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GRAPEVINE
THE FAMILY MAGAZINE 35C September, 1972

Charles Young

Jerry Lee

Pamela Slade

Lewis Ward

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Grapevine 2 September, 1972



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September, 1972
Table of Contents


Black X-Ray Technician ..........................6
Sigma Beta Sorority .............................7
Black Animal Law Officer ........................9
Black Man Saves Fresno $180,000 ................1O
Social Security
Appoints Black Manager .. ......................12
Fresnan Appointed
Regional Vice President ........................13
Peope in the News ..............................14
Secretary of the Month .........................15
Model of the Month .............................17
Edison High Class Reunion ......................18
Businessman of the Month .......................20
New Franklin School Opens ......................21
Sports .........................................22
Recipe of the Month ............................25
Obituaries .....................................26
Black Educators Association ....................29
New Black School Administrator .................30


Photo Credits:
Fresno Bee Pp. 10, 23, 26, 30
Cal Hamilton, Pp. 6, 9, 12, 15, 21
Earl Bradley, Pp. 17




X-RAY TECHNICIAN

Miss Juanita Cummings, 23, is one of the few Black X-Ray technicians
in California. She has been employed for the past two and a half years
at the John H. Hale Medical Center in West Fresno. She works under
the direction of nine local physicians. Miss Cummings takes and develops
X-Rays, transcribes and files X-Ray reports.

Miss Cummings is a former student of Washington Union High School
and Fresno City College. She is an active member of the California So
ciety and San Joaquin Valley Radiologic Technologists. She enjoys vol
leyball, sewing, and listening to music.


Grapevine 6 September, 1972



Left to right: Soror Mary E. Walker State Pres. of Oakland, Soror Mattie
Wyatt of Oakland, second prize Queen winner, Flo Atwater also second
prize winner of Fresno, and Soror Hattie Clayton Vice State Pres. of Los
Angeles.

Sigma Beta Sorority Attends Convention

Alpha Chi-Pi-Omega Sorority held their nineteenth Annual State Convention
this post month in Son Bernordino, California at the beautiful
Holiday Inn. Each yeor the twenty Chapters throughout California enter
0 contestont as their Queen. Sigma Be a Chopter of Fresno for two years
hos run Flo A twater. Each year she has w on a trophy. Mrs. Atwater
come home with a beautiful trophy for the Chapter as Miss Popularity
and she also received another trophy for tying for second place in the
Queen of 1972 con est.

Sigma Beto Chapter has nine members, five attended the Convention.
Those in attendance were: Sorer Flo Atwater, Jimmie Echols, Dorothy
Ethridge, Ruby Jo Dreher, the Chapter's President, and Lillian Bough,
who was voted the State's Vice President. After the Convention ended
the ladies charted a bus and forty-four of them went to Las Vegas for
two wonderful days.


September, 1972 7 Grapevine



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Eugene Howard

Fresno's First Black Animal Law Officer

Eugene Howard is empolyed as
a Leash Law Officer for the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to An-
imals. He is the first Black animal
control officer for the City and
County of Fresno. Howard states,
"I enjoy my job very much and it
is a privilege to work with such
nice people at the S.P.C.A. I hope
that the citizens of the community
understand that Leash Law Officers
are trying to keep at large pets
under control so that they will not
destroy people's property."

As a Leash Law Officer, Howard,
is deputized by the Fresno County
Sheriffs Office to issue citations
and enforce the leash law regulations
of the Metropolitan County
and City of Fresno. He patrols the
areas of complaints called in and
talks to complaining witnesses and
the owners of the dogs. If a dog
is observed '"at large," he will follow
the dog home and issue a ci-
tation or written warning, which
ever is warranted, in his judgment.
If the owner of the dog cannot be
located, the dog will be picked up
and impounded at the animal shelter
(S.P.C.A.). Howard also walks
door to door in general problem
areas talking to the public and explaining
Leash Law Regulations
and License Regulations.

Howard is one of three Leash
Law Officers in the City and County
of Fresno who are in constant
radio contact with each other and
the animal shelter dispatcher, to
handle any calls or complaints of
dogs running at large or a dog
suspected of biting or being vicious
during all daylight hours.

Howard was born and reared
in Bakersfield, California. He graduated
from Bakersfield High School
and has served in the U. S. Army.
He is married and has two sons.

