I nousanas take part in a recent Af*-^ 0f the Living event at Auschwitz in Poland.
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Fubiic is invited to FTCC to
hear from Holocaust survivor
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
A Holocaust survivor who now
resides in High Point will speak next
week at Forsyth Technical Community
College.
Hank Brodt's address, which is free
and open to the public, will close out a
three-day developmental workshop for
local social studies and language arts
teachers. FTCC will use the workshop to
encourage the teachers to take advantage
of its Blynn Holocaust Collection, a
a
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Hank Brodt , 82, lives
in High Point
series of taped testimonies by people
who lived through the Holocaust.
Brodt will speak at 1 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 30 in the auditorium of
Ardmore Hall on the Main Campus of
Forsyth Tech. 2100 Silas Creek Parkway.
The 82-years-old, survived five different
Nazi concentration camps during World
War II. He has attended the March of the
Living in Poland, an annual event at the
former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz
Birkenau that honors the memory of
some six million Jews who perished in
the Holocaust. Brodt says he attends the
event in order to pass on his experiences
to the younger generation.
"I'm trying to teach them what hap
pened and educate them," said Brodt, a
retired carpenter. 'They're the ones who
have to keep the memory cof the
Holocaust alive and prevent it from hap
pening again."
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enough beds during the
cold months, so this particular
facility will help us adjust that
this coming winter, so i*'s
very important in the whofe
overall strategy," he
explained.
A few years ago, the city,
in conjunction with various
local agencies, launched the
Ten Year Plan to End Chronic
Homelessness. Joines said the
new building will help that
effort.
"I'm particularly encour
aged that this facility also
provides training and counsel
ing and motivation to individ
uals to help them move on
their own into a life of self
sufficiency," the mayor
added.
The president of the non
profit Rescue Mission's
board, likened the men who
come to the mission to the
characters described in Psalm
107.
"They all recognized that
they had a need ... they all
sought deliverance," said
Mark Ingersoll. "We don't do
the delivering. God does. The
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Founding Director
Neal Wilcox
mission's here to help give
them a future."
The opening of the new
facility was like a dream come
true for Director Emeritus
Neal Wilcox, who founded the
Rescue Mission "with a little
faith and a big God," as he
puts it, more than four
decades ago. He led the dedi
cation prayer just before offi
cials cut the ribbon, officially
opening the New Life Center.
"God hasn't failed us yet,"
said Wilcox, who traveled
from South Carolina for the
dedication. "By God's grace,
we can keep these doors open,
doing what we've been doing,
with a great burden and a
great desire to see folks ...
have one place for sure in this
city where Christ will be pre
sented as the hope."
Sixty-four year-old Jerry
Hairston knows firsthand the
importance of the Rescue
Mission's work. Hairston, a
recovering addict, is a
Mission alumnus who now
lives in Sunrise Towers. He
says the journey to independ
ence began for him within the
Rescue Mission's walls.
"Oh Lord, I can't describe
it. If it hadn't been for the
Rescue Mission, I don't know
where I'd be," he declared.
"I'd be under a bridge some
where ... or dead."
Hairston spent two weeks
on the waiting list, dutifully
calling the mission every
morning to retain his spot in
the old facility.
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the community that I was
more familiar with and at the
same time get to know better
the community that I'm not as
familiar with," said Toole, a
managing director at the con
sulting firm MBA Actuaries.
He collaborated with fel
low co-chair David Mount, of
the Maya Angelou Research
Center on Minority Health at
Wake Forest University School
of Medicine, and other con
cerned citizens to renergize the
Forsyth County Heath
Department's Healthy
Community
of the videos. The goaJ is to
have 2,500 viewers by the end
of the year.
Willard Tanner, coordina
tor of the Healthy Community
Coalition, said the video series
is not meant to entertain but to
educate residents so that they
will take action to help elimi
nate disparities and take better
care of. themselves and their
families.
"The more people are edu
cated ... the more they in turn
will be able to help their indi
vidual families as well,"
Tanner commented. "These
films will give them some
indication as to what needs to
take place."
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Coalition, which is
designed to address
racial disparities.
The subject of
disparities has
received well-pub
licized attention
recently in the wake
of the American
Medical
Association's apol
ogy for its history
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Tanner
Methodist Church in
Winston-Salem, a
predominantly
Caucasian congrega
tion, was one of the
first groups to take
advantage of the
video series. Jerry
McLeese leads the
church's Faith In
Action Adult Sunday
School Class, which
oi racial inequalities, wmcn
many say is a cause of today's
health gap between whites and
minorities. The Chronicle will
take a closer look at that topic
in its next issue.
The new goal of HEAT is
to be more about action than
words.
"Instead of talking about
disparities and gaps, we want
to put it that why isn't every
body getting equal treatment?"
Toole explained. "It's just a
way of positioning it different
ly"
Earlier this year, members
of the HEAT team joined
forces with Crossing 52, a
local nonprofit that works to
foster cross cultural accept
ance and understanding, to
host "Dispassionate Discourse:
Showcasing the Impact of
Racial Disparities." The series
of events hosted at "
WhiteSpace Gallery Jan. 11 -
Feb. 28 was a success, drawing
more than 250 people. HEAT
began its second awareness
push in the spring, screening
the PBS' "Unnatural Causes: Is
Healthcare Making Us Sick?"
a series on racial disparities in
the American healthcare sys
tem. So far, 558 Forsyth
County residents from 25 dif
ferent groups and organiza
tions have viewed one or more
viewed three parts of the series
in April.
"(Faith in Action) has a
reputation for tackling social
and moral issues," McLeese
explained. "This seemed to be
one (issue) that was appropri
ate."
The church group al?o
heard from panels of local pro
fessionals as part of the pro
gram.
It wasn't Ardmore's first
brush with the topic of racial
disparities. Church members
heard from Heath Department
Director Tim Monroe on the
topic last year, according to
McLeese.
"They were enlightening;
there was some information in
there that 1 did not realize," he
said of the videos. "The class
really enjoyed that, enjoyed
the opportunity ... to get a lit
tle better informed."
The next "Unnatural
Causes" screenings will be<
today, July 24, and Tuesday,
Aug. 5, from 11:45 a.m. - 1
p.m. in Meeting Room 2 of the
Forsyth County Public Health
Department, 799 Highland
Ave. To schedule a screening,
contact Tanner, at (336) 703
3175 or Lynne Mitchell, (336)
ging, it was hard for me to
find a phone to call in before
8:00, but I was determined I
was going to get off of (the
streets)," he said.
The Mission's reputation
precedes it, Hairston says, and
men come from far and wide
to seek it out.
"You'd be surprised the
people from out of town that
hears about this place and
come," he commented. "We
have the best homeless pro
gram - from what I hear the
guys say - on the East Coast."
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