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Putting On Our Marching Shoes...
Million Man Marck
Monday, October 16, 1995 - Be There!
WEEK OF ENDING OCTOBER 13, 1995
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1981
School Choice: It Ts not a
matter of black and white
Comes now word of the continu-
ing progress of school choice. Three
American cities have released
plans for new or expanded pro-
grams of parental choice of shcools.
And not surprisingly, the driving
force in each case has been a black
person. In two of the three, a
female black person. And thereby
hangs a tale.
But first, the essentials.
The Wisconsin legislature has
boted to expand Milwaukee Ts
school-choice program, now in its
fifth year, to include religious
schools and toincrease enrollment
from about 1.00 to 15,000 students
next year. The Milwaukee experi-
ment is the product of a rare dis-
play of courage and determination
by Polly Williams, a mother of four
who refused to accept for her
younger children more of the edu-
cational neglect her older children
had experienced in that city Ts
schools.
She enrolled her children in pri-
vate schools, paid from her wages
as a single working mother. Then
she ran for the Wisconsin legisla-
ture, was elected on aschool-choice
platform and joined forces with
Gov. Tommy Thompson to push
through the nation Ts first signifi-
cant school-choice program.
An issue that crosses
traditional political lines
The political dynamics make
what happened in Milwaukee of
more than passing interest. Will-
iams is a Democrat. She headed
Jesse Jackson Ts Wisconsin cam-
paign in 1984 and 1988. Thomp-
son is a two-term Republican gov-
ernor, aleading GOP conservative
and a staunch advocate of school
reform. The bond between the two
was forged by a common concern
for the welfare of the children of
Milwaukee Ts poor families, who
were consigned to the city Ts public
schools iwth no means of escape.
No, that Ts not so. They could es-
cape: Their families could move to
another school district or the chil-
dren couldenrollin private schools.
And nothing stood in the way of
either except money.
Representative Williams and
Governor Thompson noticed that
few of Milwaukee Ts black citizens
were affluent, so they set out to
find another way. School choice.
In Cleveland, the story is simi-
lar. Fanny Lewis is a first term
member of the City Council who
became an apt pupil of Polly Will-
iams and persuaded the citizens of
Cleveland and Ohio Republican
Gov. George Voinovich to rescue
2,100 of the city Ts poor children.
They may now attend the schools
of their choice, whether private,
public or parochial. The scholar-
ship award for each child is $2,500.
The story in Washington is per-
a
haps the most arresting and the
most promising for the growth of
the school-choice movement. The
plan put forward by the District of
Columbia Ts leadership and en-
dorsed by Superintendent of
Schools Franklin Smith is designed
to rescue low-income children in
failing schools. It has been en-
dorsed by Mayor Marion Barry
and in this I kid you not, by the
Washington Post, which, until this
historic moment, has been a re-
lentless foe of school choice in any
form.
Black leadership is not
surprising
Nathan Glazer, a highly re-
spected education analyst, cap-
tures the essential truth about the
quality of schools we provide for
the black children in our large
cities. oConstitutional law often
moves along strange and circui-
tous paths, � Glazer writes. oBut
perhaps the strangest yet has been
the one whereby beginning with
an effort to expand freedom-no
black child shall be excluded from
any public school because of his
race-the law has ended with a dras-
tic a restriction of freedom as we
have seen in this country in recent
years: no child of any race or group
may escape or flee the school to
which that child has been assigned
on the basis of his or her race. �
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Recruiters recently. While Ms. Brown does oAim High �, we really don Tt want to lose her "not
even to the Air Force.
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Darkroom back in business
with passionate readings
The hot August air bore down
with the suffocating weight of un-
necessary bedclothes until the
Darkroom reading began.
Randall Kenan practically acted
out a scene from his newly pub-
lished novel oA Visitation of Spir-
its, � his energetic reading bring-
ingalive the querulous, aged North
Carolinians picking over bones of
contention nearly as old as they
are.
Itis an intense family argument
that winds down when a 92-years-
old Ts fury is unexpectedly quelled
byherintroduction toa video game.
The whirl of images is just as
absorbing in Reginald Martin Ts
writing, as he reads achapter from
an unpublished novel about a mod-
ern-day treasure search, , oEvery-
body Knows What Time It Is. �
Three chapters of it have been
published in journals.
The room alternately breaks up
with laughter, then quiets in sym-
pathy for mankind's plight, only to
be tickled once again at foibles.
