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i i Volume 1, Number 6Lincoln 3, Nebraska November IS, 1946 Public Interracial Meet Features Conference Scholastic Achievement « We are proud to note that two of our girls, Misses Robbie and Freddie Powell, were elected to the National Honor Society at Lincoln High School. This Na tional Society honors persons with high scholarship, outstand ing leadership, and good citizen ship combined with service to school and community. These two girls are worthy of this honor bestowed upon them. They are graduating in January, 1947 class after 2^ years of high school work and plan to register in the Arts and Sciences College at the University of Nebraska for the second semester. Former students from our group thus honored were, Stanley Cooke and Jeanne Malone. «. A A AL. A AA A> .A AA A AAAAA AAAAA. J..».. A. S. Simms To Be Ordained At Christ Temple Church Brother Alfred E. Simms, will be ordained Sunday morning at the 11:00 a.m. service at Christ Temple Church. Brother Simms will be ordained as a Deacon. The pastor, Rev. T. O. McWilliams, Jr. and Rev. Hull will be in charge of the ordination. Brother Simms is a sincere Christian and is an asset to any church where he is present. The public is invited to the ordination services. Drnm v vhtt cunm r* vwnw FORMER LINCOLNITE HONORED 9 Mrs. Leona Brown of New York City was complimented with a two luncheon Monday by her mother, Mrs. Brevy Lilly, 309 South 20th St. ; pictured above: Seated left to right are: Mrs. Rosemary Butler, Mrs. Janies Lilly Brown, Mrs. Harold Stith; Second rev: Mrs. Wayne Hassell McWilliams. Standing left to right are: Mrs. Jewell Kelly Jr., Miss Miss Ellen Roy, Miss Ruth Norman and Mrs. Ira Gibson. Group Action Commended by Organizations of Both Races CHICAGO—(ANP)— Interrac ial cooperation bespeaking the unity and fellowship which is the watchword of the National Coun cil of Negro women was effective ly displayed when the group’s Chicago Metropolitan council op ened the regional conference of the fifth district with a public meeting that brought together two outstanding leaders in the field of public affairs, Mrs. Louise Leonard Wright, director of Chi cago Council of Foreign relations, and Mrs. Beulah T. Whitby, in structor at Wayne university, to address delegates on “The United Nations on the Way” and “One World” in Good Shepherd Con gregational church here October 25. Messages of commendation greeted the body from the Round Table of Christians and Jews, Anti-Defamation league, Nation al Conference of Christians and Jews, Mayor’s Commission on Human relations, National As sociation of Republican women, South Central association, Ameri can Council on Race relations, national sororities of Alpha Kap pa, Sigma Gamma Rho, Delta Sigma, Iota Phi Lambda, Zeta Phi Beta, Phi Delta Kappa; wo men’s auxiliaries of the National Dental and Medical associations, National Associations of Business ajqd Professional women, Nation aDAssociation of Colored Gradu ate nurses, and NAACP. Business sessions got underway the following day at South Park way YWCA, with Eleanor Curtis Dailey, regional director, presi ding. Workshop themes and round table discussions were the order of the day, covering the topics of “The Role of the Negro Woman in the Struggle for World Unity,” “The Council Program as (Continued on page seven) . — a ■ . .. Sec. 562, P. L. & R. hi
