Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 29]

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WASHINGTON, D.C.~President Kennedy~s proposed Peace Corps
which will send young Americans to work in undeveloped areas
of the world received hearty endorsement by these Howard Uni-.
ve aren. students who spoke at the University during an International Week sy mposium March 7. All were volunteers last summer in international- programs. The two foreign students, both of
whom are siudyinz at Howard, participated in a peace program
in the United States; and the American students worked. and
studied abroad. They are (from the left) James B. Lancaster of
Washington, D.C., a member of the American Friends Overseas
Worl-camps in Iran, Iraq and Turkey; Gertrude Branson of

~Peace Caravan;

SPARTANS~ BALL was held at the Veterans Mem orial Building. Seated: Pat Davis, Queen; standShariyn Lynch, runner-up; Yvonne Maynare, third place; Cezell Cammon, Shelia Ladaux, and
Gaskill, fourth piace winner.

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MR. and MRS. CHARLES C. DIGGS, SR., and OTIS SMITH at the Detroit Council Insurance
Executives Recognition Banquet in Cobo Hall last Monday evening, February 6th. Mr. Charles Diggs,

Mrs.

Washingtoa, D&.;a member of a YWCA group who~ toured
Russia; Houshang Lolachi of Iran, a member of the~ Ate
Friends Peace Caravan, a group which lectured seater
New York and midwestern area; Donald McHenry, a How~
structor in English who served as symposium fmoderator; Conrad Harper of Detroit, Mich., ~Who lived with a family in Finland
as an. Experiment in International Living participant; Mohender
Mohillajee of India, another member of the American Friends ~
and Sonja Bolling of Washington, D.C., who
spent last summer in Liberia as a member of Operalion ~Yross:
roads Africa, a study-work group:

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Junetta R. Watt; 2B

man for the March, of Dimes
Fashion. Extravaganza Homes
tee for 1961.

Mrs. Ruth H. Jones of New York City takes oath as: Collector =
of Customs for the Virgin Islands, administered by Philip Nichols,

Johrison, executive secretary.-of thé local NAACP branch; principal speaker, the Rev.

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Getting together: ktofe the Detroit NAACP mee ~ing opens at Ford Auditorium ~are d-r.). Arthur
Theodore

Gibson, rector of Miami, Fla.~s Christ Episcopal. Church and president of the Miami NAACP
branch, and. Edward Turner, -president of Michi an NAACP branches. Mrs. Rosa Parks, of the
Montgomery; Ala. bus boycott fame, looks on.

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Four new secretarial employees in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury meet with Robert
A. Wallace, Special Assistant to.Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon and the Department~s
Employment. Policy..Officer. From the left are Miss Yvonne C. Richardson; June graduate~ who
is accepting her first: position: in the government service, Mrs. Marion E. Bennett, transferred.
from the ~Bureau'.of Enzraving ahd Printing, Mrs.~ Cleo V. Bradley, former~ employe, ghqee [Ipaernal

Agency... tia Treasuruy Department has reeently stepped up recruitment activities améng
groups in line with the Presidnt~s Executive Or der calling for greater employment opportunities

in the government service.

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ant Secretary of the Treasury A. Gilmore Flues (center) and
other Treasury and Customs officials. Mrs. Jones started her
duties at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on December 18. *

Sr., received The Award of the Year Plaque.

Jr., (right) Commissioner of Customs. The ceremony was held at

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Joseph J. Simsions, 1H, Musk
ogee, Oklahoma, was appointed

as Oil and Gas. Mobilization

advisor to. the Department of
the Interior.

the Bureau of Customs in Washington and attended by Assist
~Revetue Strvite ~ang@ ~Miss ~Ruth Ann *Cothtan; ~previously empfoyed~ by: aivdine whic if ince
ority

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MANAG2 MENT AND TECHNOLOGY NIGHT: hiceian
Ellington, who received ~a certificate _of: attain nent | for cotopletibs courses of ' study; ~Applied

- Management and Technology, center, Thursday, May 18 are from left; Mr. William M. Ellingtoti;
St. bookKeeper-Detroit ~Tribune; Mr. Charles: Billington, secretary, National Ho

memakérs Guild, Inc;

Guild Ine; Mr, Lioyd, Billingsley, ~Tribune
Tribune; Hubert.. practic:

president, National

Mrs. Geraldine ~Bagley make
~Filington,~ honoree, inanag inig.

employee; Mrs. B. E.

ing ~ and assistant coordinator fon: Relig ious: Affairs, WSU; Mr. Bert Wall; ie ian ate fit fer

eae Bare eee neenenret Sm: TNE Pn ae: Akt the queet sabls. ot llce. 4 ~Bettie B: