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Identifier
Kanza1972_044
Object Type
Yearbook
Creation Date
1-1-1972
Description
A 1972 Kanza yearbook page containing short biographies and photographs of Miss Bold Black contestants Merlyne Hines, Cheryl Williams, and Roberta Hayes (continued on page 45).
Transcription
Teaching at Washington High School in Kansas City, Merlyne Hines is a senior business education major from Kansas City, Kansas. Merlyne has always been fascinated with business as a profession and with teaching, so she decided to combine the two. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta and her hobbies include reading and listening to music. Merlyne explained that Miss Bold Black was chosen through the collection of money which was used for the events of Black Heritage Week.
Cheryl Williams is a junior elementary education major from Kansas City, Kansas. Cheryl chose her major because she enjoys children and in the future would like to work with the handicapped. Cheryl feels that the black students need to unite so that Homecoming could attract and involve a larger portion of the black students on campus. When asked if she felt that extra-curricular activities were important, she said, “Yes, because it gives the students a chance to do the things they like and are interested in.”
A sophomore elementary education major from Kansas City, Kansas, Roberta Hayes is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the Black Student Movement, and the Black Pearls drill team. Roberta said, “Homecoming was nice, but it could have been improved if had received sufficient funds from the school like the other activities.” When asked what one event of Homecoming she found outstanding, she said it was the Homecoming dance at which the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity from Wichita performed.
