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administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
Aarhus, Carol, Files
Subseries:
Alpha File, 1990-1992
OA/ID Number:
13863
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13863-009
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Human Interest [2]
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TRANSFER SHEET
BUSH PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS PROJECT
COLLECTION
Bush Presidential Records
ACC.NO: 93-01
The following material was withdrawn from this segment of the
collection and trasferred to the X AUDIOVISUAL COLLECTION
BOOK COLLECTION
MUSEUM COLLECTION
OTHER (SPECIFY:
)
DESCRIPTION:
2 photographs measuring 8" by 10" in black and white of the
musical group "Take 6"
SERIES
BOX NO.
Office of Speechwriting - Aarhus
5
FILE FOLDER TITLE:
Human Interest [OA 6903]
(2)
TRANSFERRED BY:
DATE OF TRANSFER:
William A. Harris
6/27/96
RECEIVED BY:
DATE RECEIVED
mary A. Finch
6/27/96
Copy Preservation
NEW YORK
BEVERLY HIMLS
NASHVILLE
LONDON
ROME
SYDNEY
MUNICH
EST. 1898
WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY, INC.
XXXX
2325 CRESTMOOR ROAD NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 37215 (615) 385-0310
FAX:
(615) 297-6694
April 2, 1991
TO: Gail Hamilton, Jim Ed Norman, Ronna Rubin, Tom Draper,
David Maddox, Bill Calloway, Pete Fisher, Paul B.
Payne, Craig Hayes, Jean Wilson, Gerald Washington
FR: Paula S. Denson
C: Ofield Dukes
The meeting of the Advisory Board Committee members, Jean
Wilson, Bill Calloway, Paula Denson and Ofield Dukes, met
with principal, Dr. Armstrong, along with parents and
students at the Highland Heights Middle School, Nashville,
TN.
I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
The meeting began with introductions all around. Jean Wilson
continued by giving the group background information on the
project and stating its purpose and vision. Part of this
vision was described for the young people as a way to learn
from other young people; developing themselves in areas they
want to pursue in their careers; discovering what they want
to do - where they want to go; being shown an open door; an
opportunity to network. Jean emphasized the need and desire
to dream; and that it is "OK" to have dreams and goals,
accept challenges to meet those goals. She also challenged
them to challenge "us" as a group to help them meet their
goals - to open up and let us know what they expect from this
camp in order to succeed in the future. In essence, these
young people would be the forerunners for future camps and
the success of it would play a large part in how we worked
together as a group.
II. STUDENTS (8th Graders)
OVERVIEW - Students were bright, intelligent and spoke
graphically about their school life, studies; seemed excited
and nervous about meeting new students from other places;
expressed concerns about living arrangements; what other
opportunities would be available during the course of the
camp (i.e. swimming, other sports).
Valencia Bass - violinist -2 yrs., discontinued studying for
lack of opportunity; enjoys reading, writing, art. Seemed
the more quiet of the group. Would like to pursue career
PAGE TWO
as a doctor or teacher. Her Mother was animated; excited
this opportunity for her daughter and was hopeful in that
this would open new doors for her in the future.
Jason Jackson - Soft-spoken, but positive about his goals.
Enjoys drama and art; wants to pursue art career; has won 1st
place in city-wide contest; would like to learn to sculpt.
Jason's Mother was also appreciative of this opportunity for
her son and wanted to help wherever she could.
Jessica- Extremely bright young lady, very positive,
determined and confident. Was the most expressive in the
group, asking many questions about the program and what they
would expect. Jessica's outstanding ability is in writing,
for which she has won many contests and awards. Her
concentration is writing, public speaking, and singing. She
would like to consider a teaching career or public speaking.
Jessica's Mom was delighted for her daughter and is more and
more pleased at her accomplishments.
Kevin Moore - Kevin was the most dramatic of the group. He
performed a 10-15 minute characterization of "A Raisin In the
Sun", a play by Lorraine Hansbury; featuring the two most
graphic characters, Walter Lee and his Mother. This young
man's performance was enough to solidify what we are doing is
SO right. He cried, he laughed, he became depressed, he
submerged himself in those characters so deeply, that all who
listened were swept under the tide and each one of us moved
to some emotion. Kevin is bright, articulate, with a
southern flair, enjoys drama, public speaking, is active in
his church where he is chaplain for his choir and often
dramatizes speeches from Martin Luther King. He would
definitely benefit from learning what other career choices
would be available to him at this camp. Surprisingly, acting
had not come into his thoughts. He also swims and was
excited about going. His Mother declared that he was a
"card" around the house; always willing to speak for anyone
and was excited about his having this opportunity.
Chris Banks- The "diamond-in-the-rough", Chris seemed to be
the one most unsure of his abilities in that, he has drawn
for a long time and was excited about his art, but never
really sure of himself in this area. With his teachers
ability to "see" this talent in this young man, and along
with his parents, Chris is beginning to find new ways of
expounding his energy. Chris is interested in computers;
CAD-CAMS (computer assisted drawing), technical drawing and
engineering. Chris seems to be one who would need more
PAGE THREE
assistance in developing his "artistic" side. His Father was
present and appeared very nurturing and caring about his
son's ability to draw and wanted to encourage him more. For
a while, Chris' restlessness not been properly identified,
until his teacher made his parents aware of his creative
ability and began to encourage this. It resulted in
immediate improvement and his confidence-building process
began.
All the parents seemed satisfied with the information given
them and did not have many questions, choosing instead to
wait for the additional materials and information to arrive.
We were all surprised and impressed by the students and the
parents. The meeting was informal and went extremely well
because of this. We believe the principals' participation,
positive comments and little anecdotes about the kids,
coupled with our general laughter and banter, helped to relax
everyone and make the most of the meeting. Jean Wilson was
genteel, warm, compassionate and had the ability to make
everyone comfortable. We thoroughly enjoyed this first
meeting and we left more determined and committed than ever.
We firmly believe that this first experience at camp will be
a lasting experience for all of us.
III. SUGGESTIONS:
O Parent from each city be considered as an escort for the
10 days. The feeling here is that someone would be
familiar with the kids, environment, attitudes, and would
have someone for them to address their immediate concerns.
Jean Wilson be provided assistance in airfares,
accommodations, etc. to represent the camp as its
administrator, at each school. Her delivery of the
idea/concept and summary, was far better than could be
imagined.
Submitted by:
Paula S. Denson
Special
Olympics
Saddam Hussein Boulevard P.O. Box 50001
Tel: 250607
Zambia
Lusaka 15101
Telex: 45020 Fax: 250607
28th January, 1991
Ms Gail Hamilton
The Manager, 'Take 6'
Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
USA
Dear Miss Hamilton,
RE : US$6,600 DONATED TO SPECIAL OLYMPICS ZAMBIA
On behalf of Special Olympics Zambia Programme and the National
Sports Council of Zambia, I would like to express our sincere
gratitude to your group and the other artistes for the timely
donation to our programme of part of the funds to benefit Special
Olympics in Africa raised from the New York concert last May.
Our share of the funds will be used to purchase air tickets for
3 athletes in our delegation to the 1991 Summer games in Minneapolis
as directed by Special Olympics International.
We are delighted that Take Six and friends contribution will make
participation in the 1991 International games by so many African
Special Olympics athletes possible.
Finally, I would like to mention once again that your gesture
is greatly appreciated and has given us the determination and
encouragement to continue with our fund raising efforts to ensure
full participation at the games.
May the Good Lord Bless You.
Mich Jumali Nkhoma
National Programme Director
P.O. Box EH 18,
EMERALD HILL, HARARE
Telephone 35879 (National Director)
707019 (Sports Director)
302740/702951 (Secretary)
Special
Olympics
Zimbabwe
PATRON: First Lady Amai Sally Mugabe
SA/pp
24th July 1990
Ms Gail Hamilton
Executive Producer
Take 6
CHOICE Management
Dear Ms Hamilton
On behalf of the Special Olympics in Zimbabwe I would like to thank
you most sincerely for your fund raising activities on our behalf.
I hear they have been most successful.
Zimbabwe is planning to send 42 athletes and 18 coaches and officials
to the ISSOG 1991 in Minneapolis. They will represent the seven
sports on offer in Zimbabwe, i.e. track and field, gymnastics,
swimming, basketball, soccer, volleyball and equestrian events.
Any financial assistance you can give us towards sending this large
team will of course, be deeply appreciated.
Enclosed are some photographs taken at our recent Regional Games.
Thank you once again for your concern and commitment to Special
Olympians in Africa.
Yours sincerely
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ZIMBABWE
Sany Aven.
S ALLEN
NATIONAL DIRECTOR
enc
Special
Olympics Inc.
Nigeria
MS. BUKKIE Y. GEORGE
National Director
August 22nd, 1990
SADIQ MOMODU
Head Coach
Ms. Gail Hamilton
Executive Producer
Take 6
CHOICE Management
Dear Ms. Hamilton,
On behalf of all the Board Members of Nigeria Special Olympics,
I would like to express my sincere and heartfelt gratitude for your
very generous contribution to the development of the Special Olympics'
programs in Africa. I understand that Take 6 and Friends gave a
successful Benefit in aid of our programs.
As we say in Nigeria, 'More Grease to your Elbows'.
I hope to be able to send you some photographs of our athletes
in training, in the not too distant future.
Thanking you once again for all your kind efforts.
Youns Sincerely,
National Blooys Director
Bukkie Y. George (Ms.)
Nigeria Special Olympics
c/o African-American Institute
31/33 Martins Street (3rd Floor)
Lagos.
NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL
663924-7 (4 Lines)
raphic Address "Ghansport"
Central Secretariat
NELSON - PRESIDENT
Chiman
Sports Staduium
P.O. Box 1272
Accra, Ghana
NSC/ADM/GS0.3
Ref
1st Feb
,
i9 91
Ref
Dear Ms. Gail Hamilton,
We are in receipt of a letter from Doug Single,
of Special Olympics International Headquarters, informing
us about the two successful concerts staged in New York
City's Carnegie Hall to benefit Special Olympics Progra-
mmes in Africa. We were told of the wonderful captivat-
ing performance of the group, "Take 6" through whom
African Special Olympians have been assisted to partici-
pate in the 1991 International Summer Olympics Games.
We are further told that out OF the $86,921 raised
from the concert $4,000 have been allocated to Ghana to
enable tickets to be purchased for participants of the
Games.
We write to express how grateful we are to you
and the group, "Take 6" for this kind guesture. I wish
to say that this handsome gift of $4,000 has really height-
ened our hearts assuring us also of pur participation.
The entire community of Special Olympics in Ghana join me
in thanking the "Take 6" wishing them the best in their
future endeavours.
Once again our very hearty thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Okschangesi.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
(0. SCHANDORF-ADJEI)
MS. GAIL HAMILTON,
MANAGER, TAKE 6;
CHOICE MANAGEMENT,
40 MUSIC SQUARE EAST,
NASHVILLE TENNESSEE,
37203, U.S.A.:
cc: Doug Single.
JAN-10-1991 09:51 FROM SOI EXECUTIVE OFFICE
TO
16152486939
P.02
ZAMBIA BOTTLERS LIMITED
P.O. Box 30237, Lusdica
Coca-Cola
Telephone: 243855
Malambo Read
Cables: COCA-COLA LUSAKA
Republic of Zambia
Telex: ZACBO 40050
FASCIMILE TRANSMISSION
TO:
MILARY STEPHENS
DATE 10/01/91
CC:
FROM:
JUMALI NKHOMA - special olypics
Zambia.
NO OF PAGES
1
LOCATION: WASHINGTON DC USA
(Inc. Cover Sheet)
FAX NO:
00.1.202.737.1937
MESSAGE:
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAX OF JANUARY, 1991 WE ARE OVERWHELMED TO LEARN THAT
WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED $8,800 TO PURCHASE FOUR AIR TICKETS TO THE SUMMER
GAMES IN JULY THIS YEAR.
THIS IS TO CONFIRM OUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFER OF THE FUNDS.
DETAILS OF RESERVATIONS, TRAVEL AGENCY, AIR LINE AND NAMES OF BENEFICIARIES
OF THE TICKETS WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO YOU SOON.
ON BEHALF OF MY COMMITTEE AND THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL OF ZAMBIA. I
WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS SINCERE GRATITUDE TO MEMBERS OF "TAKE SIX" AND
FRIENDS AND THEIR MANAGEMENTS FOR THIS KIND GESTURE. A LETTER OF APPRECIA-
TION IS IN THE POST TO THEM.
MAY THE LORD BLESS THEM.
REGARDS,
JUMALI NKHOMA.
JAN-10-1991 09:51 FROM SOI EXECUTIVE OFFICE
TO
16152486939
P.03
REVISED QUOTAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF TICKETS (JANUARY 3, 1991)
Athlete Quotas
Quota up to 4:
#
2 complimentary tickets
Quotas of 5 to 15:
3 complimentary tickets
Quotas of 16-30:
4 complimentary tickets
Quotas of 31 or more: 5 complimentary tickets
Level I Programs
Zimbabwe Quota: 38
Tickets: 5 @ $2,400 each $12,000
Level II Programs
Kenya
Quota: 34
Tickets: 5 @ $2,200 each
11,000
Seychelles Quota: 12
Tickets: 3
@ 2,300 each
6,900
Level III Programs
Botswana
Quota: 24
Tickets: 5 @ 2,200 each
8,800
Gambia
Quota: 20
Tickets: 4 @ 1,900 each
7,600
Ghana
Quota: 4
Tickets: 2 @ 2,000 each
4,000
Nigeria
Quota: 26
Tickets: 4 @ 2,200 each
8,800
Sier.Leone Quota: 4
Tickets: 2 @ 1,900 each
3,800
Tanzania
Quota: 6
Tickets: 3 @ 2,300 each
6,900
Zambia
Quota: 20
Tickets: 4 @ 2,200 each
8,800
$78,600
or
CC Richard Gilbert
Deborah Delzell
Special
Olympics
(202) 628-3630
1350 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 500
FAX (202) 737-1937
International Headquarters
Washington, D.C. USA 20005-4709
telex 650 284 . 1739 MICI
By fax: 615-248-6939
January 10, 1991
Ms. Gail Hamilton
Manager, Take 6
Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
Dear Gail:
Last week, we informed our National Specia' Olympics Programs in
Africa, by telex and fax, exactly how each program would benefit
from the funds raised by "Take 6 & Friends" at the two Special
Olympics concerts held last spring.
Already, I have received several telephone calls indicating how
thrilled our coaches, athletes and families are that they will be
receiving financial assistance to travel to the 1991 International
Summer Special Olympics Games. I have attached a copy of the fax I
received this morning from Zambia.
I have also attached, for your informa: on and that of the group,
revised information regardin exactly how we intend to distribute
the funds. The allocation of ds is based on quotas.
We would like to provide each athlete and coach traveling to the
International Games with a white t-shirt and travel bag screened
with the Take 6 and Special Olympics logos. I have sent you, by
mail, our logo and that of the 1991 International Games. Perhaps
you have some thoughts regarding how these logos could be combined
and used on the shirts and the bags.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Hilary Stephens Hilary Stephens
Hilary H. Stephens
CC Bobby Shriver w/enclosure
Created by The Jaseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation for the Benefit of with Mental Retardation.
Special
Olympics
(202) 628-3630
1350 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 500
FAX (202) 737-1937
International Headquarters
Washington, D.C. USA 20005-4709
telex 650 284 . 1739 MCI
December 4, 1990
Ms. Gail Hamilton
President, Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
Dear Gail:
I enclose letters and photos from our National Special Olympics
Programs in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Nigeria thanking "Take 6" for
its very generous contribution to Special Olympics in Africa.
Please share these letters and photos with the band.
Sincerely,
Hilary H. Stephens
cc Doug Single
Bobby Shriver
Created by The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation for the Benefit of Citizens with Mental Retardation.
Officers
ELIVICE KENNEDY SHRIVER
HON. SARGENT SHRIVER
Chairman of the Board
President
MAURICE HERZO6
RAFER JOHNSON
MARIA ELOISA DE LORENZO.
ROBERT 5. SHRIVER NI
DICKEN YUNG. J.P.
Vice President
Vice President
ED.D
Vice President
Vice President
European Region
Sports Training and
Vice President
North American Region
Asia and Pacific
Competition
Latin American and
Region
Former Minister of
Cartbbean Region
Attorney and Businessman
Sports. France
Dlympic Decathion
President Special
Chairman, Hong Kong Special
Member. International
Sold Medalist
President. International
Dlympics Productions
Dlympics
Dlympic Committee
Chairman of California
League of Societies
President. Hong Kong
Special Olympics
for Persons with Mental
Recreational Management
Handicap
Association
Assistant Commissioner for
Recreation and Culture.
RICHARD F. D'BRIEN
JIMMY CARNES
Hong Kong
Secretary
Treasurer
Vice Chairman
Former President. The Athletics
Saatchi & Saatchi
Congress
DF5 Compton
Coach of the 1980 U.S. Dlympic
Track Team
Board of Directors
JOL L. ALLBRITTON
DONNA DE VARDNA
DONALD KEOUGH
Chairman and CLO
President Women's Sports Foundation
President and CEO
Riggs National Bank
ABC Sportsraster
The Coca-Cola Company
Diympir bold Medalist
GENERAL OLL JACOB BAN65TAD
BILLY KIDD
Former President Thairman. Norwegian
JAY EMMETT
Dlympic Silver Medalist
Confederation of Sports
President. Redwood Productions
CBS Sportscaster
TERRY L. BAXTER
MYER FELDMAN
MARY T. MEAGHER
Former Director of Public Affairs. The White House
Senior Partner. Einsburg Feldman
Dlympic Gold Medalist
Author and Business Executive
& Bress. Attomeys-at-Law
RONALD O. PERELMAN
ROCKY BLEIER
TERESA FEWEL
Chairman and CEO. Revion
President. Rocky Bleier Enterprises
School Administrator
Group. Inc.
Sports Broadcaster
Member. Board of Directors
Former NFL Star-Pittsburgh Steelers
Special Dlympics of Washington
HRH PRINCE RAAD BIN ZEID
JOHN J. BYRNE
Lord Chamberlain to His Majesty
FRANK GIFFORD
the King of Jordan
Chairman Fireman's Fund Insurance
ABC Sports Broadcaster
Former NFL Star-New York Glants
PETE RETZLAFF
BART CONNER
Businessman
Businessman and Entrepreneur
EVEL YN GREER. MBE.JP.
Sportscaster WEAL Philadelphia
.
Dlympic 6old Medalist
Director. Royal Society for Mentally
Handicapped Children and Adults in
Former NFL Star-Philadelphia Eagles
MINISTER CUI NAIFU
Northem Ireland
MARIA SHRIVER
Minister of CMI Affairs. People's
Republic of China
NBC-TV Newscaster
SIR ELDON GRIFFITHS. M.P.
Former University President
Chairman of Special
SHEILA YOUNG-OCHOWICZ
Dlympics. LIK.
ARTHUR DECID
Olympic 6old Medalist
Former Minister of Sports. LIK
Chairman and CEO. 5kyline Corporation
RAFAEL DE ZUBIRIA 60MEZ M.D.
VICKI IOVINE
JOANN SIMONS DERR
Former Minister of Health. Colombia
Attorney
Director of Policy
Former Mayor of Bogota. Colombia
Entrepreneur in the Record Industry and
Department of Mental Retardation
Co-producer of "A Very Special Christmas" Album
State of Massachusetts
EDWARD M. KENNEDY. JR.
Executive Director. Facing The
Challenge"
Staff
JULE M SUGARMAN
Executive Director
WILLIAM H. BANKHEAD. PhD.
NORMAN A. BOLZ
LINDA 5. BROADUS
Director of International Games
Director of Anance
ROBERT E. COOKE. M.D.
Acting Director of Communications
and Administration
Chief Medical Officer
JOHN W. CHROMY
Specialist in Mental Retardation
Director of U.S. Chapter Programs
THOMAS B. SONESTER PhD
JOHN MOSHER
Director of Sports.
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
Director of International
DEBORAH WILLIS
Training. & Competition
State University of New York at Buffalo
Programs
Pediatrician In-Chief
Director of Marketing and
Johns Hopkins Hospital
and Development
1956-1973
National Games
1.9.8.9
Botswana
Special
SPECIAL
Olympics
OLYMPICS
GAMES™
23 January 1991
Take 6 and Friends
c/o Ms. Gail Hamilton, Manager
Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
USA
Dear Take 6 and Friends,
All of the participants in Special Olympics Botswana wish to express our
gratitude and appreciation for your donation of your time and talents to help
the Special Olympics in Africa. As a benficiary of your generosity, we assure
you that you are helping some very special kids.
Again, our heartfelt thank you.
Sincerely,
as
Ameen Moorad
Special Olympics Botswana
cc: Doug Single
Special Olympics International
P.O. Box 1379 Gaborone
Affiliated to International Special Olympics
R McCALLISTER / ASSOC TEL :1-213-939-7211
Aug 12,91
9:22 No.003 R.02
SPECIAL OLYMPICS
PRODUCTIONS
VICTORY & VALOR: A SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALL STAR CELEBRATION
SET FOR TELECAST ON
THE ABC TELEVISION NETWORK, AUGUST 15
LOS ANGELES -- Some of the world's most celebrated stars of film, television, music and
sports, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Warren Beatty, Jon Bon Jovi, Whoopi
Goldberg, Melanie Griffith, Wayne Gretzky, Bob Seger, and Florence Griffith Joyner will
be featured in VICTORY & VALOR: A SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALL STAR CELEBRATION, a
two-hour special scheduled to air on the ABC Television Network on August 15, 1991 at
8 p.m. (ET/PT).
Also appearing in this celebration of the eighth Special Olympics International
Games are Kirstie Alley, Herb Alpert, Richard Dean Anderson, Susan Anton, Patti Austin,
Chris Burke, Gerardo, Debbie Gibson, Frank Gifford, Don Johnson, Jean Claude Killy,
Mark McEwen, Bob Saget, Susan Saint James, Fred Savage, Take 6, Randy Travis,
Martha Wash, BeBe and CeCe Winans, and Zico.
The story of the emotion-filled week of the Special Olympics International Games
in Minneapolis/St. Paul, from the star-studded opening ceremonies at the Metrodome, to
the closing ceremonies on the steps of the Capitol, complete with competitions, life in the
athletes village, parties, pep rallies, and coaching clinics, will be told through the eyes of
four Special Olympics athletes from around the world.
The largest athletic event in the world in 1991, the International Summer Special
Olympics will involve over 6,000 athletes with mental retardation, from 106 countries,
competing in such sports as swimming & diving, track & field, basketball, gymnastics,
softball, volleyball and equestrian in Minneapolis/St. Paul from July 20 -26.
Special Olympics Productions, Inc. 1440 So. Sepulveda Boulevard Suite 220
Los Angeles
California
90025
Telephone: (213) 444-9606
Facsimile: (213) 478-8886
VICTORY & VALOR -- TWO
During the gala Opening Ceremonies, before a live audience of sixty thousand
people, former Olympic gold medalists will form a Cordon of Honor lining the last leg of
the torch run. Among those scheduled to appear are Bob Beamon, Nadia Comaneci,
Bart Connor, Donna deVarona, Nancy Hogshead, Rafer Johnson, Olga Korbut and John
Naber.
The Opening Ceremonies will also feature live performances by some of the music
industry's top recording artists, including one of the world's top rockers, Jon Bon Jovi,
rapper Gerardo, pop star Debbie Gibson, country music sensation Randy Travis, R&B's
Patti Austin, Gospel Grammy Award-winners Take 6 and Bebe and Cece Winans, and the
multi-talented Martha Wash.
To capture the international scope of Special Olympics, the production sent its
cameras to Athens, Greece to film Arnold Schwarzenegger and Special Olympics
International Chairman Sargent Shriver presiding over the lighting of the torch at Mt.
Olympus. Cameras also traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal where Bob Seger ("Katmandu")
participated in the Second National Special Olympics Games of Nepal. An enthusiastic
supporter of Special Olympics, Seger contributed a song to the 1987 album, "A Very
Special Christmas," which has raised $16 million for the charity to date. Proceeds from
the album were used to develop the Nepalese program, as well as many other programs
in the United States and abroad.
Rocker Jon Bon Jovi travelled to Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo
Nation, to meet Gary Begay, a Navajo Special Olympian, and pop star Debbie Gibson
went to Longmont, Colorado to meet one of her biggest fans, Casey Mangan a Special
Olympics gymnast.
"This Special reflects the unprecedented worldwide commitment to Special
Olympics as well as the very personal satisfaction of artists who come in contact with the
athletes." said Bobby Shriver, Executive Producer. "It's a unique combination of the best
in entertainment, the excitement of competition and the emotion felt by everyone who
participates."
R. McCALLISTER / ASSOC TEL :1-213-939-7211
Aug 12,91
9:24 No. 003 P.04
VICTORY & VALOR -- THREE
More than 45 cameras will be used to film the various festivities associated with the
Special Olympics International Games, including the Opening Ceremonies, International
Dance attended by thousands of athletes, a Pep Rally/Concert and Games highlights.
Executive producers for VICTORY & VALOR: A SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALL STAR
CELEBRATION are Bobby Shriver and Ted Steinberg. Michael Seligman is the producer
and Steve Pouliot is the writer. Steve Binder will direct the show.
Sponsors of this client-supplied special include The Coca-Cola Company, Eastman
Kodak Company, Federal Express Corporation, General Motors Corporation, Hardee's
Food Systems, Inc., IBM Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss & Co., MCI
Telecommunication Corporation, Nabisco Brands, Inc., JC Penny, The Procter & Gamble
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A very Special night
Competition
launched with
gala ceremony
JIM RAGSDALE and RANDY TUCKER
STAFF WRITERS
M.r than 6,000
Special Olympics ath-
letes-from around the
SPECIAL
world paraded into the
Metrodome on Saturday
OLYMPICS
right for a Hollywood-
style official opening of
their weeklong compott-
tion.
About 45,000 specta-
tors applauded as the athletes filed in
and waved back before taking their seats
on the Metrodome floor. The ceremony
Included a torch-lighting that opened the
1991 Special Olympics games, which are
boing hold through Friday throughout the
Twin Cities.
The athletes were to hear from an
array of entertainers, Including Prince,
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Warren
Beatty. The athletes brightly colored
warm-up suits turned the stadium floor
Into a sea of color.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of
the Special Olympics program, told the
gathered athletes: "You are the peace-
makers."
Shriver, who helped organize the first
such gathering of athletes who are men-
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Inclusion projects
open school doors
to disabled kids
NANCY LIVINGSTON STAFF WRITER
t 18 still a familiar sight in most Minne-
sota schools.
Students who are mentally retarded
move through the halls, heading to their
special programs while other students
brush past them, heading for their own
classes.
The two groups barely have eye con-
tact and rarely Interact. Their two differ-
ont worlds are separated by a gulf of
silence.
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Gradually, however, voices are raising
to break down the barriers between regu-
I
lar and special education: Just as a tradi-
Lion of separate but equal was not good
enough for the civil rights movement in
the 1960s, it also is inadequate for the
1990s activists representing children with
disabilities.
The International Special Olympics
that opened Saturday in some ways re-
flect the struggle taking place in schools
across the country. Most teams are com-
posed exclusively of mentally handi-
capped athletes. But for the first time,
Delegations of Special Olymplans parade before the reviewing stand as opening ceremonies
under way Saturday at the Metrodome. About 45,000 spectators attended the opening, wl
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OLYMPICS/Athletes parade
two hours. They did, however, roar when
the Minnesota delegation, wearing hot
pink, purple and white outfits, finished
bowling or swimming outing that most
the parade at 9:25 p.m.
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The athletes then stood and cheered to
Special Olympics participants know best,
the crowd, which responded with a wave-
with Schwarzenegger, bockey star Wayne
tally retarded in Chicago 23 years ago,
like cheer. And the Dome thundered
Gretzky and country music star Randy
called the nearly packed Metrodome "a
Travis leading delegations into the arena.
when Prince took the stage to sing a few
dwelling place of peace and good will"
minutes later.
A colorful, multilayered stage was set
In remarks during the ceremony, she
up at home plate. A 75-feot light-and-
The pageantry clearly delighted the
added: "What you do here, your strivings
participating athletes.
sound tower stood in center field, and a
and triumphs, will say to all the people
20-foot-tall torch - to be lit as a finale
Joe Wilson, head of the Special Olym-
of all the nations, torn by ancient feuds,
pics delegation from Anstin, Texas, said
to the opening stood near the left field
violence, disease and starvation, is that
he was impressed by the Metrodome.
fence. Anna Smith, 13, of Nisswa, Minn,
there is another way."
The facility itself is one of the most
a Special Olympics competitor, was to
She praised the Special Olympics ath-
outstanding ones we've been in," Wilson
light the cauldron.
letes as "competitive but not envious,
said as his group prepared to enter.
In interviews prior to the event, Sar-
determined but not angry, teachers of the
The moment they (athletes) walk in
gent Shriver, chairman of the Special
profound truth that we can try to de our
here
their eyes will open wider than
Olympics International, the parent orga-
best without calling on what is worst in
the whole dome," said Wilson, who has
nization of the games, praised the fund-
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the human character"
attended several Special Olympies open-
raising ability of the local games com-
Competition began Saturday in several
ing ceremonies.
mittee, led by financier Irwin Jacobs.
of the 16 sports. Athletes from more than
"It's been a long time since a Special
The games' budget of $22.4 million is the
90 nations are attending.
largest ever for such an event
Olympian received the kind of reception
Tickets to the athletic events are free,
Shriver said the international games
JOHN DOMAN/ PIONEER PRESS
they getting here," he said.
and organizers said most events still
are the "tip of the iceberg" of a 1.5
Amoki Schwarzenegger and Eunice Kennedy Shriver chat before the Internation
Brenda Johnson and her triend, Diane
have plenty of seats available. The ex-
million-strong worldwide maletic move-
at Special Olympics opening ceremonies begin Saturday at the Metrodome
Broe, both of Prior Lake, said seeing the
ceptions are aquatics, bocce and bowling,
ment.
Shriver Is the founder of the Special Olympics program.
pageantry and the athletes at the opening
which are sold out. Tickets can be picked
ceremonies is only part of the event's
The reviewing stand at the opening
up at Ticketmaster outlets.
attraction
ceremonies was filled with representa-
Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut and Ameri
The Metrodome was transformed into
On' himself a former Special Olympi
"We came to see the stars," said Broe.
tives from participating countries.
can swimmer John Naber
a Hollywood sound stage for the opening
an read tributes to the spirit of the
However, Broe added that she "always
Among the nations sending dignitaries to
Video messages were flashed on the
games. During an early production num-
ceremonies, which were organized by
thought the Special Olympics thing was
the event were Spain, the Cayman Is-
screen from world leaders around the
Robert Shriver, son of Sargent and En-
ber, hundreds of purple- and aqua-clad
really cool."
lands, Honduras, Botswana, Sierra Leone
country, including President Bush The
dancers filled the Metrodome floor.
nice Shriver. Most of the production is to
Schwarzenegger, who has been in-
and Lithnania A number of former
ceremony itself seemed at times a cross
Most. of the fans stood and cheered
be televised by ABC-TV on Aug 15. Rob-
volved with Special Olympics weightlift-
Olympic greats also attended; including
between a Hollywood awards show and a
when the first of the teams entered the
ert Shriver said the telecast's sponsors
ing teams for many years, said of his
long jumper Bob Bearnon, Romanian
Super Bowl halftime program. Stars like
paid the tab for the opening ceremonies
stadium shortly after 7:30 p.m. But they
participation, "It's a greater fulfillment
gymnast Nadia Comaneci, high: jumper
Bob Saget of "America's Funniest Home
found it hard to sustain their enthusiasm
It was a long way from the weekly
to help the special Olympies than to have
Dick Fosbury, hurdler Willy Davenport,
Videos" and Chris Burke of Life Goes
as the parade continued for more than
a hit movie
Star Tribune/Sunday/July 21/19
1991 International
Special Olympics
Daughter's 'excitement for life' is Jacobs' ins
She helped persuade him
Campbell eventually asked if Jac
would give a talk about Sheila.
agreed. After the event, attended
to underwrite the Games
1,000 people at International Ma
Square, he handed Campbell a ch
on behalf of himself and his famil
By Pani Klauda
for that," he said. "It has a much
Staff Writer
stronger meaning."
At about the same time, Bobby S
ver, working for a New York ven
Think of Minneapolis businessman
His $8 million pledge - essentially a
capital firm, read a Wall Street J
Irwin Jacobs, and the thought of
promissory note to cover any deficits
nal story about Jacobs that m
making money, lots of money, is not
after the Games end 1 was the
tioned Sheila. He mentioned Jac
far behind. But when Jacobs thinks
knockout blow in 1988 when the
to his parents, Sargent and Eur
of making money, he thinks of his
Twin Cities successfully bid to host
Kennedy Shriver, who founded
daughter Sheila, who is mentally re-
the Games. Sargent Shriver, chair-
run Special Olympics International
tarded and has cerebral palsy.
man of the board of Special Olym-
pics International, called it an un-
The Shrivers eventually invited
As I look back, without a doubt, she
precedented step that calmed any
Jacobs family to attend the 1987
Was the single biggest factor in my
fears that enlarging the Games would
ternational Special Olympics
life that really got my engine going,"
trigger a financial deficit.
