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IINIININIIfMIIIINtlNtnilltHMtMHMIIIIMMMINHMINIIIMIHIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII More Than Looking MIIIIHIIIIIIIIMIUIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIMmilllllllHIIIKHIIIIIIIIMIIIIMIIIHIIMIIIHIIIIIIIIIII magazines and thought 'Wow, That must feel good to model.' This group shows the interest, potential and the * drive to want to be professional models, and they can only achieve this with self-confidence." For Lisa, being in the group has built her confidence, she says, and made her a "better person. It made me a more confident person and also enabled me to do things I thought I would never be able to do, such as performing in front of a group of people and walking in a fashion show. I'm doing all kinds of thingsjtecause she's (Cookie) behind me 100 percent." ~ Allen-, who is president of the croun. ha< heen mnHel , ~.J ?~ ing for five years and had his own company in high school called Edward & Company, says he became interested in modeling because he had an interest in clothes. "I guess when I was young," he says, "there were some things I wanted that I couldn't have, such as** clothes, and when I got older and had a little money in my pocket, I started going to fashion shows." He adds that he plans to stay with the company until "I make it big." Mrs. Thompson says the company aims also to help youth develop poise and become individual in their thinking. "It's to let them know that they don't have to swing with the fashions," she says. "They make the fashions swings with them. We want to pull them away from being with the norm and to find out about themselves as in- dividuals." The norm for becoming a professional model, she says, is Wbe approximately five feet, nine inches ratt it you're a female and six-foot-one if you're a male. "And a maioritv nf th#? HHc in Winct^n CoUrv, ~ ~1 j j lit " IIIJIV/II'OUIVIII CI1C 11VJI, MIC l?dyS. "Many of them might not make it (in a modeling-career), but if someone takes the time to bring whatever they have going for them in the open, then they can accomplish anything. It doesn't have to be a modeling career. Selfconfidence opens many doors." To raise money, the group holds car washes or rafhes to help buy materials such as photography equipment, to provide accessories for outfits and to buy makeup. The ?Thompsons even donate money to the group if necessary "This is my job," Mrs. Thompson says. "I'm not into iiiiiiiMiiHtiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiitiiiimHiiiiiiiiimmtuiimiimimimiiiiiiimimiiiiii There's Excitement ] school's business and finance division. She says she did not come to Wachovia looking for a banking position, but probably for a position in personnel. But after consulting with a friend, Nancy Murray, who is also a Duke alumnus, she decided to try Wachovia's management program. Within six months, she became a cash management consultant and has now been recognized as an officer of the bank by the board of directors, which is awarded based on her performance as an employee. I had not planned on this." she savs. "I had no idea of what banking was all about. Now I think, 'How can they (people) not be interested?'" Upshaw's position involves visiting corporation officers, not as a representative of Wachovia, but as a business consultant. After interviewing them and learning and analyzing the corporations' cash management systems, she makes recommendations to the corporate . officers on how to improve their systems, based on her knowledge of banking technology and the banking environment. "It's a real test of skill," she says, "because you have iiiiiiiiiiiimitiiiiiiimiiimiiiiimiiiiiiimiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiimiiimmiiimmiiiiiiii New MAPPDirecto iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinitii J t even as uangerous, dui supposed to t>e treated and Gore would rather dispel never had any problems." those views. "I've been in it Gore sa*ys most view a so long, it's just a job to prison as a place where inhelp people. I know that mates are kept under they (the inmates) are custody or controlled, but human and everyone makes that is not necessarily so.'4 mistakes," she says.-"As Things have changed now." long as I've been there, I've she says. "You respect had no problems prUnnprc rnnrp human "Not every woman can beings." work with inmates. There She refers to the inmates are certain things you don't as people who cannot help do. You can't be flirting themselves and feels it's up with them or wear certain to people like her to help types of dresses. I've them. treated them like they're Gore will be assisting inimiiHiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiimmiimiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimimiHiiimiiimmimm 'Aunt Esther' From Page 15 iiiitiitiitiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiitiiiNitiiiiittiiMiiiiiiaiiiiiitiiiitiiiiiiitiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiMiiiiiiiti But Ms. Page says when tant, 'but it's more imporshe was in front of the tant to be nice," she says, camera, "I put God in front But she quickly points of me and the words out there is a difference betautomatically came to me. ween the two characters. Things like 'fish-eyed fool' "I'm just an ordinary perand 'watch it, sucker' fell son," she says. "I'm just a right in place." down-to-earth person. I'm Now, wherever she goes, a religious person, but I'm she isn't LaWanda Page, not a fanatic." She adds but everybody's Aunt that she is as outspoken as Esther. "Everywhere I go, Esther, because, "if you somebody comes up to me don't ask for what you and says, 'Girl, you're just want, you won't get it." like my aunt,' or 'I've got Though she has fond an aunt just like you,' " she memories of the show, is a says. long-time friend of Redd Ms. Page adds that she Foxx and says she feels like doesn't mind because she Demond Wilson's real-life loves the public. "It's a aunt, Page says she wasn't* special feeling to be loved- upset when the show was and it's nice to be impor- cancelled. "I didn't feel no ?' f * ! *J IT L?i _ ? Good v From Page 15 | IJIIIIIIIIIIIttiHIItllllltlMltMltttMIIHtHllttttlllMlttlllMltltllNMIttftMlltMtttMtllMIIMtVtllMli the nine-to-five hack of a job. I like setting my own hours and it doesn't inhibit me." Thompson, who works as a Navy recruiter, says he supports what his wife is doing because she is working with the age group of youth he also deals with. As "sound man" for the company,' he provides the" background music for the models. "It's really the foundation of the show," he says. "In our shows, we try toT have the models express the character of the clothes they're wearing and they have to have the right music to have that." "Mndp/inp in 1? L ---? 