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NORTH CAKOm|A g? -? ?p?h m Honor class of 1934. Seated first row (l-r): Mary Hopkins , Ella Etta Mason, Erastine Williams, Florence Ren nick, Alma Lowe Amos, Emily Harper and John Ledbetter. Second row (l-r): Delmos Cloud, Clarice Scales Parrish , Thelma P. Thompson, Esther Y. H org raves , Mary J. Haskins , Lorenzo Johnson, Evelyn Sloan, Lor raine Hair st on Morton , and Mabel Perry. Police Chief Promotes Black Officers from page 1 v>ct?r A J ro Robinson, a native of Winston-Salem, was promoted to sergeant from senior police officer. He is assigned to the Crimes Against Property Section in Crimi nal Investigations. "I have always been a positive person," Robin son said "I hope I can bring a positive message in my leadership duties. My goal one day is to be chief." A graduate of Catawba College, Robinson began working with the police department in August 1986. "Vic Robinson has shown proven leadership on the street," Sweat said. Robinson and his wife, Terri, tfhye four chil dren: Zachary, Victor, Brandon, and Rachel. DelRay Anthony, a native of Winston-Salem, was promoted to senior officer. The promotions career as a police officer in July 1991, and he! has been assigned to the field Services Bureau. Anthony and his wife, Sharon, have two sons, Del Ray Jr. and Brandon. ] : Robert A. Evans, a native of Winston-Salem, was also promoted to senior officer. He is assigned to the 200 Sector COPS Program. MI am very excited and glad to be promoted," Evans said. "My goal is to be chief one day." A graduate of West Forsyth High School, Evans served five years in the U.S. Navy. He joined the police department in June 1990. Evans has been assigned to the Field Services Patrol Division since completing training. "Evans assumed a leadership role as a commu nity oriented police officer," Sweat said. Evans and his wife, Khadija E. Evans, have two children, Aliyah and Michael. gives Anthony a "chance to lead by exam ple," he said. Anthony earned a bachelor's degree from Elon College and contin ued his studies with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Anthony, a captain for the 105th Engineering Group in the N.C. National Guard, is assigned to the 200 Sec tor Foot Patrol Squad A. "DelRay has done an excellent job in the foot patrol unit, "Sweat said. "He has done some very good community service work as well." Anthony began his Chief Sweat congratulates Victor Robinson on his promotion to sergeant. Robin son *s family members joined Robinson on the podium with the chigf. i Classes of the 1930's Reunite from page 1 } coaxing." During the two-day reunion, the group reacquainted them selves with their former school mates with fellowship, casino night, business meetings and a closing banquet. At the business meeting, Edythe Williams, class of 1932, was chosen president of the reunion for 1995-1997. The speaker at the closing banquet, Rev. James Donald Bal lard of United Metropolitan Bap tist Church, told the classes that life becomes a stage of activities and opportunities to pick out of life the opportunities life has afforded you. "To find the bright spot, you have to look to it and find a focus in life because it has foun dation," Ballard said. Atkins High School and Columbian Heights High School were the only high schools that African-Americans could attend in the city during the Jim Crow era. Ruffin Predicts Twin City Will Keep CIAA Tourney until 1999 from page 1 people in Winston-Salem do great job in hosting the tourna ment. They are sensitive to the needs of the schools. I haven't heard any bad comments about Winston-Salem." Ruffin said the Joel Coli seum, which has a seating . . capacity of \ 4,500, was ade quate accommodations for the crowds expected to attend the weeklong tournament. Kerry added that tournaments were sold out in 1994 and 1995. Coliseums in Charlotte and Greensboro seat more than 20,000 each, and may be too large for the CIAA, a NCAA* Division JI conference. * "Our facility can accommo date the CIAA," Ruffin said. "It would be packed, and that is a much better on television than 6,000 empty seats in Charlotte?