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Clticorp/Cltlbank Presents Cltl-Educators
Program to Chicago Public School Teachers
CHICAGO-Citicorp/Citibank officially launched the Citi-Educators Program--
for Chicago Public School teachers-during a Valentine’s Day kickoff at Terrell
Elementary School. Mayor Richard M. Daley (center) joins William Atwell,
chairman & CEO of Citicorp Savings (third from left) and James EmshofT,
president & CEO of Citicorp Diners Club in the Special Valentine’s presentation
to Betty Greer (second from right), 25-year teacher at Terrell Elementary
School and Terrell’s principal, Reva Hairston (right). Chicago Public Schools
SuperintendentTed Kimbrough (left) andjam es Compton, interim president,
Board of Education, (second from left) look on approvingly. The Citi-Educators
Program, a 10-school program designed by and for Chicago’s inner-city
teachers, was made possible by a $360,000 grant from Citicorp. The program
is administered by DePaul University.
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RJR Announces Contribution to
Winston-Salem University
WINSTON SALEM, N.C.-R.J. Rey
nolds Tobacco Co. announced March sixth
it will contribute $4 million to Winston
Salem Slate University, to help establish
the university as a regional center of higher
education and improve the area's economic
development opportunities.
James W. Johnston, RJR’s chairman
and chief executive officer, made the an­
nouncement to more than 200 local busi­
ness, civic and academic leaders at a lunch­
eon on the campus. He said that RJR’s gift
marked a nearly 100-year relationship that
began with Dr. Simon Green Atkins, founder
of Winston-Salem State University, and
Richard Joshua Reynolds, the company's
founder.
“ In 1891, these two visionaries crossed
paths when Dick Reynolds took $500 out of
his own pocket and gave it to Dr. (Simon)
Atkins for his new school—Slater Industrial
Academy,” Johnston said. “ Eight years
later, Reynolds gave him $5,000 more to
start a nursing school here.”
Since then, the company has provided
grants for scholarships for high achievers,
faculty supplements and curriculum devel­
opment. In 1983, the company gave $1
million to help build the university’s busi­
ness school building, the RJR Center.
Reynolds Tobacco’s contribution is the
first major gift the University has received
toward its new Centennial Campaign to
raise $25 million in private donations to-
Enjoy Your Parents While They
Are Still In This World .
J J
by Ullysses Tucker, Jr.
How often do you hear people com­
plain about how much they hate their par­
ents or don’t get along with them? It’s very
common to say the least. Very sad too.
Well, I am here to suggest to the read­
ers that they enjoy their parents while they
are still in this world. I’ve encountered so
many people over the years who have great
regrets about not cultivating a more posi­
tive relationship with their parents or worst,
their parents died before outstanding dif­
ferences or family issues were resolved. It
is then that these individuals break into that
old Lou Rawls blues song, ’‘If I Could Have
Would Have Should Have . . . ” It’s a very
empty feeling. There’s nothing you can do
after they have died except pray for peace,
understanding, and believe in your heart
that someday you will see them again. In
many cases, unresolved issues or guilt can
lead to drug abuse, alcoholism, or dis­
placed aggression on a persons part
Let me share a story. When I was 14-
year-old, I played basketball for the Boys’
Club in my neighborhood and we had the
best team in the city. One Easter, we were
involved in a four state Police Athletic
League Tournament and made it to the
championship game. Somewhere between
games, I got into trouble and ended up
getting punished on the day of the champi­
onship game. At the time, my mother was
suffering from cancer and confined to her
bed because of the heavy medication she
had to take for pain.
I pleaded with her endlessly about the
game's importance as well as expressed
how I had the opportunity to get my first
trophy as an athlete. My mother paid me no
attention. She told me to get out of her face
and go back to my room. As game time
approached, 1 became restless and more
determined to attend the game. Eventually,
I ran out of the house, with my mother’s
boyfriend in hot pursuit, and went straight
to the Boys' Club. By the time my mother’s
boyfriend caught up with me, the game had
already started and there was nothing he
could do. He went back home without me.
All I wanted was that first trophy to make
my mother proud of me.
To make a long story short, we won the
game and had an awards banquet shortly
after the game. We had 15 guys on the team
and there were only ten trophies. I was one
of the five players who had to wait until the
Boys' Club regular banquet that coming
summer. I cried, but none of my teammates
understood and many laughed. Most had
already had their first trophy. Today, none
of my teammates never knew why I cried.
