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Photo by Todd Luck Assistant Principal Cindy Rash poses with teacher/author Jen-Ai Childress and Principal Chris Massenburg. Book from page A] "Mommy says cancer is when things just keep growing in your body that shouldn't be there," London tells her class mates. Childress read the book to Cook's student body on Oct. 16 as she sat in a rock ing chair labeled "The Author's Chair." The chair is normally used by her own students when they read something they have written in her classroom. She told them that the story had a deeply personal meaning. "My best friend in the whole wide world has can cer," she said. That friend is Melody Whitaker Hall, whom she met while attending Bennett College. Hall was diagnosed with breast can cer in 2006. She fought it into remission, but it aggressively returned in 2010. Hall has Stage Four cancer; the disease has spread to other parts of her body and is incurable. In 2013, she was given 18-24 months to live. Childress and Hall's other Bennett classmates take turns taking Hall to chemotherapy. She said they are amazed by her courage. She wrote the book in collaboration with Hall, who signed off on the story and the illustrations by California artist Eman Faulkner. Hall, who lives in Gastonia, has a five-year old daughter, Lauryn Hall, who Childress says has been courageous through her mother's ordeal. Childress wrote the book for Lauryn and other coura geous children. "The kids are the ones that are the silent sufferers after their parents are gone," she said. Childress plans to write a series of books that will follow London though her mother's struggle, includ ing titles that will show how she copes after her mother passes away. Her next book will be entitled "Kids Wear Pink Too." It is a character education workbook for children whose parents have breast cancer. She plans to use proceeds from book sales to start a non-profit that will give scholarships to students at black colleges whose parents have had breast cancer. Childress lost her own mother to colon cancer in 2010 and said writing has been therapeutic. By design, she released "London Giselle Hall pres ents My Beautiful Mommy," in October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Childress' fellow Cook educators are impressed with her debut book. Khedeja Evans, who, like Childress, teaches kinder garten, introduced her dur ing the assembly, saying that last year, during a sim ilar gathering with a visit ing writer, Childress turned to her and said she was going to write a book. Evans said that teachers on the kindergarten team have seen her go through every step of the process in the book's creation and are so proud they want to "squeeze her every day." During the assembly, things came full circle, as Childress became the visit ing author. "This is more than just an author who is coming to talk to us today," Evans told the children. "This is some one who we see every day who is showing us we can be whoever we want to be." Cook Principal Chris Massenburg said he. too, was proud of what Childress has accom plished. "She's a great example for the kids here of what we're trying to promote: kids reaching their full potential," he said. For more information, or to order the books, visit musabooksllc.wix.com/kids wearpinktool. Anti-death penalty group will honor Womble CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Former NC Rep. Larry Womble will be honored on Friday, Nov. 14 for his leadership on the death penalty. People of Faith Against the Death Penalty will fete Womble at its 20th anniversary awards ban quet at the Friday Center at UNC Chapel Hill. A reception will begin at 6 p.m. The dinner will begin at 7:15 p.m. For years Rep. Womble was the face of the efforts in the N.C. House for a moratorium on executions and later was the champi on of the Racial Justice Act in the House, which became law in 2009. "He was untiring in his enthusiasm for acknowl edging and righting the wrongs of the death penal ty. He could always be counted on to not only be ever-present in leadership but to always bring a spirit of warmth, kindness, and humor to his leadership," said PFADP Executive Director Stephen Dear. "He fostered support from religious leaders and a diverse coalition of advo cates and citizens." NC Sen. Floyd B. McKissick Jr. of Durham will receive PFADP's Leadership Award for his sponsoring of the NC Racial Justice Act of 2009 in the NC Senate. Also receiving PFADP's Leadership Award will be Former Durham Mayor Pro Tern Howard Clement III, who successfully championed PFADP's res olution for a moratorium on executions in 1999, making Durham the first major city in the state and one of the first in the coun try to call for a suspension of executions. In 2012, with Clement's support, ?____ File Photo PFADP will honor Larry Womble next month. Durham became the first major city in North Carolina to pass a resolu tion calling for repealing the death penalty. PFADP will honor Mr. Clement with its Leadership Award. As of today 45 NC local governments and 2,100 congregations and busi nesses have passed repeal or moratorium resolutions. PFADP will offer its Faith in Action Award to Baltimore-based Ecumenical Leaders Group of the Central Maryland Ecumenical Council for its efforts in mobilizing support for repealing Maryland's death penalty, which was repealed last year. Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean will be on hand to receive PFADP's Rev. Robert E. Seymour Award for her years of advocacy for death penalty repeal. Tickets and sponsor ship information are avail able at pfadp.org. 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