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Ready to Lead
Fuse-Hall spent
decades preparing for
Bennett presidency
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Dr. Rosalind Fuse-Hall has
long had her eye on the presiden
cy of Bennett College, one of
just two historically African
American women's colleges in
the nation.
"Ten years ago, I applied for
the job at Bennett, and I didn't
get it," Fuse-Hall confessed last
month.
Back in 2002, the Bennett
Board of Trustees went instead
with Dr. Johnnetta Cole, an edu
cation luminary who had a
momentous reign as the presi
dent of Spelman (the nation's
other black female school).
Fuse-Hall was no slouch her
self, even back then. She'd been
a lecturer and adjunct professor
at her alma mater, UNC Chapel
Hill, and had success in a num
ber of administrative posts,
including that of executive assis
tant to then-North Carolina
Central University Chancellor
James Ammons. But she knew
that to be charged with leading a
storied institution like Bennett,
she needed to up her game.
Fuse-Hall pictured her
resume as a tool box and spent
the 10-plus years since her
Bennett rejection filling it with
the essentials she lacked.
Ammons encouraged her to
tackle institutional advancement
and student affairs challenges at
Central. She learned the ins and
outs - and then some - of higher
education governance as the cor
porate secretary to the Board of
Governors of the University of
North Carolina system. In 2007,
Ammons asked her to continue
to be his right-hand at Florida
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Dr. Rosalind Fuse-Hall is the new Bennett College president.
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Incumbents stay put
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
After months of campaigning, voters spoke Tuesday, choosing
City Council incumbents over their challengers.
Mayor Allen Joines handily won a fourth term. Complete, unoffi
cial results show he received
nearly 88.5 percent of the
nearly 10,000 votes cast in
the Democratic mayoral pri
mary. He faces no
Republican opposition in
November.
"We wanted to continue
what we were doing. We felt
like we'd been pretty suc
cessful with moving the city
forward, and it feels like the
voters have agreed with
that," Joines said Tuesday
night at his Liberty Street
campaign hub. "I'm just so
honored with the huge support. It's affirmation of the course that
we've had. that the city had."
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Photo by Layla Garms
Vivian Burke and James Taylor con
gratulate each other.
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Winston-Salem State University
Chancellor Donald Reaves speaks last
week at the dedication of a new student
center named in his honor. Read more
about the ceremony and the new build
ing in the Sept. 18 Chronicle.
Welfare
drug testing
worries
officials
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
The head of the
Forsyth County
Department of Social
Services said he doesn't
expect many local fami
lies to be affected by a
bill that would require
some puoiic
assistance appli
cants to submit
to drug tests.
Gov. Pat
McCrory had
vetoed House
Bill 392, calling
it "unnecessary
government
intrusion," but
the Republican
controlled
House and
Senate overrode
the veto last
week.
Only those
who apply to
receive benefits
through the fed
eral Work First
program (which
provides both
cash assistance
and job training)
would be impacted.
Those suspected of drug
use will be required to
take a drug test. Those
who fail tests, will be
required to seek treat
ment and wait a year to
reapply for Work First.
According to the
Associated Press, the bill
also allows social work
ers to screen applicants
for outstanding warrants
and, in some cases, ask
applicants to be finger
printed.
Many social services
leaders across the state
are expressing concern
about the bill. Financing
the law is a key concern.
In fact, McCrory has now
vowed not to implement
the law until lawmakers
find a way to pay for it.
While Forsyth DSS
Director Joe Raymond
said he doesn't expect the
law to have a significant
impact on the roughly
100 Work First clients the
department serves coun
tywide, he says the law
does nothing
to address the
department's
most pressing
substance
abuse issues -
those connect
ed to alcohol.
"In many
ways, this leg
i s 1 a t i o n
doesn't have a
dramatic
impact," he
said. "...We
have a long
way to go to
get state regu
latory guid
ance on this
bill."
State Sen.
E a r I i n e
P a r m o n
fought the bill
from the
beginning.
"I opposed it number
one. because it will undu
ly place a responsibility
on workers in the
Department of Social
Services to try to deter
mine whether people are
on drugs and they're not
professionals in that
way." said Parmon,
adding that the bill was
passed as the state opted
to end funding for three
drug treatment centers.
"If there's concern
about people's addic
tions. then why would we
close the very facilities
that could provide treat
ment for these people?"
she questioned. "It was
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Black churches stand by Boy Scouts
Photo by Todd Luck
A sign outside
of Ml. Zion
Baptist
Church touts
the church's
Cub Scouts
program.
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE " ~
The Boy Scouts of America's lifting of its policy
against admitting openly gay scouts has led to
churches across the nation cutting their ties with the
organization. Calvary Baptist, a Forsyth County
mega church, recently became one of those churches.
Calvary announced that its nearly 60-year-old
Boy Scouts troop will be disbanded next year, when
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