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Thelonious Monk, bop pioneer, dies

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Thelonious Monk--was in coma since Feb. 7.

By HUGH WYATT
the "high priest" of bebop, died
roke and other complications in

en in a coma in an intensive

Minor" and "Epistrophy." He played only his
of dissoance and other
innova in the Juilliard School
that Monk's

OBITUARY
He had his first fulltime job when he was 15. For nearly 60 years, he would w
dawn to dusk and beyond.
For Ed Jenkins, work was life. He worked hard and lived well.
Edwin Guinn Jenkins was born in Birmingham, Alabama, -- the s
Doc W. Jenkins and Edna Wiggins Jenkins. It was his mother who insist
become a printer. She said it was a profession that would carry him thr
his life -- and it did.
After Alabama A & M College, he worked at the Wheaton Printi
Company in Birmingham, Ala., for 15 year -- from 1925 to 1940. It w
then that he accomplished his first pioneering achievement: in 1940 he bega
publishing Newspic which was the first Black news and picture magazine in th

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Wadsworth Wendell Gentry. '38 (M.A., New York University; further study, Michigan State University) died July 1981 in Columbus, Georgia. He had retired from the Columbus (Georgia) Board of Education in 1974 following years of service as a Teacher of Science and Assistant Principal at Spencer High School and Jordan High School. He was the immediate-past President of the Columbus Morehouse Club, a member of the Benningnites, and a Trustee of the First African Baptist Church, where he also servied as Chairman of the Scholarship
is survived by his wife,
sters, Rosalie and Villara;
ron, '23 and Ira, '29; and
elatives and friends.

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Wiley Winston Martin, M.D.
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of the National Board; a lomate of The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology;

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Alfonzo Haynes Orr, '83, died as a result of an automobile accident in Cleveland, Ohio, June 14, 1981. He had completed his Sophomore year at Morehouse as a Premedical student with a major in biology. He is survived by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Earl Orr; sisters, Rhonda, Vanessa, and Andrea; grandmother, Rosa; and a host of relatives and fellow classmates.

Ms. Polland was Am News worker

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Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Pollard, a retired employee of the Amsterdam News and wife of longtime football great Fritz Pollard, were held last Friday at St. Simon Episcopal Church, 135 Remington Avenue in New Rochelle.

Burial is in Mt. Hope Cemetary, Hastings-on-the-Hudson.

Mrs. Pollard, who was called "The Voice" of the Amsterdam News because of her pleasant manner at the telephone switchboard which she operated for all of the 27 years with the uptown weekly newspaper, died Feb. 16 at New Rochelle Medical Center after a long illness. She was 72 years old. She was employed at the Amsterdam News in May, 1950 and retired in June, 1976.

She is survived by her husband Fritz, who was an All-American from Brown University in 1916. He was head coach for the Akron team in the National Football League and is considered the first Black head coach in professional football.