'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly"
Thursday, May 31 , 1990 ? VOL. XVI, No. 40
Prof denied
WSSU June 4
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronide Managing Editor
An English professor at Winston-Salem State
University who had been repeatedly denied tenure is
leaving for a fellowship in Washington, D.C., at the
Smithsonian Institute.
Dr. Glen da E.Gill, associate professor of English
at Winston-Salem State, is scheduled to begin a two
month fellowship at the
Smithsonian June 4. Dr. Gill
said she will write a 30-page
article entitled, "The Factor of
Class in the Career of Ethel
Waters," while based at the
National Portrait Gallery. Dr.
Oill said that once liei fclluw
ship is over she will then
move into a tcnure-track posi- _ _ , _ ...
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uon in a major university sys
tem with only 52 Afro-American students.
Dr. Gill would not talk about that position or even
discuss what university system she would be joining.
She said," I'm afraid that if information about my new
position were to come out, my association with that
university system might be jeopardized."
The tenure of Dr. Gill and assistant accounting
fbc*i points of student protests at Winston-Salem State
during the past year. In April, students staged a
demonstration in front of the university's administra
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Dance, Dance, Dance!
Photo by L B. Speas Jr.
Virgil and Marlon Simpson talk It over during the Omega Psl Phi Spring Format
DA still undecided
iirWitcher shooting
Sparrow says he hasn't read SBI report
By TATIA M. DAVIS
Chronicle Staff Writer
District Attorney W. Warren_
Sparrow has not yet released any
information about a long-awaited
report from the State Bureau of
Investigation involving the death of
Tommy Joe Witcher. Sparrow said
that he would not make any com
ments untillater this weelr because
he has been distracted with the
- recent robbery at the Steamboat -
Restaurant located 3003 South
Main Street Tuesday night.
That robbery resulted in the
death of one robbery suspect, the
serious injury or a second(wno was
in surgery at presstime) and the
injury of an off-duty police officer.
Two other robbery suspects have
been taken into custody by city
Witcher, 19, was killed April
20 after a high speed chase with
sheriff's deputies and police on
U.S. 158 and 1-40, ending on Pat
terson Avenue around 29th street.
Law authorities Wave said
Witcher pulled a gun and fired at
them , which lead lawmen on the
scene to return fire, and resulted in
According to authorities, before
the chase occurred Witcher had kid
napped his former girlfriend, India
Reid, and threatened her with a
knife. Ms. Reid and her family con
tacted the WSPD about the threat
District Attorney Warren Sparrow
but since she had a Kernersville
address, she was referred to the
Kernersville Police Department
The incident ignited sparks
within segments of the black com
munity, many saying that they dis
agreed with the manner in which
Some Patierson Avenue residents
say that the action taken by the
police should not have taken place
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Attorney's sudden death
stuns black community
By TRACY L. PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
Prominent High Point attor
ney Andrew Lcc Yarborough IV
was found dead in a Winston
Salem motel Monday night just
before midnight. Emergency
Medical Service personnel
responded to the Hampton Inn on
University Parkway and found
Yarborough in his room.
Police investigators said there
was no evidence of any foul play
and that Yarborough appeared to
have died from natural causes.
_ As of press_ time, the
Chronicle had not received offi
cial confirmation on the causc of
death. An autopsy is being per
formed to determine the exact
causc of death.
Yarborough had been trou
bled recently by stomach and
chcst pains which he assumed
were caused by a stomach virus
according to close friends and
working associates.
Attorney Johnny H.
Landon,Jr., who worked with
Yarborough, said "Yarborough
had been under an enormous
amount of stress since Jan. 9,
when his father, Andrew L.
Yarborough III, passed away."
Yarborough (above) had
been under an enormous ?
amount of stress since ...
his father ... passed away."
-- Johnny //. Landon Jr.
The elder Yarborough was the
principal of Ibraham Elementary
School at the time of his death. He
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-Officials get lesson on middle schools
By TRACY L PROSSER
Chronicle Staff Writer
If the faculty and staff at Min
eral Springs Middle School get
their way, next year the Winston
salcm/Forsyth County school sys
\ tcm will heartily adopt the middle
school concept to replace the tradi
tional junior high school. Wednes
day morning several teachers and
principal William E. Peay tried to
/i/v n %i i n r? a i k a W/ inoiAn
tunvintc inc n insion"
Salem/Forsyth County Board of
Education and the Forsyth County
Board of Commissioners to provide
the necessary funds to accomplish
that goal.
