Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1968 — Page 3
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1968
THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
Page Three
Alpha Home construction due to start in March
Construction will start in March of 1969 for a $815,000 Alpha Home for the aged to be located one-half block from its present site at 1840 Boulevard Pi. Ground breaking will also be in 1969. During the year of 1966 the Alpha Home Association Board discussed the future of the Home. A study was made by the Community Service Council of Indianapolis and upon the completion of this survey the Alpha Home voted in June, 1967 to move into a comprehensive program and to build a new structure. In June, 1967, the board voted and signed a contract with Snyder and Blackburn Associates for a building with a 60bed room. In addition the facility will include a dining area, day room offices, nurse's station and other departments. In the spring of 1968, the United Fund gave Alpha Home the “go sign" for a 1969 spring campaign to raise $350,000 for the new home for the aged. The establishment of Alpha Home was the dream of an elderly, Christian Negro woman, Eliza Goff, who often wondered why Indianapolis could not have a home for aged and infirmed women of her race. Previously, the aged Negro • women, after no longer having earning power, had as their
destinction the Alms House or the home of anyone that would give them shelter. Mrs. Goff persisted in her theory and talked it over with a white woman for whom she worked. This friend told Mrs. Goff that if she would organize a group and show their interest, she would assist them. It was given the name Alpha Home because it was the first effort of its kind in the state of Indiana and perhaps in the nation. The association grew and some time later, Mrs. Pauline T. Merritt, who lived on North West Street, gave the association a three room house, with two acres of ground, located on Oak Hill, better known at this time as Brightwood. In 1914 the present location, 1840 Boulevard Pi., was purchased from the Rhodius Estate. This new location made it possible to accommodate a much larger number of persons and give much better service. When the War Chest was established during World War I the Alpha Home Association became one of the first members and it continued as a member of its successor, the Indianapolis Community Chest, now known as the United Fund of Greater Indianapolis. The double house north of the main building was purchased
in 1924 through the generosity of Mme. C.J. Walker who left the association $5,000 in her will, and an unknown donor gave $1000 through Dr. Mark D. Battles who was house physician at that time. The Alpha Home Association was incorporated August 28, 1918, for the second time. The original incorporation was for only women. This left no place for men, however, a proposition was made in April, 1926 to take in male residents. Joseph Smiley was the first male client. One of the big assets to the association through the years association throughout the years has been its membership in the Needlework Guild of America, Inc. Through it Alpha Home has received clothing for the residents, bedding and other items of wearing apparel. All of these articles that are given are new. In return Alpha Home gives its quota of garments made by members of the association under the supervision of a volunteer seamstress. The board, which was previously made up of all women, in 1965-66 expanded its membership to a board of males and females, whites, and nonwhites. The role of the board president through these many years was that of a volunteer director, and for the first time there was an appointment of a male president who was not to assume the duties of directorship
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Howard U. students explore “black university theory”
WASHINGTON, D.C.-StOkely Carmichael, former head of the Student Non-violent Committee was the principal speaker here last week-end at a conference sponsored by the Howard University Students Association. He told about 2,000 students that the black struggle was too often marked by too much talk and too little action. Further, if the goal of black institutions were to be realized, “you've got to quit talking and start acting." Nathan Hare, a former Howard U. instructor, now teaching at San Francisco State College, announced as a participant in the conference, later stated that he would not take part in the series of scheduled seminars. According to reports, he styled the conference a “facade" that “gave the impression of movement where there is no movement." The theme of the students' conference is: “Towards a black university." Mr. Hare stated that the students would rather talk about forming a black university instead of making the university black. Although the students organization insists on running the FHA homes are offered to displacees The Committee on Special Housing processes FHA acquired homes on a priority basis for displacees. Seven homes in clean,freshly painted and repaired condition are vacant and ready to purchase this week and next for qualified persons. Prices are $9,900 to $15,000 and down payments range from $300 to $650. Monthly payments are from $90 to $125. Many more homes are available all over the city. Somewhere there are qualified families displaced by highways and parks or substandard standard housing who are eligible on a priority basis. Home seekers with yearly incomes of near $6,000 and up could likely afford some of these homes. FHA will provide free financial counseling so persons know about how much they might borrow on a home. The home seeker does not need to see anyone else about the loan. The buyer’s first move is to call the Committee on Special Housing, 637-0320. The Committee is the local agency which shows these homes to displaced persons on a priority basis. It will refer the home seeker to FHA about the loan at the proper time.
conference by itself the school administration is allowing university facilities to be used. The school was founded 101 years ago under a federal charter, primaril; for the education of disadvantaged black people. But nothing in the school's charter will support “a black university operated by black people along and serving only black students." About 80 per cent of the student body of around 9,000 students are Negro students. A spokesman for the school noted that about 1,600 of the enrollment represnets 80 foreign countries. About half of the Negro physicians over the land are said to be graduates of Howard University Medical School and about twenty-five per cent of the country’s Negro lawyers. Graduates of Howard University include Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, U. S. Sen. Edward Brooke and Mayor Walter E. Washington of the City of Washington. A spokesman for the conference said workshops would try to “define the structure,
HARRY WILLIS, JR. Funeral services for Harry B. Willis, Sr., age 5 7, 2246 N. Capitol, were held Thursday, Nov. 21, in Jacobs Brothers Westside Funeral Home. The burial was In New Crown Cemetery. He died in the VA Hospital in W. Tenth St. Monday, Nov. 18. He was born in Glasgow,Ky. and had lived here 50 years. He was a World War n veteran and a member of Garfield Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, Harry B. Jr., city; four daugMrs. Charlotte Oliver, Mrs. Ethel Johnson and Miss Cynthia Willis, all of the city; three sisters, Mrs. Willie J. Bedford, Detroit; Mrs. Georgia M.New and Mrs. Odie Carroll, city and other relatives.
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