September, 1972 9 Grapevine



Black Man Saves City Of Fresno $180,000

Charles H. Ware

How do you decide it is time to
trade in the old family station wagon-
when it wheezes to a halt in
the middle of noonday traffic at
Blackstone and Shaw Avenues?

That is really not the way the
City of Fresno replaced its equipment,
but it became an annual
hassle.

"We had no acceptable criteria
for replacing equipment," Charles
H. Ware, assistant director of the
Public Works Department, explained.
He went to work on it about a
year ago and now it is done by
computer. He devised the Equipment
Replacement Potential Medel
and believes it is the only one of
its kind in the nation.

He is using the replacement
formula on the status of the city's
900 odd pieces of rolling stock to
determine their longevity. By applying
space-age technology, the
computer spews out information on
when a certain piece of equipment
should be replaced.

Ware estimates his system has
saved the city about $180,000 this
fiscal year by not replacing equip
ment that will continue to do the
job and at a reasonable cost.

This is quite a chore when one
considers the city's inventory of
equipment -from motor scooters
costing $1,800 each to a garbage
compactor worth $83,000 -is val
ued between $4 and $6 million
dollars.

When it came time to consider
replacing a piece of rolling stock
the staff would look it over, check
the mileage or use, its age and a
few other factors and then decide.
"Do you trade in a car when it's
two years old or three years old?"
Ware asks. "Or at 50,000 or 75,000
miles."

Ware calls his system "simple
but involved." He started out with
a foot-long algebra formula using
27 variables, or things to consider
about operating equipment. He
did most of the work at home, refined
it and submitted it to some
computer wizards.

TRW Inc. and Jet Propulsion Laboratories,
space-age technology
experts in Southern California a nd
experts at the University of Southern
California took a look at the
formula.

They proved it was sound and
Ware and Dudley Smith, the city's
fleet maintenance superintendent,
put it to work.

In the 1972-73 budget various
deportments requested 64 vehicle
replacements. Ware's replacement
model approved 45 and -turned
down 19. The replacement costs
ore valued at $459,800. Those denied
added up to $259,800. However,
that is not all savings because
the equipment will depreciate
and new equipment will cost
more. That is how Ware arrived at
the estimated $180,000 net savings
this year.

Grapevine 10 September, 1972



Now Ware and Smith are running
oil the city's vehicles through
the computer to determine their
economic service life span and
when they should be replaced. The
computers will plot 18 months in
advance, thus giving the city policy
makers the necessary financial picture
on vehicle replacement.

"The basic concept is to arrive
at the total cost of operating the
equipment through the life of the
equipment," Ware said. "It is not
the annual cost because that fluctuates.
Depreciation and maintenance
are basic."

These are some of the variables
in Ware's replacement formula.
The others include trade-in value,
initial cost, life of the equipment,
mileage or service hours, modification
and fuel consumption.

The variables are transformed
into figures which ore fed into the
computer. When the answer is 100
it is time to consider replacing the
equipment. The computer print out
traces the equipment over an 1 8month
period which gives the city
ample time to arrange for replacements.


It took Ware and others a year
lo work out the final Equipment
Replacement Potential Model. City
Manager Bruce J. Reiss welcomed
it as a sure method to determine
when to replace equipment.

And, at least 10 cities across the
country have queried Ware about
the replacement model.

Ware's boss, Public Works Director
James L. Martin, is also sold
on it.

Martin considered replacing his
1970 city car this year. Wore ran
the variables on the sedan through
the computer. The answer-no new
car for Martin this year. (Fresno
Bee.)

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get all strung-out on drugs!"


September, 1972 11 Grapevine



Social Security
Appoints Manager In West Fresno

Ivorie B. Manning

Ivorie B. Manning has been ap-
pointed manager of the Social Se-
curity Administration's West Fresno
branch at 848 E. California Ave.,
Gilbert Khachodourian, district man-
ager for Fresno and Madera Counties,
announced.

Manning, 34, succeeds Mattie
Scott, the offices first manager,
who has transferred to Watts.

A native o f Collinsville, III., Manning
joined the Sociol Security Administration
in 1961 in Chicogo, and then worked as a claims repre-
sentative in East St Louis, III., before
moving to the West Coast.