South Bend, Ind. The experie
Jacobs said. "She'll never know this,
overwhelmed Irwin Jacobs, who,
she wouldn't understand, but she's
"He had no intention of ever paying
than 2 year later, worked with M
definitely been one of the main rea-
out anything on that note," Shriver
nesota officials to prepare a bid
Sons for my success."
said. "He had confidence in his abili-
host the 1991 Games.
ty to raise money."
Sheila, 25, the second oldest of five
It probably never would have h
children, played a pivotal role in per-
Jacobs then launched a national
pened if not for Sheila. She had
suading her father to underwrite the
fund-raising effort, generating com-
stroke at age 3 months, and anot
1991 Internal onal Special Olympics
mitments from the likes of Volvo,
less than two months later, who
for $8 million and serve as chairman
IBM, Kodak and Coca-Cola. He
caused paralysis on her left side. 1
of the largest worldwide sporting
Staff Photo by Martin Levison
chuckled that he even managed to hit
impact on her development did
event of the year.
up Drexel Burnham Lambert before
Special Olympics chairman trwin Jacobs and his daughter Sheila, 25, led
surface until she was 2 years (
the junk-bond investment banker ran
when it became clear that she
My enthusiasm for all this comes
the Minnesota delegation into the Metrodome.
into financial trouble.
physically and mentally disable
through seeing my daughter and her
The reasons for the strokes are
excitement for life," said Jacobs, 49,
original $12 million budget. When
Campbell, a University of Minnesota
known.
Then he turned to local firms. In all,
who calls the Games "a lifetime gift
Jacobs hired Roy Smalley as execu-
the Games have generated $22.4 mil-
student at the time who was trying to
to the community."
tive director, Jacobs insisted that the
lion in cash and in-kind donations.
arrange backing for a Minnesota Spe-
When Sheila was 3, a New Y
athletes "would not be eating fast-
Tickets for all events are free, mark-
cial Olympies gala event. Campbell,
doctor told Jacobs and his wife, A
He prefers not to dwell on his own
food hamburgers, they were not using
ing perhaps the only time that a Ja-
who knew of Jacobs' business stature,
that their daughter would never wa
financial commitment to the Games,
public transportation and they
also was aware that Sheila had partic-
cobs-run venture has virtually no
talk or feed herself and that 1
reported to be $3 million to $5 mil-
weren't staying in lousy places,'
ipated in the state games. After get-
revenue stream.
"might as well put her in an inst
Jon. "Everybody knows that I've un-
Smalley recalled.
ting his number, Campbell dialed it
tion," Alex said.
derwritten this and advanced a lot of
The push to make the Games a
and remembers fumbling for words
money. but I don't want to be known
His support of Special Olympics goes
when Jacobs himself answered.
world-class event easily busted the
back to a 1985 phone call from Sara
Those words generated an "I'll she
you" fight within Irwin Jacobs E
Special
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piration
the only began to realize several years
later. "Until I knew that Sheila had
by
some comforts in life, that's when'I
really felt comfortable," Jacobs said.
"I'm not as driven a man today as. ]
was then."
With the help of special education
programs, Sheila learned to walk at
age 7. Today, while her father works
his multimillion-dollar business ven-
tures from his 25th-floor office in
downtown Minneapolis, Sheila toils
nd
at Functional Industries, a workshop
for the handicapped in Buffalo,
Minn. During the week, she lives in
he
nearby Annandale with a family
È
whose mother used to baby-sit her.
in
She spends weekends with her par-
ents.
"She keeps talking about the week-
to
end. Sheila's a big-event person,"
Alex said last week. "I told her Corky
was coming and she was very excit-
ed." Corky is Chris Burke, 25-year-
a
old star of ABC's "Life Goes On,"
who was born with Down's syn-
drome.
he
On Saturday night, Irwin Jacobs
planned to walk with Sheila into the
Metrodome as part of the Minnesota
delegation participating in the open-
ing ceremonies. They planned to sit
in his suite because loud noise affects
her nervous system.
"There isn't a question in my mind
that our family has been blessed to
have her in our lives," he said.
ARRPHY
EDITH KIGGEN PRI SENTS
TAKE 6
& FRIENDS
STEVIE WONDER
PATTI AUSTIN
JAMES TAYLOR PHOEBE SNOW
BEBE AND CECE WINANS BOYS CHOIR OF HARLEM
BRANFORD MARSALIS
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IN HOSTING BENEFIT CONCERTS FOR THE 1991 SPECIAL OLYMPIC GAMES
Star-studded lineup includes Branford Marsalis,
Phoebe Snow and James Taylor
New York, NY (May 1) - Three-time Grammy award winning acapella
group, Take 6 has invited some of the biggest names in the
recording industry to a concert benefitting the Special Olympics
Africa. The two-day event entitled "Take 6 and Friends" will take
place on May 23rd and May 24th at Carnegie Hall.
Co-hosted by Take 6 and award-winning "60 Minutes"
correspondent, Ed Bradley, the star-studded lineup includes Stevie
Wonder, Patti Austin, Phoebe Snow, Branford Marsalis, James Taylor,
BeBe and CeCe Winans, The Boys Choir of Harlem and introduces the
sensational jazz banjo player, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
There will also be a number of very special surprise guests. Co-
chairs for the gala affair are Ne York First Lady Joyce B. Dinkins,
Ed Bradley, former tennis pro Arthur Ashe, legendary jazz great
Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Eddie Murphy, Whitney Houston, NBA star
Bernard King, Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and New
York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield and his wife Tonya.
The National Special Olympic Programs in Africa have overcome
great difficulties to provide an avenue for their very special
athletes to display their talents. The proceeds from the benefit
concert will be used for equipment, training and to defray air
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travel in addition to other costs incurred during the preparation
for the 1991 International Summer Special Olympic Games in
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Take 6 agreed to sponsor the
Special Olympics Africa benefit hoping to create awareness for
these unique individuals by taking time out to support their
efforts.
Ticket prices for the "Take 6 and Friends" benefit concert
range from $35 to $125 and can be obtained through CarnegieCharge
at (212) 247-7800. The Carnegie Hall box office is located at
Seventh Avenue and 57th Street and is open daily from 12PM - 6PM.
Contemporary jazz station, WQCD-FM (CD 101.9), is a sponsor
of the event.
"Take 6 and Friends" is a presentation of Edith Kiggen &
Associates, who was responsible for creating and producing the
highly regarded celebration of Ella Fitzgerald which starred Itzhak
Perlman, Bobby McFerrin, Lena Horne and Oscar Peterson among
others.
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TAKE 6 NOTES:
Take 6 recently returned from the set of Oprah Winfrey's ABC
series, "Brewster Place," where they recorded the theme song and
appeared on camera in the opening. They also performed at the
memorial service for legendary jazz great, Sarah Vaughan, in Los
Angeles. Take 6's much awaited second album will be released this
summer.
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Fast Facts
TAKE SIX TAKES MANHAT-
TAN: The acapella group, Take Six,
has a couple of fans. They played
Carnegie Hall last week, for "Take
Six and Friends" to benefit Special
Olympics Africa. On night one, Whit-
ney Houston showed and sang up on
stage; and on night two, Lena Horne
was called up by Bebe and Cece Win-
ans. Who else showed? Try Phoebe
Snow, Patti Austin, and Arnold
Schwarzenegger. No he didn't sing,
he sat. In the audience
LEGAL
EAGLES: Tonight, actor Ron Silver
will be hosting a commemorative
event on the first anniversary of the
pro-democracy demonstrations in
Tiananmen Square at the nitespot
Quick!, from 6:30 to 8:30. Who's the
featured speaker? None other than
Li Lu, who was one of the students'
four main leaders.
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:0 Majole, African National Congress representative to the United Nations, speaks
nor of anti-apartheld legislation proposed by Mayor Dinkins (right) and the New
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ty Council at City Hall Press conference. (Photo by Joan Vitale Strong)
TO GAIL
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES! Allene Roberts, right, Manager of
Constituent Programs, Philip Morris Companies Inc., welcomes guesis to the recent Philip
Morris-sponsored luncheon at the 8th Annual Conference of the National Association of
Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) at the Inter-Continental Hotel, Miami,
Fl. With Ms. Roberts are, from left, Arthur Teele, President of the National Business League,
Harry Pachon, Executive Director, NALEO, Florida State Representative, in background.
A non-profit, non-partison organization of more than 3,000 Hispanic appointed and elected
officials, NALLO's theme for their recent three day conference was Hispanic Civic Leader-
ship: Challenges and Opportunities.
FROM TERRIE WILLIAMS NY
Garl
Hamlton
4EETS IBM/NY
RACE WINNERS
Djeda, honorary plt
name lucky winners of the IBM/NY Mets
mant Race on the;
The high school students - Michelle Miller (John
Brooks Jr. (Far Roinaway), Zakia Feracho (John Jay), Taifa Braddock (Thomas
and Angelo Marte (BUSHWICK) - represent the 1,000 kids IBM is hosting at
THE STARS SHONE BRIGHTLY- At a recent benefit concert for the African Teams
JUL 5 '90 17:16
game with the Montreal Expos. The student Pennant Race recognizes young peo-
feat school attendance and a positive attitude during the spring semester. Across
for the 1991 Special Olympics Games. Three-time Grammy winners Take 6 hosted two star-
% JBM is taking over 25,000 student winners to the ball game during the season.
studded concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City to raise money for the African teams.
"Take 6 d Friends", Included Stevie Wonder, Patti Austin, Pheobe Snow, Branford Mar-
Mafole, African National Congress representative to the United Nations, speaks
salis, James Taylor, Bebe & CeCe Winans, The Boys Chior of Harlem and Bela Fleck &
or of anti-apartheid legislation proposed by Mayor Dinkins (right) and the New
the Flecktones. Whitney Houston and Lena Horne helped the cause by making surprise ap-
Council at a City Hall press conference. (Photo by Joan Vitale Strong).
pearances at the spectacular gala event.
(Left to right) Mark Kibble/Take 6, Stevie Wonder, Cedric Dent, Mervyn Warren and Alvin
Chea/Take 6.
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Take 6 and Friends benefit concert for the 1991 Special Olympic Games A R-E-A-L-L-Y Big Show
CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK They tell
me that you can still hear an impressively
sonorous echo bouncing off the majestic walls of
the opulent Carnegie Hall from the recent Take
6 and some "Special Friends" benefit concerts
for the 1991 Special Olympic Games. Aptly
entitled "Take 6 and Friends," the two-day, sold-
out music extravanganza showcased some of the
biggest names in the recording industry.
STAR-STUDDED LINEUP
Co-hosted by Take 6 and award-winning "60
Minutes" correspondent, Ed Bradley, the star-
studded lineup included Stevie Wonder, Patti
Austin, Phoebe Snow, Branford Marsalis, James
Taylor, BeB and CeCe Winans, The Boys Choir
Social
Swirl
TAKE 6 thanks Patti Austin and Stevie Wonder
for the 1991 Special Olympic Games.
By AUDREY
for their participation in their benefit concert
J. BERNARD
"Their music is like something I haven't heard
in a long time. They re spiritually centered. the
know how they are, and that's why they've goit
all together musically" averred musical megas
Photos By: SAIYDA
tar Quincy Jones.
The triple Grammy award-winning group was
of Harlem and introduced the sensational jazz
formed in 1980 by four freshmen students at
banjo player, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
Oakwood College and now consists of Albin
One of the nicest things about an inspirational
Chea, Cedric Dent, David Thomas, Mervyn War
show like this is that you come out feeling good
all over having attended. There was no talk of
who up-stage whom because all of the acts were
showstoppers. Some of the highlights included
Patti Austin's sharp and witty bon mots; the
uniqueness of the all new Bela Fleck and the
Flecktones; the jam session of Take 6 with
special star, Stevie Wonder; and the Winans who
FILM producer Spike Lee (L) is joined by Take G's
public relations ace Terrie Williams and Coco
went into the audience and found someone who
Cola's Ted Bennett.
want to get happy with them. Of course they
found Whitney Houston and they proceeded to
Bradley noted that the African National Pro-
cross the Red Sea.
grams "have overcome great difficulties to pro-
vide an avenue for their very special athletes to
display their talents. The proceeds from the
benefit concert will be used for equipment,
STEVIE WONDER is just wild about Whitney
Houston as caught here by other guest perform-
ers (L-R) Patti Austin, Bobbi Humphrey, CeCe
and BeBe Winans and a Take 6 member.
ren, Mark Kibble and Claude V. Knight III under
the watchful management of Gail Hamilton who
was the executive producer of these evenings. If
the television themes of hit show "Brewster.
Place." starring Oprah Winfrey and "Murphy
Brown, starring Candace Bergen sound marve-
RON GAULT and his lovely wife Charlayne
lously wonderful, sit back and relax 'cause you
Hunter-Gault join 60 Minutes' correspondent Ed
are listening to Take 6, a musical phenomenon
who's taking us all by storm.
Bradley ad-his lady friend at the Take 6 concert
at Carnegie Hall.
NATIONAL SPECIAL OLYMPIC PROGRAMS
The show opened with Ed Bradley who got the
first laugh of the evening by sharing with the
THREE of Take 6 friends who participated in
audience the fact that Take 6 had asked him to do
their special concert for the benefit of South
a "60 Seconds" speech. With that, Bradley spoke
Africans who want to compete in the 1991 Special
briefly of the National Special Olympic Pro-
Olympic Games included (L-R) songbird Patti
grams in Africa. Did you know tht 177 athletes
Austin, Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans.
and 94 coaches from Africa are anticipated to
training and to defray air travel in addition to
participate in the 1991 International Games?
other costs incurred during the preparation for
Although Special Olympics covers on-site costs,
the 1991 International Summer Special Olympic
each delegation must pay for its own transporta-
Games in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota."
tion and uniforms. This represents a great
TAKE 6 COMPRISES A SPECIAL BLEND
hurdle for the African Programs, where the
Take 6 is a special blend - and I don't mean
average airfare to the U.S. ($2,500) is one of five
coffee! The group's music is a blend of the
times the annual per capital income of most of
the countries. Total airfare is estimated at
Inspirational and the spiritual, contemporary
$927,205. Enter Take 6 who "agreed to sponsor
Christian favorites and original compositions by
the Special Olympic Africa benefit hoping to
members of the group which combines jazz
THE COSBY SHOW'S Joseph Phillips brought
vocals, traditional Black Quarter Gospel and just
create awareness for these unique individuals
along special friend Tisha Camphell of House
by taking time out to support their efforts."
a pinch of street-corner doo-wop in a cappella
Party and, most recently, Eddie Murphy's
arrangements that defy belief.
"Another 48 Hours," for the Take 6 gala.
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Take 6 and Friends Give a Benefit for Special Olympics Africa
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
It was entirely fitting that the a ca-
pella sextet Take 6 should be the
hosts and headline act for two con-
certs benefiting the Special Olympics
Africa on Wednesday and Thursday
at Carnegie Hall. The Christian music
group from Alabama has developed a
vocal blend of such extraordinary
precision and harmonic richness that
its best singing commands the same
kind of respect one gives to Olympic
athletes at the peak of their form. One
is left awestruck at the level of techni-
cal perfection.
The group opened Wednesday
night's concert with a dreamy six-
part harmonization of "The Star-
Spangled Banner" in the style of the
Hi-Lo's, then moved into the sort of
vocal imitations of instruments that
has been a staple of harmony groups
since the Mills Brothers. But where
the Hi-Lo's, the 50's pop-jazz har-
mony group that Take 6 most closely
resembles, consisted of only four
singers, Take 5's additional two
voices give it the advantage in har-
monic complexity and overall expan-
giveness. At their most Impressive,
the six voices have a genuinely or-
Stevie Wonder, center, performing with the group Take 6 at a benefit concert for Special Olympics Africa at Carnegie Hall.
The
chestral reach.
Emerging out of a pop-gospel tradi-
tion that has always embraced sweet
falsetto singing their sound is consid-
erably more relaxed than the more
brittle blend cultivated by the Hi-Lo's
For all its virtuosity, Take 6 largely
and the Four Freshmen, whose pop-
avoids the more visceral sides of
jazz tradition they are carrying for-
rhythm-and-blues and gospel singing.
ward. Wednesday's concert also
The huskier moans and growls popu-
showed that the group has reached a
larized in 50's doo-wop singing and tn
level of confidence where It can Im-
Motown's vocal groups are softened
provise comfortably even within ar-
and smoothed in Take 6's soaring RT-
rangements that are texturally very
rangements. If Intense eroticism and
dense. And in numbers like "Mary
agonized struggle still have a place in
(Don't You Weep)." the singers
the sextet's nonsecular musical
tassed tones, notes and phrases at one
world, they are only fleeting shadows
another like musical footballs, turn-
in a vision that is rapturously celes-
ing these motifs into playful singing
tial.
matches.
Take 6's guests, most of whom per-
formed two numbers, included Stevie
Wonder, James Taylor, Phoebe Snow,
Patti Austin, Branford Marsalis, the
Boys Choir of Harlem, BeBe and
CeCe Winans, and Bela Fleck and the
Flecktones. All were hampered by
sound problems that were never
satisfactorily solved. Outside of Take
6, which seemed unaffected by the
difficulties since It does not use in-
strumental backup, Mr. Wonder
fared the best. His most impressive
moment was a cautionary ballad for
voice and plano that portrayed B
world "stealing all the love and beau-
type of God's land.
Special
Olympics
Saddam Hussein Boulevard P.O. Box 50001
Tel: 250607
Zambia
Lusaka 15101
Telex: 45020 Fax: 250607
28th January, 1991
Ms Gail Hamilton
The Manager, 'Take 6'
Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
USA
Dear Miss Hamilton,
RE : US$6,600 DONATED TO SPECIAL OLYMPICS ZAMBIA
On behalf of Special Olympics Zambia Programme and the National
Sports Council of Zambia, I would like to express our sincere
gratitude to your group and the other artistes for the timely
donation to our programme of part of the funds to benefit Special
Olympics in Africroraised from the New York concert last May.
Our share of the funds will be used to purchase air tickets for
3 athletes in our delegation to the 1991 Summer games in Minneapolis
as directed by Special Olympics Internatíonal.
We are delighted that Take Six and friends contribution will make
participation in the 1991 International games by so many African
Special Olympics athletes possible.
Finally, I would like to mention once again that your gesture
is greatly appreciated and has given us the determination and
encouragement to continue with our fund raising efforts to ensure
full participation at the games.
May the Good Lord Bless You.
Mich Jumali Nkhoma
National Programme Director
Special
Olympics Inc.
Nigeria
MS. BUKKIE Y. GEORGE
National Director
August 22nd, 1990
SADIQ MOMODU
Head Coach
Ms. Gail Hamilton
Executive Producer
Take 6
CHOICE Management
Dear Ms. Hamilton,
On behalf of all the Board Members of Nigeria Special Olympics,
I would like to express my sincere and heartfelt gratitude for your
very generous contribution to the development of the Special Olympics'
programs in Africa. I understand that Take 6 and Friends gave a
successful Benefit in aid of our programs.
As we say in Nigeria, 'More Grease to your Elbows'.
I hope to be able to send you some photographs of our athletes
in training, in the not too distant future.
Thanking you once again for all your kind efforts.
Youns Sincerely,
National Bloorys Director
Bukkie Y. George (Ms.)
Nigeria Special Olympics
c/o African-American Institute
31/33 Martins Street (3rd Floor)
Lagos.
NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL
Tele. 663924-7 (4 Lines)
Telegraphic Address "Ghansport"
Central Secretariat
SAM NELSON - PRESIDENT
Charman
Sports Staduium
P.O. Box 1272
Accra, Ghana
Our Ref
NSC/ADM/GS0.3
1st Feb.
Your Ref.
,
1991
Dear Ms. Gail Hamilton,
We are in receipt of a letter from Doug Single,
of Special Clympics International Headquarters, informing
us about the two successful concerts staged in New York
City's Carnegie Hall to benefit Special Olympics Progra-
mmes in Africa. We were told of the wonderful captivat-
ing performance of the group, "Take 6" through whom
African Special Olympians have been assisted to partici-
pate in the 1991 International Summer Olympics Games.
We are further told that out of the $86,921 raised
from the concert $4,000 have been allocated to Ghana to
enable tickets to be purchased for participants of the
Games.
We write to express how grateful we are to you
and the group, "Take 6" for this kind guesture. I wish
to say that this handsome gift of $4,000 has really height-
ened our hearts assuring us also of pur participation.
The entire community of Special Olympics in Ghana join me
in thanking the "Take 6" wishing them the best in their
future endeavours.
Once again our very hearty thanks.
Yours faithfully,
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
(0. SCHANDORF-ADJEI)
MS. GAIL HAMILTON,
MANAGER, TAKE 6;
CHOICE MANAGEMENT,
40 MUSIC SQUARE EAST,
NASHVILLE TENNESSEE,
37203, U.S.A.:
cc: Doug Single.
*aba*
ZAMBIA BOTTLERS LIMITED
P.O. Box 30237, Luseka
Coca-Cola
Telephone: 243855
Malambo Road
Cables: COCA-COLA LUSAKA
Republic of Zambia
Telex: ZACBO 40050
FASCIMILE TRANSMISSION
TO:
HILARY STEPHENS
DATE 10/01/91
CC:
FROM:
JUMALI NKHOMA - special olypics
Zambia.
NO OF PAGES
1
LOCATION:
WASHINGTON DC USA
(Inc. Cover Sheet)
FAX NO:
00.1.202.737.1937
MESSAGE:
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAX OF JANUARY, 1991. WE ARE OVERWHELMED TO LEARN THAT
WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED $8,800 TO PURCHASE FOUR AIR TICKETS TO THE SUMMER
GAMES IN JULY THIS YEAR.
THIS IS TO CONFIRM OUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFER OF THE FUNDS.
DETAILS OF RESERVATIONS, TRAVEL AGENCY, AIR LINE AND NAMES OF BENEFICIARIES
OF THE TICKETS WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO YOU SOON.
ON BEHALF OF MY COMMITTEE AND THE NATIONAL SPORTS COUNCIL OF ZAMBIA, I
WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS SINCERE GRATITUDE TO MEMBERS OF "TAKE SIX" AND
FRIENDS AND THEIR MANAGEMENTS FOR THIS KIND GESTURE. A LETTER OF APPRECIA-
TION IS IN THE POST TO THEM.
MAY THE LORD BLESS THEM.
REGARDS,
JUMALI NKHOMA.
REVISED QUOTAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF TICKETS (JANUARY 3, 1991)
Athlete Quotas
Quota up to 4:
2 complimentary tickets
Quotas of 5 to 15:
3 complimentary tickets
Quotas of 16-30:
4 complimentary tickets
Quotas of 31 or more: 5 complimentary tickets
Level I Programs
Zimbabwe
Quota: 38
Tickets: 5 € $2,400 each $12,000
Level II Programs
Kenya
Quota: 34
Tickets: 5 @ $2,200 each
11,000
Seychelles Quota: 12
Tickets: 3 @ 2,300 each
6,900
Level III Programs
Botswana
Quota: 24
Tickets: 5 @ 2,200 each
8,800
Gambia
Quota: 20
Tickets: 4 @ 1,900 each
7,600
Ghana
Quota: 4
Tickets: 2 @ 2,000 each
4,000
Nigeria
Quota: 26
Tickets: 4 @ 2,200 each
8,800
Sier.Leone
Quota: 4
Tickets: 2 @ 1,900 each
3,800
Tanzania
Quota: 6
Tickets: 3 @ 2,300 each
6,900
Zambia
Quota: 20
Tickets: 4 @ 2,200 each
8,800
$78,600
CC Richard Gilbert
Deborah Delzell
JAN-10-1991 09:50 FROM SOI EXECUTIVE OFFICE
TO
16152486939
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Special
Olympics
(202) 620-3630
1350 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 500
FAX (202) 737-1937
International Headquarters
Washington, D.C. USA 20005-4709
telex 650 284 1739 MCI
By fax: 615-248-6939
January 10, 1991
Ms. Gail Hamilton
Manager, Take 6
Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
Dear Gail:
Last week, we informed our National Special Olympics Programs in
Africa, by telex and fax, exactly how each program would benefit
from the funds raised by "Take 6 & Friends" at the two Special
Olympics concerts held last spring.
Already, I have received several telephone calls indicating how
thrilled our coaches, athletes and families are that they will be
receiving financial assistance to travel to the 1991 International
Summer Special Olympics Games. I have attached a copy of the fax I
received this morning from Zambia.
I have also attached, for your information and that of the group,
revised information regardin exactly how we intend to distribute
the funds. The allocation of ds is based on quotas.
We would like to provide each athlete and coach traveling to the
International Games with a white t-shirt and travel bag screened
with the Take 6 and Special Olympics logos. I have sent you, by
mail, our logo and that of the 1991 International Games. Perhaps
you have some thoughts regarding how these logos could be combined
and used on the shirts and the bags.
"I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Hilary Stephens
Hilary H. Stephens
CC Bobby Shriver w/enclosure
Created by The Joseph P. Kennedy, h. Foundation for the Benefit of Citizens with Mental Retardation.
Special
Olympics
(202) 628-3630
1350 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 500
FAX (202) 737-1937
International Headquarters
Washington, D.C. USA 20005-4709
telex 650 284 1739 MCI
December 4, 1990
Ms. Gail Hamilton
President, Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
Dear Gail:
I enclose letters and photos from our National Special Olympics
Programs in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Nigeria thanking "Take 6" for
its very generous contribution to Special Olympics in Africa.
Please share these letters and photos with the band.
Sincerely,
Hilary Hibiy H. Stephens
cc Doug Single
Bobby Shriver
Created by The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation for the Benefit of Citizens with Mental Retardation.
Officers
EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER
HON. SARGENT SHRIVER
Chairman of the Board
President
MAURICE HERZ06
RAFER JOHNSON
MARIA ELOISA DE LORENZO.
ROBERT 5. SHRIVER. III
DICKEN YUNG. J.P.
Vice President
Vice President
ED.D.
Vice President
Vice President
European Region
Sports Training and
Vice President
North American Region
Asla and Pacific
Competition
Latin American and
Region
Former Minister of
Carlbbean Region
Attomey and Businessman
Sports. France
Dlympic Decathion
President. Special
Chairman, Hong Kong Special
Member. International
Bold Medalist
President. International
Dlympics Productions
Dlympics
Dlympic Committee
Chairman of California
League of Societies
President. Hong Kong
Special Olympics
for Persons with Mental
Recreational Management
Handicap
Association
Assistant Commissioner for
Recreation and Culture.
RICHARD F. O'BRIEN
JIMMY CARNES
Hong Kong
Secretary
Treasurer
Vice Chairman
Former President. The Athletics
Saatchi & Saatchi
Congress
DFS Compton
Coach of the 1980 U.S. Olympic
Track Team
Board of Directors
JOE L. ALLBRITTON
DONNA DE VARONA
DONALD KEOUGH
Chairman and CEO
President. Women's Sports Foundation
President and CEO
Riggs National Bank
ABC Sportscaster
The Coca-Cola Company
Olympic bold Medalist
GENERAL OLE JACOB BAN65TAD
BILLY KIDD
Former President/Chairman Norweglan
JAY EMMETT
Olympic Silver Medalist
Confederation of Sports
President. Redwood Productions
CBS Sportscaster
TERRY L. BAXTER
MYER FELOMAN
MARY T. MEAGHER
Former Director of Public Affairs. The White House
Senior Partner. 6insburg. Feldman
Olympic Gold Medalist
Author and Business Executive
& Bress. Attorneys-at-Law
RONALD O. PERELMAN
ROCKY BLEIER
TERESA FEWEL
Chairman and CEO. Revion
President. Rocky Bleler Enterprises
School Administrator
Group. Inc.
Sports Broadcaster
Member. Board of Directors
Former NFL Star-Pittsburgh Steelers
Special Dlympics of Washington
HRH PRINCE RAAD BIN ZEID
JOHN J. BYRNE
Lord Chamberlain to His Majesty
FRANK 61FFDRD
the King of Jordan
Chairman, Fireman's Fund Insurance
ABC Sports Broadcaster
Former NFL Star-New York Glants
PETE RETZLAFF
BART CONNER
Businessman and Entrepreneur
Businessman
EVELYN GREER. MBE.JP.
Diympic bold Medalist
Sportscaster WCAU. Philadelphia
Director. Royal Society for Mentally
Former NFL Star-Philadelphia Eagles
Handicapped Children and Adults in
MINISTER CUI NAIFU
Northem Ireland
MARIA SHRIVER
Minister of CMI Affairs. People's
NBC-TV Newscaster
Republic of China
SIR ELDON GRIFFITHS. M.P.
Former University President
Chairman of Special
SHEILA YOUNG-OCHOWICZ
Olympics. U.K.
ARTHUR DECID
Olympic Gold Medalist
Former Minister of Sports. LIK
Chairman and CEO. Skyline Corporation
RAFAEL DE ZUBIRIA 60MEZ. M.D.
VICKI IDVINE
JOANN SIMONS DERR
Former Minister of Health. Colombia
Attomey
Director of Policy
Former Mayor of Bogota. Colombia
Entrepreneur in the Record Industry and
Department of Mental Retardation
Co-producer of "A Very Special Christmas" Album
State of Massachusetts
EDWARD M. KENNEDY. JR.
Executive Director. "Facing The
Challenge"
Staff
JULE M. 5U6ARMAN
Executive Director
WILLIAM H. BANKHEAD. Ph.D.
NORMAN A. BOLZ
LINDA 5. BROADUS
Director of International Games
Director of Finance
ROBERT E. COOKE. M.D.
Acting Director of Communications
Chief Medical Officer
and Administration
JOHN W. CHROMY
Specialist in Mental Retardation
THOMAS B. SONGSTER Ph.D.
Director of U.S. Chapter Programs
JOHN MOSHER
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
Director of Sports.
Director of International
State University of New York at Buffalo
DEBORAH WILLIS
Training. & Competition
Pediatrician In-Chief
Programs
Director of Marketing and
Johns Hopkins Hospital
and Development
1956-1973
National Games
1989 .
Botswana
Special
SPECIAL
Olympics
OLYMPICS
GAMES™
23 January 1991
Take 6 and Friends
c/o Ms. Gail Hamilton, Manager
Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
USA
Dear Take 6 and Friends,
All of the participants in Special Olympics Botswana wish to express our
gratitude and appreciation for your donation of your time and talents to help
the Special Olympics in Africa. As a benficiary of your generosity, we assure
you that you are helping some very special kids.
Again, our heartfelt thank you.
Sincerely,
JS
Ameen Moorad
Special Olympics Botswana
cc: Doug Single
Special Olympics International
P.O. Box 1379 Gaborone
Affiliated to International Special Olympics
P.O. Box EH 18,
EMERALD HILL, HARARE
Telephone 35879 (National Director)
707019 (Sports Director)
302740/702951 (Secretary)
Special
Olympics
Zimbabwe
PATRON : First Lady Amai Sally Mugabe
SA/pp
24th July 1990
Ms Gail Hamilton
Executive Producer
Take 6
CHOICE Management
Dear Ms Hamilton
On behalf of the Special Olympics in Zimbabwe I would like to thank
you most sincerely for your fund raising activities on our behalf.
I hear they have been most successful.
Zimbabwe is planning to send 42 athletes and 18 coaches and officials
to the ISSOG 1991 in Minneapolis. They will represent the seven
sports on offer in Zimbabwe, i.e. track and field, gymnastics,
swimming, basketball, soccer, volleyball and equestrian events.
Any financial assistance you can give us towards sending this large
team will of course, be deeply appreciated.
Enclosed are some photographs taken at our recent Regional Games.
Thank you once again for your concern and commitment to Special
Olympians in Africa.
Yours sincerely
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ZIMBABWE
Sany Aven.
S ALLEN
NATIONAL DIRECTOR
enc
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation for the Benefit of Citizens with Mental Retardation.
06-24-1991 16:36
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PRODUCTIONS
June 24, 1991
Via Facsimile
BeBe and CeCe Winans
c/o Gail Hamilton
Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
Dear BeBe and CeCe:
On behalf of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Robert Shriver and everyone
involved in the Opening Ceremonies of the Special Olympics World
Games, we thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to
attend the Games on Saturday, July 20th in Minneapolis. Over
six thousand special athletes from over 100 countries will be in
Minneapolis to compete this year.
I will be contacting you this week to confirm your hotel and
travel arrangements. We will need you to arrive on Friday,
July 19th. You will be staying at the Radisson Plaza Hotel (35
South 7th Street) which is located only a few blocks from the
Metrodome). I need to know any ticket requests for the
Metrodome you might have by July 8th as well as hair and make-up
requirements. Also, Jack Elliot, our Musical Director, will be
contacting you regarding your live performance.
In the meantime, if you have any question or concerns please do
not hesitate to call.
Thank you for all your help and support in sending a message to
the hundreds of millions of viewers throughout the world that
endorse these mentally retarded people as true athletes.
Warmest regards,
Maggie Maggin Barrett Barrett
Executi In Charge of Talent
cc: Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Robert Shriver
Jack Elliot
Special Olympics Productions, Inc. 1440 So. Sepulveda Boulevard Suite 220 Los Angeles California
90025
Telephone: (213) 444-9606
Facsimile: (213) 478-8886
hoice
anagement Inc.
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
(615) 244-1141 Fax 248-6939
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Take 6's "Friends"
FROM:
Gail Hamilton
SUBJECT: Special Olympics
DATE:
March 14, 1991
As the date of the Special Olympics approaches we are more and
more excited about this special event in which we are involved.
