June 13, 1985
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PEOPLE
Local events, organizations
and people, calendar.
Close-Up
Male gardeners show their stuff
By BRENDA ROBERTSON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Members of the Prince’s Feather Flower Club
plant gardens and win awards at flower shows, but
what makes them different? They’re an all-male
group.
In fact, they are North Carolina’s only black
male garden club.
Flugh Smith Sr., president of the clul^ says it was
organized about seven years ago after Roberta
Cook, a member of the Along the Garden Path'
Flower Club, asked him about formihg a male
“We get together for the fellowship. ”
- Hugh Smith Sr.
garden club to join the local 11-member counoik
Smith says he considered the idea since he already
had a garden of his own, and introduced it toisohie
of his friends. The men liked the idea dhd'eight
joined the club, which began meeting once a year at
a member’s house.
They called themselves the Prince’s leather after
a flower considered to be for men.
Smith was president of the club fon’seven years
until he decided to give up his position la|t Saturday
when the club met for a cookout.
When the 13-member club meets iagain in
September, William McKoy will take over as new
president. Smith will step back to vice president.
“I’ve enjoyed it all,’’ says Smith. “I’ve had a
good time. It was somewhere to go, something to
•do.”
Smith will still have somewhere to go 'and
spmething to do as vice president. It just will not be
as demanding.
“I still plan on staying a good member, but in an
office that doesn’t require much,” says Smith,
f Most of the members of the club are retired. Each
also maintains his own vegetable and' flower
garden. “We get together for the fellowship,”
Smith says.
Smith, a retired engineering instructor at
Winston-Salem State University,,says that when the
elu^ first began, the members only knew of the
'•^loVvers they had growing around the house. Since
then, the club has held seminars with horticulturists
from Forsyth Technical College and other agencies.
The rnembers learn about good planting and
harvesting times, flower types and the technical
aspects of gardening.
At the corner of Fifth and Third streets, the club
has placed a flower plot which it maintains to help
beautify the city. Planted there, says Smith, are
some geraniums and dusty millers.
Smith says the members also help other clubs
with their gardens. They are planning a tour of
Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., in August
1 he members of the Prince’s Feather Garden Club recently got together forfell^^h^T^^^
are, front row, left to right; Hugh Smith Sr.,'the Rev. J.W. Gwyn, Allen E. White and Acie M
Jr.; back row, left to right: Hugh Dobson, William E. McKoy, Robert Scales, Delray Hartsfipiri
Elijah Shelf. Not pictured are Robert Jeffries, C. B. Hauser, Kenneth Faulkner and Clarpnr. c l?
(photo by James Parker). ^"irence Smith
and will invite members of the other clubs.
Recently, the club participated in the Fourth
District Garden Council show, winning five first-
place ribbons and two second-place ribbons. Smith
proudly says, “Every year, somebody in our club
has won something.”
Prince’s Feather member Delray Hartsfield sing
the club’s praises. “It’s been beautiful,’’ he says
“The fellowship has been good.”
Hartsfield says the club has also been an asset ti
the council. It helps the ladies with some of thi
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COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
THURSDAY, JUNE 13
• The Winston-Salem Urban League will launch a “Male Respon
sibility Campaign Kick-off” at 11 a.m. at the Winston Lake Family
YMCA.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15
• The Winston-Salem State University “Arts for Tots Program”
.will open with a conference for persons who work with youth ages 2
to 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Fine Arts Building. For more in
formation on the project, write: WSSU, Box 13053, Winston-
Salem, N.C., 27110. .
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
• Nationally prominent black artist William T. Williams will open
his one-man exhibition with an informal lecture in SECCA’s Main
Gallery at 8 p.m. Theexhibition will last until July 21. Admission is
free. ys
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
• The Effort Service Club is sponsoring a two-day, one-night trip
to Washington, D.C., Saturday, July 13 and Sunday, July 14. The
trip includes transportation, one night’s lodging and tours of Ford
Theatre, the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institute.
The Chronicle welcomes Community- Calendpr notices.
Announcements should be concise and typed or neatly printed.
They should include the day, time, place and sponsors of the event,
plus a number to call for additional information. Announcements
should be addressed to the Winston-Salem Chronicle Community
Calendar, P.O. Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. The
deadline for announcements is Monday at 5:30 p.m.
Social Notes
PA CInstitute hosts reception
The 21st Century Institute for
Political Action, an independent
bi-partisan political action com
mittee, hosted a reception honor
ing the delegates to the North
Carolina State Black Republican
Conference in Winston-Salem on
June 7.
More than 70 PAC steering
committee members and prospec
tive members attended the recep
tion.
The event focused on identify
ing prospective steering commit
tee members, encouraging black
Republicans to stand for elected
office and promoting the PAC’s
campaign management training
seminar planned for Winston-
Salem, Aug. 16 through 18.
