New York Amsterdam News — 1964-00-00009

ART BY GORDON PARKS — Gordon Parks, left, interna­ tionally known photographer, is shown at a recent exhibi­ tion of his artistic photographs at Morgan State College where he discusses his art, only one of his many talents, are, from left, Mr. Parks, James E. Lewis, head of the Depart­ ment of Art at Morgan; Mrs. Mary D. Irvine; Miss Diana F. Matzin, librarian and chief curator of the Baltimore Mu­ seum of Art; Dr. Lincoln Johnson, chairman. Depart­ ment of Art Goucher College. N. T. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Jan. 4, 1M4 INAFAD Award To Miss Baker The Waldorf-Astoria will be the setting for the annual Lunch­ eon-Fashion Show. January 5, to be presented by the National Association of Fashion and Ac­ cessory Designew, Inc. The event will, pay a tribute to Miss Jose­ phine Baker as one "the world’s best-dressed women " Norman Norell, America's dean of fashion designers, will present the •ward. According to NAFAD’s nation­ al president. Mrs. Lois K. Alex­ ander, an additional tribute to Miss Baker will be in the form of a collection of evening and ball gowns, designed by NAFAD members throught the country. Miss McDaniel Wed At Home Gloria McDaniel, daugh­ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Endom McDaniel, was recently married to La Queth Fleming. Rev. Thom as P. Grisson, Jr. performed the ceremony at the home of the bride, 2186 Fifth Avenue. Approx imetely MO close relatives and friends attended. A reception for 150 followed immediately at the Club La Chose. The bride wore a full length gown of candle light peau de sole trimmed with seed pearls and a shoulder length veil. She carried a bouquet of fuji-mums and chrysanthemums Miss Winifred Blank was her maid of honor. Little Shirley Jackson, cousin of the bride was flower girl, and Master Ed ward Wallace, Jr.,' her godson, was ring bearer. The best man was Lloyd Lynch. The bride is a Hunter College graduate having received both her B.A. and M.A. degrees there. She has studied also at Columbia Teachers College in NYC and at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She is a teacher at PS 125, Manhattan and is a member of Alpha Kappa Afpha Sorority-. ' Ik- The bridegroom, an engineer, attended CCNY, NYU, and Ohio University. He is employed by Depart me. °t water Supply, Gas and sitectricity in the Bronx, N. Y. and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Miss Smith Wed To Mr. Yancey In St. John’s Episcopal Church Tuckahoe, Miss Amelia Riglena Smith, daughter of Mrs. Robert S. Smith and the late Robert Sam­ uel Smith of Yonkers, became the bride of John Robert Yan­ cey. son of Mr. and Mrs. Darius L. Yancey of Brooklyn. For good or evil, wisely or foolishly, these had ,he SWAN SONG . . . Like the dying swan in the Swan Lake ballet by Tchaikovsky, 1, too, am dying a little as I write this, the last “On The Town” column for the great N.Y. Amsterdam News. On that spring day almost five years ago when the publisher-editor, Dr. C. B. Powell, called and asked me to take over as “Women’s Editor” I thought it was some sort of Joke 11 had thought once In my life that perhaps I oould do the type of writing normally found on women’s pages, but had long since decided that it was beyond my ken. Dr. Powell’s confidence in me; working with Jimmy Hifiks whom 1 had known as a reporter in Wash­ ington D. C. and for whose writing talent I had great respect and the suggestion from “my wonderful one, George”; my deep affection for Dr. Powell’s wife, Lena, and her mother, Mrs. Dora Dukes, both of Bos­ ton where my family is now, were all factors in my decision to come with the paper. Prior to-the Amsterdam News position I had been a high school teacher; on the staff of the Housing Authority of Boston, the first full time lobbyist for Ne­ groes in the USA in the US Congress; and a top govern­ ment official for the US Department of Labor. I had had countless honors, most of which had been given to me for work that had nothing to do with women as such — i.e., laobr, labor unions, civil rights, legislation designed to help make America a better place, indeed, making the world a better place for all of God’s children; for work in politics (which is the machinery, for better or worse, by which govern­ ment is made); speaking engagements all over the country; and my deep concern about the complacency of the middle class and "educated” class of Negroes with efforts to shake them out of this complacency. For these I received many honors — none of which was specifically by, for, or about women. been the things for which I had given most of my adult life. "Society” and strictly social activities had been something that 1 had never thought about particularly. I have always been an advocate of recreation and the freedom of choice of an individual to decide what his recreation would be, be it football, poker, bridge, parties, dances, boxing, hiking, fishing — whatever! It’s a free country! Recreation is necessary and you take your pick! Mine had not been “society” as such. And yet In retrospection, I presume it has been some­ thing I had done without ever stopping to think about it. I love a party if the folks I know and enjoy are there. But parties for me are not a way of life. They are an interlude and a very short one — then on to the things I find important. And I say what I find im­ portant with great respect for what you find important, and God forbid that each of us would choose the same thing . . . Clothes, 1 love, but that, too, is not a "way of life”, for to get a combination of colors together requires very little time, but is fun to do for a few hours per month. Recipes which go into women’s pages are inter­ esting, but food is something that ebbs and flows in my life. Who marries whom or who goes steady with whom — legally or clandestinely — has never concerned me. unless it was me, or "my George ’’, before we mar­ ried. Nonetheless I found myself in the position of Wom­ en’s Editor where these matters came. And yet, in spite of my lack of orientation for such subject mat­ ter it has been a most fascinating experience and one that I would not have missed. Leaving the Amsterdam News to go back to my "first love”, which is government, is one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do and maybe one fine day this "printer’s ink” will lure me hack here, or elsewhere. IT’s 1199 TIME — "Ballads for Bimshire" actress Barbara Alston (right) Joins Mae Mc­ Coy, Ewart Guinier, Dorothy Dozier and Edward Ayash (1 to r), secretary-treasurer of Lo­ cal 1199, Drug and Hospital Em­ ployees union, at their annual autumn frolic last week Friday evening at the Manhattan Cen­ ter (Gilbert Photo). The Reverend Osborne Budd, rector officiated assisted by the bride’s grandfather, the Rever­ end Claudius A. Nero, retired minister of St. Clement’s Protes­ tant Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon. Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 111 of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was matron of honor. The bride wore a Meta original gown made of eggshell duchess satin, combined with a yoke and sleeves of Alencon lace lined with satin. The veil, a disc of Alencon lace was lined with duchess sat­ in and combined with a drape of eggshell tulle. The attendants were Miss Vivian Lasser, and the Misses Joanne and Roberta Robinson. Mrs. Yancey received a B.S. degree last year from Cornell University and attended the Mer­ rill-Palmer Institute in Detroit. She is a master’s degree candi­ date at Columbia University's School of Social Work. Mr. Yancey, Is a graduate from Syracuse University and holds an M.A. degree in govern­ ment and International relations from New York University^ He is a counselor with the New York State Employment Service, State Department of Labor. Mr. Yancey was also a guide in 1956 at the United States Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Brussells. Deltas Xmas Gift Was Students' Bail Money ?ING ALONG - These young ladies seem to be singing along and having a gay time of it at the recent dance by the Sun­ rise Chapter No. 24 of the Order of Eastern Star given at the Hotel Theresa. They are, from left: Mesdames Gladys Brooks, treasurer; Norma Jean Garrett, worthy matron, Madeline Jones, associate matron and Frankie Taylor, secretary. Christmas giving means many things, but to the women of Delta Sigma Theta sorority this year's holiday gift will provide in wired-in compounds, and po- and llcemen turning fire hoses throwing tear gas on them." Dr Woods said the sorority's holiday fund drive was made at bail bond money for high achool the request of Delta's three chap- and college students or Orange- ters at s^th Carolina State Coi- burg. South Carolina, who have.|ege. Claflin College and the al- been Jailed for participating ln!umnae chapter in Orangeburg. MlSS Alston's Party peaceful civil rights demonstra- Mr, Bernice B. Middleton. tions in that community president of the alumnae chap- ror VOworners /- | McAdams Photo >•• The gifts of freedom were ter, reported that over 1700 ar- Miss Chanola Alston, super- "“‘n lunlJr?'8h v.-r In .he Department of Wei- Geraldine P Woods of Los Ange-|Rchool and college students have I les. president of the interracial made. Bonds up to ftiOOO ,are gave an After Wor*rtn8 women’s public service group, have been demanded of student Hours Christmas Party at her who announced that the 276 chap- demonstrators by the local courts'apartment on Morningside Av- r 'J* bail it was «a stronghold for all right-,ahue Mr, LiIlian Phillips, Mrs ters of the sorority agreed to and many have been held without enue for her co-workers and participate in a unique "Delta bond. friepds from ,he New York State Chdstmas Party in the rural Fight Right Winger. Department of Labor. South Carolina town, The organization’s social action- Those attbnding the party in- The presentation of the soror-commit t„ Orangeburg, in a flu(kKl Mr and Mrs. william Itys Xmas contribution to the report t0 the sorority stated that white, Mr. and Mrs James Don- Orangeburg Movement s bond fund was made at a pub ic winR causes. Billboards, paid ad- Ruth r>Ka|b Mrs. Eleanor ™’ly I.*. O'* vertisement and automobile «tick-(Somme and Misses Jessie LeWl, Church in Orangeburg last Sun - ert promoting the Impeachment Anne and Agnes Connell, Ruth of Chief Justice Earl Warren Miller, Ruby Ma/celli, Paula day exemplify the attitude of the Wellington and Elizabeth Brown white community ” “White high AUo william Crudup. Earl C. school students cheered the as Maxwell Bolnick, Lloyd sassinatkMi of President Kenne- Royston Francis Reynolds, Ver- non Smith, John Champ. Arthur A selective buying campaign L|llwjn Alber, Brotc Maurice Atty. Coblya Speaks Mrs. Marietta Cephas of Peter­ sburg. Virginia, regional direct­ or of the organization, madp the, sast