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VOL. XVIII, No. 12
School Board bans paddling, what next?
Lock 'em up' says
School Board member
By SHERIDAN HILL
Chronicle Staff Writer
Just before the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County school board
voted to ban corporal punishment
last Thursday, vice-chairman Dr.
Gerald Hewitt joked that students
who repeatedly misbehave should
be sent to an unused military base.
Dr. Hewitt said he got the idea from
Dr. Samuel Proctor, a black educa
tor. "For twenty years we've had
students threatened in bathrooms,
threatened in hallways. I understand
the Myrtle Beach marine base is
closing. We could send them all
there," said Dr. HewitL
But experts on child behavior
maintain that the most successful
methods of discipline involve posi
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ON THE
AVANT-GARDE
By 1ANG NIVRI
1st ttot? Why
Imd^rjfjng to
Minority Affairs meets tonight
; The Minority Affairs Com- % Kay Mocgan, division direc
mittce of the school board will ? tor for instruction, will give ft
meet tonight at 7 pin at St.; brief report about participation in
Philips Moravian Church, 3002 cultu^ differences training.
Bon Air near 30th Street . "WeVe been ptessured by the
HWe need blacfc parents and NAACP and Mac* ministers to
teachers to coihe and share their do more along these lines, and
concerns/ said school board this committee was created as a
member Mary "Candy* Wood* response to the concerns of the
"The superintendent and division black Community, *; said Wood.
; directors will be there. It will be a / She noted that the last meeting,
good opportunity for parents to held in June, was not well attend
discuss discipline or anything ed.
else on their minds." Please see page A6
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On my honor . .
Boy Scout Troop 868 of First Baptist Church celebrated Veterans Day by visiting and studying
the grave sites of U.S. citizens memorialized for their service to America since reconstruction.
The history lesson was held at the Evergreen Cemetery. Troop members pictured are nearing
completion of requirements for Eagle Scout, the highest rank in scouting. Pictured (left to right)
are Scout Master William Andrews, with scouts Randy Brown, Sherron Bradley, John Brown,
David Andrews, Gerard Clements, Steven Kimbrough, William Hill, and Carey Watlington.
Local civic leader receives
coveted Governor's Award
By YVETTEN. FREEMAN
Chronicle Staff Waiter
A local business leader was recently
named the recipient of the 1991 Governor's
Award for Job Training, making him the firsts
person in Winston-Salem and the first
African -American in the country to receive
the award, which was for the "Outstanding
Private Sector Volunteer."
Richard N. Davis received the award
during the Governor's Awards for Job Train
ing Banquet, which was held Oct 29.
Davis, who has served as the chairman of
the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Private
Industry Council for three years now, says he
is honored by the significance of the award.
"The people from Atlanta told me that I
was the first black to have won it in the
southeast, and they believe in the nation. And
it feels very, very good when you look at it in
those lights, and you compare it to that kind
of result I had no idea that that would be the
case. And this was something that I was nom
inated for that 1 didn't realize that I was being
nominated for," said Davis.
Davis was nominated for the award by
people throughout the state of North Carol i
na, and Davis added that he is "very humbled
by that achievement" alone.
During his tenure as chairman of the
Council, Davis has accomplished a number of
goals, most of which were the basis for his
peers nominating him for the Governor's
. . this was some
thing that I was nomi
nated for that I didn't
realize that I was
being nominated for. "
-Richard N. Davis
Award. His efforts were considered instru
mental in raising over one-half million dollars
in non-Job Training Partnership Act (JPTA)
money, from the public and private sectors
during 1990-91.
Those funds were used in the establish
ment of a new employment and training pro
gram for low-income, at-risk youth, and to
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Expert predicts kids'
behavior won't worsen
"When you drop corporal punishment, kids don't go crazy," says Dr.
Irwin Hyman, director of the National Center for the Study of Corporal
Punishment "You don't get worse behavior or increases in misbehavior. A
number of studies show this. "
Dr. Hyman's book, Reading, Writing and A Hickory Stick , published
by Lexington Press, documents a number of alternatives to corporal punish
ment and how different school systems have approached the problem.
"North Carolina has to stop beating the hell out of its kids," said Dr.
Hyman, whose book takes Senator Jesse Helms to task for his insensitivity
to families in poverty.
Discipline alternatives must take into account the needs and back
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A&T's research
status means
potential millions
By Richard E. Moore
Special the the Chronicle
North Carolina A&T Slate University's designation
by the Historically Black Research University Founda
tion for Science and Technology as a research universi
ty will result in much enhanced funding for its science*
engineering, technology and business programs.
Dr. William E. Hogan, vice president of Meditron
ic. Inc. and chairman of the Historically Black
Research University Foundation of Washington, D.C.
announced A&T as one of the winners of nationally
competitive awards and stated "our goal is to provide a
minimum of $10 million over five years." Hogan said
the program seeks to address the fact that all doctoral
degrees awarded in the physical science, mathematics
and computer engineering sciences, only 1.7 percent go
to blacks.
Hogan said the initial six institutions ? and two
more still in discovery ? arc considered eligible by the
Washington, D.C. based foundation to receive targeted
financial, technical and scientific resources from pri
vate industry and federal research institutions.
A&T is one of six historically black colleges
selected nationally to participate in the program
designed to strengthen the universities by increasing
substantial research dollars from private industry. The
Historically Black Research Foundation is an out
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Richard Davis is the first African-American in the country to receive
the Governor's Award for "Outstanding Private Sector Volunteer/'