Dave McFadden
Jean Childs Young
Cibiyar Al'adu ta Jami'ar Manchester ta gaba a College Avenue da East Street [a Arewacin Manchester, Ind.] za a ba da suna don tunawa da malamin tsofaffi kuma mai fafutuka Jean Childs ('54) Matasa.
Rayuwar Jean ta yi haske sosai kan manufarmu ta mutunta kimar kowane mutum marar iyaka da inganta yanayin ɗan adam. Yaron Kudu mai keɓe kuma abokin tarayya a cikin ƙungiyoyin kare hakkin jama'a, aikin Jean ya kawar da ra'ayi da haɓaka fahimta. Ta gina dangantaka kuma ta dinke rarrabuwar kawuna. Ba zan iya tunanin babu wani sunan da ya fi dacewa da Cibiyar Al'adunmu ba, alama ce ta jajircewar Jami'ar Manchester don koyo daga bambance-bambance.
Kwanan nan, mijin Jean, Andrew Young, ya aiko mini da kwafin littafinsa, “An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America.” A ciki, ya rubuta: “Yawancin wannan labarin ya samo asali ne daga binciken Jean a Manchester. Ina shakkar hakan zai iya faruwa idan na auri wani. Salama da albarka, Andrew Young. "
Bayanan kula shine shaida mai ban mamaki ga ikon dangantaka da kuma kullun aikin yau da kullum. Andrew ya ziyarci Jean a nan sa’ad da take yarinya. Ya yi hidima a hidimar sa kai na ’yan’uwa kuma ya halarci taro a Camp Mack. “Cocin ’yan’uwa a fannoni da yawa ita ce wurina ta ruhaniya,” ya taɓa rubutawa. A cikin abubuwan da ya faru da ’yan’uwa ne ya sa hidimata, da ja-gorata, da halina da kuma halina suka kasance.”*
Jean Childs ya bi wasu ’yan’uwa mata biyu zuwa Manchester kuma ya sami digiri a makarantar firamare. Makonni bayan kammala karatun ta, ta auri Andrew, wanda zai ci gaba da kasancewa a gefen abokinsa Martin Luther King, Jr. a duk cikin yunkurin kare hakkin jama'a. Daga baya, Andrew ya zama dan majalisar dokokin Amurka, jakadan Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, kuma magajin garin Atlanta.
Jean Childs da Andrew Young
Jean ya yi fice a matsayin malami kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin dan Adam da jin dadin yara. A cikin 1977, Shugaba Carter ya nada ta shugabar Hukumar Amurka ta Shekarar Yara ta Duniya. Ta kuma kafa Ƙungiyar Task Force ta Atlanta akan Ilimi, ta yi aiki a matsayin mai haɗin gwiwa na Hukumar Atlanta-Fulton akan Yara da Matasa, kuma ta taimaka haɓaka Kwalejin Junior Atlanta.
Ta yi aiki a Manchester a matsayin mai rikon kwarya daga 1975 zuwa 1979 kuma ta sami digiri na girmamawa daga MU a 1980. Ta mutu sakamakon ciwon hanta a 1994 tana da shekaru 61.
A wurin nan gaba Jean Childs Young Intercultural Center, mu jami'a iyali suna sadaukar da Peace iyakacin duniya tunawa dalibai uku na duniya da aka kashe a cikin hunturu bara a hadarin mota. Nerad Mangai, Brook "BK" Dagnew, da Kirubel Hailu sun sa kansu cikin masana'anta da zukatan al'ummarmu a cikin ɗan gajeren lokacin da suke tare da mu. Muna kewar su.
Sansanin zai kasance a wurin har sai an fara ginin sabon ginin a farkon shekara mai zuwa. Wannan wurin zai haɗa da abin tunawa na dindindin ga abokanmu matasa uku kuma, idan an gama ginin, za mu sake shigar da Pole na Aminci na dindindin.
Kamar yadda zaku iya tunawa, Cibiyar Al'adu ta Matasa ta samo asali ne daga Gidan AAFRO, wanda aka kafa a farkon shekarun 1970. A cikin shekaru da yawa, ikonsa ya faɗaɗa a matsayin gida ga Ofishin Harkokin Al'adu da yawa (OMA), Ƙungiyar Ƙwararrun Ƙwararru, Ƙungiyar Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Afirka, da Hispanos Unidos. Cibiyar kuma gida ce mai nisa daga gida don haɓaka yawan ɗalibanmu na duniya kuma tana aiki azaman wurin taro don ɗalibai na kowane yanayi don koyo da juna.
Sabon ginin zai ƙunshi nuni na dindindin na girmama Jean Young. Tsare-tsare kuma suna kiran sararin ofis na OMA, wurin falo, ɗaki mai amfani da yawa don abubuwan da suka faru, buɗaɗɗen ra'ayi dafa abinci da cin abinci, da ɗakin albarkatu, ɗakin karatu, da laburar kwamfuta.
Idan wannan aikin - don haka ainihin ƙimar Manchester - yana ƙarfafa ku don taimakawa, Ina ƙarfafa ku don jagorantar kyaututtukanku zuwa Ofishin Ci gaban Jami'a a 260-982-5412.
* “Manzo,” Oktoba 1977, Vol. 126, Na 10.
- Dave McFadden shi ne shugaban Jami'ar Manchester a Arewacin Manchester, Ind. Nemo ƙarin game da Jami'ar Manchester a www.manchester.edu