There's one other work I'm still working with. It's called Focus on
Leadership. It was put together by Ron Leeper who used to be on city
council here. It was a city council, he was city councilman and we
pulled together a steering committee of African American leaders because
there was no pool of leadership to draw from to run for political office
or to become officers in the local organization, civic organizations. So
that was a primary purpose—to develop a pool of leadership and to do the
training. It was actually almost like classroom training. We provided
people [with expertise?] on various issues
based on the African American experience. So I was on that steering
committee. I was in, I taught the political savvy piece in the first
class, and I was actually in the second class. It has now been, so when
did that start, 1987. It's been going on since then, and I taught every,
I taught the organizational development classes ever since that time. I
have been, I was vice president of that and program chair for two terms,
and for both those terms, both the presidents were on, they were on
leave, medical leave because they had serious operations. So I had to
kind of take, had to do their part too. Now that's split up between four
people, three or four people. But it was, we redid the curriculum and
everything, and it goes. It really prepares a person to become active in
this community. So new people coming in to Charlotte, new African
Americans or whomever, it's open. We've had several others. We've had
several Hispanics, a couple Caucasians to come and then take the course,
courses as well. But I do that every year. So I'm not an officer. I
don't participate otherwise. But my commitment is to teach that very
first class because they become a microcosm. Their own class is an
organization of which they become a microcosm of Charlotte organizations
in a way, and they have to have a special project that they work on
while they're, while they're taking these classes. They do a project
every year.