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THE BENNETT BANNER
Friday, February 22, 1991
BATTLING BELLES: Bennett finished second in the North Carolina-Virginia Women’s College Basketball Tournament held here last weekend. After pounding
Sweet Briar, the Belles suffered a gallant, heart-stopping, double-overtime loss to Meredith, 94-86, in one of the most exciting games in the college’s history.
Forward Yvette Williams won the tourney’s most valuable player award, and she and point-guard Tonya Braswell made the all-tourney team. In picture above,
front row, left to right, are Erica Salter, Braswell, Dennice Hippy, and Hyler Jones; back row are Pamela Warner, Kisheena Wanzer, Artlisa Alston, Karen Tillery,
Celena Edwards, Gay Morris and statistician Karen Weaver. The squad was coached by Ms. Joyce Spruill, (photo by Lt. Col. Andrew Johnson Jr.)
New professor shows commitinent
by Kimberly Dargan
A new teacher with a lot
of knowledge and a love of
English has become chair of
the English department, re
placing Dr. Carol Meeks. She’s
also a good friend to students.
Dr. Juanita Lewis is a
native of Boone. She attended
Appalachian State University
where she received her
bachelor of science degree
in English and French.
She continued her studies at
Appalachian University where
she received her master’s in
English. She received her
doctorate at UNC-G in 1986.
Lewis wanted to be a li
brarian because she enjoys
reading. She was influenced
by several English teachers
to choose English as her
career.
Many people inspired Dr.
Lewis. She says, “My father
was a proud and a stubborn
man. He always wanted me
to do well because the last
grade he finished was the
seventh grade. A professor
at Appalachian University,
Rogers Whitener was my
second father. He gave me
advice and he was always
there for me. A high school
teacher who stayed anony
mous paid my first semester
in college.”
Lewis feels that her pur
pose on earth “is to do what
ever I can to make things
better for other people. I
chose education to make
things better.”
Lewis says, “I would like
to see a change in students
by being actively, energeti
cally engaged in intellectual
issues. I like to see them as
scholars participating in aca
demic excellence.”
Dr. Lewis says, “The stu
dents do not give me a hard
time. What the students do
is waste a lot of energy com
plaining about nothing. They
waste energy and time; some
times they waste time in class
and that can be annoying for
me and other students. There
are a lot of students that are
serious about their work.”
Sophomore Angela Z. Green
says, “I admire Dr. Lewis be
cause she is honest and com
passionate. She is unlike
other teachers that I’ve had.”
Sophomore LaShawne Hart
says, “She scares you at first
and many people may get the
misconception that she cares
only about her assigned work,
but once you get to know her
one-on-one, anyone will quick
ly find out that she is very
flexible and she genuinely
cares about you as an indivi
dual as well as a student.
When people say looks are
deceiving, it applies to Dr.
Lewis.”
Junior Jeanette Simmons
says, “Dr. Lewis is an ex
cellent teacher. She is strict
in her ways and will not give
you a good grade if it is not
deserved. The student has to
master the work that is
given.”
Lewis says, “Students come
by to talk about things in
their lives, such as what their
plans are and just other
courses. I love Bennett College
and I enioy the students and
the faculty members. I feel
comfortable here at Bennett
and I wouldn’t give up teach
ing and my long hours at
Bennett College for any
thing.”
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Group
helps
children
(from page 3)
take in any child that ap
plies.”
Funded by a grant from
the W. K. Kellogg Foundation,
the program’s focuses are
tutoring, mentoring, cultural
enrichment and parental in
volvement.
Through a network of
trained volunteers from the
community, 15 sites for
tutoring are in operation at
public; facilities in the neigh
borhoods where participating
children live. One hour per
week is required for tutoring.
A trained adult monitor acts
as a liaison between the pro
gram and the public facility.
One such site is located in
the McGirt-Horton Public
Library at 2509 Phillips Ave.
Tameka Hayes, a third
grade student at Erwin
School, said that she enjoys
coming to tutoring. “I couldn’t
read before and now I can,”
Hayes said.
Emphasis is placed on get
ting volunteers from the five
area colleges and universities.
“When I first started I
didn’t think I could do it, but
it’s worked out fine,” said
Gretchen Ennett, a junior
majoring in mechanical en
gineering at North Carolina
A&T State University. Ennett
tutors a kindergarten student
who didn’t know her ABCs
or numbers when she started.
The student recited her ABCs
for Ennett, who applauded.
The mentoring program in
volves role models from var
ious trades and professions.
Students are expected to
spend a day at the work site
of the mentor.
“We feel that mentorship
is key to African-American
children because auite often
they don’t see blacks working
in areas in which they feel
they can aspire,” said Valdes.
“We want to be able to show
them that African-Americans
are working in all walks of
life, and once the child builds
a relationship with the men
tor, the relationship is like
glue.”
Cultural enrichment activi
ties help build self-esteem.
The children have taken field
trips to such places as the
Mattye Reed African Heri
tage Center, the Charlotte
Hawkins Brown Memorial
and the North Carolina A&T
State University student
space lab. A workshop was
held on developing a hobby.
“We be’ieve that we need to
give children the ‘can-do’ atti
tude no matter what it is
we’re doin" with them,” said
Valdes. “We want them to
see that they can succeed at
whatever thev want to do.”
Parental involvement in the
child’s education is a key ele
ment. Workshops are held to
educate parents on the school
system’s policies and methods.
“Too often parents kind of
hear things from the school
and they have to go along
with the program,” said
Valdes. “We want them to be
sure that’s the best thing for
their children.”
“Each One-Reach One” has
matched 325 children with
volunteers. The goal by 1991
is to match 500 children.
The vice-president of the
NBCDI of Greensboro, Walter
Pritchett, said, “Black Child
Development is the best thing
that has ever happened for
black children in Greensboro.”