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PAGE A6 Winston-Salem Chronicle OCTOBER 29, 1987 People CLOSE-UP Library reaches shut-ins with outreach By ANGIE MARTIN ; Chroinde Staff Writer Sylvia Brown and Gloria Flowers bring romance and mystery to area residents. They also bring westerns, biographies and inspira tional books to shut-ins through the Forsyth County Library Adult Outreach program. The two are a team serving 330 patrons living in adult day care centers, elderly home-bound persons and others who can't get to the library. So, Ms. Brown shelves which Ms. Brown and Ms. Flowers lovingly gather for their visitation routes. In going door-to-door and sometimes bedside to bedside, Ms. Brown says they are doing more than just delivering paperbacks and popular magazines. "We are answering a need," Ms. Brown says. "There will be more older adults in the county in the future and we're going to grow to meet that need." "It's not exactly a ministry. "It's another way of caring...another way of letting them know someone cares." - Gloria Flowers and Ms. Flowers bring the library to them. "It's not exactly a ministry," says Ms. Flowers, a library assistant. "It's another way of caring...another way of letting them know someone cares." The ouueach program was started in 1972 with the help of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Forsyth County now operates the program, the largest home visitation library in the area. Ms. Brown says the program serves many resi dents who are around 80 and 90 years of age and she says "We've had some who have read everything we've got since the program was established." Ms. Flowers says working in the program has not been all together altruistic; she gets something back from the people she sen'cs, particularly the elderly. "You can learn so much from them as well," Ms. Flowers says. "1 like to do this because it's reaching out to another person but it's also a personal invest ment." Ms. Brown agrees and says she feels "like I'm bringing Joy and cheer to someone clse's life. They make you feel good." Although she and Ms. Brown service more than 300 patrons, there is a need for more minority citizens to participate in the program. Calvin Davis says the library's poutreach program for shut-ins allows him to expand his horizons ami has encouraged him to become an avid reader (photo by James Parker). Patrons can choose from 2,629 large print books, periodicals and regular print from the general library Ms. Brown says that most blacks who tue current ly taking advantage of the program are senior citizens, but that there arc younger black pauons who have been referred by social service agencies. Many of the younger patrons, she says, are victims of mu.scular dysuophy or muscular sclerosis. One young person the team visits is Calvin Davis who has been confined to a wheelchair since an auto mobile accident lel't him a paraplegic. player, says he has a thirsty appetite for Sports lllus- traicd. He says the library program has made him an avid reader. "This is the only way to keep my mind stimulated other than the television," Davis says. "Reading is lii an epidemic. I'm always saying 'just one more page." "1 think it's great! If they hadn't started 1 wouldn't have started reading books," says Davis, a graduate of Parkland High School. "Sports lllusuated is one of my favorites, 1 also read about black history." Ms. Brown and Ms. Flowers also provide golliic novels and Sidney Sheldon novels for Mrs. Davis, Calvin's mother, who needs large print books because diabetes has affected her eyesight. Davis, once a promising high school basketball Keeping his mind in shape is important to Davis, and reading the books brought to him by Ms. Brown and Ms. Flowers every other week helps him do that. Ms. Brown says they can devote as much or as lit Please see page A9 COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY OCT. 29 • The Salvation Army Boys Club will sponsor a Halloween carnival from 5 to 9 p.m. The event, open to the public, will include a costume contest, games prizes and a spook house. Game tickets will cost 10 cents each. Admission to the carnival is free. For more information contact Thurmond Abbitt at 788-5761. • IBM Stress Management will sponsor a workshop for personal growth and development as a way of managing sttess from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, room 112. Annie Gaither Wince, R.N., will be the speaker for the event. For more information call 1 -800-424-3670. • The Chapter 1 program will sponsor a meeting for participants at 7:30 p.m. in Reynolds Auditorium. The meeting is also open to the general public. FRIDAY OCT. 30 • The Tarheel Association of Storytellers will host a Halloween story telling and costume parade for preschool and kindergarten children from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Hanes Hosiery Recreation Center, 501 Reynolds Blvd. Children should come dressed in costume. Prizes will be awarded for the throe best costumes. For more information call Shirley Holloway at 788-8948. • A Halloween Festival, sponsored by Cub Scout Pack 921 begins at 7 p.m. at the Mount Plea.sant United Methodist Church. Games, prizes and refreshments will be part of the activities. Costumes arc optional. • The Winston Salem Recreation Department will hold Halloween carnivals at all 14 recreation centers between 6 and 7:30 p.m. The events are open to the