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Page 7 Portland Observer M arch 16,1989
AICPA AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS
TO MINORITY STUDENTS
NEW YORK CITY. February 22, 1989 -- The American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has awarded over $43,000 in
scholarships to minority students in accounting for the second half of the
1988-89 academic year.
Since the program’s inception in 1970, the AICPA Minority Recruitment
and Equal Opportunity Committee has awarded over $3.5 million in
scholarship aid to more than 4,000 students. The awards for this academic
year represent the highest amount ever given to minority students by the
AICPA.
The $43,250 in scholarship aid was granted to 102 undergraduate and
graduate accounting students selected from throughout the United States,
including Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and Asians.
“ The scholarship program is designed to make accounting education
accessible to as many qualified minority students as possible by giving them
needed financial support,” said AICPA President Philip B. Chenok.
This year’s scholarship winners represent 60 schools, with the largest
number of awards going to students attending the historically B lack colleges
and universities. Included in the total are 10 Arthur Andersen-AICPA
awards totalling $5,000.
Individuals interested in applying for scholarships should write to Sharon
Donahue, Manager, Minority Recruitment and Equal Opportunity Department,
AICPA, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036-8775. The
deadlines for receipt of applications are July 1 and December 1.
The AICPA is the national professional organization of CPAs with a
membership of over 282,000. In its continuing efforts to serve the public
interest, the organizations sets audit standards, upholds the profession’s
code of ethics, provides continuing professional education and prepares and
grades the Uniform CPA Examination.
NEW YORK
BLACK
COMMUNITY IS
HELPING ITS
OWN
The Black United Fund of New Y ork
has once again dispelled the myth that
“ Black folk don’t help their own and
are always dependent on handouts” .
The B lack United Fund of New York
(BUFNY), an independent self- help
philanthropic organization, commissioned
Charles H. Smith Consultant Group to
conduct a survey from its donor base to
determine donor profile and their
assessment for the direction of the Fund’s
programmatic thrust. The donor list
was divided into five categories based
upon the amount of the contribution.
Survey questionnaires were mailed to
donors in each category proportionate
to the number of contributors. Twenty
percent (20%) of the current donor field
were surveyed. A remarkable 40% of
the respondents returned the two-page
questionnaire. The survey/rcport covered
donor participation in the Fund’s payroll
deduction campaigns for 4 years (1983-
1987).
Most of the donors are female (75%),
over 72% are between the ages of 35
and 54,70% have family sizes from 2 to
4, and 50% are married. Sixty-two
percent (62%) earn above $20,000; and
33% earn above $40,000 per year. Thirty-
two percent (32%) of the donors
graduated from high school, 28% have
earned some college credits and 37%
were college graduates. Forty-seven
percent (47%) hold managerial and
professional positions, 25% hold
technical/sales positions ar.d 15% hold
service positions.
The basic profile of a BUF contributor,
as indicated by the report, is a black
female earning approximately $30,000
dollars a year who has had some college
education, is approximately 45 years of
age, married, occasionally attends church
and holds a managerial or professional
position.
Eighty-eight percent (88%) of the
donors wholeheartedly support
HUD SECRETARY
CALLS FOR
DRUG-FREE
PUBLIC
HOUSING
POLICY
Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development Jack Kemp today called
on Public Housing Authorities to report
to him within 30 days about what steps
they are taking to bar drug abusers and
dealers from public housing.
“ I was shocked by the public and
open sale of drugs, “ Secretary Kemp
said in a memorandum to PHA’s,
referring to his recent visit to a public
housing project in Philadelphia. “ I
understand the difficult challenge faced
in maintaining a decent living
environment for residents when criminals
traffic in drugs at their doorsteps. I
intend to assist you and law-abiding
residents in eliminating this plague from
public housing.”
Mr. Kemp announced his request for
a speedy report from PHA’s on their
actions to eliminate drug abusers and
traffickers from public housing when
he addressed the winter meeting of the
N ational G overnors A ssociation
yesterday in Washington, D.C.
More than 3,000 public and Indian
housing authorities have received
Kemp’s request.
BAN
APARTHEID!
Perspectives
The Cultural
Background
For Black
History, Part
III
by M cKinley B urt
1 really like it when the media is
right on time in reinforcing one of my
current themes. This past Sunday on
Channel 10, a European Journal Program
described a 4000 year-old African
accomplishment where wheeled-vehicles
powered by sails sped across the Egyptian
deserts - antedating by milleniums the
German sporting event being covered
by the camera crew (the narrator said
that the archaeologists were unable to
tell whether they were used for
transporting freight and passengers, or
for racing). I have ordered a transcript.
