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1963
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Birch Tree" Goes Into Rehearsal
Queens Tops
N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Dec. 1, 1W» • »
Staten Island Co-ed Reigns As “Miss Curtis High
Negro Girl
Wins Top
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With casting completed, Direct-
r Lynne Hunter launced the
NCORE PLAYERS yesterday
ith the first rehearsal of "Shad-
*' of tlje Birch Tree” a three-
et dr ahi a written by ENCORE
tember Gertrude Greenidge.
his play, the first of three pro-
uctions planned for fhe group’s
utugural season, is scheduled
> open in mid-January and will
ave alternating casts
Re-creating their original roles
rill be Eleanor Chapman, Gary
.awson, Roy Gunn, and Fred
Morgan. The alternating casting
nakes possible the use of such
new talents as Bill Pemberton,
i Sher 11 Porter, Alex Stokes, Ed
ward Dougherty. Emily Jones,
Betty Howard and Ted Hubbard.
Ted Hubbard will also double
as Asst. Director Stage Man-
lager is Bernice Blonstein with
I Set design by Pat Edwards
The costumes for this produc
tion will be created by the noted
designer John Lee.
Salvation Army
I By giving to The Salvation
| Army Annual Christmas Appeal
you share with someone in need
at this joyous season.
AF Recruiting
The United States Air Force
Recruiting Sector in Queens re
ceived a handsome award from
Air Force Recruiting Headquart
ers. having been selected as the
outstanding recruiting sector with
the highest overall production In
the New York and Long Island
metropolitan areas
Sergeant John W. Combs, sec
tor supervisor, accepted the a-
ward from Lt. Colonel James
Childs, Air Force Recruiting Ser
vice Commander of New York
and Long Island.
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THREE***
In Fifths,and Handy
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. —
Charming and disarming Shir-
leen Tucker, 17-year-old senior at
Curtis High School is reigning
queen at her school for a year,
having won the coveted title of
"Miss Curtis High School."
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Da
mon Tucker. Jr., of 29 Warren
Street, the beauteous, scholarly
teenager has become accustom
ed to winning plaudits for her at
tractiveness and academic class
room achievements.
A Finalist
Recently, she was one of 24 fin
alists in a beauty contest con
ducted among high school girls. A
picture of the winner was fea
tured on the cover of a daily
newspaper's magazine section.
Miss Tucker is looking forward
to entering Hunter College upon
graduation in June, and she as
pires to teaching German in a
City public school. One of two
children, she “adores” her broth
er, Michael, 14, who is a Curtis
High sophomore.
English, American history, steno
and typing. When she relaxes, she
said she likes to sew and make
some of her dresses. S ,
Beaming with , paternal pride,
her father told this newpaper:
"My wife and I are quite happy
that she won the contest. Al
though I must admit we were a
little surprised when she won.
Yet, we've known from the time
that she was a baby, that she
is an above average child .”
SHIRLEEN TUCKER
^J4eart
By LILLIAN JAY
AI Paynter
The Club of Girl Scout Leaders,
Monitors of Class 6-3, Class
Bethune District, Mary Harwell,
5-2, and Class 5-3 were present
president, held its annual Inter
ed in a skit Friday which drama
nationa I Luncheon at Bethel Meth
tized situations between monitors
odist Church, 54 W. 130th St.
Ben E. King sends hellos to ail an<j children. Actors read unfin-
Program chair ladies were,
you guys and gals who were on 19hed stories leaving the endings
Mrs. Lillian Kelly, chairman of
the scene at the "Apollo'’ where jto
su,pPiie(j by pupils in the
Carver Neighborhood and Mrs.
he upset the stage with his way-| audience.
Thelma Harwell, Leader, Mrs.
out voice. Speaking of way-out
Kelly presented a group of dolls
events — Dig This. A few bus
and explained their historical
loads of those foxy looking stu
background. Mrs. Thelma Har
dent nurses of Harlem Hospital
well danced an Indian dance
made a weekend party at Niagra
Denise Smith, Karen Outlaw,
'Children at Play”. Leaders, re
Falls. All these girls partying
back recalls the record "Where Deborah Wright, Roseline Savage sponsible for the international
repre-
Pupils who participated in the
assembly under direction of Sel
ma Negrin, school guidance coun
selor, are:
Nancy Blount,’ Mabel Drayton, luncheon wore costumes
Charlene Lee, Helen Smith, Sam senting various -countries.
