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S/c[/7 Writer
In an attempt to address the problems that affect
the black family, a local task force is planning a sixday
conference that will feature a series oi
workshops.
The first annual Black Family Conference, which
I gets underway Sunday and runs through Aug. 19, is
the result of two years of work by Marcella Oglesby,
who heads up the effort, and other concerned black
social workers.
"Two years ago, 1 was asked to be a keynote
speaker at ^btackspcial workers' conference," says
Mrs. Oglesby, who is adult director at Forsyth Mental
Health Center. "During my research, I found that
when you talk about mental health as it relates to the
black family, you also have to include basic things
like housing, employment and medical needs. So 1
said, 'Why not do a workshop on the black family
that would encompass the whole spectrum?'"
Mrs. Oglesby says that for six months the idea
searched for some direction until the task force grew
to six members. Made up of mostly black social
workers who work in strategic areas of mental
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"We wanted to get as broad a spectrum as possible,"
says Johnetta Huntley, an original task-force
member and a social worker in child development
with Family Services. "We tried to get people whc
are concerned and who understand the makeup of
the black family in Winston-Salem."
^ Mrs. Oglesby, the mother of two daughters, says
the fask force sent out qucsiionnairerwitiHSOques^tions
and found that the three major topics of concern
were employment, housing and education.
The conference then adopted a five-point objective ,
for the workshops: to stress the importance of the
family; to Identify the needs of single parents, single
persons and extended and traditional families; to explore
ways family members can develop self-help
skills; to help the community become more aware of
community services; and to address the mental health
and medical needs of the family.
The conference will kick off with Family Fun Day
in Rupert Bell Park on Sunday. The activities will include
choirs, speakers, artists, readings and music.
On Monday, an employment workshop will be conducted
at the East Winston Library. Tuesday will be j
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EDWARD HILL JR.
\ioff Writer
After experiencing a relatively smooth transition
>f going from a- predominantly white to a
>redominantly black neighborhood, Oreenway
>cgan to face a mini-crisis.
"The neighborhood began to slowly deterioate,"
lays Rannel McCullough, who lives in the 2700 block
>f Patterson Avenue. "People started to let their
property go down and the absentee landlords didn't
lelp the situation."
"I moved over here about four years ago and I
Degan to observe certain sore spots in the
neighborhood," says Curtis Canty, who lives in the
2800 block of Bon Air Avenue. "It seemed like a certain
spirit or feeling of community pride was missing.
Something needed to be done."
Greenway is located in the northwestern section of
the city and is bound on the east by Patterson
Avenue, on the west by the Milbrook apartments,
south by 27th Street and north by Indiana Avenue.
The majority of the houses are single-family brick
structures, with a few rented wood-framed houses.
The Greenway Apartments is the only apartment
complex in the neighborhood.
Residents say that although the problems still exist,
they've noticed a change in recent months.
"Since we formed the Greenway Neighborhood
Association and the Neighborhood Housing Services
(NHS) has come over here, there have been some
positive things taking place," says Roslyn Holmes of
28th Street. "Some street lights have been added;
they've cleaned away some of the standing water;
and they've put in a bathroom over there in the
park."
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
Cecil Summers started school with the hope of
graduating from all-black Carver High. In
Greensboro, Sally Hayes had big dreams of
graduating from James B. Dudley Senior High
School.
Two young children with dreams. But changes in
1971, mandated by the courts and ppt in operation by
the local school boards, shattered or changed the
dreams for both of them.
"I was looking forward to completing my education
at Carver/' says attorney Summers.
Hayes* dream was not changed as drastically as
Summers'. She got the opportunity to graduate from
Dudley, but it was a different Dudley from the one
she had dreamed of.
Dudley was one of the few predominantly black
high schools before desegregation that remained a
high school after desegregation. But Carver, like the
other three all-black high schools in Winston-Salem,
became a lower-grade school.
Hayes and Summers are both members of the class
of 1973. Summers1 class celebrated its reunion
several weeks ago. And although the event was wellplanned,
says Summers, very few blacks (approximately
six out of a/?to3sjble 300) attended the reunion.
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The 1973 class frbm Dudley will be^elebrating its
class reunion Aug. A 2-14, but, insist case, the white/
students will be in tneininority. I4tf the whites show
up,M says Hayes, "I woulcf be surprised, but I would
be pleasantly surprised.*'
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of Gilmer Avenue. "You can see the improvement in
things like the street lights, and people seem to be
taking a little more pride in their lawns/9
44It's been a little slow, but there is some improvement,"
says McCullough, grudgingly. "The
Neighborhood Housing Services is getting some
things done."
The neighborhood association, composed of 327
families who live in Greenway, acts as a community
body. The NHS is an experiment in neighborhood
development that is funded through a grant and is
designed to build a working partnership between the
city government, financial institutions and the
residents.
Curtis Canty, who formed the neighborhood
association and acts as chairman of the NHS, says
the neighborhood has many good resources that need
to be tapped.
"Greenway has a sort of quiet pride about it,"
says Canty. "If you look at the neighborhood, you
will find that its planning was well thought out. The
streets are wide, the landscaping is unique and the
parks are conveniently located. The people over here
are beginning to realize that this is a special
neighborhood, and they are working to help improve
it."
Residents have the luxury of using Bon Air, Greenway
and Blume parks for recreation.
The neighborhood voting precinct is located in the
Winston-Salem Coliseum, and Canty says that the
residents are politically involved.
"The majority of thejesidents are middle-aged or
senior citizens," says Canty. "For that reason, many
of them have had a tradition of being involved in
things that have affected them politically."
McCullough says the NHS is presently surveying
the neighborhood and identifying specific problems,
particularly with housing, that need to be rectified.
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it week's conference (photo by James Parker).
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Reunions are a time for remembering the good and
bad and to wonder about the future. When the two
groups get together, what kinds of things will they
remember and what will they choose to forget?
"1 can remember that first day," says Howard
Tyrone Moore, a Dudley graduate, who now lives in
Winston-Salem. "Evervbodv had their suard uo.
Everybody was very sensitive. The whites were in
their huddle and the blacks were in their huddle."
Hayes, employed at Ivey's in Greensboro, agrees:
"My junior year (the first year of desegregation), was
kind of like the twilight zone. I was drifting around
trying to feel my way.
"All of a sudden, there were these little white
faces," she says. "They took away some of the pride.
But I was still a Panther (Dudley's mascot). The
black students unconsciously feared that if we didn't
stay together, we would lose our blackness.
"All this was going on during the time when afros
were coming into style,'* she says, "and it was
becoming popular to be black. Well, here I was considering
myself a militant, promoting my blackness
and caught up in integration."
Chronicle Executive Editor Allen Johnson was
also a member of the Dudley class of '73. ''Apparently
a lot of the white students weren't used to
being around that many black students," Johnson
says. "They were checking us out to see if things they
had heard (about black people) were actually true or
false."
Although not a major issue, Johnson says that he
noticed a conflict brewing between the black and
white women. "The white women would have long
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