Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1973 — Page 6

PAGE 6 THE 'NDIANAPOUS recorder SATURDAY. JULY 7. 1973

First black woman named' Wool worth store manager

THESE ARE BUT A FEW of the many friends and coworkers who turned out Saturday evening for a retirment party honoring Mrs. Leona Shelton (seated third from right), who retired last week after 15 years at the Indiana University Medical Center. The She Hons (her husband, James Auxiliary meets with Mrs. Ezell

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MR. AND MRS. HAROLD J. MILLER, 2714 Sangster, recently returned from a sevenday cruise aboard the Mardi Gras. Ports of call were San Juan, St. Croix, St. Thomas and Nassau. Mr. Miller is an employee of Rytex Corporation, while Mrs. Miller is director of Operation Late Start Center at 2255 Columbia.

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R . Shelton, is shown to the right of his wife) served a delicious dinner and other refreshments to guests in the back yard of their home at 5326 E. 37th. (Recorder photo by Houston Rogers)

Christmas party to be held Dec. 28 at the Avondale Dinner Theater. The, September meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Geraldine Coleman, 6263 Shanghis Road. Mrs. Ethel Byrdsong is president.

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Gliuircli Events

By WILLA THOMAS This week I would like to start out with a meditation which was written by an Indianfriend. His name is Ranendra Rumar Das., a n d he is a dedicated Christian. His meditation follows: 1. I am not a body having a soul, but a soul having a body. Recognizing this, I became a spiritual dynamo here and now to weild forces for all gpod. 2. Since thoughs are living things and look to me for nourishment, I will, starve those that harm me and feed those that uplift me. 3. I am a though of God and can never lose my place in His mind. The Perfect Mind never loses one of its thoughts. 4. My mind is my temple. I can make it what I will. I will keep active watch over my thoughts and only allow that to enter which I wish to enter. No thought can bind me but with my own consent. 5. Every day is a new incarnation which places m e in different relations to all persons and events. I am not bound by any past. I am not limited by any future. I am now and forever gloriously free. 6. Whatever I identify myself with mentally, I express physically. Identifying myself with the I Am consciousness, I receive that quickening from spirit and am healed. 7. I cannot conscientiously condemn or pass judgement upon anyone, for everyone, in his real Being, Is the perfect idea of Man-Mind.Persistent-ly fashioned our vision, so we help all mankind to a realization of that eternal and indestructable ideal. *** Miss Elizabeth Ellison, president of the Women’s Missionary Society of First Baptist Church, North Indianapolis, will speak Sunday at First Baptist at 3:30 p.m. We urge all to attend the meeting on July 8. *** • We welcome delegates to the Indiana Baptist Sunday School and B.T.U. Congress which opens Monday July 9, at First Baptist Church of North Indianapolis, where Rev. James R. Bradley is host pastor and convention president. The welcome program will be Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Leah Circle of the New Bethel Baptist Church will have their annual Golden Age Day the New Bethel Baptist Church Saturday, July 14, at 3 p.m. in the New Bethel Educational Building. Sister Frances Taylor is chairman. *** Sam Pieh of Sierra Leone, Freetown, West Africa, will be guest speaker Sunday, July 8, for the Southside Preacetime for the Southside Peacetime Charity Club’s annual garden party held on the lawn of the home of Mrs. Eleanor Wooley, 1620 S. Harlan. A fashion show will highlight the 5 until 7 p.m. event. *** The United Methodist Men of Barnes Methodist Church will meet July 8 right after morning worship. *** Mrs. Georgie Knox of Barnes was elected at-large as the member of the Planning Committee of the Regional School, c 1 a s s of '76. The Regional School is held annually at Illin o 1 s Weslyean University, Bloomington, 111.

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The Young People of the Sunday School of the First Baptist Church presented a special program last Sunday during the Sunday School hour. Miss Kim Covington brought the message. Special citation was given by Mrs. Willie J. Moore, the superintendent, to the motherwith the largest amount of children in the Sunday School.Mrs. Marie Gray had nine of her children in school and received firstplace honors. Mrs. Clara Bivins was next with five. Mrs. Gloria Bunch received a special recognition. She makes two trips to Sunday School bringing car loads of children.

