Schools hand out their MLK Awards SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of stu dent services at Wake Forest University, and Wake Forest senior Trayonna Floyd received the WFU/WSSU MLK Building the Dream Award Jan. 19 at Wake Forest. The award recognizes one professor/administrator and one student from each of the two universities for their efforts to promote racial diver sity and harmony. Recipients are nominated by faculty, staff and students at their respective universities and are selected by a committee of faculty, staff and student representatives from each school. ,, This year's recipients from Winston-Salem State University were Larry Little, associate professor of political science, and senior Ronald. C. Williams. Holmes joined Wake Forest in 1987. In the award presentation, he was recog nized fbr his long-time, behind-the-scenes efforts as an advocate! for diversity and liiulticultliralism in every office in the Division of Student Life. He was also rec - ognized fjjr establishing Wake Forest's Mission of Good . Hope service trip at Stelfenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. During the trip, students tra\el to Kayamandi Township to conduct ^ computer literacy program for local citizens. The trip was the first inter national service trip estab lished at Stellenbosch University and is the only Wake Forest international service-learning program that includes participants from another university. Holmes created a partnership with WSSU in which students from both universities participate in the trip. Floyd, a senior from Gastonia, is a sociology major with a minor in women's and -gender studies at Wake Forest. A dean's list student, shf was honored not only for her leadership in both campus and community activities, but also for her strong faith and family values. As a president's aide in the Office of the President. Floyd works as an ambassador at major university events and a liaison between the student body and the university's pres ident and board of trustees. She was recognized for numerous other activities, including representing the state of North Carolina in an annual program for The Children's Defense Fund: co leading a Wake Forest Alternative Spring Break serv ice trip to Stephens, Ark., where she and 14 other stu dents mentored and encour aged local high school stu dents to apply to college; Floyd Little Holmes working as a research assistant at the Darrvl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice: and working with the Twin-City Leadership Committee to pro mote leadership, community involvement and collegiate unity among three local uni versities . An aspiring lawyer, Floyd also interned at The Children's Law Center of Winston-Salem where she served as Guardian Ad Litem for children in domestic violence and high conflict custody cases. During her internship, she wrote a grant for S20.(XX). which was awarded to the agency. WSSU Professor Larry Little is known throughout the city, state and nation for his work as as an activists and freedom fighter. A former member of the Winston-Salem City Council, Little has been fighting for the rights of blacks and the disfranchised for decades. In the 1970s, he helped make the city's Black Panther Party one of the most progres sive and innovative in the ? nation. In the 19B0s. he began a two decade long fight to free Darn I Hunt, a black man con vie ted of a murder that he did not commit Hunt was freed just five years ago and credits Little for never giving up on him No information about. WSSU senior Williams was available to The Chronicle at press time Each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the WFU/WSSU MLK Committee honors the "Building the Dream" recipi ents at a dinner and co-spon sors and alternates hosting a keynote event featuring a well known guest speaker. This year's dinner was held at Wake Forest and the keynote event was held at WSSU. The keynote speaker was actress and political activist Ruby Dee. Energetic step show to benefit youth foundation SPECIAL TO THI- CHRONICLE To num. this is a vear ui hope, so in tha? spirii. the ScottCares Foundation- is sponsoring an event that will give college students a plat form to express their admira tion and pay homage |o a past, or present, leader through the art of stepping The- Foundation .is ;i non profit organization dedicated to embracing the arts, while teaching and promoting com puter literacy and technology. On Friday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m., the Foundation will host its 2nd Annual step show. "Leaders of Tomorrow Stomp the Yard." in Salem College's Hafles Auditorium. The show will feature various Greek and non-Greek organizations from local colleges and universities exhibiting honor to their cho sen leader of the past, or of today, through step routines Abdul-Salaam The winning group the one thai be*t exemplifies the show's theme - will walk (or stomp) away with a trophy and a cash prize. . "When young men and women become members of Greek organizations, it proves that they an? a leaflet in their own right.'" said Scott Abdul Salaam. president and founder of the ScottC'ares Foundation, and member of. the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incorporated. "But for one to be a great leader, one must fol low such footsteps. With that ^aid. we are allowing these A'oung minds to go oft. and ? v create something brilliant that v> ill not only inspire those who come out to this show . but w ill inspire them to be great, if not greater, than the leaders they w ill pa> homage to." The show is co-sponsored by Salem College's Black Americans Demonstrating Inity(BADU). 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