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. cIht Young & Gifted A scholar, ar By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Phillip Smith is basically a loner, but he likes < it that way. The only people who give him a hard time are some of the girls at Atkiri$_High School who j would rather the handsome 16-year-old spend his free time with them. i "I'm not into the mess most of the other guys are into," says the Atkins High School 10th- < grader. "1 mostly stay to myself but when somebody asks me for help, I'll do what I can." Proving he's a man to his word, last year Phillip joined Atkins' track team at the request of the school's coach. Phillip's athletic ability was needed to help secure the team's local standing, and with his help the team went undefeated last year, much to the displeasure of Atkins' hottest rival, Carver High. < "1 was asked to help out," says Phillip, "and 1 1 guess a guilty conscious didn't want to let anyooay down. Plus 1 needed to stay in shape." Also a member of the school's basketball team, Phillip isn't ashamed to admit that he ] "sat on the bench most of the time." i The reason Phillip didn't excel at basketball < the way he would have liked was because his i first commitment was to Upward Bound, a college preparatory and tutorial program for students who show above average potential. Many of his evenings are spent at Winston. Salem State> University, where the program is offered, polishing his academic skills. At the last grading period, Phillip's grade point average was a 3.0, a drop from his usual record of achievements -- but he's still striving. He attributes the decrease to math, a subject he says he would rather not discuss. ~~ *"-? .. . J ifli ?? ;Y'H I ? I 5 ""^ i 11 ^BrrjS&4, - .**^B S|^. $>;. ^ IjHH v^' ^i^fl - - > %$Ciikft C^r' " ^^^^kjm/M Moving On Susan Scott says her once bad memories < getting on with her life (photo by James P i Young en w / """ ~ '^yTTOtyFfEyTTWTt!tTAWS~~?e'" ? Chronicle-Slaft^Writer u Twenty-three-year-old Evelyn Burney barel still long enough to put wrinkles in her business Her business is cookies. Eight months ago, the senior economics ma. North Carolina A&T State University coul longer contain herself. Though in good acac standing, she left school and founded Plott Co< named after the street she lived on while a stud< Greensboro. 'T only have two electives to complete," sa} Winston-Salem native, "and this summer I'm back to school, but I had to stop to get my bu: going. < / ?ii i i i ii t__ _ "I would oe in ciass ana my mina wouia oe c cookies," she says. "I had the momentum righi and I just couldn't wait for graduation. I had on with the idea." While working for an accountant when she v school, the former candy apple and designer saleswoman was prompted by her boss to stai own business. The secret recipe for Plott Cookies has be Burney's family for two generations. Her g mother passed it on to Burney's mother and no all-pure, all-natural ingredients are making p for the granddaughter. Trying to convince the reporter that her cc ^(fMaga i athlete and a ? Mrs. Velma Friende, director of guidance at Atkins High School, recommended Phillip for Upward Bound, and she says it is not an everyday occurrence that she recommends a student to the program. 44Teachers and students resoect Phillin a great deal/' says Friende, "and 1 recommended him for Upward Bound because of his potential to succeed. "He constantly makes the honor roll, he's an outstanding athlete, he portrays lots of talent in dramatics, and 1 just believe he could serve as a role model for many of the other students here," she says. Zion Memorial Baptist Church is .where "I will be the first one in my family to %o to college and I think my parents will be really proud of me. " -- Phillip Smith Phillip's muscial talents began surfacing as a member of the church choir there. An allcounty Chorus finalist, he also sings bass and tenor in the school chorus. Despite a somewhat-whirlwhind schedule,? Phillip manages to keep it all in perspective, and school work comes first. "Upward Bound has given me the feeling of what college will be like," he says. "I will be the first one in mv familv to eo to colleee and I 7 -7 D ? ?' O- ? ' think my parents will really be proud of me." His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Smith, have two other sons and a daughter. But of all the people who encourage Phillip the most, he gives a wide grin and names his grandmother, - ^ ! ' of Winston-Salem are all forgotten, and s 'arker). \trepreneur tun t ' ^ X mm rofits Amid obtaining a college educati to eatabliah her cookie company I >okics the New York Stock Exchange (p zine Sec gentleman Mrs. Geraldine Cunningham, as his greatest inspiration. "She gives me my biggest boost," says Phillip, "and she really expects a lot out of me. She really rides me hard, especially if I tell her I don't feel like going over to Winston-Salem State." This is Phillip's first year in a drama class and already he has appeared in several school , productions. He has also fallen in love with the" idea of becoming an actor. Asked if he will continue his dramatic interest at WSSU, Phillip responds with a defiant "NO." "I want to study in New York somewhere,'* he says, "so I can really get the feel of what acting and role playing is really like. 44A lot of people tell me I'll change my mind," says Phillip, "but they're only giving me