Buffalo Criterion, 1983-03-02

              wny's largest & only accredited minority newspaper — featuring paid legitimate circulation rochester niagara region u.s postage paid permit no 1314 buffalo new york the buffalo criterion vol 58 - no 10 wednesday march 2 8 1983 young minister former buffalonian to preach rev william v calla han jr son of deacon and mrs william calla han sr of johnson st will return to buffalo sunday march 20th to speak at the deacon alliance program at trin ity baptist church 41 spruce st at 3 p.m he will also deliver the morning message at 11 a.m at trinity baptist church rev callahan is a native buffalonian and is pastor the riverview missionary baptist church of albany n y he is also moderator of the hudson river frontier baptist association which con sists of 12 churches deacon james a wat son of pilgrim baptist church is president of the deacon's alliance mrs yvonne perkins of st john baptist church is president of the women's auxiliary of the deacon's alliance deacon james chandler of trinity bap tist church is program chairman for the alliance rev joseph davis is host pastor the public is invited to come out and hear this young buffalo minister who is doing well in albany m johnson tapped for head post at ecc nursing dept _-._,....-. r^at..<~a.^-a^s ■■'■ - . m___ri>tii d.'hyche john son has been appointed to the professor/department head position in the nursing department at erie community college city campus prior to this appoint ment mrs johnson was an associate professor in the nursing department at erie community college north campus she began working at north campus part-time while a gradu ate student at state university of new york at buffalo in mental health psychiatric nursing upon graduation in january 1972 she began teaching full-lime and continued for the past 11 years until this in january of this year in addition to teaching and supervising the clini cal experience of students mrs johnson has served on many departmental and college-wide committees i.e appointments ad missions faculty inser vice reappointments and tenure graduation gen eral education and curri culum committees she has been class advisor also mrs johnson is active in some professional and community organizations she and her family are members of lincoln united methodist church where she teaches church school to junior high students she is active in united methodist wo men's organization she is a past and current presi dent of a local nurses group the prn associa tion and has served on the human relations commit tee of district i new york state nurses association she received the local mary mahoney award for outstanding achievement in education in 1972 mrs johnson received her basic nursing education from e j meyer memori al hospital school of nursing she worked as a staff nurse both full and part-time on a psychiatric unit while attending the state university of new york at buffalo she obtained her baccalaure ate degree in nursing two years later in june 1966 after graduation she join ed the faculty at the meyer school of nursing and continued leaching there until she entered graduate school in september 1970 mrs johnson is the mother of damon a freshman at canisius high school and ivy renee a third grader at mt st joseph academy marilyn d h johnson k-mart corp renews rowan sponsorship detroit mich — x mart corp announced that it will continue co sponsoring the popular radio program the row an report this marks the third year that the troy-based retailing giant has featured the renowned commentator carl t rowan in their marketing efforts millions of americans listen to his daily program a series of commentaries on national and interna tional affairs aired in the nation's 40 largest mar kets rowan has received over 30 honorary degrees from american colleges and universities and is read seen and heard by more americans than al most any other journalist in the land he is seen on popular public affairs pro grams and his syndicated column is carried by newspapers into almost half the homes in the united states commenting on x mart's renewed co-spon sorship rowan indicated that he was delighted to have x mart join in sponsoring a program that thousands of black parents have called a major factor in the educational uplift of their children judge s green appointed a promise of justice kept by junecarter governor mario cuomo has named justice samuel l green to the appellate division of state supreme court 4th department an official act in his first administrative days as governor of new york the role he sought so ardently with the heavy support of western new york's mi norities . during his address to are black and puerto rican legislative caucus's 12th annual dinner he reminded his audience that without j...e i ■■ 1.1 ita*ii j.u.l „.. inaugural his first appointment was yvonne scruggs-left wich and now the historic appointment for justice green presently a trial judge in state supreme court he is the first black person ever named to the 4th department which is the appellate court that serves wes tern and central new york based in rochester first appointed to buf falo's city court in 1973 judge green subsequently was elected to a full 10-year term on the city court bench in 1975 three years later 1978 he was elected to a 14-year term in state supreme court he holds an undergrad uate degree in business administration and a law degree at state university of buffalo he will be named to a temporary seat on the bench vacated by judge dolores denman who has been named to a permanent associate judgeship on the court she is the first woman to be so named in new york state's history other noteworthy ap pointments maiic lev gov cuomo were the nomina tion of h carl mccali as commissioner of the hu man rights division and julio martinez director of substance abuse ser vices judge samuel l green - shown above are parents who will receive certificates at an awards luncheon tuesday inarch bth at the bethel center 1525 michigan aye seated from left are d vinson d everett a pugh s grimes g hunt c ware and p mcclain standing from left are d tilley j williams a colter d webster a b allen instructor d waker d peggues j koteh instructor and others dr e.w.d isaac founder's day program set the trinity baptist church 41 spruce st will celebrate its annual dr e w d isaac founder's day program on sun mar 13 at 4 p.m the celebrating of this annual occasion in honor of the late dr isaac gives rise to the significant contributions he made to the baptist denomination because it was he who founded the baptist train ing union which is the training arm of the church exclusively founded in black baptist churches the principal speaker will be john hackney jr of the trinity baptist church all are cordially invited to attend roy j rich sr is director and rev joseph e davis pastor top fed official to speak at home's annual meeting scott gehl executive director of housing op portunities made equal today announced that the nation's top