N ovember 9, 1994 • T he P ortland O bserver
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Pepsi Business Institute Grads Join
Corporate and Government Workforce
Dr. G eorge Campbell, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACM E) p resid en t (se co n d
from right) p r e s e n ts W. Lincoln H aw kins U ndergraduate R e se a rc h Fellowship aw ard to C hristopher E.
Haggms. Offering Congratulations are (left to right): Dr. Harold Martin, D ean o f Engineering, North
Carolina AT& T S ta te University: Frank T. Johnson, M anager of AT& T University Relations: Dr. Lonnie
Sharpe, Jr., A sso c ia te D ean o f Engineering, North Carolina AT& T S ta te University.
Community Seeks Resolution
Of Hazardous Landfill
A resolution calling for federal
environmental agencies and the State
Legislature ofNorth Carolina to tind
an on-site solution to remediate haz
ardous chemical pollution in a toxic
waste landfill in predominantly Afri
can-American Warren County has
been adopted by the Commission for
Racial Justice o f the 1.6 million-
member United Church of C hrist.
This week. 18-member Board
of Directors o f the Commission
adopted the resolution. It will be sent
to local, state and federal officials of
Warren County .
Charles Lee, research director
of the Commission for Racial Jus
tice, said. "The resolution affirms its
solidarity with the citizens of Warren
County in their struggle for justice. It
is noteworthy that although the siting
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o f this landfill was not a problem of
their making, citizens of Warren
County are demanding an on-site
solution because they know that re
moving and transporting the contam
inated soil will only result once again
in the victimization of yet another
poor black community.”
T he re s o lu tio n s ta te s , in
1982, the state o fN o rth C arolina
unjustly and forcibly sited a poly
chlorinated biphenyl (PC B ) to x
ic w aste landfill in predom inant
ly A fric a n -A m e ric a n W arren
County. At that tim e, the citizens
o f W arren C ounty protested the
siting o f the landfill resulting in
over 500 arrests on charges o f
nonviolent civil disobedience.
“Warren County stands as a tes
tament to the strength, courage and
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commitment of strong African-Amer
ican women who went to jail in 1982
to defend their community against
the siting in their own backyard,
said Lee. “Their actions transformed
the issue o f toxic dumping in black
and other people of color communi
ties from a local community issue
into a national movement for envi
ronmental justice." he added.
Since then, the state o fN o rth
C arolina in 1993 announced a
crisis at the landfill w herein it
was reported that over one m il
lion gallons o f w ater was trapped,
attesting to the flaw ed and un
safe nature o f the hazardous waste
landfill. The resolution urges that
appeals be m ade and to speak out
publicly in support o f the stru g
gle for ju stic e in the county.
Darrel Jefflo, 23, is a manage
ment trainee with Pepsi-Cola’s Tul
sa Bottling Plant. Hildredge Krushall,
24 is a systems support analyst with
Pepsi-Cola in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina.
Both are among 35 graduates of
Langston University’s School o f
Business who also participated in the
Pepsi Business Institute at Langston
and have graduated to professional
jobs with Fortune 500 companies
and with federal government.
Five ofthe graduates have joined
Pepsi-Cola, with five others joining
companies in the PepsiCo Family --
Frito-Lay, Kentucky Fried Chicken,
Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. Others
have gone to such prestigious orga
nizations as Prudential Insurance, J C.
Penney, Warner Lambert and State
Farm. One is employed by the Inter
nal Revenue.
"Joining the Institute was one of
the best things that 1 ever did," said
Jefflo. "It gave me a realistic per
spective on corporate life. The Insti
tute was such an exciting place, I
remember I would hardly wait to get
to each session.”
When Jefflo entered Langston
University, he had planned to pursue
an accounting career. Through the
Institute’s rigorous program of self-
evaluation, he eventually decided to
Darrel Jefflo
Hildredge Krushall
pursue a career that allowed him to
interact with the minority communi
ty on Pepsi’s behalf.
H ild red g e K rushall agrees
that the Institute was a "trem en
dous jo u rn ey o f self-d isco v ery ."
She says she has been interested
in technology since the eighth
grade. She applied h e rse lf to lay
ing the groundwork for a technical
career, until she enrolled in the Insti
tute and found that technical knowl
edge would not be enough.
"I found I needed to round out
my education by learning more about
the business side — marketing, fi
nance and accounting,” said Krushall.
“The institute definitely helped give
me a solid grounding in all those
areas, and helped to instill in me a
positive, take-charge mental atti
tude.”
Both Jefflo and Krushall plan to
speak to Institute classes in the up
coming year. Jefflo hopes to convey
the message that " if you study hard,
apply yourself and stay focused, you
greatly increase your chances of gain
ing a foothold in Corporate Ameri
ca.”
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