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Above left, Dr. and Mrs. C.B. Hauser enjoy the samplings at last Saturday's "Taste of Excellence" affair. Above right, Mrs. Lila J. Terry (left) is assisted with her edible creations by Mrs. Louise Davis (center) and Mrs. Marie Tyson (photos by Harden Richards). Barristers' Wives hold 'Taste of Excellence' The'Winston-Salem Barristers' Wives sponsored a Taste of Excel lence dinner and auction on Satur day, April 30, at 6 p.m. in the Arts Council lobby, 610 Coliseum Drive. Local restaurants and mer chants provided food and auction items. Proceeds from the dinner, will benefit the Jasper Alston Atkins Scholarship Fund for law students. The scholarship is given annu ally by the Barristers' Wives to a graduate of WSSU that has been accepted by a law school or is a current law student. Jasper Atkins, an attorney, was the son of the founder and former president of WSSU. He served as the executive secretary of the school's alumni association. The local chapter of the National Barristers' Wives Inc. was founded in 1978 for the purpose of promoting a closer union of spous es and surviving spouses of lawyers and judges and to foster activities designed to enhance the prestige of the legal profession. Nationally, the organization has a $10,000 committment to the United Negro College Fund, sup ports the digging of water wells in Africa, works in communities where there are Martin Luther King schools to help keep the name alive, and gives highly com petitive scholarships to law stu dents around the country. Helen Edmonds to deliver 96th WSSU commencement address The 96th commencement pro gram at Winston-Salem State Uni versity will be held at 10 a.m. Sat urday, May 7, at the Winston- Salem Memorial Coliseum. Dr. Helen Edmonds, noted his torian, educator and administrator, will deliver the keynote address. Dr. Edmonds is a graduate of Morgan Slate University with mas ter's and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University. She has done post-doctoral research and study at the University of Heidel berg (West Germany) and has been awarded eight honorary degrees. Dr. Edmonds' teaching career spans moe than 50 years and includes assignments at Virginia Theological Seminary and College, Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy, Harvard University and Rad- cliffe College. Most recently, she has been appointed to the Martin L. King/Rosa Parks Chair in the Department of History at Western Michigan University. A prolific writer. Dr. Edmonds has numerous articles that have appeared in a broad range of publi cations. She has often been hon ored at the local, state and national levels for her expertise and achievements. Selected awards include: Recognition of service in the United Nations and on the National Advisory Council of the Peace Corps by President Richard -.y-S".'-: Nixon and is one of five "Distin guished Women of North Carolina" (1986). Dr. Edmonds lists a number of "firsts" among her accomplish ments - the first Afro-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in histo ry at Ohio State University, to become a dean of a graduate school of arts and sciences in the U.S., to receive the William Hugh McEniry Award from the total col leges and universities of the State of North Carolina and to second the nomination of a candidate for the presidency of the United States (Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Republican National Convention, 1956). Sunday, May 8 This Beautiful, Laundered Linen Bow Back Dress is Sensational. Junior Sizes Lovely Neutral ^ Colors 3 exciting sty lei to choose from Sugg. Retail $47. MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL |88 A Hand to Hand way of caring .■?. llllllllllilMllllllllllllltllli agency's clients gives community people a chance to lake an active part in alleviating a community problem. "If you're going to complain about problems, here's your chance to do something about them," she said. "It affects all of us one way or another.” V3lunieers and staff of Hand to Hand will work to service pregnant teens in crisis, to reduce infant mortality by offering pre-natal and health care information and to enhance self-esteem among the teen-agers. Peacock said attention will focus on matching the particu lar needs of a volunteer with those of a client in order to achieve the agency's objectives. IIMMIIIHinilllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllll From Page A6 having gone through a similar situation themselves and wanting to help someone else," he said. "Everyone that walks through the door comes with strengths and needs whether they are a volunteer or a client and the task is to match those people. We're not looking for perfect volunteers or perfect clients." "I don't think anyone volun teers without having some reason for doing it. Their reason could range from a religious need or commission from God to simply But Peacock makes no bones ibout the challenges that volun- eers will face. Volunteers will be matched with a pregnant teen for a period of time that begins when the teen enters the program and offi cially ends up to 14 months after delivery, Peacock said the age group 17 to 19 is an especially dif ficult group to work with at times because they are dealing with all of the norma! teen-age crises of being just on the verge of adulthood and also with being pregnant. He describes them as "semi-indepen dent, semi- rebellious, more diffi cult to work with and less often viewed as victims in their situa tions." But Peacock said, that is why collecting a broad pool of vol unteers becomes so crucial to the program. "It's not something easy. It's not something simple. It’s not something short-term," he said. "It's not something where you can come in and volunteer and have some little girl throw her arms around you and say 'thank you, thank you, thank you.' They're in trouble and they're scared and vol unteers are going to have to get them to trust and build a relation ship with teen-agers who often aren't willing to trust. It's tough. We’re not looking for any wimps. But if we can help these girls feel better about themselves, they'll have the skills to teach their chil dren to feel better about them selves and society will become a better place for all of us." The Winston-Salem Hand to Hand program is located at 10 Cascade Ave. More information is available by contacting 725- HAND. Shop: Mon-Fri. 10 to 9 Sat 10 to 6 Sun 1 to 6 VISA ^ I ’ MASTER CARD i I discover i I EASY LAYAWAYS ^ | imV Wnston-Salem-HighPoint.ciemmons-KIno.MI. 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