Ultimately, I showed up at home empty-
handed, received a beating from my mother’s
boyfriend, and was sent to bed without
dinner. My mother called me a lair, no
good, and suggested that I would never
amount to anything much outside being a
career criminal. When the summer banquet
came around in July, I received three tro­
phies for our team achievement, my play,
and titles we won around the area. They
didn't mean much because my mother died
in June and went to her grave with a nega­
tive perception of me. I cried again. All I
wanted to do was make her proud of me.
She never saw my first trophy.
From that summer after the banquet
and for about a three or four year stretch, I
was a menace to schools, the law, and my
family. It didn't help matters much that my
father died the previous year. He got killed
the night we had our first father to son talk.
My dad talked about being a better father
that night, about spending more time with
us since my mother was sick, and possibly
about moving back in with us. I was ex­
cited. In an effort to remove some of his
possessions from his girlfriend’s house, her
boyfriend shot him six times.
So, there I was at 14-years old, mad at
the world because my parents were dead
before I ever had an opportunity to cultivate
a healthy relationship. If I was the oldest of
seven children, imagine how young my
other brothers and sisters were at the time.
We all reacted to their deaths in our own
different ways. For the record, I have broth­
ers who are alcoholic, homeless, and men­
tally impaired from PCP abuse or in jail.
Perhaps, if my parents had been around
longer, who knows what type of human
beings they would have been. Me person­
ally, I came to the conclusion as a high
school senior that there was no way that I
could go through the rest of my life know­
ing how they felt about me when they went
to their grave. I still wanted to make them
proud. So, I got my life together as an
athlete, student, and human being. I can
truly look up to the heavens, today, and
know that my parents are proud of me. I
know it and feel it in my heart. I feel
vindicated and purged from the wrong I
did.
So, the next time you hear someone
complaining about their parents, suggest to
them that they should enjoy them while
they have the opportunity. I never really
had the chance. In many cases, people
should accept that most parents are set in
their ways and usually have your best inter­
est at heart according to their perspectives.
I don’t think most parents would consciously
do something to hurt their children. I have
one friend who has not talked to his father
in ten years despite his effort to reach out to
him. Bitterness from relationships of the
past, divorces, and a host of other situations
such as sexual abuse, psychological, or
physical abuse prevent some people from
cultivating healthy relationships with their
parents. Believe me, I am no erudite scholar
on this topic but that doesn't prevent me
from missing my parents.
Life, in many ways, is like playing the
lottery. When your number comes up, it’s
time to go meet your maker. This principle
applies to you and your loved ones. When
was the last time you talked to your mom or
dad? Reach out and call them while you
have the opportunity.
Do right and leave the results with God.
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word a $55 million total goal. Funds will be
used to establish WSSU as a regional uni­
versity by expanding campus facilities,
strengthening academic programming and
faculty, and offering greater scholarship
opportunities.
The RJR grant will be paid in four
installments, the last to be made in 1992.
The fust installment of $500,000 has al­
ready been given to the university to pur­
chase immediately additional land around
the current campus for the expansion out­
lined in the Centennial Campaign plan.
“ This $4 million you've given Win­
ston-Salem State puts us well on our way to
realizing a successful Centennial Campaign,
and to realizing our full potential,” said
Cleon F. Thompson Jr., the university’s
chancellor.
In thanking Johnston, Thompson said,
"Y ou and your company have played a
vital role in the history and development of
this institution . . . Your gift today is by far
the largest contribution this institution has
ever received. It’s also among the largest
corporate gifts ever given to any public
college or university.”
Thompson added, “ As I see it, we both
want the same thing-excellence-whether
we're talking about products or about people.
Without affordable, quality education, this
nation simply won't have the pool of quali­
fied people to produce these products, goods
or services.”
Noting that RJR’s gifts have not been
ju ly altruistic, Johnston said that his com­
pany employs 221 alumni of Winston-Sa­
lem State University and that the company
looks to the school for future employees.
“ Like you (Winston-Salem State), we
at R.J. Reynolds recognize that there are a
lot of bright, talented young people in this
community. And that our best high school
graduates most often pursue their college
educations in other cities and states,”
Johnston said.
“ We cannot afford to lose the talents
of those young men and women to other
areas of the country. And like you, we’d
selfishly like to keep them here,” he said.
"O ur future and that of other area busi­
nesses depends on it.”
C.D. Spangler, Jr., president of the
University of North Carolina system, could
not attend because of a previous speaking
engagement, but sent Johnston a letter he
asked be read at the luncheon.
" I f I were there, I would propose a
toast to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a great
North Carolina institution that has been
throughout its life a stellar corporate citi­
zen in our state. The name Reynolds, whether
we speak of the family or the company, has
long been synonymous with inspired and
creative philanthropy,” Spangler wrote
Johnston.
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