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Kenya Tillery took her first piano lesson at 9, and now a
at 12 years old, the Old Town Elementary sixth-grader is r
showing a suprisingly mature appreciation for music. r
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scale or straining an ear-piercing "Chopsticks." She c
prefers love ballads, and her favorite is Stevie Wonder's t
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"The sound of it ("Latety**) makes you feel good," i
says Kenya. "A lot of the music I hear, if I like it and it t
sounds good, I'll come and play it on the piano."
Despite the show of maturity at an age when many in I
her peer group have a tendency to sway from adolescence r
to childhood, her mother says Kenya's maturity is for \
real.
"Everybody says that about me," says Kenya, who s
also plays the flute, "but I don't have many friends."
The lack of friends, she says, is probably due to the pro- t
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started bothering me, which happens to me a lot," she
says. "Maybe they do it because the teacher picks me "to i
do a lot of things and I'm not into everything."
Kenya, whose father named her after the African conn- r
try, has all the qualities of an up-and-coming debutante. t
She sits with her hands folded in her lap and is a pro at \
congeniality and making small talk. These qualities, no
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Kenya serves on the Student Committee, where she acts
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nonitoring the hall ways and assisting the custodians in
)icking up littcP.
But life in the classroom for the B student wasn't
always easy and Kenya analyzes just what went wrong in
jarlier grades.
'VI used to do a lot of unnecessary talking in class," she
?ays, "then I just matured and I started daing a lot beter."
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Kenya, whose dainty bedroom, complete with a
Vlichael Jackson poster she personalized by adding a
riustache, is typical of her age group, and she says she
vould like to become an engineer one day.
"I really enjoy math," says Kenya. "I just don't like
cience, but 1 make good grades in it."
She is a determined young girl and says she won't let
tnything stand in her way of accomplishing her goals, in:luding
those who badger her because of her integrated
:ircle of friends and her maturity.
"It doesn't bother me' when people are being
gnorant," she says. "I just do what I have to do."
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By AUDREY WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
- in the Winston-isaiem/horsyth County Schools, there
are over 39,000 students, and only 23 public health nurses
to help parents look after them.
"That's a lot of students to look after," says Barbara
Carter, a public health nursing supervisor. "But they're
doing a great job and it's satisfying work to help a child
get glasses who couldn't see well enough to do his work,
or to know children aren't having measles because they're
getting immunizations."
But the role of the public health nurse ? or "the school
nurse" as the students call them -- has changed over the
years. They no longer wear the antiseptic white once
worn as theiiMraditonal uniform, nor are they standing
alongside the man in the white coat waiting to give an immunization
shot with the "big gun."
"We don't give immunizations in the schools
anymore," says Carter. "We give referrals and followups
to see that the child has had all of his shots.
"Nurses now not only screen for communicable
diseases," she says, "but they now go into the classroom
at the request of teachers and teach health and personal
hygiene."
Through rain, sleet, snow or hail, public health nurses
not only make twice weekly visits to the city and county
schools, but they make visits to the home&^of a child's
parent, the elderly and others who can't afford the high
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By AUDREY WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Phillip Banks III has found a new home. To him,
Winston-Salem is a hub for the arts, progressive neonle
and social interaction.
And when he and his family settle down, the WinstonSalem
community will soon become more familiar with
both the man and his profession.
Banks, a native of Hampton, Va., is a 30-year-old
litigations attorney with Petrce, Stockton, Robinson, 1
Vaughn, Glaze and Maready on West Fourth Street, one
of the most prestigious and oldest firms in WinstonSalem.
He made the move to Winston at the beginning of
October. <
An ultraconscrvative. Banks' boyish look is not deceiving.
His wired, framed glasses add to his dinstinction and
give him an intellectual appeal. His close hair cut also fits
the professional image he desires, but is also a carry-over /
of being a captain in the U.S. Marine Reserve.
His first big case happened in his home base of Camp
Lejeunc, w here he served as one of several prosecuters in
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mc inai ot .viannc rvt. Konert uarwood, who was charged
with desertion and aiding the enemy while a prisoner
during the Vietnam War."
"That was a very stressful time in my life," Banks
says. "I had only been out of law school for six months.
"But through that and surviving it, I realized that it is
very important that you stand by your principles," he
says. "I could see that benefit looking at Lt. (Robert)
Goodman."
A graduate of predominantly black institutions,
Hampton Institute and Howard University Law School,
Banks happens to be the only black attorney in the law
firm he works for.
"A lot of the positive feelings I've had about Winston- ?
Salqqn are related to the brotherhood I've experienced in
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cost of proper medical care.
Last week, the school nurses were honored throughout
the city and county, with a School Nurse Day observance.
Doris Orr, a public health and school nurse serving
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many recognized for unlimited devotion in the area of
public health.
"No, we don't wear the white anymore," says a smiling
Orr. "Now we wear colors, navy blue'arRHight blue.
It calms the children down because before, they^ated
the white with doctors and shots.
"Becoming a public health nurse was a dream come
true for me," says Orr, who was a licensed practical
nurse for 10 years. "This type of nursing is different
from working at a hospital. It's eight to five, no
weekends^ and holidays off.'o
In her line of work, Orr, who visits both schools twice
a week for two and a half hours a day, comes in contact
with children of varying personalities and problems. Her
job, she says, may not always be to help with a medical
problem, but just to show a child some attention.
"I'm not just doing this because it's a job," she says^?
"I'm into public health nursing because 1 care and I let
the children know that."
A mother herself, Orr says she believes children
sometimes find it hard to tell a parent something is
wrong. That's when the teacher and school nurse play an
important part in a child's life, she savs. esDeciallv since
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this law firm," he says. "My color is not the issue here."
Banks has trod a lot of ground in his brief time. While
studying mass media at Hampton, he worked as the station
manager for the school's radio station and as editor
of the newspaper. He then entered the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he did graduate
work for a year.
Then came law school and Banks tcfcpk advantage of
many opportuntics. He served as the attorney general of
Howard's law school, where he met Reagan Henry at the
Congressional Caucus in Washington.
Henry, owner and publisher of the National Leader, a
major black publication based in Philadelphia, sparked
Banks' interest in communications law and offered him a
career with his broadcasting company. But the young at14It's
hard leaving the South; that's why I'm
here in Winston-Salem. "
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torney says the South was where he wanted to be.
"I was very close to going to work for Mr. Henry," he
says. "But I went to Philadelphia in January, when the
hawk was out there."
Although the north wind was not a major factor in his
decision, Banks, who is married to a music teacher and is
the father of one daughier, says his ties and values remained
in the South.
"It's hard leaving the South; that's why I'm here in
Winston-Salem," he says. "And this law firm is like a"
family, I didn't feel that kind of brotherhood in
Philadelphia, although they say it's the City of Brotherly
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H is final decision on which city in North Carolina to
settle in came when he was offered a job with the law firm
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