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Local Scout
leaders get
awards
Sigers and Sunday
have spent years with
Scouting program
BYCORTNEY L.HILL
THE CHRONICLE
Dedicating close to 70 years
Combined in servicing children in
the Scouting program paid off
recently for scoutmasters John
Sigers and Marcallus Sunday as
they received prestigious honors
and awards for their outstanding
leadership and achievement over
th< past year.
^.?Unplanned, Sigers and Sunday
nominated each another for the
Jwards. Sigers was selected and
JWfirded the highest honor in
Scouting, the Silver Beaver Award,
while Sunday received the Cub
ScOut Master of the Year award.
*"lt is such an honor being
named Cub Scout Master of the
Year," said Sunday.
Sunday was chosen out of cub
masters from five to six other dis
tricts.
Sigers said Sunday is the first
minority to be awarded the honor
in 20 years.
For Sunday, being part of the
Scouting program for 22 years
means a great deal. "When you are
a scoutmaster, you are making a
difference," he said. "You have the
ability to ofler something to the
children that they may not be able
to get anywhere else."
Sigers, a retired educator (34
years of teaching) and scoutmaster
for 14 years, has seen 13 Scouts in
his troop receive the Eagle Scout
Award. He said he is able to serve
as a father and a teacher by giving
them some of the things that they
may not get at home. "Being part
of Scouting is like an extension of
home," he said.
"I was part of the Boy Scouts
growing up and 1 was able to expe
rience growth just as these students
are experiencing today."
Receiving the Silver Beaver
Award was a wonderful honor for
Sigers. "It's an unusual award
because you had to have been in the
Scouting program for a long time
and be very much involved and
producing quality work at the same
time."
Sigers and Sunday said boys
who get involved in Scouting are
exposed to life and life's skills, and
they earn about integrity and have
an opportunity to obtain some
kind of direction in life.
"The program itself is broken
down in stages, just like grade
school," said Sunday. "You have
the first stage where the boys from
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Photos by Kevin Walker
Assistant Superintendent Reginald league, with microphone, answers a question from Bill Tatum, pres
ident of the local chapter of the NAACP, at last week's forum on the proposed school bonds.
Half-empty or half-full?
Populate already existing schools before
building new ones, residents say
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
In its heyday, Kimberley Park
Elementary School, nestled in
the heart of an inner-city,
African-American community,
was bursting at the seams. Par
ents from all over Forsyth Coun
ty vied to win their little ones
spots in the school's highly-tout
ed academically gifted program,
which was one of a few such pro
grams in the county at the time.
Today the school is merely a
shadow of its former self. The
program is gone; it took with it
much of the school's population.
Only 282 students started the
current school year enrolled at
Kimberley Park. The school can
hold up 342 students, according
to school system data.
Kimberley Park and other
schools like it are becoming key
subjects in the growing discus
sion about a possible school
bond referendum that could be
put to county voters this
November.
The $200 million bond pro
posals being talked up by school
officials call for the construction
of six to seven new schools and
the renovations of dozens more.
But some feel that the school
system should not even begin to
discuss building new schools
while schools like Kimberley
Park and other inner-city
schools can still hold students.
The issue was broached sev
eral times last week during a
community forum on the bonds
sponsored by the Black Leader
ship Roundtable
"We need to use the space we
have... before we spend one
dime," said Floy Howie, the edu
cation committee chair of the
Roundtable.
Howie said her concerns are
personal and not necessarily the
position of her organization.
Roundtable convener Larry
Womble said the organization
will hold one more community
forum on the subject before it
gives thumbs up or thumbs
down on the bond issue.
School system officials said
the new schools are needed not
necessarily today but for the pro
jected onslaught of students
expected in the system in the
next five years.
"The need is there for
schools," said Reginald Teague,
assistant superintendent for
operations. Teague joined Greg
Thornton, assistant superinten
dent for middle schools, and
Steve Holletnan, a program
manager for the system, to field
questions from residents.