He reads of Zip fending off the
advances of a prostitute at the bus
station, described as an exempler
oOf glamorous, urban mass tran-
sit ip the South...where they by-
products of urban poverty....try to
figure out what had gone wrong
with their lives, and until they
found out, they'd bug the shit out
of other people to pass the time.
oWe got to be cool, T Zip com-
ments to his pal Dennis. ~You look
around this terminal. This is what
happens to poor people in America
- especially black people. �
As these witty, engrossing sto-
ries take hold of their listerners T
imagination, the room becomes
less stifling. The air miraculously
lightens. It stirs, at moments vir-
tually crackles.
Aaaah, writers who are word
magicians. Truly, these African-
Ameérican authors are new voices
to be harkened to.
Abubble with good will toward
humankind, Kenan and Martin Ts
writing has a kinetic force, a
mementum that evolves from the
relationships of the characters they
have so tenderly detailed.
Martinis also a poet, There were
wet eyes at the Darkroom as he
read from verse he Td written: oAf-
ter Reading Cecil Brown's
Thoughts About His Grand-
mother. �
Raised by Ms great-grand-
mother, great-grandfather, and
great-great-grandmother in the
South, Martin writes, oAnd I
wanted to tell you to send me a
new copy cause I smeared...cried
on the part about god letting her
into heaven cause she was the best,
cried cause I knew what you meant
cause I had been loved by Lucinda,
Carrie, and Les. �
A literary critic as well, Martin,
33, author of oIshmael Reed & The
New Black Aesthetic Critics, � de-
scribed briefly his interest in cross-
genre writing. This theory asks a
writer to incorporate into forms he
may demean but which opay the
bills, � the qualities ofromthe things
he writes he respects, poetry or
whatever, endemic to them both, �
and vice versa.
A visiting professor of Afro-
American literature and exposi-
tory writing at Harvard Univer-
sity this summer, he soon begins a
Ford Foundation Fellowship
award to complete books on can-
onicity, cross-genre writing, and
an annotated bibliography of black
aesthetic critics.
Randall Kenan has come to read
at the Darkroom in Cambridge
(Continued on page 4)
Pv? ecg gets Nk Woke | arp ee
;
MS. MAMOONI REEVES (C) IS SURROUNDED BY
WELL-WISHERS at the opening of her store. Mamooni Ts
International located at the Carolina East Centre in Greenville.
Ms. Reeves welcomes all of her friends to shop with her.
Tradition and transformations
are prominent themes in Randall
Kenan Ts A Visitation of Spirits, a
first novel which takes place in the
small rural town of Tims Creek,
North Carolina. Explored here are
the intricate workings of a South-
ern Black Baptist clan and the
impact of family and community
norms and expectations on Black
men in general, and in the specific
cases of two cousins: Reverend
James Lalachal Green and
younger Horace Thomas Cross.
Keenan Ts surrealistic writing
style uses saints, sinners, and sor-
cerers to share in the storytelling-
the supernatural mixing with the
mundane works so effectively that,
at times, the reader will have dif-
ficulty distinguishing reality from
fantasy. This is particularly true
in the telling of Horace Ts story.
Whetherd it is the influences of
the Old Testament,.J.R.R. Tolkien,
or Marvel Comics, the 16-year-old
Horace hears the voice of othe de-
mon � he has conjured by using a
potion consisting of cat Ts urine,
the whole head of ahummingbird,
the stale breath of a hag three-
score andten, and the ground tooth
of a leviathan-or reasonable fac-
simile thereof. That demon takes
Horace and the reader back for a
closer look at those turning points
in the boy's coming of age as a
man-loving man in asociety where
ofe the way Horace want/¥t ain Tt
condoned, you know tpn �
Widower Jimmy Greet¥s story
unfolds through memories of his
experiences with his well-bred, red
bone wife, Anne. While Jimmy Ts
character is used to add a more
realistic narrative voice to illumi-
nate the inner workings of the
Cross family and to chronicle the
events of Horace Ts tortured life,
there are also glimpses of his own
unresol Ted issues regarding his
sexuality and his reasons for en-
tering tie ministry.
In a scene where Horace con-
fronts hs cousin after Sunday ser-
vice to diicuss his fear that he may
indeed beirrevocably homosexual,
Jimmy rsponds by telling him,
oHorace, ve've all done alittle..you
know..experimenting. It Ts part of
growing uj, � But, in the same con-
versation, he cautions Horace,
oYou're normal. Trust me.
These. .feelings..will go away. Just
don Tt give into them. Pray. Ask
, God to give you the strength andin
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Buked, Scorned,
and Talked About
no time... �.