public and admission is free. Call any one of the recreation centers for more information. SATURDAY OCT. 31 • To benefit the Belvin Chapel Building Fund, southern cooked meals including chicken plates, ribs and chitterlings plates will be .sold at the home of Dorothy Jenkins, 4201 Cody Drive in the North Hill Develop ment. For more information call 767-4816, TUESDAY NOV. 3 • The Forsyth Cancer Service will display itetns for witmen who have had breast cancer at 7:30 p.m. at the Glade Sueet, YWCA Refresh ments and door prizes will be available, F-'or more information call 725-7421. THURSDAY NOV. 5 • WFDD-FM (88.5) Wake Forc.st University's listener supported radio station will have its annual on-air fund drive. Campaign 87 through Nov. 11th. Listeners 21 or over who call in during the campaign will be eligible to win one of two grand prizes including a Uip to New York with airfare, tickets to the New York Philharmonic performance and hotel accommodauons. A weekend at Glendale Springs Inn will be the second grand prize. For more information please call Katherine E. Newton at 761-5257. SOCIAL NOTES John W. Fleming to keynote WSSU Homecoming event Winston-Salem State Universi ty's Homecoming/Founder's Day celebration continues through Oct. 31 featuring educator Dr. John W. Fleming as keynote speaker Friday, Oct. 30. Fleming, a retired educator and consultant for church relations at Shaw University in Raleigh, will deliver the address for the Founder's Day Convocation at 10 a.m. at the Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium. Fleming earned a B.A. degree at Shaw University and the master of divinity and the doctor of min- i.suy degrees at Vanderbuilt Divini ty School. His professional experience includes teaching positions at Shaw, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, N.C. State University and Duke University. He has also been pastor at churches in Colum bus County, Vance County and Rocky Mount. An active civic and profession al leader, Fleming is affiliated with the American Baptist Convention, the General Baptists State Conven tion of North Carolina, the Ameri can Association of University Pro fessors, the NAACP and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. Fleming Griffin Griffin, McCoy vie for alumni honors Old Salem Sertoma Club elects officers The Winston-Salem State Alumni Association has announced the contestants for "Miss Alumni" 1987. The Old Salem Sertoma Club of Win.ston-Salcm elected new offi cers for 1988 at the Awards Ban quet held recently at the Pinebrook Country Club. Newly elected officers arc Kathy MacKintosh, chairman, Lor- raing Johnson, president, Vicki Kron, vice president - membership, Charlene Martin, vice president - programs, June Runyan, vice pres ident - .sponsorship, Gwynn Hooks, secretary, Su.san Simpson, treasurer. Other officers include Btirbara Raker, sergeant at arms, Barbara Wolbrink, social director, Becky Pfaf, director of awards and achievement, Levonda Leamon, director of health and cheer, Nancy Burnett, inter-club director, and Susan Taylor, attcndcnce director. Mildred Griffin, a 1967 gradu ate, is a fifth grade teacher at Lewisdale Elementary School in Winston-Salem/Forsylh County schools. She is the mother of 10 children, six of whom are graduates of WSSU. 1975 graduate. She received a B.S, Degree in nursing with a major concentration in criucal care. Site is married to the Rev. John T, McCoy and is president of Persoi- al Touch Interiors. Old Salem Sertoma provides civic responsibility through com munity .service. Spon.sorship targets arc the speech and hearing impaired. Mrs. Griffin is an active mem ber of Friendship Baptist Church, Brown Alumni Chapter, the NAACP and the National Associa tion of University Women. Sandra Lawrence McCoy is a Mrs. McCoy is sponsored by the Q. C. Ram Alumni Chapter of Charlotte. "Miss Alumni" will be crowned at coronation ceremonies at the Annual Alumni Ball on Oct 30. The ball will take place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.. at the Benton Con vention Center. To win, the contestants musl appeal for votes from the thou sands of WSSU alumni across ibf country. ABOUT TOWN Johnsons plan golden wedding anniversary celebration A golden weekend is planned lor Elder and Mrs. James John son of Winston-Salem as the couple prepares to renew- their wedding vows in celebration of their 5()th anniversary together. The celebration will be held at the Holiday Inn North at 6 p.m. Siiturday, Oct. 31. Elder C'.W. Johnson Jr. of Asheville will be the officiating pa,stor. Mrs. Johnson is a semi-retired employee of Mother and Daughter stores. Johnson is a retired employee olAT&T. of Asheville. Best man will be Harold Easf er of Winston-S alem. Also attending will be the cou pie's children, Audrey Easter Reginald Johnson, Brian Johnsoi and Sabrena Johnson; their children, Danielle Glenn, Lilliai Johnson, Brandon Johnson ani Joseph Johnson. The couple also has a ter- in-law. Daphne Johnson, and son-in-law, Harold Easter.... Serving as maid of honor for the occasion will be .Janie Johnson Elder and Mrs. James Johnson will renew their wedding vows this weekend in obsen/ance of their 50th wedding anniversary. Beth A. Melcher has beet appointed to a position as clinics psychologist with the Child Guid ance Center. She received her bachelor degree from Miami University i' 1979.
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