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School
Driving Tips:
Essay winner tours U.S.A.
Christina Maureen Shamsud-Din
of Portland. Oregon, recently re
turned from a 10-day, six-city tour
of the United States as a member of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Inc. (A K A ) 1983 Domestic Travel
Tour.
Christina, daughter o f Isaac and
Lurlenc Shamsud-Dtn, is a 12th
grader at Lincoln High School
where she is an honor roll student
and has earned a junior varsity letter
in track. Christina is active in the
Lincoln Jr. Service Club, IC E Black
Student Union and the International
S'udies Center. Her other activities
include Les Femmes social service
club and the W orld Affairs Council.
"Selected on the basis o f their
winning essays, "W h y Black C ol
leges?," Christina and 29 other girls
from around the country visited
places o f historic and cultural im
portance in Chicago,
Atlanta,
Boston, Philadelphia. New York.
Orlando and Washington, D .C .,"
said Faye Bryant. A K A supreme
basileus.
The Domestic Travel Tour, a
component o f A K A s Programs for
Service focus, was initiated in 1969
to provide an opportunity for high
school junior and senior girls to en
rich their educational experiences
outside the form al classroom set
ting, and to expose them to their
rich historic and cultural
heritage.
Sites visited include the DuSable
Museum o f African American His
tory (Chicago); M artin Luther King
Center for Social Change, the U n i
versity complex (A tlanta); Disney
W orld, Epcot (O rlando); Indepen
dence H all, the Liberty Bell (Phila
delphia); Fanuiel H a ll (Boston);
Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center,
Harlem (New York); and the W hite
House, Library o f Congress and
Capitol H ill (W ashington, D .C .).
Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's
oldest Greek-letter organization,
established by and for Black
women, was founded at Howard
University in 1908. From a tradi
tional college sorority with a focus
on intellectual and social life, A K A
has expanded into a national service
organization through which its
members work to improve social
conditions and the quality o f life in
their home communities. The orga
nization has 6 3 1 graduate and cam
pus chapters in 44 states, Washing
ton,
D .C .,
West
A frica,
the
Bahamas, the Virgin Islands and
West Germany
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Christina Mauraana Sham audDIn. Portland, tourad six U .8. cities
ss s winner of the "Why Black Collages?" assay contest sponsored
by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
W ith most schools starting Tues
day, September 6. 1983, Portland
police are again alerting drivers to
the hazards and frequent violations
that occur around schools and
school crossings Remember:
1. The school zone speed limit is
20m . p.h.
2. Do not pass a school bus from
either direction i f the red lights are
flashing.
3. Stop for pedestrians in both
marked and unmarked crosswalks.
The Police Bureau T raffic D ivi
sion will have special patrols assigned
to specifically watch the areas
around schools, school crossings,
and school bus stops.
Additional patrols will be check
ing the areas near high schools as we
frequently receive complaints about
reckless driving before and after
school.
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