Horace becomes more conflicted
when he begins dating girls. Kenan
offers, oGracie Mae Mayfield be-
came his steady. He even had sex
with her afew times. � Yet, Horace Ts
long-standing attraction to Gideon
Stone, the pre-pubescent class
sissy who in adolescence grows
into an intellectual with a well-
defined frame, does not dissipate
regardless of his prayers. It is to
Gideon that Horace ownites about
twenty-three letters � drafts actu-
ally, before finally finding a suit-
able way to tell hime that he loves
him-if, in fact, there is a suitable
way in this society for one teenage
boy to tell another that he loves
him. Thankfully, Gideon is of the
same mindset and, for a time at
least, the two boys develop a spe-
cial friendship. But later, in ascene
setin the boys locker room of South
York County High School, Gideon
makes a sexual advance to Horace-
"I'm aman who
perceives life in a
certain way; a
man who rejects
things that
defecate on
mankind. �
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who since has decided that, in-
deed, the Lord does mind-only to
find himself nursing a busted lip.
This is unfortunate since Gideon
1s the only Black man with whom
Horace has sex at any point in the
novel
Another Black
Hor:
man catches
later when he
takes a summer job at the local
theatre. Everett Church
Harmnegton IV-the son ofa Beacon
Hill law professor father and a
(
ice Ts attention
.
mother of D.C. Black blue-blood
fame-is the young caramel-colored
acto} . Horace admires from
the wings. Everett will have no
part of Horace and so, Horace finds
sex partner, Antonio
Santangelo, another actor who is
part Italian, part Puerto Rican,
|| have to suffice, I suppose,
for an authentic man of color. In
the meantime, Everett runs off
ad Casula
and wil
(Continued on page 2)
BROTHER CALVIN oSLACK � GATLIN IS SHOWN here
with lifetime friend, Dr. Tommy Harris. Mr, Gatlin Ts family
and friends mourned his passing last week. Certainly, oSlack �
will be missed by all who knew him.
with Edward, the blue-eyed Geor-
gian lead, after reading Horace for
points in response to his ill-fated
declaration of love. Romantically
speaking, it Ts a sorry state of af-
fairs for black gay men in fiction as
well as real life these days.
But never mind romance, let Ts
look at Horacé Ts central support
network. Horace Ts great-aunt
Jonnie Mae and his mother Ts sis-
ters, Rachel, Rebecca, and
Ruthester, are none too pleased to
find the young man hanging
around with a group ofjet-set white
boys "the sons of doctors, lawyers,
and businessmen "who are, in
their own way, outcasts in the Tims
Creek community. Horace Ts child-
hood buddy, Hohn Anthony, poses
the question, oWe ain Tt goodenough
for you these days? � But Horace
oignored the criticisms of his
friends, the labels that were being
placed on him. Oreo. Graybory. He
refused to notice how other blacks
stopped talking to him. �
Horace Ts introducing his newly
pierced ear at Thanksgiving din-
ner doesn Tt go over well at all. This
gesture is seen by the family as
disrespectful and stupid to boot.
Everybody has something to say
about it except for Jimmy, who
doesn Tt seem to agree that there is
any harm in Horace putting a hole
in his head, but can Tt get a word in
edgewise. But we don Tt have to
suffer the stereotype of the cas-
trating Black matriarchy because,
in fact, it is grandfather Ezekial
Cross who eventually puts his foot
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Randall Kenan
down and Horace out of the house,
forcing him to make a choice be-
tween his solid Black southern
roots and the presumed appeal of
white society.
It all becomes enough to cause
Horace to place a shotgun to his
forehead and call it quite an un-
bearable day. The reader is left
with another example of tragic
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BEATRICE MAYE
To the editor,
Theschool year has begun. Three
important gifts to share with, your
children are these: 1. The first gift
is that of a happy home and the
underlined word here is happy.
Homes should be a haven to which
children gladly return, rather than
a prison from which they yearn to
escape. Parents are 98 percent re-
sponsible for creating that happi-
ness. Out of these ingredients
comes a happy home.
2. The second gift comes right
out of this. It is your gift to your
child of self-esteem. You raise that
child in such a way that he be-
lieves he is of value. You speak to
her and share with her in such a
way that she believes down deep
that she is lovable and capable - a
child of God Ts spirit in her!
