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n-Salem Chronicle
SO cents : ~ ; ? "The Twin City's Awum-Winning Weekly" -- VOL. XVI, No. 18
GENEVA BROWN
A teacher's teacher
By TONYA V. SMITH ents. Her late mother was a tcach
Chronide Staff Writer er ^4 j,er father retired as a prin
cipal. But back then Mrs. Brown
Geneva Brown has earned was more interested jn pursuing a
several reputations in her 35 years in commercia, an.
as elementary school teacher and ? ?- ?? .
administrator in the Winston- "I always wanted to be a
Salem/Forsyth County Schools. - commercial artist," she said. "1
Students at Moore Alterna- wanted to go to Pratt Institute in
tive School knew to "straighten New York. But my parents said
up" when they saw
principal Brown
monitoring the halls.
Parents have called
her innovative
because of her unique
approaches to teach
ing teachers to teach.
And most recently,
some members of the
schools' central
office have been
no. They
She has the insight of M said 1 cou,d
Buddha in that she can 1 lo (Norlh
see^fchatedDGminz up
far ahead and she gives I
4t to us. We do it at I "welrsity_:
w ? and-take art
Moore, then everybody I and lcaching
else in the system I
same
catches on. I time. That's
- Judy Cox | how I ended
up at A&T."
busily making prepa- S h e
rations for Mrs. Brown, who, on agreed to study to be a teacher,
Jan. 2, will become the system's but Mrs. Brown had no intention
first director of minority student of actually entering the proles
achievement. sion. She explained: "I never rcal
Originally from "down East" ly intended to teach, but through
- Goldsboro, Mrs. Brown was
introduced to teaching by her par- Please see page A10
m.
Photo by Mike Cunningham
Climaxing 35 years of service to the city-county schools,
Geneva Brown will become the system's first director of
minority achievement next month..
Gitizens debate
toll-free area plan
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
Proponents of a proposal that would establish toll-free telephone ser
vices for residents wishing to place calls to municipalities within the Triad
like to see. But those against^xpanded Area Service (EAS) say-it means
higher telephone bills for many low-income and elderly telephone cus
tomers.
Citizens for a Toll-free Triad Committee has, for the past three years,
been trying to develop a way to extend services to telephone consumers at a
cost which would be affordable to the private and business sectors, said
Lloyd G. Walter, a member of the committee. Also known as the Triad
Telephone Committee, the group is composed mostly of small business
people representing Winston-Salem, HigJuPoint and Greensboro and Guil
ford and Forsyth counties.
"Our proposal is to try to get regionalized with our telephone service."
Mr. Walter explained. "Frankly, in order to meet the needs of everybody in
the region we need to view ourselves as a region. We're not trying to add
problems for everybody. But if we're going to promote this area as a
region, like some have said, in order to sell it as a great location for big
businesses to locate, this is a great place to start. Look at Charlotte. They
don't have this problem because they have expanded service that goes out
quite a ways."
About 10 months ago the committee sent its proposal to the N.C. Utili
ties Commission. Estimations as to how,much EAS would cost residential
and business customers were included in the plan, said Mr. Walter, who
owns a small architectural firm. In its review of the proposal, the commis
sion's staff found several discrepancies and hasr spent the last several
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FBI alerting NAACP officials across North and South Carolina
Rash of mail bombings believed to be the work of white supremacists targeting civil rights activists
By The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE ? Agents from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation fanned across the Carolinas alerting
NAACP officials of possible danger in the wake of
mail bombings in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
The alert was prompted by Tuesday's discovery of
a bomb at the NAACP headquarters in Jacksonville,
Fla. It's one of four discovered in the three states so
far. Two exploded, one killing a federal judge in
Birmingham and the other a lawyer in Savannah.
Officials are worried that whoever is responsible
for the bombs may not be through.
"That's a tremendous concern, and we arc not rul
ing that out," Paul Daly, spccial agent in charge of
North Carolina's FBI, told The Charlotte Observer in
an interview published today. "There is reason to
believe that's the case.
... There is evidence of a continuum."
"We arc handling this as a priority matter," said
Rick Denton, assistant special agent in charge in
South Carolina.