You can see from the enclosed literature that the monies we
raised directly resulted in these young people being able to
participate.
There will be a portion of the games that will be nationally
televised. We have been approached about the possibilities of
re-enacting the "Take 6 and Friends" concert during the Special
Olympics celebration. The games are being held from July 20-25
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We would like as many of our
"Friends" as possible to be involved. Please let us know if your
busy schedule will allow you to attend.
AND ASSOCIATES INC
1808 WEST END AVENUE ELEVENTH FLOOR, SUITE 1119 NASHVILLE, TN 37203 615-327-3747 FAX 615-327-4225
FOR APPROVAL ONLY
CONTACT: Rick Hoganson
615-327-3747
"TAKE 6'S WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" CAMP POSTPONED
NASHVILLE, TN -- July 9, 1991 - Take 6's "Where Do The
Children Play?" Music and Arts Camp, originally to be held July 11
- 21 on the Fisk University Campus, will be postponed until next
summer. Extensive Fisk University renovation, which had been
anticipated to be completed by this time, has been delayed making
camp facilities on the campus unavailable.
Committed to the long term success of the camp, Take 6 and
Gail Hamilton of Choice Management continue to make plans for next
year. "We are very disappointed for the children this year who
were selected for the camp, yet this experience has only
intensified our determination to make next year's camp even more
of what this year's camp was to be," stated Hamilton.
Thirty-nine students, roughly six students from six cities
(Washington D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans, Newark, Nashville and New
York), who were originally scheduled to attend this year's camp,
have been extended an invitation to attend next year's camp. The
students selected are all of Junior High School age and have
displayed some talent in the arts, expressed a willingness to
further develop skills within a chosen field in the arts, and been
referred by teachers for some significant "beating of the odds."
- more -
p.2
Take 6's "Where Do The Children Play?" Camp mission is to
demonstrate the viability of participation in the arts - visual
art, dance, theatre, writing, music (vocal and instrumental) - as
a means of education and career development. The camp intends to
enhance and sustain individual cultures and to perpetuate the
historical meaning of world experiences. The Camp further desires
to assist young people with interpersonal development regardless
of race, religion or cultural upbringing.
Sponsorship monies generated for the camp will be used for next
year's camp. For additional information regarding corporate or
individual sponsorship, contact Choice Management at (615) 244-1141.
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FASTTRACK
POSTCARD FROM MOSCOW
decidedly non-
Russian. It's also
one of the rare
GLASNOSH
Moscow
restaurants where
HE PAN AM JET GLIDES
Zeiger's offer of free dinners
the noise isn't
T
onto the runway at
to the flight crew.)
deafening.
Moscow's Sheremetyevo
On most evenings, Jeffrey
The prices are
Airport and the pilot
Zeiger can be found cruising
typically steep—
begins the obligatory
the red-white-and-blue
about $35 for a
welcome. The time, the
restaurant with a manic
three-course
temperature, the invitation to
friendliness, checking the
dinner. Each
return to Pan Am. And then
pianist's tempo on "Memories"
night, 25 tables
the pilot's sign-off: "See you
and making sure the macaroni
are reserved for
at Tren-Mos!"
special and apple pie look like
Soviets; the other
Truly an idea bred for
the real things.
seats go to
business-could there be any
"When people tell me every
journalists,
other reason to match
night, 'My God, we feel like
Western business
Trenton, New Jersey, with the
we're in America,' that's the
executives, and
Soviet capital?-Tren-Mos
best compliment I can get,"
Shelley and Jeffrey with a vodka executive.
diplomats. Young
bills itself as Moscow's first
Zeiger says, straightening a
Zeiger says he
American restaurant. It was
Tren-Mos pin on his lapel.
haute cuisine. His menu,
isn't worried about the
launched in 1989 by New
Feeling like America,
which changes daily
floundering Soviet economy,
Jersey entrepreneur Shelley
however, doesn't always taste
depending on available
and claims Tren-Mos is
Zeiger and a partner, and it's
like America.
ingredients, includes such off-
among the few joint ventures
run by Zeiger's son, Jeffrey, a
Chef Bernard Derroisne,
kilter treats as Jeff Potato Skin
that are actually profitable.
25-year-old wunderkind of
formerly of One Fifth Avenue
with Caviar. With the
"There's always an expatriate
aggressive schmoozing and
and Maxwell's Plum, has the
exception of mono-vegetable
community," he says. "And
self-promotion. (The Pan Am
unenviable task of making
salads and suspiciously
people have to eat. Even in
welcome stemmed from
Moscow's slim pickings into
stringy meat, the food is
Moscow."
KAREN DUKESS
DOING GOOD
training at the Association for
Drug Abuse Prevention and
Treatment (ADAPT). Finding
Services With a Smile
performers willing to donate
their time has proved
E'RE GOING TO PICK A
rules apply when the audience
music, comedy, theater-to
surprisingly easy. "A lot of
'W
very special lady out
is 200 homeless families in
"hard to reach" populations
them are very aware of and
of the audience to
the basement of the Saratoga
including homeless youth,
concerned about these kinds
come up here
Family Inn, a shelter in
AIDS -infected drug users,
of social issues Horan says.
tonight," announces Kevin
Jamaica, Queens. The woman
prostitutes, and teenage
She's sent the dance group
Hedge, the lead singer of
behind this unusual event is
mothers.
Urban Bush Women to the
Blaze, an eleven-piece
30-year-old Casey Horan,
"The idea is to help
New York Foundling Hospital
pop/soul band.
community
for a show, and the pop stars
Navigating
agencies draw
Take 6 to the Momentum
through a sea
these people
Project, a Manhattan soup
of waving
into service
kitchen.
arms, Josh
programs
All this with a budget that's
Milan, another
where they can
strictly shoestring.
Blaze singer,
get help,"
"Community Resource
scoops up two-
Horan says. "A
Exchange is helping me fund-
year-old
lot of these
raise," Horan says, "but I'm
Theresa Kirk
people fear and
operating on small private
and returns to
mistrust the
donations and donations from
the stage.
service
my board of directors. At this
Dressed in a
agencies. By
point, we really need to get
frilly white-
putting on a
funding from foundations."
and-blue dress,
performance
Back at the Saratoga,
Theresa listens
that is just for
people are hanging out in
politely as
them, the
excited clusters, reluctant to
Milan croons,
service
return to their rooms. Perhaps
"I'm your lover
Horan takes entertainers to places like the Momentum Project.
provider is
most reluctant of all is 23-
man," and the
saying, 'I want
year-old Lorina Kirk,
crowd laughs and-claps.
director of an innovative
you to trust me.'
Theresa's mother. "My baby
Serenading two-year-olds
nonprofit agency called
Horan started Streetlights
was a star tonight," she says,
may not be the norm at most
Streetlights. Her goal is to
last year, after three and a half
sweeping down the hall. "My
Blaze concerts, but different
bring performances-dance,
years as director of outreach
baby was a star." ZOE CARTER
24 NEW YORK/AUGUST 12, 1991
Photographs: top, Vladimir Yatsina; bottom, Isaiah Wyner.
NASHVILLE
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Phil Ashford's
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Transportation
Jim Ridley
on
John Bridges
'Rocketeer'
On Moving
Day
June 27, 1991
FACE VALUE
MISSION STATEMENT
Gail Hamilton isn't out to change the world. She just wants to send 36 kids to summer
camp. "These days it seems like a B-1 bomber is more important than the quality of life,"
muses the Choice Management owner and self-confessed "product of the '60s," who spends
her workdays coordinating the sextuply complex careers of Take 6. Currently, she's
pursuing a long-held dream by raising funds for the "Where Do the Children Play" camp,
which will bring youngsters from across the country to Fisk University to study arts and
music next month. "We're giving these kids a chance for creative expression," Hamilton
says quietly. "It may be only 14 days-but it's something."-J.B.
Photographed for The Nashville Scene by Dean Dixon.
Thanks to "Where Do the Children Play" campers Latosha Sanders and Jessica Case.
Where do
children the play?
ADVISORY BOARD
Steve Brallier
William Morris Agency
Bill Calloway
Metropolitan Government
Paula Denson
William Morris Agency
Tom Draper
Time-Warner, Inc.
Pete Fisher
Warner Elektra Asylum
"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" CAMP
Gail Hamilton
Choice Management, Inc.
STATEMENT OF MISSION
Craig Hayes
Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes
Edmund Hodge
Choice Management, Inc.
David Maddox
The mission of the camp is to demonstrate the
Maddox and Hicks
Jim Ed Norman
viability of participation in the arts: visual art,
Warner Bros.
dance, theatre, writing, music (vocal and
Paul B. Payne, D.D.S.
instrumental), as a means of education and career
Ronna Rubin
Warner Bros.
development. The camp intends to enhance and sustain
Gerald Washington
individual cultures and to perpetuate the historical
Fisk University
meaning of world experiences. This form of
Jean Wilson
Choice Management, Inc.
awareness and practice can result in harmony, both
economically and socially through enhanced long term
education. The "WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" Music
and Arts Camp further desires to assist young people
with interpersonal development regardless of race,
religion or cultural upbringing.
hoice
anagement, Inc.
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615/244-1141
Fax 615/248-6939
Where do
children the play?
ADVISORY BOARD
Steve Brallier
William Morris Agency
Bill Calloway
Metropolitan Government
Paula Denson
William Morris Agency
WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?
Tom Draper
Campaign!
Time-Warner, Inc.
Pete Fisher
Warner Elektra Asylum
Gail Hamilton
David Thomas and Claude McKnight, both members of the
Choice Management, Inc.
Craig Hayes
Grammy Award winning group Take 6, have written a song
Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes
entitled "Where Do the Children Play?" which appears on
Edmund Hodge
the recently released "So Much 2 Say" L.P. The song is a
Choice Management, Inc.
David Maddox
personal outcry about the abuse and misuse of our
Maddox and Hicks
nation's most precious natural resource - our children.
Jim Ed Norman
The young children of today are being faced with adult
Warner Bros.
Paul B. Payne, D.D.S.
problems which rob them of their ability to play
Ronna Rubin
children's games. Instead of playing kickball, jacks,
Warner Bros.
and hide-n-seek, our children are making hard and cold
Gerald Washington
decisions:
Fisk University
Jean Wilson
Choice Management, Inc.
Crack vs. Crayons
Guns & Gangs vs. Guitars and Cellos
Drug Abuse vs. Day Dreams
The "Where Do the Children Play?" campaign intends to add
a small yet significant ray of light and hope to what on
the outset seems hopeless.
In the Fall of 1990 during Take 6's "So Much 2 Say" Tour,
six cities were chosen as target areas for the "WHERE DO
THE CHILDREN PLAY?" campaign. Each of the local school
systems from these cities then selected six students to
participate in the campaign. Take 6 visited each shcool
and addressed the concern for our nation's plight, held a
question and answer session, an autograph and poster
party and then announced the six students chosen for the
campaign.
The selection of students made by the individual schools
was based on the following criteria:
1.
Each child selected should represent Junior
High School age.
hoice
2.
The children should display some talent in
the arts.
anagement, Inc.
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615/244-1141
Fax 615/248-6939
3. Each child selected should express a
willingness for further development within
his chosen field in the arts.
4. Each child should be referred by teachers
for some significant "beating of the odds"
that the individual child might have
overcome.
The students chosen for the campaign were Take 6's VIP guests at
the evening's concert, and were also personally invited to be
guests at the "WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" Camp, a Music and
Arts camp to be held July 11 - 21, 1991 in Nashville, Tennessee
on the Fisk University Campus. The camp will offer vocal and
instrumental instruction, painting and drawing classes, creative
writing, drama and acting classes, photography, recording studio
and jingle sessions. all taught by professionals in their given
fields.
"Live a balanced life, learn some and think some and
draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work
every day some."
Taken from, All I Really Need to Know I
Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghun
Where do
children the play?
ADVISORY BOARD
Steve Brallier
William Morris Agency
Bill Calloway
Metropolitan Government
"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?"
Paula Denson
Music and Arts Camp
William Morris Agency
July 11-21, 1991
Tom Draper
Time-Warner, Inc.
Curriculum
Pete Fisher
Warner Elektra Asylum
Gail Hamilton
Choice Management, Inc.
Craig Hayes
The curriculum will be divided into two basic parts, VISUAL
Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes
Edmund Hodge
ARTS and PERFORMING ARTS. Each area will be supported by an
Choice Management, Inc.
ARTS EDUCATION series to include lectures, field trips,
David Maddox
demonstrations and other technical aspects of the Art and Music
Maddox and Hicks
experience.
Jim Ed Norman
Warner Bros.
Paul B. Payne, D.D.S.
Classes or experiences will be divided by age or grade level
Ronna Rubin
Warner Bros.
depending on the developmental level of the participant. All
Gerald Washington
participants will experience each of the specially designed
Fisk University
classes in all areas.
Jean Wilson
Choice Management, Inc.
The ultimate goal of this curriculum and the summer's
experience will be to provide each person with a finished
"product" or project and a culminating performance, exhibit and
document to share with the community and to be carried back to
their homes.
FACULTY
The faculty is being selected from experts in each of the
chosen areas; music-vocal, recording, song-writing, etc. and
theatre, movement, painting, etc.
The following names represent a few persons under
consideration, however, all have not been contacted for final
commitments:
Michael McBryde
-
Artist
Greg Miller
-
Photographer
Mustapha Khan
- Director
Gil Williams
-
Video/Film
Doloris Harris
-
Artist (fabric design)
Jackie Welch
-
Actress
Mac Pirkle
-
Actor/ CEO TN Repertory Theatre
Bela Fleck
I
Musician
hoice
Roy and Victor Wooten
-
Musicians
Thomas Cain
-
Musician
anagement, Inc.
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615/244-1141
Fax 615/248-6939
Curriculum
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SUBJECT AREAS
VISUAL ARTS
Floral Arranging
Photography
Film/Video
Fabric Design (t-shirts, etc.)
Animation
PERFORMING ARTS
Music Business and Recording Industry
Songwriting
Publishing
Studio Recording
Marketing
Performance
Drama
Improvisation
Movement
Creative Playwriting
Commercial Performance
Set Design
Though these areas may seem complex, every effort is being made
to develop a style of presentation digestible for the
participating age range.
In support of the curriculum experiences, a number of field
trips and performances by national talent are being planned.
As each camper settles into a specialized area, he/she will
concentrate on the final performance to be held on the last
evening of the camp. At present the fine tuning of the
curriculum is taking place and will ultimately be chosen by
those who will teach and present each topic.
Where do
children the play?
ADVISORY BOARD
Steve Brallier
William Morris Agency
Bill Calloway
Metropolitan Government
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!!
Paula Denson
MAY 1991
William Morris Agency
Tom Draper
Time-Warner, Inc.
Pete Fisher
Warner Elektra Asylum
TAKE 6 LAUNCHES A NEW SUMMER CAMP FOR KIDS
Gail Hamilton
Choice Management, Inc.
Craig Hayes
Nashville, TN.-- Take 6, the gospel-jazz a cappella group that
Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes
skyrocketed to fame overnight, has the rare combination of
Edmund Hodge
Choice Management, Inc.
talent and commitment to the community.
David Maddox
Maddox and Hicks
Gail Hamilton, the group's manager, and owner of Choice
Jim Ed Norman
Warner Bros.
Management, Inc., and Take 6 have organized a program to help
Paul B. Payne, D.D.S.
children. An actual Take 6 hosted music and arts camp will be
Ronna Rubin
held at Fisk University from July 14 to July 22, 1991. The
Warner Bros.
project is called "WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY? SUMMER CAMP FOR
Gerald Washington
Fisk University
THE ARTS"
Jean Wilson
Choice Management, Inc.
"Forty children who show an aptitude for various arts have been
selected to attend the inaugural camp.", said Ms. Hamilton.
"These children come from urban settings where families cannot
provide opportunities such as this. Broken homes, drugs,
violence, poverty and pain are the constant companions of these
kids. Yet, the chance exists to awaken the imagination of
these children through this camp."
This unique program will feature visual arts, instrumental and
vocal music and theater. In order to give the children a more
diversified cultural experience, there will also be lectures,
field trips and various arts demonstrations.
"The ultimate goal of this summer camp is to provide each child
with a complete product, or project, at the end of the program
that they can carry back home and share with the community."
Ms. Hamilton said.
The program has been developed in cooperation with the kids'
parents and their local public school system. It will involve
students from Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Newark, New York, New
Orleans and Nashville. Corporations interested in sponsoring a
child can do SO with a $500 donation which will cover each
child's tuition, room and board.
hoice
anagement, Inc.
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615/244-1141
Fax 615/248-6939
"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" Summer Camp
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The 10-day summer camp will be taught by a faculty of dedicated
professionals trained in music, art theater, dance, education
and counseling. An important aspect of the program is the
chance for play and social interaction among children form
different backgrounds.
It will be a special time in which the youths also get to meet
the members of Take 6, whose commitment to children is already
well known. A lot of people look upon them as role models,
because the Christian young men do not drink, smoke or take
drugs.
Although they grew up in different parts of the country, the
members of Take 6 are connected by their faith in God. The
group teamed up at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama and
made their mark in Nashville, Tennessee.
The musical masters that call themselves Take 6 are: Alvin
"Vinnie" Chea, Claude V. McKnight, III, Joey Kibble, Cedric
Dent, Mark Kibble and David Thomas.
It seems fitting that they should choose Fisk University as the
spot to launch a new summer camp, because that is where they
made their first appearance during a Christmas benefit. They
also made a recording there at one time. In many ways, their
music followed in the tradition of the famed Fisk Jubilee
Singers.
Nashville has a special appeal for the talented sextet. It
aspires to be to Tennessee and the Southeast, what Detroit's
Motown was to Michigan and the midwest. It is on the cutting
edge of a music industry explosion. Hundreds of artists make
the trek to Nashville in the hopes of achieving stardom.
When Take 6 arrived from Alabama, they landed a recording
contract with Warner Bros. Records in Nashville. The rest, as
they say, is history. Their mission is to spread Gospel Music.
One way of reaching out is to perform at benefits across the
country. With some of the greatest musicians in secular music
today, they have blended their own musical brand in an
extraordinary and exciting way to help raise funds for worthy
causes.
Take 6 members have also been part of benefits
ranging from the National Association for Retarded Citizens in
Nashville, to the United Negro College Fund in New York. Take 6
hosted a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall where they performed
with other musicians to raise money for Special Olympic athletes
from Africa to attend the games in the United States.
"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" Summer Camp
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Then there were the television appearances --- "The Today Show",
"Good Morning America", and "CBS This Morning" -- that brought
them to national attention. In a business of fierce
competition, they have endeared themselves to may others who saw
them on "The Arsenio Hall Show", "Pat Sajak" and the "Ebony/Jet
Showcase".
In an impressive chain of events, they have moved onto the movie
industry where they were on the sound track of "Do The Right
Thing" and "Dick Tracey". They have also made inroads as
vocalists for the theme song on the television sitcom, "Murphy
Brown" and the special "Brewster Place".
It is all part of a top-to-bottom strategy intended to gain as
wide an audience as possible for their vision of spreading the
Gospel. Not surprisingly, Take 6 has received many awards and
honors for their music including 5 Grammy Awards and numerous
Dove Awards. One of the highlights came, in 1989, when Mayor
Tom Bradley proclaimed December 12 "Take 6 Day" in Los Angeles
in recognition of Take 6's achievement in music as well as their
involvement in various community activities such as the literacy
program.
Take 6 is known for having a positive influence on young people.
The children fortunate enough to attend the "WHERE DO THE
CHILDREN PLAY?" Summer Arts and Music Camp will, undoubtedly,
gain a little edge for the future.
Where do
children the play?
ADVISORY BOARD
Steve Brallier
William Morris Agency
Bill Calloway
Metropolitan Government
Paula Denson
William Morris Agency
Where Do The Children Play? Camp
Tom Draper
Time-Warner, Inc.
Advisory Board
Pete Fisher
Warner Elektra Asylum
Gail Hamilton
Choice Management, Inc.
Steve Brallier
Craig Hayes
Craig Hayes
Paula Denson
Zumwalt, Almon and Hayes
Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes
William Morris Agency
1014 16th Avenue South
Edmund Hodge
Choice Management, Inc.
2325 Crestmoor Rd.
Nashville, TN 37212
David Maddox
Nashville, TN 37215
(615) 256-7200
Maddox and Hicks
Jim Ed Norman
(615) 385-0310
FAX (615) 256-7106
Warner Bros.
FAX (615) 298-4547
Paul B. Payne, D.D.S.
David Maddox
Ronna Rubin
Warner Bros.
Bill Calloway
Maddox and Hicks
Gerald Washington
Metropolitan Government
1101 17th Avenue South
Fisk University
of Nashville
Nashville, TN 37212
Jean Wilson
842 Burges Drive
(615) 329-0086
Choice Management, Inc.
Nashville, TN 37209
FAX (615) 327-9101
(615) 862-6180
FAX (615) 862-6109
Jim Ed Norman
Ronna Rubin
Tom Draper
Warner Bros. Records
Time-Warner, Inc.
1815 Division Street
75 Rockefeller Plaza
Nashville, TN 37203
14TH Floor
(615) 320-7525
New York, NY 10019
FAX (615) 329-1739
(212) 484-8790
FAX (212) 397-0857
Paul B. Payne, D.D.S.
908 34th Avenue North
Pete Fisher
Nashville, TN 37209
Warner Elektra Asylum
(615) 329-1604
1815 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203
Gerald Washington
(615) 320-7525
Fisk University
FAX (615) 327-8405
Office of Development
1000 17th Avenue North
Gail Hamilton
Nashville, TN 37212
Edmund Hodge
(615) 329-8710
Choice Management, Inc.
FAX (615) 329-8715
40 Music Square East
(615) 244-1441
Jean Wilson
hoice
FAX (615) 248-6939
P.O. Box 19531
Atlanta, GA 30325
anagement, Inc.
(404) 681-1035
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615/244-1141
Fax 615/248-6939
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FAX.
(615) 297-6694
May 9, 1991
TO: WDCP ADVISORY BOARD
FR: Steven W. Brallier We
RE: New York Campers: Kilwanda Provet, Tashanda Jones,
Keshia Lattimore, Damian Lindol, Jamel Moser, David
and Naomie Opont
Gail Hamilton, David Maddox and myself, were in New York on
April 28-30. We accomplished meetings with Time-Warner
through Tom Draper; David Opont, the National Spokesperson
for WDCP camp; and John Bess, of Manhattan Valley Outreach
Program. John Bess is known for this consultations to the
Cosby Show and is supportive of our program.
This is my first student visit and like many who have
reported before me, I found this a moving experience. John
Bess of MVOP, brought together the seven children chosen to
attend the camp at the Cathedral St. John the Divine. Over
the hour and a half meeting, we observed the children move
from apprehension and mistrust to eager expectation of their
trip to Nashville, giving David, Gail and I further
confirmation that we are on the right course for this camp.
Also from this visit came the real possibility that two
counselors from MVOP can assist at the WDCP camp. Their
experience and training under John Bess would be a great
asset to our camp.
Many of the children attended with their parents and/or
guardians. They appeared excited, a little intimidated,
bright, and articulate. Their interests included sports,
acting, and singing.
At the conclusion of our time with the children, one 13 year
old boy who started the meeting angry, withdrawn, and visibly
disinterested, raised his hand and asked, "Will there be a
chance for the children to thank all of you at the camp?"
Needless to say, this question and attitude were thanks
enough.
Zumwalt,
James G. Zumwalt
Orville Almon, Jr.
~Almon
Craig Hayes
Hayes
L Lee Wilson
ATTORNEYS
Music Row
1014 Sixteenth Ave. South
Nashville, Tennessee 37212
Telephone #615-256-7200
Fax #615-256-7106
MEMORANDUM
TO:
WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY Committee
FROM:
Jean Wilson, Pete Fisher and Craig Hayes
RE:
Visit to Bell Junior High/New Orleans Children and Parents
DATE:
Friday, May 3, 1991
Jean Wilson, Pete Fisher and Craig Hayes met with the parents and five of the six New Orleans
children, as well as Hezekiah Brinson and Pam Olene of Basic (Brothers and Sisters in Christ)
Music Academy and Mr. Mills of the New Orleans Public Schools on Friday, May 3, 1991 at Bell
Junior High on North Galvez in New Orleans. The students and parents were MARK TOBIAS
(with his mother, Eleanor), CANDACE PARKER (with her father, Walter, mother Monica and
little brother, Adam), RONTRELL BRIMMER, RONNELL BELL (with his mother Victoria), and
ZAICA LAMBERT. Because he was working that afternoon, the sixth student, WILBERT
WINFIELD could not attend, although Pam Olene of Basic offered some background on Wilbert
and his family.
The school was a beautifully renovated old Church and our meeting was in the Library complete
with stain glass windows and arched ceilings. The school provided free sandwiches, punch,
chips, cookies and other goodies which were enjoyed by all. Although the school was located in a
fairly depressed neighborhood, the library had a very warm feeling, a place where one could study
and feel in touch with His Spirit at the same time.
Jean Wilson asked each person present to tell something about themselves, and each parent and
student commenced to speak, and with a little help from Jean, most provided general comments
about the talents, loves and expectations of each student. The following are general overviews of
each student taken from those comments:
MARK TOBIAS: Reads music, plays trumpet, prefers pop and jazz; likes to draw and is interested
in architecture. Favorite sport is basketball. Although initially very shy with a voice that was but a
whisper, seemed very confident, positive and articulate after he felt at ease.
CANDACE PARKER: Vocalist, wants to sing Gospel, doesn't read. Her father also sings.
Everything about her life was about singing. Seemed very positive about becoming a gospel
singer. A lovely lady, very mature and we noticed the guys were talking with her after the
meeting. Both her parents and brother were very warm and it looked like a good supporting family
for Candace.
RONTRELL BRIMMER: Vocalist, sings in Choir at church and at school. Reads music, plays
piano, interested in Gospel Music. Enjoys football.
RONELL BELL: Vocalist, wants to be a Gospel singer, sings in church, has performed at
Riverwalk Park in New Orleans, has written and performed two Gospel raps; enjoys basketball
and football.
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ZAICA LAMBERT: Baritone sax player, eighth grade Band Student of the Year; Top Male
Student academically; likes to write short stories; interested in drama and acting. Plays basketball
for Urban League.
WILBERT WINFIELD: Plays saxophone, focus is music; a seventh grader from a difficult family
background. Had to work and missed our meeting.
We all enjoyed speaking about the children and the camp and its goals, curriculum and
expectations. The parents opened up and were very positive about the camp. Jean gave an
overview of the curriculum outline and our mission and put the parents at ease. Pete talked about
the music education, publishing, visits to the studios and Take 6 and Gail's hopes for the camp. I
spoke about sports, the YMCA, and teaching about general copyright and music law. Jean
discussed the visual arts, creative writing, acting, and photographs and design. All the guys were
very interested in sports and wanted to know about the YMCA, swimming, basketball, the Sounds
baseball game, etc. All were interested in the curriculum and excited about seeing a studio. A few
asked how could they become gospel singers so be prepared for that question. Jean outlined
everything we have discussed, from dental screening (the parents loved that) to album jacket
design, to, enjoying a social night at Mere Bulles, to the separate dormitory facilities, to adult
chaperones, to the transportation, to bringing not more than $25 for incidentals, and the suggestion
that bathing suits be brought and that valuables and musical instruments be left at home. We also
talked about going to church the first Sunday, and about the lovely Fisk University Campus and
arranging a tour of Meharry Medical, TSU and/or Vanderbilt if requested. Mr. Mills of The New
Orleans Public Schools gave a wonderful overview of the importance of music education to New
Orleans school children, and reminded me of the hundreds of musicians that have come from New
Orleans schools.
Overall it was a wonderful Friday afternoon meeting and everyone left the meeting on the upbeat
with a strong desire to move forward. I particularly felt a bond towards the quiet and shy one,
Mark Tobias, who opened up after the meeting, and asked me a dozen questions about music,
Take 6, The Neville children's group, Def Generation, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rod
McGaha, Clark Terry, basketball and even challenged me to an immediate game of one-on-one
when he comes to Nashville (I may need Claude and Vinnie's help on that). I think you will enjoy
this fellow as he has a wonderful gleam in his eye and when I think back, I remember that he was
one of the first ones to arrive (just after Candace Parker and her parents) and the last one to leave.
I truly believe that we will have a blessed experience working with these children and all others at
the camp. What a joy to be a small part of such a large mission.
Ciaig
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
WDCP Committee
FROM:
Jean Wilson, Dr. Paul Payne & David Maddox
RE:
Visit To MLK Middle School Children/Parents/Principal
DATE:
4/5/91
Jean Wilson, Dr. Paul Payne and David Maddox met with Principal Leviticus
Roberts, Joseph Kirksey, Inda Willis, Marco Jones, Adrienne Mitchell, Princess Mapp,
James Hall and five parents/grandparents on Friday, April 5th at the Martin Luther
King Middle School in downtown Atlanta. Despite less than 24 hour notice of the
meeting, 5 of the 6 children had parents/grandparents present. It was obvious that the
school principal, Mr. Leviticus Roberts, was supportive of the program and he
participated in the meeting in an enthusiastic manner. There was a bulletin board
poster containing pictures of Take 6 members and various students from Take 6's visit
to the school earlier in the year.
There are a little over 900 students in the school which is relatively modern (built
in 1972); most of the students come from very low income backgrounds; about 95% are
on the free lunch program; the school has an undefeated football and basketball team
for 1990-91; motivational material, self-esteem statements and other image-building
material is evident; the school band has received a superior rating for the last 19 years;
and the school has an atmosphere of organization and an obvious lack of discipline
problems. The school is only a few blocks from Fulton County Stadium, the home of the
Atlanta Braves and Falcons.
Jean Wilson asked each of the children to tell something about themselves, their
talents, their expectations from the summer camp program and she did an excellent job
of putting the children at ease in front of adults and drawing them out. The following is
a brief summary of the students' comments:
James Hall: James has been in the handbell choir for 4 years which has been asked to
perform in Symphony Hall in concert. James is interested in sports, writing and
instrumental music.
Marko Jones: Marko plays trombone in the band; he made a trip to Daytona Beach,
Florida last year with the band; and he is interested in learning to write music.
Adrienne Mitchell: Adrienne appears to be the most mature of the group; has played
flute for 2 years; is section leader in the advanced band; her great uncle is Duke
Pearson; she is a challenge student (program for gifted children) in reading and math;
she likes to write; plays piano which is taught by her mother; and she wants to learn to
improvise and play music by ear.
Princess Mapp: Princess is a very petite, shy youngster who is very vocal about
wanting to be a Gospel Music Artist. She plays piano at her church, sings in the school
chorus and sings in a group.
Joseph Kirksey: Joseph is the saxophone section leader in the school band and plays
organ and piano. He likes to draw and to draw people especially; he is a member of the
concert band and he would like to learn to read keyboard music in addition to his
present skill of reading music for saxophone.
Inda Willis: Inda has played trumpet in the concert band for 4 years; he likes to play all
kinds of sports; can read music for trumpet; and he quickly stated that he wanted to be
a doctor or lawyer.
Most of the parents had questions which are to be expected: "How much money
would the children need for the camp? A: only enough for snacks and souvenirs--not
more than $15-25 at the parents' discretion. How would the children get from Atlanta
to Nashville and back? A: Transportation would be provided by the program, but
whether by air or bus transportation has not been decided. Would the children be
chaperoned? A: There will probably be an adult for every 2 or 3 children; boys will be
on one floor and girls on another floor in a dormitory at Fisk University, etc. What will
the curriculum be? A: The curriculum will be tailored to the interest of children, but
will be based on visual arts, instrumental and vocal music and theater. The concept of
the program was explained as being to give the children a sense of what could be
accomplished through music and the arts, how a particular goal can be explored, what
college campus life was like, etc.
Dr. Payne described the dental screening program and what medical facilities
and staff were available to meet the needs of the children during the camp. Dr. Payne
also mentioned that if certain students were particularly interested in pursuing careers
in the medical field, that he or other medical professionals could arrange tours of
Meharry Medical School and provide specific information about those career directions.
David Maddox participated in the discussion about what the goals of the camp
were and expressed his very positive reaction to the accomplishments of the school and
its faculty and staff.
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FAX:
(615) 297-6694
April 2, 1991
TO: Gail Hamilton, Jim Ed Norman, Ronna Rubin, Tom Draper,
David Maddox, Bill Calloway, Pete Fisher, Paul B.
Payne, Craig Hayes, Jean Wilson, Gerald Washington
FR: Paula S. Denson
C: Ofield Dukes
The meeting of the Advisory Board Committee members, Jean
Wilson, Bill Calloway, Paula Denson and Ofield Dukes, met
with principal, Dr. Armstrong, along with parents and
students at the Highland Heights Middle School, Nashville,
TN.
I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
The meeting began with introductions all around. Jean Wilson
continued by giving the group background information on the
project and stating its purpose and vision. Part of this
vision was described for the young people as a way to learn
from other young people; developing themselves in areas they
want to pursue in their careers; discovering what they want
to do - where they want to go; being shown an open door; an
opportunity to network. Jean emphasized the need and desire
to dream; and that it is "OK" to have dreams and goals,
accept challenges to meet those goals. She also challenged
them to challenge "us" as a group to help them meet their
goals - to open up and let us know what they expect from this
camp in order to succeed in the future. In essence, these
young people would be the forerunners for future camps and
the success of it would play a large part in how we worked
together as a group.
