Schools hand out
their MLK Awards
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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
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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).
Tickets are $7 for students
and $10 for the general public
Tickets can be purchased at the
door (w hich will open at 6:30).
at nM WMottcaresnc.org or by
falling 3S6-766r41JJ .
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