‘Choice Of 1948’ Contest Winners Presented
Family of the Year
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Mr. and Mrs. Clayton P. Lewis,
1970 T street were chosen as the
•Tamil y of the Year.”
■ The Lewises have three chil
dren, Mrs. Rae Lee Harris of
Chicago was a senior at the Uni
versity of Nebraska after having
been a member of the National
Honorary Society at Lincoln High
School and winning the Nichols
scholarship award and the Quota
Club scholarship at the University
of Nebraska; Frances is a sopho
more at the University of Ne
braska and is interested in nurs
ing; Paul ‘Clayton is a pupil at
Elliott grade school.
Mr. Lewis' has been employed
tor the city water and light de
partment for the past 15 "years
and is an officer in Quinn Chapel J
A. M. E. Church. He is Past
Master of Lebanon Lodge No. 3
and Grand Master of Masons and
Past Patron of Amaranth Chapter
O. E. S. Mr. Lewis is Chairman
of the Boy Scout Commission
Troop 60 and Vice President of
the Executive Board of the Lin
coln Urban League a position he
has held for several years.
Mrs. Lewis is a member of
Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church;
active in the Lincoln Council of
Church Women, and a member
of the Inter-Club Council and
has been associated with the
Y.W.C.A. for 12 years. Mrs. Lewis
is president of the Mary Bethune
Literary and Art Club and an
ideal ihother and housewife and
she possesses a dynamic person
ality.
Note: The M. J. Bradford family was
first place winners, but unable to have
pictures made. Lewises were second.
*Miss Voice9
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daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Williams, 2236 R.
She is a sophomore in the
Junior Division at the University
of Nebraska and expects to com
plete a secretarial course.
Miss Williams is a Sunday
school teacher in the Church of
God in Christ and supervisor of
the Junior Church.
She delights in a hobby of col
lecting snapshots and making
notes of her acquaintances.
All American Boy
Albert L. Bowen, 18, is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Bowen,
1600 Whittier St. He is an 11
grade student' at Lincoln high
school and taking a trade course
in printing.
Albert has been employed with
the Horace E. Colley Furrier for
the past three years and hopes to
follow the fur business after he
has completed his training.
He is a junior steward of Quinn
Chapel A. M. E. church and a
member of the Usher Club.
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i Best Dressed Woman |
Mrs. Mary L. Greene, has been
chosen "Best Dressed Woman”
for 1948.
She lives with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs, Charles Walker, 2200
Dudley and has been employed in
various ready-to-wear shops
which no doubt added to her ap
preciation of styles and quality of
dress.
Mrs. Greene states that this
choice may have come as a result
of her early selections. She se
lects her wardrobe as soon as the
styles are displayed, thus giving
her an advantage in many re
spects. She selects her spring
wardrobe in February and her
summer wardrobe in May.
Mrs. Greene says that she
never thinks in terms of a par
ticular pair of shoes or hat or
dress, but of a complete outfit,
and she dislikes wearing it more
than two or three times.
The Best Dressed Man
W. P. Keys, 2019 T, was cho
sen “Best Dressed Man” for
1948.
Mr. Keys is employed with the
Burlington Railroad. He says
he doesn’t think too much of
dressing now, he simply selects
his complete wardrobe as soon
as the styles are shown and he
has always been very careful to
wear the correct things at the
correct times. He says he thinks
that is the way it should be
done.
Mr. Keys has traveled exten
sively and he feels that this is to
some extent responsible for his
consciousness of dress.
It is nice to know that when
you help someone up a hill you
are a little nearer the top your
self.
Men With Similar Interests
Co-Workers on Lincoln Paper
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Mr. Lynnwood Parker and Charles Goolsby have accepted po
sitions as Associate Editor and Contributing Editor of The Voice.
Mr. Parker and Goolsby are the first Negroes to be admitted
to the Residence Halls for Men on the campus of the Nebraska
University where Parker is majoring In Speech and Social Science
while Goolsby is a pre-med majoring in zoology.
There are amazing similarities in the records of these two men.
Both are active members of the Officers Reserve Corps with rank
of 1st Lieutenant, of the Masonic Lodge, the A.M.E. Church, the
Lincoln Social Action Council, the University Y.M.C.A., the Urban
League Men’s Club, the N.A.A.C.P.—of which Parker is local sec
retary, and of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity—Goolsby, president
Both men are Seniors at the University and are scheduled to grad
uate this summer.
Couple of the Year
REVEREND AND MRS. TRAGO O. Me WILLIAMS, JR., 2015 U
St., were chosen for the “Couple of The Year.’*
The Rev. Mr. McWilliams is pastor and organizer of the Church
of Christ (Holiness), located at 2149 U Street. It is recognized as
one of the more progressive churches of the city from a charitable
and evangelistic viewpoint. He is employed as a key punch operator
in the tabroom with the Division of Placement and Unemployment
Insurance, a position which he has held for six years. Rev. Mc
Williams is a genius in making friends in every walk of life, and he
is known for his deep understanding of the aspirations of the un
saved. His personal credo is based on “helping people get the most
out of life.”
Mrs. McWilliams has worked at Gold & Co. for 16 years and is an
accomplished artist in her own right. Besides being the gracious
hostess of the parsonage she is pianist and Sunday School teacher in
the “Little Church” which was formerly founded by Rev. McWil
liams’ grandparents in the early ’90’s.