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Detroit Chapter member, City Council President Erma Henderson, the first black female to that office, in her keynote speech on Thursday, urged that her media sisters be prepared to "dig in for the truth in communications. If you are not communicating with your people not in the media you are not communicating. They are your Achillese heel and you cannot go any faster than they will let you go. The time has come for you and I to close ranks." She read and presented a testimonial resolution "Detroit City Council applauds NAMW for its outstanding contributions in the field of communications." Frances Hooks represented her husband, Reverend Banjamin Hooks, Executive Secretary of the NAACP, the scheduled Founder's Luncheon speaker on Friday, because of his emergency call to Washington, D.C. She warned that the "Social clock of progress is ticking backward and we must be ever vigilant because there is racism in this country. Reagan is pulling black folk together because when he starts cutting back on things we discover that we have a commonality of purpose-to survive. Our heads are bloody but unbowed." Stating that the F.C.C. was the only regulatory agency that enforces the EEOC laws she urged that radio and TV stations be monitored, F.C.C. hearings be attended and an effort be made to get a black woman on the F.C.C. Former national president 1975-1077, Ella Kay Mays, Beverly Hills, elected for a second time, was installed with other national officers; Carolyn Wills, Atlanta, First Vice President; Rose Matthews-Lewis, Detroit, Second Vice President; Lena Cole Dennis, Los Angeles, Recording Secretary; Eleanor Haynes, Long Island, Financial Secretary; Marci Kelly, Detroit, Treasurer; Phy Stephens, Detroit; Jackie Moore, Chicago; Ruth Buckner, Flint; Alma Redick, Los Angeles and Gwen Anderson, Long Island; Lay Members of the Board. The convention included professional development seminars with moderators; Joyce Walker-Tyson, Detroit Free Press; Dr. Gil Maddox, Cable TV, City Communications; Marilyn Hubbard; Mary Brown Johnson, director INCA; Mirelle Grangenois, Business Week; Monte Trammer, Detroit Free Press and Wanda Jackson, J.C. Lord Associates. Phy Stephens, [[image]] Mrs. Haley Bell, Chairman of the Board of Bell Broadcasting Company, Detroit, Mich. receives special citation in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the company from Xernona Clayton Brady, Atlanta, National President of the National Association of Media Women, Inc. at the President's Luncheon of NAMW's Sixteenth Annual Convention held in the Westin Hotel, Renaissance Center, Detroit. [[image]] National Association of Media Women's National President Xernona Clayton Brady, Atlanta, presents plaque and key to Mrs. Frances Hooks, Founder's Luncheon guest speaker citing her as a "key person." Alberta Blackburn, right, Detroit Chapter member and Assistant to Mayor Coleman A. Young, was luncheon chairpoerson at NAMW's Sixteenth Annual Convention held in the Westin Hotel, Renaissance Center, Detroit. [[image]] Metropolitan New York Chapter, the Founding Chapter of the National Association of Media Women, Inc. and the Long Island Chapter with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Founder/President of Operation PUSH, guest speaker at Awards Banquet of the Sixteenth Annual Convention of NAMW at the Westin Hotel, Renaissance Center, Detroit. Left to right: Sabrina Gill, Long Island, Janet Calderon, New York, Gwen Anderson, President, Long Island, Eleanor Haynes, Long Island, National Financial Secretary, Xernona Clayton Brady, Atlanta, outgoing National President, Adrienne Finlay, New York, Ella Kay Mays, Beverly Hills, newly elected National President, Juanita Battle, New York, Ellen Tarry, Founding member, New York, Helene Southern Slater, New York, Karen Washington, New York and Mary Brown Johnson, President, New York. Helene S. Slater was re-appointed National Public Relations Director. This is the Fourth President under whom she has served. 253
