Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 2000 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2000 "

Missing Angolan journalist found dead

LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) — The Zambian police confirmed the death of Angolan journalist Antonio Paciencia whose body was found floating in the western lower Zambezi River in Senanga, after he was reported missing. Police spokesman Lemmy Kajoba said that the body was retrieved from the river and the police are waiting for a post-mortem report from the health authorities. “But as of now, we are treating it as suicide because the man was looking like someone who is disturbed. And according to information reaching us, he was saying that he had some problems from where he had come from, 1 ’ he told PANA.

“Before he went missing, Paciencia was found with wet clothes, suggesting that he had earlier gone to the river,” Kajoba added. Paciencia, who worked for Angolan National Radio, was part of a group of journalists on a familiarization tour organized by the U.N. high commissioner for refugees of the Nangweshi camp in Senanga, which hosts Angolan refugees. Some 20 journalists from Southern Africa attended a UNHCR regional workshop in Lusaka at the end of September. Two weeks later, they were taken to the camp on five different chartered aircraft and were

to return to Lusaka the same day. But Paciencia was said to be on the last flight, which reportedly developed a fault- on the way to Lusaka, forcing the aircraft to return to Senanga. All the journalists and the UNHCR staff on that flight spent the night in Senanga. According to some journalists who remained in Senanga, Paciencia disappeared that Friday evening but was later found the next day by soldiers near the Zambezi River. He disappeared again later that day, prompting a search by a combined team of police and soldiers.

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Special to The Recorder Joseph Thomas Taylor, longtime educator and dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University in Indianapolis, died Sept. 23. He was bom Feb. 11, 1913, in Rolling Fork, Miss. He was the sole survivor of three children bom to Willie Ann and Joseph Taylor Sr. His siblings died at very early ages. Such was the unhappy lot of poor tenant farmers in the depressed Southern U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century. In his immediate family, Taylor was motivated to achieve in life through education and service to others. The expectations for excellence were high. He was the first in the extended Taylor family to go to college. While very young, Taylor and his parents left Mississippi and its oppressive sharecropping life heading for a better life beginning in Fry’s Mill, Ark. It was there that he began formal schooling in a oneroom school where the only teacher taught several grades. Eventually, Taylor and his mother settled in East St. Louis, 111., where he continued through high school graduating at the top of the class. The family and his local community urged him to go to college and continue learning “as a way up and out.” That path lead to Wiley College (Texas) in 1932 where the young scholar had an athletic scholarship in three sports. Unfortunately, a football knee injury sidelined him just before his senior year.

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Following other academic ds- ^ signments, he became a moving ,p force at Dillard University in New! a Orleans for eight years before moving to Indianapolis and Flanriet 1 " House in 1957 where he developed '- policy and directed outreach pro-'-; grams. During his stay at Dillard he was professor of sociology, de- * ■- partment chairman, and finally *'•

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As the dean of the School of Liberal Arts at the growing Indianapolis campus of Indiana University, Dr. Taylor served with distinction in that academic setting for more than two decades. .'.- During that time he taught courses and participated in the to-»' cal civic as well as the national t! educational community with vigori and excellence. He held member-!no ships in numerous organizations and served on governing boards, - ’ and committees throughout the- :: community. A grateful community il? has showered Dr. Taylor with many! id awards, citations and honorary de-*., 1 - grees for his untiring work in reli-* ■ gion, education, social services, .,- civil rights and the arts. ; In 1971 the U.S. District Court i u needed someone to help spearhedd the implementation of desegrega-'M tion of the Indianapolis PubltDo* Schools system. Dr. Taylor waso< summoned to provide expert guid* ance and information. He waa:a !I signifleant player in that hostito^J environment. The voice of the court u prevailed. Taylor was a valued, hard workrA j ing member of Broadway Method-^., ist Church in Indianapolis, whole i/> he was often chosen to represent-u. the church across the world. Hoc liked helping people as a way returning something to the coro«i.? munity that had been so good to, ' him. 'lilc Some of Taylor’s community,-' associates and friends have called.-: him “a community service icon,’-’. — an apt title. He was also wejl •• known as a humorous storyteller with an incisive style laced with .- undeniable logic.

An academic scholarship to the University of Illinois give Taylor the opportunity to finish his undergraduate work with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1936. With diligent study, he finished the master’s degree in one year. Doctoral studies at Indiana University in Bloomington would come later. In the fall of 1937 Taylor had accepted a teaching position at Fisk University in Nashville. He taught sociology courses and continued his own graduate work at the same time. During the summer of 1938, Fisk University sent him to Indianapolis to conduct a survey for Planner House, a Community Chest agency. Afterwards he went into die field with others, to study Boley, Okla., Mound Bayou, Miss,, and other Black communities in the South. During bis tenure at Fisk, Taylor participated in the landmark study, An American Dilemma. Florida A. and M. College in Tallahassee hired him to teach sociology courses in 1940. This was a time for him to also develop as a classroom professor and to learn how to manage the complexities of educational administration. While still working at Florida A. and M., he was called back to East St. Louis to take over a position with the National Youth Administration program in the state. He served there for a year before returning to Florida (now University) to continue teaching. In 1942, Taylor met Hertha Ward in Chicago where he was studying in an Army technical program. They were married on Feb. 16,1944, in the chapel at the University of Chicago. Together they have three grown children, Meshach, Hussain, Judith, and five grandchildren. With war clouds darkening the European skies, Taylor entered the Army enlisted reserve prior to active service with the Army and a tour of duty in Germany, France and other countries. He returned to the United States after World War II to pick up his life with Hertha and to start a family.

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Call to fuse East African curriculjii ::

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) — The East African Book Development Association called on the three East African states — Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania—to review and harmonize their school curricula to make them relevant for industrial takeoff of the region. Fred Matovu, an official of the association, said the harmonized curricula should have a bias towards scientific excellence, which was a prerequisite for industrial-

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He spoke in Nyeri, cential; Kenya, where he led members.^; > the booksellers and publishers' :• sociations from the three countiig£ • on a tour of the area. ;• He appealed for creation of rcad^* ing lessons in the primary schejot* > curricula of the three states. ;

This, he noted, would help inculcate a reading culture among

the people of the area.

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