Grapevine, May-June 1975
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Grapevine, May-June 1975
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Teru Brewer
Sara Marcus
Pauline Kimber
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Leon Osborne
Horace Hampton
Audrey Smith
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Grapevine
THE
PARENTS MUST HELP
Violence And Vandalism In
Our Public Schools
WASHINGTON A Senate sub-committee last week released
a sickening report - no other adjective will suffice - on violence
and vandalism in our public schools.
The evidence compiled by the sub-committee, drawn from 750
school districts around the country, is enough to turn one's stomach . In a single school year, some 70,000 teachers are seriously
injured in attacks by students. The United Federation of Teachers
has had to issue a booklet to its women members, suggesting
how they may defend themselves against the student bent on rape.
IN ONE DISTRICT after another, school officials report murder,
violent assault, gang warfare, burglary, extortion, and arson. In
Birmingham, so many school officials began carrying guns for selfdefense that the school superintendent hod to issue licenses. In
Houston, the cost of school security officers jumped from $20,000
in 1972 to $389,000 in 1973.
The schools of Los Angeles report one "gun incident" every
other day; in 1971-72, warfare among the city's estimated 150
gangs saw 29 students dead . One of the largest Los Angeles
gangs is called the Crips: "The name is a ='1ort form of Cripples
which in turn is derived from the gong's trademark of maiming
or crippling their victims. The Crips also have two auxiliary un its
- the Crippets, composed of girl members, and the Junior Crips,
made up of elementary school children."
Los Angeles is not alone in having trouble with grade-school
criminals. In Winston-Salem, three third-grade pupils were charged with extorting nearly $1,000 from a couple of classmates. Two
of the boys were 9 years old, the third 11.
From one end of the country to the other, the sub-committee's
fi~di?gs form ~n app?lling pattern : terrified teachers, imperiled
prine1pals, hostile pupils. The cost in human misery cannot be
reckoned . Neither can a price tag be placed on the educationa l
losses that occur when teaching yields to disorder.
Costs in dollars can be roughly computed. The District of Colum bia spends $622,000 a year to replace broken windows. Memphis puts its school ~andalism bill at $1 million annually . Los
Angeles pays $2, Chicago, $3 million . Salt Lake City reports a
$400,000 price, e.nough to run two elementary schools for one
year. New ~ork City pays $3 .5 million to station police in school s .
A conservative guess , for the country as a whole: $500 million a
year, equivalent to the amount spent on textbooks.
Two sociolo.gists pu~ the blame on "problems existing in the
general American soe1ety , rather than to condition s or failures
within the school system itself ."
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(Frank o nson - Editor)
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May -June, 1975
MAGAZINE
GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE
Vol. 7, No. 3
Fresno, Calif.
101 2 S. Trinity
Phone: 486•0273
or 233-1346
FRANK J. JOHNSON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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May-June, 1975
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Miss Tale nt Teen
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Scholarship Winner
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Family Graduating Day
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Art - Cecil Hinton
............................. 9
Former Fresnan Brent Johnson .............. 10
Soi l Technician ..... .... . . ..................... 11
Woman of The Year .. ............ . ............. 12
Senior Citizen ...................................... 13
Council of Negro Women ........ . .......... 14
Black School Superintend ent .................. 15
Fresno Development Company .............. 16
Obituary Edward Tucker .................. 18
Black History ... . ...... .. .
. ................ 19
Sports Mark Givens
..................... 19
Ex•Shoe Shiner Honored ........................ 20
Relig ion Anniversary
........ 2 1
Ed ucation FSU .. ....... ...... ......
. .. 22
Student of Month ...... .. ... . .... .............. ... 23
Sports Hank Aaron
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Black Theatre .... ..... .. ......... . .... ... .. .. 25
Family Reunion ................................. .. 26
Outstanding Girl Athlete
.27
Beauty Pageant . . ......................
. .29
Model of The Month
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Photo Credits :
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California Advocate, Pp. 26, 27 , 29
Walt Porter, Pp. 9, 12
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Woman Joins KFSN Staff In Dual Role
Of Producer-Cinematographer
Phillip R. Beuth, vice president
and general manager of KFSN, 30,
Fresno, has announced that Sharon L. Joiner has joined Channel
30 as a producer and cinematographer with special emphasis on
minority programming.
Ms. Joiner is a gra,duate of How,_
ard University, Washington, D.C.,
and before coming to Channel 30
she was a newswriter for WABCTV, New York. Prior to that she
was a writer and producer for
WQXI-T\/ (ABC)
Atlanta, Ga.,
where she produced two public offairs shows, "Ebony Beat" and
"Ebo ny Beat Journa I."
Ms. Joiner was also a newswoman for Associated Press in
Baltimore and Atlanta. During
l 970 and 1972 she worked in Rio
Sharon Joiner
de Jan eiro for the Brazil Herald been a writer for Vista magazine
and was a member of a dance of the Office of Economic Opportheater group in Rio. She also has tunity, Washington, D.C.
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Grapevine
THREE OF A KIND Graduating day at Fres no City College this
year was an especia lly big day for the Homer Greene, Sr., family of
Fresno, when Tiny, left, and Beverley, right, and their mother, Mrs .
Helen Gree ne, ce nte r, all rece ived th eir assoc iate in arts degree from
FCC in ceremonies held recently in the Fresno Conve ntion Center Theatre .
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
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OF YOUR FINE PUBLICATION ...
HOLD THAT POSE Cecil C. Hinton poses with a portrait of h imself
that will be presented to the Hinton Center, which was named for him.
The painting by West Fresno artist Archie (Leearl) Weaver, was commissioned by the Fresno City College Pan African Student Union as a
black studies project. The Hinton Center Board of Directors have not
set a date for the formal acceptance of the painting .
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Former Fresno Youth Stars On Television
Brent Johnson, 12, a former Fresnan is a news reporter for " Kids
Watch " an unusual television news prog ram aime d at kids 9 to 12
years old. The program is viewed once a month on Channel 4, KRONTV, Oakland. The 8 young sters on the p rog ram dig up " news" of interest to their fellow youngsters and handle it just as adults handle
news reporting. The result is both fascinating and hilarious.
The show s are fast moving, rang ing from a look at the world's
young est sw imming team - 5 month-olds to 2 year-olds a t Pleasant
Hill - through teeth -straightening, juggling, Kid -on -the-Street question
man ("What would you like to see done to improve your school ?"), to
a n ed itorial on tennis shoes .
Brent lives with his pa re nts, Mr. & Mrs. Odell Johnson, Jr., and his
sister, Shawn, who live in Oakland.
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LAWRENCE CHISOM, 25 , is employed as a soil technician fo r th e
eng ineering firm of Braun , Skaggs , Keno rkian & Simon of Fres no. His
job in cludes evaluating a nd testing va riou s construction mater' •Is for
greate r control and unde rstanding of the p hysica l properties.
Lawrence, a drama ma jo r, graduated fr om Ed ison High Sc~
and
Fresno City Co llege . He and h is w ife, Sandra, and daughte r,
,que,
live in Fre sno , California .
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Grapevine
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
SENIOR CITIZEN
Mamie Joh nsto n, 92, doesn't
want to "sit around twiddling my
thumbs" so she works at the HyPana Convalescent Hospital "helping aged patients."
Ms. Johnston, who moved to
Fresno from Washington, D. C.,
walked from her home on P Street
to the Masten Towers to check on
the Foster Grandparents Program.
From there she walked to the
Young Men 's Christian Association
where the Re1ired Senior Volunteer
Program (RSVP) is housed and volunteered her services.
Ms. Johnston is typical of Fresno's senior citizens who are involved in RSVP. The program
sponsors volunteers through 48
nonprofit community organizations
who donate their services at such
facilities as hospitals, schools, senior service centers, the lung and
cancer association, health resource
centers and the Fresno Community
Theater.
RSVP is part of ACTION, the
federal volunteer service agency.
More than l 17,000 senior citizens
utilize their skills and experience
as RSVP volunteers, serving approximately 600 sites dotting the
nation. These parttime ACTION
volunteers are reimbursed only on
onsite meals and trasportation.
Mrs. Lesly Kimber, editor of the California Advocate, has been named
as the Gamma Eta Chapter, Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Black Business
Woman of the Year. Mrs. Feltus Sterling, selection committee chairman
said Mrs . Kimber was selected from among six candidates. Mrs. Kimber
was honored during a luncheon of the sorority at the Luau restaurant.
The award 1s based upon community service, civic activities and church
part1c1pation. Mrs. Kimber and her husband were recently awarded the
Civil Libe rties Award .
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May-June, 1975
May-J une, 1975
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Grapevine
Health Agency Chief Speaks At Parley
Patsy Fulcher, deputy assistant
secretary, California Health and
Welfare Agency, was the dinner
speaker during a statewide con fereence of the National Council
of Negro Women.
The conference was held in
Fresno recently and a public dinner was served in the Rodeway
Inn fo ll owing a cocktail hour.
Ms. Fulcher's agency is responsible for the departments of Benefit Payments, Correction, Employment Development, Health, Rehabilitation and
Youth Authority.
The offices of Alcohol Program
Managemen t, Narcotics and Drug the San Francisco Bay Area 's
Ab use, Educatio n Liai so n and Ag- Black Women Organized for Action. She is also is a member of
ing also come under the agency.
She also is active as Western the League of Woman Voters, the
Regional Director of the National Oakland Museum Association and
Organization for Women (NOW). National Women 's Political CauMs. Fulcher is a cofounder of cus.
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GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER
APPOINTED SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Frank J . Johnson has been appointed as superintendent of the
Fresno Colony School District effective July l.
Announcement of the appointme nt was made by the district's
school board.
Johnson has served in the dis trict for 12 years as a teacher,
counselor and most recently vice
principal.
The board announcement said
Johnson was selected from among
38 applicants from throughout
California and several other states.
The Fresno Colony School District administers three schools on
the southwest border of the Fres no Unified School District, the
Fresno Colony, Ivy, and Western
Schools . The district's an nual bud get is approximately one millio n
dollars.
Johnson, publisher of the Grapevi ne Magazine which specializes
in news concerning minority peo ple in Central California, has re-
Frank Johnson
ceived several awards and honors
for contri butions made to aid
minority people through 1ournalism.
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May-June, 1975
Kelly's Host
Assemblyman Bill Greene
Senator Bill Greene of the 29th
District of Los Angeles was th e
guest of honor at a reception held
in the lovely home of Harlan &
Shirley Kelly recently.
Among the guests at the reception were Mr . & Mrs . Lester Riggins, Jack Kelly, Nancy Richard son, Rosemary Munsey, Mr. & Mrs.
Henry Jules , Jan Peters, Dick Merccin, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hodge, Dr.
May-June, 1975
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& Mrs.
Freddie
Hayes, Sandra
Darley, Mr. & Mrs . Ray Williams,
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Turney, Frank
Johnson , Mr. & Mrs. Teddy Thompson, Linda Mack, Ruth Albright,
Rich a rd Atamian, Gail Meyers,
Mel London and Norman Hill of
New York, N.Y.
Senator Greene was in town to
install State officers for O E 0.
Grapevine
THE FRESNO DEVELOPMENT C PANY AND IT'S FIGHT FOR LIFE
Ever since 1969, Horace Hampton - also known as "Old Man
Hamp," has been working toward
the development of economic gains
in the West Fresno area. And
now, 16 years later, Hampton is
still engaged in that struggle only now, as Executive Director of
the Fresno Development Co., he is
fighting for its literal existence.
For the past 18 months, FDC
has been operating as an independent company making small
business loans, obtaining and developing industrial land in •West
Fresno. Says Hampton, "The City
of Fresno wants to take us over,
claiming incorrectly, that we
are insolvent, when, in fact, our
last audit shows FDC to have assets of $2,000,000.00."
In spite of FDC claims to be able
to hold up its own - a claim validated with audits reports the
city has gone ahead with legal
actions against the company, requesting an injunction to have
FDC "cease and desist" all new
operations except the latest essential development of the Southgate
Industrial Park area.
