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^Ti Patterson Avenue otters enrichment f By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS ju Chronicle Staff Writer - te The Patterson Avenue YMCA has a history of offering ^ enlightening enrichment programs to the black communi OS ty. Its annual summer camp, which began June 4, offers vaiiuitlTpwyiffifmj'fui ihikhtn ages 8^14. RichWfxT^ lover, the Patterson Y's executive director, says he believes the programs have proven a vital part of the community. "The summer camps give the kids a chance to interact ? and have something constructive to do during the sum- ' 'mer," he says. "The community has been receptive and // the enrollment is up." The day camp costs $25 for children 8-14 whose parents are members of the Y and $35 to non-members. _ Kinder camp is designed for youth ages 4-7 and the cost c< to attend is the same as the day camp. For those children si -whose parents cannot afford to pay for the camps, United Way sponsors scholarships, says Glover. b The computer camp, however, is a new addition to the y( summer program. 4 4 "We started the computer program back in November of last year," says Glover, "and this summer computer camp is just a natural offshoot, plus the interest is still v high." d The students of the computer camp have only two weeks to learn all that is'offered in the upstairs room, where the Commodore 64, the IBM Personal Computer and the TRS 80 are housed. n c David Wyse, a senior computer science student at c Winston-Salem State, was the teacher. He says it's not y iflH A. K Sit B^ ^b^. ^1 I f|||*^ .?^tn ^igTiMSMMtiiifc^^ia ~: - ^1 *B ^ripMii^^l ^B^BPIB xss^x., *& .' B I Since coming South, Dr. Deborea Boyd Winfrey ha justments in addition to picking up the lingo (photo 1 ?Ready for challeng - i?H tt-rn?! ?rrrnnin- ' Tm i n iiibimiki ii Chronicle Staff Writer Come next year this ^time, 17-year-old Titia Long expects to be readying herself for her first year at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the nation's capital of fashion. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Long of Bolick Avenue, Titia works part time in the crafts department at Belks Department Store in Hanes Mall. Her ambition is to become a fashion coordinator or a buyer some day. "I like fashion not just for the glamour of it," says Titia. "I like the classroom part of it, too." Titia has experimented and dabbled in clothes designing hut refuses to wear her own creations. She also sket I ches her own designs and says shoes are her favorite R designs. To get a taste of what it was really like, Titia says I she took a modeling class at Rutledge College last year. At Parkland Senior High School, where Titia will be a member of the senior class next year, she was an active member of the Student Government Association and served as president of the alternate junior board. Titia was a Dancing Boot for the Boys Club when she was just a sixth-grader. She is also a former member of the YWCA Marching 100 and sings in the Young Adult Choir at Emmanuel Baptist Church. Last year, Titia's uncle, who lives in New York and was aware of her desire to study fashion, arranged for a meeting with one of FIT's professors. The meeting gave Titia the opportunity to tour the famed school and discuss the possibility of her studying there. 4 ie ?Maga. Y summer camp or city's youth ,st the pay he looks forward to, but the challenge ot aching. - j "I enjoy working with the kids," he says. "They're rtting hands-on experience, which is better than books i far as I'm concerned." In the computer camp, seven of the eight students trolled are male. Students in the camp ar?. required to be least 9 years okfc nail tihnnlfl ftnnwn a.sUnuQ interest in >mputer technology, says Wyse. Fourtwn-^ear-old Gerald Wright, face glued to the 'The summer camps give the kids a chance to nteract and have something constructive to do }uring the summer ..." - Richard Glover amputer screen, stops foc^i second to explain his mison at the terminal. 44I'm trying to find my base and when you get to your ase you have more energy," says Gerald, "and when ou leave your base, you have more Klingons." He and 12-year-old Torre Johnson were playing a simple game." To develop discipline, Wyse has his young students /rite out simple computer oroerams as their homework. "They don't like it," he says, "but they do learn. They lo know how to load disks, save their programs and I feel hey're ready to go on to the next level of computers." Also, to acquaint the young computer inthusiasts even nore with the ever-growing technology, Wyse took them >n an industry tour to Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.'s omputer operation. "I think they were impressed," he says. "I don't know f !