3. And the third gift: Personal
example. You can take all of your
words about what you think is
important, all your rules and they
do need and expect rules, all your
instructions and guidelines and
scoldings and put them on one side
ofascale and the whole collections
far outweighed by one act the child
sees you doing. Personal example
is the bottom line of parental strat:
egy. The toughest problems some
children face are those of learning
good manners without ever seeing
any, learning to be good citizens,
respecting law and order, without
guns and weapons, good church
men and women with character,
morals and values, good husbands
and wives, without the benefit of
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personal éxample from mom and
dad. Teachers would see a differ-
ence when they come to school.
(Mrs.) Beatrice Maye
Discipline in the Schools Lack
of disciplineis the No. 1 problem in
the schools according to John
Rosemond in his article, Sunday,
October 1, 1995, The Daily Reflec-
tor.
The problem doesn Tt rest with
the administrators, teachers or
school board, but with parents,
which means it comes directly from
the homes. They are a matter of
parents who send children to school
without discipline it takes to digin
and get an education; parents who
overindulge and
undercorrect;:parents who neither
indulge nor correct; parents who
let the TV sets run day and night
and -rarely read anything more
than the morning paper; parents
who will not give total, 100 per-
cent support to teachers disciplin-
ary efforts; parents who expect
schools to do what they themselves
have been too lazy or busy to do -
namely, teach their children the
Three R Ts of respect, responsibil-
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AFFAIRS: Before you consider
having an affair, ask yourself these
questions: Could handle the guilt
and the constant deception? How
would my husband/wife react if
he/she found out? How would it
affect our children?
TRUE FRIENDS: It often takes
a crisis to find out who your true
friends are - but not always. Car-
ing gestures are the cement that
holds friendships together. They
can be as simple asa birthday card
or a checkup phone call.
This is the beginning of a new
day. God has given me this day to
use as I will. I can waste it or use
it for good. What I do today is
important, because I Tm exchang
ing a day of my life for it. When
tomorrow comes, this day will be
gone forever, leaving something |
have traded for it. I want it to be
gain, not loss; good, not evil, suc
cess, not failure; in order that I
shall not regret the price I paid for
it.
PEACE: Nothing can bring you
peace but yourself. Ralph Emerson
How often we wait for someone
else to make us happy. If only our
husbands would help more, our
kids would listen, or the boss would
stop picking on me...But when we
turn inward and begin to accept
ourselves and our lives exactly as
they are, we find a peace that can Tt
be shaken by the world around us.
Go the extra mile. It Ts never
crowded.
MAKE EVERY DAY A
HAPPY DAY
1. Walk a milea day. It Ts the best
all-around exercise going and will
release some of your tension.
2. Be slow to anger. Speak with
a gentle tongue.
3 Eat a good breakfast. It will
improve your day, your week, your
health.
4. Let rumors die. A rumor
wounds three people: the one who
passed it, the one who listens to it
and the one about whom It Is said
5. Count your blessings
6. Make one new friend - in your
church, on your block - whom you
have noticed out of the corner
your eye.
7. Cultivate compassion. o[t 1
the root of love and kindness and
righteousness: and it alone brings
us to the doing of good deeds with
out ulterior motives �.
8. Put your finances in order.
9. Discard nonessentials: people
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poetry
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The National Library of Poetry
has announced that $24,000 in
prizes will be awarded this year to
over 250 poets in the North Ameni-
can Open Poetry Contest. The
deadline for the contest is Septem-
ber 30, 1995. The contest is open to
everyone and entry is FREE.
Any poet, whether previously
published or not, can be a winner.
Every poem entered also has a
chance to be published in a deluxe,
hardbound anthology.
To enter, send ONE onginal
poem, any subject and anystyle, to
The National Library of Poetry,
11419 Cronridge Dr., PO Box 704-
£985, Owings mills, MD 21117.
The poem should be no more than
20 lines, and the poet Ts name and
address should appear on the top
of the page. Entries must be post-
marked by September 30, 1995. A
new contest opens October 1, 1995.
The National Library of Poetry,
founded in 1982, is the largest
poetry organization in the world.
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But he adds, oI know the major-
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novel should be seen as an opportu-
nity merely to go through the pro-
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ered as anything else. �
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He was heartened by word that
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ing more copies will be printed.
Still, he jokes that a vice presi-
dent in advertising he admires,
otold me at a party having heard
about the back-order, ~Too bad, it Ts
all over for you. Your first is sup-
posed to be a disaster. �
A sophisticated piece of writing
utterly without the awkwardness
of many first efforts, oA Visitation
of Spirits � is Kenan Ts first pub-
lished work, obut much before it
went unpublished and was
unpublishable, � he says.