II. STUDENTS (8th Graders)
OVERVIEW - Students were bright, intelligent and spoke
graphically about their school life, studies; seemed excited
and nervous about meeting new students from other places;
expressed concerns about living arrangements; what other
opportunities would be available during the course of the
camp (i.e. swimming, other sports).
Valencia Bass - violinist -2 yrs., discontinued studying for
lack of opportunity; enjoys reading, writing, art. Seemed
the more quiet of the group. Would like to pursue career
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as a doctor or teacher. Her Mother was animated; excited
this opportunity for her daughter and was hopeful in that
this would open new doors for her in the future.
Jason Jackson - Soft-spoken, but positive about his goals.
Enjoys drama and art; wants to pursue art career; has won 1st
place in city-wide contest; would like to learn to sculpt.
Jason's Mother was also appreciative of this opportunity for
her son and wanted to help wherever she could.
Jessica- Extremely bright young lady, very positive,
determined and confident. Was the most expressive in the
group, asking many questions about the program and what they
would expect. Jessica's outstanding ability is in writing,
for which she has won many contests and awards. Her
concentration is writing, public speaking, and singing. She
would like to consider a teaching career or public speaking.
Jessica's Mom was delighted for her daughter and is more and
more pleased at her accomplishments.
Kevin Moore - Kevin was the most dramatic of the group. He
performed a 10-15 minute characterization of "A Raisin In the
Sun", a play by Lorraine Hansbury; featuring the two most
graphic characters, Walter Lee and his Mother. This young
man's performance was enough to solidify what we are doing is
so right. He cried, he laughed, he became depressed, he
submerged himself in those characters so deeply, that all who
listened were swept under the tide and each one of us moved
to some emotion. Kevin is bright, articulate, with a
southern flair, enjoys drama, public speaking, is active in
his church where he is chaplain for his choir and often
dramatizes speeches from Martin Luther King. He would
definitely benefit from learning what other career choices
would be available to him at this camp. Surprisingly, acting
had not come into his thoughts. He also swims and was
excited about going. His Mother declared that he was a
"card" around the house; always willing to speak for anyone
and was excited about his having this opportunity.
Chris Banks- The "diamond-in-the-rough", Chris seemed to be
the one most unsure of his abilities in that, he has drawn
for a long time and was excited about his art, but never
really sure of himself in this area. With his teachers
ability to "see" this talent in this young man, and along
with his parents, Chris is beginning to find new ways of
expounding his energy. Chris is interested in computers;
CAD-CAMS (computer assisted drawing), technical drawing and
engineering. Chris seems to be one who would need more
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assistance in developing his "artistic" side. His Father was
present and appeared very nurturing and caring about his
son's ability to draw and wanted to encourage him more. For
a while, Chris' restlessness not been properly identified,
until his teacher made his parents aware of his creative
ability and began to encourage this. It resulted in
immediate improvement and his confidence-building process
began.
All the parents seemed satisfied with the information given
them and did not have many questions, choosing instead to
wait for the additional materials and information to arrive.
We were all surprised and impressed by the students and the
parents. The meeting was informal and went extremely well
because of this. We believe the principals' participation,
positive comments and little anecdotes about the kids,
coupled with our general laughter and banter, helped to relax
everyone and make the most of the meeting. Jean Wilson was
genteel, warm, compassionate and had the ability to make
everyone comfortable. We thoroughly enjoyed this first
meeting and we left more determined and committed than ever.
We firmly believe that this first experience at camp will be
a lasting experience for all of us.
III. SUGGESTIONS:
O Parent from each city be considered as an escort for the
10 days. The feeling here is that someone would be
familiar with the kids, environment, attitudes, and would
have someone for them to address their immediate concerns.
Jean Wilson be provided assistance in airfares,
accommodations, etc. to represent the camp as its
administrator, at each school. Her delivery of the
idea/concept and summary, was far better than could be
imagined.
Submitted by:
Paula S. Denson
Where do
children the play?
ADVISORY BOARD
Steve Brallier
"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" SUMMER ARTS CAMP
William Morris Agency
Contact List
Bill Calloway
Metropolitan Government
Paula Denson
School Contact
Children
William Morris Agency
Tom Draper
Time-Warner, Inc.
Washington
DeBorah Johnson
Tyrone Johnson
Pete Fisher
D.C.
D.C. Public Schools
Melonise Earl
Warner Elektra Asylum
Tyler School Building
Constance Rowe
Gail Hamilton
Choice Management, Inc.
10th and G Street, S.E.
Jamila Vines
Craig Hayes
Suite 207
Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes
Washington, DC 20003
Edmund Hodge
Choice Management, Inc.
(202) 724-2408
David Maddox
FAX (202) 724-2125
Maddox and Hicks
Jim Ed Norman
Warner Bros.
Ms. Patricia Bradford
Lynwood Thompson
Paul B. Payne, D.D.S.
2800 17th St., NE
Samuel Capies
Ronna Rubin
Washington, DC 200018
Warner Bros.
(202) 269-1394
Gerald Washington
Fisk University
Jean Wilson
Patty Thomas
Shada Thompson
Choice Management, Inc.
Fund for Educational
Danena Iler
Excellence
605 North Eutaw Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(301) 685-8300
Atlanta
Leviticus Roberts
Joseph Kirksey
Martin Luther Middle School
Inda Willis
582 Connally Street, S.E.
Marco Jones
Atlanta, GA 30312
Adrienne Mitchell
(404) 330-4149
Princess Mapp
Kenneth Canty
New Orleans
Margaret P. Johnson
Rontrell Brimmer
New Orleans Public Schools
Mark Tobias
5931 Milne Blvd.
Ronell Bell
New Orleans, LA 70124
Candace Parker
(504) 483-6387
Larry Platt
FAX (504) 486-4945
Wilbert Winfield
Joe Mills
(504) 483-6467 W.
hoice
(504) 948-2252 H.
anagement, Inc.
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615/244-1141
Fax 615/248-6939
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"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" SUMMER ARTS CAMP
Contact List
School Contact
Children
Nashville
Dr. James Armstrong
Shauntra Chatman
Highland Heights
Valencia Bass
Middle School
Jessica Case
123 Douglas Avenue
Latosha Sanders
Nashville, TN 37207
Jason Jackson
(615) 262-6690
Kevin Moore
(615) 371-8651 Hm.
New York
John Bess
Jamel Moser
The Valley Inc.
Naomi Opont
St. John the Divine
Kliwanda Provet
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
Tashanda Jones
New York, New York 10025
Keshia Lattimore
(212) 222-2110
Damian Lindol
FAX (212) 222-4671
California
Royanne Hollins
Sebastian Hollins
3042 LaRue Way
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
(916) 929-9271
(916) 368-2230 Hm.
Where do
children the play?
ADVISORY BOARD
Steve Brallier
William Morris Agency
Bill Calloway
Metropolitan Government
Paula Denson
William Morris Agency
Tom Draper
Time-Warner, Inc.
Pete Fisher
Warner Elektra Asylum
Dear Friend:
Gail Hamilton
Choice Management, Inc.
Craig Hayes
Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes
Edmund Hodge
Choice Management, Inc.
David Maddox
Do you know a child who, living with adult problems is robbed
Maddox and Hicks
of the time and freedom to be a child - to play unfettered, to
Jim Ed Norman
Warner Bros.
imagine and then create, to exude joy born of innocence?
Paul B. Payne, D.D.S.
Unhappily, you can see this tragedy in any neighborhood.
Ronna Rubin
Warner Bros.
Gail Hamilton of Choice Management (Take 6) is doing something
Gerald Washington
Fisk University
to help solve this problem. She has organized the first
Jean Wilson
"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?" SUMMER CAMP FOR THE ARTS at Fisk
Choice Management, Inc.
University July 11-21, 1991. Forty children who show
aptitude for various arts have been selected to attend the an
inaugural camp. These children come from urban settings; from
families which cannot provide opportunities such as this.
Broken homes, drugs, violence, poverty and pain are the
constant companions of these kids. Yet, the chance exists to
awaken the imagination of these children through this camp.
Here is where you come into the picture. We are asking
through your organization, to grant one of these children this you,
opportunity. $500.00 (Five hundred dollars) will enable
child from New Orleans, New York, Nashville, Newark, Washington a
once-in-a-lifetime dream.
DC, or Atlanta, to participate in what is for this child, a
The 10 day camp is a camp. That is to say that play and social
curriculum which includes instruction and performance in
interaction are important components of a challenging
and visual arts. The program has been developed in music
with parents and the local school systems. Faculty cooperation
professionals counseling. in music, art, theater, dance, education, and are
hoice
anagement, Inc.
40 Music Square East
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615/244-1141
Fax 615/248-6939
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"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?"
Summer Camp for the Arts
Your scholarship of one or more children can be accomplished by
remitting a check to:
WDCP-Fisk University
C/O Choice Management
40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
Finally, almost more than your financial participation,
you to experience the exhilaration that comes from touching we these want
consider couple of hours of your time will change your life. Please a
young lives personally. Visiting the camp or volunteering
PLAY?" this selfless investment in "WHERE DO THE CHILDREN
with your financial contribution.
Sincerely yours,
Steven W. Brallier
Tom Draper
Ofield Dukes
WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?
Campaign!
OVERVIEW
David Thomas and Claude McKnight, both members of the Grammy Award winning act,
Take 6, have written a song which appears on the recently released So Much 2 Say
L.P.
The song is entitled Where Do The Children Play? and is a personal outcry about the
abuse and misuse of our nation's most precious natural resource - our children.
The young children of today are being faced with adult problems which rob them of their
ability to play children's games.
Instead of playing kickball, jacks, and hide-n-seek, our children are making hard and
cold decisions:
Crack vs. Crayons
Guns and Gangs vs. Guitars and Cellos
Drug Abuse vs. Day Dreams
The Where Do The Children Play? campaign intends to add a SMALL yet
SIGNIFICANT ray of light and hope to what on the outset seems hopeless.
"This little light of mine, I'm gonna let shine."
PHASE I
STEP I
The So Much 2 Say Tour will begin in the Fall of 1990.
There will be six cities selected from Take 6's Fall Tour, and from these six cities, six
students will be chosen to attend that evening's concert with the members of Take 6.
There will also be a school visited by Take 6 and the visit will contain an address by
Take 6 on its concern for our nation's plight, a question and answer session, an
autograph and poster party, and the announcement of the six students chosen for the
evening's concert.
The Music and Arts camp will be held in Nashville, Tennessee on the Fisk University
campus. A special invitation from Fisk President Dr. Henry Ponder has been extended.
Fisk University dates back to the Black Cultural Renaissance of this Nation's history. As
a Liberal Arts School, Fisk has a strong tie with both the visual and the performing
arts Some of its sons and daughters are painter Aaron Douglas, the Fisk Jubilee
Singers, author W. B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, writer Nikki Giovanni, composer and
vocal arranger John W. Work and James Weldin Johnston.
This list alone gives credit to Fisk University being an ideal location for such a new
beginning in Arts Education.
"All around the neighborhood, I'm gonna let it shine."
PHASE II
The second part of the Where Do the Children Play? campaign is an ongoing "hands
on" project that will also begin in the Fall of 1990.
"Y-PAC" (Young People Against Crack) is a unique teen education and recreation
program designed to give teens the skills and knowledge needed to resist peer and
other social pressures to experiment with drugs and alcohol.
Y-PAC's structures and bi-laws, along with its special projects insure that the teens will
understand problem solving techniques, leadership development, drug education and
awareness and the ability to deal with stress and cope with change.
This teen club will serve under the parent agency, "P.A.C.M.A.N.", a New York,
Dutchess County based drug prevention program, (see enclosure), under the direction
of Founder and Director Norman Tillery. The teen club will be monitored throughout this
coming school year.
"Be aware of wonder, remember the little seeds in the styrofoam cup, the
roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or
why, but we are all like that and it is still true, no matter how old you are
when you go out unto the world it is best to hold hands and stick together."
Taken from All I Really Need to Know
I Learned in Kindergarten By Robert Tulgan
The selection of students will be made by the individual schools.
1. Children should represent Junior High School grade and or age 12 - - 14(15).
2. Children should display some talent in the areas of art and/or music.
3. Each child selected should express a willingness for further development
within his chosen field in the arts.
4. The children should be referred by teachers because of some significant
"beating of the odds" that the individual child might have overcome.
STEP II
The students chosen from the school's program to attend the evening's concert, will
also be personally invited to attend a Music and Arts camp that will be held the Summer
of 1991 in Nashville, Tennessee on the Fisk University Campus!
The camp is a very important part of the Where Do The Children Play? campaign
because it has been proven that there is enhanced learning through the arts. An
opportunity of free expression through the visual as well as performing arts can enhance
one's quality of life.
Statistics show that there is a tremendous illiteracy problem facing our nation. Arts can
be and should be used as a standard vehicle of education, because art is education.
The students selected will be involved in a summer program that will offer vocal and
instrumental instruction, painting and drawing classes, creative writing, drama and
acting classes, photography, recording studio and jingle sessions.
all taught by
professionals in their given fields.
"Ail around the neighborhood, I'm gonna let it shine."
STEP III
"Live a balanced life, learn some and think some and draw and paint and
sing and dance and play and work every day some."
Taken from All I Really Need to Know
I Learned in Kindergarten By Robert Tulgan
VII Warner "Elektra "Asylum
WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?
DAVID THOMAS
CLAUDE V. McKNIGHT II
COME HERE BOYS
PLAYIN' IN THE SCHOOLYARD (WATCH OUT BOYS!)
I NEED TO HAVE YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION (OH NO!)
OH I'VE GOT CRACK AND THINGS LIKE THAT (WHAT, OH NO, DON'T DO IT)
AND I GUARANTEE YOUR MONEY BACK (WATCH OUT BOYS!)
IF THE TRIP AIN'T RIGHT (WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?)
COME HERE GIRLS (NO!)
STANDIN' ON THE CORNER (WATCH OUT GIRLS!)
I NEED TO HAVE YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION (DON'T LISTEN, STOP TALKING
THAT SMACK!)
WELL, YOU WORK FOR ME, HOME!) YOUR RENT IS FREE (WHAT, DON'T LISTEN, GO BACK
AND I PROMISE JOB SECURITY
IF YOU THROW IT RIGHT (GIVE IT UPI)
WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR EVERY MORNING
NOT REALIZING THERE'S A WARNING
THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN
DON'T LET THEM SLIP AWAY
WE GOT TO UPLIFT THEM
GIVE THEM GUIDANCE
SHOW THEM A FUTURE FREE OF SADNESS
IF WE IGNORE (THIS)
WELL, IT'S ON YA
WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?
THEY'RE LIVING A COME WHAT MAY
WHERE WILL THEY PLAY
THEY CAN MAKE IT
JUST LEAD THEM ON THEIR WAY
OH LORD, THEY'RE LIVING IN A WICKED WORLD
WHERE WILL THEY PLAY
COME HERE KIDS (YO, PLEASE LISTEN!)
SEARCHING IN THE DARKNESS (WE'VE GOT SOMETHING, LISTEN UP!)
I NEED TO HAVE YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION (JUST LISTEN, YOU BETTER
PAY ATTENTION1)
IT'S OKAY TO LAY YOUR BLAME (TELL 'EM, LORD!)
I DIED FOR YOU so WITH NO SHAME (YOU CAN CALL)
YOU CAN CALL MY NAME
Warner/Elektra/Asylum Music, Inc.
Warner/Refuge Music, Inc.
Warner/Noreale Music, Inc.
1815 Division Street, P.O. Box 120897, Nashville, Tennessee 37212 (615) 327-8422
WIII
Warner Elektra Asylum
WE'RE READING THE LABELS EVERY MORNING
NOT SEEING THE WRITINGS OR THE WARNINGS
THEY'RE LIVING IN A WORLD NOT THEIR OWN
SHOW THEM A PLACE WHERE LOVE IS HOLY
LEAD THEM AWAY FROM SAD AND LONELY
IF YOU DON'T DO IT
WELL, IT'S ON YA
CHORUS
GIVE THEM A FUTURE
WARNER/ELEKTRA/ASYLUM MUSIC, INC.
DEEMEE MUSIC
CLAUDE VEE MUSIC
Warner/Flektra/Asylum Music. Inc. Warner/Refuge Music. Inc. Warner/Norcale Music, Inc.
1815 Division Street. P.O. Box 120897, Nashville, Tennessee 37212 (615) 327-8422
where do
the
children play?
TAKE 6
GAE
anagement.
Inc
40 Music Square East Nashville, Tennessee . 615/244-1141 . 615/FAX 248-6939
What happens
when you put the
world's oldest
enemies together,
in one small room,
with a half-dozen
very sharp knives?
They us
Physicians for Peace. With the tools of our trade,
cooperation and respect among people who would
we're putting an end to some of the world's oldest
normally share only mutual hatred and distrust.
wars. We put doctors and nurses, from countries
You see, the common objective of all medical
that aren't speaking to one another, together in
professionals is healing. And when we can heal
teams. And they perform miracles. Changing the
together, the path for international friendships,
lives forever of maimed, crippled or deformed
and ultimately peace, is cleared.
children and adults. By sharing medical skills
Led by Dr. Charles E. Horton and Dr. Lachlan
and technology, Physicians for Peace promotes
Reed, Physicians for Peace has brought the spirit of
them.
ommunity to operating teams all over the Middle
while helping thousands of medically needy
Imagine doctors and nurses from Syria and
people, with a little help from you. We're donating
ordan, Israel and Palestine, Turkey and Greece,
time, skills and money. But we need your contribu-
perating side by side, learning from each other,
tion to help pay for medical supplies, transportation
elping each other. Well, it's already happening.
and accommodations. Of all the things you could
And Physicians for
write your tax-deductible
eace will continue to
mprove world relations
Physicians For Peace
check for today, isn't world
peace worth it?
We heal wounds that have lasted for centuries.
Physicians For Peace
229 West Bute Street, Suite 900
Norfolk, VA 23510
(804) 625-7569 Fax (804) 625-7680
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Photography: Steve Wynkoop
Physicians For Peace
229 WEST BUTE STREET
SUITE 900
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
USA 23510
October 2, 1990
Ms. Carol Blymire
Office of Speech Writing
The White House
Washington, DC 20060
Dear Ms. Blymire:
Thank you for your kind note of thanks relative to President Bush's speech before the United
Nations. I enjoyed having the opportunity to talk with you about Physicians For Peace. Although
that speech did not include a reference to our program, we are pleased to learn that you have
kept you notes from the conversations we had last week. With the thought that reference
material might be helpful to in the future, I am taking the liberty of sending this letter and
other descriptive material about our program.
Physicians For Peace was founded to promote international friendship and peace through
medicine by educating physicians and other health care professionals, and by treating the
medical needy in other countries. We take volunteer doctors and nurses to the troubled areas
of the world in the Middle East. With governmental approval in Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Turkey and the West Bank continuing medical education is provided, and
treatment at no cost is given.
As president and founder, I initiated these activities in 1985. Nineteen missions have been
conducted since that time, and more than 3,000 patients have been treated. Providing current
information, a team of five American doctors and two nurses went on a mission to Syria and Iraq
in June 1989. They were joined by two plastic surgeons: one from Turkey, and one from
Jordan. In mid September a team of four plastic surgeons, a resident and a medical student
from the U.S., went to Eastern and Northern Turkey to conduct seminars and perform surgeries
on Kurdish refugees in the provinces of Van, Trabzon, and Samsun. We arranged for the first
joint meeting of the Turkish and Greek Plastic Surgery Societies in 1988, and discussions to
arrange for the second joint meeting of these Societies continue. On April 1, 1990, a volunteer
team of 12 physicians and two nurses went to Panama to perform surgeries and to provide
training for medical personnel. In June 1990, a team was dispatched to Syria, Jordan, Israel,
and the Occupied Territories. While in Ashkelon, it was significant that physicians repre-
senting Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel worked together with American doctors. A
team of four operating room nurses, a neurosurgeon and four plastic surgeons travelled to
Damascus in mid August to provide both patient care and teaching. A copy of the summary
report of that mission is enclosed.
TELEPHONE 804-625-7569
FAX 804-625-7680
Ms. Carol Blymire
October 2, 1990
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Through our medical training fellowship program, Physicians For Peace makes funding
arrangements for young physicians from Middle East countries to train in the United States
for 3-6-12 month intervals. These professionals are often from countries differing greatly
politically, religiously, and culturally. Working together encourages friendship and mutual
respect that would not be possible otherwise. We are hopeful that these friendships will endure
and contribute to the ultimate goal of peace in volatile areas of the world. Currently we have
trainees from Israel, Palestine, Turkey and Greece, and anticipate the arrival of another fellow
from Egypt in the very near future.
Physicians For Peace assists in meeting program expenses. It costs approximately $25,000
per trip, depending on the number of health care professionals we take. The good will generated
is inestimable. We have received letters of support from the U.S. Secretary of State, President
George Bush, all the ambassadors of the countries involved, as well as various presidents of
universities and hospitals in countries throughout the Middle East, thanking us for the work we
have done and requesting future missions.
We hope that you find this information interesting. If you need additional information or have
questions now or at any time, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Childrenton
Charles E. Horton, M.D.
President
gtk
Enclosures
CC: Lachlan Reed, Ph.D.
PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE FOUNDATION, INC.
229 West Bute Street
Suite 900
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
Tel: 804/625-7569
Fax: 804/625-7680
Lachlan Reed, Ph. D.
Charles E. Horton, M.D.
Chairman of the Board
President
Ramsay D. Potts, JD
Kevin Smith, M.D. and
Vice Chairman
R. Barrett Noone, M.D.
Dr. J. T. Houk
Vice Presidents
Executive Secretary
Coordinator: Gail Kelley
PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE works to advance the cause of Peace in areas of tension
through medical good works: by serving the needy and war-torn, by exchanging medi-
cal skills and by bringing together national antagonists.
MISSIONS: Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Panama, Syria (3), Turkey (2), and the
West Bank (2).
PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE, a volunteer apolitical and non-profit association of
doctors and health care professionals, works for peace in zones of conflict:
at the invitation of host countries and with U.S. Government concurrence;
in collaboration with host country doctors, often joined by colleagues from
neighboring countries;
by caring for the medically needy gratis;
by providing continuing medical education in the host country; and
by arranging for foreign doctors education in the U.S.
MISSION ESSENTIALS:
- serving patients selected by the host country;
- team members selected to meet specific medical needs defined by each host
country;
- collaboration with host country doctors for in-patient observation and post-
operative care;
- interpersonal exchanges during rounds, seminars and discussions that build
friendships and improve skills;
- training opportunities in the U.S. for young doctors for 3-12 month periods
related to host country needs;
- training programs in the U.S. associate doctors from countries who would
otherwise not know each other;
- building cordial inter-personal and apolitical relationships with medical col-
leagues, patients, families, officials and media; and
- making mission reports to church and civic groups, to the media, and to govern-
ment officials that build understanding and international friendships.
MISSION RESULTS '87-EARLY '90:
Missions to Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Panama, Syria (3), Turkey (2),
and the West Bank (2);
Over 100 U.S. doctors collaborating with more than 1,000 host country doctors;
Over 100 seminars and lectures enrolling approximately 5,000 medical profes-
sionals;
Immensely positive and laudatory media coverage in every country building
positive image of friendly America;
Audiences of approximately 100 million see, hear and learn about PHYSI-
CIANS FOR PEACE through universally cordial TV, radio, and newspaper
coverage in every country;
Scores of young doctors many from antagonistic countries like Greece and
Turkey, Israel and Palestine, Syria and Jordan, who would never otherwise
know each other - study and work together in the U.S. to build friendships that
contribute to peace.
TRUSTEES: Frank Batten, CEO, Landmark Communications; Lucius R. Battle, former
Assistant Secretary of State, Middle East; Walter R. Davis, Investor; Nejat F.
Eczacibasi, PhD. CEO, Eczacibasi Enterprises, Ltd.; Ahmet M. Ertegun, CEO, Atlantic
Recording Company; Paul Hannon, Gerald Atkins Co.; Frederic Herter, M.D., Presi-
dent, American University in Beirut; Charles E. Horton, M.D., President, Physicians for
Peace; Michael McIntosh, President, The McIntosh Foundation; Richard F. Pedersen,
PhD, President, American University in Cairo (retired); Ramsay D. Potts, JD, Partner,
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge; Lachlan Reed, PhD, President, Lachlan Interna-
tional, Chairman, Physicians for Peace; The Honorable Harold B. Scott; Mr. and Mrs.
Page Smith.
INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF GOVERNORS: The Honorable Lawrence Cox; Mrs. Elmer
Bobst; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Bernard Fouquet; William J. Gesling; Mr. and Mrs. J. Kent
Harrison; Sandy MacTaggart; The Honorable Dr. Mahmoud Mahfouz; Richard Paley; Dr.
Ibrahim Salti; U.S. Senator John Warner; E.V. Williams.
MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD; Membership on the part of mission participants.
An informal group of key supporters and special friends of PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE is in
progress of formation.
TAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS may be made to PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE
FOUNDATION I.R.S. #54-1532165 and mailed to Physicians for Peace, 229 West Bute
Street, Suite 900, Norfolk, Virginia 23510 Telephone: 804/625-7569 Fax: 804/625-7680
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PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE
A DESCRIPTION
"Yours is a work of mercy, and I applaud your
selfless efforts to help your fellowman. "
George Bush
President of the United States
May 23, 1990
229 West Butc Street, Suite 900 Norfolk, VA 23510
PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE
Table of Contents
PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE
1
I. WHAT WE DO
1
II. WHO WE ARE
2
III. MISSION DESCRIPTIONS
3
Syria - November 1987
3
Syria - June 1989
3
Syria - June 1990
4
West Bank - January 1988
4
West Bank - June 1990
5
Jordan - April 1988
5
Jordan - June 1990
5
Turkey - September 1988
6
Turkey - September 1989
6
Egypt - December 1988
6
Iraq - June 1989
7
Panama - April 1990
7
Israel - June 1990
8
IV. MISSION CRITIERIA
8
V. RESULTS
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VI. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
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Missions
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Fellowships
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CONCLUSION
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PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE
"I am greatly impressed not only by your team's dedication but also by the
warm response you received from the people you served I am convinced
that humanitarian service such as that provided by Physicians For Peace
can be a great contribution to eventual peace in the region."
George R. Shultz
Secretary of State
April 1988
Physicians For Peace promotes peace by building friendships through medicine.
This humanitarian, apolitical and non-sectarian organization develops strategies for
peace by:
caring for the medically needy in the Middle East - a zone of conflict;
forming professional relationships through lectures and demonstrations of
surgical techniques to doctors of host countries;
establishing educational opportunities and new friendships among medical
professionals in the United States; and by
promoting friendships with patients, families and professionals.
WHAT WE DO
Physicians For Peace, under the leadership of Dr. Charles Horton and
Dr. Lachlan Reed, conducts medical missions to the Middle East by means of:
assembling skilled teams of volunteer health care professionals including
specialists in plastic and reconstructive surgery, orthopedics, urology, burn
and trauma treatment, anesthesia, nursing and pediatrics;
obtaining financial support for each mission, diplomatic entree, and the
collaboration of local physicians;
treating hundreds of people during each mission including the
war-wounded, as well as children and adults with congenital and acquired
deformities and those suffering from rare diseases;
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providing educational opportunities through fellowships and training to
promote long term medical expertise and development in the host
countries;
including representatives from disparate cultural, political, and religious
backgrounds; and
responding to the medical priorities specified by each host country to
include both patient treatment and the educational needs of medical
professionals.
II. WHO WE ARE
Dr. Charles Horton, founder and President of the Board of Trustees of Physicians
For Peace, earned degrees from the Universities of Arkansas, Missouri and Virginia. He
is past chairman of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He has demonstrated his
skills in 47 countries; has produced 18 movies and television tapes; and has authored
over 250 separate book chapters, journals and articles. He is an honorary member of
the Israeli, Jordanian and Syrian Plastic Surgery Societies and is an honorary fellow of
the Royal College of Surgeons.
Beginning in the late seventies and early eighties, Dr. Horton prepared the
groundwork for a program of humanitarian medical exchanges throughout the Middle
East. Dr. Horton then organized working teams of volunteer American and foreign
medical professionals. Mission by mission, he proved that such interaction on behalf
of the medically needy does indeed contribute significantly to the lessening of tensions.
"Charlie Horton's remarkable vision and drive is improving relationships
among war-torn and strife ridden countries in the Middle East.
"Charlie is humble, straightforward and obviously a highly skilled physician
and teacher. He is also a most effective ambassador of good-will for the
U.S. and for improved relationships between countries. Transcending all
of this, he is a philosopher, expounding on the benign and emotional
healing that comes from correcting the scars, wounds and imperfections
that the vagaries of nature and chance inflict."
Lachlan Reed
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Lachlan Reed chairs the Physicians For Peace Board. Born in Turkey and
brought up in the Middle East, the son of the president of International College in Izmir
and then Beirut, he has been heavily involved in foreign projects all his life. Familiar
with leaders in the Levant through business associations and long service on the
boards of International College, the American University in Cairo and the American Near
East Relief Agency, Reed provides the experience and familiarity with the nationals of
other countries that both help guide missions and assist in interpreting Physicians' For
Peace purposes.
III. MISSION DESCRIPTIONS
Exploratory trips by Dr. Horton, from 1982 through 1989, to Egypt, Israel, Turkey,
Jordan, Kuwait, Syria and Lebanon, led to urgent invitations for visits from every
country. The outstanding humanitarian reputation of Physicians For Peace led to this
year's mission to Panama following last year's military conflict.
SYRIA -- NOVEMBER 1987, JUNE 1989, JUNE 1990
Physicians For Peace sent their first mission to Syria in November 1987. A
dozen doctors and nurses operated on Syrian and Lebanese patients, many of them
war-wounded from Beirut. The warm personal and professional relationships, which
developed during a two week period when official US - Syrian connections were cold
and even hostile, culminated in a Syrian National television prime time program
celebrating the American visitors' contributions to Syria.
The return visit to Syria, urged upon Physicians For Peace for a year, consisted
of American, Turkish and Jordanian doctors and nurses working with Syrian medical
personnel. Approximately 75 operations involved complex surgical problems in caring
for war-wounded and civilian Lebanese patients, ward rounds, lectures and a
symposium plus operative demonstrations proved valuable to resident and staff.
Syrians, eager for further exchanges, particularly need nursing instruction at all
levels; intensive care, recovery room, ward care and operating room procedures. They
especially want assistance in improving hospital operations. Our current plan involves
a working task force to help meet these needs by teams of a dozen American and
other national doctors working at revolving two week intervals. Needed are funds to
bring and take the successive medical teams a three to six month interval.
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"Since your departure, I have heard from your local medical colleagues
how much they appreciated your visit and the work that you and your
group were able to perform in Damascus, both in treating difficult cases
requiring plastic surgery and in sharing your knowledge of modern
technical know-how with Syrian doctors. I know that the medical
authorities here are hoping that you and others will return to Syria."
William L. Eagleton
U.S. Ambassador to Syria
September 29, 1987
The June 1990 visit consisted of three days of operations in which approximately
twenty complex orthopedic and reconstructive operations were successfully completed
in collaboration with our Syrian colleagues. A number of these were also taped for
teaching purposes.
WEST BANK -- JANUARY 1988, JUNE 1990
A mission in January 1988 to the Ramallah Hospital in the occupied territory of
the West Bank near Jerusalem, was similarly successful. Dr. Horton's extensive work
in Israel on the Maimonides Hofheimer Project initiated this mission to the Occupied
Territories in cooperation with Israeli Health Services. It involved Israelit doctors
operating on Palestinian patients and initiated a constructive collaboration between
Israeli and Palestinian doctors and civilians. Again, return invitations on the part of
Israelis and Palestinians demonstrated that this peace-building effort had impressive
effects on both parties.
"Seventy-five patients from all over the West Bank and Gaza were operated
upon. Mobs were massed outside the hospital and blockading of the
main road was common. Machine guns were on all adjacent houses, but
we felt no threat at any time."
Dr. Eid B. Mustafa
Participating Physician
"Highly favorable reports from Shmuel Goren, Israel's coordinator for Civil
Administration in the Occupied Territories, speak enthusiastically about the
surgical work your team carried out at the Ramallah Hospital as well as the
lectures and consulting work you did with your fellow professionals.
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"I wholeheartedly applaud the work of Physicians For Peace and
congratulate you for this important humanitarian effort."
Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Near Eastern & South
Asian Affairs
The June 1990 visit served to see patients at the Beit Jalla government hospital
and to discuss cooperation with Palestinian doctors and Dr. Yitzak Sefer, the Israeli
medical coordinator for the Occupied Areas. It was a welcome opportunity to learn the
dynamics of Israeli-Arab interaction.
JORDAN -- APRIL 1988, JUNE 1990
The first visit involved an intensive two week period, in which nine Physicians For
Peace doctors and nurses operated on over fifty medically needy Jordanians.
Physicians For Peace doctors gave lectures at a national meeting of all Jordanian
surgical specialists. Extensive workshops and seminars firmed relationships and
opened the way for a Jordanian physician to take a one-year fellowship at the Eastern
Virginia Graduate School of Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia.
"His Majesty feels that yours is indeed a very praise-worthy effort. He has
given instructions to the Royal Medical Services to cooperate with you and
your colleagues in every way."