"What started things off," says
Hampton, "was our refusal to go
along with the city's Fifth Action
Year Agreement which was a proposal to phase out FDC operations,
cutting the staff to barely operable capacity." Hampton's contention being FDC was more than
adequately carrying out the goals
and functions it was formed to do.
Several ex-board members (who
have chosen to remain anonymous) have expressed opinions on
the city's apparent
animosity
against FDC because of the company's self-made progress in luring outside industry to the West
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HUD with the City of Fresno acting as conduit, and called the
Fresno West Development Co., Inc.
During the past 18 months, under Hampton's role as Executive
Director, the Fresno West Development Co., now termed, Fresno Development Company, operated productively fulfilling their goals
of "Preserving and creating jobs
for the disadvantaged by obtaining commitments from outside industries to invest in the area,
thereby ultimately leading to its
economic and industrial development and increased tax base."
Says Hampton,
"After four
years, and since the beginning of
the Fresno Development Co., we
are finally in a position to carry
out our commitments to the Federal government and the City of
Fresno as well as the people, in
Executive Director
reaching our goal objectives."
HORACE HAMPTON
Southgate Industrial Park, locatFresno area a task in which ed in West Fresno, is currently the
the City of Fresno's own Chamber most important project FDC is imof Commerce has had only vague mediately concerned with. It is an
success.
area bounded by Church, Fruit,
Says one member, "The accusa• West and Florence streets, totalling
tions made by the city that FDC is 43 acres. This land had long been
unable to adequately manage ii• an eyesore to the community. In
self through previous bad invest• a letter dated June 6, 1975, from
ments and financial loss has to be ' FDC to the Economic Development
looked at more closely.
Before Administration office in Fresno, a
those "bad investments" were description of the situation is givmade, they first had to be approv• en:
ed by the City of Fresno ."
". . . the land known as the
Hampton added, "The city only
Fruit/Church slaughter house
wanted to keep the lid on things
area was a depressing gave. . . it was a peacemaking effort
yard of old cars, opened sewto quiet those they considered age pits and hide houses . . .
rabble rousers. The normal exam•
streets, gutters and lights have
ination and research which goes
been added through economic
into any other business venture
development
adminstr at l o n
was barely attempted by them." I
grants and matching funds from
Originally, FDC was part of th•
the City of Fresno totaling over
Model Cities Program, funded by
$1,000,000.00."
May-June , 1975
May-June, 1975
Adds
FDC
president
James
Burnis, "One of the most impor-
tant improvements is the sewage
treatment plant which is being
constructed at a cost of $600,000.
(For years area residents had to
endure the stench of wastes dumped into the open sewage pits.)
Continued Burnis, in a May 14,
Fresno Bee article, ". . . with this
pretreatment plant in operation
we will have the potential to attract the creation of as many as
500 jobs in this area, which will
mean annual payrolls of about
$10 million for Fresno workers."
The FDC fought the City of Fresno's action suit of December 1973
by going to the Federal bankruptcy court and filing a Chapter 11.
They obtained a "Debtor of Possession," guarantee which protected them against the city's injunction and allowed them to retain their properties and fully
continue their operations until a
final decision is reached in the
case.
And latest developments in the
battle show some progress.
"In an unprecedented vote, the
Fresno Community Development
Commission presented a request to
the City Council in its June 15
meeting that it stop court action
against FDC. As a result, representatives of FDC are meeting with
the City Manager's staff to work
out an out-of-court settlement,"
said Hampton.
Whatever the eventual outcome
of this dispute . . . the results will
give the direction, in Fresno, of
the issue which is gaining more
prominence in the concerns of
West Fresnans: local community
autonomy vs. centralized governmental control.
(Gail Oliver)
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Grapevine
OBITUARY
Funeral services were he ld recently for Edward Tucker, 62, of
l 004 Sampson St., who leaves 16
children, 62 grandchildren a nd 16
great-grandchildren.
Tucker, a retired const ruction
worker and farm laborer, died of
cancer recently in a loca l hosp ital.
A native of Texas, Tucker came
to Fresno in 1945 in a Model A
Ford with his wife, Cora, a nd a
d ozen children. Their family later
grew to 19 children,
including
four sets of twins. Three of the
ch il d ren are deceased. Those living
range in age from 4 I to 20.
Tucker also leaves 62 grandch ild ren and
16 gre at-g ranchi ld ren.
He was a member of the San
J oaqu in Memorial
High Schoo l
Dad 's Club.
O ne of his so ns, David, set a
na t io na l interscholastic triple jump
record w hile competing for the
Memorial track team and also
starred in basketball.
Besid es David and his widow ,
Tucker is survived by seven oth e r
sons, James, Joh n, W illie and
Louis, all of Fresno; Ernest of Se lma, Eugene of Las Vegas and
Aaron of Los Angeles and eight
d aug hters, Martha Leary, Dorothy
This Month In Black History
Flags hung at half mast at all m ilitary barracks and vessels in
port in San Francisco 127 years ago this month . The enti~e city
had joined in tribute to one of its top civic leaders who died of
brain fever on May 18, 1848 at the age of only 38. He was
William Alexander Leidesdorff, who has gone down in history as
the first Black pioneer in the city by the Golden Gate.
Born in the Virgin Islands of a black mother, Anna Spark, and
a Danish sugar planter father, Leidesdorff became a ship captain
before settling down in San Francisco . There he became one of its
leading businessmen, chalking up severa l firsts in the city. Leidesdorff launched the first steamboat to sail on San Francisco Bay.
He built the city's first hotel at the corner of Clay and Kearny
Streets and just a year before his d eath sta ged the first horse race
in California on a meadow near the city' s oldest landmark, the
Mission Dolores, where his body was laid to rest.
Recognized for his leadership and business acumen (he owned
several blocks of what is now downtown San Francisco), Leidesdorff was on the city' s first council, became city treasurer and was
on the first school board which built the first school in the city.
After his death gold was found on property he had owned near
the American River and an Army captain named Joseph Folsom
journeyed to the Virgin Islands to find Leidesdorff's black mother
to whom he paid $75,000 for title to the land. Eventually the
estate was valued over one million dollars. Today there is still a
street in San Francisco named Leidesdorff. (Sepia)
Edward Tucker
Montgo mery, Vivian Thurman, Glo ria Eva ns and Sharon and Lois
Tucker, a ll of Fresno; and Mary
Brya nt a nd Ruby Lee of San Jose .
The Jesse E. Cooley Jr. Funeral
Service w as in charge of arrangements.
Givens Named MVP
Of Ram Track Squad
Mork Givens, Fresno City College's standout sprinter and long
jumper, was honored as the track
team 's most valuable athlete at an
annual awards dinner.
Givens captured Valley Conference titles in the 100 and long
jump. He also won the West Coast
Relays and Northern California titles in the long jump, winning each
at 25 -5½ .
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Ex-Shoe Shiner Is Awarded
Distinguished Alumni Honor
A man who shined shoes professionally for 23 years is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni
Award for 1975 from San Diego
State University's College of Professional Studies.
Leon Osborne, a Fresno City
College art instructor for the past
six years, received the honor at an
SDSU Alumni Association awards
ceremony May 16 in San Diego.
A
SDSU Alumni
Association
spokesman said Osborne was selected primarily because of his
dedication to self-improvement.
Osborne, 49, began shining
shoes at a YMCA for servicemen
over a quarter of a century ago
and it was not until he was 35
that an interest in painting attracted him to a San Diego adult
school.
" I didn 't know beans from butter when I started and they threw
all this education at me," Osborne
remembers. " I just went to paint,
Leon O sborne
but my teachers said I should get
a high school diploma. I asked students told me I had a knack
them 'What does a shoe shiner for explaining things more underneed with a diploma?' "
standably than the instructor, " OsOsborne earned that diploma, borne commented. "They thoug ht
however, and was encouraged to I should be a teacher and I sa id
enroll at San Diego City College, 'why not? ' "
which he did. After graduating
Osborne entered SDUS's masters
from SDCC, he enrolled at San Di- program, earned his degree, and
eego State.
took a part-time teaching job a t
" At each school, I thought I the university. A year later, he
would flunk out," recalls Osborne. joined the FCC faculty.
" I never really had confidence
" Since that time, I haven't shinthat I would make it. I was going ed another shoe, except maybe
on a day-to-day basis."
my own and then not very well, "
Two weeks before he was to re- he smiled.
ceive his bachelors degree, Os"I've shined shoes, dumped ga rborne was still shining shoes and bage, and swung a mop, but I
unsure what to do with all this was the same person then as I a m
education.
today. I like myself the way I am.
" One day in class some fellow I'm just me."
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M ay-June, 1975
Reverend & Sister l. C. Garrett
Pastor M arks 33rd Anniversa ry
THIRTY -THREE YEARS OF SERVICE - The Reverend and Sister
L. C. Garrett were honored with a
five-day appreciation celebration
for th e ir outstanding service, devotion and love for the Fresno Com-
munity during the past 33 years as
pastor and family of Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church. They are pictured
above at their 50th wedding anniversary celebration several years
ago.
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North Carolinian Will Take FSU
Education School Helm
Dr. William Maxwell, Jr., an associate dean at North Carolina
State University, will become dean
of the Fresno State University
School of Education July 15.
Maxwell 's appointment was announced by FSU President Norman
A. Baxter. Maxwell succeeds Dr.
Ralph Evans, who is retiring after
28 years of service to FSU, the last
four as dean of the school.
Maxwell, 46, is associate dean
of the school of education at North
Carolina State at Raleigh where,
among other assignments, he developed a course in cross-cultural
perspectives in education.
He previously was a U.S. Agency for International Development sponsored adviser to the Ministry
of Education for the government of
Rivers State in Nigeria. While there
he organized and served as acting principal of the Advanced
Teacher Training College in Port
Harcourt.
He was born in Center Point,
Ark ., and attended high school in
Phoenix, Ariz., where he was student body president, president of
th e national honor society and valedictorian.
He received his bachelor of science degree from Oregon State U-
Student
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Fresno City College sophomore
Doris Faye McFarland was recently named Fresno Hilton Hotel "Student of the Month."
Ms. McFarland, a 21-year-old
criminology major headed for a
career as a probation officer, will
be guest of the Hilton Hotel for a
dinner for two.
Ms. McFarland, niece of Mr. and
Mrs. Clinton Bogan of 16709 Amador Street, Madera, was selected
for the honor by college Extended
Opportunity Program and Services
director Robert Arroyo and his
staff. Ms. McFarland, an alumna
of Madera High School, received
her associate degree at FCC this
month and plans to transfer to
Fresno State University in the fall.
Doris McFarland
Dr. William Maxwell, Jr.
iversity, where he was also student body vice president. He holds
master and doctor of education
degrees from Harvard University.
He is the second black man to
become a dean at FSU . The other,
Richard D. Ford, has been dean of
the school of social work since
1972.
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Educational Theater performed in the Fresno Community Theater recently.
Carl Candler, center, is the young black leader setting forth the rules
for Chips, played by Leroy Major. Lawrence Chisom, left, is Jeff W illiams, the catalyst of the drama, as a young man trying to decide which
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TAREA BREWER, a junior at
Hoover High School competed in
the California Interscholastic Fed eration meet held recently at Mclane High School and qualified
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was also named most outstanding
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She is the daughter of Mr. and
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Joyce Wilson, of Detroit, Michigan, was only two when they last saw
their father. It was truly a happy time for the local Haynes family.
Rev. Haynes, an associate minister of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church,
said both of the girls received a college education and are marvelous
young women . They have kept in close touch throughout the years. A
highlight of their trip to Fresno for the reunion was the opportunity to
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Violence And Vandalism In
Our Public Schools
WASHINGTON A Senate sub-committee last week released
a sickening report - no other adjective will suffice - on violence
and vandalism in our public schools.
The evidence compiled by the sub-committee, drawn from 750
school districts around the country, is enough to turn one's stomach . In a single school year, some 70,000 teachers are seriously
injured in attacks by students. The United Federation of Teachers
has had to issue a booklet to its women members, suggesting
how they may defend themselves against the student bent on rape.