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school. No one read it. Nor would I
wish that horror on a reader. �
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The challenge is to learn how to
translate multidimensional objects
into words.
oIt requires an intoxication with
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says about who has the heart of a
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what words will say to him. �
Several sites to offer free screening
for depression during National
Depression Screening Day "
Mental health professionals will
offer local residents the opportu-
nity to learn about the signs and
symptoms of depression and to par-
ticipate in a free screening as part
of National Depression Screening
Day, Thursday, October 5, 1995.
The free program will be held at
the ene locations: Carolina
East Mall - 12 - 8 pm, East Caro-
lina a - 10-6 pm, GHA
Cultural/Recreation Center-
Moyewood -4-8 pm, Mental Health
Association 12 - 8 pm (phone in
only - 752-7448), Pitt Community
College - 9 - 5 pm, and the Plaza
Mall - 12-8 pm.
National Depression Screening
Day, held each year during y Men-
tal Illness Awareness Wee k, was
developed by " urvard psychiatrist
Dr. Douglas J st year,
more than 82,000 pec ple attended
screening at 2,000 sites nation-
wide. National Depression Screen-
ing Day inaugur ated the concept
of screening for a mental illness,
when it began five years
Participants at the above listed
Depression Screening locations
will heara brief talk on the causes,
symptoms, and treatments of de-
pression followed by a short video.
a obs Las
ago.
Individuals will complete an
anonymous written screening test
for depression and have the oppor-
tunity to discuss the results witha
mental health professional.
Depression strikes more than
17 million Americans each year,
according to figures from the Na-
tional Institute of Mental Health.
Fewer than half of them, however,
actually seek treatment even
though treatment can help 80 per-
cent of those affected.
oWe hope that this nationwide
effort to provide mental health
screening for depression will edu-
cate the public about the signs and
symptoms of depression and en-
courage those who may be vulner-
able to seek evaluation and treat-
ment, � said National Depression
Screening Day Project Director,
Dr. Douglas Jacobs.
National Depression Screen'ng
Day is sponsored on the national
level by the American Psychiatric
Assn., National Institute of Men-
tal Health, Harvard Medical
School Psychiatry Dept., National
Mental Health Assn., National
Depressive and Manic-Depressive
Assn., AARP, National Alhance
for the Mentally 111, and McLean
Hospital. Supporters include the
American Psychiatric Foundation,
the American Assn. of Suicidology,
the National Assn. of Psychiatric
Health Systems, the American
Assn. of General Hospital Psychia-
trists, the American Hospital Assn.
Psychiatric Services Section, Em-
ployee Assistance Professionals
Assn., and Wellness Councils for
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Baptist Association, whichis made
up of sixty-seven churches in East-
ern North Carolina, held its T one
hundred and thirtieth session on
September 29-October 1, at the
Mount Shiloh Missionary Baptist
Church in Williamston. Dr. James
Pastor of the
M. Moore, Jr., is the moderator.
An awards banquet was held
Friday night at the Holiday Inn in
Williamston. The keynote speaker
was Dr. John D. Fuller, vice presi-
dent, at large of the General Bap-
tist State Convention of Raleigh.
Awards were presented to a
number of members for their ser-
vices. The Reverend A.C.
Batchelor, pastor of the Phillippi
Missionary Baptist Church and
administrator for the Child Care
Center of Simpson, was awarded
the Pastor of the Year award for
services rendered for the better-
ment of mankind.
Local woman rises to bishop position
The Body of Christ Unlimited
Outreach Ministries announces
Statement
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All Americans agree that we
must protect the lives and future
health of our children. The bipar-
tisan oCommitment to Our Chil-
dren � "in support of this
Administration Ts efforts to reduce
children Ts smoking or use of smoke-
less tobacco products "shows just
how deep that sentiment runs
through our country. The Repre-
sentatives and Senators who stood
up today for our children deserve
the nation Ts thanks. These Demo-
crats and Republicans showed that
this is not about partisan politics;
itis about doing the right thing for
our children and families. Public
health leaders, children and fam-
ily advocates andelected state and
local officials from across the na-
tion have also pledged to support
our efforts.
Each day, three thousand young
people become regular smokers.
Nearly 1,000 of them will die early
from smoking-related diseases. We
must reduce children Ts access to
tobacco products and limit the ad-
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our children it is cool or glamorous
to smoke, but do not tell them
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also come with smoking. The
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Obituary
CALVIN H. GATLIN
Mr. Calvin Henry oSlack � Gatlin,
55, of Greenville, died Friday, Sep-
tember 29 in Pitt County Memo-
rial Hospital.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday, October 4th at 3:00
p.m. at Sycamore Hill Baptist
Church. Burial followed in the
Brown Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Gatlin was a Greenville na-
tive and a member of Sycamore
Baptist church where he servedon
the Senior Usher Board. He was
employed with the Pitt County
School system and was a voca-
tional Instructor and Assistant
Basketball Coach at North Pitt
High School. He was a member of
the National Masonry Instructors
Association, and the NC Masonry
Association, Sertoma, Mt. Herman
Masonic Lodge #35 and GIHS/
Eppes National and Local chap-
ters.
