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Wednesday, February 22, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
KU making early effort to attract minority students for Med Center
by Cynthia L. Simm Kansan staff writer
The medical profession needs black students.
"If you look at demographics of blacks in terms of that profession, there's less than 3 percent," said Jacob Gordon, associate professor of African and African-American Studies at the Center for Black Leadership Development and Research at the University of Kansas.
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That is why the center selected nine black Kansas high school students to attend last night's opening of "Beyond the Exodusters," an exhibit at Spencer Research Library, and an awards banquet at the Adams Alumni Center.
Gordon said he hoped the experience would encourage students to attend the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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"In order to recruit them, you can't wait until they finish college," he said.
Aubrey Gibbs, a sophomore at Lawrence High School, said she was impressed by the research included in the exhibit and its presentation.
Gibbs said she had studied black history in the eighth grade, but resources available to her were not as vast as those at the library.
as a gap exists in the information available on the history of black Kansas between 1900 and 1945, said Deborah Dandridge, field archivist and historian for the black history collection at the research library
contours are "We're using this (the exhibit) to demonstrate that we're acquiring materials so that any chronicles of the past in Kansas include the black experience," she said.
experience.
Vern Nowood, president of the Lawrence branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she was proud to view remnants of the history of black Kansans.
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"You learn to appreciate the things that are kept," she said. "This collect-
tion gives our children something to look forward to, to realize that we have made a contribution."
Three black doctors were awarded for their contributions at the banquet.
The recipients were Melvin E. Jenkins, a graduate of the Med Center, for contributions to education; James S. Johnson, for public service; and James H. Thomas, for research.
"Their accomplishments express the African-American achievement against the odds." Dandridge said.
- Gordon said the awards banquet fulfilled Carter G. Woodson's goal to research, promote and disseminate information about the contributions of black people.
Woodson, founder of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History in Washington, D.C. established Black History Week in 1926. The observance was expanded to a month in 1976.
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Recognized for outstanding contribution to the medical field, James H. Thomas, James S. Johnson, and Melvin E. Jenkins receive leadership awards at a banquet at Adams Alumni Center. Last night's program was sponsored by the Center for Black Leadership Development and Research.
Medical veterans honored; encourage blacks to consider field
by Scott Achelpohl
Kansan staff writer
James S. Johnson, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Mo., said encouragement from his family and his own determination helped him to finish medical school and succeed in the medical
Center.
Jenkins received the award for excellence in teaching.
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Three medical veterans are interested in seeing the further infusion of blacks into medical education and the medical profession.
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Johnson, James H. Thomas, professor of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Melvin E. Jenkins, retired professor of pediatrics, were honorees at a dinner last night at the Adams Alumni
Johnson, awarded for service to medicine, said production of black doctors had been down in recent years and that making money was a secondary issue.
"Young black students need to know more about blacks in medicine." Thomas said.
Thomas was given the award for research in medicine last night.
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