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The first
Joyce Tolberi
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By LYNN CUSICK
Staff writer
Joyce Tolbert distinctly
remembers her grandfather's advice
to her when she was a small
child.
"You have to go on. You have
to achieve at whatever you
choose," Tolbert said.
After more than a decade of
schooling, Tolbert heeded her
grandfather's advice and has
become USC's first Ph.D. of
public health.
Tolbert's education began at
Johnson C. Smith IJnivprsitv a
predominantly black
Episcopalian college in North
Carolina, where she graduated
with a psychology degree.
In 1975, Tolbert enrolled in
USC's public health doctorate
program, which b gan that same
year.
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she will be the first person in USC
history to get a doctorate in the
field.
But the honor hasn't come
easy.
. "1 became frustrated
sometimes because things weren't
working. There wasn't any structure
to follow," said Tolbert, a
31-year-old Columbia native.
Adding to he frustration was
the lack of a ilack role model to
follow.
According to USC Information
Services, blacks constitute
only 6 percent of the public
health profession today, a
statistic that caused Tolbert to
doubt her ability at times.
But Tolbcrt's doubts arc
behind her now.
"If I had to do it again, I
would choose to be the first
again," she suid.
Now that the program is completed,
Tolbert said she is sad
that her educational career is
over.
Graduate studii
among the elde
By RONI BEA KAYNE
Staff writer
Health research plays a major
role in evaluating problems of the
elderly, said USC alumna Joyce
Tolbert, who has been studying
drug use among Columbia's
elderly.
Tolbert conducted a study last
year trying to explain the correlation
between health perceptions
and the use of over-the-counter
medication.
Out of the 137 elderly people
she studied, those who saw
themselves as healthy used as
many drugs as those who believed
they were unhealthy.
James Keith, associate dean of
USC's School of Public Health,
supervised Tolbert's research as
part of her dissertation. He said
Tolbert's study contradicted
previous ideas in the field of
public health.
it was thought that when the
elderly felt ill, they took more
medicine. Now it seems that
elderly people may not be receiving
proper medical treatment
because they arc medicating
themselves," Keith said.
Tolbert's study was based on a
cross section of residents from
two Columbia homes for the
elderly. Participants from Finlay
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were forewarned of the study.
They were asked to perform a
scries of mundane tasks, and
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dry at USC
The letdown is balanced,
however, by Tolbert's en
thusiasm toward the future.
"Completing school is the start
of something exciting, being a
person out in the field," she said.
Being the first to complete the
doctorate program also has
meant the start of publicity.
Tolbcrt has been interviewed by
USA Today, The Atlanta Constitution,
The State and SCETV
? jusi iu name a lew.
Tolbcrt said all this attention
hasn't changed her, but that it
has made her feel a little
pressured to keep achieving.
"I'm down in history as the
first. It's important that 1 do
something with the degree," she
said.
Tolbcrt is channeling her
energies into hei own radio
health spot on WDPN-FM,
"Total Well-Being with Dr.
Joyce Tolbert," a 60-second
public service program that runs
three times a day, seven days a
week.
Tolbcrt is working on syndicating
the program and is interested
in extending the message
of total well-being to the television
and newspaper media.
Her reason for getting the
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puunc neaiin message across is
simple.
"I'm interested in total wellbeing.
My goal is to be a health
educator who is known as being a
person who made a difference,"
Tolbert said.
As a black woman is
predominantly white field,
Tolbert was conscious of the
demands that would be placed on
her.
"I wanted to go as far as I
could so I wouldn't havr? tr> wnrrv
about people questioning my
competence and training. Now I
can just worry about being a
health educator," she said.
drug misuse
rly in Columbia
health-related symptoms were
evaluated.
Twelve perccnt of those
studied didn't take any over-the,.A?nlnr
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v.v/iiuivi ui iviwi t man nan
took two or three drugs regularly.
Tolbert's study also indicated
that women are three times more
likely to use over-the-counter
drugs than men.
Tolbert said elderly people
seem to subscribe to negative
stereotypes placed upon them by
society.
''They see themselves
represented as feeble, weak and
senile and are likely to act out
those behaviors. They think that
once they reach a certain age,
they need medication for
sustenance," Tolbert said.
Although Tolbert's study was
taken in Columbia, she said the
results apply to the rest of the
country.
Keith said he believes increased
awareness is essential. "With the
growing population of elderly,
we need better health education
and better access to medical
care," he said.
Tolbert said most of the elderly
she studied rely on Social Security
and Medicare as their primary
income.
