This Week In
Black History
J UA Y -11
, died. 1931- Claren�
tockbroker/buslne as
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W1Uch Bl«k religitus Imder
Mom bomloais Eugene Walcott?
JANUARY 9. 1866 - I
Unl w fouroed in Nash­
ville. Tenn. 1987 - Seven-footer
David taller than naval
regulations pennitted, was granted
a two-year tour 0 duty, allowing
him k> enter the NBA in th: 1989-
90 n.l�-Paull.Jlurence
. DunbRr,poet,died.rno-Mor­
Brown, church leader. AME.
bisrop. was born,
By 1983, how many Black
mayors were there in large and
smoJJAmerican cities?
JANUARY 10, 1938- W· .
(Stretch) McCovey, baseball
player, was born. 1961 - Char­
, layne Hun -Gault am Hamil­
t n Holme integrated the
niversity of Georgia in Athens.
1990 -Infielder; Joe Morgan, a
star with the Ho ton Astros, Cin­
cinnati Reds and San Francisco
Giants, was elected to tbe Baseball
Hall of Fame.
What wa� the earliest rationale
for the enslavement of Black
Africans?
JANUARY 1I, 1936 -
Charles W. AndeI"Dl, became
tlx: fiIst Black member 0 tre Ken­
tocky Legislature. 1958 - Althea
Glimn became the first BlOCK
named Female Athlete of the Year
by tre Associated Press. 1�--
'W deP trombonist. was
bom.
How many Blacks die t11f1WOlly
of stroke (hypertension)?
ANSWERS TO BLACK
HISTORY QUESTIONS
Sth - isaac Murphy, He was
sometimes referred to as "ue Black
Areber," after tre famous English
rider.
6th -Cardiss Collins (IL) took
tre seat of ber husband, George
Collirs, after be was killed in an
aiIplanc crash. ,
7th - Sergeant Jim Europe,
��r of the 369th Colored
Intantry marching band, during
World War I.
8th - Louis Farrakhan, Mus­
lim leader.
9th - Two hundred ard four
�) at tre erd of 1981. .
lOtb- Y . It is estimated that
tB:re were more than 6,em Black
slave-bolders. Some laves were
held for hwnanitarian purposes, but
most were probably not
11th - About 10 em Blacks
die annually'as a result of troke
��nsion).
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DETROIT
THE CITY' TH E open- nrollment
chools pa ed the accreditation team'
evaluation a traditional model:
C Technical High wa vi ited during
the 1985-86 chool year and will be r vi ited
during 1992-93. .
Manin Luther King Jr. High's la t vi it
wa during the 1989-90 chool year and will
be reviewed again during the 1996-97 chool
year.
A re ourc te m vi i
once y r durin th
cycle.
Th
o D troit' h chool , Murray-
Wri ht, rthwe t rn nd We tern cho e
m del 0 cl i i tion during n c-
credit uon t m' r view-vi it.
Ac ording to th orth Centr I
tion of Colle e nd School, nd th Univer­
ity 0 Michigan Bure u of Accreditation nd
School Improvem nt Studie , 19 Detroit high
chool rem in tradition 1 model hile th
Outcom mod I i currently being ed by
Murray-Wright, orthwe tern and We tern.
Glori Clar -Arnold, We tern High
School principal. aid her chool' cl ifica­
tion a an outcome model wa a choice made
by the chool ba ed on the need of the tu­
dent and not by the review team.
"We cho e that (model) because we felt
that i the wave of the future." Clark-Arnold
aid. "The outcome model i more rigorous,
We thought it wa. approplate."
TH � OUTCOME model is a five-year
proce focu ing on tudenl succes and
quality equity programs requiring schools to
document, within honer cycle, succe in
. school achievement with specific learning
goals.
Detroit foundation
helps suspended youth
By FLODEAN S. RIGGS
Michigan Citizen
Donna Lovette cern to think
that even student scheduled for
expu1si n aren't all that bad,
"They're not had kids."
Lovette said. "They arc good
kid who have made bad
deci ion ."
Lovette, education director of
the Metropolitan Detroit Youth
Foundation' Suspended Stu­
d nt-Dropout Prevention Pr -
gram said many of the children
sent to her have deeply-rooted
problems.
"They are typically kids with
a lot of home problems." she ex­
plained.
