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In Memoriam

Lorrayne Younger, sports counselor, is dead

By HOWIE EVANS

Her name doesn't appear in sports books. But Lorrayne Younger's name and address, along with her numerous phone numbers, was public knowledge to athletes across the country, especially in the village of Harlem, USA.

Last week, Lorrayne Younger said goodbye to her family, friends, business associates, and the countless number of athletes she had been involved with during her life.

She enjoyed a good life. A life full of giving More than anything, her life was shortened
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LORRAYNE YOUNGER

along with her brother Eddie Younger, was it's heart and soul. Less than a year after the death of Eddie, the chairman of the JHMCF, Lorrayne joined her brother.

Black sports heroes
Before they said goodbye, Lorrayne and Eddie made sure the world knew there were great Black athletes before the likes of Julius Erving, Jackie Robinson, Will Chamberlin, O.J. Simpson and Carl Lewis. 
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And Lorrayne, along with Eddie, Benny Garrett, and others have put in their time. Now the work must be continued by those they have left behind. 

Alice Pebbles and Carl Younger are all that's left of the immediate family of Clarence and Ethel Younger. Clarence Younger, one of the first Blacks, if not the first, to earn a paycheck from the United States Steel Corporation,
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perhaps miss them more. The many athletes Eddie and Lorrayne counselled. The hours they spent with displaced minds. That will all be missed. 

Lorrayne will especially be missed at the Minisink Town House. The kids from the camp fund will cherish her memory. Like them, Minisink was the first camp 
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Leatrice Joy, 91, Dies; Actress in Silent Films

Leatrice Joy, a leading silent-film actress, died of acute anemia Monday at the High Ridge House nursing home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. She was 91 years old. 

Leatrice Joy Zeidler was born in New Orleans in 1893, and made her film debut as an extra in 1915. From 1916 to 1930, she appeared in 50 films, notably comedies with Billy West and Oliver [[text cut off]] and such Cecil B. De Mille films [[text cut off]] Commandments," "Man-[[text cut off]]"


LEON FRANKLIN BOGUES

Leon Bogues was a life-time resident of Harlem and the West Side. Born November 8th, 1926, he was educated in the New York City public schools, attended Howard University and received a degree in ed[[text cut off]] from Long Island university. He took advanced [[text cut off]]

OF ALL THE ROMANTIC AURAS surrounding folk musicians, few match that of the blues harp player. Blowing through a handful of wood and metal into a microphone or a summer night, this solitary figure makes music the way the rest of us breathe. 

As a result, he has [[text cut off]] almost a [[text cut off]] saluting the achievement of Sonny Terry, a singular blues harp player who died Tuesday in Mineola at the age of [[text cut off]]

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Sonny Terry

Born Saunders Terry in Greensboro, Ga., in 1911 and [[text cut off]] Terry reached adulthood facing [[text cut off]] was black, he was [[text cut off]]

Sister Alma Nomsa John

Henry Lee Moon Is Dead At 84
Henry Lee Moon, who began his career with the NAACP in 1948 as director of public relations and was also the editor of the Crisis magazine for nine years until his retirement in 1974, died last Friday at Mount Sinai Hospital after a prolonged illness.

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Dave Hepburn, vice president and director of community relations at WNEW-TV and internationally known journalist and public relations expert.

Dr. Virginia (Coles) Jones
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Dr. Virginia (Coles) Gladding Jones, wife of Dr. William B. Jones, Jr. of 353 S. Branch Parkway died in her home on Monday, August 12, 1985 after a lengthy illness.

She was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey a daughter of Minnie (Pugh) Coles and the late Alphonso Coles, Sr. on February 5, 1923. For the past 34 yeas she resided in Springfield. 

Dr. Jones was a graduate of Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia and Howard University College of Dentistry where she was the first female intern in oral surgery; and later taught oral surgery at the College of Dentistry, Howard University. She practiced dentistry with her husband under the name of Dr. Virginia Gladding and made the first husband-wife dental team in Springfield.

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THE HONORABLE HARRY S. McALPIN
HARRY SYLVESTER McALPIN, was born to Harry S. and Louise S. McAlpin in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 21, 1906. He attended public schools there, then received his bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin. Finally, he received his law degree from Robert H. Terrell Law School, Washington D.C.

His list of accomplishments seem as though they were written by a famous novelist, jotting down a long list of ideas to select one from in order to develop a superhero for his latest best seller. But Harry S. McAlpin was a real life superhero. He was a Reporter to the City Editor of the Washington Tribune; Agency Sec. of National Benefit life ins. Co.; Ass't Sec. to Congressman Arthur W. Mitchel (Illinois); Interviewer to Supervising Interviewer, U.S. Employment Service, District of Columbia; Admmin. Ass't to Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in Nat'l Youth Admin; Washington Correspondent for the Chicago Defender; Accredited White House Correspondent and Washington Correspondent for 51 papers of the National Newspaper Pub. Assoc.; Navy War Correspondent; Information Specialist for the Office of War Information in Korea; Assistant Commonwealth Atty., Louisville, Ky.; Member of Kentucky State Board of Education; Admin. Hearing Examiner, Bureau of Hearing and Appeals (Los Angeles, Ca. and Lansing, Mich.); Chief Judge, Office of Admin. Law Judges, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.; Admin. Law Consultant for U.S. Dept. of State, Washington, D.C.

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