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Page A6-The Chronicle, Thursday, August 30, V
Close-Up
Firemen fighting
By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Nationwide, said Clarence Everhart, captain of
the Marshall Street Engine Company No. 1, fire
fighters are killed most often during false alarms.
Locally, fire protection costs the city $645.36
each time a truck pulls out of a station, said Mary
Johnson, assistant fire marshall in chatge-of com
education-. -She-said ^ tilat cost '"isn't the
primary concern of fire officials, preventing false
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Last Thursday, for the third year in a row,
members of Engine Company No. l's fire fighting
and aerial team played softball with the youths of
Kimberly Park, hoping to maintain an open line of
communication with them.
There were numerous false alarms in the Kimberly
Park neighborhood several years ago, particularly
on Derry and Trade streets.
Former Capt. Steve Sloan, now a batallion chief,
came up with the idea of establishing a rapport with
the neighborhood kids, educating them on fire safe
ty ana prevention, and at the same time putting an
end to the false alarms.
"There was a marked decrease in the number of
false alarms in Kimberly Park," said Everhart.
"It's (the softball game) a fun thing for us and we
think it's a fun thing for the neighborhood.
"It lets them know we (fire fighters) are actual
people,Hhe said. "Now if they pull a false alarm,
they'll be pulling a false alarm on a friend."
Terry Carter serves as coordinator for the com
murmy activities fcngine Company No. 1 is involved
Social Notes
Haith-Jackson-1
The Haith-Jackson-Gunn se- v
cond annual family reunion was
I held Saturday, Aug. 18 at the *
j home of Mrs. Guyrene C. Haith
| of 3131 Flanders Drive. **1^1
"Accent the Occasions" was * * raHr
| the theme for the reunion, which * \ |
featured a carnival with a clown. ~
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Jennifer Brock was the host.
Festivities continued with Sunday
worship service at Middle ^ Mr Jfjm
? Fork Christian Church, where
( the Rev. William D. Elder is the
Family members traveled from jfefc
Plantation, Fla.; Napersville, 111.;
Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta, Ga.
and Columbus, Ohio.
Local family members attending
the reunion were Irene P.
Hairston, Olivet Bynum, J.O.
Williams, Mrs. Modesta Earl,
Vashti McNeil, Mrs. Virginia
Wiseman and the Rev. and Mrs.
William D. Elder.
75 persons attend s
Mamie Moore and William their home.
McGill were hosts of the second Rounding ou
annual Singletary family reunion a dinner for fai
Aug. 11 and 12. iriends at the
Festivities began with a cook- cafeteria on E.
out at the home of Mr. and Mrs. The dinner
Harold Moore of Whitfield brief progran
Drive. selections by th
^ "7"""*' wd frier\4s were in attendance. -Local- -guest
The Moores also hosted a lawn Bessie Allen, i
breakfast Sunday, Aug. 12 at and Mrs. Jack
People On The Move
Robinson given
As a part of Winston-Salem Robinson said
State University's Faculty Study return, I hope
Grant Program, assistant "It's just a s
business professor Vernon Robin- doesn't end so<
son has left for Washington, ... Piedmont
D.C., where he will study at moted Fknie
George Washington University. supervisor-mail
The 28-year-old Los Angeles Sept. 1.
native will work toward obtain- Roundtree,
ing his doctorate in information mont in July 1(
systems technology in the univer- and has held
I sity's three-year Doctor of within the conBusiness
Administration ? Pro- and mail room
gram. position was bi
Once he completes his studies, As supervh
Robinson, who has been a Roundtree will
member of the WSSU faculty for planning and ii
two years, will return as a full mont's systemprofessor.
and for staffinj
"The university is growing," sonnel in the m
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Community Calendar, Close-Up,
; false alarms
in. He said he believes the false alarm nranks are
basically done "just for fun." Since the fire fighters
have begun to go into the Kimberly Park area (on
the fire engines) and develop a fellowship with the
kids, Carter said attention has been tuned in more
to the fire fighters, rather than on causing trouble
for them.
