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The Reverend Leon H. Sullivan:

In 1950, the Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, a native of Charleston, West Virginia was appointed Pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia. The Church became a focal point for community development activities and its membership increased from 600 to 5,000. In a dramatic extension of that effort in 1964, he founded the Opportunities Industrialization Center of America (OIC) an organization designed to sponsor employment training and retraining on a massive scale. OIC was the first of its kind in the history of the United States and has proven itself to be a model for the implementation of other such programs. Since its beginning, OIC has trained more than 300,000 men and women. More than 250,000 of them have been placed into gainful employment earning approximately $3 billion in income annually. OIC continues to prosper under Reverend Sullivan's leadership and is now operating in 125 cities across the nation and has been established in Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya.

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Miss Stacey Tisdale:

In 1972, Stacey Tisdale became interested in figure skating. She was six years old. Last May, she won a gold and two bronze medals at the Central Eastern Regional Competition. In August, she captured the Gold Medal for Individual Performance in the Intermediate Division of the 1978 Colorado Summer Skating Championships, she also won a bronze. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tisdale of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Stacey's now enrolled in the North American Training Center at Lake Placid, New York. Her coaches, among them Carlo Fassi who coached 1976 Olympic Champion Dorothy Hamill, feel that she is capable of attaining outstanding recognition in the sport. An honor student at Lake Placid's Central School, Stacey plans to improve as much as she can in the months ahead. With the persistance and talent that only youth can sustain, she's hoping for membership on the 1984 United States Winter Olympic Team.