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- 1 30 Pages This Wask Thursday, January 5, 1989 i ? "> ? ? ? . I I ? i i a i Pushing For Peace Members of Bahai faith will join Atlanta observances - . . . " SUBSCRIPTION HOTLINE - 722-8624 " olarly Words. ? Mount Tabor senior earns Emancipation Scholarship Award Isaiah Tidwell: The top Afro-American at Wachovia By TONYA V. SMITH Chronicle Stiff Writer Like most people, Isaiah Tidwell is resolving to do certain things at the brink qf this new year. But what makes him different is thaKhis entire personal and professional,, life have revolved around his life time re station to succeed. -- In line with that resolution is TidwelTs new posi tion. Officially effective Sunday, Tidwell now holds the highest position ever by an Afro- American at Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. . He is city executive in charge or tne bank's 20 offices In Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. > Tidwell, 43, admits that as a young boy growing up in Charlotte he didn't dream of becoming a bank ? executive. ? MI grew up with both my mother and father at Photos by Charmane Oeiaverson home . . . but there had not been a history of banking my favorite pictures, it's in the third grade and it's a in the family/' Tidwell said. "I have a picture, one of trip to Wachovia Bank and we came back and we set up a bank in the third grade." While he was a student at West Charlotte High School, Tidwell decided he wanted to go into the business Held. One of his teachers, Elizabeth Gaddy, stands out in his mind as someone who was a signifi cant motivator during those early years. "Elizabeth Gaddy is significant because we had taken. . . two bookkeeping courses in the 11th grade and there wereMhree guys (Tidwell included) who wanted to havenK>rcbc*>kkeeptng and so Elizabeth Gaddy taught us on her lunch hour, the three of us, because there was no other time to teach it," Tidwell said. "So she taught us the advanced bookkeeping ? : class, and ironically, all three of us left high school . and went to college majoring in accounting.'7 Unlike most college freshmen, Tidwell oeciaied his major during hid first year at North Carolina Cen j Please see page A TO Ridding yourself of post-holiday blues By TONYA V.SMTTH Chronlcto Staff Writer As holly and mistletoe are packed sway and plastic jcham pagne glasses and pajty hats are trasheiL postJi^htl^y, midwinter depression begins to set into the rtiinds and bodies. ? - Beginning in late January through February the Rev. Ted Dougherty, director of the Pastoral Counseling Center of N.C. Baptist Hospital, and his staff expect to see many people depressed by the change in climate. "Shorter days anc^less holi days, people have less things to look forward to and they1>egin to say, 'Gosh, will spring every come,'" Dougherty said. "The cold . and severe weather we experience this time of the yea* causes people to bundle up more and stay in the house." Studies of places that have more severe and longer winters ^have showed increases in homicide and suicide during the winter months, Dougherty said. "Alaska has A longer winter and we know that in places like it the homicides and suicides go up in more isolated, cold places," Dougherty said. nIn places with longer winters you often find men tal Illness. The mental liealili center? will tell you the number of their - clientele goes up." . The depression will, heavily hit those recently recovering from pre holiday depression, Dougherty said. "People who are going through the holidays for the first time with a lost, whether that's separation or the lost of job, tend to get depressed during the holidays," Doughetty\said. "The media, movies and commercialism of the * holidays makes everything look great, and for some people it isn't that great" The pre-holiday depressors are Please see pag A8 SUMMER SIZZLER! Associated Press Lsssf Photo Dasoitft the winter winds, swimsuit Mason wW be h ara bafora %S (*Wr WnlMPV wW?? WbNP p ^pwwl?SHP^pS% vRfP^P ?^^^P^P aP^Pl^pW ^P you know it Above, a mrtmsult dMlgrnd by Christian Lacroix for tha 1889 Spring/Summer rudy-to-wcar coHaclion. Fire chief responds to rescuers^ claims X ' By TONYA V. SMITH Chronic** Staff Writer Competition is fierce and openings are few in the Winston-Salem Fife Department, and that is part of the reason why two firefighters who risked their lives to save a family from a flame-engulfed home are unemployed, said Chief Lester Ervin. ^ ^ Leonard Davis, 2^ and Reginald McCummings, 25, rescued Linda Hawthorne and her three children out of their burning home at 812 Broad St.Dec. 7. ? ? - ? = ? ? ? r-r ? - ? Davis, a former firefighter with the US. Navy, said he has been trying ^lasecure employment with the city fire department for two years. McCummings Was a firefighter for the city for a year and a half. He said Ervin forced him to resign in September 1988 after he was charged with driving while intoxicated. McCummings also said Ervin had personal * reasons for wanting to see him leave the fire department. McCummings said he date! Ervin's daughter and, when the two broke up, the chief was disgruntled. Ervin declined to comment on McCummings' leaving the city fire department "The circumstances surrounding that other incident (McCummings' resignation) is a dead issue," said Ervin. Assistant City Manager A1 Beaty, Ervin's boss, said all firefighters are required to have a driver's license, adding that McCummings" license was revoked upon his DWI conviction. While admitting his license was revoked, McCummings said he does have limited driving privileges to transport himself to and from work. Please see page A2 Afro-American to direct Kernersville production By TONYA V. SMITH Chronic!