Saturday, January 23, 1999
Urban League celebrates 50 years in Cincinnati
BY MICHAEL D. CLARK
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The conversion of America from an agricultural to industrial economy at the beginning of this century helped create the Urban League.
African Americans flooded into industrialized cities looking for economic opportunities, and the Urban League formed to assist them.
During Friday's luncheon celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, former Ohio legislator William Mallory Sr. said the league's mission remains much the same.
“The information age dictates we continue our work. Either you are a part of the technology of the future or you are an economic slave of the future,” Mr. Mallory told more than 700 Urban League supporters at the Hyatt Hotel Grand Ballroom.
Urban League President and chief executive officer Sheila Adams told the audience that the league's future is bright. Membership is up, as are the many services being offered to low- and moderate-income families.
“There are thousands of area families and children that benefit from the Urban League's efforts. We have worked hard ... to try and shut the door on racial discrimination and open doors to economic opportunities,” said Ms. Adams.
During the luncheon, Urban League officials announced that Norren Hayes, vice president of human relations for Western-Southern Life Insurance Co., would succeed the league's chairman, Calvin Buford.
The league also awarded its annual “Glorifying the Lions” awards to 10 Greater Cincinnatians over 65 who have demonstrated extensive records of public service:
Retired state senator William F. Bowen; community activist Evelyn B. Dixon; Dr. George C. Hale Sr., former president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; Sarah E. Taylor Hale, author and past director of the Human Services at Allen Temple Church; Izella Kendrick, first director of the Foster Grandparent Program in Cincinnati; John H. Leahr, former Tuskegee Airman and Cincinnati's first black stockbroker; William L. Mallory Sr., former majority leader of the Ohio House of Representatives and founder of the Mallory Center for Community Development; “Mother” Mildred Nichols, 79-year-old advocate in war on area drugs and crime; Arthur A. Sherman, president of Sherman's Flower Shop and winner of the Ohio Black Expo Community Award for Business Man of the Year in 1994; and Bobbie L. Sterne, former Cincinnati City Councilwoman.
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