Some residents countered by
asserting that the need for new
schools would not be so great if
the system had not implemented
a redistricting plan that did away
See Bonds on A4
Bluntly Speaking
College students tackle the harsh realities of race
BY T KEVIN WALKER
OS CHRONICLE
An African-American college
student from a local university told a
roomful of his peers that racial pro
filing hit close to home recently. The
student spoke at a panel discussion
sponsored by the Cross Campus
Committee on Racial Reconcilia
tion, a group comprised of students
from various Triad universities.
The student said as he and
another African-American student
waited for a city bus on the campus
of their university, a police car
began to circle. The car finally
stopped and the officer began to ask
the students questions. After they
explained they were students at the
school, the officer admitted that he
had received a call from a secretary
in a nearby building that two
"strange men" were hanging out on
the campus.
"(Racial profiling) makes you
feel singled out. especially in an envi
ronment where you are already a
minority," the student said. "If you
have not experienced it. it's hard to
explain."
The student's story came as the
panel and a packed house of stu
dents from across the Triad dis
cussed the topic of stereotyping and
racial profiling on the campus of
Salem College.
Many on the panel and in the
audience agreed with the student's
statement that it's hard for those
wno nave not
experienced
discrimina
tion to fully
grasp it.
A k u a
Asra, a Wake
Forest Uni
versity stu
dent, said
that people
who have not
been victims
of racial pro
tiling and other forms of discrimina
tion can sympathize, but feeling it is
totally differ
understand I
it. you do E
have to expe- r
rience it." she I
Bull
Natalie Stew- I
art, a Bennett |
College
senior, said
just because some people will never
understand how racism feels, it
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Stay clear of wrong
crowd, judge urges
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Speaking to young people has
been a kind of a side job for Judge
James Beaty. It's a side job that he
has kept despite his recent ascen
sion to the federal bench.
Beaty was in Winston-Salem
last weekend talking to young peo
ple about the law how it works,
how he got into it and how they can
avoid staying out trouble with the
law.
Beaty says he likes his discus
sions with young people to be both
educational ' and preventive in
nature.
Beaty said when circumstances
would land a young person in his
courtroom, it often led him back to
his own home.
"It thought about my own
child," he said.
Beaty cited peer pressure as one
of the main reasons youngsters go
astray. He urged the young people
on hand for the talk to pick their
friends well.
"It's important to be in the right
crowd," he said.
Beaty's law clerk joined him for
the event. She talked to the students
about how to enter the law profes
sion, telling them how to apply for
Beaty
law schools and how to prepare for
the standardized test required for all
prospective law students.
Beaty, a Thomasville native, sits
on the U.S. District Court Middle
N.C. District. He made headlines
during the administration of for
mer President Bill Clinton. The for
mer president nominated Beaty
twice to the U.S. Court of Appeals
Set Judge tin A9
School Board members Geneva Brown and Vic Johnson listen to
speakers express themselves about the bonds.
Daniels
Thrift
Black NCSA grads return to share success stories
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
With stars in their eyes, a group of bright-faced,
young N.C. School of the Arts students jotted down
mental notes as they intently listened to a trio of school
alumni who are living the life that they are studying to
live.
Awareness of Black. Artists, a campus organization
geared toward addressing the needs of the black stu
dents, helped facilitate the roundtable discussion earlier
this week in order to give students a taste of what life in
the arts is like for an African American. The NCSA
alums who participated have had illustrious careers
mainly on the stages of Broadway and Off-Broadway
playhouses
Two of them. Ron Dortch and Stephen Henderson,
graduated from NCSA in the early 1970s, when black
faces on campus were few and far between. Henderson
told the students that he gave up a spot a Julliard to
come to NCSA. It was during a turbulent time for
Sc, NCSA on A9
Photos by Allen Aycock/ NCSA
More Johnson
Ron Dortch
Stephen Henderson
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