Buffalo Criterion, 1988-04-21

              vol 64 — no 17 established in 1925 wny's oldest and largest afro-american weekly for over 60 years - featuring paid legitimate circulation rochester the buffalo criterion niagara region thursday april 21-27 1988 deaf students victorious falls group to give seminar on housing welfare crack youth quake rallies coming to wny local u.l announces award winners carolyn m thomas will be presented the evans young humanitarian award medal for her many services for those less fortunate than their fellow citizens mrs thomas was one of the early advocates for the food bank for the poor ' under her leader ship and with others the food bank organization was able to convince the national food bank net work and 50 local agencies to support the program george and ophelia nicholas will be presented the family life award in recognition of the outstanding courage de termination and under standing which they have exhibited as well as maintained both strong family unity and a con structive valuable role in the urban community amba singletary will be presented the youth award for her outstand ing contributions in strengthening-human re lations within the buffalo high school and college community the evans-young hu manitarian awards dinner will be held on monday april 25th at the hyatt regency hotel for reservations or ticket in formation contact the buffalo urban league at 854-7625 carolyn m thomas amba singletary george and ophelia nicholas foundation to hold first anniversary the mary crosby chap peile education and black history foundation in vites the public to attend the first anniversary pro gram friday april 29th at 7 p.m at second temple baptist church 812 e delavan avenue l mcclurkin is presi dent gertude johnson and emma callahan are co-chairpersons re freshments will be served the rev s b sutton is host pastor check presentations for naacp golden heritage memberships checks were recently presented to the naacp at bethel a.me chorch michigan avenue and e ferry st shown from left in the photo are mrs mamie johnson as she presents a check for a golden heritage membership in memory of her husband the late rev horace c billy johnson derrick byrd a check for a life membership in memory of his father the late rev d m byrd founder and pastor of the people community united church of christ j carl bland is co-chairman of the life membership com mittee of the naacp dorsey h glover president of jeff-way store is presenting his check and the rev dr eugene e mcashan pastor of bethel ame church is presenting his check for a golden heritage membership for the church a plaque will be given to them at the annual naacp dinner sunday june 12th pre-crusade rallies planned for apr 29 & 30 billy graham team members bonnie barrows nm s &$ impair mai 1 will be in the buffalo area april 29th and 30th to lead two identical prayer rallies for women fri day's rally will be held at the randall memorial baptist church in wil liamsville at 7:30 p.m and saturday's rally will take place at antioch baptist church in buffalo at 10 a.m the prayer rallies are sponsored by the wo soprano for billy graham men's committee of the greater buffalo-niagara billy graham crusade scheduled for august 1-7 in pilot field buffalo's new downtown baseball stadium these pre-cru i sade rallies are open to the public free of charge _ t rt.:id ik v .__ bonnie thomas is the daughter of clif barrows program director for the billy graham crusades she is former coordinator for.the crusades women's prayer ministry a former staff member of campus crusade for christ inter national and served as a missionary teacher in icebu philippines her ministry specialities are in the areas of single adults single parents and young couples she is a teaching leader of an interdenominational bible study women unlimited in estes park colorado where her husband chris topher is director/teach er at ravencrest chalet bible school l_.i__.»,t j.huuj soprano myrtle hall is a member of the music team for billy graham cru sades she was discovered by cliff barrows in 1966 in greenville s c she studied voice at juilliard school of music and her singing has won honors and awards beginning with first place in the ted mack amateur contest in 1964 she is in demand as a concert artist and is scheduled to sing at the upcoming crusade meet ings in pilot field for more information call the local crusade office at 632-4325 myrtle hall falls black achievers award banquet set the niagara falls sth annual black achievers award banquet will be held on thursday apr 28th at the niagara hilton 3rd and rainbow mall beginning with a hospitality at 6 p.m the dinner program will com mence at 7 p.m lester g trent co-an chor reporter for wgrz tv channel 2 will be the guest speaker mr trent is a graduate of seneca college of applied arts and technology in tor onto ontario where he received high honors in radio and tv communica tion prior to that he gradu ated from the fort erie secondary school where he received the student leadership award the donation is 20.00 per person for ticket reservation co tact myral gil more at 285-9276 or sylvia barlow at 284 9274 the public is invited buffalo to host nys council for children's conference the western new york early childhood education and the chatauqua associ ation for the education of young children are co sponsoring the 1988 new york state council for children's annual confer ence to be held in buffalo from april 28th to may ist over 1,000 early childhood educators will be arriving to share ex periences and examine critical issues in the field — a major part of the con ference is the opening banquet to be held on friday apr 28th at 7 p.m at the buffalo con vention center the guest speaker will be dr alvin poussamt noted yale psy chologist and consultant for the bill cosby show dr poussamt will be speaking on education in america for the 2".st century banquet tickets are available for 15.00 tickets for dr poussaint's speech only can be purchased for 55.00 it is anticipated that the speech would begin shortly after 8 p.m tickets may be purchas ed from the community ' action organizations head start office at 70 harvard place from 9 a.m to 4 p.m call elissa snowden or anita holt at 881-5150 or dr marce verzaro-o'bnen at j3bl v.i _._*• j l»tn *, ' d oct 5150 for further informa tion dr alvin poussa i racism to be focus of workshop the amherst bahai's race unity committee in conjunction with the erie community college affir mative action/equal em ployment opportunity off ice will sponsor a build ing multi-cultural alli ances together — a self-evaluation consultant workshop sun apr 24th from 8:30 a.m to 4 p.m at erie county com munity college auditori um 121 ellicott st this workshop will iden tify what racism and inter nationalized racism look like in oneself and in others and focus on how to <,• < rid of it the format will vary depending on the size and racist mixture of the participants there will be large group time with blacks and whites to gether where participants are given information re garding racism and inter nalized racism given the time and the racial mixture blacks and whites will then separate work on a relevant issue then get back together and i jackson received friend of education award this sene was taken april 14th when the buffalo teachers federation presented presidential candidate rev jesse jackson the friend of education award the photo shows rev jackson and btf president philip rumore rev jackson who campaigned in the western new york area was a speaker at the renaissance hotel and also addressed a capacity crowd at kleinhans music hall saturday morn ing rev jackson placed second in the new york state primary but placed first in the delaware primary see page 2 see page 3 bee page 5 serving working leading in wny inner cities since 1.-2 price only 25 per copy