VOL. 10, NO. 7
^^The truth is out there.,,”
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRroAY, DECEMBER 9,1994
Trustees
add three
from area
PROGRAM DIRECTOR DIMITRI FERRELL ON AIR DURING WESQ FUNDRAISER.
WESQ fundraiser enjoying
growth in support from area
By MICHELE A. CRUZ
North Carolina Wesleyan
College’s public radio station,
WESQ 90.9 FM, recently com
pleted its most successful fund
drive ever, receiving more than
$10,000 in pledges — $255 from
the Roanoke Rapids area.
This fall’s total fepresents a
67 percent increase over all of
the three previous on-air fund
raisers and demonstrates the rapid
growth of the station.
“All of us at WESQ are par
ticularly excited with the extraor
dinary support the Down East
community has given,” Station
Director Jerry Glass said. “It sig
nals to us that we’ve been more
successful at reaching our audi
ences and that the Down East area
definitely wants a full-service
public radio station.”
Listeners responded fi'om Tar-
boro, Nashville, Enfield, Wilson,
Greenville, Whitakers, Farmville,
Elm City, and even Raleigh and
Durham, in addition to the loyal
Rocky Mount supporters. The
business communities of Rocky
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By MICHELE A. CRUZ
North Carolina Wesleyan
College’s Board of Trustees met
recently and approved three new
members: Thomas A. Betts, Jr.,
Julia Congleton-Bryant, and Anne
Boddie Mosley, all from Rocky
Mount.
Betts, owner of Betts & Com
pany in Rocky Mount, served as
chairman for the 1995 “A Day
For Wesleyan” campaign and was
a former president of the NCWC
Foundation. A native of Rocky
Mount, he earned his bachelor’s
in business administration from
East Carolina University.
He has served as president of
the Rocky Mount Area Chamber
of Commerce, Nash Community
College’s College Foundation,
Benvenue Country Club, and has
served on boards for Planters Na
tional Bank, Nash County Indus
trial Development Commission,
Rocky Mount Academy, and
Nash General Hospital.
Betts currently serves as a
member of the board of Centura
and is a past member of
Wesleyan’s board of visitors. A
member of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, he and his wife
have two daughters.
Bryant serves on the board for
the United Negro College Fund,
Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Tar
River Choral and Orchestral So
ciety, American Lung and Can
cer Association, and Nash County
Tourism Authority.
A native of Robersonville,
Bryant has earned numerous
awards including the UNCF Dis
tinguished Service Award for spe
cial contributions to public edu
cation and dedicated service and
the Outstanding Service Award
as president of the Chi Omega
chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority.
She has served as a volunteer
and a member of the 1995 execu
tive committee for “A Day For
Wesleyan.” She and her husband,
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Wesleyan gets grant for literacy project
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege has obtained funding through
an AmeriCorps grant to pilot a
Student Coalition for Action in
Literacy Education (SCALE)
Community Literacy Initiative.
Wesleyan’s literacy initiative
will address the needs of area chil
dren at risk and adults with mini
mal skills, as well as those pre
paring for the GED exam.
“We had a training weekend
with SCALE in October and have
another planned for January,”
said Debra Kleesattel, coordina
tor of the Wesleyan AmeriCorps
Community Literacy Initiative.
“The training provides a time
when all the AmeriCorps mem
bers in the Community Literacy
Initiative can come together.
There are team-building exer
cises, tutoring technique training,
and cross-cultural communication
education.”
Wesleyan programs will be
established with Cities in Schools,
Rocky Mount Housing Author
ity, Fountain Correctional Center
for Women, and Opportunities
Industrialization Center.
AmeriCorps volunteers will cre
ate programs and work in these
agencies while recruiting other
college students as volunteers.
“SCALE has provided us with
wonderful training,” Kleesattel
said. “The training has helped
give the AmeriCorps members
confidence as they begin their tu
toring in the community.”
Seven Wesleyan smdents have
been selected to serve as
AmeriCorps membet?—Monica
Alston, Lori Battle, Yvette
Contee, Siobhan Craig, Lorenzo
Ellis, Nikki Hanson, and Cheryl
Ridley. They will each work a
total of 900 hours in a year and
will receive a stipend and an edu
cational award upon completion
of their work.
Other schools participating in
this project are Johnson C. Smith
University in Charlotte, Fay
etteville State University in Fay
etteville, and UNC-Ch^l Hill.
AmeriCorps is a new national
serviej initiative recently signed
into law by President Bill Oin-
ton. The mission of AmeriCorps
has four components: getting
dungs done, strengthening com-
munities, encouraging respon^-
bility, and expanding opportunity.
The AmeriCorps National Ser
vice Networic consists of ovct 350
different programs across the na
tion. North Carolina, the state
with the highest participation in
the nation, will establish commu
nity literacy jMt»jects in six coun
ties.