"They (the kids) like to see the lights," Carter
s at &-' - itafecv -thrirtla y <rt!En ssc
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Johnson, who is responsible for educating the
'Wow if they pull a false alarm, they'll be
pulling a false alarm on a friend. "
-- Capt. Clarence Ever hart
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community on fire safety and the prevention of
fires, said it was only natural that such an idea came
about. An "innovative idea*' is what she calls the
community service effort.
"A lot of city fire departments don't involve
themselves with the community," said Johnson.
"Instead, they're upgrading equipment."
Thursday's game started off with the Kimberly
Park team, mostly youth in the 12 to 20-year-old
age group, leading three to nothing. But that soon
ended when the team hit a couple of high flyers and
the fire fighters caught them.
The game, which was held in the field behind
North Elementary School on Patterson Avenue,
ended with a score of 18-11 in favor of the fire
fighters.
"In this particular thing, I really don't think
there are any losers," said Everhart, who was opGunnfamily
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The Haith-Jackson-Gunn Family
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Mrs. Rudy Anderson Jr., Mrs.
t the reunion was Glennie Hall, Miss Piccola Marnily
members and row, Mrs. Mabel Hairston, Mrs.
University Place Nettie L. Williams, Mrs. Beatrice
Third Street. Sanders, Mrs. Ida Bohannon,
also included a Mrs. Viola Gibson, Mrs. Virginia
1, with musical Marshall, Mrs. Peggy Bell, Mrs.
e Ebemett Gospel Geraldine Evans, and Elder
Moses E. Scat and family.
Jill Williams, Mr. Ohio; Norfolk, Va.;
; Davis, Mr. and Washington, D.C.; California;
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hame the program Robinson Fulton
3ner... "
Airlines has pro- tion.
T. Round tree to Roundtree is a native of
I services effective Winston-Salem and received an
associate of science degree from
29, joined Pied- Forsyth Technical Institute. She
374 as a mail clerk is presently enrolled in the High
several positions Point College Continuing Educaipany's
print shop tion Program and plans to comi.
Her most recent plete her degree in business ad yer's
assistant. ministration by May 1985...
jor-mail services, ...Dorothy G. Fulton and J.
be responsible for Lynne Upshaw have been elected
nplementing Pied- assistant vice presidents at
wide mail services Wachovia Bank and Trust.
% and training per- Fulton, a native -of Winstonlail
services opera- Salem, has been with Wachovia
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week, during their third annual match-up, that att
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timistic at the start about whn wnnlH win ^ ti^.
breaking game to lead in the 1-1 season standing.
Gov. Jim Hunt, on a campaign swing through
Winston-Salem, stopped by to warm up the mound
before the game got underway. A suited Deputy
Fire Chief Pete Harless hit a grounder for the fire
fighters, but opted to let one of the tee-shirted ball
players run the bases. Fire Chief Lester Ervin was
also on hand to cheer the team on.
Kimberly Park's team captain was 15-year-old
Tim Deberry. "This is fun," he said. "Anything's
better than staying at home doing nothing."
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Florence, S.C.; Harrisburg, Pa.,
and New York.
Gifts were presented to Mrs.
Moore, to Mrs. Altheia
Singletary of Winston-Salem (the I
oldest living family member) and
Washington, D.C., the youngest
family memhff
11 nt i n&* riiiiunl pi! by B
R.J. Reynolds and Mechanics I
and Farmers Bank.
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Upshaw Smart
since 1969 and is manager of the
support unit in data processing in I
the Information Processing I
Group.
Upsha'w joined Wachovia in
1980 and is a cash management |
consultant in Corporate Banking. I
She is a native of South
Brunswick, N.J., and a graduate
of Duke University...
...Winston-Salem native
Cheryl Bradshaw was recently
hired as a special education coordinator
at Northern High School
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Carter said rather than play just the annual game,
he plans to continue the activity on into the winter
months, with hopes of attracting the neighborhood
girls by sponsoring dances and other activities.
The diversions have made pulling fire alarms less
amusing, Carter said, now that the kids have the
fire fighters themselves as friends.
"The main goal is to leave us free to answer a realalarm,"
said Everhart. "But the days of sitting in
the fire station waiting for an alarm went out, wjth
the horse-drawn truck."
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