presentation and Attorney EarCdy,' Coblyn of the I-aw School of South Carolina State College was the is 90 per cent effective; a request for the transfer of 14 high school principal speaker In her appeal to the memben students to Orangeburg High of the sorority, Dr. Woods said School has been filed; iwhite); "all of us have a vivid recollection and the results of voter regis- lof pictures in the press depict- tration campaigns have been |ing students from Orangeburg moat promising." Williamson and Hugh Reilly Enjoy the top columnists who appear In the Amsterdam News every week. They are the best. the report stated. MRS J. R. YANCEY Recent Bride GETS CALIFORNIA POST — Rev. Maurice A. Dawkins, a former New York minister, la congratulated by California’s Gov. Edmund G. Brown, at Perspiration Q How can 1 remove the odor of perspiration, from some of my garments' left, after he swore in the na tionally- prominent minister to a four-year term on the Coun­ cil on Urban Policy to help plan answers for the state's teeming |And you might avoid any futurej anawers lor me stave by fa((hfur population explosion in metro- j politan area* A. Rub over these affected areas with a solution of one part ammonia to eight parts of water use of a good deodorant. K King Solomon Grand Lodge Bldg. Fund Com. The Building Fund Committee of the M W. King Sotomon Grand Lodge Inc. of the state of New York A. F. ft A. M. had tta formal hall at the Manhattan Saturday to raise to build a new masonic temple. Charles Woodward is ahainnan. Smith H. Phillips was the em­ ote. Music was providsd by the Eric Henry Orchestra. Other members of the committee in­ cluded Ernest Zfegter, Willie Wateoo, William Sweat, Charles Forbes, Oscar Moore, Ernest Graham and Dempsey Parnell James, Eddie Mack, Thomas Ro­ binson, Samuel Brown, James Stewart. Edward Duncan, Harold T. Wilson, William Damns. Char­ les Jacobs, Charles Gillespie, Stanley Brown, Robert A. Spence Job a ale Brunson and Eddie Mack. Also Mesdames and M 1 s s e « Narcissus Copland, Katie O. Se­ well, Lillian Christian, Cora Lind­ say, Clara Byron, Lois Berry, Teresa Ferguson, Christine Dav­ is, Carolyn Johnson, Mamie Wal- , Rbomia Price, Dorte Chav- er, J units McIntosh, WiHte Mae Williams. Lillian Christian and Lillian Anderson. The hostesses included Misses and Meadamss Ada Bell, Molly Coley, Mabel Fields, Bernice Scott. Billie Williams, June Ly Leila Watson, Ruth Waters and Mrs. Snyder The Grand Lodge Officers were led by Williams R. Dames, grand of the King Solomon Grand Lodge Inc. of the State of New York, Charles Gillespie, deputy grand master; Charles Jacobs, grand senior Warden; Stanley Brown, grand Junior Warden and Robert Harris, Rob­ ert A. Spence, Abraham West, Alfred Glassford and Alfred G Sewell. Many Couples Among those present were Messrs and Meadamss William Manning, Joseph Sims, Harry Waters, Henry McNeil, Robert Lewis, Lampert Seals, Calvin Also Mrs. lonete H. Jeffersoo, state royal grand matron; Mrs. Marie London, state royal ma­ tron grand matron; Mrs. Marlon Nash, state royal grand secre­ tary and Kathleen Harper, Cle­ mentine Barney, also Conrad Richardson. Arthur Townes, Charles Hall, Rudolph D. Lane, Petto Frieroop, and Miss Hor- tense Hanna from Nassau, B.W.I. Men attending included Albert Grant, George Harris, Isaac Holmes, WWtem Briscoe. Ssgnuel Richardson, Theodore Frank, Perry GW, Auston Black, Harry Green, Louie Penn, Ernest Boul- ware, Clarence Hooper, Alien Quarterman, Albert Davis, Fred D Braxton, Ernest Graham, Ha­ rold Graham, Wiilie Watson, Sam­ uel Chever, Herman Walker, Ar­ thur Emmanuel, Sinclair Wil­ liams and Benjamin