BO S banquet
h ld and animated by real
te appraiser Norma J. Mar­
tin and ca r diplomat Herman
W. Henning p iding over the
remoni . Jeny L. Taylor, re­
tired Deputy Director of Equal
Employment Opportunity at the
National Security Agency. He
gil thought-provoking key­
note d to the Warriors, the
Booker T. Washington High
�oolmclmam.He�tM
timely qu ion: Are you cur-
ntly a warrior? Bo en etijoyed
m ic done by Amanda Sargent.
Then Bowen said she partici­
p ted in the Congressional Re­
ception in the Gold Room of the
Sam Rayburn House Office
Building which opened th reun­
ion and the pool-side picnic at
the estate of wealthy classmate­
businessman, Frank Mitchell.
She enjoyed all the events with
the exception of the Sunday
church services held at the Zion
Baptist Church that her cl
part icip t ich
could 'nt at of
departure for home.
"We hated leaving each
other," Bowen said "But we
vowed to be at the next reunion
in '96 hich will take place on a
cruise."
B.
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rom , VI vi n (1 ) Jo , B
(King) Terrell, CI·r ( Wh ,orma (Bell) artin, M . Todd,
Daisy (Archibald) Bowen, Lou (Harri ) Banks, Azaline (McGee) Le ter.
Second row: Roosevelt Jones, Lula (Hays) McLaughlin, Jamesetta
(Hale) Colbert, Janie Cooley, Vera (Gibson) McFarland, Jerri (Jones)
, , Flora (Cole)' Simmons, .
V rnette (Wright) Will, fr d Rudd y (Brooks) Holti ,Gus Plump,
Velma (Tate) Logan, Frank Mitchell, Herman Henning, Frankie (Pegues)
Taylor, Bettye Robinson. Third row: Sam Henderson, Je e Haywood,
Willie Clark, Thomas Boyce and Flelx Mitchell.
The second annual Kwan­
zaa/Karamu Awareness, An Af­
rican-American Celebration, is
being presented as a series of
activities at Highland Park's
Henry Ford Elementary School,
181 Pilgrim.
, The observance was launched
Dec. 1 with the two- hour after­
noon Awareness Workshop, fea­
turing student-conducted "live
centers". These included mak­
ing Kwanzaa cards, games,
, banners and pins; singing
beads; a presentation on African
attire; teaching African dance,
and the Nguza Saba, the seven
principles of Kwanzaa, a tradi­
tional African holiday, through
song; and teaching how to count
in Swahili, a major East African
language. Ford School's 17-
member Kwanzaa team, chaired
by teacher Juanita Wither-
poon, planned the activity.
As a community service pro­
ject in the spirit of Kwanzaa and
ita principles, Witherspoon and
her. fifth-grade class are donat­
ing a hand-made Kwan­
z a/Karamu banner to
Detroit-based Homes for Black
Children. The Ford students
will also conduct a workshop for
children of the Homes.
A thematic teaching unit de­
veloped by Witherspoon has 13
objectives spelled out.
Kwanzaa,inaugurated in
1966 by American civil rights
activist Dr. Maulana Ron
Karenga, and celebrat d by
many African-Americans, is a
seven-day non-religious holiday
designed to encourage people to
think about heir frican r ts
as well as their Liv in Amer-
ica. The nationwide ob ervance,
Dec. 26 through Jan. 1, is based
on African festivals. The term
"Kwanzaa" means "the first
fruits".
ITS SEVE PRINCIPLES
ar : ( 1) Umoja, unity for family,
community, and country; (2) Ku­
jichagulia, elf-determination;
3 Ujima, working gather 0
olve problems; (4) Ujamaa,
ANOTHER community­
service project, Ford teacher De­
lore Dillard and her
third-graders will decorate a
Kwanzaa tr and donate it to
Children's Hospital of Michigan,
in Detroit.
In the piritofKuumba (crea­
tivity), Ford parent Lorn Bing
oonducted a hands-on workshop
over two days for Witherspoon's
fifth-graders, teaching them
how to make African pins. Stu­
d nts were to give th pins as a
zawadi (gift) to their paren
during the Karamu progr m
Dec. 8. Bing is also making Afri­
can attire for four classes.
I
WWJ (AM) News Radio 95
will feature th Highland
Park School Distri 's Harvey
C. Jackson, Jr., M morial
Scholarship in th .. � alut to
chool "s ri .
The mini-f tur ,hosted
by WWJ Community Affairs
Director Synthia Bryant, will
be air d a h following
tim ,a 950 on the dial:
Sunday, D . 199:53 a.m.,
1:53 p.m., 9'2 p.m.
Tuesday, . 21 10:51
a.m., 2:51 p.m., 7:51 pm.
Thur d y, D c. 23 :52
a.m., 1: 3 p.m, :51 p.m
ft r r ivmg t il in­
form tion on th ch larship
yst m, Bryant in rviewed
Public Information Officer
Greg Byndr i nand 1989
scholar hip wrnn r Shan­
galeza Robi n, ichigan
t t Unive ity gr du te
nd now an ru ign u ti­
ut cher a HIghland
P rk Bar r c hool.
Th a h
month is set aside by CBS­
owned WWJ to spotlight a
Wayne County school district
other than Detroit, for which
th fourth week is reserved.
mong 33 Wayne County
school districts other than De­
troit .
Highland Park has been
accorded a "Salute" four
school years in a row. Pre-
viou WWJ mini-featu sa-
luted Highland Par
ommunity High School's Air
oroo Junior ROTC (Decem­
ber 1990), the Highland
ark/Warr n Fitzgerald Part­
n hip (F ruary 1992 , and
he Running Start first-grade
r ding challenge (July 1993).
The Wayne County Re­
gional Educational Service
Agency channels information
about "Salute to Schools" op­
portunities offered by WWJ to
local district . J annine
ronkhi . School-Commu­
nity Relations Cons iltant for
W A
building stores, shops, and busi­
n ; (5) In, to build and de­
velop the community; (6)
Xuumba, creativity or making
the world clear and beautiful;
and (7) Imani, faith.
Kwanzaa is climaxed by ajoy­
ful celebration of food, dance,
and music. In the feast,
Karamu, children receive gifts,
and tell how they will improve
their lives by using the seven
principles in the coming year.
Karamu at Ford School is a late
afternoon event ec. 8.
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