Surviving: his wife, Barbara
Barghen-Williams Gatlin; son,
Keith Gatlin of Alexandria, Va;
daughters, Tiffany Nichole Branch
of Butner and Eleggra Gatlin of
Greenville; step-sons, Cortez and
Jeffrey Williams of Knightdale;
step-daughter, Felecia M. Williams
of Greenville; mother, Carrie Lee
Gatlin of Greenville; brothers,
Eddie Gatlin, Walter Earl Gatlin,
Charles Douglas Gatlin, Reginald
Gatlin all of Greenville, John
Gatlin of Tucson, Arizona, sisters,
Lucille Hines, Ellis Brown,
Caldonia Norfleet, Marjorie
Gatlin, Mary Gatlin and Allie
Gatlin of Greenville, and Janice
Crawford of Newport News, Va,;5
rvandAchildren
the installation of its new bishop
Stephanie Winfield.
The former evangelist was or-
dained and installed as bishopina
4 p.m. service Saturday at the
church, which is at 310 BK. Pantego
St., Belhaven. Miss Winfield was
installed and ordained by the Rev.
Dr. Jesse Featherston, bishop of
worldwide ministries with the
Body of Christ Unlimited Outreach
Ministries T Norfolk, Va., branch.
A resident of Greenville, Miss
Winfield is the daughter of George
and Gladys Winfield of Belhaven.
A singer and songwriter, she has
toured and performed her music
throughout the United States.
Miss Winfield is amember of the
Coastal Carolina Gospel Music
Workshop of America and N.C.
Act, a drama school in Pitt County
under the direction of Sandra
Jones. Miss Winfield also has
toured the South with the play oA
Good Man is Hard to Find. � She
also performed in the nation Ts capi-
tal during Congresswoman Eva
Clayton Ts swearing-in ceremony.
oTo God be the glory, and with
His help, the Body of Christ Un-
limited Outreach Ministries will
be going all the way, � Miss Winfield
said.
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ON NOVEMBER 7, 1995
Pursuantto G. S. 163-33(8) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that a municipal election will be conducted in the City of
Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina to elect a mayor,
one at large council member who will be voted upon by
all registered voters within the city and one (1 ) council
member from each of five districts to be voted upon
within each district. The mayor, at large council member,
and district council members are elected for two year
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votes for mayor will be elected. The candidate for the at-
large seat receiving the highest number of votes will be
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votes in each of the five council districts will be elected.
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precincts are now physically accessible to the elderly
and handicapped. In those instances where polling
places cannot be made accessible, elderly and handi-
capped voters may vote ballots at curbside or request
assignment to an accessible facility for the purpose of
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her choice. The chief judge, judges, and other election
officials appointed by the Pitt County Board of Elections
will serve as election officers for said election.
A list of the registered voters residing within Greenville
and newly annexed territory will be available for public
inspection in the Elections office, 201 East Second
Street, Greenville, during normal business hours and
ending Monday, November 6, 1995. Registered voters
must reside within the City of Greenville to be eligible to
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has moved from the address on his/her registration
record must notify the Elections Office of that change on
or before October 13, 1995. Qualified individuals may
register to vote at the Pitt County Board of Elections
office located at 201 E. Second St., Greenville, Monday
through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during office hours,
at other public agencies, public libraries, or by mail. Mail-
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from the Elections office. Questions concerning voter
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matters should be directed to the Elections office at
telephone 830-4121. Challenges may be made during
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Qualified registered voters who reside in the City of
Greenville may apply for absentee ballots to be mailed
beginning Monday, September 18, 1995. The deadline
for applying for absentee ballots to be mailed is Tues-
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ballots must be returned by Monday, November 6, 1995
at 5:00 pm in order to be counted pursuant to G. S. 163-
227(2) and G. S. 163-232. Voters may inquire as to
absentee voting procedures by contacting the Board of
Elections.
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oYou don Tt have to be in a
church for the Holy Spirit to
move. �
On September 8 and 9, there
was a youth revival featuring Rev.