IN ONE DISTRICT after another, school officials report murder,
violent assault, gang warfare, burglary, extortion, and arson. In
Birmingham, so many school officials began carrying guns for selfdefense that the school superintendent hod to issue licenses. In
Houston, the cost of school security officers jumped from $20,000
in 1972 to $389,000 in 1973.
The schools of Los Angeles report one "gun incident" every
other day; in 1971-72, warfare among the city's estimated 150
gangs saw 29 students dead . One of the largest Los Angeles
gangs is called the Crips: "The name is a ='1ort form of Cripples
which in turn is derived from the gong's trademark of maiming
or crippling their victims. The Crips also have two auxiliary un its
- the Crippets, composed of girl members, and the Junior Crips,
made up of elementary school children."
Los Angeles is not alone in having trouble with grade-school
criminals. In Winston-Salem, three third-grade pupils were charged with extorting nearly $1,000 from a couple of classmates. Two
of the boys were 9 years old, the third 11.
From one end of the country to the other, the sub-committee's
fi~di?gs form ~n app?lling pattern : terrified teachers, imperiled
prine1pals, hostile pupils. The cost in human misery cannot be
reckoned . Neither can a price tag be placed on the educationa l
losses that occur when teaching yields to disorder.
Costs in dollars can be roughly computed. The District of Colum bia spends $622,000 a year to replace broken windows. Memphis puts its school ~andalism bill at $1 million annually . Los
Angeles pays $2, Chicago, $3 million . Salt Lake City reports a
$400,000 price, e.nough to run two elementary schools for one
year. New ~ork City pays $3 .5 million to station police in school s .
A conservative guess , for the country as a whole: $500 million a
year, equivalent to the amount spent on textbooks.
Two sociolo.gists pu~ the blame on "problems existing in the
general American soe1ety , rather than to condition s or failures
within the school system itself ."
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Miss Tale nt Teen
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Scholarship Winner
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Family Graduating Day
..... .............. 8
Art - Cecil Hinton
............................. 9
Former Fresnan Brent Johnson .............. 10
Soi l Technician ..... .... . . ..................... 11
Woman of The Year .. ............ . ............. 12
Senior Citizen ...................................... 13
Council of Negro Women ........ . .......... 14
Black School Superintend ent .................. 15
Fresno Development Company .............. 16
Obituary Edward Tucker .................. 18
Black History ... . ...... .. .
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Sports Mark Givens
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Ex•Shoe Shiner Honored ........................ 20
Relig ion Anniversary
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Ed ucation FSU .. ....... ...... ......
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Student of Month ...... .. ... . .... .............. ... 23
Sports Hank Aaron
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Black Theatre .... ..... .. ......... . .... ... .. .. 25
Family Reunion ................................. .. 26
Outstanding Girl Athlete
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Model of The Month
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California Advocate, Pp. 26, 27 , 29
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Phillip R. Beuth, vice president
and general manager of KFSN, 30,
Fresno, has announced that Sharon L. Joiner has joined Channel
30 as a producer and cinematographer with special emphasis on
minority programming.
Ms. Joiner is a gra,duate of How,_
ard University, Washington, D.C.,
and before coming to Channel 30
she was a newswriter for WABCTV, New York. Prior to that she
was a writer and producer for
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Atlanta, Ga.,
where she produced two public offairs shows, "Ebony Beat" and
"Ebo ny Beat Journa I."
Ms. Joiner was also a newswoman for Associated Press in
Baltimore and Atlanta. During
l 970 and 1972 she worked in Rio
Sharon Joiner
de Jan eiro for the Brazil Herald been a writer for Vista magazine
and was a member of a dance of the Office of Economic Opportheater group in Rio. She also has tunity, Washington, D.C.
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THREE OF A KIND Graduating day at Fres no City College this
year was an especia lly big day for the Homer Greene, Sr., family of
Fresno, when Tiny, left, and Beverley, right, and their mother, Mrs .
Helen Gree ne, ce nte r, all rece ived th eir assoc iate in arts degree from
FCC in ceremonies held recently in the Fresno Conve ntion Center Theatre .
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HOLD THAT POSE Cecil C. Hinton poses with a portrait of h imself
that will be presented to the Hinton Center, which was named for him.
The painting by West Fresno artist Archie (Leearl) Weaver, was commissioned by the Fresno City College Pan African Student Union as a
black studies project. The Hinton Center Board of Directors have not
set a date for the formal acceptance of the painting .
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Former Fresno Youth Stars On Television
Brent Johnson, 12, a former Fresnan is a news reporter for " Kids
Watch " an unusual television news prog ram aime d at kids 9 to 12
years old. The program is viewed once a month on Channel 4, KRONTV, Oakland. The 8 young sters on the p rog ram dig up " news" of interest to their fellow youngsters and handle it just as adults handle
news reporting. The result is both fascinating and hilarious.
The show s are fast moving, rang ing from a look at the world's
young est sw imming team - 5 month-olds to 2 year-olds a t Pleasant
Hill - through teeth -straightening, juggling, Kid -on -the-Street question
man ("What would you like to see done to improve your school ?"), to
a n ed itorial on tennis shoes .
Brent lives with his pa re nts, Mr. & Mrs. Odell Johnson, Jr., and his
sister, Shawn, who live in Oakland.
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LAWRENCE CHISOM, 25 , is employed as a soil technician fo r th e
eng ineering firm of Braun , Skaggs , Keno rkian & Simon of Fres no. His
job in cludes evaluating a nd testing va riou s construction mater' •Is for
greate r control and unde rstanding of the p hysica l properties.
Lawrence, a drama ma jo r, graduated fr om Ed ison High Sc~
and
Fresno City Co llege . He and h is w ife, Sandra, and daughte r,
,que,
live in Fre sno , California .
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WOMAN OF THE YEAR
SENIOR CITIZEN
Mamie Joh nsto n, 92, doesn't
want to "sit around twiddling my
thumbs" so she works at the HyPana Convalescent Hospital "helping aged patients."
Ms. Johnston, who moved to
Fresno from Washington, D. C.,
walked from her home on P Street
to the Masten Towers to check on
the Foster Grandparents Program.
From there she walked to the
Young Men 's Christian Association
where the Re1ired Senior Volunteer
Program (RSVP) is housed and volunteered her services.
Ms. Johnston is typical of Fresno's senior citizens who are involved in RSVP. The program
sponsors volunteers through 48
nonprofit community organizations
who donate their services at such
facilities as hospitals, schools, senior service centers, the lung and
cancer association, health resource
centers and the Fresno Community
Theater.
RSVP is part of ACTION, the
federal volunteer service agency.
More than l 17,000 senior citizens
utilize their skills and experience
as RSVP volunteers, serving approximately 600 sites dotting the
nation. These parttime ACTION
volunteers are reimbursed only on
onsite meals and trasportation.
Mrs. Lesly Kimber, editor of the California Advocate, has been named
as the Gamma Eta Chapter, Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Black Business
Woman of the Year. Mrs. Feltus Sterling, selection committee chairman
said Mrs . Kimber was selected from among six candidates. Mrs. Kimber
was honored during a luncheon of the sorority at the Luau restaurant.
The award 1s based upon community service, civic activities and church
part1c1pation. Mrs. Kimber and her husband were recently awarded the
Civil Libe rties Award .
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Health Agency Chief Speaks At Parley
Patsy Fulcher, deputy assistant
secretary, California Health and
Welfare Agency, was the dinner
speaker during a statewide con fereence of the National Council
of Negro Women.
The conference was held in
Fresno recently and a public dinner was served in the Rodeway
Inn fo ll owing a cocktail hour.
Ms. Fulcher's agency is responsible for the departments of Benefit Payments, Correction, Employment Development, Health, Rehabilitation and
Youth Authority.
The offices of Alcohol Program
Managemen t, Narcotics and Drug the San Francisco Bay Area 's
Ab use, Educatio n Liai so n and Ag- Black Women Organized for Action. She is also is a member of
ing also come under the agency.
She also is active as Western the League of Woman Voters, the
Regional Director of the National Oakland Museum Association and
Organization for Women (NOW). National Women 's Political CauMs. Fulcher is a cofounder of cus.
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APPOINTED SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Frank J . Johnson has been appointed as superintendent of the
Fresno Colony School District effective July l.
Announcement of the appointme nt was made by the district's
school board.
Johnson has served in the dis trict for 12 years as a teacher,
counselor and most recently vice
principal.
The board announcement said
Johnson was selected from among
38 applicants from throughout
California and several other states.
The Fresno Colony School District administers three schools on
the southwest border of the Fres no Unified School District, the
Fresno Colony, Ivy, and Western
Schools . The district's an nual bud get is approximately one millio n
dollars.
Johnson, publisher of the Grapevi ne Magazine which specializes
in news concerning minority peo ple in Central California, has re-
Frank Johnson
ceived several awards and honors
for contri butions made to aid
minority people through 1ournalism.
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Kelly's Host
Assemblyman Bill Greene
Senator Bill Greene of the 29th
District of Los Angeles was th e
guest of honor at a reception held
in the lovely home of Harlan &
Shirley Kelly recently.
Among the guests at the reception were Mr . & Mrs . Lester Riggins, Jack Kelly, Nancy Richard son, Rosemary Munsey, Mr. & Mrs.
Henry Jules , Jan Peters, Dick Merccin, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hodge, Dr.
May-June, 1975
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& Mrs.
Freddie
Hayes, Sandra
Darley, Mr. & Mrs . Ray Williams,
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Turney, Frank
Johnson , Mr. & Mrs. Teddy Thompson, Linda Mack, Ruth Albright,
Rich a rd Atamian, Gail Meyers,
Mel London and Norman Hill of
New York, N.Y.
Senator Greene was in town to
install State officers for O E 0.
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THE FRESNO DEVELOPMENT C PANY AND IT'S FIGHT FOR LIFE
Ever since 1969, Horace Hampton - also known as "Old Man
Hamp," has been working toward
the development of economic gains
in the West Fresno area. And
now, 16 years later, Hampton is
still engaged in that struggle only now, as Executive Director of
the Fresno Development Co., he is
fighting for its literal existence.
For the past 18 months, FDC
has been operating as an independent company making small
business loans, obtaining and developing industrial land in •West
Fresno. Says Hampton, "The City
of Fresno wants to take us over,
claiming incorrectly, that we
are insolvent, when, in fact, our
last audit shows FDC to have assets of $2,000,000.00."
In spite of FDC claims to be able
to hold up its own - a claim validated with audits reports the
city has gone ahead with legal
actions against the company, requesting an injunction to have
FDC "cease and desist" all new
operations except the latest essential development of the Southgate
Industrial Park area.
"What started things off," says
Hampton, "was our refusal to go
along with the city's Fifth Action
Year Agreement which was a proposal to phase out FDC operations,
cutting the staff to barely operable capacity." Hampton's contention being FDC was more than
adequately carrying out the goals
and functions it was formed to do.
Several ex-board members (who
have chosen to remain anonymous) have expressed opinions on
the city's apparent
animosity
against FDC because of the company's self-made progress in luring outside industry to the West
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HUD with the City of Fresno acting as conduit, and called the
Fresno West Development Co., Inc.
During the past 18 months, under Hampton's role as Executive
Director, the Fresno West Development Co., now termed, Fresno Development Company, operated productively fulfilling their goals
of "Preserving and creating jobs
for the disadvantaged by obtaining commitments from outside industries to invest in the area,
thereby ultimately leading to its
economic and industrial development and increased tax base."
Says Hampton,
"After four
years, and since the beginning of
the Fresno Development Co., we
are finally in a position to carry
out our commitments to the Federal government and the City of
Fresno as well as the people, in
Executive Director
reaching our goal objectives."
