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Homecoming
Special section
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John H. Johnson
A man with a vision
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Tm News Argus
www.thenewsargus.com
Winston-Salem State University’s Student Newspaper
November 2005
By Dahleen Glanton
KRT WIRE SERVICE
ATLANTA
Rosa Parks is known to
generations of Americans
simply as the woman who
sat on the bus.
For half a
century,
young peo
ple have
written to
Parks asking
what drove
her to defy
what was
then one of
the most
prominent
social mores
of the South.
And for just
as long, she
has tried to
answer them,
even when
she devel
oped demen
tia and was
no longer able to verbally
cormnunicate.
Though she and her hus
band, Raymond, never had
children, she embraced the
world's youth, her friends
said, and devoted her life to
teaching by example.
As civil rights leaders
have struggled in recent
years to ignite interest in the
movement among young
African-Americans, Parks
has been a steady, iconic fig
ure in that cause who.
Those who knew Parks
said that she had not
intended to become a mar
tyr ivhen she refused to
give up her seat on a
Montgomery City bus to a
white man—a practice
that was expected in the
Jim Crow South. And in
her autobiography, "I Am
Rosa Parks," she sought
to set the record straight.
"Some people think I
kept my seat because I'd
had a hard day, but that is
not true," she wrote in
1997. "I was just tired of
giving in."
Renowned sculptor Earline H. King, 92,
commissioned to create statue of Atkins
Photo courtesy KRT Wire Service
Rosa Parks, a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement,
remains an iconic figure to young people.
Rosa Parks devoted her
Hfe to teaching hy example
except for the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr., was per
haps most recognized by its
younger supporters.
A day after her death in
Detroit of natural causes,
busloads of visitors, many
of them
young peo
ple, visited
The Henry
Ford
Museum in
suburban
Detroit,
where they
boarded the
bus that
Parks made
history on in
Montgomery,
Ala., in 1955.
The museum
acquired the
bus, which
had been sit
ting in a field
for more
than 30
years, from a Chicago auc
tion house in 2001.
Her death, activists said,
leaves a historical void at a
time when many of the sur
viving civil rights leaders of
the 1950s and 1960s are
aging and becoming more
distant in the minds of
young people.
"She triggered a revolu
tion, and what was so
amazing about it is that
See Parks, page 2
By Tiphane Deas
ARGUS MANAGING EDITOR
Enter Earline Heath
King's home and the sens
es are overwhelmed — the
smell of perfume lingers in
the room, the sound of a
classical piano version of
"My Funny Valentine"
calms the nerves, the sight
of sculptures, everywhere,
tease one's sense of visual
beauty.
King, 92, and an interna
tionally recognized sculp
tor, is the artist commis
sioned by the university to
create the statue of WSSU
founder Simon Green
Atkins. It was unveiled on
Oct. 28 during homecom
ing festivities.
A Winston-Salem native.
King has sculpted the
images of such prominent
figures as Sir Winston
Churchill and James B.
Hunt Jr. And when asked
to sculpt Atkins' image,
she couldn't turn down the
offer. "That was a great
honor, a great compli
ment," said the artist.
"In every picture,
[Atkins] stands so erect,
and he's dressed magnifi
cently. His clothes were
impeccable. He had that
jaunty, chin-up look all the
time," said King.
"What's so amazing is
that he first developed an
industrial school, and the
first graduating class con
sisted of five students.
This was something very
new because it was the
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Photo by Garrett Garms
King scu\pted this statue of Simon Green Atkins in only four months.
turn of the century, and to
think how it caught on and
has grown and grown into
what it is now. There are
international students now,
and all the variety of cours
es that you can major in,
and I just think that we
owe an awful lot to that
man."
King has also been com
missioned to sculpt a bust
of Atkins and former
President Ronald Reagan
for the two new high
schools named after him.
Normally, King said she
doesn't pay attention to
time when sculpting.
Instead, when the work is
done, it's done. However,
she completed the statue of
Atkins in four months.
"You know. I've never
timed [my work], because
you work on it a while and
leave it, step away from it,
especially when you're
doing three at once."
King married Joseph
Wallace King during their
senior year of high school
and attended Greensboro
College on a voice scholar
ship after graduation.
The couple moved to
Washington, D.C., in 1933,
venturing successfully into
the fields of entertainment,
art, and clothing design to
make a living.
