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Nursing program Continued from page A1 students had poor passing rates on the state licensing exam. "By the end of that two year period, we believe we will be able to meet the standards set by the Board of Governors," said a happy Dr. Sylvia Flack, the program's coordi nator. She said she viewed the deci sion as very positive because before that decision, the program had no time at all. 'The faculty is excited over the news," she said, "because we've worked hard to turn this program around, "j. She said the university's strate gics put in place to improve the pro gram would continue, The program's current students, who were never in any danger of not being able to complete the program had Spangler stuck to his original recommendation, were also happy that the nursing program had been given a reprieve. "We're going to prove to them (the Board of Governors) that we can do it," said Tonia Morrison, a junior nursing student from Hills boro. "I like the nursing program . here. With the medical community expanding and there being a nursing shortage, I really think there needs to be a generic program for students in this area." Morrison is a tradition . al student training to be a nurse. Morrison said she believes the proposed establishment of a sorority chapter for nursing students will also help strengthen the program and attract others to the program. She plans to work in the Chapel Hill area, where she has worked as a nursing assistant the past three sum mers Jo Ann Miller, also a junior nursing student, is from Winston Salcm. But unlike Morrison, Miller has been a licensed practicing nurse (LPN) for nine years and is employed at Baptist Hospital. She too was overjoyed about the extension of the program. "AVe've worked so hard, and I've learned a lot here. It would have been awful if we had lost this pro gram," Miller said. "People would have had to bypass Winsion-Salem and go to Greensboro; I thought about how that would cffcct students ? 4 Bine's Continued from page A1 change in assignments that always happens." But he said he had no comment at this time on what impact that evaluation might have on his salary. Hinc went from supervising a of nearly 100 maintenance employees and two assistant super intendents at the city's parks mainte nance warehouse to no staff at all. However, Hine retained his same salary of S5 1 ,500 a year. "I will be studying what the duties of his reassignment involve and make a recommendation based on what his classification is deter mined to be," said city personnel director, William Hill, in an inter view Tuesday. Hill explained that his exami nation and recommendation could result in Hine's salary remaining the same, being raised or lowered. "It just depends," he said. Aldermen Larry Womble and' Nelson Malloy called for an investi gation a week ago during a rather stormy board meeting into allega tions brought to them by employees of the department who were sus pended without pay in December. One of them, Joyce Hayes said Tuesday that she told city manager Bill Stuart and alderman Nelson Malloy during a hearing on her sus pension that she did work for Hine several years ago at his home in Davidson County, clearing land behind his home for a swimming pool. She claims he had her use a city-owned wood chipper to grind trees. She said she used a city owned pickup truck to transport the wood chipper. Hayes first told her story to the Chronicle in late December when Alderman Womble asked for an official probe. She made her complaint against Hine after being suspended for taking garbage bags home from the ware house. She said repeatedly during an interview Tuesday that the matter was not over and that she would continue to press her case. "These people arc protecting each other and I'm tired of them (whites) doing us wrong," Hayes said. Willcttc Smith, another recre ation employee, said she had a .... meeting with assistant city manager A1 Bcaty Tuesday, with her attorney present, where she repeated her claim that she took city.owned equipment to her supervisor at his request. She claims that supervisor was Bob Doss, one of the two assis tant superintendents now running the department. She says she gave him soccer balls out of the ware house. But she said Doss, who also attended the meeting, denied her claims. . _ i , Beaty con Cir iied thai he did meet with Smith for the purposes of gathering information. Doss con firmed that he did ahend the meet ing and that he denied the allega tions made against hii Smith also claim^ that she took a city-owned topsc to one of her supervisors. That supervisor she alleges was Hine. Smith and maintenance employee Chayiea Peguese were suspended in December without pay for taking board gurries from the warehouse. She said they were to be given to poor children "I'm down and out," S^tttTfi said in talking about the incident. "I keep getting calls from city officials wanting me to state my allegations to them. i keep refusing to do it without my attorney present. They are saying the what I'm telling them is not true but why would I make this up?" she asked. Smith said she worries now about where her family's next meal is coming from. "I have a six-year old little boy, I'm trying to get help from here and there. This being without a job and not able to find one, bills piling up, is really throw ing my family behind," she said. "My husband works but one income doesn't help much the way things arc these days." Alderman Larry Womble said he doesn't know where the investi gation may lead or what is going to happen, but he is happy that the allegations are being looked into. "I just want to make sure that our employees are treated fairly. I'm glad things are moving forward and hope employees' concerns will be taken seriously," Womble said. "I hope things will be handled in a fair and equitable manner for all employees from the highest to the lowest." Alderman Virginia Newell was more adamant. "This mess ought to all come out to the forefront," she said. " I don't condone any of it, but if you arc going to suspend black workers on the low end of the lad der and let white supervisors contin ue to work and collect their big salaries "be fore all the facts arc Jknown, 1 think that's just wrong." coming after us." What makes that prospect so much a part of her thoughts is the fact that one of her children has expressed an interest in becoming a nurse. "My daughter is 18 and told me once tftat she'd like to be a nurse. If this program had closed, it would have meant she'd have to go some where else to get her degree. For us this is home," Miller said. Students in the nursing program may be able to improve licensing ^test scores, but the program may encounter difficulty keeping its enrollment up because the pool of college age students has been in a state of decline the last few years. UNC officials say enrollment figures at Winston-Salem State last fall for first-time freshmen dropped from 550 five years ago to 379. * Since the new initiative began, how ever, the enrollment in the program jumped from 81 in the fall of 1989 Annette Wilton; Alma Corbett, chairman of Founders' Day Cele bration; Mary Shy Scot& Sharen Jordan, co-chairman of the celebratlOniJanet Wheeler; and Chlo rtea Shore (alt pic tured i-r) seem to be en|oylng the evening ot activities during the 83rd Founders' Day Ceiabratibn of Alpha Kappa Alpha SordHty lnc> . to 107 last fall. Eighty percent of the students who took the nursing exam last July passed compared with just 50 percent in both 1988 and 1989. Problems with the nursing pro gram over the last 14 years have resulted in its near collapse twice. In 1977 due to poor test score perfor mance, the university was ordered at that time to improve test scores or close the program. At that time nursing students had only a 36 per cent passing rate. 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