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lege offers. She will work on
Wall Street with the J.P.
Morgan firm.
Dawn Webb was a recipient
of WXII's Jefferson Award for
outstanding community ser
vice. Of the five regional
recipients, Webb was chosen
as the one finalist to advance
to a national competition in
Washington, D.C. in late June.
Webb will be working with
Big brothers/Big Sisters in
Winston-Salem, for which she
volunteered while a student a
Salem.
BOND
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That's news to Norma Smith,
chair of the East Winston
Development Task Force
(EWDTF). "I was just recently
informed that none of the eco
nomic development money was
earmarked for East Winston," said
Smith.
Former mayor Wayne
Corpening, who created the
EWDTF in 1988, originally
assigned Joines as staff support
for the organization. When the
city hired economic coordinator
Janet DeCreny several years later,
the EWDTF was included among
her other responsibilities.
Smith said that neither Joines
nor Mayor Martha Wood attend
EWDTF meetings. Joines attends
almost every meeting concerning
downtown development, and has
at least one full-time staff member
assigned to work on that enter
prise.
"At one time I felt there was a
genuine interest on the part of city
government in the East Winston
Development Task Force," said
Smith. Over the past few years.
Smith said, that interest dried up.
"The fact that none of the eco
nomic development money has
been earmarked for East Winston
speaks volumes," Smith added.
For some in city government,
the debate is chicken-or-the-egg.
"No one is stopping [the
EWDTF] from progressing," said
Alderman Nelson Malloy of the
North Ward. Malloy and hast
Ward alderman Joycelyn V.
Johnson said that the task force
seems to have run out of steam on
their own accord.
"They don't meet. They cancel
their meetings," Johnson said.
Smith admitted that the EWDTF
did call off their last meeting,
scheduled for May 13. But, said
Smith, that was only the second
meeting canceled in the last six
months.
Committees of the task force
meet regularly. Smith added.
However, the committees do not
usually convene at the task force's
scheduled meeting place, the plan
ning board conference room in the
basement of city hall.
Smith said these committees
are identifying new projects for the
task force to assist. The EWDTF
is also planning to assist the revi
talization of businesses in the
Liberty Street area.
The Liberty Street project's
master plan, contracted by
Jackson Person and Associates
from Memphis, Tenn., was recent
ly completed. Though aldermen
won't vote on the plan until July,
most assure that the vote is simply
a formality and the plan will pass.
If the $2.6 million bond passes,
the architectural plan would use
the money for indirect economic
development. Street-scaping and
other visual improvements would
be made, in hopes a tidied Liberty
Street would attract more busi
ness
APOLOGY
from page A1
After the apology, Clinton
; announced plans to help Tuskegee
University build a bioethics center
that will serve as a memorial to
? those who suffered the experi
ments.
The president also extended the
charter of the National Bioethics
Advisory Commission to October
1999, which he hopes will main
tain national focus on bio-ethical
issues and potentially strengthen
protection for human research
subjects.
GRAHAM
from page AI
that attitude can be, based on my
own personal experiences."
The nine steps themselves are
described by Graham as guide
lines to a process, rather than
goals that are reached and then
left behind.
"1 wrote this book to teach the
process of success, how it works,"
he states. "Once you understand
my first step, which talks about
self-awareness. Finding out who
you are and what your strengths
and weaknesses are, then you can
go on to step two and build a
vision for yourself. Once you
build your vision, you can move
on to step three and build a trav
el plan, which talks about prepar
ing for the journey to success and
so on. Each step leads you to the
next, so that it is understanding
that this is a continuous proce
dure that is most important."
The nine steps in Graham's
book are 1. Check your ID, 2.
Create your vision, 3. Develop
your travel plan, 4. Master the
rules of the road, 5. Step into the
"Outer Limits," 6. Pilot the sea
son of change, 7. Build your
"Dream Team," 8. Win by a deci
sion, 9. Commit to your vision.
He believes these steps are funda
mental in climbing the ladder of
prosperity.
"These steps have developed
as a I have developed," said
Graham of the nine guides in his
book. "And that speaks to the
idea that success is a journey ?
life is a journey, and it's not
about the end result; it's about
the process of going through it."
He freely admits that each of
these steps were difficult to mas
ter and that none were more chal
lenging for him than the first:
checking his own ID.
"I think the hardest step for
me was self-awareness, becoming
aware of who I was as a person"
said Graham candidly. "I had
received so many different mes
sages growing up and I didn't
understand. Everything around
was built on the notion of race,
and I didn't have the images nor
did I have the direction to find
out who I was. No one taught me
how to do that, and no one
showed me."
"Once I found that (self
awareness), everything around
me became secondary to who I
thought I was as a person. And
once I understood who I was,
that was my base, and I was then
able to blaze my own trails."
Graham's commitment to
community service includes,
among others, the founding of
Athletes Against Drugs (AAD),
a nonprofit organization of ath
letes and other civic leaders com
mitted to eliminating drug use
among young people; service on
the board of directors for the
National Urban League and
National Junior Achievement;
and service on both the North
Carolina Governor's
Commission for Savings and
Loans and the North Carolina
Governor's Council for Physical
Fitness & Health. He believes
that success is not merely mea
sured in business achievements
alone. He acknowledges that that
belief spurred him to write a
book that was not simply a
chronicle to business success or a
record of his own personal tri
umph.
