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Greensboro Deltas will host regional gathering SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The Greensboro Alumnae. Alpha Mu. Ormcron Delta and Omicron Eta chapters of Delta Sigma Thela Sororit) . Inc. are hosting the 23rd South Atlantic Regional Conference. June 14 - 16. More than 1 ,500 members of the Jjorority from North Carolina. South jCarolina, Virginia and Bermuda will Jconvene at the Koury Convention ?Oenter. X This year's business and program Mnaiic thrust will focus on the confer iancc theme "Impacting Communities JService with a Visible Difference." 'Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Inc. has a Jrich htstory at the national and local lev jcfci dedicated to community service ?Several events are open to the public ? ; r? J The future home of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. ? during the three-day conference. On Friday, June 14, a step show will be held from 7-10 p.m. On Saturday, June IS, there will be a social action luncheon from 12 - 2:30 pjn., and on Sunday at 9 a.m? a ecumenical service will be held. Delta Sigma Theta has been in the forefront of issues involving racial and ethnic equality. A' a result, the sorori ty's community advice project is to assist the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, formerly the F.W. Woolworth site of the first sit-in. A walk-a-thon will take place on June 13 at 12:30 pjn. to raise money for the museum. Participants will gather at the bronze statue of the Greensboro Four on the campus of N.C. A&T State University. Funds from the walk-a-thon will assist with the opening of the muse um, which will be a historical landmark for citizens internationally. Members of the sorority and community participants will walk from the campus to the muse um, where a ceremony/celebration will take place. The conference will also sponsor its first golf tournament on June 15 at the Bryan Park Golf course. This tourna ment will serve as one of the sorority's major projects to raise scholarship funds for students attending college. Tee off time is 8 ajn. The event is open to the public. Local conference co-coordinators are President Carolyn Moore, Sharon Long-Stokes, Jamesena Watkins, Georgia Caldwell Williams, Linda Wilson and Edith Chance. For more information, call 336 S56-I026. ?NBTF yrom paqr A I --?raordinary son, Larry J Hamlin-Johnson, who Jteared-up during her remarks, J asked the media to respect the ? family's privacy by not inquir ing about the nature of ^Hamlin's illness. Neither Hamlin-Johnson nor Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin were on hand at a news conference Wednesday when the Black Rep announced Hamlin's death. So far a slate of dozens of shows will be offered at the 2007 festival, which will be from July 30 - Aug. 4. Longtime celebrity friends of the festival will return this year, including actor Malcolm Jamal Warner and Hal Williams, who will be one of this year's celebrity co-chaire. Williams, a veteran actor, is best known for his role on the 1980s NBC sitcom "227" and most recently scored a sup porting role as the grandfather in the comedy "Guess Who," starring Bernie Mack and Ashton Kutcher. Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway will share chair Glynn Tinman will star in "Movin' Man," which will open (he festival on July 30 after the star-filled gala at the Benton Convention Center. Tommy Ford, best known for his role on "Martin," is bring duties with Williams. Calloway's work transcends both small and silver screens, with appearances on TNT's the Closer and CBS' "CS1: Miami." Nominated for seven NAACP Image Awards to date, Calloway can be seen in such films as "Biker Boyz," "Cheaper by the ing "South of Where we Live," which he stars in and directs. Ford flew in from Los Angeles to be at Tuesday's news conference . A newcomer to the festival this year. Ford says he has been hearing a buzz about it for quite some time. Dozen ana wnat s Love uoi to do With It." Many well-known enter tainers will be bringing shows to the festival, including Sheryl Lee Ralph, whose "Sometime I Cry," will focus on the lives of women touched by HIV/AIDS. Veteran actor i am so excitea aooui being here," he remarked. "For many years, I've been doing theater in Los Angeles, where I'm from, and . . . people kept coming to us at the end of the show saying, 'Have you heard about the Black Theater Festival going on in North Carolina?' When we finally got the invitation to come, we had to make a decision on who was going to come and do this play ... That's how beloved this opportunity is." Ford was joined by other celebrity guests, including Kim Brockington, of CBS' "Guiding Light," and "Sesame Street" icon Roscoe Orman. Brockington got her start in show business at the 1991 fes tival when she starred in "Letters from a New England Negro." "It was my first real job as an actress and it was tremen dous.