February 3, 1988, Portland Observer, Page 3
NATIONAL NEWS UPDATE
Kevin Senie Named Treasurer of Time,
Inc.; Tommy Harris Becomes Controller
— Kevin
D. Senie, a vice president and con
troller of Time Inc. since 1985, has
been appointed treasurer of the
company. He will be succeeded as
controller by Tommy J. Harris, assi
stant controller of the company
since last year. Both appointments
were announced by J. Richard
Munro, chairman and chief execu
tive officer of Time Inc.
Senie succeeds Glenn A. Britt,
who, as previously announced, will
become the company's vice presi
NEW YORK, January 25, 1988
dent, finance on February 1.
Senie joined the company in 1973
as a financial analyst in the Control
ler's Department. In 1976 he moved
to Home Box Office, Inc., a sub
sidiary of Time Inc., as assistant
treasurer. Except for a brief period
in 1980 when he returned to Time
Inc. as director of business devel
opment, Senie served as an execu
tive at HBO until 1984. While there,
he held a number of positions, rising
to senior vice president, finance and
planning. In 1984 he returned to
Time Inc. as assistant controller.
Senie, 40, has a B.A. in economics
from the University of Michigan and
an M.B.A. in finance from Harvard
University.
Harris came to Time Inc. in Octo
ber of last year from its 82 percent-
owned subsidiary American Tele
vision and Communications Corpor
ation (ATC), where he served as
vice president and controller. He
joined ATC in 1983 as an assistant
controller. Before that Harris was
with Price Waterhouse & Company
in New York for 13 years, where he
became a senior manager. Harris
was graduated from Southern Illi
nois University with a B.S. in ac
counting, and from Long Island Uni
versity with an M.B.A. in finance.
National Black Arts Festival
Receives $100,000 Grant
The first National Black Arts
Festival planned for this summer in
Atlanta has received a $100,000
grant form the Expansion Arts Pro
gram of the National Endowment
for the Arts.
The National Endowment for the
Arts is an independent federal fund
ing agency established to foster ex
cellence and diversity of the arts in
the United States. Its Expansion
Arts Program funds multi-cultural
arts organizations and assists in
their development.
"The National BJack Arts Festival
is a wonderful way to bring greater
visibility to Black artists and their
work," said A.B. Spellman, director
of the program, which also funds
Just Us Theater and Jomandi Pro
ductions in Atlanta. "I think it is
essential that the work of Black art
ists is appreciated and understood."
The National Black Arts Festival
will be held July 30 through August
7,1988.
The nine-day festival will feature
scores of concerts, musicals, dance
performances, films, art exhibitions,
late night cabarets and symposia by
America's most distinguished Black
artists.
A distinguished National Blue
Ribbon Panel, headed by actress
Cicely Tyson, has been assembled
to assist in promoting the festival
and to represent each of the eight
artistic disciplines that will be ex
plored during the festival. These are
dance, theater, film, literary arts,
visual arts, folk art, performance
art, and music.
Some of the panel members in
clude: dance legend Kathrine Dun
ham, sculptor Elizabeth Catlett,
dancer/choreographer
Geoffrey
Holder, musician Wynton Marsalis,
arts curator/historian Jackie Bon-
temps, sports legend Arthur Ashe,
filmmaker Spike Lee, comedian/
activist Dick Gregory, author/his-
torian Lerone Bennett, author/edu-
cator Dr. Richard Long, opera diva
Jessye Norman, Coretta Scott
King, Douglas Turner Ward of the
Negro Emsemble Company, author
Alex Haley, Ossie Davis and Ruby
Dee.
Conceived and sponsored by the
Fulton County Board of Commis
sioners, the Fulton County Arts
Council, and with support from the
city of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural
Affairs, it will celebrate the history,
creativity, and excellence of Black
artists. Plans are for the festival to
be presented every two years.
The festival is expected to cost
approximately $2 million. It will be
funded by corporations, in-kind do
nations, ticket sales and public
funding sources.
Superintendent of Atlanta Public
Schools Named Trustee for the
M o tt Foundation
Dr. Alonzo A. Crim,
superintendent of the Atlanta Public
Schools and a nationally respected
educator, has been elected to the
Board of Trustees of the C.S. Mott
Foundation. The appointment ex
pands the Foundation's Board of
Trustees to 12 members.
Dr. Crim, who has served as A t
lanta's school superintendent since
1973, has a strong background in
education, paralleling a long-time
interest of the Foundation. A grad
uate of Roosevelt College, Dr. Crim
received his master's degree from
the University of Chicago and his
doctorate from Harvard University.
"W e are delighted to have Dr.
Crim join us," said Foundation
Chairman William S. White. "He
brings to the Board a wealth of ex
perience in several important areas
of Foundation grantmaking such as
at-risk youth, community education
and Black colleges.