Marwan S. Kasim
Chief of the Royal
Hashemite Court
Jordan
Physicians For Peace returned to Jordan in June 1990 for a brief visit to review
possibilities for joint missions with Jordanian doctors and to meet with important
supporters. In a meeting with Dr. Mohamed Zaben Mohamed, the Minister of Health,
Jordanian desire for further interaction with Physicians For Peace was confirmed.
Discussions to arrange for a mission in the spring of 1991, continue.
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TURKEY -- SEPTEMBER 1988, SEPTEMBER 1989
Physicians For Peace next mission was to Turkey. This visit culminated in an
important first initiated by Dr. Horton -- a joint Hellenic and Turkish Plastic Surgeon's
meeting in Athens attended by roughly 70 Turkish doctors and their families and friends.
When Dr. Horton first proposed this meeting, his suggestion was greeted with disbelief.
Turkish and Greek doctors had never conferred formally and never would, he was told.
A return meeting in Izmir was held in September 1989.
An important breakthrough was the commitment of both the Turkish and Greek
society presidents to arrange a mission of Greek and Turkish surgeons to operate
together to help Lebanese war-wounded in a third country. This mission confirms that
collaborative undertakings do help break the patterns of hostility and separation and lay
the foundation for future constructive joint efforts.
"Your Physicians For Peace Mission to Turkey is a fine contribution to the
enhancement of international cooperation and friendship. Turkish doctors
are happy to join with colleagues from other countries to help heal the
scars of national antagonisms."
Dr. Sukru Elekdag
Ambassador of the Republic
of Turkey in Washington
The return visit to Turkey involved a combined Turkish and American team of
physicians. These operated and lectured in the far eastern and Black Sea Provinces
of Van, Trabzon and Samsun. Their efforts on behalf of Kurdish refugees and the
deprived were warmly received and widely publicized on prime time Turkish radio and
TV programs.
EGYPT -- DECEMBER 1988
In Cairo and Alexandria more than a dozen American Physicians For Peace
doctors and nurses collaborated with Egyptian colleagues in a fortnight's program of
operations, rounds, seminars and discussions. All agreed that these programs met
every expectation.
"Let me commend the invaluable work of Physicians For Peace in uplifting
the quality of life of those you have served and will serve. The arts of
healing in such exchange missions are a most endearing and binding form
of diplomacy."
El Sayed Abdel Raouf El Reddy
Ambassador of Egypt
in Washington
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IRAQ -- JUNE 1989
The first American medical group to Iraq since the start of the war was a
combined effort of American Physicians For Peace and Turkish doctors of their
Interplast Society.
By previous arrangement -- standard procedure for our missions -- some 100
patients with particular medical problems were treated. Productive interchanges, both
professional and personal, among the Iraqi, Turkish, and American doctors made for
warm reciprocal ties. Expressions of Iraqi friendship and gratitude proved that the
mission did in fact lay a sound foundation for constructive peace building efforts based
on mutual friendship and trust.
PANAMA APRIL 1990
Shortly after the Panamanian government crisis, volunteers from Physicians For
Peace and the DePaul Medical Center, of Norfolk, Virginia, performed a site visit in
Panama City for evaluation of health care facilities and current medical needs in the
country.
The April mission, the first to Central America, resulted in over 50 operations
being performed with hundreds of patients receiving medical evaluation and advice.
Surgery was performed primarily at the Children's Hospital, St. Tomás Hospital, and
Completo Hospital Metropolitano in Panama City, which allowed American doctors to
work with their Panamanian counterparts and demonstrate new techniques on special
cases.
The mission was a total success in establishing personal friendships between
Panamanians and Americans. Several Physicians For Peace recommendations based
on the volunteers" observations serve to support the need for continued aid to the
people of Panama.
"Through your generous actions, you and the Physicians For Peace are
helping to strengthen our ties with Panama. Yours is a work of mercy,
and I applaud your selfless efforts to help your fellowman."
George Bush
President of the United States
May 23, 1990
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ISRAEL -- JUNE 1990
Planning for this mission related to several considerations:
Israeli desire for a formal visit to Israel (previous mission concentrated on
the West Bank);
Israeli interest in a GenitoUrinary symposium led by distinguished American
specialists on our team; and
Desire to be helpful to Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
The first two and half days consisted of a program of lecture, examination of
patients, and operations at Tel Hashomer Hospital. Patient rounds, operations and
lectures kept volunteers and their colleagues fully occupied. Difficult operations
demonstrating new techniques were taped to serve as teaching devices for the host
country's doctors.
The last three days of work were spent with patients at the Barzilay government
hospital at Ashkelon near Gaza to treat Palestinian patients brought in from government
hospitals caring for Palestinian patients in the Gaza, Ramallah, Beit Jalla or Bethlehem
areas as well as from the "security zone" in south Lebanon. A number of complex
operations were undertaken collaboratively at Barzilay Hospital by the US, Israeli,
Lebanese and Arab doctors. The cooperative effort could not have more salutary.
"Allow me to express hereby our thanks and appreciation to you personally
and to your team's members for the various surgical operations you have
carried out in Ashkelon's Barzilay Hospital for the benefit of the inhabitants
of Judea-Samaria, Gaza District and Lebanon."
Brig. Gen. Fredy Zach
Deputy Coordinator for the Territories
Israel
June 25, 1990
IV. MISSION CRITERIA
Every Physicians For Peace mission has four particular objectives in the context
of the over-riding aim -- to build strategies for peace:
1)
medical attention to patients in need;
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2)
professional collaboration and sharing of learning with host country doctors
involving exchanges in patient observation, treatment, and follow-up;
3)
interpersonal exchanges during rounds, seminars and discussions which
build relationships and improve skills; and
4)
training opportunities suggested and developed in the United States for
host country doctors who wish to improve their professional abilities during
three, six and twelve month intervals of study and practice in the US.
Each mission has official endorsement from the United States and takes place
at the host government's express invitation.
In addition, each visit is preceded by Dr. Horton's suggestion that the host
country define -- to the extent desired -- the particular problems and special categories
of patient aid they wish treated. Thus each American team is largely tailor-made to
meet host country interests and problems. The large cadre of health care professionals
who have volunteered their services provides a generous reservoir of talent.
V. RESULTS
To date, the efforts in Israel, Syria, the West Bank, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey,
Greece, Iraq and Panama have demonstrated that such professionally helpful and
friendly efforts can achieve these unprecedented results:
Lebanese war wounded (both Christian and Muslim) transported to a
Syrian hospital for desperately needed care;
American and Syrian doctors embracing on Syrian national television and
American doctors lauded as warm friends;
Israeli doctors operating in a Palestinian hospital;
Israeli authorities approving Physicians For Peace efforts for joint teams of
Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian doctors;
Turkish and Greek doctors meeting for the first time in joint sessions
breaking a centuries old tradition of hostility by working together;
Turkish and Greek doctors agreeing enthusiastically to joint operations in
a third country to help Lebanese war-wounded;
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Jewish doctors welcomed in Egypt;
Jordanian, Turkish, American and Syrian health care professionals
operating together;
Palestinian and Jordanian doctors working together and committing to
work together for peace.
Physicians' For Peace continuing efforts to bring together doctors from
neighboring countries -- Jordan and Egypt, Jordan and Syria, Israel and Palestine,
Turkey and Greece -- are setting precedents for productive interaction that would never
otherwise occur.
The significant roles physicians in middle eastern countries play in their nations'
societies give their peace oriented attitudes great importance.
VI. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
MISSIONS
In planning future missions, Physicians For Peace functions with three huge
advantages:
an almost limitless pool of superb doctors and nurses willing to donate
their services for two to four weeks a year;
a constant stream of pressing invitations from countries desperately eager
to enjoy the advantages that a Physicians For Peace mission brings to
their nation; and
the demonstrated generosity of American pharmaceutical and medical
companies who provide Physicians For Peace with badly needed drugs
and supplies.
Current Mission Options:
a.
Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druse, has requested help from
Physicians For Peace both for patients and for doctors who have had no
continuing medical education for years.
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b.
Mrs. Berri, wife of the Lebanese leader Nabih Berri, has requested that
Physicians For Peace organize a three to six month project at a Syrian
hospital for thousands of Lebanese medical needy who are now without
proper care.
C.
A return mission to Syria in November 1990.
d.
A Mission to Amman, Jordan in April 1991.
e.
Official requests for return visits to Egypt and Turkish Cyprus
Even though all physicians and support personnel donate their time, a serious
constraint is the cost of a mission: approximately $30,000 for air fares and hotel
accommodations for a team of 10 to 15 doctors and nurses. Physicians For Peace can
only accept those invitations whose mission costs can be met with available funds.
FELLOWSHIPS
Doctors from Middle Eastern countries are hungry for advanced training in the
United States but few doctors from these war torn countries can arrange United States
programs. Many go behind the Iron Curtain for medical training which is given to them
free of charge.
Physicians For Peace fellowship programs have two facets: first, they provide
fellowships to qualified doctors from Middle Eastern countries and attempt to raise the
funds necessary to provide for them in this country; secondly, they aim to bring
together, on an annual basis, young doctors from different countries who might not
otherwise know each other. At such periodic workshops, young professionals living,
studying, and interacting together can, in time, form a political network of health care
specialists committed to healing people and also to healing the scars of enmity between
nations.
Bringing young physicians to study together allows friendships to occur that
would not be possible in other circumstances. These young professionals who study
here may be from countries that are currently experiencing difficult relations. Yet they
form such strong ties with the United States and with other trainees from many nations,
that when they return to assume positions of influence, they will be remembering the
good people they met and worked with. This will be a valuable asset in an honest
search for peace.
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In 1990, Physicians For Peace hopes to fund numerous fellowships for study in
the United States and to support one international workshop. During 1989, physicians
from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Turkey and Greece as well as doctors from New
Zealand, Australia, Canada, China, Jamaica, South Africa, and Japan all worked
together in the Plastic Surgery Center at the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of
Medicine. These doctors and their families became friends. They will, in the future, be
influential citizens of their respective countries.
CONCLUSION
Humanitarians are those who care for the sick and impaired and those who build
trust and friendship -- the building blocks of peace.
Through the genius and energy of Dr. Charles Horton, many score American
doctors and health professionals are building trust and friendships that are already
breaking the barriers of ancient hostilities and preparing the foundations for peace.
As Physicians For Peace intensifies their efforts and hundreds, eventually
thousands, become involved, the boundaries of friendship and trust will expand and the
limits of anger and hostility will shrink.
What higher calling than that of building peace as we care for the sick and
injured?
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REPORT OF TRIP FOR PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE TO DAMASCUS, SRYIA
AUGUST 11 to 22, 1990
KEVIN L. SMITH, M.D.
SUMMARY
The August 1990 mission for Physicians for Peace to Damascus, Sryia carried
on the objective of the organization to send teams of surgeons and nurses
to countries in the Middle East for the purpose of caring for the medically
needy in those countries and for promoting international cooperation through
medicine. The success of past missions by Physicians for Peace to Syria,
Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, Turkey and Greece provided the background and
history for this team. The United States team, consisting of four plastic
surgeons, one neurosurgeon and four nurses, worked with the local Syrian
medical personnel for 10 days providing medical education with operations,
lectures, ward rounds and clinics.
BACKGROUND
The successes of the previous missions to the Middle East, particularly in
Syria, underscored the need for continued work in Syria. The President of
Physicians for Peace, Charles E. Horton, M.D., had communicated mutual interest
in another mission to Syria with Suheil Simaan, M.D., Chairman and Professor
of Surgery at the Damascus University School of Medicine. As on other
missions, the goals were to develop mutual understanding of surgical principles
and practice and to assist the Syrian surgeons in solving complex surgical
problems in caring for the war wounded and civilian Lebanese patients as well
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as the Syrian indigent patients. Also, direct teaching of residents and staff
of the hospitals by operative demonstrations, ward rounds, lectures and
conversation, went far to improve the medical care and to develop lasting
friendships with the Syrian medical community and its patients. The ultimate
goal was to promote international cooperation and peace through medicine.
The mission was successful in all aspects.
NARRATIVE
After meeting in Atlanta, our team consisting of five surgeons and four nurses,
boarded our Swiss Air flight overseas. Dr. Barrett would Join us later.
Changing planes in Zurich, we arrived in Damascus 23 hours after our departure
at 11 pm local time. We were met at the airport by Drs. Hossam and Humam
- general surgery residents at the Damascus University - who were to be our
constant companions throughout the trip. Our baggage was collected and we
were escorted through immigration and customs by University officials. Then,
after loading all of our surgical supplies, instruments and personal belongings
into a van we were taken into the city to the Sheraton Hotel.
Our team consisted of:
Bernard "Barney" M. Barrett, Jr., M.D. Plastic Surgeon, Houston, Texas
Frederick E. Finger, III, M.D.
Neurosurgeon, Charlotte, N.C.
Paul P. Gwyn, Jr., M.D.
Plastic Surgeon, Winston-Salem,
N.C.
John McFadden, M.D.
Plastic Surgeon, Norfolk, VA
Kevin L. Smith, M.D.
Plastic Surgeon, Charlotte, N.C.
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Anne Finger, R.N.
Operating Room Nurse, Charlotte,
N.C.
Nancy Gwyn, R.N.
Operating Room Nurse, Winston-Salem,
N.C.
Dena Lambie, R.N., CNOR
Operating Room Nurse, Upper Montclair,
N.J.
Deborah B. Smith, R.N., CNOR
Operating Room Nurse, Charlotte,
N.C.
The next morning, Monday, we were met by Dr. Suheil Simaan at the Assad
Hospital of the Damascus University. The Assad Hospital 18 a new hospital
of approximately 650 beds. At this time it is not completely utilized but
is equipped with the most modern equipment available including modern X-ray
facilities, operating rooms, laboratory equipment and state of the art
construction. Our team was then introduced to the Director of the hospital,
Dr. Hashem, who is a Russian trained endocrinologist. In the lecture hall,
a formal welcome was offered and the team members were introduced by Dr. Simaan
and myself. Four lectures were then presented to the 150 medical students,
residents and attending physicians who were able to attend. No operations
were planned on Monday so all of the team members were taken to the clinic
area for all day consultation and preoperative planning. The surgery schedule
was then arranged and we returned to the Sheraton for dinner and much needed
rest. For the next three days, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, two or three
lectures were provided while the remainder of the team went directly to the
operating room. Between and following surgeries, more clinics were held and
each day the surgery schedule was finalized for the next.
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Each day, three to five operating rooms were utilized and in each surgery
case, Syrian residents or attending scrubbed with a Physicians for Peace team,
to learn the procedure and then continue the postoperative care. During this
mission, surgeries performed covered a broad spectrum. Dr. Finger was able
to perform the resection of an anterior spinal cord tumor with the
neurosurgical staff as well as to discuss many of the finer points of spinal
stabilization surgery. Patients with brachial plexus and other peripheral
nerve injuries were seen and operated upon as well as patients with burn scar
contractures, cleft lip and palate deformities, traumatic nasal deformities
and hand surgeries for improving the function of a patient stricken with
partial paralysis. Also, in conjunction with the Chief of
Cardiovascular/Thoracic Surgery at the Mouassa Hospital of the Damascus
University, a large chest tumor was resected.
During all cases our nurses worked closely with the nurses and staff of the
Assad Hospital in an attempt to improve the expertise of the ancillary staff.
On Friday, the Islamic holy day, surgeries were not performed and we were
invited as guests of Mr. Mohammed Matlouf to the north of Syria on the
Mediterranean where we spent the night at a beautiful seashore resort and
had a day to relax. The following day, we were able to visit the ruins of
a Roman theater in Jable from the third century and then went on to the Crak
des Chevaliers, a beautiful example of a Crusader castle from the 12th century.
This is another beautiful example of the long and varied history of the country
of Syria.
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The next day, Dr. Barrett offered two more lectures, and surgeries and follow-
up clinics took place.
Sunday, August 19th, we were invited to dinner by Mrs. Randa Assi Berri, the
President of the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped and the
wife of the Shiite leader, Nabih Berri of Lebanon. As on previous trips,
Mrs. Berri brought several patients for our advice and treatment. She related
that she was having a great deal of difficulty obtaining care for the medical
needy in Lebanon. She stated that the hospital at the American University
in Beirut was not functional and that many doctors had left. She related
that due to the political situation in Lebanon her Moslem patients could not
obtain any care in the hospitals that were within Christian held territories.
She was most appreciative of the efforts of Physicians for Peace and told
us that our organization was the only group to whom she could turn and
reliably receive medical care for her patients.
On this trip, Mrs. Berri brought nine patients, three adults and six children.
of those nine patients, six were surgical candidates and surgeries were
performed successfully on all six. These patients had problems ranging from
severe burn scar contractures of the hands or face to debilitating peripheral
nerve injuries.
On Monday, August 20th, Drs. Barrett and Smith attended a press conference
at the United States Information Agency Cultural Center that was attended
by two dozen members of the local and international press. At that conference
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we were able to outline our mission's goals and achievements and seemed to
be well received by the press corp. Unfortunately for the press coverage,
our visit in Damascus was overshadowed by the current events in the Persian
Gulf and Kuwait crisis.
After the press conference, Drs. Barrett and Smith met with Mr. Edward
Djerejian, the Ambassador of the United States to Syria. Again, the Ambassador
felt that our presence in Syria was extremely beneficial and of great help
in Syrian/American relationships. That night, the entire team was hosted
by the Ambassador at his residence for a reception with the members of the
American Embassy Staff in Damascus.
On the final day in Damascus, Dr. Smith joined Dr. Sami Cobagni, the
cardiovascular surgeon and Chief at the Mouassa Hospital for rounds in his
unit and surgery. The other members of the team took that day to visit
Maalula, an ancient city some 50 kilometers from Damascus. This series of
cliffs and caves was very important during the time of Christ as a hiding
place for the early Christians and the language Aramaic - the language of
Christ - is still spoken in Maalula.
That day also held further shopping for souvenirs and sightseeing in Damascus
and then packing for the long trip home.
HIGHLIGHTS: Every action and overture has been warmly received and pressure
for return visits and further contacts is universal, everywhere by everyone.
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Everyone with whom we had contact applauds every aspect of our efforts and
pressures us for an extension and an enlargement of our activities.
A strong international cadre of professionals and friends of Physicians for
Peace gives strength and substance to our missions.
During our Damascus mission, over 400 patients were seen in clinics for
consultation and treatment plans. that will be carried out by the local
physicians and 43 surgeries were successfully performed. These surgeries
were performed for patients who had problems that were deemed too complex
by our host surgeons to undergo surgery or in the case of Mrs. Berri's
patients, had no access to adequate medical care.
As the missions grow in number and scope, greater awareness of our activities
is measurably extending our influence for peace. It is obvious that the
Syrians were eager for more visits and exchanges on all levels including
ancillary and staff positions. They are in great need of continuing medical
education and need extreme help with nursing instruction at all levels
including Intensive Care, Recovery Room and Ward Care and Operating Room
procedures. A policy and procedure manual was developed by Deborah Smith
and given to the Assad University Hospital as a core curriculum for operating
room nurses. Despite the effort of education and material, there is a
desperate need for trained personnel to bring the hospital up to the standards
of medical care in this country.
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The Syrians were greatly appreciative of many of the donations of medical
supplies and equipment brought by the Physicians for Peace team. These
included many tissue expanders and prostheses provided by the McGhan Medical
Corporation of Santa Barbara, California, the donation of antibiotics by Meade
Johnson Pharmaceuticals and the donation of surgical reconstruction instruments
and implantation hardware by Walter Lorenz Surgical Instruments, Inc., of
Jacksonville, Florida. Without their support our trip would not have been
as great a success.
I take the liberty of speaking for the entire Physicians for Peace Medical
Team that we all take great pride in our accomplishments during our mission
to Syria and are all very positive that our intentions were perceived as honest
and sincere and that our motivations were to promote world peace through
personal understanding and the demonstration of personal commitment.
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The New York Times/Don Hogan Charles
Frank Mickens, the principal of Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, talking to a student. While improving the school, he
has been criticized for his efforts to keep what he considers undesirable students out.
A Tough Principal Turns Around a School
By NEIL A. LEWIS
and Girls High last year, said that when he
It is 8:45 A.M. and dozens of teen-agers
are running down Atlantic Avenue in Brook-
A Brooklyn educator
started at the school, the principal was "just
a name."
lyn. Others are moving at a brisk trot from
"I never saw him," Mr. McMillan said of
other parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
stresses the right to
Mr. Mickens's predecessor. But when Mr.
They are rushing to get in the door of Boys
Mickens arrived in 1986, "the change was
and Girls High School by 8:56 to avoid
choose his students.
dramatic."
"He was behind every corner," Mr. Mc-
spending two hours in detention, copying
Millan said. The cafeteria, he said, went
dreary paragraphs.
from "ground zero" to being an acceptable
The detention program is one of the meth-
forts to keep what he considers undesirable
place to eat and converse.
ods that Frank Mickens has used in his
students out of the school.
The apparent success of Mr. Mickens, a
three years as principal to change the
In the process, he has reinforced the no-
42-year-old bachelor, stems in part from his
school from one regarded as one of the
tion that a strong principal is important to
intense involvement he knows each student
worst in New York City to one that receives
improving a troubled school.
by sight if not by name It also stems from
increasing attention as a success. But Mr.
Randall E. McMillan, a freshman at Cor-
Mickens also has been criticized for his ef-
nell University who graduated from Boys
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A Principal Turns Around a School
dreariest passages from history
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for parents and prospective students
books to be copied by students in de-
who want to transfer to the school.
tention, said that in the early months
These are usually students who tried
rules he instituted, including a ban on
of the Mickens regime there were
another school and either did not like
the wearing of gold jewelry and short
more than 300 students late on an
it or did not do well. Or they may be
skirts and on the use of personal tape
average day. Now, fewer than a dozen
students who have had family diffi-
players. "The first year I was here I
are day.
culties and are being placed by social-
took away 56 Walkmen," he said. "We
Mr. Mickens purposely mispro-
service agencies.
have a social mission here, so I have
nounces Mr. Finley's name to stu-
"I won't let them force any young-
to set social standards."
dents to provide an ominous cast
ster on me," Mr. Mickens said. 'They
Although the school at 1700 Fulton
"I"m going to send you to see Mr. Fi-
tell me the kid has a right to come
Street sits amid a neighborhood af-
nally! he threatened one student re-
here. Well let me tell you, I have a
flicted with drugs and-crime, there is
cently.
right, too."
a two-block moat of safety around the
A Former Coach
Mr. Kriftcher said Mr. Mickens
building Students are not allowed to
Mr. Mickens, a bearlike man who
could not legally refuse to accept any
linger outside at the end of the day;
often has a sodden cigar stub in his
student from the neighborhood, add-
they are ordered away
mouth, was the school's basketball
ing that he has had to force the princi-
Right to Select Students.
coach for 10 years until 1979 - the
pal to accept some students. In Mr.
Mickens's office there is a chart with
To improve the school, Mr. Mickens
last time it won the city champion-
the names of students who were
says he must have the right to select
pressed on him. He said he watches
his students: HIS approach IS related
them closely.
to an issue that has bedeviled educa-
tors and parents: Why do urban
A tough educator
An Inevitable Comparison
Catholic schools fare well where pub-
Occasionally Mr Mickens is com-
lic schools do not?
says he won't let
pared to Joe Clark, whose style as
A major reason, it is widely as-
principal of Eastside High School in
sumed, is that parochial schools can
his school be a
Paterson, N.J. is the subject of a cur-
choose their students:
rent movie: "Lean on Me It is a
The principal's methods also have
'dumping ground.
comparison made more inevitable
highlighted the problems created by
because Mr. Mickens carries a claw
New York City version of the mag-
hammer with him when he patrols,
net school concept, a two-tiered pub-
the perimeter of the school Mr.
lic high school system in which some
ship He worked as principal at Mar-
Clark's trademarks are a baseball
schools can choose their students
tin Luther King Jr. High School in
bat and'a bullhorn.
while others cannot. Many principals
Manhattan before returning to Boys
But although he has balked at ac-
of neighborhood schools like Mr
and Girls in 1985.
cepting some students, he has not,
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Mickens have complained that the
"He's done wondrous things with
sought to expel large groups of those
system results in the special schools
the school," said Noel Kriftcher, the
currently enrolled as Mr. Clark had
taking the best students away, leav-
superintendent of high schools in
And his hammer, he said. is not to in-
ing mem with those most difficult to
Brooklyn and Staten Island.
timidate students but rather to pro-
educate,
But Mr. Kriftcher and others do not
tect himself from neighborhood drug
"I don't want to be a dumping
laud Mr. Mickens's efforts to restrict
dealers
ground Mr. Mickens said. "Some of
admissions.
Underlying his style is an effort to
these kids may have a right to an
Some education advocacy groups
change the reputation of the school in
education, but they don't have a right
and Board of Education officials say
the neighborhood so that the best stu-
to an education at Boys and Girls
it is illegal for Mr. Mickens to trv to
dents do not want to go elsewhere.
High School."
do SO. Under the New York City,
Carla Littrean recalled the dread she
No Loitering
school system. a neighborhood high
felt because of the school's reputation
On recent visits to the school, the
school must take all the students who
when she was about to start as a stu-
halls were clean, no one was loitering
Iive in its district.
dent there.
"Everyone told me, 'Whatever you
during classes and dozens of students
Inconvenient Appointments
do, don't go to Boys and Girls,' she
said that if there was any drug ac
Mr. Mickens has all but refused to
said. But Carla, who plans to attend
fivity in the school, it was so rare as
admit those he does not want his crit-
the State University of New York at
to be virtually unknown, By contrast,
ics say Mr. Mickens says the same.
Geneseo next year, said she recently
some city high schools are unable to
He acknowledged that he has set up
recommended to a younger brother
control people roaming the halls.
appointments at hours inconvenient
that he attend Boys and Girls.
Of the 305 students who graduated
from Boys and Girls High last year,
70 percent went on to college with 151
going to four-year colleges, But there
is another way to view the numbers.
Originally, there were more than 600
students in the class of 88 - a pro-
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who remain are rewarded, many an
not last the race.
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Robert Finley the dean of disci-
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ELEMENTARY
mumm
Debbie and Fares Wehbe
on evening patrol
scent
BCE
More powerful
than any
drug lord are
communities
united
against evil
They're Taking Back
Their Neighborhoods
By PAUL BAGNE
section had survived the encroach-
"I've Had Enough!"
ment of Greater Los Angeles. Most
It was love at first sight when
residents owned their homes or
Fares Wehbe, a soft-spoken Leba-
were long-term renters. They shared
nese immigrant, met Debbie Pease,
values and knew their neighbors.
a striking California blonde, in
Their children played together.
1982. Soon after, they married and
But by late 1988, crack cocaine
settled into Debbie's old neighbor-
had transformed the neighborhood
hood of Hollywood, Calif. There
into an open-air drug market. Buy-
they raised two boys and two girls.
ers came from all over Los Angeles
The appeal of this working-class
in taxis, broken-down heaps and
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gleaming limousines. With them
on their porches. "We've got to do
came crime and violence. At night
something!"
Debbie and Fares heard gunshots,
As the police dragged the at-
and police choppers often clattered
tacker to a squad car, he hissed at
overhead as residents hid in their
Fares, "I'll get you!" Shaken, Fares
houses.
and Debbie turned to their house,
One night, as the Wehbes pulled
only to see their children, wide-
into their driveway, their head-
eyed with fright, watching from a
lights startled a well-dressed
bedroom window.
stranger who was taking a wad of
That night Fares had trouble
cash from a known drug dealer.
sleeping. We're prisoners in our own
The stranger glared at Fares and
homes, he kept thinking. He re-
his family. "I could see in that
called that he had come to America
man's eyes," Fares recalls, "that if I
to escape violence in his native Bei-
confronted him, he would kill me."
rut. At that moment Fares vowed
Days later, Fares noticed a
to take back his neighborhood.
neighborhood dealer at work up
He had heard of neighborhoods
the street. After each sale, he would
starting citizen patrols. Intrigued,
send a teen-age girl to fetch more
he sought the advice of the Guard-
drugs from a man in a red Ford
ian Angels, the civilian patrol or-
Bronco. That man, Fares realized,
ganization. Travel in groups, they
was the same one they had spied in
suggested. No violent confronta-
their driveway. Now Fares under-
tions. No weapons. No heroics.
stood: this stranger was supplying
"They gave us street smarts," says
local drug dealers. They're selling
Fares. "And courage."
drugs right in front of our children.
The Wehbes organized 50 neigh-
I've had enough! Fares, confronted
bors into a patrol called the Holly-
the supplier. "This is our neighbor-
wood Sentinels. Their tactics were
hood," he declared. "Take your
simple. They dogged a dealer's every
drugs and get out!"
step so he couldn't do business.
The dealer looked nervously at a
They shone flashlights in dark alleys
police car down the street and then
to startle crack users. When a buyer
at his accuser. Without warning, he
slowed his car to ask for drugs,
punched Fares in the face and took
they'd snap a flash photo and shout,
off running. Fares pursued him
"Stay out of our neighborhood!"
until the man stopped and spun
Every day, regardless of the
around. Thinking the guy might go
weather, volunteers walked the
for a gun, Fares tackled him.
streets until two in the morning,
Debbie, who was watching the
while others cooked meals or baby-
struggle, became nearly hysterical.
sat. Senior citizens watched from
"Is this how you want to live?" she
windows and called in their obser-
screamed to her neighbors, now out
vations to the patrol.
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One night a dealer threatened to
big diamonds. Local kids thought
pull a gun on Fares. Spent from
he was too cool to get caught.
long nights of patrolling, Fares just
The dangerous drug came to
stood there and screamed, "Go
Kansas City in the mid-1980s, and
ahead and shoot, you coward!' The
within a few years some 35° active
gunman looked at the grim-faced
crack houses had sprung up. No
Sentinels and skulked off.
sooner would the police close one
Discouraged by the apparent
down than another would open a
lack of progress, some volunteers
block away.
quit. But Fares, Debbie and a core
Just around the corner from
group pushed on. The Los Angeles
McCutchen lived Alvin Brooks,
police, impressed by their dedica-
a former policeman and city ad-
tion, provided undercover cops to
ministrator.
watch over them.
More than once
Eventually their grit paid off.
McCutchen
Users stopped coming. Left with-
shouted taunts at
out customers, dealers disappeared
Brooks. "Hey,
one by one. After a few months,
come see what
the neighborhood had its streets
I've got in here."
back.
The neighbor-
These days, if a suspicious char-
hood had fallen
acter shows up, the Wehbes' neigh-
on hard times.
bors don't lock their doors. They
Houses were
come out to ask why he's there. The
now owned by
Alvin Brooks
Sentinels still patrol a few nights
absentee land-
each week, but mainly for exercise.
lords, who let them deteriorate.
A short time ago, however, they did
Drug deals gone sour led to killings.
run into a dealer. "You people still
Still, Brooks could not bring
here?" he asked in disgust-and
himself to leave his home of 30
then moved on.
years. He had raised his son and
The Wehbes know that they and
five daughters there. He also felt he
their neighbors have not solved the
owed something to a place that had
crack problem. But today their chil-
given him such happy memories.
dren can ride bikes down drug-free
And so, Brooks says, "I elected to
streets. "We won our war," Debbie
stay and do what I could."
says proudly of Hollywood's success.
What McCutchen and other
dealers didn't know was that
Ace Up His Sleeve
Brooks had an ace up his sleeve: a
Daniel J. McCutchen was a noto-
neighborhood organization he had
rious crack dealer in Kansas City,
helped found called the Ad Hoc
Mo. Squat and fat, McCutchen
Group Against Crime. It was born
wore fancy clothes, gold chains and
in 1977 after ten Kansas City
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women, nine of them black, were
a building as a likely crack house,
brutally murdered. The police de-
Sargeon would telephone the own-
partment was rocked by charges of
er and request a meeting. He would
racism because it hadn't solved any
bring a detective and a prosecutor
of the cases. But the black commu-
to the session, and they'd tell the
nity didn't trust the police and
landlord that the state can seize a
wouldn't cooperate.
drug house. Sargeon would then
To close the rift, Brooks called a
offer the landlord a more palatable
public meeting, which drew more
alternative: evict the tenant. In this
than 300 irate citizens. "The police
way Ad Hoc quietly closed more
alone cannot make us safe," Brooks
than a hundred crack houses.
proclaimed over shouts of anger.
Because he owned his own crack
"If you don't take responsibility
houses, Danny McCutchen was im-
too, you're as much to blame." The
mune to this tactic. He also wasn't
crowd soon quieted. "We see and
flustered by protest marches.
hear things the police never will," he
Brooks mobilized McCutchen's
continued. "We need to help them."
neighbors into a network of watch-
Brooks won support and estab-
dogs. He had Ad Hoc volunteers,
lished a reward fund and a secret-
trained in surveillance techniques,
witness hotline linking the black
observe each of McCutchen's three
community to the police. Run by
drug houses. They watched him
volunteers, it would take anony-
when he left his house and took
mous phone tips and pass them on
note of whom he met, when he met
to the police. The idea worked.
them, even where he ate his meals.