HORACE HAMPTON
Southgate Industrial Park, locatFresno area a task in which ed in West Fresno, is currently the
the City of Fresno's own Chamber most important project FDC is imof Commerce has had only vague mediately concerned with. It is an
success.
area bounded by Church, Fruit,
Says one member, "The accusa• West and Florence streets, totalling
tions made by the city that FDC is 43 acres. This land had long been
unable to adequately manage ii• an eyesore to the community. In
self through previous bad invest• a letter dated June 6, 1975, from
ments and financial loss has to be ' FDC to the Economic Development
looked at more closely.
Before Administration office in Fresno, a
those "bad investments" were description of the situation is givmade, they first had to be approv• en:
ed by the City of Fresno ."
". . . the land known as the
Hampton added, "The city only
Fruit/Church slaughter house
wanted to keep the lid on things
area was a depressing gave. . . it was a peacemaking effort
yard of old cars, opened sewto quiet those they considered age pits and hide houses . . .
rabble rousers. The normal exam•
streets, gutters and lights have
ination and research which goes
been added through economic
into any other business venture
development
adminstr at l o n
was barely attempted by them." I
grants and matching funds from
Originally, FDC was part of th•
the City of Fresno totaling over
Model Cities Program, funded by
$1,000,000.00."
May-June , 1975
May-June, 1975
Adds
FDC
president
James
Burnis, "One of the most impor-
tant improvements is the sewage
treatment plant which is being
constructed at a cost of $600,000.
(For years area residents had to
endure the stench of wastes dumped into the open sewage pits.)
Continued Burnis, in a May 14,
Fresno Bee article, ". . . with this
pretreatment plant in operation
we will have the potential to attract the creation of as many as
500 jobs in this area, which will
mean annual payrolls of about
$10 million for Fresno workers."
The FDC fought the City of Fresno's action suit of December 1973
by going to the Federal bankruptcy court and filing a Chapter 11.
They obtained a "Debtor of Possession," guarantee which protected them against the city's injunction and allowed them to retain their properties and fully
continue their operations until a
final decision is reached in the
case.
And latest developments in the
battle show some progress.
"In an unprecedented vote, the
Fresno Community Development
Commission presented a request to
the City Council in its June 15
meeting that it stop court action
against FDC. As a result, representatives of FDC are meeting with
the City Manager's staff to work
out an out-of-court settlement,"
said Hampton.
Whatever the eventual outcome
of this dispute . . . the results will
give the direction, in Fresno, of
the issue which is gaining more
prominence in the concerns of
West Fresnans: local community
autonomy vs. centralized governmental control.
(Gail Oliver)
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Grapevine
OBITUARY
Funeral services were he ld recently for Edward Tucker, 62, of
l 004 Sampson St., who leaves 16
children, 62 grandchildren a nd 16
great-grandchildren.
Tucker, a retired const ruction
worker and farm laborer, died of
cancer recently in a loca l hosp ital.
A native of Texas, Tucker came
to Fresno in 1945 in a Model A
Ford with his wife, Cora, a nd a
d ozen children. Their family later
grew to 19 children,
including
four sets of twins. Three of the
ch il d ren are deceased. Those living
range in age from 4 I to 20.
Tucker also leaves 62 grandch ild ren and
16 gre at-g ranchi ld ren.
He was a member of the San
J oaqu in Memorial
High Schoo l
Dad 's Club.
O ne of his so ns, David, set a
na t io na l interscholastic triple jump
record w hile competing for the
Memorial track team and also
starred in basketball.
Besid es David and his widow ,
Tucker is survived by seven oth e r
sons, James, Joh n, W illie and
Louis, all of Fresno; Ernest of Se lma, Eugene of Las Vegas and
Aaron of Los Angeles and eight
d aug hters, Martha Leary, Dorothy
This Month In Black History
Flags hung at half mast at all m ilitary barracks and vessels in
port in San Francisco 127 years ago this month . The enti~e city
had joined in tribute to one of its top civic leaders who died of
brain fever on May 18, 1848 at the age of only 38. He was
William Alexander Leidesdorff, who has gone down in history as
the first Black pioneer in the city by the Golden Gate.
Born in the Virgin Islands of a black mother, Anna Spark, and
a Danish sugar planter father, Leidesdorff became a ship captain
before settling down in San Francisco . There he became one of its
leading businessmen, chalking up severa l firsts in the city. Leidesdorff launched the first steamboat to sail on San Francisco Bay.
He built the city's first hotel at the corner of Clay and Kearny
Streets and just a year before his d eath sta ged the first horse race
in California on a meadow near the city' s oldest landmark, the
Mission Dolores, where his body was laid to rest.
Recognized for his leadership and business acumen (he owned
several blocks of what is now downtown San Francisco), Leidesdorff was on the city' s first council, became city treasurer and was
on the first school board which built the first school in the city.
After his death gold was found on property he had owned near
the American River and an Army captain named Joseph Folsom
journeyed to the Virgin Islands to find Leidesdorff's black mother
to whom he paid $75,000 for title to the land. Eventually the
estate was valued over one million dollars. Today there is still a
street in San Francisco named Leidesdorff. (Sepia)
Edward Tucker
Montgo mery, Vivian Thurman, Glo ria Eva ns and Sharon and Lois
Tucker, a ll of Fresno; and Mary
Brya nt a nd Ruby Lee of San Jose .
The Jesse E. Cooley Jr. Funeral
Service w as in charge of arrangements.
Givens Named MVP
Of Ram Track Squad
Mork Givens, Fresno City College's standout sprinter and long
jumper, was honored as the track
team 's most valuable athlete at an
annual awards dinner.
Givens captured Valley Conference titles in the 100 and long
jump. He also won the West Coast
Relays and Northern California titles in the long jump, winning each
at 25 -5½ .
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Ex-Shoe Shiner Is Awarded
Distinguished Alumni Honor
A man who shined shoes professionally for 23 years is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni
Award for 1975 from San Diego
State University's College of Professional Studies.
Leon Osborne, a Fresno City
College art instructor for the past
six years, received the honor at an
SDSU Alumni Association awards
ceremony May 16 in San Diego.
A
SDSU Alumni
Association
spokesman said Osborne was selected primarily because of his
dedication to self-improvement.
Osborne, 49, began shining
shoes at a YMCA for servicemen
over a quarter of a century ago
and it was not until he was 35
that an interest in painting attracted him to a San Diego adult
school.
" I didn 't know beans from butter when I started and they threw
all this education at me," Osborne
remembers. " I just went to paint,
Leon O sborne
but my teachers said I should get
a high school diploma. I asked students told me I had a knack
them 'What does a shoe shiner for explaining things more underneed with a diploma?' "
standably than the instructor, " OsOsborne earned that diploma, borne commented. "They thoug ht
however, and was encouraged to I should be a teacher and I sa id
enroll at San Diego City College, 'why not? ' "
which he did. After graduating
Osborne entered SDUS's masters
from SDCC, he enrolled at San Di- program, earned his degree, and
eego State.
took a part-time teaching job a t
" At each school, I thought I the university. A year later, he
would flunk out," recalls Osborne. joined the FCC faculty.
" I never really had confidence
" Since that time, I haven't shinthat I would make it. I was going ed another shoe, except maybe
on a day-to-day basis."
my own and then not very well, "
Two weeks before he was to re- he smiled.
ceive his bachelors degree, Os"I've shined shoes, dumped ga rborne was still shining shoes and bage, and swung a mop, but I
unsure what to do with all this was the same person then as I a m
education.
today. I like myself the way I am.
" One day in class some fellow I'm just me."
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M ay-June, 1975
Reverend & Sister l. C. Garrett
Pastor M arks 33rd Anniversa ry
THIRTY -THREE YEARS OF SERVICE - The Reverend and Sister
L. C. Garrett were honored with a
five-day appreciation celebration
for th e ir outstanding service, devotion and love for the Fresno Com-
munity during the past 33 years as
pastor and family of Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church. They are pictured
above at their 50th wedding anniversary celebration several years
ago.
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North Carolinian Will Take FSU
Education School Helm
Dr. William Maxwell, Jr., an associate dean at North Carolina
State University, will become dean
of the Fresno State University
School of Education July 15.
Maxwell 's appointment was announced by FSU President Norman
A. Baxter. Maxwell succeeds Dr.
Ralph Evans, who is retiring after
28 years of service to FSU, the last
four as dean of the school.
Maxwell, 46, is associate dean
of the school of education at North
Carolina State at Raleigh where,
among other assignments, he developed a course in cross-cultural
perspectives in education.
He previously was a U.S. Agency for International Development sponsored adviser to the Ministry
of Education for the government of
Rivers State in Nigeria. While there
he organized and served as acting principal of the Advanced
Teacher Training College in Port
Harcourt.
He was born in Center Point,
Ark ., and attended high school in
Phoenix, Ariz., where he was student body president, president of
th e national honor society and valedictorian.
He received his bachelor of science degree from Oregon State U-
Student
Of The
Month
Fresno City College sophomore
Doris Faye McFarland was recently named Fresno Hilton Hotel "Student of the Month."
Ms. McFarland, a 21-year-old
criminology major headed for a
career as a probation officer, will
be guest of the Hilton Hotel for a
dinner for two.
Ms. McFarland, niece of Mr. and
Mrs. Clinton Bogan of 16709 Amador Street, Madera, was selected
for the honor by college Extended
Opportunity Program and Services
director Robert Arroyo and his
staff. Ms. McFarland, an alumna
of Madera High School, received
her associate degree at FCC this
month and plans to transfer to
Fresno State University in the fall.
Doris McFarland
Dr. William Maxwell, Jr.
iversity, where he was also student body vice president. He holds
master and doctor of education
degrees from Harvard University.
He is the second black man to
become a dean at FSU . The other,
Richard D. Ford, has been dean of
the school of social work since
1972.
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BLACK T EA
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A meeting of would be revolutionaires turns rough in Joseph A.
Walker's a w ard-winning dram'-, "The River Ni ger " w hich t he Black
Educational Theater performed in the Fresno Community Theater recently.
Carl Candler, center, is the young black leader setting forth the rules
for Chips, played by Leroy Major. Lawrence Chisom, left, is Jeff W illiams, the catalyst of the drama, as a young man trying to decide which
lifestyle to follow; Raenette Robinson is his girl friend, Ann Vanderguild. Others shown are Michael Chartley as A l; Wilhelmina W ooten
as Gail and Clovel Rogers as Skeeter. ' "River Niger," was winner of
both " Obie" Award and "'Tony," · as best drama a few seasons a g o.
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Together Again ... After 26 Years!
Outstanding
Girl
Athlete
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TAREA BREWER, a junior at
Hoover High School competed in
the California Interscholastic Fed eration meet held recently at Mclane High School and qualified
for the nationals in New York with
a 115-foot throw in discus . She
was also named most outstanding
girl in track (field) at the Hoover
Spring Athletic Awards Banquet.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elijah Brewer of Fresno.
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REUNION The Reverend Bruce Haynes, center, is su·rrounded by
his two attractive daughters he hadn't seen for 26 years. Mrs. Barbara
Martin, left, of Jackson, Miss., was 4 years old and her sister, Mrs.
Joyce Wilson, of Detroit, Michigan, was only two when they last saw
their father. It was truly a happy time for the local Haynes family.
Rev. Haynes, an associate minister of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church,
said both of the girls received a college education and are marvelous
young women . They have kept in close touch throughout the years. A
highlight of their trip to Fresno for the reunion was the opportunity to
watch brothers, Jeff and David, play baseball on their respective teams.
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Miss Dumaine, 16, from St. Louis, was in Los Angeles for the taping of
"Soul Train." Standing, left to right, Ken Hall, Foxes and Hares Treasurer; Earlie Biles-Douglas of Stax Records; Sandy Kenny of Wendy
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THE
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Violence And Vandalism In
Our Public Schools
WASHINGTON A Senate sub-committee last week released
a sickening report - no other adjective will suffice - on violence
and vandalism in our public schools.
The evidence compiled by the sub-committee, drawn from 750
school districts around the country, is enough to turn one's stomach . In a single school year, some 70,000 teachers are seriously
injured in attacks by students. The United Federation of Teachers
has had to issue a booklet to its women members, suggesting
how they may defend themselves against the student bent on rape.
IN ONE DISTRICT after another, school officials report murder,
violent assault, gang warfare, burglary, extortion, and arson. In
Birmingham, so many school officials began carrying guns for selfdefense that the school superintendent hod to issue licenses. In
Houston, the cost of school security officers jumped from $20,000
in 1972 to $389,000 in 1973.
The schools of Los Angeles report one "gun incident" every
other day; in 1971-72, warfare among the city's estimated 150
gangs saw 29 students dead . One of the largest Los Angeles
gangs is called the Crips: "The name is a ='1ort form of Cripples
which in turn is derived from the gong's trademark of maiming
or crippling their victims. The Crips also have two auxiliary un its
- the Crippets, composed of girl members, and the Junior Crips,
made up of elementary school children."
Los Angeles is not alone in having trouble with grade-school
criminals. In Winston-Salem, three third-grade pupils were charged with extorting nearly $1,000 from a couple of classmates. Two
of the boys were 9 years old, the third 11.
From one end of the country to the other, the sub-committee's
fi~di?gs form ~n app?lling pattern : terrified teachers, imperiled
prine1pals, hostile pupils. The cost in human misery cannot be
reckoned . Neither can a price tag be placed on the educationa l
losses that occur when teaching yields to disorder.
Costs in dollars can be roughly computed. The District of Colum bia spends $622,000 a year to replace broken windows. Memphis puts its school ~andalism bill at $1 million annually . Los
Angeles pays $2, Chicago, $3 million . Salt Lake City reports a
$400,000 price, e.nough to run two elementary schools for one
year. New ~ork City pays $3 .5 million to station police in school s .
A conservative guess , for the country as a whole: $500 million a
year, equivalent to the amount spent on textbooks.
Two sociolo.gists pu~ the blame on "problems existing in the
general American soe1ety , rather than to condition s or failures
within the school system itself ."
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Miss Tale nt Teen
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Scholarship Winner
.............................. 7
Family Graduating Day
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Art - Cecil Hinton
............................. 9
Former Fresnan Brent Johnson .............. 10
Soi l Technician ..... .... . . ..................... 11
Woman of The Year .. ............ . ............. 12
Senior Citizen ...................................... 13
Council of Negro Women ........ . .......... 14
Black School Superintend ent .................. 15
Fresno Development Company .............. 16
Obituary Edward Tucker .................. 18
Black History ... . ...... .. .
. ................ 19
Sports Mark Givens
..................... 19
Ex•Shoe Shiner Honored ........................ 20
Relig ion Anniversary
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Ed ucation FSU .. ....... ...... ......
. .. 22
Student of Month ...... .. ... . .... .............. ... 23
Sports Hank Aaron
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Black Theatre .... ..... .. ......... . .... ... .. .. 25
Family Reunion ................................. .. 26
Outstanding Girl Athlete
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Beauty Pageant . . ......................
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Model of The Month
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Photo Credits :
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California Advocate, Pp. 26, 27 , 29
Walt Porter, Pp. 9, 12
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Of Producer-Cinematographer
Phillip R. Beuth, vice president
and general manager of KFSN, 30,
Fresno, has announced that Sharon L. Joiner has joined Channel
30 as a producer and cinematographer with special emphasis on
minority programming.
Ms. Joiner is a gra,duate of How,_
ard University, Washington, D.C.,
and before coming to Channel 30
she was a newswriter for WABCTV, New York. Prior to that she
was a writer and producer for
WQXI-T\/ (ABC)
Atlanta, Ga.,
where she produced two public offairs shows, "Ebony Beat" and
"Ebo ny Beat Journa I."
Ms. Joiner was also a newswoman for Associated Press in
Baltimore and Atlanta. During
l 970 and 1972 she worked in Rio
Sharon Joiner
de Jan eiro for the Brazil Herald been a writer for Vista magazine
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THREE OF A KIND Graduating day at Fres no City College this
year was an especia lly big day for the Homer Greene, Sr., family of
Fresno, when Tiny, left, and Beverley, right, and their mother, Mrs .
Helen Gree ne, ce nte r, all rece ived th eir assoc iate in arts degree from
FCC in ceremonies held recently in the Fresno Conve ntion Center Theatre .
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HOLD THAT POSE Cecil C. Hinton poses with a portrait of h imself
that will be presented to the Hinton Center, which was named for him.
The painting by West Fresno artist Archie (Leearl) Weaver, was commissioned by the Fresno City College Pan African Student Union as a
black studies project. The Hinton Center Board of Directors have not
set a date for the formal acceptance of the painting .
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Former Fresno Youth Stars On Television
Brent Johnson, 12, a former Fresnan is a news reporter for " Kids
Watch " an unusual television news prog ram aime d at kids 9 to 12
years old. The program is viewed once a month on Channel 4, KRONTV, Oakland. The 8 young sters on the p rog ram dig up " news" of interest to their fellow youngsters and handle it just as adults handle
news reporting. The result is both fascinating and hilarious.
The show s are fast moving, rang ing from a look at the world's
young est sw imming team - 5 month-olds to 2 year-olds a t Pleasant
Hill - through teeth -straightening, juggling, Kid -on -the-Street question
man ("What would you like to see done to improve your school ?"), to
a n ed itorial on tennis shoes .
Brent lives with his pa re nts, Mr. & Mrs. Odell Johnson, Jr., and his
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LAWRENCE CHISOM, 25 , is employed as a soil technician fo r th e
eng ineering firm of Braun , Skaggs , Keno rkian & Simon of Fres no. His
job in cludes evaluating a nd testing va riou s construction mater' •Is for
greate r control and unde rstanding of the p hysica l properties.
Lawrence, a drama ma jo r, graduated fr om Ed ison High Sc~
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Fresno City Co llege . He and h is w ife, Sandra, and daughte r,
,que,
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WOMAN OF THE YEAR
SENIOR CITIZEN
Mamie Joh nsto n, 92, doesn't
want to "sit around twiddling my
thumbs" so she works at the HyPana Convalescent Hospital "helping aged patients."
Ms. Johnston, who moved to
Fresno from Washington, D. C.,
walked from her home on P Street
to the Masten Towers to check on
the Foster Grandparents Program.
From there she walked to the
Young Men 's Christian Association
where the Re1ired Senior Volunteer
Program (RSVP) is housed and volunteered her services.
Ms. Johnston is typical of Fresno's senior citizens who are involved in RSVP. The program
sponsors volunteers through 48
nonprofit community organizations
who donate their services at such
facilities as hospitals, schools, senior service centers, the lung and
cancer association, health resource
centers and the Fresno Community
Theater.
RSVP is part of ACTION, the
federal volunteer service agency.
More than l 17,000 senior citizens
utilize their skills and experience
as RSVP volunteers, serving approximately 600 sites dotting the
nation. These parttime ACTION
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onsite meals and trasportation.
Mrs. Lesly Kimber, editor of the California Advocate, has been named
as the Gamma Eta Chapter, Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Black Business
Woman of the Year. Mrs. Feltus Sterling, selection committee chairman
said Mrs . Kimber was selected from among six candidates. Mrs. Kimber
was honored during a luncheon of the sorority at the Luau restaurant.
The award 1s based upon community service, civic activities and church
part1c1pation. Mrs. Kimber and her husband were recently awarded the
Civil Libe rties Award .
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Health Agency Chief Speaks At Parley
Patsy Fulcher, deputy assistant
secretary, California Health and
Welfare Agency, was the dinner
speaker during a statewide con fereence of the National Council
of Negro Women.
The conference was held in
Fresno recently and a public dinner was served in the Rodeway
Inn fo ll owing a cocktail hour.
Ms. Fulcher's agency is responsible for the departments of Benefit Payments, Correction, Employment Development, Health, Rehabilitation and
Youth Authority.
The offices of Alcohol Program
Managemen t, Narcotics and Drug the San Francisco Bay Area 's
Ab use, Educatio n Liai so n and Ag- Black Women Organized for Action. She is also is a member of
ing also come under the agency.
She also is active as Western the League of Woman Voters, the
Regional Director of the National Oakland Museum Association and
Organization for Women (NOW). National Women 's Political CauMs. Fulcher is a cofounder of cus.
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GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER
APPOINTED SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Frank J . Johnson has been appointed as superintendent of the
Fresno Colony School District effective July l.
Announcement of the appointme nt was made by the district's
school board.
Johnson has served in the dis trict for 12 years as a teacher,
counselor and most recently vice
principal.
The board announcement said
Johnson was selected from among
38 applicants from throughout
California and several other states.
The Fresno Colony School District administers three schools on
the southwest border of the Fres no Unified School District, the
Fresno Colony, Ivy, and Western
Schools . The district's an nual bud get is approximately one millio n
dollars.
Johnson, publisher of the Grapevi ne Magazine which specializes
in news concerning minority peo ple in Central California, has re-
Frank Johnson
ceived several awards and honors
for contri butions made to aid
minority people through 1ournalism.
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May-June, 1975
Kelly's Host
Assemblyman Bill Greene
Senator Bill Greene of the 29th
District of Los Angeles was th e
guest of honor at a reception held
in the lovely home of Harlan &
Shirley Kelly recently.
Among the guests at the reception were Mr . & Mrs . Lester Riggins, Jack Kelly, Nancy Richard son, Rosemary Munsey, Mr. & Mrs.
Henry Jules , Jan Peters, Dick Merccin, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hodge, Dr.
May-June, 1975
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& Mrs.
Freddie
Hayes, Sandra
Darley, Mr. & Mrs . Ray Williams,
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Turney, Frank
Johnson , Mr. & Mrs. Teddy Thompson, Linda Mack, Ruth Albright,
Rich a rd Atamian, Gail Meyers,
Mel London and Norman Hill of
New York, N.Y.
Senator Greene was in town to
install State officers for O E 0.
Grapevine
THE FRESNO DEVELOPMENT C PANY AND IT'S FIGHT FOR LIFE
Ever since 1969, Horace Hampton - also known as "Old Man
Hamp," has been working toward
the development of economic gains
in the West Fresno area. And
now, 16 years later, Hampton is
still engaged in that struggle only now, as Executive Director of
the Fresno Development Co., he is
fighting for its literal existence.
For the past 18 months, FDC
has been operating as an independent company making small
business loans, obtaining and developing industrial land in •West
Fresno. Says Hampton, "The City
of Fresno wants to take us over,
claiming incorrectly, that we
are insolvent, when, in fact, our
last audit shows FDC to have assets of $2,000,000.00."
In spite of FDC claims to be able
to hold up its own - a claim validated with audits reports the
city has gone ahead with legal
actions against the company, requesting an injunction to have
FDC "cease and desist" all new
operations except the latest essential development of the Southgate
Industrial Park area.
"What started things off," says
Hampton, "was our refusal to go
along with the city's Fifth Action
Year Agreement which was a proposal to phase out FDC operations,
cutting the staff to barely operable capacity." Hampton's contention being FDC was more than
adequately carrying out the goals
and functions it was formed to do.
Several ex-board members (who
have chosen to remain anonymous) have expressed opinions on
the city's apparent
animosity
against FDC because of the company's self-made progress in luring outside industry to the West
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HUD with the City of Fresno acting as conduit, and called the
Fresno West Development Co., Inc.
During the past 18 months, under Hampton's role as Executive
Director, the Fresno West Development Co., now termed, Fresno Development Company, operated productively fulfilling their goals
of "Preserving and creating jobs
for the disadvantaged by obtaining commitments from outside industries to invest in the area,
thereby ultimately leading to its
economic and industrial development and increased tax base."
Says Hampton,
"After four
years, and since the beginning of
the Fresno Development Co., we
are finally in a position to carry
out our commitments to the Federal government and the City of
Fresno as well as the people, in
Executive Director
reaching our goal objectives."
