Community
Area Woman is First Female Deputy Superintendent of an All-Male Prison
? "It has not been easy, but I love my job. "
By DAVID L. DILLARD
Chronicle Staff Writer
As a young girl, Shirley Gore
was never complacent She strived
for excellence with the belief that
hard work and determination would
one day pay off.
Thai day came May 1, when
Gore became the first black female
assistant superintendent at the all
male Forsyth County Correctional
Center.
The minimum security prison
houses 240 inmates, many of whom
are on work -release programs and
preparing to re-integrate into soci
ety.
Gore, a native of Winston
Salem. began her career 23 year*
ago as a secretary at the Sandy
Ridge Correctional Center in Guil
ford County. Since then, she has
worked her way up through the
ranks, which involved traveling
throughout facilities in all 11 coun
ties making up the North Piedmont
Gore, who said she prefers to
work in all-male facilities, said that
times were difficult for a black
woman in 1968 when she began
working in the prison system.
"Corrections is not an easy field
to work in with all types of person
alities and attitudes," she said.
"Every female cannot work in a
male correctional facility. It can
make you strong or weaken your
character."
Being a double minority ?
black and female ? has forced
Gore to work harder, and even with
years of experience, she felt more
n Elderly Residents Cope
With Outside Heat by
Staying Indoors
By MARK R. MOSS
ChtenicU Suff Writer
Like an oven turned down from
broil to bake, Winston-Salem got a ~
slight reprieve this week from the
stifling and oppressive 90-plus
degree heat that has blanketed much
_ of the East Coast the past several
days.
How did most people deal with
the most recent inferno? They
headed for the great indoors. Resi
dents at Sunrise Towers on Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard said the
best way to cope with the heat was
to avoid it
"It ain't bothering me," said
Mildred Shouse. "It's cool down
stairs and cool in my house. It's got
to be something real important for
me to be going outside."
Audrey Lowery, the commu
nity services specialist for Sunrise
Towers, said that all 201 apartments
in the building have air condition
ers.
"If one breaks down, we fix it
If we can't fix it, we buy another
one," she said.
So far, Lowery said, none of
the building's residents have experi
enced any health problems due to
the uncompromising heaL " ~
Johnnie Smith, of the National
Weather Service office at the Pied
mont Triad Airport, said the area
has experienced 90-degree plus
weather since July 1 , and there's lit
was required to reach her goals. A
divorced mother of two children ?
Cynthia and Joe ? Gore worked 18
to 21 hours daily and graduated
magna cum laude last year with a
bachelor's degree in criminal justice
from Shaw University. She is cur
rently pursuing a master's degree in
business administration at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Greens
boro.
In her new position, Gore said
she works with her supervisor, Dar
rell Taylor, who oversees the opera
tions of the 238 facilities in the
North Piedmont Gore said she has
not encountered problems with the
inmates or her peers.
"The inmates are very respect
ful, and I listen to them," she said. "I
also get a lot of support from my
staff and my superintendent. Wt
work together as a team."
Gore is a member of Galilee
r
Shirley Gore is the first female assistant superintendent of an all-male correctional facility.
Baptist Church and has received most prestigious award for criminal my job." Gore said. "God can do
numerous awards, including the Gus justice. anything, that is why nothing is
Miller Award in 1989, the state's "It has not been easy, but I love impossible."
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MUdrtd S ho use (left) and Benjamin Lackey opt to stay indoors for as long as possible during the current heat wave.
tie relief in sight
Smith said the record for con
sccutive, 90-plus temperatures was
set in 1980, when the Triad endured
an 18-day stretch of 90-plus
degrees.
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Benjamin Lackey, anothet^un
rise Towers resident, said on most
days he would walk to Liberty
Street and kill time talking on a
friend's porch. But "It's too hot to sit
up there now," he said.
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Another resident, Mary Lash
said, she takes "pressure pills" and
the doctor told her to be wary of hot
weather.
"I don't like the hot weather. ...
I go to the grocery store only if I
have tor she said.
Woodrow Alien, obviously per
turbed at having to interrupt his
pool game to talk to a visitor, said
he doesn't leave the building unless
he absolutely has to.