The FBI said Wednesday that the bombs were
mailed from Georgia on Thursday, Friday and Satur
day.
U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Vance, 58, was killed by
a package bomb'Saturday. Savannah attorney Robert
Robinson, 42, was killed Monday. Another bomb
was mailed Saturday from the Atlanta area to the
Circuit Court of Appeals clerk's officc in Atlanta.
That bomb and one discovered Tuesday were
removed safely. All four were pipe bombs that con
tained nails for shrapnel.
Links to NAACP school-desegregation efforts
have been established in all four cases, leading
investigators to speculate that a racist group might be
responsible.
There have been no recent similar acts in North
Carolina, but federal agents have paid attention to
ihc state's history of white-supremacist violence.
"Obviously, we are looking at any tics to this par
ticular event," Daly said Wednesday.
'Traditionally there has been a close relationship
between these groups," Daly said. "This has been a
very fertile ground, probably the leading fertile
ground. I think it's probably ... been the site of more
violence than anywhere else by right-wing groups."
Meanwhile,, on Wednesday afternoon, the
McLcansville post office was evacuated when a
packagc began vibrating and officials believed ii
Please see page A11
Sometimes the best man
for the job is a woman
How Cold Was It?
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronide Staff Writer
How many hats can one
woman wear? For Patricia Norris
- police lieutenant, wife, mother,
'There's just not enough time in a
day," Lt. Norris said, adding that
time management is her biggest
problem.
Pat Norris, whose aliases
Photo by Mike Cunningham
Being a full-time police lieutenant, wife and mother and part
time student keeps Patricia Noriis pretty busy.
student, community worker - included numerous nicknames
there are quite a few. that she wouldn't allow to be pub
Her eight-hour work day and licly revealed, is the supervising
evening slate of classes at Win- officer of the Winston-Salem
ston-Salcm State University ham- Police Department's Crime Rcsis
mers home the old adage, tance Unit. The DARE (Drug,
Alcohol Rcsistancc Education),
Officcr Friendly, Neighborhood
Watch and Victim Assistance pro
grams arc included in the 12-offi
ccr unit.
The Winston-Salem native
didn't take the most traveled road
of entry to the police department.
After graduating from R.J.
Reynolds High School, Mrs. Nor
ris enrolled in Winston-Salem
State University with plans to
major in Business Administration.
"I was there for about two and
a half years before I decided that I
needed a full-time job," she
explained. "I got in the work force
because, well the grades were not
all that great and bccause school
just wasn't where I wanted to be
then. Boy, do I regret making that
decision now."
Lt. Norns' career in the work
force has included several seem
ingly unrelated occupations -
including school bus driver, gro
cery store cashier, day care teach
er, hosiery production line worker,
a job in the city's traffic engineer
ing department and as intermedi
ate accounting clerk at city yard.
Her motivation to join the
police department came from one
of her close friends who was an
officer, and from the "tomboyish
ncss". in her from her childhood
days.
"Ever since I was little I'd
always been the tomboy in the
group," Lt. Norris said. "I climbcd
irccs and everything. After seeing
what my friend did, I thought it
would be niee to try police work."
When Mrs. Norris first
applied for the job, there were no
openings on the police force. For
mer city traffic engineer Roy
Williams, who helped her get the
accounting clerk position, per
suaded her to re-apply.
"He asked me if I was still
interested in being a police officer
and I said yes, and he told me to
give the department a call," the
lieutenant explained. "I called and
talked to them, went down for an
interview and tests and the next
thing I knew I was in rookie
school."
Unfortunately, joining the
police force was not the dream
Mrs. Norris' mother had for her.
"All my family members
were against it," she explained.
"But this was something I had
wanted for so long that I had to go
for it."
After graduating from rookie
school in 1977, Lt. Norris was
assigned to the department's
patrol division - where she
worked for about seven years. In
that division she became very
familiar with every area of the
city. She responded to calls, some,
of them potentially dangerous,
but emerged with few altercations.
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Photo by Mike Cunningham
Samaria Gainy and 22-month-old Tyrez Gainy bundle up against
the cold as they wait for a bus at East Winston Shopping Center.