He was promoted to field representative
in Watts in 1966 and was
later selected to take part in the
staff development program in San
Francisco.

After an assignment with the
Richmond Model Cities Coordinat-
or, Manning was promoted to su-
pervisor in San Diego in 1968 and
served in that capacity in the Watts
and Pomona offices before coming
to Fresno.

Manning has a bachelor's degree
in political science from Southern
Illinoise University.

Grapevine 12 September, 1972



Jerry Lee Appointed Regional Vice President
of National Economic Management Assn.

Jerry E. Lee

Mr. Jarrell (Jerry) E. Lee, former
owner and manager of Maintenance
Engineering Firm for 13 years
is now Regiona l Vice President of
NEMA (NATIONAL ECONOMIC
MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION) an
affiliate of the Office of M inority
Business Enterprise. NEMA is a
loan packaging and consulta t or
ganization w hich helps the aspiring
or already existing minority businessman
obtain financial backing
to start a new business or expand
an existing one. In addition to preparation
of loan packages, NEMA
offers technical assistance. NEMA
recently secured a $50,000 loan
for a local Black businessman.

Before becoming head officers in . charge of the Fresno Office at 2607
Fresno Street, Mr. Lee has long
been associated with the business
of helping others, having held offices
as management consulta t
public administrator, co troll ,
contract negotiator, and Small Business
Specialist of EOC.

Mr. Lee is married and the father
of three children. He is also active , in a number of organizations such
as being Chairman of the local Advisory
Board of Valley A rea Construction
Opportunity Program and
Jerry E. Lee Chairman of the Greater Area Fresno
Plan.

Mattie Meyers

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September, 1972 13 Grapevine




PEOPLE
IN
THE
NEWS

VERN RIGGINS


He was prornoted to field repre


lvorie B Manning has been apsentative
in Watts in 1966 and was

pointed manager of the Social Selater
selected to take par 1n the

curity Administration s W est Fresno
staff development program In San

branch at 848 E. Ca li forn ia Ave.,
Gilbert Kl·achodourian, district monFrancisco.
c1ger for Fresno and Madera CounA
fter on ossIgnmen wI h he

ties, announced. Ri chmond odel C1 Ies Coord1no
Manning, 34, succeeds Mattie

or, Manning was prorno ed o su·
Scott, the office·s first manager,

pervisor in Sc,n Diego in 1968 and
who hos t1onsf rred to Watts.

served In that c IpcIcI y in the Wo s
A native of Collinsville, 111., Man-and Pomona offices before coming
ning joined the Sociol Security Ad


to Fresno.
ministration in 1961 in C icogo,
and then worked as a claims reprcManning
hus a buchelor·s d 9Iee
sentati e In East St Louis, Ill., bein
pol1ticol science from Sou hern
fore moving to the West Coast. lll1no1 Un1vers1ty

September, 1972

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September, 1972 13 Grapevine




PEOPLE
IN
THE
NEWS

VERN RIGGINS of Fresno has
been selected to umpire at the
Men's Nationol Amateur Softball
Championships to be held September
8-15 in Dallas, Texas. He was
one of five umpires chosen to represent
the United States in the International
Championships held in
Oklahoma in 1968, umpired at the
1964 and 1966 Championships
and at the Women's All Star Series
in 1962.


MISS PAMELA E. SLADE, daughter
of Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Slade of
Fresno, has been named to the
Fresno State University Spring 1972
Dean's List by David G. Bell, Dean
of Student Affairs.

Miss Slade, a sophomore, had
a 3.6 grade point average out of
a possible 4.0 (straight A). She is
a Speech Communicative Disorder
major at FSU and plans to be a
therapist in a hospital. Presently,
she is doing volunteer work at
Fresno·s Veterans Administration
Hospital. Miss Slade also works as
a counselor at FSU in the Student
Advisement On Campus Program,
a program designed to help students
w ith their educational prob-
lems.

As as active member of the
Fresno Westside Seventh Day Adventist
Church, Miss Slade sings in
the choir, serves as a kindergarten
teacher, works as an assistant youth
program planner, and during the
summer months, works with the
church tutorial program.

Miss Slade enjoys cooking, sewing,
decorating, ska11ng, and playing
the piano.

