Governor helps UNCF further
I Us mind-saving mission
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Gov. Beverly Perdue on
Friday urged a crowd of more
ISO people to support the
efforts of the United Negro
College Fund (UNCF).
She gave the keynote
address at the Annual
Governor's Luncheon, a
UNCF funckaider, at the
Winston-Salem Marriott
Hotel.
UNCF supports minority
students' education and devel
opment through scholarships
and other programs at its 38
member colleges and univer
sities, including Bennett
College in Greensboro and
four others in the state.
Each year, UNCF sup
ports 60,000 students in col
lege. Perdue is the honorary
chair of UNCF's North
Carolina Campaign. Across
the country, governors of all
political persuasions have
becbme honorary chairs of
their state's UNCF cam
paigns and have held similar
luncheons.
Perdue said education was
one of the biggest battles of
the Civil Rights Movement,
citing the struggle to inte
grate schools and colleges.
She said education is vital for
equality.
"I believe fundamentally
that education is the great
equalizer," she said.
"Education is the difference
maker."
Perdue said she was
reminded of that the previous
day when she talked with a
group of young black male
participants in the
Governor's Page Program.
She planned to talk with
them for only 10 minutes,
but was so impressed with
the group that she altered part
of her schedule to chat with
them longer.
Perdue, who talks with all
her pages, said that typically
only about half of the pages
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Photos by Todd Luck
N.C. Rep. Earline Parmon poses with Gov.
Beverly Perdue at the luncheon last week.
plan to attend college, but
that every single one of the
young African American men
were college bound. They
told her they wanted to defy
the negative statistics and
change public perception
about black .men. One page
told her that he saw college
as the first step to raising his
single mother out of poverty.
"Yesterday, as I listened to
those young men, I wondered
how many would have prob
lems, challenges ... How
were they going to pay for
tuition and books and board
and clothes and all the stuff
we have to do to be some
body in North Carolina?"
asked Purdue.
Delrisha White, 20, a
junior journalism and media
studies major at Bennett
College in Greensboro, told
attendees that she can attest
to the challenges of paying
for a college education.
White, a California native
raised in the foster care sys
tem, could have had her col
lege expenses covered had she
gone to a public college in
California. But she said she
wanted to go to a Historically
Black College or University
(HBCU), and California has
none.
Bennett fulfilled her
dream, but paying for school
became a nightmare. During
her freshman year, she had a
$5,000 deficit after taking out
$10,000 in loans. She got an
emergency UNCF scholar
ship to help. By her junior
year, she'd found UNCF
scholarships that not only
covered her tuition, but the
costs of an off-campus apart
ment, transportation and a
study abroad trip to
Shanghai, China.
"If it weren't for UNCF,
I'd have to withckaw from
school or return to school in
California," White said. "If it
was not for people like you
giving generously, I would
not be standing here today."
Delrisha White
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Baldwin Richards
Marilyn Baldwin
Richards, UNCF area devel
opment director, said White's
situation is not unusual and
that emergency student loans,
which the luncheon proceeds
support, help many students
who are in danger of leaving
school because of financial
crises. She said UNCF schol
arships are a "lifeline" for
most students who receive
them. v,
"Even in 2012, so many
of our students are still the
first ones in their families to
go to college and no one
wants to get to the finish line
and then be denied a diploma
because of lack of Kinds,"
said Richards.
Mayor Pro Tempore
Vivian Burke and Cynthia
Marshall, president of AT&T
North Carolina, also spoke at
the luncheon. AT&T is a
major sponsor of UNCF. .
Donations to UNCF's
N.C. Office cm be sent to
119 East 7th Street, Suite
IB, Charlotte, NC 28202.
Democrats to
take part in forum
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doors will open at
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invited to speak at the
forum. Each candidate will
have an opportunity to make a statement. The audience will
then be allowed to submit questions for the candidates to
answer after the opening statements. The event is free and
open to the public.
Rep. Larry Womble
NC House of Representatives
71st District
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