaching.
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Percy Rodriguez
Ruby Dee
Glynn Turman
Peyton Place
Greg Morris
Mission: Impossible
Chelsea Brown
Laugh-In
Hollywood
NEA
Community colleges gain top transfer priority in state system
Hancock College’s Dean of Counseling says junior college transfers will receive first consideration for admission to California State Colleges next fall. The system will look first at community college transfers, signaling strong endorsement and growing enrollments statewide. Officials promise to do everything possible to place transfer students at campuses of their choice. In another note, Mrs. Francis Barnier contemplates names Enos and Enough for her newborn twins.
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Leon Vawter
Hancock College
Vawter
California State College
Vanter
Emmett T. Long
Hancock College students reach state scholarship semis
Four Hancock College students from the Lompoc area are among a dozen semi finalists in the California State Scholarships competition. Names include John L Anderson Cheryl M Crisafulli Joann P Draper and Robert E Northrop with others at Hancock and local areas.
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Hancock College
Lompoc
John L. Anderson
Cheryl M. Crisafulli
Santa Maria
Joann P. Draper
N. Z
Robert E. Northrop
Calle Nueve
Hancock
Virginia Combs
Linda Bourage
Daniel Boyce
Sharon Center
Nancy Graham
Mark Hathaway
Guy Hayashi
Walter Lester
Christine Stanley
California State Scho
Pianist Landon Young to Perform at Hancock College
Landon Young an assistant professor of music at UCSB will headline Hancock College Sunday concert at 4 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center playing Bach Frig Suite Beethoven Op 53 and works by Fricker Chopin Prokofiev after intermission. Tickets 1 for adults 50 cents for students group discounts for 20 plus available at the box office on campus. The event is part of UCSB faculty concert series with two more concerts scheduled March 16 and April 13. A second item mentions an Artist and Models Ball in Acapulco with a prize for the most outrageous costume.
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Hancock College
Performing Arts Center
Landon Young
University of California, Santa Barbara
Young
Hancock
New Theater
UCSB
John Gillespie
Carl Zytowski
Lloyd Browning
Schubert
Bach
Bethoven
Fricker
Chopin
Prokofieft
Acapulco
Mexico
Mission Hills community notes and meetings update
Scout Troop 68 boards of review set for Feb 13 at 7 to 9 pm at Mission Hills Community Center with public invited. Los Berros PTA activities include candy sale ongoing through Feb 14, hot dog sale benefit and film nights.
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Boy Scout
Mission Hills Community Center
Camp Fire
Bluebirds
Los Berros
Ralph Byers
Ways and Means
P.T.A
Mines
al Ascherl
John Barbasiewicz
Walt Burnett
Carol Daggett
Lee Jamison
Mike Malone
Dan Paulsen
Rex Radabaugh
Ron Scraggs
Louis Shanteler
David Spiker
Robert Taylor
Jean Luck
Los Berros P.T.A. Execu
Mission Hills Community Council
Mission Hills
Earl Litterer
Earl Jr
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