HORACE HAMPTON
Southgate Industrial Park, locatFresno area a task in which ed in West Fresno, is currently the
the City of Fresno's own Chamber most important project FDC is imof Commerce has had only vague mediately concerned with. It is an
success.
area bounded by Church, Fruit,
Says one member, "The accusa• West and Florence streets, totalling
tions made by the city that FDC is 43 acres. This land had long been
unable to adequately manage ii• an eyesore to the community. In
self through previous bad invest• a letter dated June 6, 1975, from
ments and financial loss has to be ' FDC to the Economic Development
looked at more closely.
Before Administration office in Fresno, a
those "bad investments" were description of the situation is givmade, they first had to be approv• en:
ed by the City of Fresno ."
". . . the land known as the
Hampton added, "The city only
Fruit/Church slaughter house
wanted to keep the lid on things
area was a depressing gave. . . it was a peacemaking effort
yard of old cars, opened sewto quiet those they considered age pits and hide houses . . .
rabble rousers. The normal exam•
streets, gutters and lights have
ination and research which goes
been added through economic
into any other business venture
development
adminstr at l o n
was barely attempted by them." I
grants and matching funds from
Originally, FDC was part of th•
the City of Fresno totaling over
Model Cities Program, funded by
$1,000,000.00."
May-June , 1975
May-June, 1975
Adds
FDC
president
James
Burnis, "One of the most impor-
tant improvements is the sewage
treatment plant which is being
constructed at a cost of $600,000.
(For years area residents had to
endure the stench of wastes dumped into the open sewage pits.)
Continued Burnis, in a May 14,
Fresno Bee article, ". . . with this
pretreatment plant in operation
we will have the potential to attract the creation of as many as
500 jobs in this area, which will
mean annual payrolls of about
$10 million for Fresno workers."
The FDC fought the City of Fresno's action suit of December 1973
by going to the Federal bankruptcy court and filing a Chapter 11.
They obtained a "Debtor of Possession," guarantee which protected them against the city's injunction and allowed them to retain their properties and fully
continue their operations until a
final decision is reached in the
case.
And latest developments in the
battle show some progress.
"In an unprecedented vote, the
Fresno Community Development
Commission presented a request to
the City Council in its June 15
meeting that it stop court action
against FDC. As a result, representatives of FDC are meeting with
the City Manager's staff to work
out an out-of-court settlement,"
said Hampton.
Whatever the eventual outcome
of this dispute . . . the results will
give the direction, in Fresno, of
the issue which is gaining more
prominence in the concerns of
West Fresnans: local community
autonomy vs. centralized governmental control.
(Gail Oliver)
17
Grapevine
OBITUARY
Funeral services were he ld recently for Edward Tucker, 62, of
l 004 Sampson St., who leaves 16
children, 62 grandchildren a nd 16
great-grandchildren.
Tucker, a retired const ruction
worker and farm laborer, died of
cancer recently in a loca l hosp ital.
A native of Texas, Tucker came
to Fresno in 1945 in a Model A
Ford with his wife, Cora, a nd a
d ozen children. Their family later
grew to 19 children,
including
four sets of twins. Three of the
ch il d ren are deceased. Those living
range in age from 4 I to 20.
Tucker also leaves 62 grandch ild ren and
16 gre at-g ranchi ld ren.
He was a member of the San
J oaqu in Memorial
High Schoo l
Dad 's Club.
O ne of his so ns, David, set a
na t io na l interscholastic triple jump
record w hile competing for the
Memorial track team and also
starred in basketball.
Besid es David and his widow ,
Tucker is survived by seven oth e r
sons, James, Joh n, W illie and
Louis, all of Fresno; Ernest of Se lma, Eugene of Las Vegas and
Aaron of Los Angeles and eight
d aug hters, Martha Leary, Dorothy
This Month In Black History
Flags hung at half mast at all m ilitary barracks and vessels in
port in San Francisco 127 years ago this month . The enti~e city
had joined in tribute to one of its top civic leaders who died of
brain fever on May 18, 1848 at the age of only 38. He was
William Alexander Leidesdorff, who has gone down in history as
the first Black pioneer in the city by the Golden Gate.
Born in the Virgin Islands of a black mother, Anna Spark, and
a Danish sugar planter father, Leidesdorff became a ship captain
before settling down in San Francisco . There he became one of its
leading businessmen, chalking up severa l firsts in the city. Leidesdorff launched the first steamboat to sail on San Francisco Bay.
He built the city's first hotel at the corner of Clay and Kearny
Streets and just a year before his d eath sta ged the first horse race
in California on a meadow near the city' s oldest landmark, the
Mission Dolores, where his body was laid to rest.
Recognized for his leadership and business acumen (he owned
several blocks of what is now downtown San Francisco), Leidesdorff was on the city' s first council, became city treasurer and was
on the first school board which built the first school in the city.
After his death gold was found on property he had owned near
the American River and an Army captain named Joseph Folsom
journeyed to the Virgin Islands to find Leidesdorff's black mother
to whom he paid $75,000 for title to the land. Eventually the
estate was valued over one million dollars. Today there is still a
street in San Francisco named Leidesdorff. (Sepia)
Edward Tucker
Montgo mery, Vivian Thurman, Glo ria Eva ns and Sharon and Lois
Tucker, a ll of Fresno; and Mary
Brya nt a nd Ruby Lee of San Jose .
The Jesse E. Cooley Jr. Funeral
Service w as in charge of arrangements.
Givens Named MVP
Of Ram Track Squad
Mork Givens, Fresno City College's standout sprinter and long
jumper, was honored as the track
team 's most valuable athlete at an
annual awards dinner.
Givens captured Valley Conference titles in the 100 and long
jump. He also won the West Coast
Relays and Northern California titles in the long jump, winning each
at 25 -5½ .
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Ex-Shoe Shiner Is Awarded
Distinguished Alumni Honor
A man who shined shoes professionally for 23 years is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni
Award for 1975 from San Diego
State University's College of Professional Studies.
Leon Osborne, a Fresno City
College art instructor for the past
six years, received the honor at an
SDSU Alumni Association awards
ceremony May 16 in San Diego.
A
SDSU Alumni
Association
spokesman said Osborne was selected primarily because of his
dedication to self-improvement.
Osborne, 49, began shining
shoes at a YMCA for servicemen
over a quarter of a century ago
and it was not until he was 35
that an interest in painting attracted him to a San Diego adult
school.
" I didn 't know beans from butter when I started and they threw
all this education at me," Osborne
remembers. " I just went to paint,
Leon O sborne
but my teachers said I should get
a high school diploma. I asked students told me I had a knack
them 'What does a shoe shiner for explaining things more underneed with a diploma?' "
standably than the instructor, " OsOsborne earned that diploma, borne commented. "They thoug ht
however, and was encouraged to I should be a teacher and I sa id
enroll at San Diego City College, 'why not? ' "
which he did. After graduating
Osborne entered SDUS's masters
from SDCC, he enrolled at San Di- program, earned his degree, and
eego State.
took a part-time teaching job a t
" At each school, I thought I the university. A year later, he
would flunk out," recalls Osborne. joined the FCC faculty.
" I never really had confidence
" Since that time, I haven't shinthat I would make it. I was going ed another shoe, except maybe
on a day-to-day basis."
my own and then not very well, "
Two weeks before he was to re- he smiled.
ceive his bachelors degree, Os"I've shined shoes, dumped ga rborne was still shining shoes and bage, and swung a mop, but I
unsure what to do with all this was the same person then as I a m
education.
today. I like myself the way I am.
" One day in class some fellow I'm just me."
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M ay-June, 1975
Reverend & Sister l. C. Garrett
Pastor M arks 33rd Anniversa ry
THIRTY -THREE YEARS OF SERVICE - The Reverend and Sister
L. C. Garrett were honored with a
five-day appreciation celebration
for th e ir outstanding service, devotion and love for the Fresno Com-
munity during the past 33 years as
pastor and family of Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church. They are pictured
above at their 50th wedding anniversary celebration several years
ago.
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North Carolinian Will Take FSU
Education School Helm
Dr. William Maxwell, Jr., an associate dean at North Carolina
State University, will become dean
of the Fresno State University
School of Education July 15.
Maxwell 's appointment was announced by FSU President Norman
A. Baxter. Maxwell succeeds Dr.
Ralph Evans, who is retiring after
28 years of service to FSU, the last
four as dean of the school.
Maxwell, 46, is associate dean
of the school of education at North
Carolina State at Raleigh where,
among other assignments, he developed a course in cross-cultural
perspectives in education.
He previously was a U.S. Agency for International Development sponsored adviser to the Ministry
of Education for the government of
Rivers State in Nigeria. While there
he organized and served as acting principal of the Advanced
Teacher Training College in Port
Harcourt.
He was born in Center Point,
Ark ., and attended high school in
Phoenix, Ariz., where he was student body president, president of
th e national honor society and valedictorian.
He received his bachelor of science degree from Oregon State U-
Student
Of The
Month
Fresno City College sophomore
Doris Faye McFarland was recently named Fresno Hilton Hotel "Student of the Month."
Ms. McFarland, a 21-year-old
criminology major headed for a
career as a probation officer, will
be guest of the Hilton Hotel for a
dinner for two.
Ms. McFarland, niece of Mr. and
Mrs. Clinton Bogan of 16709 Amador Street, Madera, was selected
for the honor by college Extended
Opportunity Program and Services
director Robert Arroyo and his
staff. Ms. McFarland, an alumna
of Madera High School, received
her associate degree at FCC this
month and plans to transfer to
Fresno State University in the fall.
Doris McFarland
Dr. William Maxwell, Jr.
iversity, where he was also student body vice president. He holds
master and doctor of education
degrees from Harvard University.
He is the second black man to
become a dean at FSU . The other,
Richard D. Ford, has been dean of
the school of social work since
1972.
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BLACK T EA
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A meeting of would be revolutionaires turns rough in Joseph A.
Walker's a w ard-winning dram'-, "The River Ni ger " w hich t he Black
Educational Theater performed in the Fresno Community Theater recently.
Carl Candler, center, is the young black leader setting forth the rules
for Chips, played by Leroy Major. Lawrence Chisom, left, is Jeff W illiams, the catalyst of the drama, as a young man trying to decide which
lifestyle to follow; Raenette Robinson is his girl friend, Ann Vanderguild. Others shown are Michael Chartley as A l; Wilhelmina W ooten
as Gail and Clovel Rogers as Skeeter. ' "River Niger," was winner of
both " Obie" Award and "'Tony," · as best drama a few seasons a g o.
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Together Again ... After 26 Years!
Outstanding
Girl
Athlete
.,
TAREA BREWER, a junior at
Hoover High School competed in
the California Interscholastic Fed eration meet held recently at Mclane High School and qualified
for the nationals in New York with
a 115-foot throw in discus . She
was also named most outstanding
girl in track (field) at the Hoover
Spring Athletic Awards Banquet.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elijah Brewer of Fresno.
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REUNION The Reverend Bruce Haynes, center, is su·rrounded by
his two attractive daughters he hadn't seen for 26 years. Mrs. Barbara
Martin, left, of Jackson, Miss., was 4 years old and her sister, Mrs.
Joyce Wilson, of Detroit, Michigan, was only two when they last saw
their father. It was truly a happy time for the local Haynes family.
Rev. Haynes, an associate minister of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church,
said both of the girls received a college education and are marvelous
young women . They have kept in close touch throughout the years. A
highlight of their trip to Fresno for the reunion was the opportunity to
watch brothers, Jeff and David, play baseball on their respective teams.
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Miss Dumaine, 16, from St. Louis, was in Los Angeles for the taping of
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THE
PARENTS MUST HELP
Violence And Vandalism In
Our Public Schools
WASHINGTON A Senate sub-committee last week released
a sickening report - no other adjective will suffice - on violence
and vandalism in our public schools.
The evidence compiled by the sub-committee, drawn from 750
school districts around the country, is enough to turn one's stomach . In a single school year, some 70,000 teachers are seriously
injured in attacks by students. The United Federation of Teachers
has had to issue a booklet to its women members, suggesting
how they may defend themselves against the student bent on rape.