Grapevine 14 September, 1972



Secretary Of The Month

Genette Isaac is a native of Laurel, Mississippi. She received her
early education through high school in the state schools of Mississippi.
She attended Kansas State Teachers College for two years,
prior to moving to Fresno. At present she is employed by John
Henry Hale Medical Center as general secretary. Her responsibilities
include coordinating all the functions of the various departments,
West Fresno Clinical Laboratory, and John Hale X-Ray Department,
as well as the Center itself.

Miss Isaac is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Isaac of Itta
Bena, Mississippi, she is the older of two children. She is a senior
at Fresno State University, majoring in Child Development. After
graduation she plans to remain at Hale, in the capacity of executive
secretary.

Her hobbies consist of reading, bowling, observing people (especially
young children), collecting wrist watches, rings, and bags,
traveling, listening to music of all varieties and serene places with
"real" people.

She is a member of the Central California National Association
of the Education of Young Children, and the N.A.A.C .P. Credit
Union, having been the queen candidate in the regional pageant
in 1969 of that organization.


September, 1972 15 Grapevine




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Grapevine 16 September, 1972



MODEL OF THE MONTH

Miss Pauline Fuller of Ma-
dera, California, relaxes by
cooling off at the lake. The
shapely Fresno State Uni-
versity senior is majoring in
Social Science. She is also
employed as a junior coun-
selor in Madera's NYC pro-
gram.

Earl Bradley photographer



September, 1972 17 Grapevine




Eugene Williams Jeanne Tracy

Edison High School Class Reunion -1962

The Edison High School Class of 1962
celebrated their ten year reunion
at the Fresno Hilton Hotel
on August 19, 1972. The high
lights of the evening were a de-
licious buffet dinner and dancing
to the music of the Professionals,
which were two elements that stim
ulated an atmosphere of warmth,
gaiety, and togetherness!

Many of the classmates had not
seen one another since school days.
They remininsed and recalled memories
and secret ambitions. To
some the reunion generated a desire
to keep in touch with the past
and the people who meant so much
to them in their youth.

The evening was hosted by Mrs.
Betty M. Glover who arranged the
affair and located the classmates.
Special thanks are due to Mary
Ann and Cleo Johnson who were
a great inspiration. Also Miss De-
borah Alexander, Mrs. Hilda Osuna
and Mrs. Sally Moral/es helped in
registration of our llO guests.

Donald Ray Johnson, Senior
Class President and Ernest Mat-
thews, Senior Vice-President, and
Lois Harris valdictorian of the class,
were masters of ceremonies. Mar·
vin Howard presented special gag
gifts to: Mrs. Charles Ray Doyle
for having the youngest child in
the class (8 days old); Mrs. George
Glover for having the oldest child;
Mr. Percy Brewer for having the
most children (five); Mr. Earl Smith
for being the oldest and most eligible
bachelor and Mr. Morris Martinez
for the one who traveled the
farthest to attend the reunion.

Mrs. Jeanne Tracy a fellow graduate
and one of our special en·
tertainment attractions held the
group spell-bound singing "I'll take
you there.·· Jeanne is presently em·
ployed as a vocalist in an exclusive
nite club in San Francisco, Calif.

Eugene Williams who originally
began as local Fresno talent now
polished and well-together from
having had experience singing with
the 'Vels," "Expression" and cu
rcntly with the "Pla ers" grooved
with some oldies. He has a release
out now called " Baby Come Bock
Home." Earnest Stennis and Evelyn
Marzette two more of the Class
of 1962 Graduates talented in the
field of entertainment, did their
thing!


Grapevine 18 September, 1972




Father ti me who seldom slows
down or stops for anyone, too soon
allowed the evening to slip away,
thereby becoming another eventful
experience in the lives of us all.

Many of the reunited classmates
lingered around afterwards hoping
to grasp a few more moments
however, finally realizing that tomorrow
each and everyone of us
w ill go gack to our own endeavors.
Class of 1962 disbursed and
said their GOODBYES.. .. See you
in 1977, our 15th anniversary!

