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Graves Suspended as HAWS Attorney
A General counsel failed to get N. C. law license
By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Executive Editor
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? Clifton E. Graves Jr., the general
counsel for the Housing Authority of
Winston-Salem, Has been suspended
without pay from his post
Graves was. suspended from his
$70,405-a-year job on Sept. 1 for failing
to obtain a license, to practice law in
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Graves, 41, joined the housing
authority in August 1992 wheq he moved
here from New Haven, Conn.v where he
was a staff attorney with the city of New
Haven. Graves also had worked as a staff
attorney with the New Haven .Housing
Authority.
Graves said earlier this week that
when he joined the housing authority, he.
was hired as an assistant director to over
see legal and policy matters and that hav
ing a North Carolina law license was not
a prerequisite since he did not have to go
into the courtroom. . r* ? v ~
Graves hinted that personality differ
ences between he and HAWS Executive
Director Arthur S. Milligan might be
behind his suspension. Milligan, citing
housing authority policy that forbids him
from commenting on personnel issues,
declined to discuss the matter.
Robert Egleston, a member of the
housing authority's board of commission
ers, said the chief reason the housing
authority hired a staff attorney was to
handle the authority's legal matters with
out having to pay an outside law firm.
The housing authority has a retainer with
the law firm of Womble Carlyle San
dridge Si Rice. \ -
"That was the main purpose of get
, ting an attorney full time on staffrso-that~
the board would not have to rely on out
side, independent counsel," Egleston said
in an interview. "Even though we have a
retainer with Womble Carlyle, that can
get pretty expensive."
Egleston said he became aware sev
eral months ago that Graves did not have
a North Carolina law license.
"I've known for some time that was
something expected of him and was not
taken care of," Egleston said. "He was
supposed to be working on that. I really
don't know what happened to change
that."
To get his job back, Qraves has hired
Toifg-time civil rights lawyer Irv Joyner.
Joyner became widely known when he
defended a young Benjamin Chavis who
was jailed for firebombings in Wilming
ton. - , ' ' ? \ J ? V, '-1""
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Clifton Graves joined HAWS in 1992
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Carver
Student
Off to
Congress
By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Executive Editor ]
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Although Alicia D. Boozer
wants no part of a life in politics,
she nonetheless is getting a pretty
good taste of it this week.
Boozer, a 17-year^old senior at
Carver High School, is one of sev
students across
the^ country to
converge on
Washington,
D.C., this week^
They are there to
take part in a
Yfcuth Congress,
a two-day event held during the
24th Annual Legislative Conference
of the Congressional Black Caucus,
which began Tuesday knd ends Sat
urday. y
Boozer, who was recom
mended by her school's principal,
Dan Piggott, was excited before
departing Tuesday morning from
Smith Reynolds Airport
. "I hope to learn more about our
government and how it works and
learn more about what I can do now
to help our government and what I
can' do when 1 become an adult,"
she said.
Boozer was accompanied on
the trip by Dorothy Graham
Wheeler, executive director of the
Best Choice Center. She will have a
Alicia D. Boozer
full slate of activities to keep her
busy.
\K On Wednesday, Boozer
attended a mock Congress session
and from there it was off to a press
conference of the National Museum
of Women in the Arts, hosted by
Maya Angelou. 1
Today, she
County Commissioner Ear
line Parmon was ih Wash
inton to witness President
Clinton sign crime bill.
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was to attend a
national "Town
Hall" meeting
with CBC Chair
man Kweisi
Mfume, TV host
M o n t e 1
Williams, actor
Keisha Knight Pulliam and rapper
Quen Latifah as panelists. __ _
"I'm looking forward-to the
panel discussion with all of the
black entertainers," she said. "I
think I will learn a lot. But I also
think it will be enjoyable. Plus I'm
out of school. This is my excuse for
being out of school. It's like a vaca
tion."
Boozer, who is president of the
student body at Carver, said she
plans to take her camera to take lots
of pictures of the celebrities.
