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The Muncie Times Vol. 10, No. 20 Also serving Anderson, Marion, Richmond and New Castle communities October 18, 2001

Muncie Mission dedicates The Potter House

by Charles Gulubane Last month, the Muncie Mission dedicated a transitional living facility for men who have successfully completed a long-term recovery program run by the mission. The program helps alcoholics, drug users and other candidates whose lives have somehow been shattered by some event. The goal is to rehabilitate such individuals and enable them to regain their normal

lives in the community. The facility named The Potter’s House, is a threestory building at 607 W. Charles St., in downtown Muncie. The building was donated to the mission in December 1999 by Dr. Elmer (Doc) Eichom. It has undergone extensive interior and exterior renovations. It has 11 apartments, each with bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen and a common area, referred to as the activity room, adjacent to which are laundry

facilities. There is a resident manager who lives in a downstairs apartment next to the activity room. At present, only the top floor of the building is occupied. The residents, who share the apartments in pairs, are required, between them, to pay a monthly rent of $300. They are also responsible for the payment of utilities, cable television and the

Potter House see page 5

Porter House residents from L James Phillips and Sonny Cross sitting in the living room of their shared apartment

Muncie woman battles lupus

by Judy Mays For Constance Sloss Elliott, living a productive life has always been important. As a student at Vincennes University, Elliott majored in physical education. A little over a year after entering college, Elliott married Minister Joe Elliott. Two years later the couple became the parents of Joe Jr., now 11, and then Jasmine, 10. Elliott filled her days as homemaker, wife, mother, Sunday school teacher, gospel singer and songwriter. In 1994, she became a Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) driver. But the 1998 summer brought news that threatened to drastically change the life Elliott had known. “It was then that I was diagnosed with lupus,” said the 35-year-old Elliott. “I had been ignoring

Constance Elliott before being diagnosed

the swelling and pain that was affecting my joints, until it became too severe to ignore,” she said. Elliott later found out she had systemic lupus erythematasus (SLE) lupus. The condition refers to several forms of an immunological disease

ELUOTT see page 5

Five Hoosier women to be honored

A retired US. attorney, a newspaper publisher, an artist, a math professor and a mother of three children who just earned her medical degree are receiving statewide recognition for their outstanding professional and personal accomplishments. The five women are recipients of the 2001 Perham Indiana Women of Achievement Awards, a honor recognizing women from Indiana, by birth or adoption, who enrich the lives of others through their accomplishments and contributions to their professions. The awards will be presented at a 6 p.m. dinner on Oct. 24th at the Ball State Alumni Center, 2800 Bethel Aye. •Virginia Dill McCarty, Indianapolis. In the 1970s, McCarty became the first woman ever

appointed to be a U.S. attorney for a full 4-year term. In this role, she brought the first successful political corruption charges in 50 years against two state legislators. A political activist who has lobbied for women’s credit protection and revisions to Indiana laws to eliminate discrimination against women, she was a co-founder and first president of the Indiana PoHtical Caucus. She ran for state attorney general in 1976 and was a candidate for governor in the 1984 Democratic primaiy election. •Bea Moten-Foster, Muncie. Eleven years ago on a shoestring budget, Foster founded The Muncie Times, a twice-monthly newspaper now reaching thousands of African American in east central Indiana

Women see page 9

BSU grad has fun, on TV series ‘Enterprise’ Defining success in Hollywood in often a losing game, but for more than 30 years the “Star Trek” franchise has remained a pretty solid bet. Ball State University graduate Anthony Montgomery recognizes his good fortune in being cast as helmsman Travis Mayweather on the new UPN series “Enterprise.” ‘Tve been blessed,” said Montgomery, 30, an Indianapolis native who graduated in 1994 from Ball State with a bachelor’s degree in theater, with an emphasis on performance. “A lot of people will come out to LA and in their whole lives never get the opportunities Tve had.” Montgomery see page 9