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Teacher Speaks 1
By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
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Willie Anderson has been called a lot of names in
his lifetime. He attributes the name calling to his willingness
to challenge anyone who doesn't give him a
^straight answer when it concerns education.
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challenged and especially people in power ? they
don't like it.
"Yes, they've called me a radical," be says, "but
they will tell you I'm a polite one."
A mathemetics teacher at Wiley Junior High
School, Anderson is about to enter his second term as president
of the Forsyth County North Carolina
Teachers Association. He served as president four
years ago. *
Between teaching and working with various commissions
of the North Carolina Association of '
Educators (NCAE), the veteran teacher of 12 years
found time to wofk'in the campaign office of Congressman
Sieve Neal whep he was seeking reflection,
work with Larry Womble during his campaign for
alderman, work extensively with the local NAACP
voter regisration drive and the list goes on. Despite
beiflgr%4 husband and a father of one, Anderson
doesn't believe he's spreading himself too thin.
"I'm just a multi-faceted person," says Anderson,
who boasts that he can operate effectively on only,
four of five hours of sleep a day. "I spend a lot of
? time doing things simultaneously."
No one can argue that the 35-year-old Charleston,
I* .S.C., native isn't multi-facted. Between attending
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Clyde Alexander, 33rd Phalanx Fraternity,
degree and vice president of NAACP and Shiloh Baptist
the Mountain Region, Church, where he serves on
Orient of North Carolina, the trustee board. He is also
recently installed Grand In- a photographer.
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Ward, 33rd degree, as the have tw0 children, Mrs.
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Ward, who is native of Other officers include 1st Winston-Salem
and a Lt. Cmdr. William E.
graduate of North Carolina Stevenson, 2nd Lt. Cmdr.
A&T State Univeristy, has Lloyd Cuthrell, Minister of
been a mason eight years. State and Orator; Rodell
As a mason, he has serv- Lillie, Prior; Luther Littleed
all ranks from the Tyler john, Chancellor; Preston
to the Worshipful Master of McConnell, Keeper of Seal
Salem Lodge No. 139. and Archives; David
Ward is Assistant Rabban Odom, Treasurer; Robert
of Sethos Temple No. 170 A. Scales, Hospitaler;
of the Prince Hall Shriners. Janava Deberry, Master of
An industrial arts-teacher Ceremonies; James L.
at Anderson High School, Lasiter, Standard Bearer;
Ward also holds member- Edward Russell, Engineer
ships in the Alpha Phi and Architect; Muriel
Alpha Fraternity Inc., Pat- Floyd, Captain of Guard;
terson Avenue YMCA's Henry Williams, Sentinel;
Board of Management and Cardel Douith.
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Livingstone College and Appalachian State Universi- :
ty, Anderson managed to distinguish himself as a pall
bearer at the funeral of the late Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., work as a postman and become a statistic
by dropping out of Morehouse College in Atlanta.
His explanation for removing himself from one of
the most distinguished black institutions in the nation
is this:
"There just was a'lot going on in Atlanta in sixtyeight,"
he says. "It was an opportunity to be involved
in the civil rights movement, rather than study
calculus or write papers on literature."
"I love my job because I get a great deal oj
reward from teaching kids that I know will
be able to cope with the year two
^thousand, "
-- Willie Anderson
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In the Winston-Salem community, however,
^Anderson is recognized as a man who speaks up and
out for education, as \vell as getting things done.
Sound like a campaign testimonial?
That's just the way it is and anybody who's ever
heard of Anderson knovys that if there's a school
board meeting he will be there: To add to that,
Anderson makes no secret of his ongoing battle with
school board member Mary Margaret Lohr.
Out his disillusionment with Lohr's stance on the
school reorganization plan,* Anderson addressed a
sassy, rhetorical Merry Christmas letter to Lohr,
reprimanding her for her about-face in supporting
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NCAE issues.
"I have a running disagreement with Mary
Margaret Lohrjs says Anderson, "because when she s
ran for office sh^ said'she would help support our
issues and she hasn't.
"She hasn't spokento me about the letter, but I'll
address her at the school board meeting," he says.
"People will say, 'She's a politician so don't expect
her to support anything else. I say not so."
Unlike many who go into the teaching profession
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and suffer burnout, Anderson shows''fro signs of giving
up. He has his complaints and there have been a
few who've argued his concern is too dramatic.
. "1 love my job because I get a great deal of reward
from teaching kids that I know will be able to cope
rwith the year two thousand," he says.
His complaints of education aren't aimed at just
one source -- they come from all directions. And as
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an observer, a teacher and an activist for education,
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