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1993.02.17 :  African-American History Month

Contact: Moses J. Newson (202) 690-6343                           
February 17, 1993
              
       HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced that
Patricia Newton, M.D., president of Newton-Thoth, Inc. of
Baltimore, an international behavioral science management
corporation, will speak for the annual African-American History
Month program.
       The program, sponsored by the Department of Health and
Human Services, Department of Education, U.S. Information Agency
and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will be held
Thursday, Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. in the Great Hall of the Humphrey
Building, 200 Independence Ave. S.W.
       Music, all composed by African-American musicians, will be
provided by the Buck Hill Jazz Quartet.  With saxophonist Buck
Hill will be Warren Shadd on drums, Cheney Thomas on bass and Jon
Ozment on piano.
       Secretary Shalala and Education Secretary Richard Riley
will speak.
       The theme of this year's observance is "African-American
Scholars: Leaders, Activists and Writers."
       Dr. Newton, in addition to heading Newton and Thoth, is
president and medical director of Newton and Associates,
specialists in behavioral medicine, and is a clinical assistant
professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
       Dr. Newton received her bachelor of science degree from
the University of Arkansas; a master's in molecular biology from
the George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
Tenn., and another in public health from Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health and Hygiene; and her medical degree from Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
       She has worked on the international level with
psychiatrists in Africa and the Caribbean in the application of
the sociodrama technique as a tool for rehabilitating the chronic
mental patient.  She also has contributed in the field of
chemical dependency rehabilition and prevention strategies in the
United States. 
       Dr. Newton's affiliations include membership in the
Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization and
the Society of Ancient People of Alkebulan Ancestry.  Her many
citations include the Governor's "Outstanding Arkansan Award."
       She has lectured widely in this country and abroad and
appeared on Baltimore/national radio-TV programs.  Dr. Newton is
a member of the All Japan Karate Federation and holds a third
degree black belt in karate.

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