"His expertise is these and other
areas will be key in helping us shape
Foundatino policy and programs in
the future."
A lifelong educator, Dr. Crim be
gan his career as an elementary tea
cher in Chicago, advancing through
FLINT, MICH —
the system to district superinten
dent. In 1969, he was named super
intendent of the Compton Union
High School District in Compton,
California, becoming superinten
dent of the Compton Unified School
District the next year.
Dr. Crim presently serves as an
adjunct professor for Atlanta Uni
versity and Georgia State Univer
sity, in addition to his duties as
superintendent of one of the coun
try's largest school districts.
In additional to several honorary
degrees from such institutions as
Harvard, Georgetown University,
Princeton and Tuckegee University,
Dr. Crim has received awards from
the Anti-Defamation League, Geor
gia Special Olympics, the YMCA of
Metropolitan Atlanta, and the Geor
gia Chapter of the Public Relations
Society of America.
He serves on the boards of Pub
lic/Private Ventures, the Young
Men's Christian Association, the
National Academy of Education and
the National Alliance of Black
School Educators.
Dr. Crim is married and the father
of a grown son and twin daughters.
Pew Trusts Award Over $1 Million
to Howard
Over the last few months, The
Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadel
phia have announced three grants
totaling $1,170,000 to Howard Uni
versity.
The largest of the grants,
$770,000 to the Howard Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, will
support the development of a cellu
lar and molecular biology program
over a period of four years.
Dr. Lee V. Leak, a member of
the anatomy faculty who will
be heading the program, says the
grant "w ill allow the graduate
school to develop an independent
doctoral curriculum and provide the
funds needed to attract new faculty
and enhance the support of stu
dents, as well as purchase neces
sary supplies and equipment."
The two other grants went to the
Howard School of Divinity, one in
the amount of $150,000 to help pay
for the renovation of the school's
library and the other for $250,000
to fund a two-year program in urban
ministry.
The urban ministry program is de
signed to institutionalize the edu
cational experience for students,
alumni and pastors who will engage
in a series of activities that provide
"hands-on" involvement in an as
pect of urban ministry.
In acknowledging the receipt of
the latest grant, Dr. James E.
Cheek, president of Howard, said,
"I join the faculty and the students
who will benefit from the support of
these exciting and important pro
grams in expressing gratitude to
The Pew Charitable Trusts. We
look forward to the positive results
of these undertakings."
The Pew Charitable Trusts con
sist of seven individual charitable
funds established between 1948 and
1979 by the sons and daughters of
Joseph N. Pew, founder of the Sun
Oil Co. The trusts support non
profit organizations dedicated to im
proving the quality of life for indi
viduals and communities, and en
couraging personal growth and self-
sufficiency.
Parental Involvement Key to
Students' Success
LAKE FOREST, IL — America's high-
achieving high school students call
for more parental involvement to
raise the nation's level of academic
achievement, according to results
of a survey recently released by
"W ho's Who Among American
High School Students."
The Eighteenth Annual Survey
of High Achievers, conducted by
"W ho's W ho" in the spring of 1987,
shows 58 percent of high-achieving
students surveyed believe that more
parental involvement in their chil
dren's academic activities will raise
the level of academic achievement
in U.S. public schools. In 1986,
only 47 percent of students felt
that parental involvement was im
portant in academic achievement.
According to the high-achieving
students, the most important factor
in raising the nation's level of aca
demic achievement is periodic eval
uations of teachers and school ad
ministrators. Sixty-nine percent of
the students surveyed feel that pub
lic school teachers should be eval
uated periodically; 60 percent be
lieve school administrators should
be evaluated as well.
Reflecting the teens' high regard
for parental involvement, 78 percent
of the high achieving teens survey
ed stated that their own parents
impressed upon them the impor
tance of a good education, helping
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also states that their parents encou
raged them to get good grades
(78%).
Obviously, these teens take edu
cation seriously. The students feel
that a "C " or better should be main
tained in all classes in order to par
ticipate in extracurricular activities
(63%). But, they would give their
peers a grace period before invoking
a no-pass, no-play rule. Sixty-four
percent of the high achievers sur
veyed believe that students should
be allowed a probationary period to
raise their grades before being de
nied participation.
"W ho's W ho" students are just
as serious about their college educa
tion as they are about high school.
Ninety-one percent of the students
plan to attend college right away.
The survey also revealed that the
academic emphasis of a school is
the most important consideration in
selecting a college (47%), with
scholarship availability (39%) the
second most important factor.
The high achievers do not feel
that our government has placed
high enough priority on education,
however. More than half (60%)
feel that improving the educational
system should be one of the top
three priorities of the federal gov
ernment. This figure is up 21 per
cent from last year's 39 percent.
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trib u tio n s o f Blacks to science and tech n olog y, w as produced by the
Museum o f Science and Industry, Chicago. The e xhibit, made pos
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to u r during the next fo u r years.
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