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U Two-year-olds at Bethlehem Center are convinced that I
mere is no reason more special than Christmas time.
Twas a festive occasion last Monday when the "Santas**
of the local Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority dropped in with
a full bag of surprises. Andreus Wallace, top left, was
especially fond of the sugar cookies and the punch they
brought. Andreus* classmate, Teisha Eaton, top right.
The Newcomers
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Compromising the distance between two be with my I
families, Larry Hopkins put his home in Hopkins s
Bossier City, La., up for sale and moved his Force, he wa
family to Winston-Salem over a month ago. that was one
Hopkins, who was an honor roll chemistry he had not
major at Wake Forest University, All-ACC father. But b
football player and winner of the Brian Pic- tors in Bossi<
colo Award, is now a practicing gynecologist "I wantec
and obstetrician with Dr. Thomas L. Clarke Base,** he sa
in the Twin City Medical Building on the I was sent
corner of Fifth Street and Cleveland 250,000 to
Avenue. metropolitar
Hopkins says he made the decision to black doctor
move to Winston-Salem when he decided Hopkins 5
Charleston, S.C., wasn't where he wanted to sidered mak
move his practice and that Richmond, Va., came to the 1
has enough black doctors. too great
"After 20 years in the Air Force, my Carolina,
father retired to Charleston," says Hopkins. Even thou
"My wife, Beth, is from Richmond and had Winston, th
started her career there, so it would have marl#* that H
been ideal for her had we decided to stay Wake Fore:
there." Virginia St?
After a two-year stint in the Air Force master's deg
himself, Hopkins says since both he and his "I was re
wife, who is a former U.S. attorney, had know every
been students at Wake Forest and had hard, but \
friends here, the decision was made to move classes of ch
to Winston. two labs, th;
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preferred the candy canes. Disregarding the teacher's
command to wait, Teisha got her first taste right through
the plastic wrapping. At bottom left, the children sang
everything from "Silent Night" to "Jingle Bells," the
consensus favorite. Song time was much too long for Tiffany
Kirkland, bottom right. Her thoughts, no doubt,
drifted to images of candy canes dancing in her head "I
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the Chester, S.C., native. "You
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their home in Bossier, but ^
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body thinks undergraduate is
vhen you take four and five
lemistry, combined with one or
it's hard."
ays he was always interested in After looking for a home between Richmond, Va
Please see page B6 family settled in Winston-Salem (photo by Jamc
Thursday, December 15, 1983
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