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their daughter lives in Ohio, where she is employed by Proctor and Gamble as a technician. A Tallahassee native, Brother Pickney earned the B.S. degree at Florida A & M University and the M.S. degree at Tennessee State University. He is presently a member of Beta Delta Lambda Chapter in Daytona, Florida.

Brother JOHN H. STROGER, JR. a Commissioner of the Cook County Board, was appointed a member of the Executive Committee of the OliveHarvey College (Chicago) Community Advisory Board. Brother Stroger, a practicing attorney in Chicago, is a graduate of Xavier University and DePaul University School of Law. He is Chairman of the Public Aid Committee of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and is a member of the Home Rule Commission of Cook County. Life Member No. 1 2 3 1 , he is a member of Xi Lambda Chapter in Chicago.

Brother C. SUMNER "Chuck" STONE, has been named the M. Lyle Spencer Visiting Professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University for the Spring 1975 semester. Brother Stone, who is a writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and a nationally syndicated columnist (Universal Press Syndicate), is also host of a television program, ON TARGET, which is aired on WKBS-TV in Philadelphia. Chuck Stone enjoys a reputation as one of the most versatile and talented men in America today. He has authored several books, including: Black Political Power in America, The Poetry of the Black Revolution, and Tell It Like It Is, and has collaborated in several o t h e r s , including Contemporary Black Thought and The Best of the Black Scholar. Brother Stone has accumulated vast experience in both politics and foreign affairs, serving as a Special Assistant to Representative Adam Clayton Powell and as Education Research Specialist for Representative Robert N. C. Nix of Pennsylvania. He was Associate Director of the American Committee on Africa in New York in The Sphinx / February

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1960 and Overseas Representative for CARE in Gaza (Egypt) and India during 1956-57. One of the top journalists in the c o u n t r y , he was White House Correspondent and Editor for the Washington Afro-American (1960-63) and Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Daily Defender (1963-64). He also served as a commentator on NBC's " T o d a y S h o w " during 1 9 6 9 - 7 0 . Educational institutions across the nation have vied for Stone's services. From 1970-72 he served as Director of Minority Affairs for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. Among the schools at which he

has lectured or taught are The AntiochPutney Graduate School of Education at the Philadelphia Center, Trinity College (Connecticut) and Columbia College in Chicago. Brother Stone is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut; the State Board of Colleges and University Directors (Pennsylvania); the National Conference of Black Political Scientists; Fellow and Founding Member of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters; Contributing Editor of "The Black Scholar" Magazine; and, a host of other civic and educational organizations. 29


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