fair housing official will fly to buffalo to address home's an nual dinner meeting on april 21st the remarks by assis tant secretary antonio monroig who heads the fair housing and equal opportunity division of hud will help commem orate home's first twenty years of fair housing advocacy mr monroig 37 was appointed assistant secre tary by president reagan in april 1981 prior to assuming his duties at hud mr monroig served as administrator of the municipal services ad ministration of puerto rico and as special assistant to the mayor san juan as assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity mr monroig bears responsi bility for assuring the fair housing rights of all citizens for ensuring that all hud assisted programs are administered in a non discriminatory manner and for initiating activities to bring about equal opportunity in employ ment home is a private not-for-profit organization which since 1963 has led the struggle for equal access to housing on the niagara frontier for ticket information call home at 881-5973 scott gehl bethel head start program **?_.*__,-___..•.', mrs adelene allen a social worker is one of the instructors and staff persons of the bethel head start program con ducting the sessions promotes parents as prime educators of their children in a program called exploring parenting the bethel head start program is p *>. ,*._>*. emphasis on assisting parents in the education and development of their own children for the past twenty weeks over 25 parents attended sesssions each tueadftv..mamißg.i.tror.n9 a.m to 11 a.m emphasis were placed on the areas of child development and child rearing techniques that would be of interest to all parents the program offered parents a structured curriculum presented in a group discussion format it stressed group participation and was conducted in a supportive non-judgemental atmosphere the sessions built upon one another so that cohesiveness and trust developed gradually over time and more sensitive subject matters were addressed as this cohesiveness was built these sessions were conducted by two of bethel's most capable staff persons mrs adelene allen social worker and mrs janice kosteh special needs/handicap assistant the dean of black elected officials is retiring by rufus fraiser city council president delmar mitchell is the city's highest black offi cial he served on the old board of supervisors with the late f cecil brown before going to city hall in city government mr mitchell ws first elected masten district council man ; then council man at-large and finally council president the office which he will retire from at the end of the year it is too noted that for the first time in the history of county government that the majority leader is a black man in the person of roger blackwell as a spokesman and leader for the black community at times mr mitchell was critized for not being more active in community activi ties blacks must under stand that as we struggle to make changes we need people inside the system who can effect those changes in his retiring state ment mr mitchell said my cardinal principle has been conciliation not con frontation while retir ing as a city lawmaker he made it clear that he will remain active in political and civic affairs in the city young blacks going into government can learn from mr mitchell's ex perience too often we feel that nobody did anything until we came along black history is a history of struggle frederick douglass the great abolitionist said without struggle their is no progress daemen college president to address west seneca teachers dr robert s mar shall president of dae men college in amherst will be the keynote speak er before the west seneca central school district conference day program announced dr carl mark ello deputy superinten dent of the west seneca school district this address will take place at 10:30 a.m fri mar 11 in the auditorium of the west seneca east senior high school 4760 seneca st west seneca dr marshall participat ed last year at the west seneca central school dis trict conference day pro gram as a panelist his participation last year re ceived the highest rating of all speakers involved the planning committee was unanimous in its choice of dr marshall as keynote speaker this year dr marshall will ad dress the topic teacher training and re-training - need and surplus or old tricks - new dogs he was recently the key speaker at a new york state conservative party political action confer ence before coming to dae men college in 1974 dr marshall was associate director academic affairs for the cornell university division of biological sci ences he also received his ph.d from cornell university dr robert s marshall reps urged to support surplus food release erie county executive edward j rutkowski has urged the state's repre sentatives in congress to support a pending senate bill to release more than 1 billion in surplus food to the needy and unemploy ed the legislation spon sored by senator robert dole republican of kan sas would require the secretary of agriculture also to announce plans annually for turning over surplus food to recognized food banks and charities the plans would be subject to public review many of our citizens are facing hard times with plant closings and a shrinking job base we don't know when condi tions will turn around and we need every bit of available help mr rut kowski said the dole bill would transfer a portion of the administrative costs for storing surplus commodi ties to the states to pay the distribution expenses the food consists mostly of dairy products but includ es wheat corn rice and soybeans the measure called the domestic commodity dis tribution and food assis tance act represents the first federal program to assist states financially in distributing the food it would end a state-federal stalemate over which gov ernment would pay for getting the food out of the storehouses senator dole maintains that the pro gram would be cost-effec tive since the vacated storage area could be used to increase the capacity of federal storehouses at no extra cost mr rutkowski said he expects governor mario m cuomo to support the dole bill because it en ables states which are the sole distributors of surplus food to participate with out spending extra funds the governor said mr rutkowski last month to press the federal govern ment to pay distribution costs the bill also calls for surplus food owned by the commodity credit corp to be donated to food banks churches and other organization which serve low-income and poor fami lies mr rutkowski called also on federal officials to expand the dept of agriculture's pilot pro gram for cheese and butter distribution now operating in washington minnesota and florida i think there would be no problem in locating deserving reci pients in new york state he said 1923 1983 criterion press and still the no 1 wny central cities largest press our office has been open 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