The five-year-old Learning
Center for Achievement has. ix
locatioru serving middle, chools
and high schools Including
Central, Chadscy, Cody, Denby,
Finney, Kettering. Martin
Luther King Jr. Mackenzie.
Northern, Pershing, Redford and
We. tern.
THE STUDENTS are given
a second chance by their home
chool principal. .
''It' a good program and a
very special program. II she said.
"If they successfully complete
our program and they do well in
their chool cIa se . They will be
re-enrolled in their home
chool."
Then they will be invited to
tutor incoming students at a pay
rate of $5 an hour.
Most students come into the
program because of truancy
problems and some come as a
resull of discipline problems.
"I don't think we have stu­
dents who have been (specifical­
I y) referred to us for that reason, II
she aid. "But once we talk, we
find out that many of them are
being pulled into the crime
scene."
VENISON PROCTER,
director of the center servicing
the middle schools. said hi pro­
gram is successful because the
selected students are the main
focus as opposed to an entire stu­
dent body such as in the schools.
Though students spend half a
day at the center. the environ­
ment is strict and their learning
is accelerated by the choice in
curriculum.
Along with reading, writing.
math and science the students
have a study period, guest
speakers, field trips and a skill
for learning class.
"They learn everything you
(they) need to survive,"
Procter said. "That in tum
takes the pressure off the child.
We talk about things most adults
don't talk to kids about."
Lovette explained that some
of the children ju t need to un­
derstand their role as a tudent,
and also the role of their parents.
Once they understand these
things they can concentrate on
being a better student and relat­
ing to their parents, Procter said.
"THAT HAS A lot to do with
saving a child in school." he said.
"We break down (inhibition ).
We de troy that here. (As a
result) They grow not only
academically. They grow them­
selves."
The program. has a S9oo,000
budget funded by the Michigan
Department of Education, sec­
. tion 149a State Aid Act.
The project period is Nov. 12,
1991 to Sept. 30, 1992. No local
funds are required.
Language classes to start
Resolve to. learn a second lan­
guage in 1992! Speak Japanese to
your Subaru' Order Ie diner en
francais ou en e pangnol.
Japane e. French and Spani h
will be taught at the International
Institute beginning the week of
January 13, for 13 weeks from 6-9
p.m. weekly.
. There are no grades orcredit, but
students will learn conversation and
basic grammar from fluent speak­
ing teachers.
Japane c teacher Meiling
Chang. a re ident of Mt, Clemens,
graduated from Daito-Bunka
University in Japan where he lived
for four years.
" RGE EL II Gt, French
teach r grew-up in Lebanon where
as a bi-lingual student. he spoke
French with a Pari ian accent. He
reside in Melvindale.
Spani h teacher. Orval Johnson,
a Detroit resident, pent many years
in Mexico after graduating from the
Univer ity of Michigan with a
major in Spani h.
A fee of S100 i due on January
3, 1992. For further information.
call Janice Mac Michael or Helen
Charney at 871-8600 �eekdays.
Detroit stores
barred from F
Stamp Progra
Big D Deli at 19346 W. Mc­
Nichols. Detroit. Michigan, owned
by Sylvana Batah; C&D Market at
8001 Lawton, Detroit, Michigan,
owned by Abdul-Amir Al-Khatji;
and Broadway Market at 22 9 Park,
. Detroit, Michigan. owned by Sabah
"Sam" Dlckow, have been per­
manently disqualified from the
Wayne County Food Stamp Pro­
gram, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture announced blast week.
All three firms were charged
with repeatedly accepting food
coupons in exchange for �sh, a
practice commonl y referred to a
tratficking.
Employes ofTh W IIness Plan designed and ere ted c tume for 200 doll which the Goodfellow will give
to needy childr n a �hri tm s presents. More than 100 employee each dre 'ed at Ie t one of the dol ,
which were .upplied by th Goodf llnws. The Welln 'Plan ave pecial recognition to Vivian Brown (1) and
Melba teed who together outfitted a total of 47 doll'. M . Brown clothed 23, and M. teed dr ed 24. The
Wellne Plan, lind r the dlr ction of Executive 'ecretary Audrey Price, began dre Ing dolls for' the
Goodfellow for the first time last y ur. Thi year mployees clothed twic a many doll a they did last year.
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