Dr. Elsa Woods, director of
middle schools, said the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County School Sys
tem is asking the Board oT^E3uca
tion and Board of Commissioners
for nearly $1.6 million dollars to
enhance the middle school program.
Although there are 12 schools
in the system that are presently
called middle schools, only Mineral
Springs has completely embraced
-the concept, and everyone involved
in the middle school seems pleased
with the change made this past
school year. "Most of these schools
have adopted what they call the
middle level concept," said Kerry
Crutchfield, the system's finance
director. "But Mineral Springs is
truly piloting the middle school
concept for our school system."
The idea behind a middle
school is to provide a transition
between the completely self-con
~ tained classes found in elementary
schools and the totally departmen
talized classes in high schools.
the middle school is based on
teams of teachers who share a
group of about 100 students. Ideal
ly the teams consist of four teachers
in the core curriculum subjects:
language arts, math, science and
social studies. Each student on the
team takes courses from all of these
teachers.
A unique feature of the team
teaching concept is the flexibility of
class time. There are no bells to
end classes. Teachers on a team
meet daily to determine the length
of each of their classes within the
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Disposition of Skyland
property still a question
By TATIA M. DAVIS
Chfonide Staff Writer
The city-county school system
is still undecidcd about develop
ment of the Skyland School proper
ty. The property reverted to the sys
tem after William Carter, an Afro
American entrepreneur defaulted on
his contract with the system. The
property will be auctioned again on
June 20.
Tl. - t rrmnff v
Development Corporation was one
of several groups interested in pur
chasing the property. In a recent
meeting with school officials, exec
utive director of CDC, James R.
Grace, Jr., proposed the idea of
CDC acquiring the property and
developing the New Bethel Apart
ments.
"It is important that there is a
bridge between the apartments and
Skyland School property bccausc if
one part is not developed, that could
lead to serious community prob
lems," he said. The abandoned
school is locatcd off East End
Boulevard, ncxi to the apartments.
Mr. Gracc said that the corpora
tion would use the apartments to
adopt 110 families that would he
given a Section 8 certificate of own
ership. After taking Gaining ses
sions that could be held at the
school, the families could move out
into their first homes.
"We think that this program
would give tenants the chance to
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iinies, n Mr. Grace said.
He said that school officials
were interested in the idea and
thought that it was worth pursuing.
The county system has offered to
assist Mr. Gracc in his research by
sending an assistant to help.
The corporation has also
planned for training sessions in con
junction with Forsyth Technical
Community College for the tenants
and to open a day care center. Sky
land sch(K)l would be used as the
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Drayton Pines wants services
By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
Residents in Winston-Salem's newest
public housing facility are organizing to
keep their neighborhood as new looking
and as vibrant as when they moved into
Drayton Pines two years ago.
Nearly 100 people who had waited
patiently for their new homes moved into
Drayton Pines just off 14th Street and Uni
versity Parkway in August 1988 . The
neighborhood had been named in honor of
the Rev. Jerry Drayton for his years of ser
vice in a wide range of community pro
jects. The new environment, they believed,
would give them the badly needed change
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City mourns death of policeman
who served more than 30 years
By TRACY L. PROSSER
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Retired police officer and former profes
sional boxer Joe McFaddcn died early Sun
day morning in his home at 2722 Rosemary
Drive in Winston-Salem. Although he made
a name for himself by slugging it out in the
boxing ring with the likes of Joe Louis,
McFaddcn's true joy in life was his work
with the Winston-Salem city police force.
McFaddcn attended Atkins High School
in Winston-Salem and N.C. Central Univer
sity in Durham. He played football at both
schools.
As an amateur boxer. McFaddcn won all
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of his 30 fights. Later
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the tile of South Pacif
ic Heavyweight
Champion.
McFadden got a
break in his boxing
career one summer
when he was working
for R.J.R. Tobacco
Company. Bowman McFadden
Gray, Jr., then a com
pany executive, heard of McFadden's skill as
a boxer. He and some of his friends in Win
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