By: Betty M. Glover


September, 1972 19 Grapevine



Businessman
Of
The
Month

Lewis E. "Buzz" Ward

Mr. Lewis E. Ward, better known to his friends and the community
as "Buzz" has been chosen GRAPEVINE'S Businessman of the
Month. He is currently Loan Analyst for NEMA-NATIONAL ECONOMIC
MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION which is an affiliale of the
Office of Minority Business Enterprise. Befcre rising to this position,
he was Assistant District Executive with the Sequ:;ia Council of the
Boy Scouts of America (Fresno) in which capacity he was responsible
for recruiting beys and units, and training and crganizing adult
volunteers.

Having graduated from Mcnterey Unicn School High in 1956
and attended Monterey Peninsula College, Mr. Ward has worked
in a number of other capacities helping people among such as
Correctional Officer fer the California Department of Corrections
and as Job-Developer-Estimator Since coming to Fresno from Monterey,
he has been very active with the following crganizations:
Astro Playmates, 2nd Vice President; Elks Lodge #988, Urban Coalition
(camping), and Model Cities Yc uth Ccmmittee. As a youth
with his father who is new a retired U. S. Army Colonel Mr. Ward
has traveled extensively, having lived three years in Yokohama,
Japan and two years in Munich, Germ::ny. He is the father of four
children. Mr. Ward's hobbies are karate, oil and pastel painting,
and scuba diving.

Mattie Meyers


Grapevine 20 September, 1972



FIRST STUDENTS-Ann McDonald, left, enrolls her daughter, Renee and
H. B. Hollins, Sr., enrolls his son, H. B. Jr., into the new Franklin School.
Secretary Eloise Hopkins gives the parents assistance.

New Franklin Elementary School Opens

H. B. Hollins, Jr., a kindergartener, was the first student to enroll into
the new Franklin Elementary School in West Fresno. Renee McDona
also a kindergartener, was the second. Beth Rutherfor_d Gaston,
school's Principal, and Henry Jules, the schools Vice Principal, are
Black. Franklin has ten classrooms and is capable of an enrollment students at one time.

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Rutherford Gaston, center Principal of the new Franklin School,
congratulates H. B. Jr. and Renee. Mrs. Ann McDonal and H.B. Hollins, Sr.
join in.

September, 1972 21 Grapevine



Jerry Pender (center
top) former Fresno
State University
basketball star poses
with four of Edison
High basketball
players who attended
ldyllwild Basketball
Camp.

Edison Athletes Attend Basketball Camp

Through the efforts of Rutherford
Gaston, principal of Franklin
Elementary School, and several
donors of the Fresno area, Percy
Carr, Edison High School basketball
coach, was able to take eight
Edison basketball players to an
outstanding basketball camp to
improve their skills and knowledge
of the game. The camp was held
at Idyllwild, California, August 20-
26. The players received individual
coaching and analysis of their
skills. They applied their skills in
numerous game situations, viewed
demonstrations via college ond professional
films and discussed various
aspects of basketball with a
professional guest, Jim Barnett, of
the San francisco Warriors and top

college and high school coaches.
Coach Carr and the Edison basketball
players extended deep apprecia-
tion to Mr. Gaston, who coordinated
the fund raising project, and
to the following contributors. Santi's,
Used Cars, Edna Overall, William Bigby,
Rudy's Elm Pharmacy,
James Aldredge, Sterling Funeral
Home, Coffee's, Suzanne Pagni, Al-
Pha Ph. Alpha, Dr. Noel Smith, Sun
Maid Furniture, Black Educators
Assn. of Fresno, James P White,
Rutherford Gaston, Dr George
Bugg, Kiwanis Club of Fresno, Dr
W. L. Brown, Mary Solo, Georgene
Phiet, Sigma Beta Chapter,Jack
and Rose Kelley, and Grave's Up-
holstery.

Grapevine 22 September, 1972



SPORTS

MISS TAREA E. BREWER, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Brewer
of Fresno, became the nation's Junior
National Champion in the discus
by throwing a record of 92 feet
4 ½ inches at the AAU Junior Nationals
at Erwin, California.

Tarea has had an outstanding
year of track, winning many first
and second places in the discus
and shot put. Her other interests
are piano, baseball and basketball.
She is active in the Dope Prevention
Club and sings in the Second
Baptist Church Youth Choir.

Tarea, 13, is a ninth grader at
Tioga Junior High and a second
year member of Fresno Elans Girls'
Track Club.

