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CICELY TYSON and Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohlo) stand In front of a statue of Rosa Parks during a recently party at the National Portrait Gallery In Washington, O.C. The party celebrated the premiere of “An American Portrait”, a new series of one-minute specials that focuses on relatively unknown citizens who have left a mark on some aspect of American life. The specials are broadcast Mondays through Fridays, 8:58-8:59 PM, ET, on the CBS Television Network. Miss Tyson s “American Portrait subject was Rosa Parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to sit in the colored” section of a public bus In 1955 helped to crystalize the Southern civil rights movement.Porter teacher honoredjp David Payne was named by the r Cincinnati Board of Education as £$he Distinguished Teacher for the f.ir»onth of September. Payne was incited as being an outstanding ^Occupational Work Adjustment Ijteacher at Porter Junior High w€chool He was recognized for his lability to motivate and develop ^enthusiasm in his students.v One of the methods Payne uses y4o motivate his students is incentive programs. He developed incentives such as “Student of the ?VVeek and Citizenship awards rko reward positive results in school :*and students' participation in ^extra-curricular activities. In addition, Payne encourages businesses to contribute to school {^activities by donating quarterly Cjawards for classroom achieve-ITuskegee airmen supported one anotherment, work experience and attendance.Students in Payne’s Occupational Work Adjustment classes are exposed to a variety of learning situations, both in and out of the classroom, which all serve as motivational tools. Work experiences including handling public relations for local businesses, painting classrooms in the school building, and tutoring after school hours in local elementary schools.In addition to his duties as a teacher, Payne contributes many volunteer hours to the school. He is the advisor to the Porter Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society. He is a member of Porter's Local School Budgeting Committee and the Safety and Discipline Committee, and also serves as cocoordinator of Porter's Annual Thanksgiving Basket Drive.NEW YORK-Wa had high hopes for one another, Lee Archer Jr., Vice President of the General Foods Corporation, said recently about life as a Tuskegee Airman more than 40 years ago.Addressing the 12th Annual Luncheon of The Edges Group, Inc., at the New York Hilton Hotel, Archer stated: “We pushed one another forward so that we might all succeed-even when we argued or fought, it was because w* all wanted everyone in the group to excel.The “Tuskegee Airmen, thefirst Blacky trained to fly by the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, made history as combat fliers in Europe and many have since gained prominence as both career military men and as civilians.Archer told the audience that “our entire group at Tuskegee excelled-even our failures were spectacular.”The luncheon Chairman and master of ceremonies was Stanley S. Scott, Vice President and Director of Corporate Affairs for Philip Morris Incorporated. Noting theluncheon theme, A Salute To The Black Pilots of Major Airlines,” Scott said, “today we pay tribute to all the Black men and women who have ever raised their eyes to the sky and said, ‘I too will fly’.Scott reminded the luncheon guests, including 30 current Black pilots from 14 airlines, of the sobering realities of racial stereotypes of the time. He told of a Tuskegee flyer, a captain, who observed an enlisted man askjng a white officer if it was “legal for a Black to be a captain.The keynote speaker, Robert L.HAVING A GREAT TIME, DELTA STYLE--National Praaidant Hortansa G. Canady, of Lansing, Michigan, and Dalta Sigma Thata 9orority Inc. (3rd from rt.) anjoys a happy momant with Delta Dorothy L. Haight, praaidant of the National Council of Nagro Woman, Inc., at a gala reception given by Delta at Washington s Mayflower Hotel to launch the new four-year program of study and travel, Dalta Internationale: The African Diaspora. Sharing the evening were from left, Olympic gold medalist Banlta Fitzgerald-Brown, a University of Knoxville student; Lady Sara Lou Carter, wife of the ambassador to the United States from Guyana; Attorney Frankie Freeman, of St. Louis, a Delta and long time member of the U.S. CMI Rights Commission and at far right, Mrs. Etta Moten Barnett, of Chicago, the first Bess in Gershwin s “Porgy and Bess. The Olympian holds a plaque given her by Delta Preeldent Canady In honor of her performance In winning the women s 100-meter high hurdles. Lady Sara served as honorary chair of the reception and Attorney Freeman and Mrs. Barnett serve on the advisory committee for the African Dlsaspora study led by Mrs. Lynnette Taylor, a Delta of Alexandria, Va. Ms. Fitzgerald-Brown is a native of Dale City, Va.Black lung aidMilitary newsAllen J. Broad-Governor Richard F. Celeste announced the award of $44,793 to Bethesda-Oak Hospital of Cin-Lung Clinic services retired, active and disabled coal miners living in a 17-county area of Southwesternnhiftbent, son of Frances E. Vanarsdall of Owenton, Ky., and Allan M. BroadbentCrandall, President and Chief Operating Officer, American Airlines, told the group that there would “be more opportunities in the airline industry in the future because we need to use the poten-tial of our workers to the maximum.”He said that Blacks had not always been welcomed as flyers and that “racial prejudice is an ugly blot in the history of aviation.” The Edges Group, he siad, had “been responsible for some real gains in this area.”Founded in 1969 to facilitate the entry of minorities into positions in both the public and private sectors, Edges is an acronym for much of the organization’s activities—employment, dissemination of information, group development, economic awareness and solving problems. Itscur-rent President is William H. Blakely Jr., Corporate manager, Employee Relations, Phibro-Salomon, Inc.Crandall was presented with the Edges' “Ruth Allen King Award,” named for the organization’s founder, and Archer received the Edges' Special Award.Captain William Norwood, a pilot for United Airlines and President of.the Organization of Black Airline Pilots, praised the Black World War II fliers for their pioneering efforts.They were before their time, Norwood said, “it was not a timely idea in the 1940s for Blacks to be pilots.There are at present some 140 Black commercial pilots flying today with major American airlines. The Organization of Black Airline Pilots conducts summer training programs in Tuskegee, AL., to instruct youths in the basics of flying and in the development of academic requirements required to become a pilot.During World War II, the first class of 13 Black aviation cadets began training at Tuskegee in July, 1941 Before the training at Tuskegee was ended in 1945, 992 American Blacks had ‘earned their wings ”In all the Tuskegee Airmen flew 15,553 sorties and completed 1,578 missions. Flying as the 332nd Fighter Group, they destroyed 111 enemy aircraft in the air and damaged another 25. On the ground they destroyed 150 enemy airplanes and damaged another 123.
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Cincinnati Call and Post
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 08, 1984
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