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[Wiijston-Si ? ^ WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. 1 The Newcomers There's Exciteme You Had Better B I By Ruthell Howard Staff Writer When one thinks of a banking career, excitement, adventure and travel don't necessarily come to mind. But for Janis Lynnette Upshaw, being a cash management consultant for Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. involves traveling at least four to five days a month ?. throughout the state and country and learning the ins and |H outs of industries such as fashion, retail merchandising, IKH insurance, hospital and grocery. "I enjoy it,*' she says of her job. "I think you can B learn a lot from what I do because, when you go into a company, you have to know basically what that industry is about." I Upshaw and her husband,?T awrf>nce, moyed^ to Winston Snlem in liJftO~when he arrppt^H a jnh ac Hirertoi of safety and security for the campus police depart^ment at Salem College. A native of South Brunswick, N.J., Upshaw says she enjoys living and raising her family in the South, and her husband, who is fromTopeka, Kan., enjoys it also. "It's (the South) a lot slower (than the North)," she says, fl ? I f ^1 ^ j fi > ittHlUfr'rm- <&' , i 9B: fltB&fcy .;.- y^^L.-^/' - 'X- \/& ^16/, La Wanda Page cutis up for a quick shot. Not a bit alias, known for her religious faniticism ? is shot fashion models do it (photo by Santana). "7-? MAPP Regional By Ruthell Howard females to be promoted to a Staff Writer top position, Gore, MAPP coordinator for the North Shirley Searcy Gore is Piedmont area, says she one of those people who knew, when she entered the helped set precedents in the system, that there would North Carolina penal eventually be advancement system. for women. As one of the first blacks "When I first started," hired by the N. C. Depart- she says, "they didn't feel a ment of Corrections in 1968 woman's place was in the i 41 f:_.A i % - - ana one ui mc ursi DiacK prison system." Advancet i *' ? . __ I alem Cly^oqii Thursday, August 19, 1982 Page 15 nt In Banking? s Ti. OL~ n cueve 11, one says "because a lot of things that are going on up there, like I fads and clothes, are at a faster pace. But getting started as a family is a lot easier down here than up there, and "I had no idea of what banking was all about. | Now, I think, 'How can they (people) not be in- m teres ted?" " I that is one reason we ended up staying here." I And as for Winston-Salem, based on her impressions | and thosejEfJiei^mgte^Eieftds, Upshaw says it is a "mar- g ried town. It's a lot caaiei foi married peoulf who arc a 1 little bit more settled to be comfortable in Winston than for a single person.*' Upshaw obtained a bachelor's degree with a double major in sociology and economics from Duke University F and worked as a management trainee for one year in the See Page 19 ? " . & K||^ ? , ; '::: ^few*H4^ mtiM - JBST-fSl 11 Edward Allen and Tammy Thompson arc two of t! T-N-T Productions' fashion show held Sunday at t The models are part of a group organized by "Cook! Pictured is Mrs. Thompson (top), with group memb< To Them, Modelii By Ruthell Howard ct Staff Writer Lisa White is 18, works at Reynolds Industries Inc., ai and is going to Johnson C. Smith University for a major m in hlicinpcc drlminictrofirtn ^? ? ? ... wuuuivjj uuiiuiiuiiauuii auu ^UlIipulCI bClCIlC-'C. James Allen is 20, and like Lisa and 13 other young oi hopefuls, aspires to be a professional model. ar For Lisa and James, T-N-T Productions provides the inspiration, training and basic experience to better their Ji 4 Aunt Esi ... | . By Ruthell Howard w; Staff Writer ha mi murnmm With a fire-eating act, she sp made a name for herself as as vBronze Goddess of Fire <4v k f| Then she was later known be . nationally as Aunt Esther, a sic r wgjtr Bible-quoting religious sh fanatic, on the television fe< m comedy, "Sanford and B1 Son," who pestered Fred, an m Sanford (Redd Foxx) and Pa his son Lamont (Demond st? t ' .Wilson), like a "good" So of Aunt Esther ? herTV aum shou,d ving as Page shows how And by the time the show cli " L / f ? Director Looks Ft ment nnnnrtunitipc f^r r; ~ ^ ? - ? ?'