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Wanda Montgomery '
strayed from the norm ?
the norm in her hometown
of Shelby that is.
44I was all set to go to
med school until Bemice
Reagon (lead singer for the
folk group Sweet Honey in
jhe Rock and program '
director of black American
culture at the Smithsonian |
Institute) asked me to come
to Washington and work ,
with her at the Smithso- i
nian," says Montgomery.
What impressed Reagon
so was Montgomery's
choice of entertainment at
the Black Arts Festival at
the University at North
Carolina at Chapel Hill,
. where Montgomery served i
as the student cultural coordinator
of the Black Student
Movement. Not only
was Reagon surprised to
find that a mere college student
had arranged the
whole agenda, but she was
also amazed to find that
what she thought was only
an invitation for her and
Sweet Honey in the Rock
was a festive nine-day line
up of various black entertainers
in the performing ;
arts.
After the invitation from
Reagon, Montgomery, who
majored in biology, says
she decided to give herself a
. year off from the academic
rigors before entering
medical school. She never
, made ft. f
Today, at 25, Montgomery,
who also studied
black American literature at
Gardner-Webb College, has
found herself as an educa
tion program assistant at
the Southeastern Center for
Contemporary ,-Art
CA) at the Jafne$ H^n^s,
mansion on Marguerite*
Drive, where she's been"
since October.
As education program
assistant, she is responsible
for implementing educational
programming, tours
of the center, training
volunteers for tours and
maintaining the slide and
resource library.
But back in Shelby,
where Montgomery has
probably raised a few
eyebrows, she says for;
blacks of above-average intelligence,
the norm was to
become a doctor or lawver.
and not "a career in the
"arts."
"I've always been fairly
independent in my thinking,"
she says, "and I felt
that the decisions I made
were left to me.
"I wouldn't go io med
school if I had to do it
again," she says. "I never
intended not to be in the
arts, although I never
thought I'd have a career in
por ter
Montgomery says after
deciding she would rather
be home in North Carolina
rather than live in
Washington, she landed an
internship at the WinstonSalem
Arts Council last
summer.
"The arts in Washington
may be different from any
place else, just because of
the Smithsonian; but in
North Carolina, Winston is
the place to be if you're in
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Because of her work
alongside Reagon at the
Smithsonian, Montgomery
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other interns to work at the those with a family in mind,
Winston-Salem Arts Coun- 'but Montgomery says she's
cil, which, in turn, helped doing all right by herself as
her gain the position she a single woman,
now has with SECCA.
"When I interned with "The arts m
the Fourth Street- Arts any place else, just beet
Council," She says, "1 got a . but in North Carolina,
very good perspective of the . be jf you're jn ,he arts_
arts and 1 realized that
Winston is where 1 wanted
to stay." ??
Being young and having a "I'm about as far from
career that makes you feel marriage now as when I was
good about yourself may five-years-old," she says
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Last year's Man of the Year, Alderman Larry
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