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MADLYN STOKELY-HILL IS HONORED BY THE RIVERSIDE CLUB OF NEGRO BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUBS INC. FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE

Madlyn Stokely-Hill who's achievements are known both Local and National has been instrumental in the development and implementation of programs for the elderly. Was the director of Mr. Morris Park—Marcus Garvey Senior Citizen Center. Presently serves as director of Education and Student Placement for the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter; Serves as consultant/trainer on legal entitlements for the elderly at the Center's Institute on Law and Rights of the Older Adults. Ms. Stokely-Hill is also a Research/Consultant for MELPAT ASSOCIATES INC., publisher of DELEGATE MAGAZINE.

Ms. Stokely-Hill received a B.A. degree in Criminal Justice Planning and Administration from John Jay college and holds a certificate in Professional Extention Administration in Gerontology from Fordham University. She is currently an MSW candidate in Planning and Administration at Hunter College School of Social Work.

She is also an active member of several community and national organizations. She serves as the corresponding secretary of the National Caucus and Center on the Black Aged; the Retired Senior Citizen Volunteer Program of the Community Service Society; as First Vice President of the Harlem Inter Agency Council for the Aged also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Helen Fuld Nursing School of North General Hospital. She was a member of the Board of Directors of Har You-Act. Served as Vice-Chairperson of the North General Hospital Advisory Council.

Madly is the proud mother of two teen aged daughters, Michelle and Rochelle Hill.

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Vicky Gholson: Harlem-grown brainstorm

By MEL TAPLEY

If there is a shining example of Hayou-Act's success as a motivating force factor to stimulate Black youth's hunger for education it's Harlem's own Vicky Gholson.

Regularly, Jimmy Hicks, an aggressive, hard-hitting, former New York Amsterdam News executive editor, would call up — like clockwork — the model community action program and ask, "How many kids did you find jobs for this month? How many enrolled — how many graduated from the various Haryou programs?"

He'd worry them like a bull terrier worries a bone — to pieces. But despite his persistence, they never came up with any statistics to show the success of their unique program.

Maybe he just didn't query the right Hayou spokesman. If he had spoken to one of the Journalism department heads, Al Calloway, he would have gotten this report, "I had a small group that I hand-picked. Kareem Jabbar and Vicky Gholson were two of them.

"She was the youngest, only 14 years old, but her native intelligence was so high. Even then she had sensitivity toward the community and mass communications.

"We had a publication that these kids put out," Calloway, who is now directing a community program in Florida, recalled, "They did research at the Schomburg, at the United Nations, and I bought a computerized Justowriter. We did pasteups, layouts, copywriting, proofreading — we produced an international publication. They were exposed to the world and studied content analysis.

"They grew, but Vicky