Within months the police solved
Brooks forwarded these scraps of
most of the murders.
information to the police and to
The members of Ad Hoc staged
frequent rallies in front of known
prosecutors. Little by little they
helped build a case.
drug houses, and Brooks spear-
The big break came one night
headed a "blitz on the crack houses."
when a secret witness telephoned
The marchers chanted anti-drug slo-
Brooks. He knew where McCut-
gans while passing out leaflets urging
chen had stashed some cocaine.
neighbors to report the names and
Tell the police, Brooks suggested.
license-plate numbers of dealers
"I'll only talk to Ad Hoc," he re-
and buyers. Police soon got leads
plied. So Brooks took the informa-
that led to numerous arrests.
tion himself, and on September 29,
Sometimes the glare of publicity
1989, the police struck in lightning
was enough to get crack-house op-
raids. They hit pay dirt: cocaine,
erators to pack up and leave. When
cash and guns.
it wasn't, Brooks and his Ad Hoc
Brooks made sure neighborhood
colleague Clifford Sargeon used
kids were in the courtroom to listen
another strategy. After identifying
to the cocky dealer plead guilty to
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THEY'RE TAKING BACK THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS
selling cocaine. And they heard the
complete with a lighted softball
judge's sentence: 20 years in prison,
diamond. Scores of people came out
without parole.
to see local teams play there.
For Brooks the battle continues.
But by the mid-1970s, Acres
"Living among the crime, drugs
Homes had fallen on hard times.
and violence puts countless kids at
The economy was bad, and resi-
risk," he explains. His glance drifts
dents felt the sense of community
to a ceramic skull, a gift from a
was diminished by busing children
troubled kid.
to other school districts.
"I pleaded with him to stay away
By the 1980s Acres Homes had
from the dealers," Brooks says sad-
become paralyzed by fear: crack
ly. The skull was made in crafts
sellers were dealing in broad day-
class at a federal prison.
light and threatening
With it was a note: "I
anyone who stood in
wish I'd heard you.
their way. A new gen-
When I get out, maybe I
eration was growing
can work with you to
up with memories
fight drugs-for the
sadly different from
kids."
Scales's. Said one
Just Like Old Times
young resident, "Gun-
shots are no big deal-
Children have always
I've heard them all my
meant a lot to Erma
life."
Scales. For years she
Erma Scales
In 1982, Lee Patrick
taught special education.
Brown became Hous-
at an elementary school in the
ton's first black chief of police. Help
Houston neighborhood where she
had arrived. Brown put his captains
grew up. It was there in a commu-
in community substations, his cops in
nity known as. Acres Homes that
storefront offices and told them to
her father bought property after
find civilians with the guts to help
World War II. Over the years
take on the dealers.
Scales watched Acres Homes grow
When officers assigned to Acres
into a vibrant neighborhood. "We
Homes proposed a police-citizen
cared for and watched out for-one
action committee on drugs, Scales
another," she recalls fondly.
and a dozen other volunteers were
Now 57, Scales remembers
chosen. But at the first meeting no
watching high-school parades with
one was willing to head the com-
elaborate prancing horses, march-
mittee. Finally, Scales, a caring,
ing bands and colorful floats. To
grandmotherly woman, raised her
reflect the community's pride,
hand. "I'll head it," she said.
Houston civic leaders raised money
Led by Scales, the War on Drugs
to build the Andrew Winzer Park,
Committee urged neighbors to re-
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port drug activity and tear down
son could walk into the park with-
abandoned buildings used as crack
out being questioned.
stores. She pressed the police for
Eventually, all drug activity in
more assistance. It came when Da-
the park ceased. To keep up the
vid Massey, a 23-year veteran of the
pressure, beat cops were brought in,
force, was named the area's police
and Scales and the committee con-
captain in February 1988.
tinued to urge their neighbors to
On his first day, Massey asked to
notify police about suspicious go-
see Acres Homes. His tour ended in
ings on.
the tall weeds around Andrew
Today drugs still plague parts of
Winzer Park. Empty wine bottles
Houston. But word is out to the
and plastic crack vials lay strewn
dealers: the people of Acres Homes
about the playground. To his
intend to keep their park free of
amazement, even with his car in
drugs.
plain sight, the drug dealing con-
To recognize the community's
tinued close by. This, Massey
spirit, the committee decided there
thought, is where I make my stand.
should be some sort of celebration.
With the help of Scales and her
So members of Boy Scout Troop
committee, he identified the main
448 carried the "Acres Homes War
hot spots for drug dealing. Under-
on. Drugs" banner as they led a
cover cops then went in and arrest-
parade of 35° people past 1700 spec-
ed the dealers. Next, he got the
tators. Riding behind them, waving
committee to recruit neighbors to
to the crowd, was Captain Massey.
rid the Winzer Park area of weeds:
Next came teams of horses pulling
This exposed the escape routes used
old-time fire wagons. The parade
to elude cops. With the battlefield
ended in the reclaimed green fields
cléared, Massey launched an assault
of Winzer Park.
that nabbed scores of dealers and
Even Erma Scales had to agree-
users. After that, no suspicious per-
it was just like old times.
Maine Lines
DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS the tidal river leading to Kennebunkport,
Maine, bustles with yachts and lobster boats. One day the owner of a fancy
powerboat heading upriver on an outgoing tide inquired of a passing
lobsterman if there was enough water to make it to the anchorage.
"Yup," said the lobsterman with a wave of his hand, and the yacht
owner sailed on, only to go hard aground on the sand bar. Later, on seeing
the lobsterman again, he asked why he had said the water was deep
enough.
"Plenty of water in the river," was the reply. "Just spread kind of thin
sometimes."
-Nancy S. Thigpen in Down East
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A
YOUNG WOMAN is crying so
who fall through the cracks of the
hard she cannot talk. Hours
welfare system. She reaches out to
earlier she had found her
daughter dead in her crib, a victim
anyone who asks for help: battered
of Sudden Infant Death Syn-
women and children, vagrants,
drome. Unmarried, with five oth-
chronic alcoholics, drug addicts, the
er children, she is on welfare and
mentally ill, ex-convicts. "So many
does not know how to ar-
programs have eligibility require-
range for a burial. Her
Having known suffering and
friends take her to a two-
story brick building in
sorrow, Minneapolis's Mary Jo
downtown Minneapolis.
Copeland ministers selflessly to
The sign above the door
reads Sharing and Caring
anyone in need or hurting
Hands.
Mary Jo Copeland, the
Someone
well-dressed and well-
groomed director of the
center, hugs the woman.
Who Cares
"Don't worry.
Your baby's going
By JOHN G. HUBBELL
to have a funeral.
We'll take care of
everything. Pray
with me." Then
Mary Jo calls the
county welfare de-
partment, which'
agrees to pay $572
toward the baby's
burial. She finds a
cemetery plot and
a priest.
Mary Jo created
Sharing and Car-
ing Hands to pro-
vide food, clothing,
dental care, a room
for the night, a
shower and shave
or a bus ticket
home to people
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ments and frustrate and defeat
"Uh-Oh, Mary Jo." No one who
people," says Minneapolis Mayor
comes into Sharing and Caring
Donald M. Fraser. "But with Mary
Hands knows more about depriva-
Jo, all anyone has to do is walk in."
tion and loneliness than Mary Jo
Now an older woman enters the
Copeland. Born in Rochester, Minn.,
building with a nine-year-old child.
in 1942, she spent the first six years
Outside it is far below zero, and the
of her life in the Minneapolis home
girl is shivering, wearing only a
of her affluent grandparents, who
thin dress and sandals. Her eyes are
cherished and pampered her.
swollen shut, and bruises and cuts
Mary Jo was only vaguely aware
cover her face and arms. "Her
of her parents, who visited occa-
mother got drunk and beat her up,"
sionally but never showed any af-
her grandmother explains. "It hap-
fection for her. She later learned
pens a lot."
that her father was unable to sup-
Mary Jo's eyes flood with tears as
port his family and had left her
she talks to the youngster. "Are you
with his parents. When Mary Jo's
cold, honey? Do you hurt?" At first
mother had a baby boy, the grand-
the girl looks away, but as Mary Jo
parents thought it was time to bring
gently persists she finally turns and
the family together. Mary Jo moved
lets herself be hugged. Helpers take
in with her parents.
the child for a hot bath; then they
Often her father awoke in a rage,
will provide winter clothing. Mary
cursing his wife for her abominable
Jo encourages the grandmother to
cooking and housekeeping. In the
initiate the legal steps that will
evenings he might beat her. "My
transfer custody of the girl from her
mother would scream and plead
mother to her grandmother.
with him," Mary Jo remembers,
In walks Curtis Snow, 32, an
"and I'd sit outside for hours, pray-
out-of-work chef. Several weeks
ing that my mother wouldn't die."
before, he lost his job and hasn't
Her mother's main focus in life,
been able to find another. He, his
says Mary Jo, was simply "to keep
wife and their two daughters have
my father from getting angry." Yet
been sleeping in their car. "I ap
she was so overwrought that she
plied for federal assistance but
frequently seemed incapable of
was told that nothing could be
dealing with the things that en-
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done until the end of the month,"
raged him. "The house was never
he says.
clean," Mary Jo recalls. "Beds went
Mary Jo finds the family an
unmade, rooms undusted; dishes
apartment, pays enough rent to car-
rarely got washed. The tub was
ry them to their first federal pay-
filthy, and I couldn't take baths."
ment and gives Snow some money
In parochial school, Mary Jo re-
to live on. Meanwhile, he will keep
mained aloof and alone. She had
looking for a job.
awful body odor. Other children
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SOMEONE WHO CARES
would shout, "Uh-oh, there's Mary
One summer Dick got a glimpse
Jo," and hold their noses. "I was in
of the instincts burgeoning inside
such emotional turmoil that I
Mary Jo. "She was working in a
couldn't concentrate on school-
dime store," he says, "and one rainy
work. My poor report cards en-
day after she picked up her pay-
raged my father, and he would
check we saw a young mother
insist I was stupid and worthless."
walking with a couple of small
"Don't You See?" The one thing
children. They were raggedly
that did fire her interest in school
dressed and obviously very poor.
was religion class. "I was enthralled
Mary Jo talked to the woman and
with the idea that God loves us all
took her to a supermarket. She
equally and unconditionally," she
spent her entire paycheck on gro-
says. "I memorized my catechism
ceries, then gave her own raincoat
and said the rosary all the time.
to the woman. I said, 'Mary Jo, your
Soon I realized that there were lots
father will kill you!' She said, 'I
of children in the world like me-
don't care. She needs a coat. Don't
some even worse off. I began to
you see how poor they are?"
know that God had some special
"Leave Me Alone!" In June
task in mind for me."
1960, Mary Jo graduated from high
Mary Jo's father required her to
school. The following year she and
pay a good share of her Catholic
Dick were married. She was em-
high school's tuition. She stayed
ployed as a nurse's aide while Dick
after school each day and scrubbed
worked his way through college.
floors and blackboards.
The children came early and of-
One evening during her sopho-
ten. Dick left college for a job with
more year, she went alone to a
a department store, and the family
dance. Spotting an attractive lad,
bought a house in the suburbs. "We
she approached, him on the pretext
took our children to the park, cir-
that she was looking for someone.
cus, ZOO and the beach," Mary Jo
"Are you Tom Kelly?" she asked,
says. "We made sure they had nor-
making up the name. He said he
mal, happy lives." Every Christmas
was not, and she started to walk
the family wrapped presents they
away. "Wait a minute," he said,
had bought for poor families. "We
"would you like to dance?"
wanted to teach our kids the right
His name was Dick Copeland,
way to live," she explains.
and they danced all evening. He
While expecting her seventh
saw her home and asked if he could
child, Mary Jo fell into a terrible
call her for a date. Soon they were
depression. A physician put her on
together constantly, though it was a
a tranquilizer, which helped, but
year before Mary Jo told him about
she kept using it after the baby was
her home life, which was becoming
born. Soon she had trouble sleep-
increasingly unbearable.
ing, so the doctor gave her sleeping
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SOMEONE WHO CARES
service award as well as $1100 from
the governor of Minnesota, the
a local TV station and decided it
mayors of Minneapolis and Brook-
was time to make her dream come
lyn Center, Minn., and many organi-
true. She found an inner-city store-
zations. Last December, the Caring
front and put the sign Sharing and
Institute celebrated her as one of
Caring Hands in the window. "I
America's ten most caring people,
had to sign a $36,000 lease for three
"those exceptional few who by their
years," says Dick, a food-company
selfless acts ennoble the human
buyer. "I had no money, but Mary
race."
Jo told me not to worry about it."
He grins. "So I signed it."
A HOMELESS MAN wearing an an-
To get funds and volunteers,
cient, tattered parka limps into
Mary Jo wrote to business leaders
Sharing and Caring Hands. "It's
and spoke before civic groups,
my feet," he tells Mary Jo. "They
foundations and churches. She dis-
hurt so bad I can hardly walk."
covered, to her surprise, that she
She kneels and begins removing
was a powerful speaker. "People
the torn, worn-out tennis shoes
were spellbound when she laid out
from his ulcerated feet. She brings a
a picture of God's working in the
basin of warm, soapy water and
world through the poor," said the
gently washes them, applying dis-
Rev. Lawrence Johnson, a Maple-
infectant and a soothing ointment:
wood priest. "She made it seem
She dresses. his feet in new socks
possible to make a difference."
and walking shoes. "Look after
Today a thousand volunteers
your feet," she tells him. "They
help her minister to the hundreds
must carry you a long way in this
who crowd into Sharing and Car-
world, and then all the way to
ing Hands during the day. Individ-
God." Her eyes brim with tears as
uals, corporate foundations and
she watches him walk away.
businesses have donated hundreds
"Jesus washed his Apostles' feet,"
of thousands of dollars.
she explains. "He came to serve, not
Mary Jo has been recognized by
to be served. Can we do less?"
Case Closed. Former Vermont Republican Senator Robert T. Stafford is
known for his self-deprecating sense of humor. He likes to tell of the time
when he was attorney general in Vermont and unsuccessfully argued a
case before the state's chief justice, Olin Jeffords. As Stafford tells it, he
complained to Justice Jeffords that arguing his case was "like butting my
head against a stone wall."
To which the chief justice replied, "Mr. Attorney General, no one
could do that with less fear of personal injury than you."
-Philip Shabecoff in New York Times
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HEADLINE: 'LEARNER OF YEAR,' A SEVENTH-GRADE DROPOUT, NEVER LET THE FLAME DIE
BYLINE: By LISA R. OMPHROY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
BODY:
At age 17, Gloria Isabella Mercado was a seventh-grade dropout with three
children, a shaky marriage and little hope of ever realizing her lifelong dream
of becoming a schoolteacher.
That dream grew even dimmer when Mercado was forced to join a system she
equated with charity, hopelessness and shame: welfare.
But when she was recently named "California Adult Learner of the Year" by the
state community college system, Mercado, now 46, credited the Department of
Social Services' public assistance program as the key to her success.
Through a joint program of social services and the San Diego Community
College District, Mercado obtained a high-school equivalency degree, got off
welfare and found a job. Now she is working toward a degree in education at San
Diego City College.
Mercado serves as an example to other welfare recipients that dreams should
not die in the face of poverty, San Diego City College officials said.
"Living on welfare was 50 demeaning that I didn't have the confidence or
drive to get an education," Mercado said. "Before, I would walk with my head
looking down to the ground because I was ashamed of my situation and always
trying to find pennies or small change to help out. Today I feel so proud of
myself that I no longer look to the ground when I walk. I don't find fallen
money anymore either -- I earn it."
Mercado began pulling herself out of the poverty cycle with the help of GAIN
(Greater Avenues for Independence), a program funded by the Department of Social
Services that requires welfare recipients to take classes in basic math and
reading to increase their chances of getting a job.
GAIN nominated Mercado for the state Adult Learner of the Year Award because
program officials watched her bloom from a student reluctant to get her
education after years of procrastinating, into an eager co-ed, GAIN coordinator
Barbara Barnes said. Adult education programs throughout the state nominate
candidates for the award, and the winner is decided by the state chancellor's
office, Barnes said.
The award puts Mercado in the running to become national Outstanding Adult
Learner and receive a plaque presented by Barbara Bush and Dan Quayle later this
month, Barnes said.
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"Gloria is a true inspiration," Barnes said. "She has proven that strong
desire truly is the first step to success."
For Mercado, a lifelong San Diego resident, taking that first step was the
hardest part.
She had her first baby at age 14 in 1961 and ended up in a home for unwed
mothers.
She quit school soon afterward. Two years later, she was pregnant again with
the child of a different man. She married that man one year afterward, at age
17, and had a third child.
"I can remember when the girls my age were getting ready for their senior
prom and partying, and how much I felt cheated," she said. "I was raising
babies, changing diapers and making bottles when they were having fun."
By that time, the mother of three had started receiving welfare, which she
would continue getting for the next 20 years. She had two more children, one of
whom died as an infant. By the time she was 29 in 1974, her marriage broke up.
She remarried in 1977 and had two more children by her second husband.
Both during and after her marriages, she said, she felt the sense of
degradation and hopelessness that came with a $500 monthly welfare check
stretched to feed and clothe six children.
It was pointless to fill out a job application listing a seventh-grade
education, she said.
Then, in 1987, when Mercado was 42 and had little idea that her life would
ever change for the better, the state Department of Social Services decided
people on welfare rolls with school-aged children would have to take classes in
reading, language and math to prepare to enter the job world, she said.
The ruling was a blessing in disguise for Mercado, who was petrified of
taking classes again, but knew it would be for her own good.
"I was pretty upset with the Department of Social Services for sending me
back to school because I was afraid of failing," Mercado said. "But, within two
weeks, I realized this was a chance for me, and I really dove into my books."
The studying led to her equivalency degree within two months. By December of
that year she was hired by the GAIN instructional lab to work 12 to 15 hours a
week tutoring others. And, even though money was tight at first, Mercado managed
to get off welfare and support herself.
Now she works full-time at the lab, tutoring students in English, math and
reading, and attends college classes at night. She earns $7 an hour. Today her
days are filled with working full-time at the lab. Although most of her children
have left the nest to raise children of their own, she still has an 11-year-old
and 14-year-old at home. Both attend a local junior high school.
Although she is proud of the state award and the progress she has made toward
grasping her dream, she is most impressed with the way her children see things.
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"I am proud of my mom, and this is a great accomplishment for her
self-esteem," said daughter Irene Correa, 30. "I have always been proud of her,
but she has not always been proud of herself. This award helps a lot."
"I spent all those years telling the kids they could never have the things
other kids had," Mercado said, "and they spent their time telling me I could do
it. Now they are really proud of me because I am doing things for myself."
GRAPHIC: Photo, Gloria Isabella Mercado, the California Adult Learner of the
Year, is now on her way toward a degree in education at San Diego City
College. BARBARA MARTIN / Los Angeles Times; Photo, ACHIEVER: Gloria Isabella
Mercado, above, a 46-year-old former welfare recipient, has been named the
California Adult Learner of the Year. The mother of six may compete for a
similar national award to be presented by Barbara Bush and Dan Quayle.
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THE DENVER POST, MAY 7, 1990
Frustrated by bureaucracy,
poor people seek allies on the right
I
YOU go far enough to the left in
ELAINE KAMARCK
American politics, you may bump into
the right, and there you will find that
America is on the verge of a new war on
age 14 and has lived in public housing for
Reach an accommodation on civil rights,
poverty. Leading it are people who never
much of her life. She is a leader in the
adopt a strategy of empowerment, attack
even knew each other, let alone talked to
movement to allow residents of public
the poverty industry and allow states to be
one another.
housing projects to buy their own apart-
the innovators of antipoverty policy.
The most recent example can be found
ments. To do this, she had to get a federal
Says Gray, "We are all registered Dem-
in the person of Wisconsin State Rep. An-
law changed and, in so doing, she hooked
ocrats. But we work very closely with Re-
nette Polly Williams.
up with a conservative former congress-
publicans because they're the ones that
Williams is black and has been poor for
man - Jack Kemp - now secretary of
seem to understand that we do not want to
most of her life. She still lives in the inner-
housing and urban development.
stay a poor and permanent underclass."
city Milwaukee neighborhood where she
Like tuition vouchers, tenant ownership
Williams has been to the White House and
raised four children, spent some time on
of public housing used to be a conservative
welfare and finally, 20 years after gradu-
idea. But in the hands of Kimi Gray and
was praised by President Bush in a sneenti
ating from high school, got her college de-
Polly Williams, ideas that were conserv
gree.
tive become something else entirely. Kir
A few weeks ago, Williams took on the
Gray taught Jack Kemp a thing or to
entire liberal establishment of Wisconsin
about public housing, the bill that permi
Mark-
and beat them by passing a bill that would
tenants to buy public housing has in it pr
give poor parents in Milwaukee tuition
visions that would renovate the properti
FYI
vouchers for their children that they could
before sale to the tenants and that wou
take LO any city school public or private
keep the properties for resale to mode
(non-parochial). The plan, which would
ate-income people. Thus, the conservativ
On polly Williams
give each parent who qualified $2,500, sub-
notion of privatization became a vehic
tracts that amount from the public school
for empowerment.
system's budget. It was passed by a coali-
In the hands of Polly Williams, voucl
tion of Republicans and conservative
ers, which in the classic conservative ve
Democrats.
sion subsidized rich whites in privat
Xini gray
Williams did not discover vouchers by
schools, were limited to families up to 17
reading tracts from conservative think
percent of the poverty level, thus givin
poor parents some of the choice that mic
tanks (which have supported the voucher
die-class parents have. Says Gray, "Ou
idea for some time). She simply looked
theme is empowerment, empowerment
-Rae Meban
around her and concluded that when black
parents wanted education for their chil-
the people."
dren, the power structure gave them inte-
Underlying that theme is the questio
gration.
How well can poor people make choices
of Milwaukee is a message that all big city
What that amounted to was "magnet"
for themselves? Polly Williams says,
school systems should hear: "It's gonna
schools to attract white students into the
"Low-income black families know that the
make it better or it's gonna dismantle it. If
city and ridiculously long bus rides to take
only way out is education. They (bureau-
you all are worried about your jobs, try
black children out of the city.
crats) honestly believe that poor families
doing them better.
In a rhyming sequence reminiscent of
can't make decisions."
her friend the Rev. Jesse Jackson (Wil-
For both Williams and Gray, the enemy
Elaine Crum Kamarck is a senior fellow at the.Progres-
liams chaired Jackson's 1988 campaign in
is not necessarily the right or the left; it is
sive Policy Institute
Wisconsin), Williams says that while
the welfare bureaucracy - a group refer-
blacks wanted to "educate," the white
red to by Williams as "the poverty indus-
power structure wanted to "integrate and
try pimps - the people in the middle."
transportate."
Both women complained that government
From frustration with busing and over-
money was going to the bureaucrats, not
crowded schools, Williams says, "I came
poor people.
up with an idea, and it turned out that what
Conservatives have been quick to cele-
I was talking about was a voucher concept.
brate and adapt to this new war on pover-
People with money were always able to
ty. Stuart Butler, a scholar at the conser-
buy into an area with good schools."
vative Heritage Foundation, has outlined a
In Washington, D.C., the new war on
poverty strategy in the National Review:
poverty is being waged by Kimi Gray-Like
Williams, Gray is a former welfare Moth-
tr.
She had the first of her five children at
Local news
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL Tuesday, May 1, 1990 / PAGE 5, PART 1
BENNY SIEU Sentinel photographer
Robert J. Makowski (left), director of a Wheaton Franciscan Services,
Kemp (center), secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and
Inc. housing program, leads a group of officials including Jack F.
Sen. Robert W. Kasten Jr. (R-Wis.) to a renovated house.
Kemp aims for a million new homeowners
By KENNETH R. LAMKE
the GOP presidential nomination in 1988, was in
The Bush housing package, announced last No-
Sentinel staff writer
Milwaukee for a series of appearances.
vember, includes about $2 billion to help low-in-
Jack F. Kemp, the secretary of Housing and
Kemp spoke to about 400 civic leaders at a noon
come tenants buy units in public housing or in
Urban Development, said Monday that the Bush
speech co-sponsored by the Milwaukee Founda-
vacant or foreclosed properties.
administration hopes to create a million new
tion, a charitable foundation, and Wheaton Fran-
The program, called HOPE, or Homeownership
homeowners by 1992 from among the ranks of
ciscan Services, Inc., an organization created by
and Opportunity for People Everywhere, would
low-income people and people living in publicly
the Franciscan nuns to promote inner city housing
cost $7.5 billion over three years, including about
assisted housing.
opportunities.
$3 million in lost revenue from tax incentives.
HUD will do that by emphasizing financial and
He toured a home at 1735 W. Highland Ave.
Known within Republican circles as an advo-
technical assistance to potential homeowners rath-
that had been rehabilitated under a Wheaton
cate for minority programs and for economic
er than by providing money and tax breaks to
Franciscan program and chatted with the occu-
opportunity, Kemp stressed both themes Monday.
developers to build more housing, Kemp said.
pants, Earma Eggerson, and her children, Gregory,
18, and Karla, 16.
He said the move of people toward democracy
The scandals in Reagan administration HUD
Kemp then visited the Spanish Community Cen-
worldwide was as much a push for economic
programs, in which developers won grants based
improvement as for political freedom.
on political influence, won't be repeated, he said.
ter, 614 W. National Ave., where he listened to
Filiberto Murguia, the executive director, outline
"We've depoliticized it," Kemp said of his de-
the center's social service programs.
"Is it possible for democracy to truly work if It
partment.
doesn't have a component that goes to the heart of
Gov. Tommy G. Thompson and Sen. Robert W.
what freedom is all about, and that's the chance to
"There's no room for political influence or
Kasten Jr. (R-Wis.) accompanied Kemp during his
own a piece of property?" Kemp said.
profiteering at the expense of low-income people
appearances. Thompson Sunday had revealed his
and neighborhoods. President Bush gave me a
own $16.5 million state housing initiative.
People's desire for "an economic stake in the
mandate to clean it up and we're doing that," he
A group of about a dozen pickets advocating
system, private property, a chance to have assets,
said.
greater federal housing assistance marched out-
a chance to have a bank account, a savings
side the Wyndham Hotel during Kemp's noon
account, a house, a home, a shelter, a chance to
Kemp's comments came as a former high-rank-
ing HUD official was telling a congressional com-
speech.
raise their children with dignity and justice and
equality of opportunity is at the heart of what this
mittee Monday in Washington, D.C., that former
HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce knew that HUD
The HUD secretary told his audience, which
revolution is about worldwide," Kemp said.
grants were made on a political basis, contradict-
included Mayor John O. Norquist and County
Monday night, Kemp spoke to about 500
ing Pierce's previous testimony.
Executive David F. Schulz, that Bush's housing
Thompson supporters at a fund-raising reception
proposals are aimed at people who haven't bene-
Kemp, 54, a former Republican congressman
at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Brookfield. Orga-
from Buffalo, N.Y., and unsuccessful candidate for
fited from the economic recovery of the last eight
nizers said about $90,000 was raised for Thomp-
years.
son's expected re-election campaign.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(St. Louis, Missouri)
For Immediate Release
February 17, 1989
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO STUDENTS OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Field House
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
10:33 A.M. CST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very, very much. Thank
you, Chancellor Danforth; Chairman Lieberman; our distinguished
Governor, John Ashcroft; and Senator Bond; Congressman Buechner here;
and to your Student Body President, Cynthia Homan; and other student
leaders that have given me this warm reception. I really am pleased
to be here and I've looked forward to sharing this occasion with you.
Mark Twain once wrote, "In Boston, they ask, 'How much
does he know?' In Philadelphia, 'Who were his parents?' In New
York, 'How much is he worth?'" (Laughter.) But Mark Twain was a
Missourian. He would agree with me that you couldn't put a price tag
on this morning. Believe me, I'm delighted to be here, back in St.
Louis and back at this university of excellence -- the home of --
(applause) -- the state of Missouri, the home of ragtime, and
aerospace, agriculture; the state whose native sons include Omar
Bradley and Harry Truman and that master linguist, Yogi Berra --
(laughter and applause) -- the state -- oh, I love to quote Yogi. Do
you remember when he said, "Let's pair 'em off in three's"?
(Laughter.) And nevertheless, this state whose citizens embody the
best of America, and know that the heart of America is good --
working, serving others, hoping and dreaming.
For 136 years your excellent university has played a part
in that effort. Your community has built a pioneering effort in
science and math. Your teaching, research and soaring admission
applications tell a story summed up best by two words -- academic
excellence. (Applause.)
But there's another side of it, another side of the story
that Washington University has to tell -- a story from which all
America can learn. It's a story about investing in America's future
-- how as students and faculty, administrators and alumni, you have
shown that service and volunteerism can enrich education and enrich
America.
You work with the Special Olympics -- Sunday's Special
Olympics is but one chapter in that wonderful story. And around the
nation, other chapters are being written every day. And we're
writing another chapter, trying to in Washington, by opening in the
White House the Office of National Service, which will lead my
administration's community and national service programs.
And our goal is simple -- more Americans helping others
by effectively serving their communities and the nation. And these
symbols, these signs around this room I think sum up what I talk
about when I talk about a thousand points of light -- it is neighbor
helping neighbor, it is kid helping kid, it is friend holding out
their hand to other friends. (Applause.)
From now on in America any definition of a successful
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life must include serving others -- in a child care center, the
corporate boardroom, in the Rotary, or Little League, or a tutoring
program, or a church or a synagogue.
Our new initiative will reflect that spirit, once called
"America's genius for great and generous deeds." And I take special
pride in our Y-E-S, our YES Program -- Youth Entering Service --
which I proposed last fall to encourage American youth to give of
themselves to help others in need. And I'm convinced that we can
help alleviate many national problems by substantially increasing the
involvement of young Americans in voluntary service. And the
establishment of the YES Foundation will help lead that effort.
Together, we can show that what matters in the end are
not possessions. What matters is engaging in high moral principle of
serving one another. And that's the story of America that we can
write through voluntary service.
Eight days ago, in a joint session of Congress, I
proposed a budget to complement voluntary efforts to help serve the
gentler impulses of mankind. I listed four national objectives -- to
bring the deficit down, to invest in America's future, to find
solutions to an urgent set of national priorities, and no new taxes.
And our budget curbs the growth of federal spending while
providing for the most vulnerable among us. It is responsive and
responsible, and it will ensure a strong and stable economy. Our
budget balances social concern with fiscal sanity and leaves power in
the hands of the people. It shows that we can have a government with
a heart as well as a head.
And when it comes to reducing the deficit, some people
say it can't be done without neglecting our urgent social needs. It
can be done, but it can't be done with business as usual.
Next year alone, thanks to economic growth, -- it's
essential we keep the economic growth going in this country -- but
thanks to economic growth next year alone federal tax revenues under
existing law will rise by more than $80 billion. More than $80
billion in new revenues under existing law in one year alone. And
our job is to allocate these new resources wisely -- to reduce the
federal deficit by more than 40 percent, with no new taxes, and yet
investing in key priorities.
Budget consultations with the Congress, as some of you
may have read, are already underway and we are making progress. And
yesterday, I called the five congressional leaders and invited them
to come to the White House for another round of budget talks next
Tuesday morning. I am committed to working closely with my friends
on the Hill to help them meet the target date set by
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for an April 15th budget resolution.
And together, we've got to make the process work.
There are certain priorities that demand attention. And,
yes, we can afford to increase spending -- modestly, selectively, but
only after tough choices are made. And we must spend enough to
protect our national security and that is a chief responsibility
of every President of the United States. And certainly we must not
fall back on the "tax and spend" policies of the past.
But programs that can work must be protected and in some
cases, funding increased. Our budget is fair to recipients, fair to
taxpayers, and fair-minded in its strategy. It embodies two
qualities which are always in season: the common sense that Justice
Learned Hand termed "the eventual supremacy of reason," and America's
capacity to care.
Most Americans believe that in the America of the 1990s,
our challenges must be met in several ways -- by government, by
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thousand upon thousands of other institutions, and by the people
themselves working together or they won't be met at all. The
government's contribution is critical, but by itself is insufficient
to solve all of our national problems.
And yet most Americans believe that our efforts must
reach beyond government, to care about our communities and to assist
our neighbors. I called it in a speech earlier on a "thousand points
of light," and some of the columnists have had fun with that,
interpreting it as a thousand pints of light. I thought surprised
you didn't get that one here in Missouri but I think people are
beginning to understand what I mean by a thousand points of light.
And if they'd look at these signs and talk to some of you responsible
for them, I think they'd understand it without contradiction. I
believe that government can be an important catalyst in that process
of helping individuals, helping our communities, helping our nation.
And, our budget does more, for instance, for environment,
more for the space program, invests almost $2.2 billion for the
National Science Foundation -- a lot of that going to universities to
help basic research. (Applause.) It increases funding for the Head
Start Program, -- (applause) -- and allocates $1 billion more in
additional outlays to stop the deadly scourge of drugs. We have got
to fight - (applause) we've got to fight the drug fight on two
fronts, supply and demand; to reclaim the lives of addicts who want
help, educate young people about the dangers of drugs, and then
enforce our laws. All this is what I mean when I speak of investing
in the future.
To minority Americans, this budget says: Education means
opportunity, and bigotry will not be tolerated anywhere in the United
States of America. (Applause.) To the homeless, this budget targets
$1 billion, saying: Our nation must leave no one out. To the
elderly, this budget vows: Your dignity and concerns will be
respected. And to the nation's youth, the budget says: The promise
of tomorrow lies in the children of today.
Consider this: We've proposed a new child care
initiative, targeted - it's not going to take care of everybody --
it's targeted at low-income families. We've restored and doubled the
tax deduction for adopting special needs children. We want those
kids in families of love. (Applause.) And even more, we've made
education the Gateway Arch of the Bush administration. For our
pursuit of excellence is the central to the future of America. And
if excellence breeds achievement, then excellence must be rewarded --
in grade school, in high school, and in the colleges and universities
of America.