Damion Royal from New Bern on
Friday night, and a Christian rap-
per Marty Grace from New York
City. This revival was held at the
Roxy, downtown Greenville, and
sponsored by WOOW radio sta-
tion. Saturday night, we partied
for Jesus with Marty Grace, ECU
steppers, and no other than the
Joy 1340 Crusade Choir. We sung,
rapped, and danced for Jesus. We
shouted, we praised God, we lifted
up holy hands, we just had a ball.
The Holy Spirit came like a omighty
rushing wind. � Everybody was
blessed in someway or another.
Someone got saved, we prayed for
people, and everybody was prais-
ing God, young people and adults.
Testimonies were given. What I Tm
saying is you don Tt have to be ina
church for the Holy Spirit to move.
Wherever you go the Holy Spirit is
with you, so I encourage you to
move when the Holy Spirit moves.
I say again, the Holy Spirit don Tt
just move in a church.
Aida Taylor
19-year old Child of God
Joy 1340 Crusade
Choir member
oGod is before us, who can
be against us �
God had done a lot of things for
me. He Ts blessed me with two
hands, two feet, andasound mind.
I may not have all my health and
strength, but I Tm still here. All I.
want to say is that the world is
coming to anend. The people of the
world today have turned their back
on the word of God. They say God
has turned his back on them by
God said oI will not leave nor for-
sake you. � There Ts so many things
to hold us back from the Lord.
Such as temptation for example:
that Ts the Devils job. The devil
tempts us where we are weak. He
wants us to turn away from God
and go to hell because he has to go.
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- Jesus overcame teptation, if we
43 8
want to be like Jesus, we have to
overcome temptation. Don Tt give
up, God is still there. He won't
never leave you, all you have to do
is, read the word, pray every night
and believe in him.
Kim Randolph
16-year-old Child of God
Phillipi Church of Christ
oA Message �
Hi, my nameis Fabian Deloatch.
I am 11 years of age, but the good
thing about it is I Tm a witness for
Christ. Kids and youth, I have a
message for you. Walk with God,
have faith, and trust in the Lord.
Most of all lets do away with the
hatred.
Fabian Deloatch
11-year-old Child of God
Phillipi Church of Christ
oLive the way God made
you �
You should live the way God
made you, that Ts male or female.
In the time of Adam and Eve, God
made man and woman, not
oSteven Ts. � Everyone has theirown
opinion on the way to live their
life, but homosexuality is of the
devil not of God. God didn Tt make
woman to be with another woman,
or man to be with another man,
but he ordained marriage, we are
to marry the opposite sex, not the
same sex. So live the way God
made you.
Jackie Daniels
17-year-old Child of God
Joy 1340 Crusade Choir
Member
oAppeal to our youth in
Christ �
1. Beall that youcan bein Chnist.
2. Stand for what rightin Christ.
3. Don Tt be fearful of changes
from tradition to Christ ways it
will profit you.
4. God looks at the heart before
he look at ward appear.
5. Do not judge unless you plan
to be judge for Godis thehigh court,
and he only can dismiss any case.
6. Know who you are in Christ,
don Tt let someone tell you.
7. Don Tt be afraid of God ask him
your questions.
8. Appreciate God. Even when
things are not going your way
(smile).
9. Finally, you are an
ambassorder so please conduct
your selfas one, someone may come
to Christ. Praise the Lord.
Sis. Beverly Strong
Joy 1340 Crusade Choir
Member
Phillipi Church of Chnst
oDistance
Learning
Technology:
How Can
You
Benefit? �
The World Class Strategies Net-
work, sponsored by ECU Ts Center
for Applied Technology, hosted a
meeting on September 27th from
2-4 p.m. at the Willis Building in
dowtown Greenville. Dr. Barry
DuVall, from the ECU School of
Industry & Technology, facilitated
and demonstrated distance learn-
ing technology.
Dr. DuVall is an expert in the
field of teaching and instruction
through the use of interactive tele-
vision, interactive video network-
ing, electronic data interchange
modules, and e-mail. He enlight-
ened the group on features and
benefits surrounding the concept
of learning at a distance. He dis-
cussed how an individual or com-
pany can utilize distance learning
methodologies.
Randall Kenan is a man who
can tell a waiter oI'll eschew the
appetizer � and write about hog
killings so vividly that his readers
will never feel the same toward
him again.
His first novel oA Visitation of
Spirits � was published last month
amid a fair amount of acclaim and
the University of North Carolina
alum has returned to Chapel Hill
this week to sign books and give
readings. He appears to be taking
it all in stride.