Ward, Manuel Pedroso, Eric Lar
ry, William Campbell, Paul Lloyd
Leaders, who participated are,
Bobby Howell, Ulyssis Fletcher,
Beatrice Izzard, Gloria Gillard,
Eugene Donnell, Cannon Rodrig
uez, Jheryl Mitchell, Diane Mon- Dorothy N. Peterson, Grace
crief. Annette Pennington, and Brown. Margaret Williams, Maiy
Leaders
Long, Celeste Purnell, Geraldine
Gray, Susan R. West, Brunhilda.
Simmons, Lucille Kirkland.
Others are, Mrs. George North-
croft, Ethel Ray, Mrs. Emily
Graham and Mrs. Juanita James.
Mrs. Thompkins prepared the
Spanish food for St. Marks Evan
gelist Church. She is the mother
of Frhncine Thompkins, Sr. Girl
Scout.
Guests included, Nancy E, Mc
Carthy, field advisor; Mrs. Nelia
Martin, Deputy Comrniasioeer;
Mrs. Norman Richardson, Neigh
borhood; Mrs. Mozeila Stewart,
Mrs. Mamie Ballard, ’’Alvina
Brown, Mrs. Doris Simmons,
Mrs.' Jacqueline Costello, Mrs.
Hester Davenport, Mr*. Helen
Henderson, Mrs. Dollie Mouzoo,
Mrs. Eliza Pinn, Cherry Draye
aw hkrs. Marvin B. Eckford. She
the Boys Are” (smile). Balanc
ing their nursing duties, these
girls have many social activities
such as: dances, raffles, cake
sales, etc. One of the most shape
ly nurses on the campus is Blond-
ell (Comments accepted).
Marita Green of the Bronx cele
brated her 19th birthday by hav
ing a swinging birthday gig 3t
her lovely pad in the Bronx. Ail
the favorite sounds of Latin, Rock
& Roll as well as Jazz was en
joyed over good GRIT by her
many guests.
Swinging
Betty Odom, Angelo Wider,
Elaine Chambers and Diane were
a few of the guests who made
this an enjoyable occasion. Mar
ita is a graduate of Roosevelt
High School and is presently
working at one of the Large In
surance Companies. The Casuals
held a swinging dance at the
Omega House in Manhattan.
Vionccia Doyle is not only an
interesting model but is very
talented in the field of drama
and the dance. She has appeared
at many top known clubs dis
playing her talents. If there is
any photographer who is looking
for a subject, drop a line to
yours truly and I’ll see what
can be arranged. (Swinging).
- Wicked Game
Matthew Fields.
Trinidadian
Named Howard
Woman Of 63
WASHINGTON, D C. — Marga
ret Cowie, 23-year-old voice maj
was represented by the Deputy
Harwell, Sarah Stewart, Lucilje Commissioner; Mrs. Nelia Mar
i Younger, Corrine Walker, Marie
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tin.
College Opportunities
For Minority Youths
Minority group students in the goals and purposes of the Higher
fully
Horizons program and is
prepared to accept the applica
tions of students from disadvan
taged backgrounds.
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or from Trinidad, West Indies, Higher Horizons program here
has been named “Woman of the are being offered additional op-
Year” at Howard University for portunities to go to college, the
Board of Education announced.
1963.
A senior in the College of Fine College Admissions Center in
Arts, she dreams of becoming a ^vians5°n; Illinois, has offered to
help Higher Horizons boys and
girls gain admission to colleges
in various parts of the country.
The Center is maintained by
the Association of College Ad
missions Counselors, which is in
turn an agency supported by pri
vate residential colleges.
psychiatrist. Miss Cowie develop
ed an interest in mental health
and psychiatric work while a
student at Naparima Girls High
in San Fernando, Trinidad.
Music Award
Landers said that high school
guidance counselors will join in
the new ACAC project by recom
mending students they believe,
can benefit from a residential
college education. The students,
will be recommended on the ba
sis of school records in the light
of environment and opportunity,
personal maturity, motivation
and basic intelligence.
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Coordinator Jacob Landers
said that ACAC is aware of the
School Study
Center
The Mark Hopkins JHS 33,
70 Tompkins Ave., Brooklyn, has
been selected as an "After School
The study Center". The program
started Wednesday Dec. 4.
Weekday hours are 3 to 5 p.m.
and Saturdays 9:30 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. The program will give as-
sistanceVMath or written Eng
lish; furnish homework rooms
with tutorial help as well as
library facilities with the aid of
a school librarian.