?
"1 don't want to be known as a
motivational person," said
Graham. "What I want to be able
do is to inspire people to moti
vate themselves. I try to do that
by teaching them some tools that
they can take and learn for them
selves and then apply them to
anything they are involved in."
It would appear by public
consumption that Graham has
been able to, at the very least,
motivate people into bookstores.
"You Can Make It Happen" has
made the New York Times best
sellers list for business books,
and that, Graham said, has been
a truly satisfying achievement.
"For me, making that list was
a great accomplishment," he said,
"I never thought I'd write a
book, and to be able to do that
and to be able to talk about my
own journey is truly gratifying."
Graham said that he takes the
charge of teaching the process of
success very seriously. He feels
that learning the process is the
key to African-American upward
mobility, and consequently, the
path to freedom.
"Success gives you freedom,
and freedom is the greatest,
greatest, greatest gift in the
world," he said. "I've found it
myself and I know how wonder
ful it is for me as a person to have
it, and then to help someone else
discover it, it just creates all
opportunities. Then you become
a 'thinking' human being and
you're not enslaved to anything."
"I think that more than any
body else, African-Americans
need that more than anything
else, and that's what we haven't
been getting. I just hope that I
can provide a forum where peo
ple begin to think, so we can
reduce the drop-out rate, reduce
the violence in our community
and improve the quality of our
lives."
Graham will return to
Winston later this month as part
H>f the celebrity field of golfers
who will battle the greens of
Bermuda Run Country Club at
this year's Crosby National
Celebrity Tournament. This will
be Graham's fifth straight
Crosby, and he has nothing but
praise for the tournament and for
Winston-Salem.
"Winston-Salem is one of the
finest communities in the coun
try, and North Carolina is just a
wonderful state," he said. "My
family is from there and any
chance I get to come to North
Carolina, I love it."
"I know the Crosby very well,
and it's a fun time because you
get to see people you know, and I
get to see a lot of people in
Winston-Salem. For me that's a
great opportunity."
Graham said he is encouraged
by the growing diversity of spec
tators at the tournament.
"I'm glad to see more black
people out at the Crosby as well,"
he said.
Graham also divulged that he
has entered this year's Crosby
with his eye on the gold. He
believes that his golf game is as
good as it has ever been.
I haven't played in a long time,
but I'm more relaxed this year, so
I don't have all the anxiety I used
to have. That's probably why it's
better," he said. "I just don't take
it as seriously as I used to."
HABITAT
from page AI
"sweat equity" hours.
Four out of the 24 members
serving on Habitat's board are
African-American; one is a
Habitat homeowner. Donahue
said that the board's African
American representation has
been consistent since she first
began serving, over three years
ago.
It's tough to get volunteers,
period, said Donahue.
"This is serious volunteer
work," she said. "It takes a lot of
time and a lot of dedication."
Deronda Kee Lucas, an
African-American member of
the board, admitted that there
are more white volunteers than
black, and said the problem may
be with misconceptions of the
volunteer process.
"A lot of people I speak to
think you have to be part of a
group to volunteer," said Lucas.
"[But] anybody can help out at
anytime."
Lucas added that many
African Americans who volun
teer for other organizations have
told her that they think Habitat
never suffers for lack of volun
teers. These people instead
choose to dedicate their time to
fledgling organizations or pro
grams sponsored by churches.
As an ecumenical, Christian
based organization. Habitat has
had some success courting
African-American churches. The
Congregations of the United
Methodist Church sponsored five
houses at Patterson Avenue and
13th Street. The project involved
a number of black Methodist
churches, said Morgan.
"We are always trying to get
more minority groups involved,"
said Donahue.
However, the shortage of
black volunteers doesn't mean
Habitat's leaders begrudge the
African-American community's
level of involvement, Morgan
said.
"We are not critical and have
not been critical of the efforts of
the black community," said
Morgan.
BRAINSTORM
from page Al
forward.
"We have not had the black
business people come in and talk
to us," said Alderman Vivian
Burke, who represents the
Northeast Ward.
"We do have some people in
our community who do have some
money," said Malloy. "We can't
always look to the city to develop
businesses for us."
Allowing large industry to set
up shop in East Winston may not
be the answer, said Malloy. "[We
could] do a site and establish that
a company will come in who are
not African-American," said
Malloy. "I don't consider that eco
nomic development because the
money doesn't stay in the commu
nity." i
The aldermen agreed that there
are pockets where black-owned
businesses thrive. Johnson pointed
to the 14th Street area, and said
strong community involvement
has revitalized that section of her
ward.
Burke mentioned that a strong
business presence along the
Liberty Street corridor sparked
the Chamber of Commerce's
interest in the Liberty Street pro
ject.
"We could show where we were
generating all those dollars ? and
we didn't get any incentives to do
it," said Burke.
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