Angelo State University - Rambouillet Yearbook (San Angelo, TX)

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if 36 Blacks celebrate i Heritage Week gg, tk black heritage Regina Williams The 57th annual Black Heritage Month was celebrated in 1983 and Angelo State students took part in it. Dr. Lloyd D. Vincent, president of ASU, signed a proclamation declaring the week of Feb. 14-18 Black Heritage Week. That week, black students had a chance to display their talents as well as recall what they stood for. Senior art major Barry Samples displayed his sculptures during the week in the Univer- sity Center display cases, Three speakers appeared on campus to demonstrate their careers to students and to speak to them on the significant part Blacks played in America. ASU's gospel choir, Generation of Faith, sponsored the week and held a concert that Friday.-PENA ASU president Lloyd D. Vincent signs a proclamation declaring Feb. 1418 Black Heritage Week as Carolyn Moore, Michael DuPont, Barry Samples and Wanda Caldwell, representatives of ASU's Generation of Faith, look on The gospel choir, Generation of Faith, spon- sored the week and its activities lBradley Photol Model offers fashion advice Regina Williams, black model, artist, singer and fashion illustrator appeared in the University Center Ballroom in conjunction with Black Heritage Week, Williams was sponsored by the University Center Program Council Hospitality Com- mittee. She also appeared in a fashion workshop for the UCPC Mamselles demonstrating modeling techniques and lec- turing on her career as a model. A Houston native, Williams worked in the fashion business world since she was 13 years old. She was accepted to work in the fashion office at Foley's department store in Houston and eventually became the teen board representative for Seventeen magazine. She attended the School of Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she ob- tained a degree in art and minored in musical comedy. Comparing her school to the one depicted in NBC's series Fame Williams said, the show is a good rendition of how it really is. The most important thing Williams said she learned from her experience at the school was that she could be independent of anyone else. ul learned that I am an in- dividual, she said. ul have an identity. Williams followed her schooling with at- tending the Fashion Institute Technology in New York City, where she worked with top fashion designers, including Calvin Klein. As a guest on the Pat Atterbery Show, Williams said fashions for women were becoming more feminine and more geared to the women of today. In the future, Williams said she hopes to visit Europe and eventually become established in her career as an illustrator, I really just want to be a successful artist and person, she said.-NEGRON

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Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni, the princess of black poetry, kicked off Black Heritage Week. Giovanni is a writer, journalist, recording artist, but best known for her poetry. She began writing poetry as a profession when she was 21. t'We had a poetry move- ment in the 60's, she said, 'know not many people are serious about writing poetry, but l recommend to those that are that they keep a diary or at least write every day. Giovanni's poetry is about human ex- periences. lt is about the way she looks at life. I am my own individual, she said, and l write about the emotional problems of being a human being. Giovanni said life is fragile and everyone must work together to make this a better world. The young to be married, gave some words of 39 year old, who said she is too advice as introduction to each one of her poems. She said, The past is there to in- struct us of future possibilities and we must begin to take hold of our lives. Giovanni said when she was growing up she was told that being poor meant being black, being black meant being deprived, be- ing deprived meant being depraved and there was nothing a person could do about it. She said this was why she learned to value people and life. Black love is black wealth, she said.fPENA Martin Luther Kin ni ht rovides entertainment Martin Luther King night, sponsored by the Men's Hi-Rise Association, was a high point of Black Heritage Week, Reverend Morris Hunter from the San Angelo area and Dudra Butler, San Angelo office manager for State Senator Bill Simms were the speakers, with Expression of Praise and Angelo State's gospel choir Generation of Faith providing the musical entertainment. Amidst an ever constant chanting of Praise the Lord Expression of Praise sang such hymns as We Shall Overcome and Jesus ls Lovely to the full house of students in the MHR lobby. Hunter spoke to the students about black history as it related to the present. He said Martin Luther King was a great man because he gave the glory of his ac- complishments to God. He said King took the principles of the Bible and made them work. Hunter said blacks should not keep a chip Q Q P 2' 'iii Q 1: W 4 y-..:...f We K Y, sez? its-fx ' N 'ix 'N on their shoulder about white people. White people helped free blacks, he said. Hunter also spoke about the Black Panther movement and said Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement helped free blacks not the Panthers. -PENA Billie Woods of the gospel group Expression of Praise leads his wife in a song as students watch The group was part of the entertainment for Martin Luther King night. fGarlington Photol black heritage