P.S. 33 principal Sydney Klev-
orick said, “Our students are
being encouraged to come.
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upon being crowned, she said:
Chosen to represent the school,
facitp PANF LISTS
by members of the student body, LRB-y* LEAGUE PANELISTS
Marcia Young (left) and
Nancy Steeger, daughters re
"I am very proud and happy.
spectively of the League’s ex-
I honor and prize this title and
the students who gave it to me.” ecutive director and president.
^levision and radio star
ently carrying include German,! *** turness at I4ational Ur'
Subjects Miss Tucker is pres-
ban League headquarters, 14
E. 48th Street Saturday, where
Miss Furness served as panel
moderator at The National Ur
ban League Youth Communty
first meet. Attended by some
60 young people of highschool
and college age, the day-long
session was held to -set up a
national youth leadership or
ganization to foster the League’s
goal of equal opportunities for
all. — (Gilbert Photo)
"Who's Who"
RICHMOND, VA. — Richard
to the Virginia pupils, without
charge, by Regan Brothers, of
Montclair.
Punch of Brooklyn is among
twenty-one Virginia Union Uni
Mississippi Purge
versity students elected to be in
JACKSON, Miss. — A group of
eluded in “Who’s Who In Ameri- housewives here called for a
can Colleges and Universities” purge of school textbooks charg-
for the 1963-64 academic year, ing that their children were be-
Others honored are, Wesely B. ing subjected to brainwashing be-
cause the books advocate “be
lief in the brotherhood of all peo
ple-” ,
Carter, Richmond; Mary Whel-
ler, Wilson, N.C.; Dennis West
brook, Homestead, Pa.; Marion
Bey, Richmond; Marjorie Turn
er, Midlothian. Va.; Channing
Smith. Middleburg. Va.; Eva
Crew, Charles City. Va.: Andrea
Paige, Richmond; Audrey King,
;Richmond: Lonnie Dunn, Nor
folk; Gloria Jett, Flint Hill, Va.;
Scott Lowe, Charlottesville, Bren
da Anderson, Oxford, N.C.
The*women, wno were joined
by Governor Ross Barnett, chair
man of the Textbook Purchasing
Board, told the board that the
books should be eliminated. How
ever, Ottis Allen, president of the
State Association of School Ad
ministrators, told the mothers
that professional educators were
competent to judge textbooks. At
press time, the integrated text-
Art Award
Also. George Glee, Suffolk, Va.;
Beth Yancy, Washington, D.C.;
Eleanor Turner, Midlothian; Son- books were still being used?
nie Cuffie, Smithfield, Va.; Ray
mond Young, Leesburg: George
Jenkins, Monongahela. Pa
Raymond Gavins, Atlanta.
anti James Ellerbee of PS
299.
, Brooklyn, was awarded an Art
Scholarship to Pratt Institute's
.Saturday morning school.
The
MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Observ- grant was sponsored both by
ing National Book Week, 7th, 8th Pratt Institute and the PS 299
and 9th grade pupils in Mrs. Em-
ilie Feinour’s English class at
the George Inness Junior High
School packed twenty-three car
tons with 2,000 books and sent
them to the Robert Moten High
Book Corps
Parents Association.
TV Sundav
Diahann On
Prince Edward
County
'RICHMOND, Va. — The Vir
ginia Supreme Court ruled 6-1
Diahann Carroll nas been sign- School in Farmville, Virginia,
Monday that Virginia cities and
ed to appear on NBC-TV's Best; The Moten School, in Prince
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on Record special Sunday at 10 Edward County, is a free school £ree pu|jjjc schools,
p m., taking over the spot origi- with 1,700 students, most of them
nally set for Vaughn Meader. (Negroes. The county closed all
Sammy Davis Jr. who was to its public schools in 1959 because
have introduced Meader is also the court ordered schools inte-
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The ruling was a set-back to
Negroes and the NAACP, who
are attempting to re-open public
schools in Prince Edward Coun
ty, where they were closed in
1959 to circumvent court-ordered
desegregation.
The effect of the ruling was
to leave the final decision up to
the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief
Justice John W. Eggleston wrote
"the refusal of Hie highest court
of the State to recognize the
rights of citizens of Prince Ed
ward County ... is a clear in-
vitation to the federal courts to
step in and enforce such rights.
