The Register, 1983-11-08

              earl made the most of his unique situation to learn as much as he could as he traveled around the country with the team he called on the disc jockeys and program directors at local radio sta tions the musical was also presented in washington d.c and at the karamu theatre in cleveland earl ex pects to eventually develop the show for a run on broadway following his 1980 retire ment from pro basketball with the knicks earl decided to capitalize on his knowledge by forming a broad-based enter tainment company his attraction to the stage may in fact be a trait inherited from his father who perform ed as a dancer with famed blues singer bessie smith earl's first inspiration came from the greats of an earlier era during his college days at winston-salem state he per formed as a comedian borrow ing most of his material from pigmeat markham by his junior year he was doing stand-up routines at the famous lyric theatre in baltimore it was an ex perience earl says with laughter it let me know that i was not cut out to be a stand they were a little surprised to see me knocking on their doors with the latest millie jackson or joe simon record but i'd get them to put it on the air for the most part they were just thrilled to see me working in the business he established pretty pearl inc and launched its first divi sion with the pretty pearl records label i needed to begin with something that i knew which was the record business and how to find and develop talented people the instincts that served earl so well throughout his il lustrious sports career are pro ving to be just as acute in selecting artists songs and producers with winning poten tial however he still enjoyed performing before an au dience and at halftime during games he often dazzled the crowd with a magic act an in terest in music began for him as a youngster with a singing group in his hometown though earl never studied music formally he could pick out tunes and listened intently to songs on the radio i didn't have a voice really but i knew where all the ooooh's and aaah's were supposed to up comic earl groomed and managed them and the group enjoyed marginal success with records for the spring and warner bros labels after two years with spring earl was ready to try his hand at managing his own acts his first signing was the aleems a duet that was working with jimi hendrix just prior to his death the first act signed to pretty pearl records is curtis hairston a native of winston salem and his first release i want you all tonight produced by greg radford is already a solid hit growing up in philadelphia young earl had his eye on a career in baseball however by his fourteenth birthday earl had already grown to his full height of 6'3 basketball seemed more ment industry and while his achievements as one of basketball's greatest players are known interna tionally earl has spent the last ten years building an equally outstanding reputation in another arena the entertain success seems to be second nature to earl the pearl monroe his incredible record as a college athlete and his legendary 13 years in the nba are testaments to his deter mination and ability to rise above the crowd the transition from stellar sports professional to show business entrepreneur has been an easy one for earl prin cipally because both have always been in his blood earl was a first round draft pick by the baltimore bullets and played with the team from 1967 to 1971 in 1967 he was named rookie of the year wrapping up the season in which he scored a career hgh of 56 points against the los angeles lakers as a senior at winston salem state his 41.5 point average carried the school to a 1967 ncaa division cham pionship promising and the switch ultimately proved to be the right choice specializes funk earl has equally high hopes for his second artist ed sparks and electrik sparks band an eight-member group from cleveland that in hard-hitting in 1979 they decided to develop a story that barry orms nau written into a musical with the added talents of com with two other partners he formed tiffany entertainment corporation the company managed such artists as arista records vocalist chuck sissel the soul children and televi sion actress sydney goldsmith go the interest in music stayed with him throughout his years on the court and earl began considering it seriously as a se cond career once he retired from basketball he didn't wait however until he had played his last game to get in volved in the business julie rifkind president of spring records called earl in 1972 with an unusual job of fer how would you like to rally a&t signs contracts with nasa ing strength we can receive our tal affairs tillery said our destiny is clearly manifested with political a&t has signed contracts with the natioanl aeronautics and space administration nasa for research valued at 1,728,395 and important to the nation's aerospace efforts the research agreement the largest research grant ever signed for a&t's school of engineering was announced through the office of con gressman robin britt full share said tillery don't let parity die in greensboro tillery warned as he exited the podium reverend wayne clapp organizer of the young peoples democratic party told students that a&t has the power to make a differnece in 11 forms of government however clapp said that students need to rise from maturity and become adults erecting space structures craft said very little is known about the deployment of materials that would be us ed in these ing while another project will study ways to relay information us infrared light another will study ways to pack more densely the solid state circuitry used in com meeting body nov 10 check sga office for location student craft the fourth project will be related to the problem of in sulating the space shuttle against the tremendous heat and fric tion it is exposed to while traveling through the earth's atmosphere according to another project will study ways to dispose of heat more efficiently craft said the better and faster you can transfer heat out of say a rocket engine the higher the temperature you can go without melting down the cas the the higher temperature the more thrust you can get and the stronger the engine is singh the researchers will include dr elias g abu-saba dr william j craft dr wesley clark dr harmonhindar we may come to a point in the future where we will be while all of the projects are highly technical one has ap plications to building space colonies dean of the school and coor dinator of the project said each area of research affects the future of other projects nasa is planning puters william j craft assistant technology mission of this university said fort the significance of this research grant cannot be overemphasized as directly associated with the role which the state of north carolina has determined that a&t must play as the state itself con tinues its forward moving thrust in the engineering and sciences area added fort dr suresh chandra dean of the school of engineering school , said the signing of these contracts is both a reflection of our faculty quali ty and the confidence that nasa has in a&t's school of engineering he said that the projects will include a number of a&t students especially at the graduate level for thesis students it is critically important for the state to recognize that this 1.7 million grant represents the largest package of scientific contracts awarded in the history of the engineer ing school and as such enhances the continuing high chancellor edward b fort said the funding will be used for six major research projects in the school page 2 the a&t register tuesday november 8 1983 earl monroe goes from hoops to hits our label work as a promotion man for though he was playing for the new york knicks at the time he thought it was a novel idea and a great oppor poser genovis albright they created bones which received favorable notices for its off-broadway production tunity