"They arc the largest group of
drug consumers in society. Most
are on a limited income, and if
they are on medication that is not
really needed, something is
wrong," she said.
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Lt. Gov. Mike Daniel is down
position as apparent front-runner
for the Democratic nomination fo
but says his campaign is proce<
steady pace.
"We've got all the counties
organized, and the fund raising
pretty good, and we're just steadi
keeping on our game plan," he
very pleased with it."
A recent poll conducted for the
Party shows Daniel leading Winthi
President Phil Lader in a h
Democratic race 66-12.
State Sen. Hugh Leatherman a
Circuit Judge Frank Eppcs are alsc
candidates for the Democratic noi
Another potential candidate,
Koocrt sneheen, recently announ
not run for the state's highest offi
Campaign manager Robert (
Daniel is picking up most of She
porters, and adds that fund raisin
"overwhelming."
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l.OS ANGELES ? Reporter
Charlayne Huntcr-Gault, in
South Africa recently for public
television's MacNeil-Lehrer
NewsHour, says the trip brought
back haunting memories of U.S.
rarial ronrnmt i
mviui v^ullwii i ww uctuuc^
ago.
During her first few days in
Johannesburg, Hunter-Gault, a
light-skinned black, went to have
her hair done at a beauty parlour.
"1 saw that there were black
women inside, so I went in," she
said. "But they looked at me,
and said, 'Sorry, we only do
black hair.'"
South Africa's apartheid
policy places people in strict
categories: white, colored or mixed
race and black.
"Suddenly, 1 was thrown back
in time, 20 years," she said in a
ceLos Angeles Times interview
published Saturday.
In January 1961. Hunter
Gault, then Charlayne Hunter,
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there to raise money
pretty well pursuing."
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ly moving, rescheduling of sever
said. "I'm events. A trip to Isr
caused the postponem
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and financial help for
became one of the first two black
students to enter the University
of Georgia.
"In South Africa, I was constantly
having to readjust myself
to the realities of life, including
every time we were confronted
with 'white only' eating and
bathroom facilities," she said.
Reagan writes
benefit preface
BOSTON ? With a few
strokes of a pen, President
Reagan may have helped his
wne s lavorne cnaruy ana given
a boost to a commercial book
company.
Reagan wrote the preface to a
book containing such allAmerica
standards as Norman
Rockwell illustrations and
patriotic poems of Carl Sandburg
and Walt Whitman.
In return, the book's author
will donate royalties that could be
as much as $500,000 to the Drug
Abuse Fund, a charity supported
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mission. Daniel said he Coble sa
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by Nancy Reagan.
The deal was the work of
George Mendoza, 51, a
Westport, Conn., writer and
editor.
The book, ''Norman
Rockwell's Patriotic Times,"
goes on sale in October. In the
450-word preface, Reagan said
the country had changed since the
era Rockwell portrayed in his
illnctrnf innc
"Yet the values that he cherished
and celebrated ? love of God
and country, hard work,
neighborhood, and family ? still
give us strength, and will shape
our dreams for decades to
come," Reagan wrote.
Farm family
refuses aid
HOLLANDALE, Wis. ? A
Wisconsin farm family whose
story of impending foreclosure
was aired nationwide during the
FarmAid concert won't accept
offers of help that have poured in
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tniel campaign's telephone solicitat
is reaching "thousands and
of small contributors, and that's
e's strength is. We obviously can't
>aign just on th ;t, but we feel like
iportant."
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in pledges.
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contributors, it has just been over'
he said.
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ation.
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nd, while it's very important, it's
i."
ipjgn is also reaching out to the
ibutors, and Coble said Daniel is a
od progress with them.
where we're raising the most
?oble said.
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since last Sunday's fund raiser.
Sue Massey said she and her
husband, Kenneth, preferred to A
have those concerned send con- ^
tributions to the FarmAid
organization or contact their con
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farmers.
"As much as we'd love to save
our own farm, we realize it's such
a (widespread) problem . . . there
are so many others out there who
have just as many problems as we
do," she said. "We have food
and we have each other and we
have jobs and if we have that, we ^
have it all."
The concert was orcani/ed hv
singer Willie Nelson to focus attention
on farmers' problems and
raise money to help them.
Sue Massey would not say how
much money had been contributed
to save the family's
325-acre farm, except that it
ranged from $1 to "the hun
areds." She also would not say
how much it would take to prevent
the expected foreclosure. A
judge is expected to set a date for ^
a foreclosure sale next month. ^
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