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Woodson Home Project Nears $10,000 Goal As Black History Month Opens

This is it!

Nine thousand dollars in and now with only one more mountain to climb, we move forward to our two major goals -$10,000 and the actual refurbishing of the first floor office and conference rooms of the Carter G. Woodson Home (1538 Ninth Street, Washington, DC), a recently designated U.S. National Historic Landmark. 

With this unmistakable goal within our grasp, Brothers Robert L. Gill, committee chairman, and Samuel R. Shepard, secretary, are not yet ready to slow down this momentum—a momentum that has been emotionally exploding for several months, a momentum that has the drive and determination not unlike those Biblical victories of Gideon's band of three hundred. 

The Carter G. Woodson band of volunteers, numbering far less than Gideon's 300, makes up a diverse group. And possibly because of this diversity the group has brought with it a new depth and significance to the program. Unique ideas have been projected and new reasons have surfaced rightfully demonstrating why Omegas and similarly inspired people should support the Carter G. Woodson Project.

As we move forward out of this valley toward the mountain top, we also move forward into the observance of Black History Month in February. We also move forward into the second year of our new national administration, the last two decades of the 20th century, which one hundred years ago witnessed the loss or erosion of most of the civil rights legislated after the Civil War. We also are celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the birth of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who shaped America into the direction of promoting the "general Welfare", and securing the "Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."

Out of this diversity of volunteers came support from our Omega Wives and our Omega Widows. The very first contributor was Mrs. Minnie Meares with a check for $50 at the Carter G. Woodson booth at the San Francisco Grand Conclave. With continued interest she visited a New York City chapter and obtained several pledges already, fulfilled and then she announced her donation, a $1,000 memorial to her late husband George E. Meares, Past Grand Basileus, whose memory is already assured with the continuing $25,000 George E. Meares Scholarship Fund, also established by Mrs. Meares.

The idea of a MEMORIAL to a deceased Omega Brother was the brain child of Mrs. Carolyn V. Atkins, daughter of the late George L. Vaughn, Esq, a civil rights activist of St. Louis. The following widows have been most generous in their memorials: Mrs. Louise A. Boulware for Brother Theodore Boulware, and Mrs. Eunice Shaed Newton, for I. Gregory Newton, Ph.D., a past Grand Basileus, both from Washington, DC.

Also Mrs. Corinne C. Taylor of Shreveport, LA for the late Alvin L. Taylor; Mrs. Myrtle B. Winters for the late Dr. E. Worthington Winters of Baltimore; Mrs. Patricia Byrd for her son, the late Raymond Morris Gill, Fayetteville, NC.

Chapters are also establishing MEMORIALS for distinguished Brothers such as Pi Omega Chapter, Baltimore, for Founder, Bishop Edgar A. Love and Linwood G. Koger, Esq; and Alpha Omega Chapter, Washington, DC, for Founder, Professor Frank Coleman. 

Omega Wives (Quettes) are participating in the Second District. Pi Omega Quettes of Baltimore and Kappa Omicron of New York City have made donations to match their husbands' chapters. 

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UNC COMMITTEE SETS SCHEDULES FOR ANNUAL $50,000 GOAL

America hears the slogan, "that a mind is a terrible thing to waste". And hopefully reacts by providing dollars to strengthen the institutions that make up the United Negro College Funds. 

Omega at the Denver Conclave reacted and has made a commitment to aid the Fund. The first installment towards the goal of $250,000 has been made and we are a better organization because of it. The Blue Ribbon Committee appointed has moved to provide the formula to spread the base across the fraternity so that we may make an organized effort to quickly accomplish the goal.

Omega is sailing the sea of service and will reach the port of fulfillment aiding thousands of youths across the land. 

But, there's more to be done. There's PUSH, the Urban League and the NAACP, all waiting and needing our aid. By coincidence, all of these organizations are headed by Omega Men and deserve our help. This administration hopes to reach out and extend a helping hand to move in a leading supportive role to aid these organizations. They serve as our warrior in the battle for equal opportunity. They are organized and need our financial support, and I'm sure Omega will give it. The time has arrived that Omega must be the spoke of the wheel, as well as the hub. This is to say, we must be supportive of on-going programs as well as developing and carrying our own. 

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