there she ent to Child
and Family Service where
orked a foster
care 0 er. She then
tought a cl at Lake . h­
College in Blac Liter­
ature. Her next po ition
u with the Dept. of
Civil Rights a field in-
s.. ells bom stigator.
and railed in Benton Har- So ell pre :Ilt job
bore She graduated from· lth the State Legisla-
Benton Harbor High School ture. She works with the
and from there ent on to Senate Fiscal Agency an
MiCbWm University �st. She livea in Lansing
lors and
degree She ob-
tained her phd in education
administration in otre
" I feel very clo to
Benton Harbor, 1 ha a
d p concern out its pro-
gress a city," said Pat
e ,fi analiyst with
the Se te Filcal Agency in
. ells comes from
a IY busy and very com­
munity invo d family.
Her father· Reverand a­
thanial ells, Sr., p or at
the Community Church of
God and Christ.' Her
mother is dred ells, a
Benton Harbor city corn­
IDlSIODer. s. Wells also has
a daughter of her 0
hanie, age 9.
Railed in Benton
bor, Ms. ells spent
half of her younger years
in egon where her
father was pastor of two
churche ,0 here in Ben­
ton Barbo and the other
in egon. So
actually had two homes,
and a ery varied childhood.
e1Is' first job
ere te ching at Benton
Harbor and u egon El -
mentary School. From
during the. ee and comes
home to Benton Harbor on
the ee ends - a ay of
life that clotely paralells her
ealier dwdhood hen sb
also lived in two different
home.
s. ells fee her
pre nt job with the Legis­
lature can help with some
changes in this area. "I
have high hope for Benton
Harbor and will try to do
all I can from the Lansmg
end to help ," she said.
PAT WELLS
•
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•
r CI
I
ells I very c­
live in her father' church,
the Community Church of
God and Christ. She is
licensed evangelist and has
been director of the choir
for the last 18 years. She is
also active in the television
ministry in Lansing. She
would sometime in the fu­
ture like to go full-time into
the ministry.
s. ells is also very
active in the community
affairs. She is .on the
Board of Directors at her
church and also on the
Board of the . chigan De­
mocratic Black Caucu . She
speak 2 foreign language
and in her "spare time"
has published two boo s!
They are titled: "CETA"
and "Vocational Rehabila­
tation,"
s. ells hobbies are
roller ating, crocheting
and softball. She abo likes
speaking foreign language .
Very concerned about
the area in which she grew
up, Ms. Wells has strong
feeling about Benton Har­
bor. "I fen that its (BH)
progre will be a struggle,
but with the cooperative
effort of busine ,city ,
and eduaction, as - well as
federal and teaid, we will
succeed."
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Th predominantly hite The dri is aimed t
United ethodist Church, wiping out discrimination
declaring e have sinned American Indian, Black
. our· ers and bro-· Asians, Hispanic and Pad-
then of other race ," is fic i anders ..
educing hiring quo The church go ming
its clergy and lay min- conference ruled that hiring
part of drive to of on- hite mu t be done,
ope out racism in America, in proportion to their repre-
according to an A-P story. ntation in society, t all
The declaration fol- leve of clerical and lay
o that of the United or "until ... our ohmtary
Stat Conference of Catho- performance m es that
lie B· op atement in Jan- pr tice unnecessary."
uary declaring "racism i a It al called for n t-
sin." ional and local church pro-
Saying the nation' gram to "increase the ap-
nd large Pro stant de- predation of other herit-
nomination haS ued in age" among its members
"racist system in the and to or for equality
ited State ," the church in h�sing, education and
ming conference ap- medical care for non- hites,
proved the quota system as Th United ethodist
part of -an eight-point pro- Church, second in size to
gram, the AP reported. the 13 million member
The 9.6 million mem- Southern Bapist Conven­
ber church . one of the
first denominations to fol­
low the example of the
tional Council of Church- J
in adopting measures
minority repre-
. n, is 95 percent white.
Its quadrennial con­
ference also approved a new
confe 'on. It ys: ' e
have sinned against our
sisters and brothers of other
race in thought, in ord
and in deed."
Delegates to the meet­
ing, which ends Friday,
declared that while racial
discrimination ha been of­
f1cially outla ed in the
United States, "social, eco­
nomic and political insti­
tution still discriminate.
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