Ready for this? A COAST GUARD
AND CUSTOMS SERVICE; “ For
example we have seen that when her
empire was at its height, Egypt found it
necessary to maintain a M arine
Patrol...and to augment her income she
levied imposts.” see p. 199, Delphian
Text, First Year, Part I, Chicago, 1925.
“ The officials in charge of the mining
expeditions (to Sinai/Palestine) included
princes, the King’s seal-bearers, Naval
captains (naturally enough since the
route lay across the sea), judges, scribes,
and interpreters.” see pp.112-114,
Montet, E ternal Egypt. This was 1800
B.C.
Now, these two quotations are very,
very important be cause documentation
of an African m astery of the seas at
these early dates puts to lie the canards
that backw ard Africans had to have
culture and technology brought to them
- when, actually, it was the other way
around. And add to these facts my
earlier descriptions of ocean travel before
Year 1. African general Gange’s
expeditions to India, and African
domination of the Ethiopian Sea (Persian
Gulf), and the Olmec Culture of Central
America. These ancient traversals of
the world’s oceans left in their wake
many artifacts and modes of African
culture, from statuary with corn rows to
mathematics and calendars.
It is startling to realize that any current
theme or modality of relationships
between nations, organizations, or
individuals is but a pale reflection of
the seminal foundations laid down by
the Africans many thousands of years
ago. This applies to international treaties,
labor relations, religion, education, urban
planning, you name it! How ignorant
and arrogant the racist manipulation of
history has rendered modem man. Take
the following.
“ In year 5 of his reign, for example,
he (Ramses II) was obliged to engage in
combat with the confederation of allies
of the Hittite King at the citade/of
Qadeshon the Orentesin Syria. ...after
many years of talks, the two former
antagonists sig n ed
th e F ir s t
International Peace Treaty; assuring
durable peace and reciprocal aid between
the two Kingdoms in the event a conflict
broke out with other countries.” (Henry
Kissinger, hush yo mouth boy!). This
passage is from the the Ramses II Journal
published by the Egyptian Antiquities
Organization; distributed at Expo 86 at
Egyptian Pavilion.
If the above sounds familiar, just
recall the structure of the present western
military alliance in Europe, NATO,
with its mutual aid pacts - or consider
its m inor reflection, the Russian-
controlled Eastern Bloc. It was Sir
Winston Churchild, former Prime
Minister of England who stated that a
prime prerequisite for the cuniculum of
any worthwhile military college was
the study of two African giants in the
field: Hannibal, the African commander
who took his men over the Alps on
elephants to catch the enemy by surprise
- and Shabaka the African military
genius whose infantry tactics foiled
superior armed Europeans for years,
Nextweek, The African M inisters of
p ubi;c W orks
FACTS &
FALLACIES
FALLACY: Mnny of the elderly
are w ealthy retiree« who can easily
afford to give tip a cost of living
adjustment (COl«A>!
FACT: Only 7.5 percent of all in
dividuals over the age of 65 earn
more than $25,000 a year. In fact.
62 percent depend on Social Security
for half or more of tlieir income. Some
24 percent depend on it for 90 per
cent or more of their income!
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BUFN Y’s programmatic thrust towards
affordable housing and other economic
ventures designed to build the economic
infra-structure in the black community.
The study further shows that
contributions from the Fund’s payroll
deduction campaigns more than doubled
when BUFNY was permitted to conduct
its own independent campaign and not
be channeled through an intermediary
such as the United Way.
A recent independent BUFNY
campaign with the Health and Hospitals
Corporation of New York City netted
contributions that exceeded the total
fall campaign of United W ay’s multiple
agencies in the same institution.
From the donor data base, the report
reveals that the donors represent a
regional cross section of the black
population in the New York City area
and northeast New Jersey. Thirty-three
percent (33%) of the donors live in
Brooklyn, 18% in the Bronx, 16% in
Queens, 13% in Manhattan, 3% Staten
Island, and 19% live in New Jersey,
Long Island and up State New York.
The report reveals a 67% increase in
the number of payroll deduction donors
from 1983 to 1987.
Finally, the report proves that Black
A m ericans are m eeting their
philanthropic challenge.
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