* Staff Writer From the bloody battlefields of "Shenandoah" to the mint juleps of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', Juan Fernandez is an Afro- Ameri can theater actor and director who has found his niche in the arts. Fernandez is guest director for the February production of "Cat Hot Tin Roof', sponsored by - -the- Kernersville Little Theater. His is a unique task ? directing a ___ play set in the South during, 1950s when the only roles Ai Americans played were those of servants. _ ? ! i It's going to be a challenge/ getting over the types of people Tennessee Williams writes about, especially knowing that the blacks in his plays were either servants or field hands," Fernandez said. "My main job is to remain as true as I caa^o^h&spirit in which Ten nessee Williams wrote the play and still put my two cents in about what I think is going on." Although born in Fort Bragg, N.C., Fernandez spent most of his ^hjldbood in Hartford, Conn. Dur / ing his teenage years his family moved back to Greensboro where Fernandez got his first taste of life on the stage. "Acting and diqgctmg is not exactly something I planned to do, I kind of fell into it/' Fernandez said. Td always been interested in singing, and at Page (High -School) I got into the ensemble." ? ^ The ensemble members were often drafted to sing in the chorus* es of the school's productions ? something Fernandez liked a lpt. "Then I started working for the barn dinner theater and realized / that peoplejwould pay me for hav ing so mucH funvH Fernandez said. After high school, Fernandez enrolled as an English major at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. But his preoccupa tion with the performing arts quickly motivated him to change his major. Among his acting credits are roles in "Evita", "Ain't Misbe havin'", "Pippin*, "Purlie" and "You Can't Take it with You". He has directed "Matchmaker", "Jacques Brel", "Anything Goes", "Blithe Spirit", "A Funny Thing . . . Forum", "Godspell", "The Long. Way Hbffie*' aad ^Little Shop of HorrorsV Today, Fernandez reluctantly describes himself as an act or/director. "I was kind of reluctant to describe myself as a director because I had acted for so long, 16-17 years," said Fernandez. "Directing is something I really enjoy and was a natural offshoot from what I was doing." He sometimes misses acting Please seepage A8 ^ Juan Fernandez AaaodaM Pr*M Lasa/Photo A black student sits awake whlla othara slaap aa thay wall for a train bound lor Bailing at Nanking Station following a bloody Ctutatmaa Eva claah balwaan Albican students and Chln< Chinese and African students clash > * ,'Sc? By TtetAMOoiaMPres* .. ? ^ ? - . .. jjfci' NANKING, China ? There was intensifying of racial unrest in Beijing Tuesday when 200 Chinese students staged a protest against an alleged attack on a Chinese woman, who they believe was attacked by an African student The demonstration, held at at the Beijing Languages Institute became the third incident between the Chinese and Africans in the past few days. Chinese officials denied reports that Chinese police beat and applied elec tric shock to African students during a weekend encounter. Chinese officials said late last week they probably would punish at least seven African students for a brawl with Chinese workers, students and teachers that set off days of anti-black demonstrations. " ^ ' They said no Chinese students would be punished for participating in the clash and subsequent demonstrations, or for sacking the rooms of some African students. know who the Africans are that carried out the beating, " said Yang Ruiju, president of Hehai University wherej the clash took place. "The African students did this in a planned way." j But the Chinese students "demonstrated exit of anger. They didnt hurt anybody so none of themwill be punished," Yang said in an interview. About 140 African students, joined by about a dozen other foreign stu dents, remained in isolation at a guest house about a 90-minute drive out side of this eastern China city. Yang said the seven "suspects* were at the guesthouse. J The students have been at the house since Monday night, when Chinese police fSrced them there from the Nanking train station. The students want ed to travel to Beijing because they fear for their safety. Officials said last Thursday that all the students except the seven or eight Africans involved in the fracas could leave the guest house as long as they returned to their schools in Nanking. r { Two Western reporters who went to the guest house Thursday were refused permission to speak with the students. Chinese officials at the Jiangsii provincial foreign affairs office also refused to let reporters talk with the students. Young Chinese took to the streets for the fifth straight day since Saturday, Please bee page A8 '
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