Certainly anyone who says oes-
chew � to a waiter would.
Setin a tiny Eastern North Caro-
lina town called Tims Creek, Mr.
Kenan Ts novel is full of allusive
language-biblical, demonic, liter-
ary-and jarringly clear descrip-
tions of Southern country life.
In the hog passage he writes:
oThen someone will take a great
silver knife and make a thin true
line down the belly of the beast,
from the rectum to the top of its
throat. He will make an incision at
the top and with a wet and ripping
sound like the bursting of a water-
melon, the creature will be split
clear in two, its delicate organs
spilling down like vomit, the fine
shiny sacs waiting there to be cut
loose, one by one. �
And his descriptions of aunts
are particularly clear and evoca-
tive: oRachel. Rebecca. Ruthester.
His Aunt racehl was his favorite.
Her skin was cinnamon and gin-
e had a rebellious spirit,
uncensored and harsh. Whatever
came to her mind, she said; what-
ever she felt, she expressed. She
was the youngest... �
Throughout the book two plots
are simultaneously woven: One
story line is about a black homo-
sexual teen, Horace, who is tor-
tured by real and imaginary de-
The other concerns a crisp
day in December when James, a
preacher, James takes his Aunt
Ruth and Uncle Zeke to
Fayetteville to visit Aunt Ruth Ts
dying husband.
[t might be said that Mr. Kenan
owes much to aunts, of which in
reality and in his novel, he seems
to have plenty.
Mr. Kenan was raised by his
Aunt Mary Kenan Hall, to whom
he has dedicated his novel " ~ oto
ger. Sh
mons
one who made a way out of no
way T "and whom he calls omy
mother. �
Although born in Brooklyn,N.Y.,
Mr. Kenan was sent to North Caro-
lina at an early age to live with his
grandfatherd.
At any rate, he was to have been
raised by his grandfather. But his
Aunt Mary, like many of his fe-
male characters, knew what she
wanted and acted upon it swiftly
decisively: One weekend he
to visit Aunt Mary. Aunt
mary kept him.
tis grandfather and grand-
r, who were obusy with their
caning business, � eventually
and
went
a
~ esced "and the re he stayed,
on his Aunt Mary Ts farm.
Hence the hogs.
Atany rate, Mr. Kenan, 26, grew
up a wonderfully thoughtful young
man in both senses of the word. He
apologizes profusely for having
been « Ol nly minutes late, and ex-
poun ds about racism , religion and
plot andcharacter " allover aplate
of ba iked grouper and okra at
Crook Ts Corner.
oOne thing that strikes me now
is the way the races interact, � he
says. oIt is a subtle, complex and
key dynamic that we need to un-
derstand. At this point in our coun-
try it is vital that we understand
what we are doing. It seems if we
don Tt there would be only two
things todo: Exterminate all blacks
or for all blacks to rise up in arms.
And that would be a tragedy. �
And writing, he says, ois always
tension be ~tween character and
plot. It begins with a question. To
answer that question you need two
more questions and it grows and
grows exponentially. �
Then he gives a hoot of laughter
at himself and says oYou've got me
going tonight, must be the wine. �
But he says he is not all seri-
ous "while at UNC-Chapel Hill
he was active in the Comic Book
Club. and oI guess when you go to
college there Ts a choice, social or
academic. Coming from a small
town I guess I chose social. Who
wouldn't? �
But that is hard to believe.
In fact, when he left his home-
town of Chinquapin and came to
Chapel Hill he was determine to
be a physics major. UNC English
professor Max Steele anda stint at
Oxford University set him right.
oWell, really, by the time I went to
Oxford it hadcrystallized that this
was what I really wanted to do, � he
says.
oActually I was going to majorin
physics and I had an interest in
science fiction so I wound up in
Max's class and he doesn Tt like
science fiction. � Mr. Kenan
dropped physics as his major,
graduated in December 1984 "
early "and omade a beeline for
New York City. Well, I packed
first, � he says, and laughs.
BRrtar the earand aunt who in.
fluenced him.
Before he left North Carolina,
he says, he went to visit his great-
aunt Erie "who has never left the
state of North Carolina.
He told her he had nomoney and
no prospects and certainly no place
to stay in New York City, where he
needed to go to make his fortune
as a writer.
Aunt Erie, he says, okind of tsked
and picked up the phone and called
her sons and grandsons. She has
10, well, 10 living "she probably
has more. And within 20 minutes,
she didn Tt ask, she TOLD one that
I was coming to New York and I
was to stay with him in Newark.
And she made sure Newark was
close enough to New York. �
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