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President of the Metropolitan New York Chapter, the Founding Chapter of NAMW. Rev. Jesse Jackson received the National Achievement Award, annually given to someone outside the organization whose accomplishments have earned national attention and distinction. The Los Angeles Chapter was cited as the Outstanding Chapter of the Year. National President Alyce Ware, Co-Publisher of the Atlanta Voice, gave a special Outstanding Achievement Award to Michael Hollis, Chairman of the Board of the new airline, Air Atlanta. At the President's Luncheon she gave the President's Award, which is always given to the person who has helped the National President the most, to her daughter, James Ware, a member of the Atlanta Chapter. The Founder's Cup went to author Ellen Tarry, a Founding Member of NAMW and the National Historian. The annual NAMW scholarship of $1,000 was awarded to Cathy Wilson of Long Island, a student majoring in broadcasting at the University of Wisconsin Walter Sloan of American Tobacco Company presented his company's annual $500 contribution to the scholarship fund with his company's annual $500 contribution fund with Coor's Beer also contributing $1,000. Sloan, in addition, provided the placques for the Media Woman of the Year and the President's Awards and the Founder's Cup. Recently appointed Assistant Treasurer of the State of New Jersey, Jeri Warrick-Crisman, part owner of radio station WNJR, Union, New Jersey, immediately Past President of the first Black president of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) and a member of the Metropolitan New York Chapter of NAMW, as banquet guest speaker stated that "So many issues in political life labeled as women's issues are societal issues and if properly labeled would and the 'feminization' of poverty". She went on to say that "the women's movement has been an evolution rather than a revolution since the facts indicate that the value and importance of an education in Black women has been one of the most important keys of our success". Pluria W. Marshall, currently serving his fifth consecutive term as National President of the National Black Media Coalition, told the group at the Friday Founder's Luncheon that "We are advocates. We raise a lot of sand with major media companies about what they must do with Black employment, Black programming and Black ownership in the Black community. We have figured out a way to become a part of the cost of doing business in the broadcasting, newspaper and cable business. Much of the funding of our organization comes from the people we fight." He urged that NAMW be included on the sensitivity panel that NBC already has and other networks will soon organize, since as he stated "it is important to get with the decision makers and the community will get what it deserves if it gets involved." "NAMW is the most important women's audience I will address because you have access to information" asserted Jacqueline McMickens, New York City Commissioner of Corrections, in her Saturday President's Luncheon address. "Media is powerful," she added. "It makes public policy, it forces public policy, it drives public policy. People like you have to force the media to separate crime from a concern of just our community and talk about its companies, two of which are truancy and drug addiction." She went on to indicate that jails, incarceration and removal from the community are not the only ways to address crime but that there was a need for reentry coordination in the Black communities in this country. Other speakers at the professional development seminars included William M. Shaw, Vice President of Turner Broadcasting System and Dr. Lionel Barrow, Dean of the School of Communications, Howard University. NEXT ANNUAL CONVENTION 20TH ANNUAL CONVENTION OCTOBER 16-20TH, 1985 NEW YORK, N.Y. LONG ISLAND CHAPTER, HOS[[?]] 324