'r ' o * * " ?wvn-uMicfn iumiu ctr uener ij we nao more supporters. It seems to be not so much a lack of interest as a lack of being cultured. Everybody seems to be in the porm." "Cookie" Thompson Mrs. Thompson adds that the youth are "not just out there to model to the music; they're there to show the trends and exemplify their personalities as well." The group is young, and has plans to expand, but Mrs. Thompson says one problem is a lack of support. "Modeling in Winston-Salem could be better if we had more supporters," she says. "It seems to be not so much a lack of interest as a lack of being cultured. Everybody seems to be in the norm. Everybody is following suit after another and it's really posed a big problem." One event the group planned over the past few weeks is a fashion show held this weekend at the Rolls Royce , disco. The models sported clothes by two of their own designers, Edward Allen and Gary Conner, and fashions from local department stores. Mrs. Thompson says the group will study the basics of modeling, such as the proper way to walk, or turn, and continue preparing themselves for possible careers. "We hope that by them sending pictures and resumes to different agencies around the United States, one of them, somebody, hopefully will be seen," she says, "and if one person in the group makes it, then we've all made it." iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiHHiiiiiiiiiimiiiMiiimtiiiaiimimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiMtiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii [n Banking? From Page 15 iiiiiiHiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiitiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiii to assure that confidentiality, knowledge and trust is there, and that you're not selling Wachovia. You're telling this guy how to run his company, so you have to do it in the right way." She also does two types of computer studies, collection and dispersement, to help better the corporation's cash flow system. Upshaw says she enjoys her job because she is leafrning about different companies, because she likes the profes- ' sional atmosphere at Wachovia, and because she gets to travel. "You get to go to a lot of places you probably would not get to go on your own," she says. ? As a mother of three girls, Melanie, seven; Monica, three, andJVleredith,j)ne, Upshaw says she stays afloat with a "lot of help and support and understanding from my husband. This is the only way I can do it. He even knows how to braid hair." She says when she returns from an out-of-town trip, her husband always has some funny story to tell her, such _as. instances when he braids his daughters' hair and one of them looks in mirror and says, "Daddy, this side is okay, but this side is crooked." ? ( hi Minimi 1* From Page 15 MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIHIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHUII mates in negotiating MAPP "It gives them (prisoners) contracts, which will some incentive, something specify program participa- to look forward to. A man tion, goals for progression with a life sentence has in custody and a specific aireacly been in prison 10 or parole date. The contract is .. c .;fl. n negotiated during face-to- 15 yearS (bef?re c'uallfy,n8 face sessions and requires a ^or Pr?8ram)? This proformal hearing before ap- 8ram gives him some kind proval. Inmates who of incentive. He knows he qualify for the program are Wl11 eventually get out.'' usually serving long-term Gore says the job will be sentences, Gore says, and a "big challenge, but I've some nave passed their been in this department too parole dates. long Just sit there and 4tThis is what you call type. I'm" looking forward rehabilitation," she says, to this big challenge." Minimi IIIMIIMMIMMmiMIMMIIIIIIimilllMtMIIIIIIIIIMIMIMMIMIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIMII pain cause I was rich," she from material she could use joked. "If they had cancell- in a church, to material she ed the show when I was would use when performing poor, I would have been for teen-agers. "The kind upset. And I was kind of of material I'm using glad to get the rest." tonight is X-rated," she She adds that being in the says. "It's called blue show enabled her to hire a material." nrivafp n11 rtp tr> rarc r\f A not*??-or\ on t or* o r . . ?. ..v.. >V VV.K V VU1 V V/l n T vivi an biu^.1 lailltl her mother. "I never put who has been in show her in a rest home," she business since 1951, Ms. says. "I kept her with me all Page says she has no com-/ the time." - plaints about the black Ms. Page says she enjoys shows on television. "I traveling to different clubs think they're realistic," she because she meets new peo- says, "because that's how pie. "Although I get tired, black folks act, some of it's still fun," she says. them." The kind of material she She points out that uses in her act depends on George Jefferson on "The where she is performing, Jeffersons" plays a comedy she says, and can range See Page 30 r - s/ to' <*1 T < PPJPB We Reserve The Right v k r\I To Limit Quantities H flf PRICES GOOD ONLY: V * # AUGUST 19 -25 i<^gL rezJg * I SCOTCH Tap*/ ? t\ \J Lb Scotch l" ' ?ml Lb I n?i>?r?ol T?o? I'T* T flfl : rf4r,. Q9C : ;>sd ^('EfTa) _ _ . BARGAIN 770 m1*01 I I II - PACK OF FIVE_. _ BALLPOINT PENS ' ^ " -J COMBINATION gtpg . 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