Last Thursday, I asked Congress to begin a $500 million
program to reward America's best schools -- "merit schools" -- and
to establish special presidential award for the best teachers in
every state. (Applause.) I urged expanded use of what are known as
magnet schools giving families and students a choice in education.
(Applause.) And I proposed a new program to encourage what we call
"alternative certification" -- it is wrong, if one of your guys who
graduate from this school of excellence, one of you wants to go and
give of yourselves to teach in some urban area in a public school, it
is wrong to have this excellence go to waste because of some
hide-bound restrictions having to do with too many certifications
that keep young people, idealistic young people, for teaching. I
want to change that and have alternative certification. (Applause.)
We must bring more of our best minds back to the teaching
profession. And through a new program of National Science Scholars,
we can inspire their students, also -- giving America's youth a
special incentive to excel in science and mathematics. In short, I
wish to achieve, nationally, what this university has done,
historically -- to make excellence in learning a national way of
life. Education can ennoble the American story. It's the best way
to invest in our future and to make this better, more selfless, and a
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more tolerant world.
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And yes, in some areas, I've got to confess, I wish we
did have more money to spend - -- key areas like drugs and education, I
will candidly admit that the federal government could use more
resources to bring to bear on these problems. But we've had to set
priorities. We've had to make the tough choices. And I believe we
have set the right priorities in this budget. Ours isn't the total
answer, but in this budget, we've made a good beginning. And now
I've asked the congressmen to come -- the leaders to come meet with
me, and in a spirit of bipartisanship, get on with the nation's
business of getting a quick and early resolution to this budget
crisis. (Applause.) And now, we have work to do. There are many
problems that must be solved in America today. And I am confident, I
remain confident that our nation can solve them. But America must go
far beyond the federal budget to achieve its goals.
We've got to forge strong partnerships between all levels
of government and voluntary organizations, and business corporations,
and fortunate. individuals to lend a hand and mend a wound, and help the less
Next week, Barbara and I are going to embark on a long
journey. We're going to be trying to pursue peace and friendship --
a journey that's going to take us across the Pacific to Japan and
China and to Korea. And we go to attend the funeral of the late
Emperor and to consult with the leaders of many of America's allies
and friends there in Tokyo who will be attending those ceremonies.
And my visit to China is a bit of a sentimental journey to a country
where I served as America's equivalent then of ambassador 14 or 15
years ago.
And several days ago, preparing for our trip, I came
across these words of an old Chinese proverb: "One generation plants
the seed another gets the shade."
Think of the investments that we make in our future as
America's seeds. And we can lift hearts, we can change lives, and we
can shape the 1990s -- just one decade before a whole new century.
It's a tall order. But it has been the American story
for over two hundred years. And let's write it together. And let me
say in conclusion, just being here, just seeing these symbols of
volunteerism, make me absolutely convinced that if we take this
spirit evident in this gym here today and then multiply it by those
thousands, we can do the job. Let's write the next chapter together.
Thank you all for this wonderful welcome, and God bless
you all. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
END
10:57 A.M. CST
COMMENT
Taking care of our own isn't new
Conservatives, liberals share
common ground in promoting
self-reliance
Clarence Thomas' nomination to
the Supreme Court has brought a
number of issues out of the closet.
One of the most hotly debated is
whether or not a serious and success-
ful program to uplift the African-
SELF HELPERS: Booker T. Washington, left, Mary McLeod Bethune and
American community can be built
Malcolm X preached self-help before Clarence Thomas.
around a strategy of self-help.
self-reliance and self-help.
In other words, can the African-
black militancy are-once again con-
Liberals should not disavow the
American community realistically
verging around the issue of empow-
notion of self-help, just as conserva-
be expected to pull itself up by its
erment through self-help. Many of its
tives cannot claim exclusive right to
bootstraps?
younger advocates see themselves as
it. Black churches, lodges, sororities,
The new black
militants in the tradition of Malcolm
fraternities and other institutions are
conservatives
X. Others are young professionals
rooted in self-help. Black colleges
seem to answer
who want to be entrepreneurs and
were founded to enable an educated
a resounding
executives - not just token black
black citizenry to reach back and
yes. The liberal
faces in the white corporate world.
help "uplift the race."
black leader-
The civil rights movement's focus
Welfare programs as we know
ship asks what
on breaking down legal and political
them have existed less than 50 years,
about the peo-
barriers to integration does not suffi-
and they serve only a fraction of the
ple who have
ciently address the concerns of this
African-American community. For
no boots.
new current in the black community.
over 3½ centuries, we have survived
The
If the civil rights leaders do not give
new
black conser-
By Niara Sudar-
and prospered in America mainly
high priority to self-help and empow-
vatives view
kasa, president of
because of our own hard work and
erment, they will be perceived as
economic em-
Lincoln University
the help of our extended families
perpetuating dependency and, in
in Pennsylvania.
and other institutions.
time, will lose the support of the ma-
powerment
Hundreds of our leaders, from the
jority of African-Americans.
through self-help as the key to most
most conservative to the most radi-
doors that are still closed to us. Black
Twenty-five years ago, the cry of
cal, built organizations and institu-
liberals contend that self-help will
"black power" by Stokely Carmi-
tions to promote self-help. Booker T.
not get us very far without govern-
chael (now Kwame Toure) and the
Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary
ment assistance and changes in the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
McLeod Bethune, Elijah Muham-
laws and practices that have kept the
Committee pushed the civil rights
mad, Father Divine, Malcolm X,
doors of opportunity closed to Afri-
movement to a new level of militan-
Adam Clayton Powell and Leon Sulli-
can-Americans for all these years.
cy and ushered in a period of radi-
van immediately come to mind.
Obviously, this does not have to be
calism throughout the black commu-
In the late '60s and early '70s, the
an either/or proposition. Self-help
nity. The call for economic
Black Panthers, black nationalists
and government support are both
empowerment and self-help now
and other "radicals and militants"
necessary if African-Americans are
coming from conservatives and mili-
launched many self-help initiatives,
to achieve justice and equality in
tants may once again force the civil
including breakfast programs for
America.
rights movement onto a new course,
needy children, "buy black" cam-
We cannot allow the government
or bring about an entirely new
paigns, independent black schools
to ignore poverty and suffering.
"rights movement."
and after-school tutoring programs.
There must be government pro-
In either case, black conservatives
Today, the ideology of economic
grams to help the poor and the
as well as young militants will be
empowerment through self-help ap-
needy. But we also must help our-
there to challenge the liberal civil
peals not only to black conservatives
selves to break the cycle of depen-
rights establishment for the leader-
but to African-Americans across the
dency by working toward economic
ship of the black community as em-
political and economic spectrum.
and political empowerment based on
powerment rather than integration
In fact, black conservatism and
becomes the primary goal.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1991
202-514-2007
(TDD) 202-514-1888
ATTORNEY GENERAL ANNOUNCES $200,000
FEDERAL GRANT TO KANSAS CITY, MO.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri -- Attorney General Dick Thornburgh
announced today that Kansas City, Missouri, will receive a
$200,000 federal grant to fund a pilot program called Operation
Weed and Seed which is aimed at violent criminals and drug-
dealers.
"Operation Weed and Seed is a multi-agency approach to
'weed' violent criminals from selected neighborhoods and housing
projects through intensive law enforcement efforts, and keep them
off the streets through such programs as Project Triggerlock,"
Thornburgh said. "Then the neighborhood will be 'seeded' with
economic, education and social opportunities developed in
cooperation with other federal agencies."
Trenton, New Jersey, also was selected as a site for the
demonstration program funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance,
an agency of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice
Programs. Trenton will receive a federal grant of $240,000.
The one-year Kansas City project will feature a
comprehensive and coordinated law enforcement and neighborhood
rehabilitation effort in the Central Patrol Division, a high
crime, economically depressed area. In 1990, the area was
responsible for 40 percent of all arrests for drug offenses in
Kansas City, 60 percent of all murders, 50 percent of all rape
arrests, 41 percent of all armed robbery arrests and 54 percent
of all sex offenses.
Under the grant, the Kansas City Police Department, the
United States Attorney's Office in Kansas City and the Jackson
County Prosecutor's Office will work with community and
neighborhood organizations to target, apprehend and incapacitate
drug traffickers, gangs and violent criminals. Those criminals
who qualify will be prosecuted under Operation Triggerlock, a
nationwide, comprehensive effort to use federal laws for
firearms-related violence.
Other agencies and organizations such as the U.S. Small
Business Administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, the Ad Hoc Group Against Crime, the Minority
Contractors Association and City Codes Enforcement Authorities
will be involved in neighborhood reclamation efforts. Under the
program, education and counselling, the creation of businesses
and jobs and community renovation will be emphasized.
"These efforts will enhance the quality of life and give
these neighborhoods back to law abiding citizens," said
Thornburgh.
"The key to Operation Weed and Seed is the coordination and
concentration of resources to address the problem of drug-related
and violent crime in a comprehensive way. This means law
enforcement must work together at the federal, state and local
levels with community, religious and school leaders. All
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citizens have the right to be free from fear in their homes, on
their streets, and in their communities. With the participation
of community residents, I believe that this initiative will go a
long way toward ensuring this basic freedom," Thornburgh said.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1991
AG
202-514-2007
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ATTORNEY GENERAL ANNOUNCES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
FEDERAL AND STATE CRIME PROGRAM FOR TRENTON
TRENTON, New Jersey -- Attorney General Dick Thornburgh
announced today that Trenton, New Jersey, will receive a total of
$2 million in federal and state funds to serve as a pilot program
in a new federal initiative called Operation Weed and Seed.
"Operation Weed and Seed is a multi-agency approach to
'weed' violent criminals from selected neighborhoods and housing
projects through intensive law enforcement efforts, and keep them
off the street through such programs as Operation Triggerlock,"
Thornburgh said. "Then the neighborhood will be 'seeded' with
economic, education and social opportunities developed in
cooperation with other federal agencies."
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), an agency of the
Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, plans to
award Trenton an initial grant of $240,000 to start the program
which would be administered through the New Jersey Attorney
General's office. It's anticipated that additional federal and
million. state funding for the 15-month project will bring the total to $2
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- 2 -
"The key to the 'weed and seed' approach is the coordination
and concentration of resources on drug-related and violent crime
by federal, state and local officials, along with community,
religious and school leaders," said Thornburgh. "This
comprehensive approach focuses very tightly on street-level crime
to ensure the basic right of all Americans to be free from crime,
or the fear of crime, in their homes, neighborhoods and
communities.'
Trenton's comprehensive plan to implement the program
includes four components: Violent Offenders Removal Program
(VORP) ; Community Oriented Policing Program (COPP) ; Project Safe
Haven; and Neighborhood Reclamation and Revitalization Initiative
(NRRI).
VORP will establish a Violent Crime Task Force to target,
apprehend and incapacitate selected violent criminals and members
of violent street gangs. The Task Force will focus on high-
ranking members of designated violent street gangs operating in
Trenton; violent offenders who could be prosecuted under
Operation Triggerlock, a nationwide, comprehensive effort to use
federal laws against violent criminals for firearms-related
violence; and "drug kingpins," who could be subject to life
imprisonment under federal law. The VORP Task Force will include
the Trenton Police Department, the Mercer County Narcotics Task
Force and Mercer County Prosecutors Office, the New Jersey State
Police, the Statewide Narcotics Task Force, the United States
- 3 -
Attorney for New Jersey, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
Under COPP, saturation patrols utilizing community-oriented
policing techniques will patrol neighborhoods with a high
incidence of illegal drug activity and violent crime. The foot
patrols will be supported by mobile units working closely with
the community.
Project Safe Haven will designate three school facilities as
Safe Haven sites for youth. These sites will provide community
access to recreation, athletics, training, employment, health and
social service resources.
NRRI will serve as an adjunct to COPP and Project Safe Haven
by recruiting and including community organizations, citizen and
tenant groups and housing authority officials to actively
participate in the project.
"All citizens of this country have the right to be free from
fear in their homes, on their streets and in their communities,
said Thornburgh. "With the participation of community residents,
I believe this initiative will go a long way toward ensuring this
basic freedom.
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Department of Justice
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AG
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7,1991
202-307-0781
(TDD) 202-514-1888
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, NYU, FUND NEW INNER CITY DRUG INITIATIVE
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Attorney General Dick Thornburgh
announced today that the Department of Justice will join with New
York University, The Ford Foundation and The Pew Charitable
Trusts to launch an $8 million, three-year program to test a new
strategy to control and prevent illegal drug use and trafficking
among high risk youth in drug and crime-ridden neighborhoods.
According to Thornburgh, the program is a part of the Justice
Department's broader "weed and seed" initiative.
The program, Intervention Strategies for High-Risk Youth, is
a cooperative venture between the Bureau of Justice Assistance
(BJA), an agency of the Department's Office of Justice Programs
(OJP), and the Substance Abuse Strategy Initiative Program
(SASIP) of New York University, said Thornburgh.
BJA will provide a maximum of $4 million to the program,
with initial grants of $850,000 the first year. The Ford
Foundation will provide $3 million in funding and The Pew
Charitable Trusts will provide $1 million to SASIP.
"This is a good example of how public and private funding
can come together to bring the full force of their creative
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- 2 -
effort to bear on a problem that is tormenting the nation's large
cities," Thornburgh said.
Franklin A. Thomas, president of The Ford Foundation, said,
"Given the cyclical nature of the drug problem in America, it is
essential to develop institutions with the capacity to address
substance abuse problems in a sustained way. This program
represents a very important partnership between foundations and
the public sector to address these needs."
Rebecca W. Rimel, executive director of The Pew Trusts,
said, "There is not one cause of substance abuse among high risk
adolescents, but many causes, not the least of which is poverty
and family disintegration. Previous efforts have not been
sufficiently comprehensive or intensive enough to help these kids
overcome multiple problems. This new model will bring together
into a single program the components that individually have
proven successful."
William J. Grinker, who heads SASIP at the NYU Robert F.
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, said, "Too often, we
give lip service to these notions of coordination and private-
public partnerships and then go about business as usual. The
level of cooperation that we have already achieved in putting
together this program shows, I think, that this time we will
seriously test these concepts. I expect other participants from
(MORE)
- 3 -
both the federal government and the private sector to join this
effort over the coming months."
Under the program, BJA and SASIP will develop a model that
includes prevention, early intervention, and control/enforcement
components that will be implemented on an experimental basis in
two to five cities over three years.
"The BJA/SASIP partnership marks one of the first steps in
the Department's comprehensive initiative to implement programs
consistent with the 'weed and seed' strategy I announced last
March," Thornburgh said.
"The key to 'weed and seed' is the coordination and
concentration of resources to address the problem of drug-related
crime with a comprehensive program -- one that brings together
law enforcement at the federal, state and local levels and
integrates it with the private sector and community, church and
school leaders.
"Through such public/private partnerships we can 'weed' by
ridding neighborhoods of violent criminals, gangs, drug
traffickers and other thugs by implementing programs such as
Operation Triggerlock. Then we can 'seed' by implementing
economic development, education and public housing initiatives
through coordinated efforts involving all sectors of the
community, including the criminal justice system," Thornburgh
said.
(MORE)
- 4 -
!
The prevention and intervention component of the SASIP
strategy will include family services; educational assistance;
after-school activities involving recreation, tutoring, and group
participation; summer activities involving community service,
education, and recreation; incentives for successful program
participation and mentoring to foster attachments to positive
role models.
The control and enforcement component will include
community-based policing; criminal justice activities to make the
neighborhood safe from drugs and violent crime; and efforts to
mobilize the community to become involved in drug and crime
prevention and control.
The cities where the program will be tested have not been
selected.
####
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Department of Justice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AG
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7,1991
202-307-0781
(TDD) 202-514-1888
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, NYU, FUND NEW INNER CITY DRUG INITIATIVE
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Attorney General Dick Thornburgh
announced today that the Department of Justice will join with New
York University, The Ford Foundation and The Pew Charitable
Trusts to launch an $8 million, three-year program to test a new
strategy to control and prevent illegal drug use and trafficking
among high risk youth in drug and crime-ridden neighborhoods.
According to Thornburgh, the program is a part of the Justice
Department's broader "weed and seed" initiative.
The program, Intervention Strategies for High-Risk Youth, is
a cooperative venture between the Bureau of Justice Assistance
(BJA), an agency of the Department's Office of Justice Programs
(OJP), and the Substance Abuse Strategy Initiative Program
(SASIP) of New York University, said Thornburgh.
BJA will provide a maximum of $4 million to the program,
with initial grants of $850,000 the first year. The Ford
Foundation will provide $3 million in funding and The Pew
Charitable Trusts will provide $1 million to SASIP.
"This is a good example of how public and private funding
can come together to bring the full force of their creative
(MORE)
- 2 -
effort to bear on a problem that is tormenting the nation's large
cities," Thornburgh said.
Franklin A. Thomas, president of The Ford Foundation, said,
"Given the cyclical nature of the drug problem in America, it is
essential to develop institutions with the capacity to address
substance abuse problems in a sustained way. This program
represents a very important partnership between foundations and
the public sector to address these needs."
Rebecca W. Rimel, executive director of The Pew Trusts,
said, "There is not one cause of substance abuse among high risk
adolescents, but many causes, not the least of which is poverty
and family disintegration. Previous efforts have not been
sufficiently comprehensive or intensive enough to help these kids
overcome multiple problems. This new model will bring together
into a single program the components that individually have
proven successful."
William J. Grinker, who heads SASIP at the NYU Robert F.
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, said, "Too often, we
give lip service to these notions of coordination and private-
public partnerships and then go about business as usual. The
level of cooperation that we have already achieved in putting
together this program shows, I think, that this time we will
seriously test these concepts. I expect other participants from
(MORE)
- 3 -
both the federal government and the private sector to join this
effort over the coming months."
Under the program, BJA and SASIP will develop a model that
includes prevention, early intervention, and control/enforcement
components that will be implemented on an experimental basis in
two to five cities over three years.
"The BJA/SASIP partnership marks one of the first steps in
the Department's comprehensive initiative to implement programs
consistent with the 'weed and seed' strategy I announced last
March," Thornburgh said.
"The key to 'weed and seed' is the coordination and
concentration of resources to address the problem of drug-related
crime with a comprehensive program -- one, that brings together
law enforcement at the federal, state and local levels and
integrates it with the private sector and community, church and
school leaders.
"Through such public/private partnerships we can 'weed' by
ridding neighborhoods of violent criminals, gangs, drug
traffickers and other thugs by implementing programs such as
Operation Triggerlock. Then we can 'seed' by implementing
economic development, education and public housing initiatives
through coordinated efforts involving all sectors of the
community, including the criminal justice system," Thornburgh
said.
(MORE)
- 4 -
The prevention and intervention component of the SASIP
strategy will include family services; educational assistance;
after-school activities involving recreation, tutoring, and group
participation; summer activities involving community service,
education, and recreation; incentives for successful program
participation and mentoring to foster attachments to positive
role models.
The control and enforcement component will include
community-based policing; criminal justice activities to make the
neighborhood safe from drugs and violent crime; and efforts to
mobilize the community to become involved in drug and crime
prevention and control.
The cities where the program will be tested have not been
selected.
####
91-312
The slogan of a new creed-victimism"-
echoes from all sectors of society
"It's Not My Fault!"
Condensed from ESQUIRE
PETE HAMILL
NE RAINY MORNING last
life; they were poor and black, or
O
spring, Colin Powell went
poor and Hispanic, or poor and
home to Morris High School
luckless, and never had a chance.
in the South Bronx. He had been
They'd been locked up by bad cops,
gone for 37 years. Now, thanks to the
flunked out by racist schoolteach-
poise and intelligence he displayed
ers, abused by heartless welfare in-
during the Gulf War, Powell was
vestigators. Look what's been done
one of the most famous generals in
to us, they said.
recent American history.
Across the street, the chairman
He stepped briskly from a lim-
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was
ousine into a tight cocoon of
talking to the kids. The core of his
security men and school officials.
speech, delivered in a gym with a
He smiled. He shook hands. He
broken roof, was simple: stay in
seemed not to notice the crowd of
school; don't take drugs. But such
black and Latino men across the
bromides were given renewed
street, huddled in front of a shelter
power because Powell spoke with
for homeless men.
the authority of success. And he
"What he know about bein'
was a black man who'd come from
down?" said one. "I seen him on
one of the worst slums in America.
the TV. Talk so pretty! College
Then he delivered the morning's
boy, got everything he want."
most important message. "If you're
Another joined in, then another,
black, if you're Puerto Rican or
and soon the rap was flowing.
Hispanic," he said, "be proud of
They'd drawn the wrong hand in
that. But don't let it become a
ESQUIRE (JULY '91), © 1991 BY THE HEARST CORP., 1790 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019
11
"IT"S NOT MY FAULT!"
problem. Let it become somebody
I've heard the endless complaint
else's problem."
on all levels of society. In a ghetto, I
Thus spoke a man who has spent
see a woman point to a hole in the
his life refusing to become a victim.
wall and demand to know why the
To hear Colin Powell was re-
landlord won't fix it. Why doesn't
freshing because we now live in a
she fix it herself? I ask. What? Are
nation that is sick with what I call
you crazy? It's not my fault!
"victimism." Many whites insist
This could be explained as the
they're innocent victims of venge-
heritage of 50 years of welfare. But
ful blacks, who are portrayed in
I hear the echo from a captain of
their fearful fantasies as marauding
industry complaining about the
bands coming to get them. Many
Japanese. We shouldn't even let
Hispanics claim to be the victims of
their cars in here, because the Japa-
whites and blacks, while I've heard
nese are unfair. Why not make
blacks claim that crack cocaine was
better cars, I suggest. He looks at
invented as part of an anti-black
me. Don't you understand? The
conspiracy. All sorts of people say
Japanese are giving us the shaft! It's
they are victims of Asians. And
not our fault!
there are Asians who believe they,
Americans who once worshiped
too, are victims because someone
in the church of self-reliance have
once called them the model minor-
moved to another house of worship
ity. Women claim to be the victims
whose propagandists insist upon
of men, while men cite alimony
respect without accomplishment.
laws and stake claims to their own
All of us, including the most dam-
status as victims of women.
aged, would be helped by a morato-
Victimism has one overriding
rium on self-pity. We need less
slogan, the response to almost all
adolescent posturing and more stoic
questions about the source of one's
maturity; less weeping and gnashing
misery: It's not my fault!
of teeth and more bawdy horse-
Dropped out of high school? Not
laughing in the face of adversity.
my fault. Started shooting heroin or
In the cities of America, the
smoking crack when others passed
young are being introduced to the
up both? Not my fault. Married the
world through the shaping ideol-
wrong person? Not my fault.
ogy of victimism. How sad. I wish
Victimism implies that nobody is
Colin Powell could talk to all of
personally responsible for the living
them, black, white or Latino, male
of a life. The defeats, disappoint-
or female, of every class and reli-
ments and failures once thought
gion, and tell them: Be proud; live
to be part of each human being's
life in your own skin, and whatever
portion on this earth are now al-
is bothering you, hey, man-make
ways the fault of somebody else.
it someone else's problem.
Reprints of this article are available. See page 218.
12
April 9, 1991
MEMORANDUM
TO:
SPEECHWRITERS/RESEARCHERS
FROM:
CAROLYN CAWLEY
RE:
"AMERICA WORKS" --
a job program for welfare recipients
I thought you all would be interested in this Manhattan-based,
for-profit program called "America Works". Good stuff for
upcoming speeches.
Basically, the program trains welfare recipients for entry-level
jobs and monitors them carefully during the "trial period". During
this period, the employer pays wages to "America Works" directly
-- much like mainstream temp agencies. If both the employer and
employee are pleased with the work relationship, the employee is
hired full-time, with all the benefits.
The end result is a win-win-win situation:
-- The welfare recipient has the dignity of a paying job.
-- "America Works" has a clear incentive: they are
paid only after reducing or eliminating welfare dependency.
-- The state/taxpayer save more than half the amount that
would otherwise be paid out on welfare rolls. (State pays
the program $5,000 per placement V. $12,000 in welfare)
-- The employer has trained and responsible workers. A
recent survey conducted by "America Works" showed that
their placements are motivated and show on-the-job interest
They maintain good attendance and turnover rates are low.
The company does not pay a fee for the hire -- and they
also become eligible for Federal Targeted Job Tax Credits.
Statistics for the past year point out:
-- After 7 months, 95% are still working.
-- Of all those placements 65% are hired permanently.
The program has placed over 1,000 workers thus far.
Attached are some news articles. I've got a program literature
packet if you want some more statistics and specifics.
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Off the Dole
How Private Company
Helps Welfare Clients
Find and Keep Jobs
The 'Poor People's Network,'
Paid by New York State,
Works to Rebuild Lives
Mother of 5 Takes a Chance
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By ELLEN GRAHAM
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
NEW YORK- is the little things that
job without a commitment to hire them
fice, where America Works sometimes sets
still fill Willetta Parker with elation: The
permanently. New York State pays Amer-
up recruiting booths.
long subway ride from her Harlem apart-
ica Works $5,000 for each placement, but
Though illiterates or the emotionally
ment to her clerical job in lower Manhat-
only after the employee has stayed on the
disturbed may be referred to other pro-
tan. And paying her rent and electric bills.
job for seven months. Taxpayers gain be-
grams, nobody else who wants to work is
"For me to be working at something that's
cause the $5,000 stipend is less than half
turned away. Recently, there's been an in-
legal!" she marvels. "To feel good waking
the $12,000 that the state spends to keep a
flux of Soviet-sphere refugees, including a
up, going to work on the train, to have a
family of three on welfare for a year.
former provincial governor from Afghani-
bank account-all these good things.
New York state officials say that the
stan. "But our typical client has spent 10
It's lovely!"
program has rebuilt lives and assisted in-
or 12 years on welfare," says Ms. Bowes.
And something of a miracle, too. Two
dustry, and that it makes fiscal sense.
'Half of them grew up on it."
years ago, the 21-year-old Ms. Parker was
Even so, the state government may be too
Most are black or Hispanic women with
a crack addict, sleeping on the same sub-
shy of cash to continue paying for it. The
children. Few men apply. Those who do
way trains that now carry her to work.
legislature now is trying to cope with an
are harder to place and less likely to stay
A runaway at the age of nine, she had
accumulated deficit and budgetary short-
on the job. Ms. Bowes says that is because
spent her adolescence on the streets of
fall amounting to $4 billion, and "the out-
most social services that could help them
New York, foraging for food in garbage
look for funding is very poor," says Oscar
succeed are designed to help poor women
cans. Eventually, she kicked her habit, and
Best, deputy commissioner of income
and their children rather than males.
drifted onto welfare.
maintenance for the state's department of
Applicants must maintain perfect atten-
Today, Ms. Parker is a taxpayer. She
social services.
dance at a one-week orientation workshop
earns $200 a week typing and filing at a
Penalized for Performance
to assess their skills and help them set
small publishing company. She found her
That distresses Abe Levovitz, a retired
goals. Each week, about 20 candidates en-
job 11 months ago through America Works
of New York, a profit-making company
tallow manufacturer in Newton, Mass.,
list; more than half will have found jobs in
that aspires to be the Federal Express of
who financed America Works with start-up
three or four weeks. Ms. Bowes tells a
the welfare system. The efforts of the com-
capital of $200,000 three years ago. "If this
batch of new recruits: "We find companies
pany and an affiliate in Connecticut over
were a normal business venture and I was
with openings who really want to see you.
the past few years have helped more than
returning $2 for every $1 the customer
We get our foot in the door and bring you
gave me, I'd have hundreds of people lined
with us."
a thousand people to get off welfare and
into productive jobs-hardly sufficient to
up in front of my door," he says. "The only
Workshop leader Antoinette Franklin's
shrink the nation's welfare establishment
place it doesn't work is in government."
job is to rekindle a sense of life's possibili-
but successful enough to show that it can
As he sees it, the company is being penal-
ties in her pupils. Tall and chic in a ma-
be done.
ized for performance; it fulfilled the terms
genta suit, she prods the class to summon
of its most recent two-year state contract
up long-buried aspirations-not, she
Poor Folks' Network
in just over a year, and now needs addi-
stresses, "just what you'll settle for."
America Works runs an employment
tional funding to go on.
"Think about your dream," she coaxes.
service whose clients all come from the
Mr. Levovitz sees another irony: "When
"Can you remember that dream? Maybe
welfare rolls. Unlike job-training programs
the state gets new welfare applicants, do
you put it aside while you helped someone
or trade schools that put the unemployed
they say, 'Sorry-we' don't have any
else. Or did you lie to yourself, saying 'I
through months of classes and then aban-
money?' No, of course not-they pay
don't really want a big old house I'd have
don them during the job search, America
them."
to clean up?' Well, by the time you're fin-
Works is a matchmaker. It spends most of
its time and resources finding entry-level
True, says Michael Dowling, Gov. Ma-
ished, you're comfortable sitting in a proj-
job openings and candidates to fill them,
rio Cuomo's deputy secretary for human
ect looking out the window. And the dream
and then helping monitor and support their
services. But he also says that "the days of
just kept shrinking, didn't it?
clients in the workplace.
giving out a check and saying, 'See you
later,' are over." America Works's pro-
Sheila Davis pops up. "I want to own a
Says Lee Bowes, the company's chief
house with four bedrooms in southern New
gram is consistent with the state's effort to
operating officer: "We are an old boys'
move people off welfare and into jobs, he
Jersey," she says softly. "And I'm going to
network for very poor people."
says, and he hopes to persuade New York
try to get a good job."
A New York state official calls the net-
City to agree to some sort of shared financ-
Ms. Franklin exploits the assertion to
work's performance remarkable. It is plac-
ing to allow the company to stay in busi-
make a point. "Let me tell you about that
ing more than 300 welfare recipients a
ness in New York. In any case, a separate
word try," she says. "It's an excuse word.
year in private-sector jobs that pay an av-
corporation, America Works of Connecti-
Those four bedrooms won't come cheap.
erage of $14,000 a year plus benefits. After
cut, will continue a similar program in
Are you going to get promotions and
on-the-job tryouts, some 70% of those
Hartford.
raises?" Ms. Davis says she will, and Ms.
placed have said goodbye to welfare and
Franklin nods in approval. "That's how
Raised on Welfare
become permanent. After one year, 90% of
you earn it," she says. "You're going to
them are still working.
High-level fiscal policy is far from the
work for it!"
minds of most of the job-seekers who ap-
Elsewhere in the building, those who
"Try before you buy" is a company
pear at the company's lower Broadway of-
have completed boot camp are immersed
maxim. Job candidates try working while
fices. Many go there in response to the
in the job search. Between interviews, they
they are weaned off welfare, a scary pros-
company's monthly classified ads. Others
receive coaching in basic skills and busi-
pect for some. Employers, many of whom
are referred by friends or the welfare of-
ness practices, as well as help in locating
are initially skeptical of the program, have
four months to evaluate candidates on the
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child care, suitable clothing and some-
times even housing.
Told by a counselor about a job open-
ing, Herman Thomas looks excited but
skeptical. "Tell me the truth," he says.
"Do they really need someone to do this
work?" He is assured that the mainte-
nance job is available.
At the same time, a team of 10 tele-
marketers work the phones, pitching the
program to employers. Although it isn't
easy to sell at first, about 200 companies
have hired America Works applicants. The
service is free to employers, and the reten-
tion rate of employees it provides, in jobs
with notoriously costly turnover, is high.
And there are other advantages.
During the four-month tryout, America
Works pays the employee a modest hourly
wage, averaging $3.75, and bills the em-
ployer about $6.50 an hour to cover the
wage and benefits and the cost of monitor-
ing and support. Typically, the cost to the
employer during this period is about $1 an
hour less than the ordinary payroll cost for
the position would be. During this period
the practice when her America Works
the employee receives gradually reduced
counselor showed her that it was offensive
welfare benefits. After a successful tryout,
to others in the office.
the employee goes on the payroll at the go-
American International Group, an in-
ing rate, and welfare payments stop. For
surance and financial-services company
employees who stay on the job for a year,
with headquarters in the Wall Street area,
the employer gets a tax credit.
has hired 12 clerical employees through
America Works's monitoring and sup-
America Works. Their motivation. attitude
port involves anything from intervening in
and long-term commitment have been out-
personal crises to interpreting corporate
standing, says Janice Wersching, an AIG
customs and mores. The follow-through is
personnel manager. She says clerical turn-
critical, according to Ms. Bowes, a slim
over at AIG has run 25% or 30% a year,
blonde with a doctorate in sociology and 15
and many ordinary applicants have often
years of prior experience placing the dis-
failed even to appear for interviews. By
advantaged, mostly in public-sector jobs.
contrast, she says employees sponsored by
She says welfare recipients often fail at
America Works show up on time, value
jobs not because they lack the skills but
their jobs, and keep them.
because "they don't understand the subtle
Eagerness to be free of the hated "sys-
cues-the implicit rules of the work-
tem"-welfare-motivates many. A former
place."
prison inmate, now employed, gleefully re-
A Hispanic woman client had come to
cites the exact day her welfare case was
work each morning and heated up pungent
closed-and how later, when a caseworker
dinner leftovers in the office microwave.
mistakenly summoned her to the welfare
Without counseling, Ms. Bowes says, she
office, she could say: "You can cancel that
might have been let go. But she stopped
appointment. I don't need it."
