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If you want an education,
Greece may be where you find
it! At minimum cost for a
maximum education, with eight
hours credit as a bonus. A
learning adventure into ancient
and modern Athens in an
atmosphere that relects the
art, drama, architecture and
cultures of twenty-five
centuries. Classes in Greek
drama and literature four
mornings each week.
Sandra Hughes Speaks
BYS.P. SIDEL
Having two of your own TV
shows and local fame is a far
cry from growing up with
tobacco juice on your hands.
Sandra Hughes, co-anchor
person of Good Morning
Times Two and host of Sandra
and Friends, spent her early
childhood picking tobacco
with her parents on a Durham
County tobacco farm.
As guest speaker for the
Guilford Colloquium's "Woman
in the Media" program Feb.
9, she discussed three
Sandras the image maker
at WFMY-TV (Channel 2 in
Greensboro), the woman
behind the mask, and the
woman of the past.
In a sense, Ms. Hughes'
career began when her father
decided to leave the farm and
enter college at ABT State
University. The family
moved from Durham County
to a public housing project
in Greensboro.
Her mother worked odd
jobs in order to send Ms.
Hughes to Notre Dame, a
private Catholic high school
which once operated in
Greensboro.
After graduating she
attended her father's alma
mater, A&T. Her major was
English and she minored in
both drama and speech.
Ms. Hughes was a 19-year
old freshman when she
married Larry Hughes.
Because her husband had
been drafted, Ms. Hughes
lived with her parents most of
her college years.
After graduating with
a degree to teach English,
she couldn't find a teaching
job in this area. She began
work at Western Electric as
the Technical Publishing Editor
of Missile Training Manuals
an elaborate title for correcting
grammar.
She left Western Electric
when her daughter Tiffany,
Guilford Goes to Greece
Afternoon, evenings and
long week-ends when your
learning laboratory will
embrace all of ancient and
modern Athens ten
museums, the Acropolis, the
Greek and Roman Agora,
Aegean swimming beaches,
the Plaka, and visits to
historic Corinth, Delphi,
Marathon, Olympus, Sparta,
Mycenae, Epidaurus, Sounion,
the islands of Crete, Mikonos,
Delos, Milos and many other
now 6, was born. Hughes
decided to go back to work
as Tiffany grew older.
On her way to a down
town employment agency,
she stopped "on a whim" at
WFMY-TV. She asked for a
job as a writer and was talked
into taking one as a junior
news reporter.
"I knew very little about
reporting," she explained. "I
wanted to be a writer and
write long, flowery sen
tenses."
After reporting for two
years, an opening came up at
Channel 2 for a talk show
host, and Sandra Hughes
auditioned along with several
other women for the position.
"In 1974, I wrote a proposal
about what I thought this
show should be about," she
related. "There were changes
happening for women and I
wanted to show that this was
going on."
The result was Sandra and
Friends and a lot of extreme
problems to contend with.
She lost 20 pounds when she
began to work on her new
show due to "conflicts and
pressures."
"I had the baby, and a
husband who couldn't see a
woman running around doing
all this," she said. "He was
becoming 'Mr. Sandra
Hughes.'"
The public presented other
problems. "At first the white
community felt very threatened
by me, and because I didn't
have all blacks on my show,
the black community
wondered if I had 'gone over
the line,' " she said. "But I
didn't want to leave anybody
out."
Things have ironed out for
Sandra Hughes these days.
"I don't get much criticism
but I've had to develop 'thick
skins,' " she admitted. "I have
The Guilfordian
gems of Greek history, art and
culture.
You will meet students from
many nations on the streets
of Athens and learn how they
live and think. Every hour of
each day will be an adventure
in learning whether in the
museums, on the beaches or
in a Plaka night spot.
There are six other Guilford
Summer Schools Abroad each
providing its own unique
learning adventure. They are
very little private life. I've de
veloped a mask, and the
people who are close to me
have to live behind that mask,
too."
She and Larry now share
the child care responsibilities.
He becomes "the everything
for Tiffany" when Sandra has
to go to New York for taping
future shows.
Sandra Hughes is the every
thing of "Sandra and Friends."
She is "the producer, secre
tary, and researcher and I
handle all my own correspon
dences."
The result is an informative
program which gives the
public more than a tuna
casserole-recipe-for-the-day
type show.
Due to the 1 p.m. time slot
of "Sandra and Friends," Ms.
Hughes says, "I can't raise
some issues that are very
adult, like homosexuality. I
don't handle much contraver
sy."
She tries to keep the 1 p.m.
show light and even, to take
a middle-of-the-road approach.
On "Good Morning Times
Two" she and Lee Kinard are
encouraged to express their
opinions.
" 'Sandra and Friends'
means a great deal to me
because I have a feeling that
I can do a great service to
this community, telling people
what they need to know," she
declared.
It is her great hope that her
success will motivate younger
blacks. "Jobs will be available
for the children in my neigh
borhood, and because of that,
I'm in it for them."
Quietly, she added, "It's im
portant to help them get a
handle or even get a
dream."
in East and West Germany,
Colombia (S.A.), Russia,
France, England and a Study
in Education program that
visits Reading Centers in
France, Germany, Denmark
and England.
Guilford students who
are interested should contact
the Center for Off Campus
Education or one of the
faculty leaders of Summer
Schools Abroad: Ted Benfey,
Claude Chauvigne, Pat
Daniels, Cyrus Johnson and
Alexander Stoeson.
College credit is your
requirement, but a life of
learning should be your goal I
Take your educational
adventure to the great
centers of world culture
and the reward will live with
you to the end of your life.
Hour of the Wolf
Ingmar Bergman's The Hour of
the Wotf
A haunting excursion into
another facet of the Bergman
reality. Stemberger Auditorium
Tuesday March 1, 8:15 p.m.
Guilford students 25C
Adults 750
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