IN ONE DISTRICT after another, school officials report murder,
violent assault, gang warfare, burglary, extortion, and arson. In
Birmingham, so many school officials began carrying guns for selfdefense that the school superintendent hod to issue licenses. In
Houston, the cost of school security officers jumped from $20,000
in 1972 to $389,000 in 1973.
The schools of Los Angeles report one "gun incident" every
other day; in 1971-72, warfare among the city's estimated 150
gangs saw 29 students dead . One of the largest Los Angeles
gangs is called the Crips: "The name is a ='1ort form of Cripples
which in turn is derived from the gong's trademark of maiming
or crippling their victims. The Crips also have two auxiliary un its
- the Crippets, composed of girl members, and the Junior Crips,
made up of elementary school children."
Los Angeles is not alone in having trouble with grade-school
criminals. In Winston-Salem, three third-grade pupils were charged with extorting nearly $1,000 from a couple of classmates. Two
of the boys were 9 years old, the third 11.
From one end of the country to the other, the sub-committee's
fi~di?gs form ~n app?lling pattern : terrified teachers, imperiled
prine1pals, hostile pupils. The cost in human misery cannot be
reckoned . Neither can a price tag be placed on the educationa l
losses that occur when teaching yields to disorder.
Costs in dollars can be roughly computed. The District of Colum bia spends $622,000 a year to replace broken windows. Memphis puts its school ~andalism bill at $1 million annually . Los
Angeles pays $2, Chicago, $3 million . Salt Lake City reports a
$400,000 price, e.nough to run two elementary schools for one
year. New ~ork City pays $3 .5 million to station police in school s .
A conservative guess , for the country as a whole: $500 million a
year, equivalent to the amount spent on textbooks.
Two sociolo.gists pu~ the blame on "problems existing in the
general American soe1ety , rather than to condition s or failures
within the school system itself ."
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(Frank o nson - Editor)
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Wo ma n TV Produce r
6
Miss Tale nt Teen
............ 7
Scholarship Winner
.............................. 7
Family Graduating Day
..... .............. 8
Art - Cecil Hinton
............................. 9
Former Fresnan Brent Johnson .............. 10
Soi l Technician ..... .... . . ..................... 11
Woman of The Year .. ............ . ............. 12
Senior Citizen ...................................... 13
Council of Negro Women ........ . .......... 14
Black School Superintend ent .................. 15
Fresno Development Company .............. 16
Obituary Edward Tucker .................. 18
Black History ... . ...... .. .
. ................ 19
Sports Mark Givens
..................... 19
Ex•Shoe Shiner Honored ........................ 20
Relig ion Anniversary
........ 2 1
Ed ucation FSU .. ....... ...... ......
. .. 22
Student of Month ...... .. ... . .... .............. ... 23
Sports Hank Aaron
.............. .. .. 24
Black Theatre .... ..... .. ......... . .... ... .. .. 25
Family Reunion ................................. .. 26
Outstanding Girl Athlete
.27
Beauty Pageant . . ......................
. .29
Model of The Month
.. 30
Photo Credits :
Fresno Bee, Pp. 6, 7, 13, 14, 19, 22, 24, 25
California Advocate, Pp. 26, 27 , 29
Walt Porter, Pp. 9, 12
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Woman Joins KFSN Staff In Dual Role
Of Producer-Cinematographer
Phillip R. Beuth, vice president
and general manager of KFSN, 30,
Fresno, has announced that Sharon L. Joiner has joined Channel
30 as a producer and cinematographer with special emphasis on
minority programming.
Ms. Joiner is a gra,duate of How,_
ard University, Washington, D.C.,
and before coming to Channel 30
she was a newswriter for WABCTV, New York. Prior to that she
was a writer and producer for
WQXI-T\/ (ABC)
Atlanta, Ga.,
where she produced two public offairs shows, "Ebony Beat" and
"Ebo ny Beat Journa I."
Ms. Joiner was also a newswoman for Associated Press in
Baltimore and Atlanta. During
l 970 and 1972 she worked in Rio
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THREE OF A KIND Graduating day at Fres no City College this
year was an especia lly big day for the Homer Greene, Sr., family of
Fresno, when Tiny, left, and Beverley, right, and their mother, Mrs .
Helen Gree ne, ce nte r, all rece ived th eir assoc iate in arts degree from
FCC in ceremonies held recently in the Fresno Conve ntion Center Theatre .
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HOLD THAT POSE Cecil C. Hinton poses with a portrait of h imself
that will be presented to the Hinton Center, which was named for him.
The painting by West Fresno artist Archie (Leearl) Weaver, was commissioned by the Fresno City College Pan African Student Union as a
black studies project. The Hinton Center Board of Directors have not
set a date for the formal acceptance of the painting .
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Former Fresno Youth Stars On Television
Brent Johnson, 12, a former Fresnan is a news reporter for " Kids
Watch " an unusual television news prog ram aime d at kids 9 to 12
years old. The program is viewed once a month on Channel 4, KRONTV, Oakland. The 8 young sters on the p rog ram dig up " news" of interest to their fellow youngsters and handle it just as adults handle
news reporting. The result is both fascinating and hilarious.
The show s are fast moving, rang ing from a look at the world's
young est sw imming team - 5 month-olds to 2 year-olds a t Pleasant
Hill - through teeth -straightening, juggling, Kid -on -the-Street question
man ("What would you like to see done to improve your school ?"), to
a n ed itorial on tennis shoes .
Brent lives with his pa re nts, Mr. & Mrs. Odell Johnson, Jr., and his
sister, Shawn, who live in Oakland.
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LAWRENCE CHISOM, 25 , is employed as a soil technician fo r th e
eng ineering firm of Braun , Skaggs , Keno rkian & Simon of Fres no. His
job in cludes evaluating a nd testing va riou s construction mater' •Is for
greate r control and unde rstanding of the p hysica l properties.
Lawrence, a drama ma jo r, graduated fr om Ed ison High Sc~
and
Fresno City Co llege . He and h is w ife, Sandra, and daughte r,
,que,
live in Fre sno , California .
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WOMAN OF THE YEAR
SENIOR CITIZEN
Mamie Joh nsto n, 92, doesn't
want to "sit around twiddling my
thumbs" so she works at the HyPana Convalescent Hospital "helping aged patients."
Ms. Johnston, who moved to
Fresno from Washington, D. C.,
walked from her home on P Street
to the Masten Towers to check on
the Foster Grandparents Program.
From there she walked to the
Young Men 's Christian Association
where the Re1ired Senior Volunteer
Program (RSVP) is housed and volunteered her services.
Ms. Johnston is typical of Fresno's senior citizens who are involved in RSVP. The program
sponsors volunteers through 48
nonprofit community organizations
who donate their services at such
facilities as hospitals, schools, senior service centers, the lung and
cancer association, health resource
centers and the Fresno Community
Theater.
RSVP is part of ACTION, the
federal volunteer service agency.
More than l 17,000 senior citizens
utilize their skills and experience
as RSVP volunteers, serving approximately 600 sites dotting the
nation. These parttime ACTION
volunteers are reimbursed only on
onsite meals and trasportation.
Mrs. Lesly Kimber, editor of the California Advocate, has been named
as the Gamma Eta Chapter, Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Black Business
Woman of the Year. Mrs. Feltus Sterling, selection committee chairman
said Mrs . Kimber was selected from among six candidates. Mrs. Kimber
was honored during a luncheon of the sorority at the Luau restaurant.
The award 1s based upon community service, civic activities and church
part1c1pation. Mrs. Kimber and her husband were recently awarded the
Civil Libe rties Award .
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May-J une, 1975
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Grapevine
Health Agency Chief Speaks At Parley
Patsy Fulcher, deputy assistant
secretary, California Health and
Welfare Agency, was the dinner
speaker during a statewide con fereence of the National Council
of Negro Women.
The conference was held in
Fresno recently and a public dinner was served in the Rodeway
Inn fo ll owing a cocktail hour.
Ms. Fulcher's agency is responsible for the departments of Benefit Payments, Correction, Employment Development, Health, Rehabilitation and
Youth Authority.
The offices of Alcohol Program
Managemen t, Narcotics and Drug the San Francisco Bay Area 's
Ab use, Educatio n Liai so n and Ag- Black Women Organized for Action. She is also is a member of
ing also come under the agency.
She also is active as Western the League of Woman Voters, the
Regional Director of the National Oakland Museum Association and
Organization for Women (NOW). National Women 's Political CauMs. Fulcher is a cofounder of cus.
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APPOINTED SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Frank J . Johnson has been appointed as superintendent of the
Fresno Colony School District effective July l.
Announcement of the appointme nt was made by the district's
school board.
Johnson has served in the dis trict for 12 years as a teacher,
counselor and most recently vice
principal.
The board announcement said
Johnson was selected from among
38 applicants from throughout
California and several other states.
The Fresno Colony School District administers three schools on
the southwest border of the Fres no Unified School District, the
Fresno Colony, Ivy, and Western
Schools . The district's an nual bud get is approximately one millio n
dollars.
Johnson, publisher of the Grapevi ne Magazine which specializes
in news concerning minority peo ple in Central California, has re-
Frank Johnson
ceived several awards and honors
for contri butions made to aid
minority people through 1ournalism.
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Kelly's Host
Assemblyman Bill Greene
Senator Bill Greene of the 29th
District of Los Angeles was th e
guest of honor at a reception held
in the lovely home of Harlan &
Shirley Kelly recently.
Among the guests at the reception were Mr . & Mrs . Lester Riggins, Jack Kelly, Nancy Richard son, Rosemary Munsey, Mr. & Mrs.
Henry Jules , Jan Peters, Dick Merccin, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hodge, Dr.
May-June, 1975
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& Mrs.
Freddie
Hayes, Sandra
Darley, Mr. & Mrs . Ray Williams,
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Turney, Frank
Johnson , Mr. & Mrs. Teddy Thompson, Linda Mack, Ruth Albright,
Rich a rd Atamian, Gail Meyers,
Mel London and Norman Hill of
New York, N.Y.
Senator Greene was in town to
install State officers for O E 0.
Grapevine
THE FRESNO DEVELOPMENT C PANY AND IT'S FIGHT FOR LIFE
Ever since 1969, Horace Hampton - also known as "Old Man
Hamp," has been working toward
the development of economic gains
in the West Fresno area. And
now, 16 years later, Hampton is
still engaged in that struggle only now, as Executive Director of
the Fresno Development Co., he is
fighting for its literal existence.
For the past 18 months, FDC
has been operating as an independent company making small
business loans, obtaining and developing industrial land in •West
Fresno. Says Hampton, "The City
of Fresno wants to take us over,
claiming incorrectly, that we
are insolvent, when, in fact, our
last audit shows FDC to have assets of $2,000,000.00."
In spite of FDC claims to be able
to hold up its own - a claim validated with audits reports the
city has gone ahead with legal
actions against the company, requesting an injunction to have
FDC "cease and desist" all new
operations except the latest essential development of the Southgate
Industrial Park area.
"What started things off," says
Hampton, "was our refusal to go
along with the city's Fifth Action
Year Agreement which was a proposal to phase out FDC operations,
cutting the staff to barely operable capacity." Hampton's contention being FDC was more than
adequately carrying out the goals
and functions it was formed to do.
Several ex-board members (who
have chosen to remain anonymous) have expressed opinions on
the city's apparent
animosity
against FDC because of the company's self-made progress in luring outside industry to the West
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HUD with the City of Fresno acting as conduit, and called the
Fresno West Development Co., Inc.
During the past 18 months, under Hampton's role as Executive
Director, the Fresno West Development Co., now termed, Fresno Development Company, operated productively fulfilling their goals
of "Preserving and creating jobs
for the disadvantaged by obtaining commitments from outside industries to invest in the area,
thereby ultimately leading to its
economic and industrial development and increased tax base."
Says Hampton,
"After four
years, and since the beginning of
the Fresno Development Co., we
are finally in a position to carry
out our commitments to the Federal government and the City of
Fresno as well as the people, in
Executive Director
reaching our goal objectives."
