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Volume 1, Number 6Lincoln 3, Nebraska November IS, 1946
Public Interracial Meet Features Conference
Scholastic Achievement
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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.
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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.
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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
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