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Her wheelchair
*" By AUDREY WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Ever wonder why some people are always happy
when you know everything in their lives isn't as ros>
_ ; as it seems?
An ever-smiling Maxine Settle has the answer,
44l never get depressed," she says. 441 don't allow
myself to become depressed. 1 don't deal in the
negative and I don't deal with negative people,
especially the ones who call you up on the phone and
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icu >uu aoout an tneir aches and pains."
In 1966, the Reidsville native, who was a practicing
medical technician, had an automobile accident on a
Winston-Salem expressway. Which one, she doesn't
remember, but she does remember waking up in a
hospital with two broken legs, only later to be told by
doctors that she had lost full use of both. The news
also meant two months of rehabilitation and therapy,
and confinement to a wheelchair for the rest of her
life.
"Hey, it could have been worse," she says. "It
never really phased me when they told me I wouldn't
walk again because I had two broken legs already.
"1 just told the doctors to fix them and everything
would be all right," says Settle.
Everything has turned out all right for the exceptionally
high-spirited Settle, who prefers not to reveal
her age, for fear it might lower her prospeet^ef^nah?
bing a husband this year.
"This is leap year, you know," she says, letting
out a girlish giggle.
But while she was undergoing rehabilitation, she
learned a valuable lesson that now requires three
Community Calt
Branch NAACP will meet at Mount Pleasant Baptist
Church at 795 Northwest Crawford Place at 4 p.m.
Immediately following the executive session, there
will be a general public meeting at 5 p.m.
The Sawtooth Center for Visual Design and the
Forsyth County Public County Public Library will
again sponsor its Spring Program of cultural arts instruction
at the Art-Is House at 740 N. Cleveland
Avenue. The eight-week session is geared toward
students ages 6-15 years old. For more information
call 722-0966.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
A -Self-Defense Workshop for families ages 6 and
older begins- at the Glade Street YWCA from 7-9
p.m. For more information call 722-5138.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22
Registration for students of intermediate and advanced
dance for the Technique Class For Dancers
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Avenue from 6:30-8 p.m.
Flora Buff Flower-G
The Flora Buff Flower- The club then agreed to
Garden Club met at the support the queen of the
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Fourth" District Garden
Washington with the presi- Club,
dent, Mrs. Doris Hartsfield,
presiding. On April 11, 1984, the
The feature of the Flora Buff Garden Club
meeting was table sittings will conduct the devotions
arranged by Mrs. Gloria for opening of the Fourth
Cain and Mrs. Ester District Garden Club. Mrs.
Rockett. Mrs. Rockett Doris Hartsfield is the
presented summaries, chairman and Mrs.
which emphasized Geraldine Smith is the co
decorating tne taoie, mak- chairman ot the Fourth
ing napkin holders, learning
the glass selection guide,
selecting and caring for X T 1 X
- - table ?Jinens __and_|JrbEirlj0^
distinguishing between the
setting for a formal dinner The Winston-Salem Urand
for a luncheon. ban League, in conjunction
The collect of the day was with Grand Met, formerly
presented by the correspon- the Liggett Group, and the
ding secretary, Mrs. Peggy National Urban League are
Martin. The Flora Buff sponsoring their 1984 Essay
Club presented a flower to Contest,
the East Winston Library Thomas Elijah, president
for Christmas decoration, of the local affiliate, said
The Fourth District Garden that the purpose of the anClub
plans to provide a bus nual event is to "foster natrip
on Aug. 5-7 to Wilm- tional awareness of the
ington for the North benefits and opprotunities
Carolina Federation of
Garden Clubs Convention.
Military W
Mayor Wayne A. CorLaunrence
Eric Miller, pening joined with Mayor
son of Paul and Esther K. John Forbis of Greensboro
Miller of Northview Street, and High point Mayor Bob
has been assigned to B Bat- Wells to hear the results of
tery, 3 Training Battalion United Way city camof
the U.S. Army Field Ar- paigns. Ellen Padgett Lee,
tillary located at Fort Sill, member of North Carolina
Okla. He graduated from United Way's executive
Forsyth Technical Institute board, gave an overview of
in 1983. the contributions state
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is just an object
hours of her full and undivided attention each week.
"1 never thought I'd be a volunteer until I stayed in
a hospital," says Settle, who vsas surprised to learn
about the volunteers who spend endless hours in
hospitals helping patients write letters, comb their
hair or just lend a listening ear. "Now I know when
you give something, you get something back and
that's a fact."