In 1946, they moved back
to Winston-Salem after
Joe King gained attention
there for his portraits, and
commissions began coming
in rapidly. He would even
tually be so well recog
nized that he would be
asked to do a portrait of
Queen Elizabeth. The
Kings continued to live and
work together until his
death in 1996 after a brief
illness. King teaches an
annual art class, stressing
the basics of sculpture to
her students.
Students say it’s worth the cost
to be home for Thanksgiving
By Dreama Williams
ARGUS REPORTER
Thanksgiving is tradition
ally the busiest travel sea
son of the year in the U.S.
and, despite the recent rise
in gas prices, it seems that
the holiday is set to main
tain that distinction, thanks
to determined travelers like
Chiquetta President.
President, a 20-year-old
junior, is heading home to
Charleston for Thanks
giving. "I want to eat, eat
and eat some more," she
said. The drive home will
take about four hours, and
it takes about $25 to fill her
car's gas tank.
Nevertheless, President said
the holiday is about family,
and she plans to be among
her family members, doing
what the holiday calls for,
giving thanks.
Soibhan Kelley, a junior
from Charlotte, said she
will visit an aunt in
Asheville. "She's getting
older and I want to spend
as much time with her as
possible," Kelley said.
Like President, she is not
concerned about gas prices.
She said she will hitch a
ride with a friend or catch a
bus. Whatever the cost, she
said, it's worth it to share
time with family and
friends.
Colds and Flu: There are
ways to protect yourself
By Dreama Williams
ARGUS REPORTER
Winter is right around the comer and along with it
comes the common cold and influenza.
The regular old seasonal flu, as opposed to the "bird
flu" that is currently making headlines in the news, kills
about 36,000 people in this country every year and sends
200,000 to the hospital.
Cold symptoms typically last seven to 10 days, where
as the flu generally runs its course in five to seven days.
But there are ways to protect yourself against both.
The nursing staff at the Student Health Center on cam
pus, which consists of Arnetta Hauser, Tamara
Alexander, Carisa Hoyle, and Cassandra Thomas, has
put together their Top 10 list of ways students can stay
healthy this winter:
□ Wash your hands with soap and warm water for at
See Colds, page 2
‘The President’s Own’ U.S. Marine Band to perform at WSSU Nov. 19
MEDIA RELATIONS
WINSTON-SALEM, NC
"The President's Own"
United States Marine Band
will perform at 7:30 p.m. on
Saturday, Nov. 19, in
Kenneth R. Williams
Auditorium at Winston-
Salem State University.
The concert, part of the
U.S. Marine Band's 2005
national concert tour, is
sponsored by the WSSU
Lyceum Cultural Events
Performing Arts Series, and
is free and open to the pub
lic.
In the style of the band's
17th director JoJm Philip
Sousa, who initiated the con
cert tour tradition in 1891,
Marine Band director
Lieutenant Colonel Michael
J. Colburn has chosen a
diverse mix of programs
from traditional band reper
toire and marches to instru
mental solos.
Programs are rotated
throughout the tour to
accommodate different con
cert venues. As the programs
rotate, so will the soloists. In
Winston-Salem the soloists
will be double bassist Aaron
Clay and mezzo-soprano
Sara Dell'Omo.
By late November, the
Marine Band will have per
formed a total of 42 concerts
in 42 days on its 2005 tour,
which includes engagements
in western Virginia, southern
West Virginia, western North
Carolina, Tennessee, north
ern Alabama, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, Texas, and New
Mexico.
The Marine Band is
Americas oldest professional
musical organization.
Founded in 1798, the band
has performed for every U.S.
President since John Adams.
Given the title "The
Presidents Own" by Thomas
Jefferson, the Marine Band's
primary mission is to pro
vide music for the President
of the United States and the
Commandant of the Marine
Corps.
Patrons may reserve tick
ets (limit four per request)
by sending a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to:
Lyceum Cultural Events,
Winston-Salem State
University, Campus Box
19432, Winston-Salem, NC
27110 or they may pick them
up at the university ticket
office in K. R. Williams
Auditorium from 11 a.m. to
5 p.m. daily. The telephone
number for the university
ticket office is 336-750-3220.
Seating is on a first-come,
first-served basis.
Ticket holders must be
seated by 7:15 p.m. Non
ticket holders will be admit
ted at that time.