The Tuskegee News,, March 13, 2003, Page A-5
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ml Mac Doris Williams and staff
Lewis Adams Early Childhood
welcomed readers from the corn-
on March 3 to read to the children
of the 99th anniversary of
birthday of Theodore Geisel, better
as Dr. Seuss.
is the author of the Cat and the Hat
many other delightful books. Lewis
Early Childhood Center affection-
referenced, as the "Home of the
Kids" was a delightful setting for
annual event. All children, inclusive
gather at Lewis Adams to
of Head Start Children, wore a Dr. Seuss'
hat.
Taking time to read were: Officer
Jennifer Jordan and Captain Michael
Clements, Tuskegee Police Department,
Larry Boyd, assistant principal, Booker T.
Washington High School (BTW); Charles
Biggers, teacher/coach, BTW;
Joseph Asberry, principal, Tuskegee
Public; Attorney Deborah Biggers; Charlie
Hardy, METLIFE Financial; Willie
Thomas, superintendent, Macon County
School System;
participate
Karen Tatum, administrative, assistant
to Superintendent Thomas; Harold White,
Macon County Board of Education mem-
ber; Betty Morgan, Tuskegee-Macon
County Public Library;
Melvenia Spencer, retired teacher; Tanya
Campbell, health advisor; retired
Tuskegee Fire Chief Luther Curry;
Monique Childress. ARI reading coach,
Delaine McNeil; Dr. Saulawa, professor,
Alabama State University. Also reading
was Pearl Clark, Tuskegee-Macon County
Public Library.
in Read Across America
The program was coordinated Jackie
Foster, ARI system-wide reading coach;
Pearl Clark, public library;, Monique
Childers, IRA president, Tuskegee
University Literacy Council; and Dr.
Carolyn Gathright, head of Curriculum
and Instructions, Tuskegee University.
Research indicates that when children
are read to, they do better in school.
Retired Fire Chief Curry still holds the
record as the longest reader.
twanis Club of Macon County
celebrating 25th anniversary
than 85 years after the internation-
was founded in 1915, in
Mich., the Kiwanis Club of Macon
is celebrating 25 years of fellowship
a better community through
Alcena, a public accountant in
is the current President of the
club, which has 27 active members
meet weekly to plan and coordinate a
of public service activities.
Kiwanis Club of Macon County was
on March 29, 1978 and chartered
May 9, of the same year. When first orga-
the club was sponsored by the
Club of Greater Auburn, one of 10
Clubs in Division XII of the
District. The Macon County
Club was formally incorporated in
its founding in 1978, the club has
a number of presidents, including:
Curry, retired .Tuskegee City fire
Donnie Hatcher, a Macon County
administrator; Lelia Rabon, Booker
High School principal; the
Brassfield, long-time band
at Booker T. Washington High
and Tuskegee Institute High School;
Randolph, a retired Macon County
Marvin Brown, assistant princi-
at AubL/rn High School; Arthur
retired pulmonary technician
the Veterans administration Hospital;
late Ferlisa Irwin-Hooks, a Macon
pharmacist; Howard Burton, a
director and business entrepreneur;
Hooks, a retired high school coun-
Deborah Hill Biggers, local attorney;
Ferlisa Ro~s, a former teacher with the
Macon County Public Schools; and the late
Raymond Handy, a former superintendent
of Macon County schools and Tuskegee
University professor who also served as the
first president.
Active Charter members of the Kiwanis
Club of Macon County are Marvin Brown
and L.M. Randolph.
Four of the club's members, Randolph,
Brassfield, Manning and Handy, have held
state office of lieutenant governor, the chief
executive officer of a division.
One of the Club's major activities is spon-
sorship of the Macon County Junior Miss
program. All of the winning contestants
have gone on to collegiate studies. Two of
the Macon County contestants, Chundra
Hughes and Wendy Lei~wich, were run-
ners-up in state competition for the "Junior
Miss" title. The young ladies are judged on
scholastic achievement, talent, fitness, poise
and an interview.
In addition to the popular Junior Miss
Program, the Kiwanis Club also partici-
pates in the Department of Human
Resources Christmas for Foster Children
and Families program and the Cooperative
Extension Service Farm City Week pro-
gram. The club also sponsors a Memorial
Day Coffee Break for interstate motorists
and provides a Thanksgiving dinner for a
needy family.
Kiwanis Club members are also involved
in the RIF project (Reading is
Fundamental) with Head Start Children.
The club will celebrate Thursday, March
20, 2003 at the Kellogg Conference Center
with a recognition dinner.