_What Settle says she gets back is the reward of
volunteering her Time TO teach senior citizens
ceramics, cross-stitching and, right now , doll .making,
During the summer months, she spends her time
volunteering as a vacation Bible school teacher.
"My favorite people are the elderly and the very
"Now I know when you give something,
you get something back and that's a fact. "
-- Maxine Settle
young," she says. "You can always learn a lot from
them."
Other than a friend who stops by occasionally to
- check on her, Settle pretty much goes about handling
daily chores without anv heln.
Of Settle's many hobbies, sewing and cooking
seem to be two of her favorites. On a warm after?noon,
most of her attention is centered on the small,
cast-iron grill that sits outside her apartment door.
She likes to cook hamburgers on the grill and invites
all her guests to join her.
Inside her small apartment are the many reminders
of Settle's handiwork. Draping her bed is a colorful
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The YWCA Mother's Network will feature a pro- ,
grgm titled "When Shy h -Too Shy'.' at the Glade
Street YWCA at 10 a.m. Joyce Schadel of Forsyth/Stokes
Mental Health will be the guest speaker.
Call 722-5138 for more information.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUCEMENTS
Plans are now being made for the WinstonSalem/Forsyth
County Special Olympics ~ Spring
Games to be held during the week of April 16. Mentally
handicapped children and adults are eligible. If
you are interested in entering a participant or
volunteering to help wiTfi the games, call 727-2063.
Tickets arc now available for the North Carolina
Black Repretory Company's second production of
the season, Phillip Hayes Dean's, "The Sty Of The
Blind Pig," Feb. 24-26 at 8:15 p.m. at the Arts Council
Theatre of the Hanes Community Center. Tickets
are available at the Stevens Center Box Office. Advance
tickets are S8 and $10 at the door. For reserve
tickets and for information on group rates, call the
NCBRC office at 723-7907.
rarden Club meets
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District Flower-Garden sion Awards program
Club for 1984. which will be held on March
1, was also read. Mrs. Doris
An invitation from Hartsfield was selected b>
Prince Feathers Ciarrlen
, . the club to submit her nam(
Club to take a tour to . , ,
t ^ ? ... for the awards competitior
Charleston, S.C., on April f , . e\.
.... , . for her volunteer efforts;
14-15, was read to the ^ ,
, Commendations wert
group. The members en- , . w . .
, . , , received for Mrs. Li
couraged the club and ..... . ? ?
, , , Whitehurst, an Atlanta'
pledged support. , , . . ,
based interior and commer
An appreciation invita- cial decorator. Commenda
tion for participation in the tions for her contribution;
Human Relations Commis- came from Mrs. Ann Dew,
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ague sponsors contest
derived from education and must be submitted to tfu
the free enterprise system." Urban , league" and
The topic of the essay is "A postmarked by midnight,
Minority Perspective on March 31.
Education as a Challenge in The contest is open to all
a Free Comnetitive minoritv student*; in Fnr.
Society/' syth County who are proFifteen
academic scholar- spective college freshman or
ships in the amount of presently attending an ac$1,000
each will be awarded credited college. Interested
to winners, payable to an students should contact the
accredited institution of Winston-Salem Urban
higher learning. All entries League for further details.
ay results reported
residents made to the record statewide rose by 16 perceni
1 983 campaign. The last year. Lee announcec
meeting took place at the that the North Caroline
airport Marriot Hotel at total campaign results wen
11:30 a.m. Wednesday. over $4.7 million.
Dr. Austin Commers, On hand to give loca
director of special projects reports to the mayors wer<
for ths governor's office, 1983 campaign chairmai
read a special gubernatorial Nick Daves and chairmai
proclamation which said, in of the board of directors
part, that 1983 giving Barbara Galloway.
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homemade canopy she says she made because she
couldn't afford the "real thing."
Amid numerous pots of exotic plants, -her;
bathroom takes on the sc.eruL_of a tropical iunule.
One of her "huggable huggies," which is patterned
after the famed Cabbage Patch Doll, sits on displa\
on a table among the others yet to be finished.
Her independence and exhuberant cravings for
creativity, Settle savs, can partly be attributed to
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those who have supported her since the beginning.
"There's a lot of people who have been very supportive
of me and 1 think that has helped me a lot,"
savs Settle, brushing back the hosted hair do she
fixes herself. "Mv family, my friends and mv doctors
were all supportive of me.
"A lot of people aren't that fortunate," she says.
"They have families who don't expect anything of
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