The campaign management
training seminar received the en
dorsement of The Honorable
Aaron Johnson, North Carolina
Department of Corrections
Cabinet Secretary; Sylvania
Wilkerson, Department of
Transportation assistant
secretary for planning and pro
grams and of Marion “Rex”
Harris, on the board of directors
of the Rainbow Coalition.
Johnson, a five-term elected
official from Fayetteville prior to
his cabinet appointment, said, “I
ran for office three times before I
won. If I had had access to a
campaign management seminar
to train my people, I would have
won the first time out.”
Vernon L. Robinson, a 21st
Century Institute National board
member from Winston-Salem
said. The PAC’s reception was
well received, well attended and is
an important first step in creating
a bi-partisian financial base from
which to pursue policy objectives
including economic development,
equal access to public education
resources and public safety.”
The three-day black
Republican conference featured
North Carolina Gov. James G.
Martin, Congressman William
Cobey, a Republican from
Chapel Hill and Melvin Bradley,
President Reagan’s special assis
tant.
The conference also conducted
workshops on economic develop
ment, education and grass roots
politics.
Vernon L. Robinson, right, a 21st Century PAC board member,
chats with Melvin Bradley, special assistant to President
Reagan, during the statewide convention of the Black
Republican Party held in Winston-Salem last weekend.
About Town
Chronicle receives Fortune fellow Bill Hamilton
By BRENDA ROBERTSON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Maude Jackson, of Garden of Iris Temple No. 220, and Edward
Hawkins, of Camel City Elks Lodge No. 1021, were honored at
Elks Day of the Sixth District Councils of the Improved
Benevolent Protective Order of the World (photo by Art Blue).
Hawkins and J ackson honored
Edward Hawkins and Maude
Jackson were honored at the Fif
teenth Annual Elks Day of the
Sixth District councils of the Im
proved Benevolent Protective
Order of the World on Sunday,
June 9.
The program took place at the
St. James CME Methodist
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The Chronicle has added a new
staffer, for about 10 weekL His
name is Bill Hamilton, and he is a
wfSterj^iitstructor'' at Kentucky
State UrSyersity in Frankfort.
Hamilton comes to the Chroni
cle via the T. Thomas Fortune
fellowship program, co
sponsored by the Miller Brewing
Co. and the National Newspaper
Publishers Association (NNPA),
The Chronicle, a member of
NNPA, was chosen to host thik
year’s fellow by virtue of being
named the top black newspaper
in the nation for 1984.
Hamilton says, “I will have a
chance to spend the summer with
a quality black newspaper where
I’ll get a chance to share my jour
nalism experiences with the
Chronicle and the Chronicle will
share its experience with me.
“I’m looking forward to a
good experience.”
Hamilton, 38, is an alumnus of
the University of Connecticut,
where he received a bachelor’s
degree and Columbia University
(Conn.) Telegram, where he
eventually became a copy editor;
as a reporter with the Louisville
Times, and as a communications
specialist with South Central Bell
Telephone Co.
Hamilton has been at Ken
tucky State for a year, where he
teaches journalism and works in
the university relations office. He
also advises the production of the
school newspaper and the year
book.
Bill Hamilton
Hamilton is married to the
former Cheri Bryant, an attorney
with the Kentucky Commission
on Women. They have an
8-month-old daughter, Victoria
spotlight of the Winston-Saleni
Chamber of Commerce’^ New
L/ne publication. ?
Pitt also publishes the Blaa
College Sports Review, a black
oriented sports magazine. •
At the Chamber of Commerce
he is a member of the Board of
Directors and chairman of the
Minority Business Council .... I
Barbara Yvonne Hargrave o
Winston-Salem recently receivetf
her doctorate in physiology
Forest University S(
Gray School of.
1
Wake
Bowman
Medicine. .
She is the daughter of Do i
Hargrave of 2829 Gilmer Ave. m
Winston-Salem.
She received
in New York, where he received
his master’s.
Before teaching at Kentucky
State, he worked as an intern
with the Associated Press in
Hartford, Conn.; as a copy
writer in the advertising and
public relations department of
the Connecticut General Life In
surance Co., also in Hartford; as
a reporter with the Bridgeport
Ernest H. Pitt, co-founder and
publisher of the Chronicle, was
featured recently in the volunteer
ane her bachelor’s
degree from Hampton Institute
and a master’s from the Medica|
College of Virginia.
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Eastern Star helps sick
The Eleventh District Order of
the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Af
filiate, held the annual sick and
shut-in day at the Masonic Hall
on East 14th St. on Sunday.
Sprinkle, gmn
was mistress ot
Dorothy
district deputy
ceremonies
The scriptures and op
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