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By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
When Vivienne Conley, the slender, hazel browneyed
young woman stepped off the train from New
York City 29 years ago, decked out in her lavender
outfit, with shoes and hat to match, little did she
know that her one-year stay would last this long.
Conley - acting chairperson of the physical education
department at Winston-Salem State University,
teacher, advisor to the cheerleading squad for 25
years (until 5 years ago) and director of the university's
dance group -- will retire next spring. At 52, she
says it's time to step down and give others a chance.
"I think maybe it's time for the younger set to
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With at least 13 years of teaching left, she says she
will leave those remaining years behind to devote
jit, rUflfe fime io her mother, who is blind, and to travel
Dr. F.L. Atkins was president of Winston-Salem
Teachers College when the Shaw University graduate
studying for her master's degree at Columbia University
in New York was invited for an interview. She
also needed at least one year of experience to get her
foot in the teaching door. After what Conley
describes as two erf the most tense hours of waiting
she can remember, she and Atkins met.
"He looked at me and said, 'You look mighty
young to be a teacher. How are you going to convince
the students that you are?,'" she recalls. "1
told him my voice would let them know I'm here."
She got the job and says her intentions were to stay
one year, get the needed experience and move on to
Franklin to host Cotil
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the mistress of ceremonies glfe ^
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the M.C. Benton Conven- .
lion Center at. 8 p.m.
Ruth Medlock is chapter V
the cotillion chairperson.
, Franklin a former Kgl^ V1 '
general assignment reporter '
at KMBC TV in Kansas Ci -^^^B
ly, Mo., and received her
bachelor's degree in radio, : : .jiBB? :.m
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Witchita State University.
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give
to the the
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a dance
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president Wachovia
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Winston-Salem. Karen E.
Gilbert has been elected r<
personnel officer and a
Patricia L. Phelps ^
marketing officer.
Everett was with
Wachovia's Audit Group
for three years before
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Group in 1980. She currentv
ly serves as manager of the t
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Paullette F. Everett A natjve of Washington, 1>
Military News
Marine Sgt. M. T. Russell
Navy Seaman Apprentice Air Station in Jacksonville, 1
;Richard C. Miller Jr., son N.C. >
of Richard C. Miller Sr. of >
636 Ontario St., is a Navy Seaman Wayne L. y
crewmember aboard the Scott, son of Isaac and 1
battleship USS Iowa, which Pearlie Scott of 5125 Britt
was recently recommission- Drive, is a member aboard
ed in ceremonies at Ingalls the battleship USS Iowa,
Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, which was recently commis- <
;Miss. sioned in Mississippi. ,
Also aboard the USS !
v Marine Sgt. Michael T. Iowa, is Navy Seaman Ap- [
Russell, son of Ronald prentice Darryl D. i
'and Patricia Russell of 4067 Jackson, son of Charlie i
Sawmill Road, has been and Mary Jackson of 2731 <
.promoted to his present Patterson Ave. i
rank while serving whj, 2nd <
Marine Aircraft VVing, Marine Sgt. Herbert L. 1
Marine Corps Helicopter Burrell, son of Alberta J.
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dents to succeed
other opportunites.
"I've met a lot of people in Winston-Salem who I
consider my friends," says Conley. "1 grew to like
the town and one year kept leading to the next and I
didn't give much time to thinking about leaving
anymore.
"At that time, the university was smaller," she
says. "It was more like a family affair and the atmosphere
was just beautiful."
A favorite among students at WSSU, Conley and
her husband, James, of 19 years never had any
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cnuuren 01 ineir own, so miormal adoptions of her
students, their children and a godchild has served as
family over the-years.
Conley, a native of Fuquay-Varina, a small town
outside of Raleigh, has yet to be rid of the youthful
look that made Atkins a skeptic at first.
Her energy doesn't leave much room for one to
' h tgfiffvTe ^ .sh^vsTpa^3lX-anet't tik.I f physical
education for-so many years has nothing to
do with it, she says.
"Every once in a while I'll use Esoterica," she
says, "Because they say it fades age spots, but I don't
do anything special.
"I never had enough sense to put on make up
right," says Conley, although her tiny mouth is
adorned with an off-red lipstick. "I'd get the
mascara everywhere, all on my glasses."
As a youngster, says Copley, who was an only
child, a Corona typewriter from "Santa Claus"
never once took her attention away from her bicycle,
climbing trees and all the other tomboyish antics she
could muster. So studying to be a physical education
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Devoe
).C., Everett earned a
achelor's degree from /
Vake Forest University. \
Gilbert joined Wachovia ^^7
i 1981 and works in the
ecruiting and placement
the .
jroup. She is a native of %
.afayette, Ind., and earned
i bachelor's degree from
he University of California
it Los Angeles. Dev
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Helicopter Air Station in
rustin, Calif.
Navy Petty Officer 1st jp^ ?
"lass Jerry W. Stephens flf
Jr., son of Louise and Jerry
Stephens Sr. of 2209 E. 1035 NORT
Z2nd St., recently returned ? ^
From a two-month deploy- \
ment in the North Atlantic '
Ocean. He is a crew member ^vSa
aboard the replenishment WBHII
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homeported in Norfolk,
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Vivienne Conley, acting chairperson of the physi
State University, didn't know her one-year visit
(photo by James Parker).
teacher wasn't an idea she had to think long and hard
about, she says; it came naturally.
"I was into something most of the time as a
child," she says. "I've always had a little pep and I
guess that's why I eventually went into physical
education.
"My real purpose for wanting to teach was to
make other young people know that they could
suceed if they tried," says Conley. "It makes me real
proud to know that I have helped someone ac1
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cal education department at Winston-Salem
t to Winston would turn into a 29-year stay
complish their goals."
A former student of Conley's dropped in to see her
one day to thank her for teaching him the basic fundamentals
of dance. That student, a 1969 graduate,
was responsible for introducing rhythm courses into
the Charlotte school system, she says.
"The most rewarding thing about teaching is when
I find a former student of mine who has applied what
I taught them to use in their career goals," she says.
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