Linda McGinnis, a mother of five with
16 years of welfare behind her, took a gam-
ble when she returned to work as an assis-
tant bookkeeper a year ago. "The salary
was less than welfare," she says, "but I
knew I had to start somewhere, and to bet-
ter myself I'd have to wait." She did more
than wait. Every lunch hour during her job
tryout, she returned to the America Works
office to practice her typing. After three
raises, she is earning $16,000 a year and
plans to send her oldest son to college this
fall.
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By Helping Others,
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We Also Got Help
197/105
Thank you for your wonderful May 18
page-one piece on our company ("Off the
Dole: How Private Company Helps Wel-
fare Clients Find and Keep Jobs"). The re-
sponse has been excellent. First, the state
of New York has found the funding to keep
the company going. Second, we have had
responses from hundreds of interested offi-
cials, businesses and citizens requesting in-
formation and pledging their support.
Third, it has led to a host of other media
coverage: MacNeil/Lehrer Reports,
American Management Association, Conti-
nental Magazine, ABC News and 60 Min-
utes.
None of this would have been possible
without the special abilities of your re-
porter Ellen Graham. We happen to deal
with many media people. It is often diffi-
cult for them to grasp the complex interre-
lationship of the business, policy and hu-
manistic aspects of what we do. Her in-
sights, sensitive questions and persistence
were very unusual.
Without the attention it is questionable
whether our company could have contin-
ued.
LEE BOWES
Chief Executive
America Works
New York
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HEADLINE: New York City employers confirm job freezes; fall hiring
projected for entry-level positions
DATELINE: NEW YORK
BODY:
Nearly one-third of New York City companies responding to a survey on
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current hiring plans have implemented hiring freezes.
Furthermore, 80 percent of these do not plan to fill vacat jobs until the
fall, at the earliest. These results were released Thursday at a press
conference attended by Governor Mario Cuomo and New York State Commissioner of
Social Services, Cesar Perales.
The survey, conducted by America Works, a privately-held, for-profit
company that places people who are on welfare in private sector jobs, queried 51
employment managers in publishing, insurance and food service companies, as well
as law firms and brokerage houses. The companies ranged in size from 11 to
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8,000 people, and are located throughout Manhattan.
Managers cited local economic conditions for the hold on hiring during the
next two calendar quarters.
When they resume hiring, 65 percent of the employers anticipate filling
more entry-level jobs than middle-management positions. Only 35 percent cited
the need to fill a greater number of vacancies at the middle level.
The survey was conducted in conjunction with the celebration, by America
Works, of its 000th job placement in Manhattan. The company provides
qualified, entry-level workers to business, while simultaneously reducing the
cost of public assistance programs for the city and state.
According to the survey, companies rely almost equally upon three resources
for filling entry-level positions: 22 percent find employees from newspaper
ads; 24 percent draw from employment agencies; and another 22 pecent cited
recommendations from current employees.
In asking the companies to compare their experience with employees drawn
from welfare programs with those workers from more mainstream background, fully
66 percent said welfare applicants showed more on-the-job interest and
motivation; 70 percent found their skills to be the same as the mainstream
new-hire; 56 percent said they had a better record of attendance. More than half
(53 percent) of the companies said turnover was less of a problem with
applicants drawn from welfare.
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December 17, 1990, Monday, Final Edition
SECTION: EDITORIAL; PAGE A11
LENGTH: 819 words
HEADLINE: Welfare Reform That Works
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: William Raspberry
BODY:
When it comes to the jobless poor, conventional wisdom tends along one of two
lines. The first is the conservative notion that they really don't want to work
-- presumably preferring the effortless luxury of welfare. The second --
liberal -- explanation is that they can't get started, America's shift away from
the assembly-line factories having cut the bottom rungs off the economic ladder.
There's some truth in both notions, particularly the second. But there may be
more truth in the proposition that our efforts to match the jobless and
entry-level jobs have been in the wrong hands: government and not-for-profit
private agencies.
Peter Cove and Lee Bowes, a New York husband-wife team, have come up with
an approach that should please both liberals and conservatives: the former
because it shows real promise of moving the long-term unemployed from welfare
to jobs while enhancing their dignity, the latter because it relies on the
private sector while saving money.
They call their brainchild America Works, and it operates like this. Their
firm, a profit-making entity, agrees to recruit, train and pay a wage to the
erstwhile unemployed, then to find them jobs. Only after a client is off
welfare and working for four months does Work America get paid: an average fee
of about $ 5,000 for a welfare mother of two compared with a state welfare
allowance of $ 14,000.
So far more than 500 people have made the transition, saving the state
approximately $ 4.5 million in the first year alone. (According to Cove and
]
Bowes, some 90 percent are still off welfare a year later.)
"The perception of both government and policy makers in this country is that
education and training up front are the key to eliminating welfare dependency,
that the more human capital you build into people who are at the low end, the
more likely you will make them marketable," Cove said in a recent interview.
"Well, most of the people who come to us have been failed by the educational
system. What they need is a job. We find that if they go to work first, they
will then, like all the rest of us, seek education and training to move up to
the next job
Training makes more sense to them when they already have a
job."
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It makes sense, and so does the couple's notion that to use public job
placement agencies, or to pay private ones without regard to their job-placement
success, provides few incentives.
"Ours is the only program I know of that asks nothing up front of any public
entity. Only if the person is hired and off welfare do we get any public
money." Bowes and Cove say they want to become "the Federal Express of the
welfare system."
AS they explained to Charlayne Hunter-Gault of Public Broadcasting's
MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, "What Federal Express did was to privatize what the
government was not doing very well and take certain pieces of the Postal System
and do it on a private basis. What we are trying to do is to take welfare
reform and get welfare recipients off of welfare and into jobs with health
benefits, doing what the government clearly has failed at over the years."
The early signs are encouraging. Their New York clients have been out of the
work force and on welfare for an average of six or seven years, and yet most
of them turn out to be reliable employees. What makes it work, they say, is the
combination of teaching the jobless the work habits that employers value and
instilling in them the confidence it takes to progress on the job.
Bowes, a sociologist, says she came to a clearer understanding of the
impediments to the welfare -to-work transition by working with Russian Jewish
immigrants. Their attitudes, she says, "are so similar [to U.S. welfare
recipients] it's unbelievable. They face discrimination. There is racial
discrimination and religious discrimination against them, so their self-esteem
is terribly low. And their expectations and knowledge of the work place and how
it operates are often out of sync with what the reality is. They don't know how
to look for work. They never had to go out and job interview. They've been paid
irrespective of how hard they work, so there isn't a correlation between work
and pay."
In one sense, Bowes and Cove may be getting the cream of the welfare crop
-- not necessarily in terms of skills but because they are dealing with people
who have been on welfare for years and want desperately to be off.
But they believe that description fits most welfare recipients. And they
also believe that public opposition to welfare is less the result of
mean-spiritedness than a reluctance to spend money on something that doesn't
work.
"Our approach works," says Cove. "The employers love it, even the labor
unions love it, because we are recruiting new members for them. The state loves
it because WE are saving tax dollars, and the clients love it because they have
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their dignity restored. It's a win-win situation."
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American Medical Association
Office of International Medicine
515 N. State St.
Chicago, Illinois 60610
USA
FACSIMILE (FAX) NUMBER: 312-464-4184
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 312-464-4386
TELEX: 280-248
CABLE: MEDIC (ANS BK AMA CGO)
FACSIMILIE (FAX) COVER SHEET
TO:
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Communications
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DESTINATION FAX:
202-456-6218
DESTINATION TELEPHONE:
202-456-7750
FROM:
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Secretary
Office of International Medicine
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DATE:
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COMMENTS:
Pursuant to your request, attached is the publication
concerning physician volunteer service opportunities overseas. Hope it is
helpful.
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Reprinted from JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association
June 27. 1990, Volume 263
Copyright 1990, American Medical Association
Medical News & Perspectives
Physician Service Opportunities Abroad
THE DIRECTORY on the following
Immunization.-What is required
clean, and well staffed? Is the staff
pages lists organizations that offer US
or recommended for the area in which
trained in modern medical procedures
physicians long-term and short-term
service is to be performed? Have US
and use of equipment? Does the physi-
service opportunities overseas. It is the
Department of Health and Human Ser-
cian need to organize a medical team in
third such directory to be published
vices guidelines and supplements been
the United States to bring to the coun-
here in recent years (JAMA 1987;
consulted? Is any country on the itiner-
try involved?
257:2541-2550 and 1984;252:8097-3115).
ary listed by the US Centers for Disease
Equipment. Is equipment in place?
Listing does not imply endorsement
Control as being infected with a quaran-
Is it US-made equipment or manufac-
by the American Medical Association.
tinable disease?
tured and labeled in a country using a
Language.- Is knowledge of a lan-
Organizations Not Listed Here
language other than English? What
guage other than English required or
equipment, supplies, and medicine
Because an effort such as this cannot
recommended? If 80, is such training
should be brought from the United
hope to include all overseas service op-
provided? Who pays for it? Is the train-
States? Can US-made equipment that is
portunities for physicians, officials of
ing provided before departure or after
brought to the site be made compatible
any organization that might be listed in
arrival? If not, are medically knowl-
with local power sources and equipment
the future may supply the necessary
edgeable interpreters available in coun-
already in place? Are electricity and un-
information to JAMA at any time.
tries where English is not spoken?
contaminated water available? Can re-
Using the directory on the following
Dependents. Can the family accom-
pairs be made locally if necessary?
pages as a guide, please mail the infor-
pany the physician? If 30, who pays for
Sites. At how many sites will the
mation to Marsha F. Goldsmith, Direc-
their transportation? Must children be
physician work? How large is the area to
tor, Department of Medical News &
within a certain age group? Are educa-
be covered? Is transportation (and of
Perspectives, JAMA, 535 North Dear-
tional facilities available for the children
what type) provided between these
born St, Chicago, IL 60610.
and whose responsibility is it to arrange
sites and living quarters? Who pays for
attendance and to pay for it? What are
Aspects to Consider
this transportation?
family living quarters like? Who pays
Furloughs. How often can a physi-
Physicians who find opportunities of
room and board? What kinds of food are
cian on long-term assignment return to
interest in the following pages are re-
available? What food storage and prepa-
the United States? For how long? Who
minded that there are many related as-
ration facilities are there?
pays for the transportation involved?
pects to consider. Among these consid-
Goals. - What are the objectives of
Communication- does the
erations are the following:
the sponsoring organization?
physician communicate within the coun-
Licensing. What are the licensing
Political Situation. Is the area po-
try and with friends, family, and the
requirements for a physician practicing
litically stable? Are there any threats to
sponsoring organization back in the
in that country or under that program?
this? What happens to visitors in case of
United States? Is there mail, telephone,
If: a visiting US physician needs a special
unrest? Can local officials and/or US De-
or shortwave radio service? What food-
license, how can it be obtained and how
partment of State representatives pro-
stuffs, literature, or supplies can be
far in advance must application be
vide protection?
shipped to the physician overseas?
made?
Culture. Does the country have un-
Experience.- there physicians
Training. Is any special training,
usual customs or religious practices (are
who are serving or who have served in
either medical or other (for example,
there specific dress codes for women,
the program who are available to an-
jungle survival) required? Who pays for
for example)? Do these involve medical
swer questions?
this?
practice (such as female patients being
Documentation. Is a passport re-
examined only by women physicians)?
Other Sources
quired? A visa? Who makes these ar-
Are there certain items (literature on
In addition, Pulse (JAMA. 1990;268:
rangements, the physician or the orga-
some subjects, alcoholic beverages,
2886-2887) published a list of interna-
nization? How far in advance must
money beyond a certain amount) that
tional health service opportunities over-
application be made? Is a local work
cannot be brought into the country?
seas for medical students, some of which
permit required? Must the physician be
Climate. What clothing is needed?
also are available to physicians. That
registered with the local government?
Are there extremes of heat, cold,
material was compiled by Paul E. Kil-
If so, who arranges this?
dampness, or dryness that might affect
gore of Wayne State University School
Insurance.-Are US life and health
equipment? Are floods or other natural
of Medicine, Detroit, and Lew Dick,
insurance policies valid during overseas
disasters likely? Is the climate associ-
Texas Tech University School of Medi-
service? Does the country require or
ated with insects, reptiles, or other
cine, Lubbock.
recommend medical liability insurance,
creatures that might be dangerous to
Additional information may be avail-
and can US liability coverage be extend-
humans?
able in the future in connection with
ed to cover the situation (or is a new
Facilities. How large are the hospi-
various American Medical Association
coverage arrangement needed)? Who
tais or clinics? How accessible? Who op-
services to members.-by Marsha F.
arranges this and who pays?
erates them? Are they in good repair,
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Specialies Needed
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Or
Adventist International Eye Society (AIES)
Jerry Friesen
Mexico, Marshall Islands, China
Ophthalmology, others
11245 Anderson St, Suite 200
Chi
(714) 824-4633
Loma Linda, CA 92354
$40
Kan
Assculapius International Medicine
Marshali Whiting
Guatemala, El Salvador
Public health, primary care
Cht
121 Avenue of the Americas, 3d Floor
(212) 941-6408
New York, NY 10013
475
New
Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission
Earl Roth
Burkine Faso, Zaire
General practice, others
Clai
59466 County Rd, #113
(219) 875-5552
205
Elkhart, IN 48517
Chk
Agency for International Development
Margarette Goldstein
Worldwide
Varies
COI
2401 E St NW
(202) 663-1290
POI
Washington, DC 20523-0114
San
American Baptist Board of International Ministries Betty Beaman
Zaire, Dominican Republic, Halti,
General practice, surgery, public health
Con
PO Box 851
(215) 766-2162
Philippines. India. Thailand.
PO -
Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851
El Salvador, Nicaragua
Whe
American Bureau for Medical
Elizabeth Armstrong
Taiwan
Varies
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Advancement in China Inc
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Chs
2E 103d St, Room 584
Grey
New York, NY 10029
Dire
American Committee for Shaare Zedek
Morris Talaneky
Israel
Varies
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Hospital in Jaruasiam
(212) 354-8801
San
49 W 45th St. Suite 1100
Eas
New York, NY 10038
and
American Leprosy Missions
Felton Ross, MD
Asia, Africa, Latin America
Leprology (we train)
POI I
1 Broadway
(800) 543-3131
Salu
Elmwood Park, NJ 07407
(201) 794-8650
Esp
American Medical Student Association
Dorothy Culjat
Africa
Medical students. residents in
1911
Foundation
(703) 620-6600
various specialties
Pho
1890 Preston White Dr
The
Reston VA 22091
POE
American Mission Hospital
Paul L. Armerding, MD
Bahrain
Ob/Gyn, pediatrics
Whe
PO Box 1
253447
Evail
Bahrain, Arabian Gulf
Dep
American Refugee Committee
wed.
Karen Elshazly
Thailand, Malawi
Family practice, internal medicine,
5101
2344 Nicollat Ave, #350
(612) 872-7060
pediatrics
Chic
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Ever
Amigos de les Americas
Coldie Sencion
Mexico, Costa Rica, Paraguay,
Varies
1515
5618 Star Ln
(800) 231-7796:
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Brazil
Minr
Houston, TX 77057
Texas, (713) 392-4580
Fallc
Associate Reformed Preabyterian
John Mariner
Pakistan
General, orthopedic and plastic surgery,
PO
Church-World Witness
(803) 233-5226
Ob/Gyn
Colu
1 Cleveland St
FOC
Greenville, SC 29601
Ophi
Baptist Mid-Missions
William Smallman, MD
Central African Republic, Chad,
PO Box 308011
Family practice, general surgery
Loye
(216) 826-3930
Haiti, Bangladesh
May
Cleveland, OH 44130-8011
Frier
Beptist Missionery Association of America
Jerry Kidd
Com
Guatemaia, Bolivia, Honduras,
Varies
721 Main St
(501) 376-6768
101
Mexico, Philippines
Little Rock, AR 72201
Rich
Brethren in Christ World Missions
A. Graybill Brubaker
Geni
Zambia, Zimbabwe
Varies
PO Box 390
Com
(717) 653-8067
Mount Lovejoy, PA 17652
POE
New
Campus Crusade for Christ
Mike Bums
26 Countries
All medically trained personnel
Missions and International Reoruiting. Dept 30-20
HCA
(714) 866-6224. x5121
Arrowhead Springs
2515
San Bemardino, CA 92414
Nash
CARE Inc
Heal
Patrick Shields
Asia, Africa, Latin America
Public health
660 First Ave
c/o V
(212) 888-3110
New York, NY 10016
PO E
Wast
Paul Certson Medical Program
Barbara Johnson
Zaire
5101 N Francisco
Internal medicine, family practice,
Hos;
(312) 784-3000
Chicago, IL 60625
surgery, public health, tropical medicine
Agap
8090
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc
Lso T. Tarpey
18 Countries
Varies
Sara
10 W 17th St
(212) 242-7757
Inter
New York, NY 10011-5785
Divis
Catholic Relief Services-USCC
Maria White
Asia, Africa, Latin America
209 W Fayette St
General practice, surgery. tropical
UCS
(301) 625-2220
medicine, administrators, dentists
225
Saltimore, MD 21201
San
Christian Blind Mission International
Deborah Lovingood
95 Countries
Ophthalmology
Inter
PO Box 175
(708) 690-0300
7801
Wheaton, IL 50189
Beth
Christian Eye Ministry
Bob Alneworth
West Africa
Ophthalmology,
Inter
PO Box 3721
(714) 599-8955
optometry
4121
San Dimas, CA 91773
Inter
Christian Medical and Dental Society
MGM Department
Philippines, Central America,
PO Box 830689
All specialties, nurses, dentists
PO B
(214) 783-8364
Dominican Republic, Jamaica,
Okia
Richardson, TX 75083-0688
Mexico, Africa
Inter
huron of the Brethren General Board
P: David Leatherman
Nigeria, Sudan
1068
World Ministries Commission)
General practice, internal medicine,
(708) 742-5100
pediatrics
Los 1
1451 Dundee Ave
(800) 323-8039
Imer
Elgin, IL 60120
386 F
Church of the Lutheran Brethren
Jarie M. Olson
Cameroon, Chad
Board of World Missions
Public community health, health
New
(218) 739-3336
education, teprology
inter
PO Box 655
2468
Fergus Falls, MN 58538
Paio
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Organization/Location
Contact/Telephone
Countries Served
Specialties Needed
Church of the Nazarene World Mission Division
Steve Weber
Swaziland. Papua New Guinea,
Family practice, surgery, Ob/Gyn,
6401 The Passo
(816) 333-7000
India
aneathesiology, orthopedic surgery,
will fax
Kansas City, MO 64131
internal medicine, pediatrics
Church World Service
Paul Yount
Varies
Varies
475 Riverside Dr, Room 668
(212) 870-2368
New York, NY 10115
Claretian Volunteer Program
Vanessa White or Tom Frieberg
Guatemala
Veries
205 W Monroe St
(312) 236-7846 or -7782
Chicago, IL 60808
CONCERN/America
Marianne Loews
Mexico, El Salvador, Sierra Leone,
Family practice, Internal medicine,
PO Box 1790
(714) 953-8575
Nigeria
Ob/Gyn
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Conservative Baptiet Foreign Mission Society
Raymond Buker, Jr, MD
Ivory Coast, Zaire, Pakistan
Surgery, midwives, public health,
PO Box 5
(708) 665-1200
gynecology
Wheaton, IL 60189-0005
DePauw University Winter Term In Mission
Fred Lamar
Worldwide
Family practice, Internal medicine,
Chapiain's Office
(317) 658-4619
pediatrica
Greencastie. IN 46135
Direct Relief International
Sylvia J. Karzag
Worldwide
General practice, other specialties
21 N Salaipuedes St
(805) 687-3694
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions
Harold Reed
Tanzania, Peru
General practice, aurgery, public health,
and Charities
(717) 898-2251
educators
PO Box 128
Salunga, PA 17538
Esperance Inc
Charles C. Post
Brazil
Orthopedics, plastic/reconstructive
1911 W Earl Dr
(602)252-7772
surgery, eye surgery
Phoenix, AZ 85015
The Evangellost Alliance Mission (TEAM)
June Salstrom
Ched, United Arab Emirates.
Family practice. internal medicine,
PO Box 968
(708) 653-5300
trian Jaya, Zimbabwe, Pakistan,
Wheaton, IL 60189
9:45am
pediatrics. surgery
Nepal, Talwan, Sri Lanke
Evengalical Covenant Church
Barbare Johnson
Zaire
Surgery, various specialties, dentists
Department of World Mission
(312) 784-3000
5101 N Francisco Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
Evangelical Free Church of America
Rev Loyd Childs
Hong Kong, Zaire
Family practice, pediatrics, surgery
1515 E 66th St
(812) 866-3343
Minneapolis, MN 55423
Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangellam
Robert E. Reeves
16 Countries
All specialties
PO Box 688
(812) 379-4351
Columbus. IN 47202
FOCUS Inc
J.E. McDonald, MD
Nigeria
Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology Department
(708)216-9596
Loyola Medical Center
Maywood, IL 60153
Friends United Meeting World Ministries
William Wagoner
Kenya
Obstetrics, surgery
Commission
(317) 962-7573
101 Quaker Hill Dr
Richmond, IN 47374
General Conference Mennonite Church-
Erwin Rempel
India, Taiwan, Zaire
Varies
Commission on Overseas Mission
(316)283-5100
PO Box 347
Newton, KS 67114
HCA International Co
William Schrum
Saudi Arabia
All specialties
2515 Park Plaza
(800) 251-2561
Nashville, TN 37203
(615)327-9551
Health Volunteers Overseas
Nancy Kelly
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia,
Anesthesiology, general, orthopedic,
c/o Washington Station
(202) 296-0928
Africa, Mexico, St Lucia
and oral surgery,
PO Box 65157
physical therapy. dentists
Washington. DC 20035-5157
Hospital Albert Schweitzer
(By mail) Michel Jean-Baptiste, MD
Halti
Medicine, surgery, anesthesiology,
Agape Flights Inc
(By phone) Renee K. Bergner, MD
pediatrics
8090 15th St E
(802) 662-7503 or -4542
Sarasota, FL 34243
Interface UCSD
Jack C. Fisher, MD
Developing countries
Plastic and reconstructive surgery
Division of Plastic Surgery
(619) 543-6084
UCSD Medical Center
225 Dickinson St
San Diego, CA 92103
International Eye Foundation
Patricia Chiancony
Caribbean, sometimes other areas
Ophthalmology
7801 Nortolk Ave
(301)966-1830
Bethesda, MD 20814
International Lislson of Lay Volunteers in Mission
Sister Ellen Cavanaugh
Varies
Varies
4121 Harewood Rd NE
(202)529-1100
international Lifeline
Robert E. Watkins
Togo, Rwanda, Halti
All specialties
PO Box 32714
(406) 728-2828
Oklahoma City, OK 73123
(800) 456-4464
International Medical Corpe
Roziyn Grace
Pakistan, Nicaragua, Uganda,
10880 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 606
Call Wed.
Family practice, internal medicine,
(213) 474-3927
Eritrea, Thailand
Los Angeles, CA 90024
emergency medicine, pediatrics,
general and orthopedic surgery
International Resoue Committee
Ulliane Kelth
Malawi, Sudan, Pakistan, Thalland,
Infectious disease, public health
386 Park Ave 8
(212)679-0010
El Salvador
New York, NY 10016
Interplest Inc
Marge Sentous
Asia, Central and South America.
2458 Embarcadero Way
Plastic surgery. anesthesiology, speech
(415)424-0123
Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, therapy. pediatrics, nurses
Pato Arto, CA 94303
Lesotho, Western Samoa, Philippines
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Contact/Telephone
Countries Served
Specialties Needed
InterServe
lain Crichton, MD
Middle East, Indian subcontinent
All specialties, nurses
PO Box 410
(215) 352-0581
Upper Darby, PA 19082
Jesult Mission of Belize
Edward R. Browne, MD
Belize
Primary care
Medical Assistance Program
(203) 228-0438
PO Box 151
Columbia, CT 06237
LBJ Tropical Medical Center
Alo Anesi
American Samoa
Internal medicine, family practice, general
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
(011 684) 633-1222. X 138 or 201
surgery, pediatrics, Ob/Gyn
Lome Linda University International Programs
Joan Coggin
Varies
Cardiologists
11234 Anderson St
(714) 824-4420
Lome Linda, CA 92350
Ludhiane Christian Medical College Board USA
Charles Reynolds, DD
India
All specialties
475 Riverside Dr. Room 250
(212) 870-2641
New York, NY 10115
MAP International-Reeder's Digest
Nancy Holcomb
Developing countries
Senior medical students, interns,
International Fellowship
(912) 265-6010
residents in various specialties
PO Box 50
Brunswick GA 31520
Marimed Foundation
Robert Grossman, PhD
Micronesia
Primary health care
1050 Ala Moana Blvd. Bidg D
(808) 537-5586
Honolulu, HI 96814
Maryknoll Associate Lay Missioners
Kathy Wright
17 Countries
Family and general practice
Maryknell, NY 10545
(914) 762-6364
MEDEX Group
Evelyn Hein
Africa, Asia, Latin America
Physicians as administrators, teachers
John A. Burns School of Medicine
(808) 948-8643
University of Hawaii
1833 Kalakaua Ave, Suite 700
Honolulu, HI 98815
Medical Benevolence Foundation
Clarance G. Durham
Asia and Africa
Varles (volunteers must pay own way).
320 Highway 190 W
(409) 283-3773
Woodville, TX 75979-9717
Medical Missionaries of Mary
Rene Dulgnan
10 Countries
Varies
Greenbank, Mall, Drogheda
In US. (212) 865-0945
County Louth, Ireland
Medical Service Corporation International
Cynthia Turner
Africa, Asia, Middle East. El Salvador
Epidemiology, public health,
1716 Wilson Blvd
or George Contis. MD
various olinical specialties
Arlington, VA 22209
(703) 278-9100
Mennonite Christian Hospital
Wen-Yang Wu, MD
Taiwan
Surgery, ENT, obstetrics, nephrology
44 Minchuan Rd. Hualien
(038) 22-7161
Taiwan, Republic of China 97047
Marcy Ships
Barbara Hurt, RN
Varies
Ophthalmology, general and
PO Box 2020
(214) 963-8341
plastic surgery
Lindale, TX 75771
Mexican Medical Inc
Andy Ortega
Mexico
Aneathesiology, surgery, orthopedics,
13810 Lyone Valley Rd, Suite C
(619) 689-1409
family practice, internal medicine, ENT,
Jamul, CA 92035
Ob/Gyn
Minnesota International Health Volunteers
Angie Nelson
Kenya
Pediatrics, Internal medicine,
122 W Franklin Ave, Suite 303
Call Wed.
(612) 671-3759
public health, nurses
Minnespolis, MN 55404
Mission Doctors Association
Richard Mason, MD
Papus New Guinea, West Africa,
Family practice, general medicine,
1531 W Ninth St
Call Wed.
(818) 285-8856
Cameroon
surgery, Ob/Gyn, pediatrics
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Missionaries of Africa
Richard Roy
Africa
General practice, surgery
2020 W Morse Ave
(312) 274-4292
Chicago, IL 60645
Moravian Church Board of World Missions
Theodore Wilde
Hondures, Tanzania
Public health, surgery
PO Box 1245
(215) 668-1732
Bethlehem, PA 18016
North American Baptist Conference
Rev Horman Effe
Cameroon
Internal medicine, ophthalmology,
Missions Department
(708) 495-2000
surgery
210 Summit Ave, 1S
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
Operation Rainbow
James Cruz
Philippines, China, Guatemala
Plastic, reconstructive, orthopedic,
4665 Sweetwater Blvd, #110
(713) 980-0088
and oral surgery, anesthesiology,
Sugar Land, TX 77479
ophthalmology, otolaryngology, nurses
Option
Mary Carpenter
Worldwide
Varies
PO Box 85323
(619) 279-9690
San Diego, CA 92138
Partners of the Americas
Fred J. Krause
Carlobean, Latin America
Varies
1424 K St NW, Room 700
(202) 628-3300
Washington, DC 20005
Peace Corps
Jennifer Kampf
Africa, perhaps others
General practice, education
Volunteer Partners Program
(800) 424-8580, x231
1990 K St NW
Washington, DC 20526
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Morrisine Smith
Africa, Asia, Haiti
Internal medicine, public health,
Global Mission Unit
(502) 569-5300
surgery, pediatrics
100 Witherspoon St
Louisville, KY 40202-1396
Project Hope
Sue Adams
19 Countries
Varies
Health Sciences Education Center
(800) 544-HOPE
Millwood, VA 22646
Project Orbia
Rise Kory, RN
Worldwide
Ophthalmology, community health.
330 W 42nd St, #1900
(212) 244-2525
nurses
New York, NY 10036
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Contact/Telephone
Countries Served
Specialties Needed
Reconstructive Surgeons Volunteer
Andrea Contreras
Varies
Plastic and reconstructive surgery
Program (RSVP)
(708) 226-9900
444 E Algonquin Rd
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Reconstructive Surgery Foundation
Edward Falces, MD
Micronesia, Palau, Northern Mariana
Plastic and reconstructive surgery
1150 Buth St, Suite 4B
(415) 673-3940
Islands, Philippines
San Francisco. CA 94109
RHEMA International Inc
Nicholas T. Pallozzi
Haiti
Oral surgery, general surgery,
3798 NW 16th St
(305) 581-9252
ophthalmology, gynecology
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
Save the Children Federation
Warren Berggren
Worldwide
Public health, preventive medicine,
54 Witton Rd
(203) 226-7271
epidemiology. primary care
Westport. CT 06880
Seve Foundation
David M. Green
India, Nepal
Ophthalmology, padiatrics, public health
8N San Pedro Rd
Call Wed.
(415) 492-1829
San Rafael, CA 94903
SIM International
Gordon Stanley
Africa, Asia, South America
General surgery. family practice
PO Box 7900
(704) 588-5100
Charlotte, NC 28241
John Snow, Inc (JSI)
Norbert Hirschhorn, MD
Varies
Varies
210 Lincoin St
(617) 482-9485
Boston, MA 02111
Southern Baptist Convention
Van Williams, MD
Worldwide
Public health, community
Foreign Mission Board
(804) 353-0151
health, primary care
PO Box 6787
Richmond, VA 23230
Surgical Eye Expeditions International
Harry S. Brown, MD
Worldwide
Ophthalmology
27 2-C E De is Guerra
(805) 963-3303
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Threshold/MoCoskrie Foundation
Jo Bailey, RN
Guatemala
General practice
25 Miracle Strip Pkway
(904) 243-4601
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548
UCl-Srl Lanks Project
Bruce M. Achauer, MD
Sri Lanka
Plastic surgery
Division of Plastic Surgery
(714) 634-5755
UCI Medical Center
101 City Dr $
Orange, CA 92668
United Methodist Church General Board
Anna Soltero
Worldwide
Varies
of Global Ministries
(212) 870-3660
475 Riverside Dr. Room 1470
New York, NY 10115
US Medical Aid Foundation
P.C. Mangalick
India
All specialities
4001 Hiawaths Ave
(612) 724-7244
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Vellore Christian Medical College Board
Linda L Pierce
India
Varies
(USA) Inc
(212) 870-2640
475 Riverside Dr. Room 243
New York, NY 10115
VOSH- Volunteer Optometric Service
V.E. Falkenhain, MD
Worldwide
Ophthaimology, optometry
to Humanity
(314)384-1773
1001 Pine St
Rolla, MO 65401
WEC International
Tom Marks
Gambia, Zaire
Most specialties
PO Box 1707
(215) 646-2322
Fort Washington, PA 19034
Wesleyan World Missions
Paul L. Swauger
Sierra Leone, Haiti, Zambia,
General practice, surgery. nurses
PO Box 50434
(317) 576-8170
Papue New Guines, India
Indianapolla, IN 46250
World Concern
Gregg Keen
Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal,
Pediatrice, family practice,
19303 Fremont Ave N
(206) 546-7201
Bangladesh. Uganda. Somalia
public health. ophthalmology. midwives
Seattle, WA 96133
World Eye Care
Frank C. Winter, MD
Ghana
Ophthalmology
2778 Terrebonne Aug
(714) 599-8955
San Dimas, CA 91773
World Gospel Mission
David Kushman
Kanya, Bolivia, Honduras
Community health, family practice,
PO Box WGM
(317) 664-7331
Internal medicine, Ob/Gyn, surgery
Marion, IN 48952
World Medical Mission inc
Franklin Graham
Africa, Asia. Caribbean, Latin America Varies
PO Box 3500
(704) 262-1980
Boone. NC 28607
World Mission Prayer League
Charles Lindquist
Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan
Varies
232 Cifton Ave
(612) 671-6843
Minneapolis, MN 55403
World Neighbors
Bob Curtis
Asia, Africa, Central America,
Reproductive and preventive health
5516 N Portland Ave
(405) 946-3333
South America
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
World Redio Missionary Fellowship, Inc
Edwin Giesbrecht
South America
Varies
PO Box 553000
(306) 624-4252
Ope-Locka, FL 33055-0401
World Rehabilitation Fund Inc
Howard A. Rusk, Jr
Nicaragua, Hondures
Varies
400 E 34th St
(212) 340-6062
New York, NY 10016
World Vision International
Call Wed.
Pamela Kem
Africa, Asia
Pediatrica, public health, tropical
919 W Huntington Dr
(818) 357-7979
medicine, child survival
Monrovie, CA 91016
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