Boozer, a candidate for the
Morehead Scholarship, wants to
attend Spellman College in Atlanta
to major in Electrical Engineering. '
She is the daughter of Debra
Boozer of 41 36 Sunflower Circle.
The FROG program at Easton Elementary helps first - and second-graders improve reading and writing.
FROG Gives Students
Jump on Reading Skills
By VERONICA CLEMONS v
Chronicle Staff Writer
? ? Before Easton*Principa! Amanda Bell could get
into her office Tuesday morning, one of her students
ran right past her into the door, put her bookbag on
the floor and began rummaging through the basket of
books Bell has available to students in her office.
Bell says this eagerness to read and this love of
books are some of the results of the FROG, Facili
tated Reading for Optimal Growth, program. The
FROG program at Easton Elementary School has
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helped first- and second -graders excel by leaps and
bounds in their reading and writing skills.
FROG divides students into small groups of four
or five, and for 45 minutes each day the group con
centrates on developing reading and writing skills.
Since the groups are smaller, instructors can spend
more individual time with their students.
Bell said the FROG program has brought a new
enjoyment for reading among the students and it's one
of the curriculum changes that has helped scores to
see FROG page 15
Black
Colleges
Lose
Degrees
CHAPEL HILL (AP) ? Effi
ciency shouldn't come at the price
of progress, say chancellors at two
state universities that will lose grad
uate programs in school administra
tion.
"I'm bitterly disappointed,"
North Carolina A&T University
Chancellor Edward Fort said Friday
after the UNC Board of Governors
voted to eliminate five programs.
- : North Carolina Central Univer
sity Chancellor Julius Chambers
said he was disappointed in the
change because of its potential
impact on opportunities for minori- ^
ties and women. I
"We already know we have too
few minority administrators in the.
school system." Cham hem said
The board voted to continue
graduate education in school
administration at the University of -
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, East
Carolina University, UNC-Char
lotte, UNC-Wilmington, Fayet
teville State University, Western s
Carolina University and UNC
Greensboro. Programs at those
schools will be redesigned.
Programs will be phased out by
at North Carolina State Uni
versity, Appalachian State Univer
sity, N.C. A&T, N.C. Central and
Pembroke State University. The
plan was required by a law
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Library Changes Won't
Hurt Users, Hamlin Says
By DAVID L. DILLARD
Chronicle Staff Writer *
The Forsyth County Public Library's East
Winston branch could remain a library or it
become an African-American cultural
resource center.
Hither way, it will not affect the commu
nity's access to a viable library or a meeting
facility, said Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin, the
deputy director of the library.
"We plan to develop a specialized black
resource center where a person can do
research with black and multicultrual litera
tare," Sprinkle-Hamlin said. "There's a chance
that it could remain a library; nothing s defi
nite yet"
She said the library staff plans for the
facility to function as a library until the new
one is built in approximately four years.
She said plans are being made to include
the history of African-Americans worldwide
as well as in the state and locally. The
revamped branch will include an East Winston
room that chronicles the history of local
African-Americans.
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Carver Faculty to Have
Diversity Training Seminar
By VERONICA CLEMONS
Chronicle Staff Writer
With the school's focus being on cultural
diversity this year, some faculty and staff
members at Carver High School on Saturday
will participate in a diversity seminar.
"The Power of One," the central theme
of Carver this year, will be geared toward
cultural diversity and recognizing those dif
ferences in people as strengths rather than
weaknesses. .
"We want to have a family-type atmos- :
phere here," said Carver Principal Dan Pig
got. '
The seminar, which will be facilitated by
employees of Sara Lee Corp., is just one of
many activities in a long-range plan focusing
on the school goal. Piggot said cultural diver
sity is not only one of Carver's principles, but
one that is included in the strategic initiative
of the entire school system.
Sara Lee adopted Carver about eight
years ago as a business partner, during which
time the company has been assisting the
school to develop different programs. Piggot
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