* or Greensboro". The Joel Coliseum is sched uled to host the CIAA tourna ment in February 1996. The city lured the CIAA tournament from Richmond in 1994 with $1.3 million guarantee. More than $200,000 went for scholarships at the 14 CIAA schools. The tournament has gener ated $8 million to the local econ omy each of the last two years. "We do a good job putting on the event," Ruffin said. "We lOioW what Wfc can dO'to accom modate the event." The committee has invited the chancellors and presidents of the CIAA s 13-member institu tion to attend the the National Black Theater Festival, which will be held in Winston-Salem from July 31 to Aug. 5. "They are still responding," Ruffin said. "We want to get their input about keeping the tournament in Winston-Salem." Hampton Institute, a peren nial football power in the confer ence, left th? ClAA conference last week to join the MEAC. "We have been working for several months to be ready for that bid," said Mayor Martha S. Wood, co-chairman of the com mittee. "The CIAA Tournament is very important to our city." African American business people have complained that too little of the $8 million genErated by the CIAA tournament have its way into their coffers. "We ain't got nothing, so we can't get nothing," Mose Belton-Brown, chairman of the East Area Coun cil of the Chamber of Commerce told theChronicle last February. "Money is made off of hotels and restaurants. It's hard for us because what we have is mostly mom and pop shops that are so far removed from the coliseum area. So black business in gent eral don't make nothing." Ruffin said that minority businesses received about $40,000 for catering, printing, photography, and transportation services. "We had some umstiflf ipated problems with our ven dors last year," Ruffin said. "We have not close ourselves off from any criticism." McCants Begins Responsibilities at WSSU from page 1 drawing board, will be making a tremendous mistake." In addition to the plans of 1 accrediting various academic programs, enrollment for the university will also a concern. Over the next five years, the ; plan is to increase the enrollment : to approximately 3,600 students. ; And, within ten years holding I the enrollment to somewhere ! between 4,000 - 4,500. "That (4,000 - 4,500 stu dents) would still make us unique in the UNC system," McCants said. "We don't want to ; duplicate other universities, in . terms of enrollment size because our smallness and our closeness have been positive for us." The Associated Press reported last week that the poli cies of historically black institu tions were too lenient when it came to students retaking courses compared to other uni versities in the North Carolina system. Currently at WSSU, the pol icy for repeating a class is that a student can repeat a class as many times as he wants if the grade is a D or F. And, only the highest grade will be added into the grade point average. If a stu dent receives anything higher than a D, and chooses to repeat a course, both grades will be com puted into the grade point aver age, said Michelle Beal in the Office of the Registrar at WSSU. In response to the article, McCants said that other univer sities in the system had the same type of policies, but changed them. , "It's not a black - white thing," he said. "There are still assumptions concerning black institutions, that we make things easier. But, I would challenge anyone to take courses just to see how tough it is." McCants plans to revisit the policy and let the faculty if the faculty decide what the policy should be, because they are the academic leaders of the institu tion. And, they're the ones who give the grades, he said. Working in General Admin istration for the University of North Carolina System, McCants took on special assign ments to solve the problems using his skills as best he could. He came to WSSU in 1981 as special assistant to the chancel lor. "I have a ph d. in administra tion and higher education. This is what I am trained to do. While other people come to work, I come to my play ground where I have my biggest fun," he said. McCants leadership style is quite simple and almost democ ratic. It's important to him to get advice and counsel from various sources, with the understanding that as chief executive, he will have to make the final decision. "I think that we should hear from people where the rubber meets the road - those people who do the work," he said. "But, when making decisions with of millions of dollars, you don't get 100 percent consensus." Being the vice-president for student affairs at Virginia State University, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Arkansas and director of spe cial programs with the Univer sity of North Carolina General Administration played a part in preparing McCants for this posi tion. "For me this is a logical step in the process of what I've been doing," McCants said. McCants was nominated for chancellor of WSSU and will be considered for the position. But, that is not his primary concern because the work of