EBRPL. com, East Baton Rouge Parish Library. Ernest J. Thomas was born in Baton Rouge January 5th, 1. Thomas: “My nickname was T- Boo. I was the quarterback on my high school football team. I could fake so well, the cheerleaders wouldn’t know who had the ball. That’s how I got the name, Tabby the Cat.” “I was raised up in the church my grandfather founded, the Saint Luke Baptist Church in Baton Rouge. I sang in the junior groups in the church.” Thomas also sang with a group of boys in Baton Rouge. Thomas joined the Air Force and after three years was discharged at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California. He decided to stay in San Francisco; his godfather lived there. Tabby would often play pool at a place on Fillmore St. It was next to a jazz club called Bop City. Musicians would hang there and jam. Some of the fellows he met in San Francisco heard him sing and told him about a talent show KSAN Radio was having at the Ellis Theater. They talked him into going on Fatso Berry’s show. He appeared and won first prize and got a recording contract with Hollywood Records, owned by John Dolphin. Dolphin, a well- known African American record producer, would record artists and sell their records in his store, Dolphin’s of Hollywood. Tabby recorded “Midnight is Calling” and “I’ll Make the Trip” on Dolphin’s Hollywood label. Tabby returned home to Baton Rouge where he met and fell in love with a woman named Joycelyn whom he later married. Company Description: LA Key Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana specializes in the education of children who suffer from dyslexia and the symptoms of dyslexia. Background Employment.Latest YWCA Encore Plus Program News from top sources, including KQTV ABC St. Latest YWCA Encore Plus Program News from top sources. YWCA works every day to eliminate racism and empower women. Through advocacy and local programming, we create real change for women, families and communities. Racial Justice and Civil Rights. YWCAs nationwide offer. ROBERTA MARGARET YOUNG 'ROBBIE” MADDEN. My most enduring commitment outside of my marriage has been my eighteen years at the YWCA Greater Baton Rouge. I created the ENCOREplus breast health program. War in Iraq: Louisiana’s Perspective. The program features interviews with Louisiana Education State. To this union, seven children were born - - five girls and two sons. Tabby worked several jobs over the years and always hustled to provide for his family. He worked at Ciba Geigy where he became a union steward. He helped a lot of young men keep their jobs. Thomas played music at different clubs with his band, the Mighty House Rockers, and also spun records at night. He wrote and recorded several songs; one of his famous songs is “I Love Big Fat Women.” Over the years, Tabby performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and traveled overseas to perform at festivals every year. Tabby’s Blues Box and Heritage Hall. Tabby went to Rose and Thomas Caf. The building space next door was empty and had been broken into. He talked to Rose, the restaurant owner, and told her he would like to get the building. She told him the owner was Mr. Griffon, who owned Griffon’s Drug Store on Government St. Music; Pageantry and Drama; and Religion. Forms part of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Password Reset System (PRS) User ID: OR. If you don’t know your. Password: Enter your User ID in the box to the left labeled User ID and then click the Next button. Click here for the user guide. Achieving Condom Empowerment Plus. AIDS Education & Training Center; Avon BHOP; Avon Domestic Violence Program; Avon Safety Net. YWCA Of Greater Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA: $65,000: YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts. Senator Sharon Weston Broome was the first African American female elected to the Louisiana State Senate from East Baton Rouge Parish representing Senate. YWCA's Encore Plus Program. Louisiana SenioRx Program P.O. Box 61 Baton Rouge, LA 70821-0061 225-342-7100. When Tabby went to talk to him about renting the building, Mr. Griffon asked, “What will you do with it?” Tabby told him, “ I think I will open a blues club.” Mr. Griffon gave Tabby the keys that day. He told Tabby to see him in three months and they could discuss the rent. The Blues Box building was old and raggedy - - the paint was peeling off the ceiling. There was a big heater to keep the place warm in the winter and a huge fan to cool it in the summer. Tabby began the hard work of cleaning the building and decided to name the club Tabby’s Blues Box and Heritage Hall. The heritage hall was on 1. North Blvd. It was the first and only blues club in Baton Rouge where you could listen to live music that was only blues, and it was the only club in Baton Rouge that all nationalities patronized. When you walked into the Box, you were mesmerized by the music. Tabby was featured nightly playing piano and guitar. Tuesdays was jam night and a lot of local musicians came to sit in and jam. If you couldn’t play, you learned to play at Tabby’s. Thursday night was the . Tabby’s son, Grammy award winner Chris Thomas King, got his start at the club. He signed his first contract with Sire Records, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers, at Tabby’s Heritage Hall. Many famous people came to the club: Mike Tyson, Harold Robbins, Paul Newman, the O’Jays, Bruce Springsteen and Shaquille O’Neal to name a few. Tour groups would come on buses to Tabby’s. In 1. 99. 9, Tabby found out he had to relocate his club because an overpass was going to be built in its location. So in 2. 00. 0, he moved Tabby’s Blues Box and Heritage Hall to Lafayette St. In January 2. 00. Tabby had a massive stroke while waiting to perform at the Blues Box. He was rushed to Our Lady of the Lake hospital and stayed there for several months of recovery. Later that year in November Tabby closed the doors of Tabby’s Blues Box and Heritage Hall. In 1. 99. 3, Tabby began to host a radio show on WBRH, 9. FM, where he played nothing but blues and talked about blues and blues musicians he has known. He still appears on WBRH 9. Saturday at 1 pm. Program Subjects. NOTE: For the most part, the Microfilmed Records and the Original Format Records do not duplicate each other and both should be consulted. Records- -Record Group 6. Program. This Series is divided into five Subseries: SUBSERIES A. Anna Brown listens to heartbeat of patient, circa 1. Many young women had their first exposure to the YWCA through Summer Camps run by Community Associations all over the United States. They can be found on the Microfilm in: Minutes and Reports. Subject Files. Arts, Motion Pictures . The Original Format Records are arranged as follows: General and history. Minutes and Reports. Correspondence. Conferences. Programs. Publications. Reference materials. Miscellaneous. Related Materials. Elsewhere in this Series. The YWCA often had specialist staff for indoor (vs. Health and Recreation. Elsewhere in this Record Group. The Association. Monthly/Womans Press/YWCA Magazine in. SERIES VI. PUBLICATIONS is an excellent source for most topics. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. Files on Camp properties owned by the National Association are in. SERIES II of RECORD GROUP 3. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. Lillian Rifken Blumenfeld's memories of Camp Winola are in SERIES V. Brown encompassed not only activities related to physical health, such as health examinations, health education, and physical recreation opportunities; but also the opportunities Community YWCAs provided for creative expression, cultural enrichment, rest and relaxation, social interaction, and other forms of personal fulfillment and spiritual growth. Such a wide- ranging assortment of activities, though a core concern of the YWCA, were never the province of a single department. The first Health Secretary, Anna Brown, had been General Secretary of the predecessor organization to the YWCA of the U. S. A. Brown pioneered the concept of . Government asked the YWCA to assist its Social Hygiene Division in setting up a similar program. Though physical recreation remained a bread- and- butter activity at Community YWCAs, and perhaps the area most associated with the YWCA in the public mind, the major reduction in Program staff that began in the 1. Government Grants and corporate sponsorship for women's health programs. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1. CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, known as . The National Association established an Office of Women's Health Initiatives in 1. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. Major topics include physical health, mental health, sex education, marriage and family life education (consisting of relationships education, sex education, and balancing work and family); menopause; . Health and Recreation records can be found on the microfilm under: Minutes and Reports. Health Education Study. Health Education Committee. Subject Files. Arts. Health. Health Education. World War I, Social Morality, International Conference of Women Physicians. Original Format Records, 1. Committees, Commissions, Offices contains minutes, reports, mailings, and some correspondence and memoranda produced by the major YWCA Committees and Commissions, and the staff and offices responsible for the health program. Conferences and Workshops, is divided into internal YWCA events and national and international . Training includes texts of . Teenage and Younger Girls Program. WAR WORK AND DEFENSE SERVICES contains records about recreational activities for servicemen, industrial war workers, and the general membership. COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS in the Minutes and Reports in SERIES I. PHOTOGRAPHSThe YWCA made extensive use of Videotaped public service announcements and training materials for its ENCORE and Nike/YWCA Sports and Fitness Programs in the 1. One product of this effort was the two- volume Folk Songs of Many Peoples compiled by Florence Botsford and published by the YWCA in 1. In 1. 92. 5 Imogene Ireland, formerly an Industrial staff member, was . Parker had an interest in what the . Parker, left a bequest of $1. National Board to establish the Katharine Parker Music Foundation to fund a national department of music with a capable and experienced secretary in charge. Parker was to be advisor . The book was updated regularly until 1. As the National Association made more and more cuts to its program staff in the early 1. Devaluation of the dollar in late 1. Foundation income could no longer support a full- time music secretary. Administrative History. Education and Research. Laboratory Division. Subject staff, Community Division. Program Subject Department. Music and Audio- Visual Aids, Training Services in Membership Services. Consultant, Leadership Services. Consultant, Creative Arts- Music in Research and Program Resources. Scope and Content. Music Program records include publications and related correspondence; reference files of general information and musical scores; historical research on music in the YWCA; general correspondence; minutes; planning materials and annotated programs from Conventions and Conferences; project files; and training materials. Music Committee minutes and the selection of songs reveal much about the educational philosophy of the YWCA and the creative ways the various departments and programs found to contribute to the Association's purpose. The Music Secretary's working files included in the Original Format Records provide an excellent sense of the aims of the work. Wheeler, Music Secretary, 1. Marie Oliver, to the National Board Archives. The Music Secretary's Reference files are arranged in two sections: General and Sheet Music/Scores. The Bureau's secretary, Hazel Mac. Kaye, traveled the country encouraging Community YWCAs, and particularly their Girl Reserve programs, to incorporate drama into their programs. Many of the scripts published by the Womans Press originated in Community Associations and their publication allowed a nationwide distribution. Microfilmed Records, 1. After the reorganization of the National Board in the 1. It remained in the province of committee work through the 1. Conferences and meetings, as large as the national convention and as small as routine staff gatherings, featured religious readings, worship services, and group prayer. Although spirituality remained an object of much consideration at the administrative level, by the 1. YWCA grew less explicit in its expressions of Christianity. These documents can be found in this series. The area in which the place of Christianity in the YWCA was most explicitly identified was in the so- called . They prefaced their Constitution with: . This shift aligned with the YWCA's broadened commitment to political and social change and the increasing marginality of their religious programming the at mid- century. The records of the Foreign Division may convey the YWCA's religious ethos most plainly, as the YWCA was compelled to clarify and make plain its intentions in these missionary and cross- national settings. Researchers may wish to consult other areas of programming and administration to gain a full picture of the place of religion in the YWCA. Microfilmed Records, 1. MEMBERSHIP OF INDIVIDUALS has information about religious affiliation and membership requirements.
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