CHARLES YOUNG, a senior at
University of Southern California
and nickna med "The Tree" by his
teammates was forecasted by the
Football Writers Association of A-
merica in a pre-season pol I as
tight end on the offensive unit of
the 1972 All-American team.
Young was a star prep performer
at Fresno's Edison High School.


September, 1972 23 Grapevine



THE GRAPEVINE

"Son, that city life certainly has
really changed you!"

Ed Burke

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Grapevine 24 September, 1972



Recipe
of the
Month

by Laura Morse

Sweet Potato Pie

* 3 nice size sweet potatoes
* 5 tablespoons butter
* ¼ teaspoon salt
* 1½ cups sugar
* 3 tablespoons lemon juice
* 3 eggs separated
* ¼ teaspoon nutmeg or cinnamon
* 1 cup of cream

Cook and mash potatoes in large mixing bowl. Cream
butter until soft, add salt and sugar and continue to cream
until sugar is well blended. Add lemon juice, beaten egg
yolks, nutmeg or cinnamon, which have been put through
a sieve, and cream. Mix thoroughly and fold in stiffly
beaten egg whites.

Pour into a nine inch pastry shell. Preheat oven at 425
degrees F. Cook pie for ten minutes, then lower temperature
to moderate 350 degrees F. and continue baking for
about 50 minutes longer, or until a knife inserted in the
center comes out clean.

This makes one nine inch pie.

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OBITUARIES

Hubert Turney

Funeral services were held this
past month for Hubert H. Turney,
age 29. Turney had recently resigned
as assistant director of
Fresno West Development Co. and
had been named manager of the
new 20th Century Elks Club. Befo-
re his resignation from Fresno
West, he had been in charge of
the Economic Development Delivery
System for Model Cities, and
was a past first vice Chairman of
Model Cities Neighborhood Coun-
cil.

Turney attended the Lincoln Ele-
mentary School, and was a grodu·
ate from the Edison High School.
He attended Chapman College,
Orange, Calif., and three years at
Fresno State College (Accounting
Ma jor). He served 4 yea rs in the
United States Marines and was o
member of St. Rest Baptist Church.

He was a member of Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, 20th Century
Elks Lodge No. 988, Elks, Past exalted
Ruler Council No. 119, and
the Checkmate Social, sponosred
by the Elks Pacific States Associa-
tion.

He leaves to mourn his passing,
a devoted mother, Mrs. Henri
Turney, Fresno; one daughter, Demitres
Turney, Oak Harbor, Washington;
3 sons, Dwight Turney,
Darryl Turney, Oak Harbor, Washington,
Methious Turney, Fresno,
two brothers· Charles Curtis Turney
and Thomas Jerry Turney, Fresno
3 sisters, Mrs. May Evelyn Daniels,
Los Angeles; Mrs. Peggy Lee John·
son, Fresno, and Mrs. Vivian Marie
Moultrie of Pala Alto, Calif; four
uncles, seven aunts and a host of
relatives and friends.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, 20th
Century Elks Lodge and the State
Center American Legion Post 511
participated in the services conducted
by Sterling Funeral Home of
Fresno.

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Melese Easter

Funeral services were held for
Mrs. Melese Easter on July 21,
1972, at the Fresno Temple Church
of God in Christ.

Mrs. Easter was born April 28,
1914 in Foreman, Arkansas, one of
eight children of Jim and Rosie
Lynette Daniels. She departed on
July 16, 1972.

She was joined in Holy Matrimony
to Elmer Easter on July 4,
1931, in Foreman, Arkansas. To
this union 12 children were born·
two preceded her in death.

After severaI moves, she and her
family settled in Fowler, Calif., in
1944. While living there, she helped
her husband to buy and subdivide
land; selling lots at a nominal
price to the underprivileged
block people, thereby establishing
the Elmertree Addition, the first all
black community in the city of
Fowler.

In 1971 , she traveled to Kodiak
Island, Alaska, with her husband,
Where they established and pastor
the All Nations Church of God
1n Christ, the first black church, as
as history shows, to be estab1shed
on that island.

Mrs. Easter was a devout and
faithful member of the Church of
God in Christ in which her husband,
Reverend Elmer Easter was pastor
of many. She was loved by all
who knew her and will be deeply
missed in the community.

