an ed 33-year old Ro mary
ed DeLeon outed the day
e got her first .really good
paying job: operating a
bl b ckhoe tractor in the
aebo C ruction
lnd try under the hot
T suo.
It nrst for th
- engineering companying,
d a firs f. her. This
divorced mother of fl
lth a . th-gr de educa-
tio fmally able to
upport r family n a
living
"I getting a
flli n
4· Tllin
I ill di
from
and
J\undred and thirty-five
do a month from el
fare to take care of flY
kids. Ho could anybody
Ii e on that?"
make
ASHVILLE - A
resoundin call for re-
claiming and. pre rvin
8 c religiou musi c, in
cluding piritual jazz and
pel on as mad
here early in December
duringa nited ethodist
onsored con ultation
ore than 60 81a k
local church musician
mostly from the south
east, attended the wee -
end con ul ta tion
ponsored by the Cen ter
of Continuing Education
at rrit t college, th
C Board of Displeship
and the Council on
ministri of th South
eastern Jurisdiction.
Several leaders at
con ultation . d the
grea te t threa t to th or
viv of tr ditional 81 c
religious music i th Black
person who i con�ced
th t Bl music i in
ferior to the traditional
European or
church mu . c.
note WI
sounded by keyno e
speaker Dr. Odell Hob,bs
coordin tor of fane art
of Virginia Union
university in Richmond.
're afraid b our-
I ,'he . d e 've
been taught to forget our
herit "
, The
tio
d
high. school equi,vaknC¥
diploma. "I feel good about
my lf", id, "I feel
though I' really done
something. I've go lot
more confidence."
Ho did Ro mary
Deleon t off I fare?
e had the good
fortun to find Lupe
guiano and her group,
ational omen's Employ
ment and Education, Inc.
E) in San Antonio,
An�o h come
up ith on alternative
an er to th If-perpetu-
a1ing syndrome. E, a
nonprofit organization, is
doing the unheard of: get
ting omen ho are family
heads off elfare into job ,
and eeping there.
Why i succeeding
here so many other
failed? P rt of the cret
ms to be th t m mbers
of Lupe Anguano's taff
have b n there them
They h lived on
month d felt the
frustr ti
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th t un-
om n ith littl
<X no job experience n d
individual nurturing and en
coura ment. 0 t
importantly they n d If
confidence and prid .
In a on -m nth
course EE give 1
income . om n who \ are
he of amilies and di
pi d homemakers trainin
in job intervi wing, employ-
ment a1 , rti n
training pers nal grooming
and budgeting, plus tour of
local busin s, Th omen.
e then pi ced in either
job-training or required
dernic ou s or in jobs
themsel . But the program
doem's stop there. E
folio -up program include
omen eekly and
arranging monthly meetings
for rapping and feedb
ions. All thi under-
standing and individual·
ttention may explain hy
E has 92-percent
cce rate
. t the Iocal go rn-
mental bureaucracie ' 11 to
16-percent.
Old of An uiano's
tee . spre ding. Peop
in Dallas have ed for
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