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Volunteer shapes students' lives By KENNETH R. BROWN Special to th? Chrontde Exhibiting enthusiasm like a proud parent, Tony Burton antici pated graduation. He especially looked forward to the ceremony and vices. Unlike other middle schools, Petree offers an alternative educa tional program for at-risk students in grades six, seven, and eight from throughout the Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County school system. It lion course. "What wc try to do is give stu dents that added advantage when they go to apply for summer jobs or seek full-time employment after they graduate from high school," he added. an article in a Wachovia employee newsletter calling for volunteers to serve as mentors, role models, pen pals, and tutors for the students at Petree. The notice caught his attention because he had worked with youth programs while in high school and college. He graduated from the Uni versity of Tennessee at Martin in 1989 with a B.S. degree in business administration. He attended the uni versity on an athletic scholarship and was a four-year letter man in football. Ambition and personal achievement run in the Burton fam ily. His older brother plays for the Los Angeles Raiders and is working on his master's degree during off season. I ? ' - J Dedicated volunteers like Tony Burton (left) and Bernadette Green spend many hours with students at Petree Middle School as part of a business partnership program between the school and Wachovia Bank of North Carolina. Burton and Green teach a job preparation course called Getting Ready for the World of Work. catered reception. This year, the graduating class would receive cer tificates as an official acknowledge ment of their accomplishments. The certificates were his idea, and he knew it would be a surprise. How ever, it was Burton's role as a vol unteer, not as a parent, that made this group of students so special. Twice each month during the school year, Burton teaches a job preparation course called "Getting Ready for the World of Work" to a group of eighth graders at Petree Middle School. All eight members of his class graduated this June. The occasion also marked Burton's sec ond year as an employee volunteer in a business partnership program between Petree and Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, where he is a customer service representative for Wachovia Student Financial Ser gives students a new beginning and provides a setting designed to help each child learn how to succeed. The program is highly individual ized with classes of no more than 15 students. The school also offers intensive counseling to help stu dents overcome emotional or aca demic difficulties, which may have previously hindered their progress. Burton says the many hours he dedicates as a business partner vol unteer are a reflection of his family upbringing in Richmond, Virginia. "My parents always taught me that my generation is the future, and that I have a responsibility to the young people coming behind me to show them the way," he said. He and fel low Wachovia volunteer Bernadette Green are actively helping ^jtfiape the lives of the youngsters they work with through the job frepara .Designed for the more mature eighth graders, some as old as 15 , the course provides guidance on how to properly fill out job applica tions and handle the employer inter view process. This past school year, mock interviews, were conducted during class, and real-life inter views were later conducted in the personnel group at Wachovia. The students pre-selected the job cate gories in which they were most interested. Burton said the experi ence was both exciting and reward ing for his students. According to the personnel department, five out of the eight student interviews were so successful that they could have been hired for jobs such as tellers, utility clerks, or administrative assistants. Burton's relationship with the school began after he responded to C.B. Hauser wins NAACP award at annual convention Dr. C.B. Hauser, who is serv ing his second term as Life Mem bership chairman of the Winston Salem branch of the NAACP, was awarded his 10th Million Dollar Club medallion by the NAACP at its annual convention held recently in Nashville, Tennessee. To encourage and reward its members, the NAACP established a Million Dollar Club medallion in 1975. Any NAACP member who individually turns in at least $1,000 in memberships during a member ship year is enrolled in the club and receives a Million Dollar Club medallion. Hauser was awarded his first Million Dollar Club medallion and given membership in the club dur ing the 1979 membership year. He has won medallions for the 1980, STEP ONE receives grant for $31 0,000 STEP ONE Substance Abuse Services has been awarded $310,000 by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust of Winston-Salem, ' Bert Wood, president/CEO announced recently. These funds will be used to develop and provide intensive outpatient counseling ser vices to young people in Forsyth County, according to Wood. *$TEP ONE has provided a variety of outpatient counseling ser vices to adolescents and adults over the past 19 years," said Wood. This grant from Kate B. Reynolds will provide additional resources to expand counseling services to 16 hours a week for adolescents and their families who have problems with alcohol and other (fangs," he added. STEP ONE is a United Way agency which contracts with Forsyth/Stokes Mental Health. Bread* Diggs is chairperson of the Board of Directors. New programs will begin in September. Interested persons may call 725-8389 for more information. 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, and 1991 membership years. Hauser said that he was espe cially inspired to support the NAACP in 1947 when attorney Curtiss Todd, a young NAACP lawyer who had recently come to Winston-Salem, represented him in a case when he was arrested for his refusal to move to the rear seat of a Greyhound bus. Hauser had had great difficulty finding a lawyer to represent him before he secured the services of attorney Todd. Both Hauser and his wife are life mem bers of the NAACP. Dr. C.B. Hauser displays his 10th Million Dollar Club Medal lion Wide Area Coverage ? 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