/ jy Winfrey ;Raleigh with her husband, she had spent no more th* She's been here a year no ing the 33-year-otd Warren, However, Winfrey has onlj Salem three weeks, not qu k draw any solid conclusioi A clinical child psycholo k. A South by way of Topeka, Ki PVB v/" there. In Raleigh, V 11 " vC? psychology at the Women's ^ R 1 ' h S' ? her husband, who joined th V son and Summers, Winfrey ^ rjB of the Center on Glade a lot different from L M: T the amount of culture -WH friendlier here - and I like s After discovering she coi s made a number of ad- Winfrey she says it was the by James Parker). wouldn't become a medica ;e and competition somebody wants to do something, everybody is behind them." Independent and aggressive, Titia designs window displays and helps customers at Belk. After a lot of searching in a competitive job market, Titia convinced the management at Belk that she could be an industrious employee. "At Belk, they really want you to get into your work,'1 she says. "They want you to be dedicated and for a parttime worker, I'm dedicated. "I like to work," says Titia. "I like being responsible and having things on my own. I don't like to feel like Trr a burden on someone." Titia says she also has her sights set on becoming ; business woman someday. "After I get a little money, maybe then I'll go back t< school and study law," she says. "I love law." Her mother, Mrs. Rubye Long, who was slowly peck ing away at a typewriter, stopped for a minute to confirr what she's taught her daughter all along. "I think a person can do anything they want," sh says. "Titia has the ability to do whatever she decides t do." Unafraid of challenges, the teen-ager, who describe herself as typical of her age group, says she's looking fo /' zine Sectic %i v?. V a.i / ^BKWi ii* i jj ^S ?? $ . igg ffiSV' ^ /? XT^-- . ' / V . // ^H wmmmmmtL K^^toc^ > ^''"y, If^ ' ? ^^Q5BB^?j^^JKj^R?j]Ij? Summer Learning Fourteen-year-old Gerald Wright and 12-year-old ' programming at the Patterson Avenue YMCA Sum if they understood everything that was going on, but I think they enjoyed it." The only girl in the class was absent on the last day, but she wasn't missed. Her absence meant that 10-year-old Byron Jordan could have the terminal all to himself. "Mv mnm ram#* hnmp r\n#? Hnv anH cnrnrispH m#? " says Gerald. "I didn't even know I was going to be in this program, but I'm glad I am. "I want to study about computers," he says. "I think they're fun. Really, it's mostly what I'm into now. I'm 's enthusiasm for ' of pre-med, she earned a degree in ps> from Ohio University in Athens and ! master's and doctorate degrees from K Winfrey moved to University in Canton, Ohio. Robert, last year, in two days in the Between getting settled and unpacki frey says she really hasn't had the opf 'W and it's still tak- to get oul anc* a^out 'n Winston-Salem t i i __ _ i * _ .l _ r_u Ohio native some says sne is looking lorwara 10 ine ran s< lys of the South. a^oul school her 5-year-old d / been in Winston- Paya, will be enrolled in. "The schoc ite enough time to Raleigh area were great," Winfrey saj IS about her new mmmmm 9mm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm gist, Winfrey came I - WOWCOITI?!' an., where she prac- B . .. , _ she was of > Correction Center the Twin City with Coming from the Midwest wit le law firm Hender- knowledge of the South has led the w serves as a member new discovery, says Winfrey, le Child Guidance > 4T had to get used to the overt racs -Salem," she says. says. "I'm used to the covert racism. Raleigh in terms of get used to the Klan folks riding aroum d the people seem cars doing their thing, my job, too." ildn't dissect an eel, "Another funny thing I noticed a n that she knew she South, six snow flakes fall and the wh 1 doctor. So instead panics and closes down. That, 1 had to B B^B ^r * s< faj fad ?^i!Be? faJKJBB* : ] Br *Bhi . A^i- iAr% ^1 . A VI^HMiH?; wB X\fWtr? iW ? LT ^HRHT |B w : * Wm * ?IflfH KL v i M M^IL ^nk^j^^^nL. / jQfiL .^i> ^fcfc2*J?*/ . M Ul B,^ .. .... 1^1 n Working Girl: Titla Long explains tne specifics ol ie James Parker). o ward to her future in fashion or whatever career she ?s chooses to pursue. r- "I can handle the competition," she says. "I'm nol ?- ? Section B w M M Thursday, June 28, 1984 HIPX i * ill tjt W^ y^r^^v ^ ,'/l jj^! ,' ^ "^^^ik. ^.-AMIM-.^A fWJ MM RklnB % m J ^ L M^M I ^K* ^ * I rorrc Johnson learn early the basics of computer imer Camp Series (photo by James Parker). going to be a computer programmer." The summer camp programs all offer a variety of activities designed to promote the child's physical, social and emotional growth through group activity. The computer camp, which began another session June 24, will offer two more of its two-week sessions at a cost of $45 for members and $65 for non-members, July 9 and July 23. The classes are held Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. All the programs will continue through Aug. 24. -'""'41 Twin City shows 'chology to" later her She laughs when she realizes she's beginning ent State to pick up a Southern dialect. "I can say, 'Hey, ya*11 * and 'yung'in.' I'm ng, Win- slowly getting the jargon." xmunity . But she While in Topeka, Winfrey also served on the * 3 she can YWCA's nominating committee. She served on laughter, the council of the Status of Women and was a >ls in the member of the Black Democrats there. ^s. Having the same interest for the WinstonJ Salem community, Winfrey says she's made ? contact with several organizations here and expressed her interest to become involved, one of which includes the Task Force on Black Families. h little "I can contribute lots of energy and enay for a thusiasm to Winston-Salem," she says. "I can contribute my expertise on the child and the black family. ... I think I can make Winstonim," she Salem my home." I had to d in their She thinks about how little she knows about Winston-Salem and the South, and laughs. bout the 44 You know, I knew nothing about this ole place place," says Winfrey. 44I only found out a get used month ago how Winston-Salem got its name." ^ ^jjmiMliDjiiiLiiIiLiy..J jluiiii iMiiiiiiiiiiiiii. i ^wt ^1 M^ ^1 ^kL.' ^^Vl^n t a lace hoop to co-worker Debbie Inglert (photo by f afraid of it at all. "If I'm confident in myself that's all that really matI ters. i
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