Noon-Time Outta the Bag Concerts
Continue throughout the Summer Months
Many of you are familiar with
the noon-time concerts of "Outta the
Bag" series that takes place in Win
ston Square Park. Sponsored by the
. Arts Council and the City of Win
ston-Salem, Outta the Bag is sched
uled for Mondays, Tuesdays and
Wednesdays in July, August and
September. No concerts will be
scheduled on Thursdays and Fri
days. The new schedule is in effect
immediately and will continue for
the rest of the summer.
y July's concert scries includes
the following:
July 19 - Sunset Pass - Cowboy
Music
July 20 - The Swamp Cats -
Jazz
July 21 - The Severts - Blue
grass
July 26 - The Lee Highway
Travelers ? Bluegrass
July 27. ? Mystic Knights of the
Sca-R&B
July 28 - Soul Masters - Jazz
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And for children and families
? we will continue presenting the
Super Saturdays for Kids program.
This Saturday morning in Winston
Square Park, a mini-festival will
take place geared for kindergartners
through 5th-graders, but the whole
family is welcome.
Events scheduled for this Satur
day include the Magic of WJ. and
face painting and balloon sculpture
by Smiles Unlimited.
At 10 a.m.. Super Saturday for
Kids offers an opportunity for fami
lies to get together and learn and
participate in fun arts activities.
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Putt-Moderism Opens Aug. 7 at
SECCA
Eighteen holes of miniature
golf designed by nationally recog
nized artists opens at the Southeast
ern Center for Contemporary Art
(SECCA) Aug. 7 and continues
through Sept. 30.
The exhibit will be a rare
opportunity to participate in an art
installation. Visitors will be sup
plied with golf club and invited to
play holes designed by Sandy
Skoglund, Michael Graves, Eliza
beth Murray and Frank Gehry, to
to play."
The exhibit was the brainchild
of Ken Buhler, a staff member at
Artists Space in New York City,
where the exhibition originated.
Despite buy schedules and, in some
cases, little or no familiarity with
miniature golf, each of the 19
name a few.
Putt-Moderism is both art and
popular culture. It combines social
commentary with entertainment and
has been called "the strangest
miniature golf course ever built**
and "intriguing to look at, delightful
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invited artists participated in the
belief that an art gallery should
sometimes be a place to come and
play.
A S3 "greens fee" will be
charged to play Putt-Modernism
except on Saturday and Sunday,
Aug. 14-15, when admission is free.
Delta Arts Center Features Exhibit
"We've Known Rivers," an
exhibition of batik paintings by Leo
Twiggs, will be shown July 16
through Aug. 15 at the Delta Arts
Center, 1511 E. Third St in Win
ston-Salem. A reception for the
artist will be held on Aug. 1 from 4
6 p.m. Twiggs will discuss the
painting process he has developed
which combines ancient batik meth
ods with traditional brush tech
niques at 5 p.m.
According to Twiggs, this
exhibit grew out of his experiences
growing up in the low country of
St. Stephen, S.C. It is also a tribute
to his African ancestors who grew
't
up near rivers and were brought
here as slaves to work the rice fields
of the rivers, sea islands and inlets
along the Carolina coast
Twiggs has had over 40 one
man shows and has exhibited at the
Mint Museum in Charlotte,
Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the
Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston,
S.C., the Studio Museum in New
York, the Benton Convention Cen
ter, and other places.
He has received his bachelor of
arts degree, suma cum laude, from
Claflin College and later studied at
the Art Institute of Chicago. He
earned his master of arts degree
from New York University and a
doctorate degree in art from the
University of Georgia.
He is presently a professor of
art and executive director of the IP.
Stanback Museum and Planetarium
at South Carolina State College. He
has served on the State Arts Com
mission and is currently a member
of the South Carolina Museum
Commission.
The Delta Arts Center hours
are 12-5 p.m., Monday through Fri
day. For more information call
Jackie Black at 722-2625.
Leo Twiggs
For more information call 725- president of Community Outreach
1904. for the Arts Council of Winston
Reggie Johnson is the vice Salem and Forsyth County^
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