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Groups make digital divide narrower
BY COURTNEY GA1LLARD
THE CHRONICLE
WinsionNet is attempting to bridge
the digital divide in Forsyth County.
This afternoon, the group will celebrate
the opening of community computer
labs across the
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county ai ine c an
H. Russell Recre
ation Center. The
recreation center is
one of the 11 loca
tions that will be
online as of today.
W i n s t o n N e t.
part of Idealliance.
is a nonprofit com
munity outreach ot Dinkins
academic, social
and corporate institutions seeking to
increase public access to computers and
the Internet.
The WinstonNet concept is a huge
component of Idealliance, said Kriss
Dinkins. director of support and out
i
reach services for Wake Forest Universi
ty. WinstonNet ties in with the burgeon
ing biotechnology center. Wake Forest is
among the various partners in Winston
Net.
"We want to be a city known for
state-of-the-art technology, and this is
really a piece of that," Dinkins said. "If
(students) don't have time to finish an
assignment in school, our dream is that
you can come to one of these centers and
work on your project."
Community computer labs will open
at the Sedge Garden, Sprague Street,
14th Street and Reynolds Park recre
ation centers along with community
knowledge centers at St. Benedict the
Moor, St. James AME, Union Baptist,
Goler Memorial AME Zion, United Met
ropolitan Missionary Baptist and Cen
tral Library of the Forsyth County Pub
lic Library. Before the expansion, there
were 24 WinstonNet computers in five
agencies around the city.
See WinstonNet on A5 People work in the new computer lab at the Carl Russell Center.
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* Photo hy Kevin Walker
Well-known actress Kim
Fields was in Winston
Salem Tuesday to help
Larry Leon Hamlin and
other celebrities kick off
the 2003 National Black
Theatre Festival, which will
come to the city Aug. 4-9.
Fields, shown here signing
an autograph for a fan
after a news conference at
the Sawtooth Center, is
producing and starring in
the Neil Simon play "Bare
foot in the Park" at the fes
tival. Other celebrities
scheduled to be in the city
for the festival include Dia
hann Carroll, Ben Vereen
and Malcolm Jamal-Warn
er, who will serve as a
celebrity co-chair of the
event. For more informa
tion about the festival, see
page A10.
Brianne Davis
Tyler Fulton
Diggs students are
among few picked
for science program
BY CHASIDY PHELPS
FOR THE CHRONICLE
Two of Wirtston-Salem's
own - Brianne Davis and
Tyler Fulton - have been
selected to participate in the
first-ever Z. Smith Reynolds
Young Scholars Discover
Week.
The event will take place
at N.C. State University.
There, selected students will
take part in a mock experi
ment to design a colony on a
distant planet. Only 32 stu
dents from 16 N.C. schools
received this honor. Davis
and Fulton are rising fourth
graders at Diggs Elementary
School.
Students were chosen
based on their performance in
after-school programs, such as
reading and math. The Young
Scholars Program is a network
of after-school programs that
incorporate academics with
opportunities for personal
growth. Scholars will be
responsible for creating hous
ing. transportation, culture,
laws and an educational sys
tem for the faux planet colony.
Discover Week is designed
See Students on A10
Black
entities
unite to
'work'
New education group
vou'5 to do less talk
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONIC! E
When members of the Black
Leadership Roundtable, Win
ston-Salem Urban League.
NAACP and Ministers Confer
ence gathered in January to
develop new ways to combat the
challenges that local black stu
dents face, the Rev. Carlton
Eversley thought the new group
should have a name that would
make an immediate statement to
the com
munity.
They
call them
selves the
Working
Group on
African
American
Educa
tion
because, Eversley
according
to Eversley. the group will be
less about talk and more about
action. \,.
"am not interested in being
in a talking group. 1 am interest
ed in being in a working group,"
said Eversley, the group's con
vener.
Work has just begun for the
group, which meets every sec
ond Monday at Eversley's
church, Dellabrook Presbyterian.
Group members had their com
ing out at a recent School Board
meeting where several members
spoke in favor of the school sys
tem keeping the VIP program
(which the board refused to do).
Eversley also informed mem
bers of CHANGE (Communities
Helping All Neighbors Gain
Empowerment) about the group
at CHANGE'S most recent meet
ing. He even got the hundreds of
members of CHANGE to vote in
Sec Entities on A5
Reunited - and it feels so good
Carver High School Class of 1953 celebrates 50 years as classmates 7
BY FELEC1A P MCMILLAN - |
COMMUNITY CORRESPOND! N I
On May 21, 1953. 70 grad
uates of Carver High School
marched into the gymnasium
to receive their diplomas and
awards. Valedictorian Juanifii
Eldridge delivered a speech at
graduation, but William Deb
nam, the salutatorian, gave his
address on Class Day.
Eldridge will revisit some
of the same remarks she made
for graduation during the 50th
reunion celebration this week
end. She still has the original'
manuscript of the speech she
delivered 50 years ago.
"As we depart from the
halls of Carver High School to
come into unknown paths of
life and venture into unchar
tered courses of experience,
may we build upon the foun
dation of knowledge we have
received," Eldridge said.
On Friday afternoon, more
than 30 members of the class
met at the Carl Russell Center
for their "Meet, Greet, and
Eat" session. They had a ban
quet Saturday night at the
Hawthorne Inn and Confer
ence Center, worship service
at Friendship Baptist Church,
and a farewell luncheon at the
church.
Debnam welcomed his
Photo hy Felecia McMillan
Hannah Eldridge, Alice Allen, Jetfie Hart Perry, William Debnam and Thaxton Tucker gather
around the class display to point out their faces in pictures taken during their Carver days.
classmates and opened the
class meeting after they spent
time having fun and talking
about the good old days at
Carver High. The students in
the Class of 1953 ranged in
age from 16 to 53 because
some of the students were
Army veterans or adults seek
ing their high school diplo
mas.
Most of the students lived
in surrounding areas in the
county such as Rural Hall.
Piney Grove. Walkertown.
Lewisville, Clemmons. Tobac
coville. Brushy Fork.
Cooleemee and a few were
from the city.
Of the 35 people who
attended the celebration, many
came home from various
slates. Evelyn Cain Glover
came from Brooklyn, N.Y.. for
the reunion. Annie Chandler
Wright came from Lanham.
Md.. while Leon Patton came
from Suffolk. Va. Elveta Jones
Rutledge and Frances Glenn
Hankerson came from Wash
ington. D.C.. for the reunion,
and Rev. Dr. Sylvellia Cloud, a
Sec Carver on A9
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