HORACE HAMPTON
Southgate Industrial Park, locatFresno area a task in which ed in West Fresno, is currently the
the City of Fresno's own Chamber most important project FDC is imof Commerce has had only vague mediately concerned with. It is an
success.
area bounded by Church, Fruit,
Says one member, "The accusa• West and Florence streets, totalling
tions made by the city that FDC is 43 acres. This land had long been
unable to adequately manage ii• an eyesore to the community. In
self through previous bad invest• a letter dated June 6, 1975, from
ments and financial loss has to be ' FDC to the Economic Development
looked at more closely.
Before Administration office in Fresno, a
those "bad investments" were description of the situation is givmade, they first had to be approv• en:
ed by the City of Fresno ."
". . . the land known as the
Hampton added, "The city only
Fruit/Church slaughter house
wanted to keep the lid on things
area was a depressing gave. . . it was a peacemaking effort
yard of old cars, opened sewto quiet those they considered age pits and hide houses . . .
rabble rousers. The normal exam•
streets, gutters and lights have
ination and research which goes
been added through economic
into any other business venture
development
adminstr at l o n
was barely attempted by them." I
grants and matching funds from
Originally, FDC was part of th•
the City of Fresno totaling over
Model Cities Program, funded by
$1,000,000.00."
May-June , 1975
May-June, 1975
Adds
FDC
president
James
Burnis, "One of the most impor-
tant improvements is the sewage
treatment plant which is being
constructed at a cost of $600,000.
(For years area residents had to
endure the stench of wastes dumped into the open sewage pits.)
Continued Burnis, in a May 14,
Fresno Bee article, ". . . with this
pretreatment plant in operation
we will have the potential to attract the creation of as many as
500 jobs in this area, which will
mean annual payrolls of about
$10 million for Fresno workers."
The FDC fought the City of Fresno's action suit of December 1973
by going to the Federal bankruptcy court and filing a Chapter 11.
They obtained a "Debtor of Possession," guarantee which protected them against the city's injunction and allowed them to retain their properties and fully
continue their operations until a
final decision is reached in the
case.
And latest developments in the
battle show some progress.
"In an unprecedented vote, the
Fresno Community Development
Commission presented a request to
the City Council in its June 15
meeting that it stop court action
against FDC. As a result, representatives of FDC are meeting with
the City Manager's staff to work
out an out-of-court settlement,"
said Hampton.
Whatever the eventual outcome
of this dispute . . . the results will
give the direction, in Fresno, of
the issue which is gaining more
prominence in the concerns of
West Fresnans: local community
autonomy vs. centralized governmental control.
(Gail Oliver)
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OBITUARY
Funeral services were he ld recently for Edward Tucker, 62, of
l 004 Sampson St., who leaves 16
children, 62 grandchildren a nd 16
great-grandchildren.
Tucker, a retired const ruction
worker and farm laborer, died of
cancer recently in a loca l hosp ital.
A native of Texas, Tucker came
to Fresno in 1945 in a Model A
Ford with his wife, Cora, a nd a
d ozen children. Their family later
grew to 19 children,
including
four sets of twins. Three of the
ch il d ren are deceased. Those living
range in age from 4 I to 20.
Tucker also leaves 62 grandch ild ren and
16 gre at-g ranchi ld ren.
He was a member of the San
J oaqu in Memorial
High Schoo l
Dad 's Club.
O ne of his so ns, David, set a
na t io na l interscholastic triple jump
record w hile competing for the
Memorial track team and also
starred in basketball.
Besid es David and his widow ,
Tucker is survived by seven oth e r
sons, James, Joh n, W illie and
Louis, all of Fresno; Ernest of Se lma, Eugene of Las Vegas and
Aaron of Los Angeles and eight
d aug hters, Martha Leary, Dorothy
This Month In Black History
Flags hung at half mast at all m ilitary barracks and vessels in
port in San Francisco 127 years ago this month . The enti~e city
had joined in tribute to one of its top civic leaders who died of
brain fever on May 18, 1848 at the age of only 38. He was
William Alexander Leidesdorff, who has gone down in history as
the first Black pioneer in the city by the Golden Gate.
Born in the Virgin Islands of a black mother, Anna Spark, and
a Danish sugar planter father, Leidesdorff became a ship captain
before settling down in San Francisco . There he became one of its
leading businessmen, chalking up severa l firsts in the city. Leidesdorff launched the first steamboat to sail on San Francisco Bay.
He built the city's first hotel at the corner of Clay and Kearny
Streets and just a year before his d eath sta ged the first horse race
in California on a meadow near the city' s oldest landmark, the
Mission Dolores, where his body was laid to rest.
Recognized for his leadership and business acumen (he owned
several blocks of what is now downtown San Francisco), Leidesdorff was on the city' s first council, became city treasurer and was
on the first school board which built the first school in the city.
After his death gold was found on property he had owned near
the American River and an Army captain named Joseph Folsom
journeyed to the Virgin Islands to find Leidesdorff's black mother
to whom he paid $75,000 for title to the land. Eventually the
estate was valued over one million dollars. Today there is still a
street in San Francisco named Leidesdorff. (Sepia)
Edward Tucker
Montgo mery, Vivian Thurman, Glo ria Eva ns and Sharon and Lois
Tucker, a ll of Fresno; and Mary
Brya nt a nd Ruby Lee of San Jose .
The Jesse E. Cooley Jr. Funeral
Service w as in charge of arrangements.
Givens Named MVP
Of Ram Track Squad
Mork Givens, Fresno City College's standout sprinter and long
jumper, was honored as the track
team 's most valuable athlete at an
annual awards dinner.
Givens captured Valley Conference titles in the 100 and long
jump. He also won the West Coast
Relays and Northern California titles in the long jump, winning each
at 25 -5½ .
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Ex-Shoe Shiner Is Awarded
Distinguished Alumni Honor
A man who shined shoes professionally for 23 years is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni
Award for 1975 from San Diego
State University's College of Professional Studies.
Leon Osborne, a Fresno City
College art instructor for the past
six years, received the honor at an
SDSU Alumni Association awards
ceremony May 16 in San Diego.
A
SDSU Alumni
Association
spokesman said Osborne was selected primarily because of his
dedication to self-improvement.
Osborne, 49, began shining
shoes at a YMCA for servicemen
over a quarter of a century ago
and it was not until he was 35
that an interest in painting attracted him to a San Diego adult
school.
" I didn 't know beans from butter when I started and they threw
all this education at me," Osborne
remembers. " I just went to paint,
Leon O sborne
but my teachers said I should get
a high school diploma. I asked students told me I had a knack
them 'What does a shoe shiner for explaining things more underneed with a diploma?' "
standably than the instructor, " OsOsborne earned that diploma, borne commented. "They thoug ht
however, and was encouraged to I should be a teacher and I sa id
enroll at San Diego City College, 'why not? ' "
which he did. After graduating
Osborne entered SDUS's masters
from SDCC, he enrolled at San Di- program, earned his degree, and
eego State.
took a part-time teaching job a t
" At each school, I thought I the university. A year later, he
would flunk out," recalls Osborne. joined the FCC faculty.
" I never really had confidence
" Since that time, I haven't shinthat I would make it. I was going ed another shoe, except maybe
on a day-to-day basis."
my own and then not very well, "
Two weeks before he was to re- he smiled.
ceive his bachelors degree, Os"I've shined shoes, dumped ga rborne was still shining shoes and bage, and swung a mop, but I
unsure what to do with all this was the same person then as I a m
education.
today. I like myself the way I am.
" One day in class some fellow I'm just me."
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M ay-June, 1975
Reverend & Sister l. C. Garrett
Pastor M arks 33rd Anniversa ry
THIRTY -THREE YEARS OF SERVICE - The Reverend and Sister
L. C. Garrett were honored with a
five-day appreciation celebration
for th e ir outstanding service, devotion and love for the Fresno Com-
munity during the past 33 years as
pastor and family of Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church. They are pictured
above at their 50th wedding anniversary celebration several years
ago.
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North Carolinian Will Take FSU
Education School Helm
Dr. William Maxwell, Jr., an associate dean at North Carolina
State University, will become dean
of the Fresno State University
School of Education July 15.
Maxwell 's appointment was announced by FSU President Norman
A. Baxter. Maxwell succeeds Dr.
Ralph Evans, who is retiring after
28 years of service to FSU, the last
four as dean of the school.
Maxwell, 46, is associate dean
of the school of education at North
Carolina State at Raleigh where,
among other assignments, he developed a course in cross-cultural
perspectives in education.
He previously was a U.S. Agency for International Development sponsored adviser to the Ministry
of Education for the government of
Rivers State in Nigeria. While there
he organized and served as acting principal of the Advanced
Teacher Training College in Port
Harcourt.
He was born in Center Point,
Ark ., and attended high school in
Phoenix, Ariz., where he was student body president, president of
th e national honor society and valedictorian.
He received his bachelor of science degree from Oregon State U-
Student
Of The
Month
Fresno City College sophomore
Doris Faye McFarland was recently named Fresno Hilton Hotel "Student of the Month."
Ms. McFarland, a 21-year-old
criminology major headed for a
career as a probation officer, will
be guest of the Hilton Hotel for a
dinner for two.
Ms. McFarland, niece of Mr. and
Mrs. Clinton Bogan of 16709 Amador Street, Madera, was selected
for the honor by college Extended
Opportunity Program and Services
director Robert Arroyo and his
staff. Ms. McFarland, an alumna
of Madera High School, received
her associate degree at FCC this
month and plans to transfer to
Fresno State University in the fall.
Doris McFarland
Dr. William Maxwell, Jr.
iversity, where he was also student body vice president. He holds
master and doctor of education
degrees from Harvard University.
He is the second black man to
become a dean at FSU . The other,
Richard D. Ford, has been dean of
the school of social work since
1972.
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BLACK T EA
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A meeting of would be revolutionaires turns rough in Joseph A.
Walker's a w ard-winning dram'-, "The River Ni ger " w hich t he Black
Educational Theater performed in the Fresno Community Theater recently.
Carl Candler, center, is the young black leader setting forth the rules
for Chips, played by Leroy Major. Lawrence Chisom, left, is Jeff W illiams, the catalyst of the drama, as a young man trying to decide which
lifestyle to follow; Raenette Robinson is his girl friend, Ann Vanderguild. Others shown are Michael Chartley as A l; Wilhelmina W ooten
as Gail and Clovel Rogers as Skeeter. ' "River Niger," was winner of
both " Obie" Award and "'Tony," · as best drama a few seasons a g o.
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Together Again ... After 26 Years!
Outstanding
Girl
Athlete
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TAREA BREWER, a junior at
Hoover High School competed in
the California Interscholastic Fed eration meet held recently at Mclane High School and qualified
for the nationals in New York with
a 115-foot throw in discus . She
was also named most outstanding
girl in track (field) at the Hoover
Spring Athletic Awards Banquet.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elijah Brewer of Fresno.
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REUNION The Reverend Bruce Haynes, center, is su·rrounded by
his two attractive daughters he hadn't seen for 26 years. Mrs. Barbara
Martin, left, of Jackson, Miss., was 4 years old and her sister, Mrs.
Joyce Wilson, of Detroit, Michigan, was only two when they last saw
their father. It was truly a happy time for the local Haynes family.
Rev. Haynes, an associate minister of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church,
said both of the girls received a college education and are marvelous
young women . They have kept in close touch throughout the years. A
highlight of their trip to Fresno for the reunion was the opportunity to
watch brothers, Jeff and David, play baseball on their respective teams.
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by two "Queens" - Denise Dumaine, "Miss U. S. Talented Teen America" and Lisa Monroe, "Miss California (seated, reading from left).
Miss Dumaine, 16, from St. Louis, was in Los Angeles for the taping of
"Soul Train." Standing, left to right, Ken Hall, Foxes and Hares Treasurer; Earlie Biles-Douglas of Stax Records; Sandy Kenny of Wendy
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