the incentive to not change my mind and prove them wrong." After discovering his new interest, Phillip says he put drama in his category with basketball as the only things he really finds entertaining. He says he doesn't think of not succeeding in acting, either. "1 feel like I have a whole lot of determination and enthusiasm about me," says Phillip, "and I feel like I'll make it in acting." Of all the other things Phillip says he could consider choosing as a career, he says journalism would be the his next option, simply because English ranks number one on his list of academic interests. "I guess it's the busy life that I really enjoy," he says. "I can't slow down, because everybody else is moving. "If I slow down, somebody might get in front of me." She likes .. D.i a i mncv i \Aili i iauc Dy nuunti u. vvikLmiviw Chronicle Staff Writer Going off to college gave come because you have a Southern stupid. A native of Chicago, III., S Salem with her parents when a postal inspector, was tran ago she was hired by Sumrc I and now serves as the c supervisor. "Today, I got a tune up," waiting learned the names were and talked wjjh When Scott first mov conversation with strangers v Wr m'nc*- alienated herself f s^e says, and as a result of be ^ kept up her guard. "When I first came here integrate the neighborhood,' that the white kids weren't fr Htotaa well, listen at the way I talk. Scott says because she di< _ _ J 1 I 1 _ C 1 anu iciikcu a ouuincrn a ostracized by many of the b he's now about Junior High and Reynolds graduated. ting family reel s 1 'inatr" . 4M mm .i J/'* >s%\ yv w3ai^Hra*fed#^ - ' - "Br' -::m ^p^ . -^r V on and working two )ob?, 23-year-old Evel In Winston-Salem. She says she won't rest ihoto by James Parker). Sectior llL/11 Thursd CjH|' it ^BGSkha^'.l; ':1*S l*S' ^r K^iA' ?'1 * * JL ^ Rsw-vVtfj X i * ^r 1 i I IBr? M j it w Hft'K , - ^ V ^Py jfl T H'. ^Mfcg&^j&J^H BC^^x^l *-'> Kv >"< &*#?>J^H E. Phillip Smith: Outstanding athlete, dec guy rolled Into one (photo by James P i Winston just > "Until 1 wen was not an is : Winston-SaJerr Susan Scott the opportunity One of the u ! to the conclusion that just were the trips i accent doesn't mean you're says, that she because of the >cott, 25, moved to Winston- grades and bee; she was 14, after her father, "I left Winsl o sferred here. Three months she says, "not lit Cable of Winston-Salem misunderstood. :ompany's telephone sales When it cam says she remel says Scott, "and while I was Winston-Salem of all the other people that University of h i them." graduated with ed here, striking up a After gradua vould have never crossed her to Winston-Sai rom all the South stood for, radio air time 1 ing raised in a large city, she Gaining the Scott, who is with my family, we helped another sales * she says. "I found out fast Richmond, Va, iendly and the black kids ... strung and ener return to Winsi dn't possess a black dialect wanted to cont iccent, she found herself 4,I moved bj lack students at Mt. Tabor "and not too h i High School, where she "That job pe into a corpc ing ' * \ her bu yn Burney Is determined Avenue. Ken : until Plott Cookies Is on distributors, ' i B ay, April 19, 1984 v^B v.-" * Heated student and all-around good arker). fine - now it to Carolina and found that my situation .olated case," says Scott, "I associated i with unpleasantness ? inpleasantries that stands out in her mind to the girls' bathroom. It was there, she was tormented by girls who hated her . way she talked, because she made good ause many of her friends were white. ton-Salem being afraid of black people," of the ones in Chicago, but here I was 9 9 e time for Scott to go on to college, she ?ered wanting to get as far away from as possible, so her choice was the Jorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she a degree in English. ting, she says the thought of coming back lem prompted her to take a job selling ^r- tu* r ? ? ~I u:n vji iiiv uiagt. vuiii^auicd in v. i iapci rim. experience she needed as a sales person, as talkative as she is perceptive, landed position for radio station WRXL in and stayed there for a year. But as high getic as she is, burnout made her decide to ton-Salem and figure out what it was she ribute to the world. ack home with my parents," says Scott, Dng afterwards 1 got a job waiting tables, changed my whole opinion of service Please see page B5 ^ration 1 ;-mass~prod treed; - > ually buy, Bumey rolls off a bit of her now rolled oats help reduce high blood e asks, forgetting for the moment that terview. "Well that's what we use in all of our cookies. We use natural prescralt, no artificial additives and no color>es on. ne of those people with a driving force ?r well beyond human limits. She usualaround 5 a.m., rises an hour-and-a-half to her job as a research surveyor for the on-Salem by 7:30 a.m. To help supplcsiness, she also braids hair and just ler other job as a caterer to spend more Cookies. a lot of sacrifices," says Burney. "I've >eople that 1 thought were my friends, irst started selling my cookies door-toraw basket, everyone thought it was ys. "Everybody was for me -- then." iurney has set her sights higher, she says >ecome intimidated by her efforts. She from Rachel Kennedy, proprietcr of ?rnational Hair Salon on Patterson nedy serves as one of Burney's many *ho range in age from 12 years old to Please see page B5
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