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Mrs. alberta Wells recently became the first woman to manage a Woolworth store in this southern California city. But this achievement carries still wider significance, for Mrs. Wells has alsobecome the first black woman in the country to hold such a position with Woolworth, possibly the first with any major national retailing chain. While the opportunity has long existed for women to hold store manager positions with Woolworth, Mrs. Wells points out that because of various factors many women shy away from such jobs. She says, “The retail manager works long hours, from 9 to 11 hours a day, depending upon the season, and you often find yourself working on what are normally your days off. Then too, some women don’t want the responsibility of the job which also requires exceptional tact with subordinates, often strenous work and an ability to cope with a shoplifter fron time to time.” As M r s- Wells and nearly 100 other women managers around the country realize however, this is acompanywith a traditional policy of promoting from within. With proven ability a store manager can look forward to moving on to district and regional office responsibilities and one day perhaps a highly important position in Woolworth's New York executive office. While such moves don’t happen overnight, advancements are definitely possible, for even the chairman and president of ^Woolworth both started oiit on the route currently being followed by Mrs. Wells and all of the company’s other store managers throughout the country. To reach her current posi-

tion Mrs. Wells, following a short period as a clerk, was accepted into Woolworth;s management training program. She was able to complete what is normally a four-year course in three years and has received her “diploma” in the form of keys to the Woolworth's store she now manages in the North Park area of San Diego. Woolworth has made a concerted effort to attract more members of minority groups into its management training program, which now numbers some 5,000 enrollees. The company appointed its first black manager in 1929. Along wtth Mrs. Wells 19 other blacks recently finished the extensive course and have been promoted

to store manager nosition around the country. This ongoing on-the-job training course provides an “earn while you learn” experience for enrollees and assures Woolworth of a continuing bank of future retailing executives to Till positions of responsibility with the company. Other blacks recently named managers of Woolworth stores Include E. R. Roundtree Compton, Calif, and O. Murry of Los Angeles; Paul Smith, New Carrollton, Md.; -Paul Smith, Wkshington, D. C.; James DePoe, Flint‘,%Nych.; J. L. Bryant Shaker Heights, Ohio; M, C. \ nder son, Chicago, III.; Thomas Ellison, Jr.,, Pharr,

Tex. R. S. Nunnally, Mesquite, Tex.; Curtis L. Robinson Norfolk, Va.; Larry Robinson and Charles David Smith, Jr., Alanta, Ga.; Joseph Wayne Wesley, Tallahassee, Fla. and Sidney Johnson, Mobile, Ala. Also, C. B. Flynn and C. Sneed Sr. Bronx, N.Y.; R. L. Woods Brooklyn, N. Y. and W. C. Condry Jr. and J. Garner JR. , New York City. In additional two blacks have been promoted to store manager positions with Woolworth’s Department Stores. They are Arnell Jones, West Palm Beach Fla., and Jess J. Flectcher, Tampa Fla.

COMMUNITY YOUNGSTERS were treated to a day of picknicking and just plain fun last Thursday when the Planners Club sponsored an outing at Racoon Beach. The Planners, organized eight months ago, is a club consisting of two members who happen to be members of the Indianapolis Police Department whose main objective during the

summer months is to provide entertainment for youngsters who otherwise would have none. Members of the club are Robert Oatts (second from right) and Garland Jones (not pictured). Aiding in the affair were Mrs.' Celestine Clark (third from right), Mrs. Mary Guynn (right) and E. Couts.

The Jamaica we fly to is another world.

At Eastern we think that when you’ve worked hard all year looking forward to summer, you should get more out of it than weekends spent trying to figure out the best time to leave for the city on Sunday so you can miss some of the traffic. Thousands of other people felt that way too. So last summer they let Eastern take them to Montego Bay in Jamaica. Where they were able to get far enough away from the world they live in to get their own world back together. And share a whole different culture and way of doing things.

This summer they’re going back again. You can Ux>. Because this summer Eastern has made it easier for you to afford to take your family to someplace dilferent. Not only to Jamaica. But to Bermuda and the Bahamas and Walt Disney World as well. Because not only do we offer family vacation packages to these places, we provide family accommodations and have some incredibly low fares. So this summer let us be your wings to another world. Call your travel agent or call us direct for information.

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