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By ROBIN ADAMS
onronicie Assistant fcgitor
After 34 years, Palmer
Friende, at only 57 years old,
retired from the city-county
school system as an associate
grades K-12. But "road-clW<?r"
might have been a better title for
him.
Friende, who was ' the first
black to hold most of his former
positions, spent years not Just doing
the jobs he was assigned, but
making sure that other blacks
who followed him would have a
much easier time settling into
their positions.
"That was my assignment
(audio visual coordinator, his
first central office position),"
said Friende. "But as it turned
out, it was more than that. My
real job was a human relations
The jury is Si
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By GREG BROWN
Chronicle Staff Writer
Leadership Winston-Salem,
a program designed to bring
together leaders from various
professions and backgrounds
in a workshop setting, is
receiving mixed reviews from
some of its black participants
as it reaches the halfway mark
in its nine-month lifespan.
While some of the participants
say they aren't sure if
the program is worth the time
it requires, others say it's too
early to make such
assessments.
Debbie Marion, executive
director of the local program,
says Winston-Salem's program
is similar to others under
way throughout the country,
hut that local issues and local
people make it unique.
Another aspect of the
Winston-Salem program that
makes it different, says
Marion, is the fact that the one
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independent of the Chamber
of Commerce, which sponsors
ntost of the programs in other
cities,
A Chamber of Commerce
task force set up in January
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kind of job. That was the real
task.
"Some of the things I did were
not given assignments but were
inherited. They didn't really care
if I was proficient in my assigned
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Sitting in his comfortable
home in Monticello Park during
the mid-morning hours as game
shows invaded his television
screen, Friende took the opportunity
to reflect on his career.
Friende, the sixth child in a
family of seven, followed the
footsteps of his older siblings and
became a teacher. After
graduating from Winston-Salem
Teachers College in 1950, he went
to work in Guilford County as a
teacher for three months before
he was drafted^Friende
served as a surgical
technician in a military hospital
till out
p program
- 1983 recommended forming
the program and selected
Thomas Hearn, then the
newly-arrived president of
Wake Forest University, to
lead it. Hearn, who had been
actively involved in Leadership
Birmingham in Alabama,
suggested that the program
could be more effective if it
were organizationally free of
the Chamber.
Marion, whose office is
located in the Chamber headquarters,
says the program is
funded primarily through corporate
contributions.
Last May, the program
began seeking participants,
at
witn an application deadline
of mid-July and the first session
set for September. "We
probably didn't do as good a
job with publicity as we would
have liked, but we didn't have
a lot of time," Marion says,
noting that the time constraints
may have limited the
number of black applicants.
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which were received, 41 persons
was selected for the first
class. Ten of them were black,
including C.P. Booker, local
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When he left the service in 1952, 1
he was only a few credit hours !
away from the degree and
State* UnWersity whennereturfted
home. But there was some
question in Friende's mind if he
would return to Kernersville, his
family's home. While in Indiana,
Friende learned that he was a
good singer and was a popular
nightclub entertainer.
But while in the service, he had
married his wife Bette, and decided
against a nightclub career
because times for black enter- <
tainers were tougher than they
were for black educators. So he
came back to take up where he <
left off. i
He came back to North i
Carolina, got his job back in
Convicted mu
By ROBIN ADAMS I
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Mrs. Fanny McIIwain will be
the first to admit that her son,
Ronnell Leverne Jackson, committed
a crime and should be
punished for it.
But even though Jackson is in
jail, said McIIwain, he has not
given up his rights as a human being.
"I'm not saying he shouldn't
be punished for what he did,"
McIIwain told the Chronicle last I
week. "But in the state of mind I
he did it in, he needs some help."
Jackson, 33, was convicted of I
the June 5 murder of William |
Norbert Rismiller and the kid- I
napping of Michelle Holland, |
both Channel 45 employees. |
Jackson walked into the station's I
Linville Road building that morning
and complained that a I
religious program, "The 700 I
Club," as well as stations carry
ing the program, had been spying 5
on him. While at the station,
Jackson shot Rismiller, who died A
later in a local hospital, and took a
Holland hostage. He demanded
< that Channel 12 weekend anchor t
Susan Bruce apologize to him for (
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closed-circuit hook-up with Sum- i
mit Cable Services, Bruce made (
the apology and, six and one-half
hours later, Jackson released 1
Holland unharmed. i
Before that episode, Jackson, a
divorced father of two, had only i
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When it comes to being frank,
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rour questions," Chabuka told
his reporter during an interview
)efore her appearance last week
it Emmanuel Baptist Church. "1
lon't like Caucasian questions.
5y that 1 mean, don't play inellectual
exercises with me. Let's
)c honest, straight, blunt,
>ecause every moment is
precious.
"I don't want questions sayng,
'What do you think about
Jie arms struggle? What about
oppression?' Those are white
questions. Man, we can't be asking
questions like that."
Chabaku, 51, has been exiled ,
from South Africa by her
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3uiIford County where he taught
for four more years, from there
te went to Carver Union School,
his alma mater, for one year; and
from there to three years of
teaching and three years of being
Senior High-School.
Under the director of thensuperintendent
Marvin Ward,
now a state senator, he moved into
the central office. When
Friende decided to take Ward up
on his offer, the city and county
schools were still separate, but
during the summer of 1963 the
two merged and Friende became
audio-visual coordinator of the
combined system and doubled his
troubles.
"The time had come when a lot
of people were beginning to feel
it's about time and it fell on my
shoulders," said Friende, when
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built his defense around
in insanity plea. But an all-white
jury found Jackson guilty and
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homeland's white-run government,
and has spent the last eight '
years in the United States.
Although she is a minister,
teacher, social worker, theatrical
producer and women's rights advocate,
she has spent much of
that time traveling across the
country telling the story of apartheid
to many who still consider
all of Africa as jungle. And, like
Bishop Desmond Tutu, this
year's Nobel Peace Prize winner,
she espouses nonviolence.
"I'm not for violence," said
Chabaku, looking the reporter
straight in the eye. "Oppressed
people all over the world are not
for violence anywhere in the
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murder charge and 40
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Since Jackson has been in jail,
Mcllwain said her son has not
received the psychiatric help he
needs and that, because of his
lack of psychiatric help, he has
refused to eat and has developed
a more severe paranoia than he
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to go into counterviolence for
survival. And if you want to get
rid of the violence, deal with the
violence of the oppressor first
and, when that is done? the other
will take care of itself easily.
4'It's biblical. It's New Testament.
It's Old Testament. It's
Bahai. It's Muslim. It's Jewish."
She added: "The violence in
our country now is the reaction
we have to the violence that has
been inflicted on us. When we are
dehumanized ... we have to go
back and say so, like in the story
of the Elephant Man.... He had
to scream out, '1 am a human be_
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stopped eating for 76 days. He
was living on water and juice. He
went in weighing 185 pounds;
now he's down to 120.
"I feel he needs to be moved to
get more help."
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