?
Several members of the Kiwanis Club of Macon County
• .. Preparing for celebration of club's 25th anniversary
ee Community Network
• g out of new location
Community Network, TCN-Channel 6 is now oper-
out of a new location. The building is located at 1005
Church Street, Tuskegee.
at the right are Jimmy Johnson, left side, and Bill
on the fight of the sign. They are the owners and oper-
of TCN.
broadcasts on the local Charter Communications cable
In its new location, TCN will have the capability of
live broadcasts that will be aired through Charter.
--Photo by Jacquelyn Carlisle
Don E
Attorney at Law
Tuskegee's Red Cross Chapter founder
Walcott in Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
Special to The Tuskegee News
The l'a~e Dr. Louise Branscomb and the late
Bess Bolden Walcott were inducted into the
Alabama Women's Hall Of Fame at the 32nd
Annual Induction at Judson College on Mar.
6.
The Alabama Women's Hall Of Fame
(AWHOF) was created in 1970 by the
Alabama legislature, said Dr. Robert Potts,
president of the University of North Alabama
and current AWHOF board chairman.
"Our trustees come from all walks of life
and take seriously their mandate," Potts said.
"And we appreciate Judson College's support.
Judson is a unique institution and it houses
an Alabama treasure."
Branscomb, a Birmingham native, graduat-
ed from the Woman's College of Alabama
(now Huntingdon College) and the Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine. She
practiced obstetrics and gynecology from
1931 until 1975. She was noted for her prac-
tice. of surgery--a rare specialty for female
physicians at the time.
A major in the U.S. Public Health Service,
Branscomb volunteered her services to the
war effort in 1944-1945. She worked tireless-
ly in a second vocation as a Methodist church
and civil leader, becoming a world traveler
advocating racial, gender and economic jus-
tice and peace.
"Louise didn't see people or things as they
were, but as they could be," said induction
speaker Dr. Norma T. Mitchell of Troy State
University. "She lost a few patients, was even
called a communist and had her reputation
sullied because of her vision. She was a'Lord's
Prayer' kind of woman. She worked with God
to bring his kingdom to earth."
Walcott, a graduate of Oberlin College,
assumed a leadership role in academics as
well as in a wide range of civic affairs on the
local, state and international level. She estab-
lished a Red Cross chapter at Tuskegee
Institute, and served as Acting Field Director
for the Red Cross during World War II.
During her 54-year tenure at Tuskegee
Institute she worked as librarian, teacher,
writer, editor, administrator and curator.
Walcott's work as curator for the Carver
Museum from 1951-1962 led to its inclusion
in a National Park site that brings countless
visitors to our state each year.
"BB, as her friends called her, was a gi~d
and caring teacher, librarian and administra-
tor," said Dr. Caroline Gebhard of Tuskegee
University, Walcott's induction speaker. "She
was bern in a segregated society, but she was
a servant leader and she lived a life of giving
back 100 fold."
Keynote speaker Dr. Regina Benjamin of
Bayou LaBatre challenged the audience to be
"light houses" for the right things.
"Our society struggles with poverty, racism,
domestic violence, the under-insured, the
non-insured and lack of funding for educa-
tion," Benjamin said. "One person caring and
speaking up can make a difference, as these
two ladies did."
Benjamin is founder and owner of the
Bayou LaBatre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou
LaBatre and Associate Dean for Rural Health
at the University of South Alabama College of
Medicine in Mobile. She was elected to the
American Medical Association Board of
Trustees in 1995, making her the first physi-
cian under 40 and the first African-American
woman to be elected.
She also holds the distinction of being the
first African-American elected president of
the Medical Association for the state of
Alabama. She was awarded the Nelson
Mandela Award for Health and Human
Rights in 1995.
Benjamin said she's trying to make a differ-
ence in her small community, and learned
that a community's health is greater than
writing a prescription.
"I encouraged literacy programs when I
learned some of my patients can't read their
prescriptions," she said. "Leadership means
we see what needs to be done and we do it. It
also means we encourage others to get out
front, too, and we don't get jealous when
they're in the spotlight.
Leadership means making a difference in
somebody's life, and this is much more impor-
tant than money."
Branscomb and Walcott join 65 other distin-
guished Alabama women including Helen
Keller, Julia Tutwiler, Lurleen Burns Wallace
and Tallulah Bankhead.
The Alabama Women's Hall of Fame is
located in the Asa Howard Bean Hall at
Judson College in Marion.
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