?? ? i kji liuu wuiucii in mu^c pusi- pi' blacks and women were tions," she says, 4'especial- tic slow then, Gore says, and ly not black women." mi there were few blacks in But Gore worked authority at field units, diligently in the system, wc Most black men were first in Guilford County ye guards and most women, and later, when she was G< like Gore, were hired as transferred back to he secretaries. Winston-Salem to the For- to "When it comes to syth Advancement Center, go superintendents and MAPP where she worked helping to coordinators, you don't inmates get on work release pc * w* '< 0 Cle / n O \ ^ v!S * A - * w? | , "1 f rz.::::z i > ' * : ajgs>? . m^m jMr It" ^IkF v. /**N?t ^K >*s> ^ or Janis Lynnette Upshaw, a career in cash mat V InUP It " I lnoK > OS!le />%I<a*m 1?. M1 _t_ _ ?t ouya ypuuiu uy mitllOCI V^IIKIF le Le Chic models for ^ White, Nathel Martln E he Rolls Royce disco, man, Sid Thompson. Kn< e" and Sid Thompson, who performs for the gr ers Gary Conner, Lisa Michael Cunningham). ig's More Than lances at professional modeling careers. T&T stands for Thompson and Thompson, a husbandid-wife team that loves working with youth and helping old their futures. "The purpose of T-N-T is to project a positive image our youth," says Cookie Thompson, "because they ' e our tomorrow." She and her husband, Sid, started the company in early lly with five models, and it has since' grown to 14. After ther': Foxx Stoo< is cancelled, Aunt Esther comedy team called Skillet, id won the hearts of Leroy & Company," she illions of Americans by says. rri was *& ewing forth such phrases Company.'" After her "fish-eyed fool" and mother became sick, says vatch it, sucker." she decided to give up show Taking some time to rest business to take care of her fore performing at Illu- mother. "One night Skillet >ns in an X-rated comedy called and asked me to ow starring Ms. Page and come," she says, "and I ituring Wildman Steve, said, 'No, I ain't coming, ow Fly, Rudy Ray Moore I'm staying here with my d Dolemite, LaWanda mother. I'm through with ige reflects on how her show business.' " irdom on "Sanford and But with a little beggine. n" came about. Ms. Page finally decided to "I was working at a night do the show that night, and ib in Los Angeles in a what she calls an act of God irward To The C agrams, home leave par- As Mapp coordinator, ipation or outside com- Gore sees herself as a inity activities. liaison between the parole That patience and hard board and inmates, and her >rk paid off. After 15 job as an exciting challenge, ars with the department, The Mutual Agreement 3re says she was * * finally Parole Program is a three>nored and promoted to a party contract between an p position. 1 feel real inmate, the Division of >od about this because not Prisons and the Parole p many of us are in these Commission. Gore will be >sitions." visiting prisons throughout ^ r : % ' \ ' rV >y nagement is filled with excitement and challenge, lingham). dward Allen^-Terri Dunlap and the group's music eeling are Joseph McQueen, dancer Michael Barr, oup, and Bernard Evans (photos by Santana and Looking Good advertising in the local media, the Thompsons say they got good response from youth interested in modeling careers. "Most (of them) had been wanting to model, but were either a little shorter or fuller than regular models," Mrs. Thompson (Cookie) says, ".and didn't feel they had the rhanpp tr? t*\iar m?1 * ? - ' ? w w?vi muuti. i wamcu 10 give mem tne chance to express themselves freely. "Most people have looked at newspapers or fashion See Page 19 1 Up For Her placed the producer of "He (the producer) wanted "Sanford and Son** in the me to walk all bent over like audience. He liked her and I was old and he wanted me wanted to know who she to fight like Redd - you was. know, with stiff arms and "Redd found me and arthritis. Redd said, 'Turn called me up 3:00 in the her loose. Let her do it the morning and said, 'Come way she wants,* and they and read for the Dart.'" she said 4Nn U/P Hnn't \i; o n t t r\ says. waste no film on her.'" After reading for the "And Redd, who was casting director and the making $100,000 a week, producer, Ms. Page was said, 'If she goes, then I cast for the part and started go.* He had faith in me. In that Tuesday. "By that Fri- fact, he had more conday, the producer called fidence in me than I had in Redd and told him he had myself.^ to let me go," she says. See Page 19 hallenge the North Piedmont area MM discussing the program with inmates who are interested in becoming participants, iPy She says she will also have . jjBW the opportunity to make ^ . ^10^ recommendations to the ~^W parole board. Many may view working one-on-one with prison inmates as a challenge and See Page 19 Shirley Gore n f " ' - ;
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