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VOL. XVII, No. 25
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By RUDY ANDERSON
Chronicle Managing Editor
Winston-Salem's personnel director says the new
duties of the city's former recreation and parks superin
tendent are under review to determine what his job clas
sification and therefore his salary are supposed to be.
Alan Hine, the city's former superintendent of
recreation and parks, was stripped ot his duties as a
supervisor last^week in the wake of allegations raised
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by members of the Board of Aldermen of discrimina
tion against African-American employees and misuse
of city property in the recreation and parks department.
Hine was reassigned by recreation and parks direc
tor Nick Jamison as an engineer in the department But
Jamison insisted that his reassignment had nothing to
do with the allegations raised or the investigation of his
department. He called the move an attempt to "have a
good management team." He said it was in the best
interest of the maintenance department to reassign
Hine.
Hine, who has been employed with the city since
1971 , said of the allegations, "They are nothing but alle
gations, that's all they are. I hope everything will come
out shortly. I know the truth will be known."
On his reassignment Hine declined comment. But
on the matter of his pending evaluation, Hine said,"l
would imagine that one is coming. Anytime there is a
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History is Fun!
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Children at the Kingston Green City Recreation Center are fascinated by the pictures and information about
black history covering the walls of the center. A lot of the information on important figures concern not only key
national figures but local people of note who have contributed to the development and enhancement of the
African-American community.
Board hunt
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underway
Interim committee
begins its work
By RUDY ANDERSON *
Chronjde Managing Editor
A seven member transi
tion committee named last
week to undertake the task
of reconstituting the Win
ston-Salem Urban League
Board of Directors began its
work Tuesday.
The committee along with Rov. Johnson
the director of fiscal management and operations
for affiliates of the National Urban League, met
for several hours at the Urban League office on
5th street.
The committee elected the Rev. Wendell
Johnson, pastor of First Baptist Church on High
land Ave, as chair.
In addition to Johnson, other members of the
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WFU gift used for minority grants
Chronicle Wire Report
Two million dollars of a multi-mil
lion dollar gift to Wake Forest Univer
sity from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foun
dation will be used to boost the institu
tion's minority scholarship program.
The announcement of the three
part gift and how it would used was
made during, the Founder's Day Convo
cation last week. In addition to funds
for the scholarships, the gift adds
$500,000 dollars to the university's
existing merit scholarship program and
$250,000 a year to strengthen under
graduate faculty teaching and research.
"This three-part grant not only
reflects the historically-strong relation
ship between the foundation and Wake
Forest, but also is a testimony to the
particular interest the foundation has in
the university," said foundation board
member, Hubert Humphrey Jr., who
made the gift presentation.
The foundation has supported
minority scholarships since 1985. Until
now, $900,000 was provided by the
foundation. Wake Forest officials say
the gift will now boost the value of
those one-year renewable scholarships
to full instead of partial tuition. Cur
rently 28 of the more than 230 African
American undergraduates at Wake For
est are recipients of these scholarships.
A total of 36 scholarships has been
awarded since the mid-1980s.
The scholarships are merit-based
and geared to attract qualified students.
Wake officials credit this scholar
ship program, along with several oth
ers, with helping the university increase
its minority enrollment the last few
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