Two Systems
Prince Edward County,, a rur
al area, some 70 miles from
Richmond, was one of the prin
cipals in the U.S. Supreme
Court’s historic public school de
segregation decision, May 17,
1954.
Public schools are still closed
in the county where two educa
tional systems are operating. One
is a private, segregated system
for whites, begun in 1959 and the
other is a free school system
started in August for all children
of the country.
National Urban
League
A new action role for Ameri
can youth in helping adult organ
izations to close the economic and
social gap between conditions of
Negro and white citizens was
shaped Saturday at a. meeting in
NUL headquarters, 14 E. 48th St.
A group of 60 young people,
representing high school and col
lege student bodies in the New
York and nearby areas, met dis
cussed and mapped plans for an
organization to be known as the
Urban League Youth Commun
ity-
Purpose
Purpose of the new action
group, according to Nancy Stee
ger and Marcia Young, who
jointly originated the idea, is to
provide an organized means, pat
terned to supplement the League
program, for young people to do
something definitive in meeting
the economic and social prob
lems that affect the futures of
Americans.
The Youth Community propos
al, devised by the two girls, both
17, was presented by them at the
League’s Delegate Assembly In
Los Angeles, receiving hearty en
dorsement and the go-ahead from
the Assembly, highest policy-mak
ing body of the organization.
All the high schools are pre
paring for the basketball season
This is the time when all the
boys on the squad play a wicked
game of ball so that they can
make it t<? the Garden. (Party
Time). Yorkville Vocational High!
School for girls on East 88th nineteen
Street is really deep. It is so
deep it’s almost drowning.
Scene).
Betti Patterson one of the stu
dents at this school is also em
ployed at Harlem Hospital as a
Co-Educational Trainee working
in the Personnel Department.
She is really making headway
in the secretarial field. Did you
know that our boy “Symphony
Sid” names a particular record
of the week and if you mention
the name at one of Harlem's
leading record shops you may
purchase it at retailers price.
(Gasser).
Songbird
Upon being told that she was
the Howard Women’s Club of
Washington’s choice for the hon
or, Miss towie said:
“I cani^iardly bel:
believe I won,”
she said. "I had no idea that I
could even qualify.”
Accustomed to winning awards
and honors, her competition in
Trinidad music festivals resulted
in her winning the Governor's
Cup and the Radio Trinidad Cup.
(Get Back On
The Youth group at the Har
lem Branch of the YMCA is real-
ly doingthings up this seasoa.
went to view the Princeton -
Brown game at Princeton. This
group participated at City Hall
on Eelection Day. It portrayed
regular legislatures and even
passed and presented bills. This
is just- what we need (Chuckle).
The Junior Leadership group
attended a conference held at its
summer camp (Green) upstate
New York eariy in October. Gra
de Williams one of the "Pala-|
dium” queens was seen in Twen
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Singer Jackie Wilson's sister
Joyce has cut down on her social
life. The latest message reveals
that she isn’t singing Rock &
Roll, but is on the Rock A Bye
Baby tune.Ralph Wheat of Man
hattan, what’s happened to the
Social Club you planned to or
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Johnson of the Bronx IS gettingj^,^ little things in life getting you
down? Does your wife snore? Is the
ready to pop a question (?) to
garbace man your SAM. alarm clock?
Joyce Diamond of the Terrace.
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$3,500,000 the City just handed
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! “needed to immediately de
segregate" the City’s Jim Crow have served notice:
public schools.
strings and standing in line
hoping and praying for appoint
ment as an after school tutor
in Harlem.
Negro teachers, who say so far.
they've been excluded from earn
ing this extra $150* per week,
Who’s Kidding Whom?
We will not sit idly on the
Public School principals and sidelines while principals over
assistant principals are up to; look us and hand the extra wind-
HERE dispensing patronage and fall to “favorites."
deciding which teachers will
this new taxpayer
share In
bonanza.
Racing to meet a December
9, "desegregate schools or we
boycott” deadline School Chief
Much of the money has been
Dr. Calvin Gross said in an in
allocated to staff after school
terim report on pisns to integrate
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Face!
THIS IS DESEGREGATION???
The Board’s integration plan
was submitted to Dr. James E
Allen Jr., State Commissioner of
Education last August after Allen
told the Board that such plans
for districts with SO per cent or
more Negroes and Puerto Ricans
hnust be on his desk, by August
Reports from behind the 110 »•
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before wanted to come to teach ■ every page of this Issue of The
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