She leaves to mourn her passing,
her husband, Reverend Elmer Easter
of Fowler, California; four sons:
Ben Easter of Van Nuys; Reverend
Aaron Easter of Lancaster; Elroy
Easter of Kodiak, Alaska, and Louis
Easter of Anchorage, Alaska. Six
daughters: Mrs. Tommie Foote and
Mrs. Maybelle Roberts of Fresno;
Mrs. Aarie Kinard and Mrs. Maxine
Sanders of Anchorage, Alaska; and
Mrs. Elmerlee Mays of Markham,
Illinois. Four brothers, two sisters,
21 grandchildren, two great gra ndchildren,
and a host of other relatives
and friends.


William A. Hamilton

Funeral Services were held in the
J. E. Cooley Jr. Chapel Saturday,
July 22, 1972, for William A. Hamilton.

Hamilton was born January 16,
1899, in the city of Ashville, North
Carolina, to Mr. & Mrs. William B.
Hamilton. He departed this life
July 20, 1972, at the age of 73,
in Fresno, Calif.

Hamilton had lived in Fresno for
the past 56 years, and during this
period he gained many devoted
and kind friends. He was a past
member of Oddfellow Lodge.

He leaves to mourn his passing:
his wife, Mrs. Marie Hamilton, of
Santa Maria; one son, Robert, Hamilton,
of Berkeley; his mother, Mrs.
Latha Hamilton, of Fresno; one
brother, Calvin Hamilton, of Fresno;
five sisters-Mrs. Frances Williams,
of Fresno; Mrs. Ethel Bailey of
Hawthorne, Ca.; Mrs. Viola Saunders
and Mrs. Ollie Rosetta King
of Los Angeles; and Mrs. Emma
Jean Clark of San Francisco; three
grandchildren and a host of relatives
and friends.

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Black Educators Association Of Fresno
Promote Changes In The Schools
The Black Educators Association
of Fresno (B EAF) has been instrumental
in bringing about positive
changes in the educational institutions
in the Fresno area. The association's
250 members are a
composition of Black teachers, professors,
administrators, and other
related school personnel who work
in the Fresno City and County
schools and colleges.

John Shropshire, Dean of Boys
at Fresno's Irwin Junior High
School, is the president of the association.
Shropshire emphasized
that the association is trying to
make conditions better for minority John Shropshire
people in the schools which in turn phasized how teachers can relate
will help the children.

During the past two years, the
Black Educators Association has
been working with the staff of the
Fresno Unified School District concerning
the hiring of more minority
teachers, administrators, and
counselors. As a result of their
efforts, this coming year Fresno
Unified will employ 24 new Black
teachers and promote five Bl ack
people to administrative posts.

This past fall, the Black Educators
association sponsored their
first "Black Educators Workshop"
Which was attended by 225 teachers.
The successful workshop em-
phasized how teachers can relate
better with the Black school children.

During the past school year, the
BEAF has participated in many
community activities. The association
has donated several high
school and college scholarships to
needy students. It has also helped
to se nd needy students to summer
camps and athletic events.

Recently, the Black Educators As-
sociation of Fresno presented Mrs.
Caroline Cooper, the 82 year old
1972 college graduate and Mrs.
Beatrice Owens, Fresno County's
fi rst Black teacher (retired), with
life membership cards.

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Special GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE Feature

RANDY WILLIAMS

United States

Olympic Gold Medal Winner from Fresno

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Edison High Gets Black Administrator

DOLPHUS TROTTER was appointed
acting vice principal-teacher
at Edison High School in West Fresno.

Trotter's appointment was announced
by Supt. Arnold E. Finch,
who said the appointment is 'acting'
until it is ratified by the district's
board of trustees.

Although the city schools has
three black principals in the elementary
schools, Trotter is the first
black to be appointed to an administrative
position at the junior
or senior high school level.

Trotter, 32, has been a fifthgrade
teacher at the Franklin Elementary
School in West Fresno the
past year.

He formerly was executive director
of the West Fresno Federation
of Neighborhood Centers and
was a program developer for the
Fresno Model Cities Program.

He was graduated from the University
of Pacific in 1962 with a
bachelor of arts degree and is
working on a master's degree at
Fresno State University.

Edison expects to enroll 510 stustudents
this fall. Last year, the
enrollment was 90.8 per cent black
and 8.6 per cent Spanish-surnamed,
and residents in the area had urged
the board to select a black principal.

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