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By AUDREY WILLIAMS
JChronicle Staff Writer
For a woman 58 years old who reared nine children
and periodically helns nm with J
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children, Willie Mae Grace still has the sense of style
and flair she had when she married James Grace 39
years ago.
^it was a lot of hard work, ancTwith nine children
you don't have much time to sit down," says Grace,
who says her youthfulness hasn't been helped along
by any special regimen or health spas. "1 try to keep
myself up because my husband always told me not to
go anywhere if I didn't look as good as anyone else
there or better."
Her lovely home on Cameron Avenue is set off by ,
her latest collection craze of fans, one of which she^
boasts is 60 years old.
"Before my husband and 1 got married, he >aid he
wanted nine boys," Grace says. "We didn't have all
boys, but we had all nine."
It wasn't until the youngest child went off to college
at the University of North Carolina a< .Chapel
Hill two years ago that Grace took on her very first
job. She now works in the housekeeping department
at Wake Forest University.
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i ucnucu 10 go 10 work when we had three kids in
college at QaeJime," she says. "It was time for me to
get out and help."
When Grace married her husband, James, her ambition
was to become a beautician. But because he
wanted her to stay at home and raise their family, she
never pursued the idea and there are no regrets, she
says.
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Marqui Willoughby, a I
sixth-grader, recently arriv- I A
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style Sky
neucopter trom television ^
station WBTV Charlotte.
the name which
Marqui the station's
name contest. In ad- BM Bjs9 U
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Marqui was awarded a col- I
or TY .and tickets, -to E
Winterfest at Carowinds. I
Marqw is the son of Jesse < I
and Marvelle (Wilson)
Willoughby of Wadesboro. ^
Mr. Willoughby ij a high ?MW
school social science teacher
and owns and operates a
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his pastor, Dr. Anzo Mon- Marqui Willoughby checks
tgomery; his Sunday School hc christened for WBTV C
teacher, Johnny Hampton;
his physican, Dr. Charlie B. Qf WGHP-TV Channel 8 in
Kennedy; his musical con- High Point. He has also in- d
sultant; Rudolph Boone terviewed Mike McKoy of a
and his many teachers. t.
The helicopter ride was WBTV-Channel 3 in .f
not Marqui's first en- Charlotte. He was given a ^
counter with the news complete tour of Channel ^
media. He has also been 3's Jefferson Pilot's Broad- a
special guest of Frank Deal casting Center. o
Boy Scouts celebrate
On Feb. 8, the Boy ped, a plunge into the inner
Scouts of America city, a new tiger cub pro- ta
celebrated its 74th anniver- gram for 7-year-old boys, a s*
sary. Boy Scouts numbers career awareness program m
are growing again after a to expose high school age w
sharp decline during the youth into future career gi
70s. paths, a program aimed at S<
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Especially proud of the and female), and an appeal vi
phenomenal growth of the to ,een"a8e women, who c.
senior coeducational pro- comprise more than 40 per- u
gram for high school and of ?P|orin8 member- tl
college youth. snip. ?
In just one year, the Boy a
The organization is also Scouts of America will be lc
continuing to expand its celebrating its Diamond t<
horizons, reaching out to Jubilee. The purpose of "
persons it didn't specifically scouting is to reach young a
pinpoint before. people and guide them a
They are also expanding toward good citizenship,
their programs to include sound character and strong
groups for the handicap- bodies, p
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; mother of nine
"Even though 1 stayed at home and raised m>
children," she says, "I never really got into a lot ot
social activities.
"Raising a family was what 1 was geared for, and 1
know 1 was needed more at hnm*? rathpr than in
social clubs," she says.
Grace, whose father died when she was 14 and hei
mother three years later, ma^seem a bit behind Lilt
times when it comes to women's liberation, but she
says she's never felt confined being a mother and a
housewife.
"I've always had my freedom to do whatever 1
wanted to do," she says, "but I chose to raise a family."
,^'ve always had my freedom to do
whatever I wanted to do, but I chose to raise
a family."
-- Willie Mae Grace
After all of the Grace children have completed
their education, she says she will probably spend hei
time doing more volunteer work.
Most of her past volunteer work has included the
parent-teachers associations and church work as a
member of Zion Hill Baptist Church, where she
serves as co-chairperson aL the-Trustees' Wives and
as a member of the Women's Missionary.
Looking at the way times have changed, Grace
says she doesn't believe she could have brought up so
many children today.
"No, I don't think I could've raised that many
children today," she says, "especially with the wa>
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ent and a member of the Academically Gifted
cademically gifted -and Science and Math Institute
dented class, and is active at Catawba* College last
i civic affairs. He for- year,
lulated and chaired the
unior Catus (citizens Marqui wants to be a
gainst toxic waste) journalist, meteorologist or
rganization in his county, a newscaster.
74th anniversary
Today the organization is adults were registered in the
iking time to pause and Old Hickory Council durilute
the more than one ing 1983. They are organization
adult volunteers ed into 105 Cub Scout
ho make the whole pro- packs, 134 Boy Scout
ram possible: the Cub troops and 39 explorer
cout leaders, the scout- posts. The year-end
tasters, the exploring ad- membership in the council
isors, the merit badge was the fifth largest ever
"nirKelnrs. the mmmit- anH renrecenft the mnct
iemen and women, and youth served since 1967.
lose who serve in a wealth
f leadership roles on local, As the Boy Scouts of(
rea, regional and national America goes about its
jvels. Tagged for thanks, business, much of it behind
oo, are the many the scenes and out of the
unregistered volunteers" public eye, the group says it
nd not the least of whom hopes others will consider
re spouses. volunteering their services
as leaders or joining the
Over 10,000 young peo- movement as youngsters
le and another 3,500 and young adults.
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Raising nine children, keeping house and beln
restrictive to some people, but Willie Mae Grace
years ago when she was only 18 (photo by Jam<
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the economy is. But in raising children, it's basically
knowing what you have to do." *
What Grace did was make sure her family got all
the love and care thev needed, as well a* helnino th#?m
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build confidence in themselves. One of her sons,^
Michael Grace, is a practicing attorney, while the rest
Cunningham awarded
Tonja Cunningham has School, was nominated for
been named a 1984 United this national award by Mrs.
States National Award win- Barbara Butler, Algebra III
ner in the mathematics and geometry teacher at
category by the United Parkland. Tonja will apStates
' Achievement pear in the United States
Academy. Achievement Academy OfThe
Academy recognizes ficial Yearbook,
less than 10 percent of all
American high school She is the daughter of
students. Doris Cummingham and
Tonja, who attends the goddaughter of Melvir
Parkland Senior High and Carolyn Crump.
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of her children have launched successful careers ol
their own or are raising families.
"I think I've been a good mother," says Grace,
"because I've tried to rear my children to be good
citizens, be independent and confident, and we gave'
them a strong religious background, also."
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