- The festival gave me a lot of great connections and I promised Larry 1 would always come back whenever he asked me." she said. Orman is a festival regular who could not wait to return for the 2007 event. "What a joy to be back in Winston-Salem. It's become like a second home for many of us in the black theater com munity," Orman said to the audience. "It's the only place where many of us get a chance to convene and get to see each other's work, and to experi ence this kind of hospitality, of warmth and support that Winston-Salem has provided over all these years." Local talents Precious McCloud and Lazarus Legrant acted out a scene from "Mahalia - Queen of Gospel," which will return to the 2007 festival after a stellar run at the '05 NBTF. Leslie Lewis Sword-recited a piece from "Miracle in Rwanda," a one-woman show she will bring to this year's fes tival. Funeral arrangements for Hamlin were incomplete as of press time. For tickets and other infor mation about the 2007 NBTF, call 336-723-2266 or go to wwwnbtfjjrg. Hillian from pane A1 transplant. Of those who have the procedure, 77 per cent live a longer, better quality lives. So far there have been several fundraisers for her fund. Both Hillian's sorori ty, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., and her church, St. Paul United Methodist Church, have helped her raise money. A local McDonald's gave 15 percent of the restaurant's profits from 5 - 8 p.m. for three consecutive Thursdays. Letters have also been sent out requesting donations. Currently, The Chronicle is giving a por tion of subscriptions sales to the fund, as well. Hillian's next fundraiser will be a Family Fun Day on June 16 at the local Sarah Alston Head Start Center. The event will feature games, food and a speaker from donor services. Hillian's mother. Vera Hillian is president of the fund's committee. She called Hillian an "exemplar ily daughter" who has planned all her life to suc ceed. Vera Hillian says that people tend to like her daughter when they meet her. She said her daughter has been a productive per son who contributed to soci ety and deserves the help she's asking for. "We're caring people and sharing people and now we need people to share and care with us," said Vera Hillian. This isn't the first time Hillian has had to struggle with major health problems. While attending Winston Salem State University, she was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and had her colon removed. After numerous surgeries, she returned to WSSU and com pleted her degree in man agement information sys tems in 1999. She said com plications from the colon removal led to her current liver disease. Even now Hillian is planning ahead for life after the transplant. She recently graduated from Forsyth Technical Community College with an associates degree in architectural tech nology. a field she hopes to work in. She said she does n't let her disease get her down and keeps an opti mistic attitude. "I have a pretty positive outlook," said Hillian, "I never have an actual bad day, just an hour out of the day maybe, but I'm never 'woe is me."' Transplant candidates creating nonprofit funds to cover their expenses is com mon, said Hillian. So com mon, she said, it was sug gested in a mandatory class that she was re'quired to take as a transplant candidate. Donations to the Karyn Hillian Liver Transplant Fund can be made in person at Mechanics & Farmers Bank or mailed to The Karyn Hillian Liver Transplant Fund, 3401 Jeketer Dr, Winston-Salem, NC, 27105. Checks or money orders should be made out to "Karyn Hillian Liver Transplant Fund." Vera Hillian with her daughter, Karyn. I ' WANT TO APPLY FOR STUDENT LOANS? WANT TO CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS? WANT TO RENEW YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE? O Want to know where to get all this information? From Social Security benefits to buying surplus government property, all kinds of government information are just a click or call away. FlRSTGOVgov 1 (8 00) FED-INFO Malveaux will keynote NAACP gala SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The new president of Bennett College will keynote the Winston Salem's NAACP Annual NAACP Freedom Fund Gala on Friday, June 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center. Or. Julianne Malveaux has been described by Dr. Cornel West as "the most iconoclastic public intellec tual in t h e co u n - try. " As a writer and syndi cated colum n i s t , her work appears regularly in USA Today, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. mag azine, Essence magazine, and the Progressive. Her weekly columns appear in numerous newspapers across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Charlotte Observer, the New Orleans Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and the San Francisco Examiner. Malveaux became the 15th Bennett president June 1, succeeding Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. Well-known for appearances on national net work programs, Dr. Malveaux is a charismatic and popular guest on a vari ety of shows. She appears regularly on CNN and BET. She has also hosted talk radio programs in Washington, San Francisco, and New York. A native San Francisco, Malveaux received her BA and MA degrees in econom ics from Boston College, and earned a Ph.D in eco nomics from MIT. For more information on the Freedom Fund Gala, contact Jim Shaw at 287 5053 or Stephen Hairston at 813-7311. Center for FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE Win-Win Economics for Your Mortgage Loan Needs If Piedmont Federal's rates decline during your 60-day rate-lock period, you get the new lower rate forfree.'It's a win-win situation because you always get our best rate. No hidden fees. No red tape. Welcome to the winning environment of Piedmont Federal. 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