JTPA grads show off
skills with final project
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Excellent examples of what the
Job Training Partnership Act can do
can be seen tomorrow in the park
ing lot of the Home Builders Asso
ciation as 11 graduates of a carpen
try apprenticeship class construct
their final project.
The pre-apprentices will gradu
ate Friday and will be placed in job
training positions with builder
members of HBA of Winston
Salem, said Kep Paylor, HBA pro
gram coordinator.
The carpentry class was a joint
venture by the HBA, the N.C.
Home Builders Association, the
Home Builders Institute^of the
National Association of Home
Builders and the Department
of Labor under the JTPA. The local
JTPA took the applications of the
prospective class members, inter
viewed them and will pay half the
salaries of the individuals during
their on-the-job training periods,
said Walter W. Farabee, director of
the Workforce Developments
Department.
"The class is offered to ease the
shortage of skilled carpenters in the
Forsyth County area," Mr. Paylor
said.' "It extends men and women
who are unskilled and unemployed
an opportunity to learn a trade they
can use for a lifetime."
CLEO
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Columbia, S.C., who will be
attending Duke University in the
fall. Others, like Rodney Ray, have
_ been accepted, to one law school
but hope to get into one' that js
closer to home or one that has a
JbetteiLprogram. Mr. jlay. a native
of Camden. N.J., was accepted into
Texas Southern University's School
of Law but is seeking admission to
Rutgers.
Unadmitted potential law
students who successfully com
plete CLEO could be admitted to a
good program, Mr. Roberts said.
"If they have not already been
admitted and they go through the
program and succeed and are certi
fied (have an overall passing
grade), and have good recommen
dations from their teachers, that
information will be used by me as
persuasive evidence for them to get
into a law school," Mr. Roberts
said.
Successful students also will
be awarded $2,000 annually for
living expenses while attending
law schooIThe saidr
"I'm hopeful all the students
will make it through because we
can only certify those who demon
strate to us their ability to succeed
in law school," Mr. Roberts said.
"We try to be careful, though, in
the administrative process. We
only take students who show the
ability to make it"
CLEO students took their mid
""^mfexams last week, however, the
results were not available for Mr.
Roberts to assess their progress.
They have been studying contracts,
land use, torts and legal writing,
concentrating on legal methods,
abstract thinking, analysis and syn
thesis, he said. Afro-American law
professors Luellen Curry and W.K.
"Joe" Knight, a visiting professor
from Iowa, joined the staff of six
CLEO instructors.
This is the first year WFU has
hosted CLEO, which rotates on the
campuses of the 25 law schools in
the Mid-Atlantic region. Gilberto
de Jesus, national CLEO director,
visited WFU's program Monday
and Tuesday and said he was very
impressed.
"This program is doing very
good," Mr. de Jesus said. "An
example of this is when I
addressed the students last week, at
one point they broke into applause
praising the way this program is
operating. This is a quality pro
gram with quality teachers and this ^
man (Mr. Roberts) is really doing
an excellent job."
The students agreed.
. ... "I think it's, in some respects, a
rigorous program that gives you a
model of how the first year in Jaw
school is," said Mr. Starks, 22.
"This has been a meaningful and
valuable experience for me."
"(CLEO) would be one of the
keys to success in law school for
me," Mr. Ray added. "It's what I
expected and more. It's been a lot
of work, but what has impressed
me the most is the camaraderie
among law students."
. . Attorney Larry Ultle, a gr^du
ate of WFU, has helped the stu
dents feel at home in Winston
Salem by hosting a picnic in their
honor, Mr. Starks said.
"He also gave a very inspira
tional and motivational speech," he
said.
CLEO will end July 14, and a
July 13 banquet -- featuring Judge
Loretta Biggs as keynote speaker --
will climax the summer institute.
CLEO has sponsored summer
institutes at American Bar Associa
tion accredited law schools since
1968. In its first 15 years, the
Council helped more than 3,000
students to enter 175 accredited
law schools. CLEO's five con
stituent organizations are the
American Bar Association, the
Association of American Law
"Schools, the Hispanic" NaTionaLB ar
Association, the Law School
Admission Council and the Nation
al Bar Association.
From Dad , Mom,
Ben, Jr. & Antonio
HAPPY 'Sweet 16th'
BIRTHDAY
LATOSHA COLEMAN
? A Rising Junior at Mt. Tabor High
? A Video Technician with
"Coleman Video Productions"
? Entering 2nd year in the study of
Cosmetology at the Winston -Salem
Forsyth County Career Center.
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J AC Memorial Chapel Usher Board
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Graduates of the pre-carpentry apprenticeship program gather with their instructor to celebrate
the course's end, which will officially be Friday.
Nine of the 11 graduates are
Afro-Americans. During their five
weeks of instruction the students
received classroom and hands-on
basic carpentry skills. The eight
hour class days began May 29, with
Thomas H. Cornell instructing. The
students learned safety skills, math,
how to use hand power tools, floor
layout/framing, wall framing, roof
framing, exterior/interior wall finish
and other pertinent carpentry skills.
The graduates will continue to
learn during their sixteen weeks of
on-the-job training as Mr. Paylor
monitors their performance. The
graduates are: Clem P. Andrews,
Wilma Brake, Charles Fletcher, Ray
E Freeman, Pamela W. Fuller, San
dra A. Fuller, Darryl T. Hairston,
Mark E. Odell, Kevin L. Robinson,
Eugene C. Roddy and Ashley M.
Thompson.
The students will culminate
their training by constructing a
small project in the HBA at 220
Charlois Blvd. Friday morning.
"This will be an excellent
opportunity for member companies
to observe, first hand, the skills of
these students and consider them for
employment," reads the announce
ment in the June 1989' edition of
HBA's local newsletter. "This is
your chance to hire trained, quali
fied apprentice carpenters to fill
your entry level carpenter needs. If
you snooze, you lose!"
Correction. . .
In last week's edition the Chronicle incorrectly identified the publish
er of the San Francisco Voice as Curtis. Cjoodlett. His name is Carlton
Goodlett. The Chronicle regrets the error.
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