Operation Dig/ Careers, Inc.,1987 Humanitarian Award Recipients: Featuring Jean Bryant, Reporter Pittsburgh Press and Ronald B. Saunders of the NBPC

Black Buzz News Service
Archives of The National Black Political Caucus
Pittsburgh PA
April 5, 2010

In 1987, Jean Bryant, reporter for the Pittsburgh Press and blogger Black Buzz (Ronald B. Saunders) received the Annual Humanitarian Award from Nate Smith, Chairman of world famous Operation Dig Careers, Inc.
That year's event (DINNER) was held at the HYATT PITTSBURGH at Chatham Center on Saturday, June 13, 1987.

Time: Cocktails 6:00 P.M.---Dinner 7 : 00 P.M.

Words from the Chairman
As the material rejected by the builders becomes the building's cornerstone, so too Operation Dig, in its 19 years of servicing society's cast-offs, has been vital to the community's structure. Once a year, we hold a Dinner to draw attention to that fact.

This year our Dinner comes at an advantageous time: The kickoff of the 1988 national elections: determination that Pittsburgh will have a better chance at truer representative government through district elections: the likely return of black representation to City Council and the second try for the presidency by a black, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. If I sound political, it's because we live in a political world. Use your own political clout in the coming months to keep on top of the issues, to speak out and to vote.

Thank you for honoring our dinner with your presence.

I love you, admire you and respect you.

Your Black Brother and Friend

Nate Smith

OPERATION DIG/CAREERS, INC.
EIGHTH ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER

PROGRAM

MASTER OF CEREMONIES

Robert Johnson, Jet Magazine

MISSTRESSES OF CEREMONIES

Joan Velar, WPGH-TV 53......................Patrice King-Brown, KDKA-TV 2

INVOCATION

DINNER

INTRODUCTION OF DIAS GUESTS

WELCOME.............................................................Nate Smith, Chairman

1987 HUMANITARIAN RECIPIENTS

Operation Dig/ Careers, Inc. is privileged to honor these men and women who have made this a better world to live in. Their individual efforts and achievements must be recognized because they are truly "PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE."

FROM MINORITY BUSINESS: JOHN H. ADAMS, PRESIDENT, BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER

FROM MEDIA: JEAN BRYANT, REPORTER, PITTSBURGH PRESS

FROM MEDICINE: WILLIAM GENERETT, M.D. WEST PENN HOSPITAL

FROM COMMUNITY SERVICE: RONALD B. SAUNDERS NATIONAL BLACK POLITICAL CAUCUS

FROM BUSINESS: JACK McGINLEY, ENTREPRENEUR, WILSON, McGINLEY, INC.

FROM GOVERNMENT: K. LEROY IRVIS, PA SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson

PRESIDENT, NATIONAL RAINBOW COALITION

BENEDICTION

Hiram Revels, representing Mississippi was elected first African American in the U.S. Senate in 1870.

Black Buzz News Service
Washington, D.C.
February 26, 2010

Besides the U.S. Supreme Court, the old boy U.S. Senate remains the most exclusive all White club in the USA. We have had only five so-called Blacks elected or appointed to the U.S. Senate in the entire 234 year old history of the said Republic. They are follows: Hiram Revels, Blanche Bruce, Edward Brooke, Carol Mosley Braun, Barack Obama and Roland Burris. Many Americans are either unaware of this present and past history in reference to the U.S. Senate or simply do not care. So many highly talented African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans and women haven't been afforded the opportunity to run for the U.S. Senate because of a lack of powerful connections and well heeled friends.