Colleges, museum
get funds for black
studies programs
? XJJH IAL TO THE CHRON1CLI
'<l' WASHINGTON
?'African-American studies in
I North Carolina will get a
??boost thanks to $460,432 in
?twanis from the National
. ^foidowment for the Humani
Wfcs, Sen. John Edwards
J?J?nounced oil Friday.
"Scholars across North
Ijljrrolina are learning more
* find more about our country's
rich and varied history."
Edwards said. "Students of
African-American history in
particular are unearthing the
diverse but often forgotten
voices of the past, giving us
all new insights into who we
are as a nation."
' | N.C. Central University
won $225,000 to enhance ele
mentary and middle school
' curricula that address African
? American history. The grant
will help the Thomas Day
Education Project expand a
successful statewide outreach
pi WU Ulll
nation
wide.
The
project
is named
after one
of North
Caroli
na's
most
Edwards famous
cabinet
makers and furniture crafts
men. Edwards wrote a letter
of support for this application
last year.
The University of North
Carolina a^-Chapel Hill will
receive $1J$.87I to preserve
oral history recordings of
Set' Colleges on A4
Frye to keynote
WSSU convocation
, SPECIAL TO THE CHHONICU
Henry E. Frye. retired chief
. Justice of the N.C. Supreme
Court, will deliver the keynote
address at Winston-Salem State
Universi
ty's 2(X)2 r
Ho n o r s
Convoca
! tion on
T h u r s -
' day, April
18. at 5
in I
'"Kenneth I
:*? I
. Williams ?
; Audi ton- rrye
? um.
< Frye practiced law in
! Greensboro for 21 years and
; was admitted to the federal Dis
? trict. Fourth Circuit Court of
I Appeals and to the U.S.
J Supreme Court.
He holds an impressive list
of firsts in North Carolina histo
ry. The first African American to
be elected to the N.C. House of
Representatives in the 20th cen
tury in 1968, Frye served in the
House for 12 years and was then
elected to a two-year term in the
N.C. Senate.
In 1983 he became the first
African American to serve on
the N.C. Supreme Court. In Sep
tember 1999 he was appointed
by Gov. James Hunt to serve as
chief justice of the Supreme
Coun. another first. He ran for
election in the general election
in November 2000 and was
defeated by a member of the
court. Justice I. Beverly Lake Jr.
Frye retired from the court
effective January 2001 and
joined the law firm of Brooks,
Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey
& Leonard, LLP. Frye was also
.Sir Frye on A10
WSSU building computer center
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE
? ....
Members of (he Winston
Salem State University administra
tion and stall along with members
from the local business and tech
nology community broke ground
on a brand new computer science
facility on the WSSU campus April
3. Construction will begin this
week.
The building is the second of
nine major construction projects
that the university plans to under
take with the $42.3 million in bond
money approved by state voters in
2000.
The new 62,000 square foot,
$12.3 million computer science
facility will be constructed next to
the physical science building,
which is being renovated. Universi
ty officials are calling the new
building symbolic because it will
U..II. ?i-_ l- -i<
uuui up me scnuoi s presence on
the north side of Martin Luther
King Jr. Drive. The new building
. ... Image courtesy of WSSl
An artist s rendering of the new building.
ai>u win uc locaieu aajacent to me soon-to-oe
restored F.L. Atkins Building, a historic house
that once was home to WSSU's founder,
Simon Green Atkins.
Chancellor Harold L. Martin called the
occasion a historic event and said the new
building will link the university to Winston
Salem and the downtown area Research and
Development Park as well as stimulate eco
nomic development.
"This groundbreaking signals the continu
ation of the university's aggressive construc
tion schedule for several building and renova
tion projects planned for our campus over the
next few years," Martin said.
The new facility will be the first of its kind
on the campus of WSSU. It will house class
rooms. laboratories, faculty offices and admin
istrative facilities specifically for the computer
science department.
PIK.j i,.?. ,? .?
i^iuu JUIIVH, V1ICUI Ki 1 IIIV vuilipuivi SV1V1IW I
department, shared her excitement about the '
groundbreaking for the building that will serve
as a computing hub for the entire university.
She told the history of the computer science
department.
"These less than ideal facilities in no way
diminished the (computer science) program."
Jones said. "In fact, I think it put emphasis for
us to make a stronger program."
Jones also spoke of the great impact and
opportunity this new facility will create for the
university and community at large.
The computer science department at
WSSU has come a long way from its meager
beginnings when one class had to use the
administrative computer facilities during
lunchtime.
The department's next home was a
makeshift lab in Hill Hall, which Jones said
1
rnoio by C ourtnev (millard
Several members of the WSSU family took part in the groundbreaking.
displaced a few members of the science
department. That location made way for the
information superhighway to travel through
WSSU. After two more moves, the faculty and
staff of the computer science department made
a final relocation into Carolina Hall (with addi
tional labs in the R.J. Reynolds Centerl. where
it currently is housed.
Others who joined Chancellor Martin in
the "ceremonial dirt tossing" included Brenda
Diggs. board of trustees member: Melvin
Johnson, vice chairman: Elva Jones, chairper
son of the computer science department;
Tiffany Green, computer science student:
Anthony Wright, computer science alumnus:
Angus Small of information resources: and
Bill Dean, president of Idealliance and presi
dent of Piedmont Triad Research Park.
State Reps. Warren Oldham and Larry
Womble along with other local officials such
as Alderman Joycelyn Johnson expressed their
support and satisfaction with a new academic
building on campus. All made statements
about the building's future place in the land
scape of this historic African-American educa
tional institution.
Womble, a WSSU graduate, said, "I'm
glad to see that WSSU has a mission, and a
vision that we're going to be the best regional
university in the state of North Carolina."
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