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Mrs. Elizabeth Hiftrston (left) spends precious time with Lasonya Alien helping her with homeowrk.
Best Choice
Continued from page A1
First, they do their homework, then
go into a variety of classes: drug
awareness, on-site science activities
with the Nature Science Center, sto
rytelling, art, writing, puberty edu
cation and self-defense.
' Some of the all-day summer
programs included firearm safety,
archery, money matters, preparation
for city government conducted by
Mayor Martha Wood, shoplifting
consequences, and self-esteem. Just
as Arlcase Smith's music class
imparts so much more than music,
so do most classes at Best Choicer
ELv exy class, every in terac t i on
between adult and child is designed
to improve the child's self-image
while iVnparting new skills and
improving on old ones.
' That philosophy helps bridge
the gap between where they arc
now to the larger society they will
face/' explains Graham-Wheeler.
"They must be able to tran
scend the at-risk factors in their
life." _ .
Diversity abounds, from the
classes to the resources. A short
metal bookcase holds a dazzling
array of selections: from The Holy
Bible to Soul on Ice , from Nursing
Your Baby to Children of Alco
holics. Beside To Kill a Mocking
bird is a cartoon paperback about
Catholic nuns. Three sets of ency
clopedias' ~afc~5iackc~d on another
bookcase , and supplemental teach
ing materials are piled on a long
table. "Ninety-nine percent of chil
dren in Best Choice have remained
drug-free," boasts Dorothy Graham
Wheeler. "And wc haven't had any
girls get pregnant. Wc deal with
reality," she says. "Sometimes we
have to go out in the street and grab
them by the arm and say, you're
coming into the center."
In 1987, the community, led by
the East Winston Restoration Soci
ety, cleaned out, disinfected, paint
ed, and petitioned a former beer
saloon to create the first Best
Choice Center. Last year about 50
kids used the center, and this year,
in the new facility on Highland, that
number doubled. "All we do is
charge the energy in the right direc
tion," says Graham -Wheeler. "And
help them understand that they must
have the inner desire."
At Best Choice Center, one
hundred children want to Be Some
body, and ten small voices sing,
"We arc the world. We are the chil
dren."
UNCG professor Dilworth-Anderson
named to NIH Grant Review Board
Dr. Peggy Dilworth-Anderson,
a gcroniologist and family sociolo
gist at The University of North Car
olina at Greensboro, has received a
national appointment to a study sec
tion which will review grant pro
posals submitted to the National
Institutes of Health.
Dilworth-Anderson will serve
through June 1995 with the study
section on human development and
aging, which is part of the NIH
division of research grants. Study
sections review research grant
applications to NIH, make recom
mendations on the proposals, and
survey the status of research in their
fields of science.
Members are selected on the
bases of competence and achieve
ment in their designated field of sci
cnce as demonstrated by research
accomplishments, journal publica
lions and honors.
"I want to emphasize the
importance Dr. Dil worth- Anderson
's participation in assuring the quali
ty of the NIH peer review process,"
said Dr. Jerome G. Green, director
of the division of research grants.
"Membership on a study section
* represents a major commitment of
professional time and energy as
well as a unique opportunity to con
tribute to the national biomedical
research effort"
Dilworth-Anderson came to
UNCG in 1988 as a professor in the
Department Child Development and
Family Relations in the School of
Human Environmental Sciences.
Her studies have focused on the
aging process and on the interaction
of older persons within the family.
In 1990, she served as a research
grant reviewer for the National
Dr. Peggy? Dllworth-Anderson
Institute of Mental Health. She is a
graduate of the Tuskegee Institute
and holds the master's and doctorate
from Northwestern University.
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