Milter. Marriage Qo Round The following couples obtained marriage licenses last week Thursday from the Manhattan Marriage Bureau: Arthur Davis Jr., 29, of 249A Brooklyn Ave., Brooklyn, and Vemise Dupree, 27; of 782 St. Mark’s Avenue., Brooklyn. . Joseph Hill, 28, of 415 W. 41st St., Manhattan, and Velma Be­ thea. 23, of 415 W. 41st St. James Super, 23, of 134 W. 143rd St., Manhattan, and Car­ olyn Thompkins, 20, of 200 W. 143rd St., Manhattan. Lamont Tillman, 20, of 1203 Jef­ ferson Ave., Brooklyn, and Cyn­ thia Deale, 17, of 173-06 108th Ave., Queens. Ethan Harris, 36, of 40 W. 135th St., Manhattan, and Relva Bransford, 38. of 40 W. 135th St., Manhattan. Stanley Oglivia, 33, of 23 W. 128th St., Manhattan, and Ger- aldin (that’s how she spells it) Martin. 30, of 23 W. 128th St., Manhattan. Donald Goodman, 23, of 106- 14 34th Ave., Queens, and Bar­ bara Wofford. 20, of 2370 First Ave., Manhattan. Anthony Walker. 24, of 1350 Prospect Ave., the Bronx, and Celestine Wright, 19, of 1274 Steb­ bins Ave., the Bronx. Theodore Coke, 68, of 228 W. 141st St., Manhattan, and Jose­ phine Brown, 61, of 291 W. 147th St., Manhattan. William King, 41, of 2200 Madi­ son Ave., Manhattan, and Car­ men Wills, 25. of. 1136 Union Ave., the Bronx. Lloyd Tyler, 21, of 179-10 135th Ave., Queens, and Katherine Wil­ liams, 20, of 104-25 205th Place, Queens. Willie Ankum, 28, of 506 W. 168th St., Manhattan, and Gloria Newkirk, 26, of 506 W. 166th St., Manhattan. Dallas McCain, 49. of 306 W. 128th St., Manhattan, and Lillie McNeil, 47, of 306 W. 128th St., Manhattan. Samuel Taylor, 24, of 33H W. 131st St.. Manhattan, and Gladys Pringle, 25, of 33% W. 131st St„ Manhattan. John Alston, 33, of 943 Grant Ave., the Bronx, and Johnnie Williams, 32, of 515 W. 143rd St., Manhattan. PEPSI COLA PRESENTS THE WEEK’S CALENDAR OF EVENTS Jan. 2—INTERNATIONAL COTILLION; American Hotel; National Council Negro Women, Inc. Jan. 3—COTILLION; New York Hilton; Philadelphia Co­ tillion Society, Inc. Jan. 3—DANCE; Renaissance; Boys of Yesteryear, Inc. Jan. 4—DANCE; Audubon; The Celebrators. Jan. 4—DANCE; Audubon; Just Four Friends. Jan. 5—LUNCH-FASHION SHOW; Waldorf Astoria Hotel; National Association of Fashion and Accessory De­ signers, Inc. Jan. 6-MONDAY NIGHT CAMP FUND PARTY; Dawn Cafe; N. Y. Amsterdam News. Jan. P—BREAKFAST; Waldorf Astoria; Greater N.Y. Councils, Boy Scouta of America. Jan. 10—DANCE,' Audubon; Road Brothers. Jan. 11—DANCE; Audubon; Cameron Cricket Club. Jan. 11—DANCE; Wise Five Social Club. Jan. 11—DANCE; Savoy1 Manor; Social Six Club. Jan. 11—DANCE; Savoy Manor; The Hackman Social Club. Jan. 13—MONDAY NIGHT CAMP FUND PARTY; Midway Lounge; N. Y. Amsterdam News. Jan. 13-31—ART EXHIBIT; Village Art Gallery Center. Jan. IB—DANCE; Savoy Manor; The Noble Gents. Jan. 18—DANCE; Savoy Manoi; The Queenettes Social Club. Jan. 18—DANCE; Audubon; Col. Charles Young Post No. 398. Jan. 18—DANCE; Audubon; Etruscan Social Club. Jan. 19—DANCE; Savoy Manor; Alpha Chi Pl Omega Sor­ ority. Jan. 20—MONDAY NIGHT CAMP FUND PARTY; La Famine Cafe; N. Y. Amsterdam News. Jan. 24—DANCE; Savoy Manor; Eureka Temple No. 22B. Jan. 25—DANCE; Savoy Manor; Club No. 22. k Jan. 25—DANCE; Audubon; Dominican Benevolent So­ ciety. Jan. 25—DANCE; Audubon; Interogators. Jan. 28—TEA; Savoy Manor; St. Paul’s Community Church. Jan. 27—MONDAY NIGHT CAMP FUND PARTY; Llnette’a Cafe. Jan. 31—DANCE; Savoy Manor; V.F.W. Transit Post No. 8370. Jan. 31—DANCE; Audubon; St. Aloyslus Church. Jan. 31—HOOTENANNY; Workmen’s Circle Center; Civil Rights Fund Committee, Brooklyn Heights branch, Socialist Party. 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