the univer sity goes on. "Even if I'm not here, hope fully in the time that I do spend, I would have accomplished a representative job, whereby a new person can come in and make an easy transition in this office." The $14 million, 100,00 square foot student center that is currently being built is a month ahead of schedule and will be similar to a mall, McCants said. ; "It will be one-stop shop ping," he said. Students, now when they come to the university ... are like a basketball being bounced all over the place." With this new center, they can go to admissions, financial aid, registrar and pay their bill. Woman at Odds with Real Estate Office from page 1 and lot located on North Poplar Street from the Finance commit tee's consent agenda for its April meeting. Stuart requested that the item be pulled from the agenda so additional staff work could be cjpne on the project. J Southwest Alderman Lynne Harpe was concerned that the c)ty was accepting the an offer to start the bidding process that was less than the balance due of $2ft,500 on the defaulted loan, according to city records. '"My understanding was that my bid s; i i have been submit ted to ihe iiOv.rd of Aiucrmen in tially instead 01 : e hid by Je^ Rosenquist," Ama>" - Real Estate office J out, and submitted k . "u?k s I. They wanted him pioperty over me." \maker took her complaints about u:* bidding process and the condition oi *he home to Win ston-Salem Mayor Martha S. Wood and the aldermen's Gen eral Government Committee for community development and housing in June. "I regret that your experience in trying to buy this property did not meet your expectations of city service," Wood said in a let ter to Amaker. "Your willingness to speak candidly about the process, however, has resulted in several immediate improve ments." The city acquired tne prop w . ty in November 1994 alter the owner efaulted on a home improvement loan made by the Housing Services Department. The city staff was carrying out its management duties to obtain the highest amount possi ble for the property, Fredericks said. "With the knowledge that Mr. Rosenquist would have an opportunity to submit an offer the ten day upset bid period," Fredericks said, "I agreed to sub mit her offer on the property to the Board of Aldermen for its consideration in May." Following the upset bid by Rosenquist, Amaker withdrew her bid and requested her deposit of $1,250 be returned to her, Frederick said. "As a result of this situation, we have decided to change our procedures," he said. "In the future, the city will only accept one offer at a time wiii not accept another bid until the first offer has been accepted by the Board of Aldermen and advertised for upset bids." Amaker first contacted the city housing officials in August 1994 to apply for a city loan. She saw the house advertised for sale on Channel 13 on cable televi sion. "I like the basic layout of the house, " she said. "I knew that the house needed a lot of work. It was in bad shape." The city's Neighborhood Improvement Program spent $29,650 to repair the house in 1983, according to a city work order. At that time, Larry R. and Susan M. Taylor owned the house, and Design Concepts per formed the repair work that included replacing rotten wood and the roof, installing a carpet, i toilet, and bathroom sink, and interior and exterior painting, the work order stated. Amaker called the repairs "patchwork" that used substan dard materials. She has several photographs that show the house in poor condition. Nevertheless, a city housing inspector approved the repairs on June 25, 1983. "All work had been satisfactorily completedy," said Ritchie Brooks, the city's housing services director. In May, the city estimated that the house needed $35,357 in repairs to pass the city's housing codes. The owner of the house failed to kc A houc goo( repair during uie past ? , years, Brook said, ^dding that the city has received several complaints about the property. "We have had reports of drug dealing and wild parties with folks riding motorcycles a t that location/' Brooks said. 41 trash earns have been filed beer and wine bottles. It was a bad situation. Cockerham said that t| neighbors also complaint vagrants often lived in t dwelling. Amaker discounted the cit] i explanations for the condition rf; the property. I; "I want the people in the city to know what is going in the city government," Amaker said. 4*Tlie citv doesn't have the ri<*ht^tn~? - ? >: w ? UtC suppose 10 oe worxm^: in the best interests of the pub-. ? lie." !fr
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