Allen is 'Cinderella'
Submitted Photo
City native Traci Allen poses in front of a Twin
Cities (Minn.) area billboard touting her star
ring role in the Children's Theatre Company of
Minneapolis' unique staging of "Cinderella."
The play, which opened earlier this month and
will run through Jan. 5, is the latest major act
ing gig for Allen, the daughter of Forsyth
County residents John and Gloria Allen.
Previously, she starred in a national tour of
"The Color Purple."
Palmer receives elite
Toastmasters distinction
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Winston-Salem resident John G. Palmer was
awarded the Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) on
Oct. 26 at the District 37 Toastmaster's Fall
Conference in
Cary. DTM is the
highest educa
tional award in
Toastmasters.
Toastmasters
International is a
worldwide
organization ded
icated to helping
members
improve their
public speaking
and leadership
skills. It has 292,000 members in 14,330 clubs in 122
countries. Palmer is a member of Forsyth
Toastmasters Club #1278, which meets at 6:15 p.m. on
the first and third Thursday each month at Mayberry
Restaurant on Miller Street.
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Smaller downtown
Christmas tree
erected
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The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership
(DWSP) has installed a Christmas tree in Merschel
Plaza, which is near the intersection of 4th and Trade
streets in the
heart of down
town, as part of
downtown's 2013
"It's a Wonderful
Life" theme.
The tree was
paid for by the
Downtown
Winston-Salem
Partnership with
a grant from the
Winston-Salem
Millennium
Fund.
"We are very
proud of our
involvement with
the City
Christmas Tree in
Corpening Plaza
and our long-time
role in producing
the Tree Lighting
Ceremony for
over 20 years,"
said DWSP
President Jason
Thiel. "The
Merschel Plaza
tree is a nice
complement that
will be enjoyed
by pedestrians
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The DWSP will be hanging the lights on the tree in
the next few weeks and will light the Merschel Plaza
tree simultaneously with the City Tree on Saturday,
Dec. 7.
WFU Photo
James M.
O'Connell is
a 2013 WFU
graduate.
WFU has another Rhodes Scholar
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Wake Forest graduate James M.
O'Connell has been named a Rhodes
Scholar.
O'Connell, who is from Tampa,
Fla., graduated summa cum laude in
May 2013 with a bachelor of arts in
politics and international affairs. He
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pians 10 complete a mas
ter's degree in public poli
cy.
O'Connell is among
32 Americans chosen by
the Rhodes Trust on Nov.
23 to study at England's
Oxford University in
2014. He is the 13th Wake
Forest student to be named
a Rhodes Scholar in the
past 27 years.
"This was a team
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ciiun. ii icquucu cigm
recommendations and so much sup
port," says O'Connell. "I couldn't have
done it without great mentors at Wake
Forest and at home. One person gets
the recognition, but the real credit
belongs to everyone who helped along
the way. I'm especially thankful for my
mom, who's really the best in the busi
ness. Without her, this wouldn't have
been possible."
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O'Connell plans to focus on securi
ty studies at Oxford's Blavatnik School
of Government, with a specific focus
on the strategic use of hard and soft
power.
"The U.S. shoulders much of the
responsibility for securing peace,"
O'Connell says. "The next generation
of leaders must be prepared to step up
and Keep tne world sale, it
will be essential to use
'smart power' toward that
aim. We'll need to leverage
everything in our toolbox
? including diplomacy,
development and, at times,
military might ? as we
fight for a more secure
world."
O'Connell wrote his
senior thesis on Al-Qaeda
after 9/11. He aspires to
join me mvy aner com
pleting his masters.
"I still have plenty to learn, but the
Navy seems like a great next step
toward service," he says.
O'Connell is currently completing
a year-long position as a full-time staff
member in the Office of the President
as a Wake Forest Fellow.
"Seldom have 1 met a young person
with a more inquisitive mind or wider
range of intellectual interests," says
Wake Forest President Nathan O.
Hatch. "Jim is also a tremendous
'relater'to other people, and he reaches
out in deliberate and effective ways to
better understand a subject or an indi
vidual."
As an undergrad, he was a student
member of the Wake Forest Board of
Trustees and a chair of the Honor
Council. He led the effort to create an
LGBTQ center at the University,
organized events for the Faces of
Courage program celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the desegregation of
Wake Forest and has written one fea
ture length screenplay and three for
short films, and is hosting a weekly
radio show on film and culture.
"Jim's receiving the Rhodes is tes
tament to the kind of leader he is,
someone whose own intellectual and
ethical reflections time and again
inspire others." says Tom Phillips,
director of the Wake Forest Scholars
program. "Jim has a strong curiosity
about the world combined with an
ardent desire to serve that world."
O'Connell says that winning the
Rhodes Scholarship is the beginning of
the journey, not the end.
"1 feel a deep responsibility to con
tinue learning and serving." he said.
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