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November 30, 1974
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_ _ As the 1974-75 basketball
season readies - to tip off,
Coach Warren Reynolds of
North Carolina A&T is faced
with a very enviable situation...he
has a lot of good
players.
Talent on the 1974 edition of
season at the Aggie helm,
doesft't hold back the
superlatives when discussing
his team.
"This is the most talented
group of athletes I've had
since taking over the head
job," said Reynolds, who lead
the Aggies to the coveted
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
champiohship during
?his first year as head coach.?
"We have size, speed,
depth, and experience. We
are still in the early stages of
our workouts but even our
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The Aggies lost James
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leading scorer, a year ago due
to graduation. Expected to
take up the scoring slack is 6-5
AU-Everything guard Allen
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basketball player. Spruill is
the most exciting player to
come to 'this area since Earl
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joining spruill in the
backcourt will be 6-2 Stan
Parham. Parham saw starting
action, last year and was
seleced as this yearrs
co-captain along with 6-8
forward Ron Johnson.
?"Parham is oar controller,"
Reynolds continued. "He's a
very deceptive performer."
"He doesn't do anything
fancy but at the end of the
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game when you check the
stats, he's right among the
leaders in assists, steals, and
clutch plays."
Backing the Spruill-Parham
combination are probably two
of the . finest b$ckcourt
freshman players in the
Tames Sparrow, a 6-6 gaatti
from Brooklyn, New York,
attended Laurinburg Institute,
a school that turns out
outstanding basketball players'
like Rolls Royce turns out cars..
Sparrow erased all of
Charlie Scott's now of the
Phoenix Suns of the NBA,
scoring records at the school.
He averaged 25 points, six
assists and seven rebounds a
odmo
"As a rule, 1 don't like to
depend on freshmenfo win
with," Reynolds said. "Our
system is just so complex that
a freshman just can't come
.right in and pick it up.
. "Sparrow has come on so
fast that he's really giving our
veterans something to think
about. He has an excellent
knowledge of the game and is
picking up our system on
offense as well as defense."
The other backup guard is
6-3 Charles Chamherlain (nn
relation to Wilt), a native of
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Chamberlain is an adepth
ball handler who Coach
Reynolds feels handles the
ball under pressure very well
for a youngster.
But the big reasons why
Reynolds feels the Aggies will
be the team to beat in any
arena they entered are 6-10, .
6-8 and 6-8.
These are the sizes of his
probable starting frontcourt of
Sinclair Corbett, Lon Smith
and Ron Johnson.
Corbett is perhaps the most
improved player of. the
returning veterans. He moves
very well and has developed a
more than adequate hook
shot. He has improved his
timing and, according to
Reynolds, could be a devastating
shot blocker.
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weights 235 pounds, and is an
Adonis type physical specimen.
Besides his powerful
build, he is the ' most
physically talented ' of . the
Aggie frontcourtmen.
Lon's potential is unlimited,
Reynolds said of his player
who is the younger brother of
L.A. Laker center Elmore
Smith.
"Lon sat out last season and
is really just feeling his way
back into the techniques of
organized basketball.
Ron Johnson, an All-MEAC
choice last season, is so agile
that he plays the point position
on some of the Aggies'
defensive alignments. And a
6-8 point man is going to give
fits to gtiards trying to lob
cross court passes.
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Doiiie Gladden stands anxiously next to her restaurant on ??
Patterson Ave. She knows weB that a businessman can't stand
still for long.
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Hard Working Lady ????
? Destined To Make If
On a hot day last summer Dollie Gladden and a friend were
riding down Patterson Avenue. As they crossed the intersection.
of Patterson and Northwest Blvd., the friend turned to Dollie
and asked, "why don't we start a business here?" And they
did.
. Dollie was on vacation from the Model City Day Care Center
when the thouoht of onenino a hncinpu hit- h??r "Tum
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months after we opened the restaurant (Dollie's Kitchen at 1247
Patterson)," she recalled, "I quit my job."
Dollie is a soft-spoken, easy-going lady who works as hard as
any businessman...probably even harder. "You've got to roll
your sleeves up," she said in a recent interview. "There are not
too many women in Winston-Salem who would do what I do.
You_have to work hard; sometimes 14-16 hours per day.
She has never been in business before. So, not only is she
faced with the burden of learning managerial duties quickly, but
being black and a woman is doubly handicapping. "It's hard,"
she expressed. "You must think a lot...you must figure out a
way of doing things that will be profitable."
Dollie, like most small businesspersons, was rejected by the
black community at first. "Many so-called champions of the
black community would not even come into my place at first,"
she said, obviously dismayed over the lack of support from black
leaders. "Some blacks even tried to discourage me. But now
they see I'm here to stay and they patronize me."
Dollie, whose calmness has a tendency to permeate the
conversation, tries to keep prices within the limits of a working
man's budget. For instance, a piece of chicken, two vegetables,
rice, tea and bread only cost $1.68. "Some of my customers eat
during, the week," she said, "and pay on Friday. They come in
on Monday and want something to eat but don't have the
money. They want a meal,ticket and I give it to them. There
aren't many places that will do that."
Although Dollie is tough when it comes to doing business, she
is all woman. Her feminine gestures assures one that the meal
will surely be just as good as mom's back home.
Already, after only a year, she is making .plans for expansion.
She plans to stay open longer and make some improvements on
the quality of the chairs. The only thing that one could say is
wrong with them is that they are not all the same or matching
colors. That does not, however, take away froqi the
comfortability nor the goou ? oking.
What is one ingredient necessary to make good with a
skeptical public? "Personality. Had it not been for a lot of
smiling, I wouldn't have made it this far," Dollie said with a
certain feeling of relief. "You have to like people and greet
them with a smile. You don't come out all mad and what not "
Money is not the only motive for making it in business either.
"I can look back and say we accomplished something. We
started with nothing and I built the business up myself. That's
the biggest joy. I don't have any money, but I'm working for
myself."
It seems to be the thinking of many people that blacks do not
support each other, but Dollie is proving that with hard work,
patience and good food, a disbelieving public can be made to
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