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has become famous for being the residence of stars ranging from Marvin Gaye to Pearl Bailey, Stacey Lattislaw to Duke Ellington, and athletes Maury Wills to Elgin Baylor and Adrian Dantley. The city also serves as the site for "Hollywood and TV movies", a championship football team and an educational mecca such as Howard University, the other major "Hill" in town, rivaling Capitol Hill for some towns people. 

However, the Capital will never be major league for millions of folks until it gets another baseball team to replace the "Senators" who held a stronghold of fans in the central city despite the fact that it was one of the last institutions to desegregate, along with the public schools and downtown theaters. And now, some folk are saying the latter integration never really should have occurred since the uptown schools and theaters were better anyway.

In the status conscious capital many current black and white residents like to trace their ancestry back to George Washington, whose Mount Vernon, Virginia, home across the Potomac still has descendants of "Freed" slaves ancestors living on nearby estate, called developments and housing projects, instead of plantations. In Washington, last year, some of these direct descendants of General Washington's brother, "Bushrod" Washington held a reunion when 300 members of the Quander family met at Howard University, the St. Augustine Catholic Church in the northwest section of the District and near the Quander Elementary School in Alexandria, Va., near Mount Vernon. The family includes such relatives as Rhouhoulamin Quander and his family and his parents, James and Nellie Quander.

The Quanders, formerly Kwandohs of West Africa, are typical of such black heritage who can trace their early settlement in the area like the Carter family which recently held an annual reunion also. Hundreds of black Washingtonians easily trace their heritage to pre-civil war days, if not the revolutionary era. Of course, this post-civil war, segregated Dixie atmosphere existed until 1941 when World War II began to accelerate changes for black and white ante-bellum residents who had settled here since the British first threatened to ransack the town. Even now, the minority home towners (now majority) recall the Foggy Bottom area where the fabulous Watergate complex and Kennedy Center now stands, or the fashionable Georgetown section which replaced rowhouse Negro residences in an earlier gentrification black removal period when whites bough out the "Negro" occupied homes in a convenient downtown area as they are doing today in the city's Capitol Hill, 16th Street and Shaw are neighborhood areas surrounding Howard University.

The Capital is roughly divided into the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest and Northwest quadrants. The far Northeast and Southeast, including the lovely historic Cedar Hill estate of black abolitionist Frederich Douglas which majestically overlooks the Capitol vista. The Far Northwest is mostly white occupied, including embassies, members of congress, lobbyists, and fashionable home and apartments "west of the lush Rock Creek Park "dividing line" which upwardly mobile, middle income black singles and families are beginning to cross in numbers by day and night... The belford Lawsons (Judge Marjorie Lawson) and Judge Barrington Parker, crossed this "border" following the first surge of Black Bourgeoise to the upper 16th street area leading five miles out of the White House gate uptown... where Billy simpson [Simpson], the restauranteur once reigned as the head of cafe society and unofficial "mayor" before Home Rule. The Hollywood Murphy Night club (Now Howard Hall) and "Fuccs place"

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PGWP Jesse W. Brown presents 1984 Outstanding Membership Award to Sis. Sophia Brown, Electa of Gethsemane Chapter No. 3, OES, PHA.

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Worshipful Masters with their Life Membership plaques: 1st row (l-r); Senior Warden Johnnie E. Darben, Social Lodge No. 1; WM William D. Thompson, Felix Lodge No. 3; WM Alfred W. Pulley, Hiram Lodge No. 4; WM Otis Gamble, Eureka Lodge No. 5; WM Jerome O. Washington, Meridian Lodge No. 6; WM Walter Wright, Jr., Warren Lodge No. 8; WM Jay C. Canady, Pythagoras Lodge No. 9; WM Lloyd Fennell, St. John Lodge No. 12; WM Lionel M. Rogers, Prince Hall Lodge No. 14; WM Marion O. Covinton, James H. Hill Lodge No. 16.

Back row: WM Marvin Jones, Ionic Lodge No. 17; WM Franklin R. Gaskins, Doric Lodge No. 19; WM James E. Wright, Fidelity Lodge No. 20; WM Stanley R. Norris, Harmony Lodge No. 22; WM Bobby Ray Huey, Redemption Lodge No. 24; WM Leslie Alston, Acacia Lodge No. 25; WM Henry R. Robinson, Thomas L. Johnson Lodge No. 28;

Worshipful Masters not in photo: WM James E. Moye, Widow Son's Lodge No. 7; WM George W. Perry, John F. Cook Lodge No. 10; WM Frederick L. Dowing, Charles Datcher Lodge No. 15; WM James A. Lee, Corinthian Lodge No. 18; WM William E. Patterson, Fellowship Lodge No. 26; an WM Philip E. Ellington, Prudence Lodge No. 27.

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