CIAA Host Committee Goes To Richmond A C ity delegation rwi / / serve as "ambassadors" By MARK R MOSS Chronicle Staff Writer Winston-Salem's Central Inter collegiate Athletic Association Host Committee has announced that it is sending about 200 people to the bas ketball tournament in Richmond this week to represent the city. Using the slogan, "I'm Here for You!", the delegates Wi 11 ser\e u> the city's ambassadors and 'will entertain CIAA fans during this year's tournament, the last to be held in Richmondf "We are traveling to Richmonc to convey the message that Win ston-Salem is excited ;ibout the 1994 CIAA tournament and that we Sigers Receives Award John C. Sigers was honored Tuesday, Feb. 23 with the Whitney M. Young, Jr., Service Award by the Old Hickory Council, Boy Scouts of America. The award is presented to indi vidual volunteers or organizatiohs who have made an outstanding con tribution toward implementing Scouting opportunities for low income youth within the council. Established by the Boy Scouts of* America in 1978, this special recog nition is named for the late Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights spokesman and executive director of the U rban League from 1 96 1 -7 1 . Nominations for the award are made within each local BSA council and are approved by a local commit tee as well as by the national Urban/Rural Field Service Commit tee. Sigers is being honored for his Tecora Haney Haney Receives Award Daughter Tecora Haney was recognized as the daughter of the year on last month in Raleigh. Haney received this award for untiring work that she had done for her court doing the administration of Illustrious Commandrcss Bernice K. Bess. In 1989, she was crowned Uiieen of her court, she served s the first ceremonial daughter. 2ncTD7~ Commandrcss and was chairperson on several committees and per formed these task with a job. She sings with the voices of Isle. She is a retired employee of Winston Salem State University. She worked as a counselor for Upward Bound program at Winston-Salem State University. She is a member of Bivouac Chapter #530, Order of the Eastern Star P.H.A. She is the mother of five children. She has six grandchildren and two great grand children and the wife of past Poten tate Woodrow Haney, Sr. Reynolds Fund Scholarships High school students who aTc youth members of the Winston Salem Urban League can apply for college scholarships funded by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Reynolds Tobacco will fund three $500 schol arships. Eligibility requirements for high school seniors include: a grade point average of 2.5 or better; intent to enroll this year as a full-time stu dents at a two-or four-year accred ited college or university or skills training institute; and membership in the W-S Urban League. Scholarship applications are available at the Urban Leagues office at 201 W. Fifth St. in Winston-Salem. tireless effort as Scoutmaster of Troop 916. United Metropolitan Baptist Church. f The award wa> presented at the Old Hickory Council Award Ban quet, at the Holiday Inn. Clemmons. 4 "Service jto others has always been on of Scouting 's most impor tant objectives." said Carlton Crump, Senior District Executive. "The Old Hickory Council is grate fulfor the efforts of Sigers and other dedicated volunteers who have worked to bring the benefits of the Scouting program to all our commu nity's youth." I ^ host cHy. are Triieni on organizing people at the Lawrence Joel \ :ter the besi toumarttini CIAA fans have ? arw Memorial Colueu m. where the ever experienced." Mayor Martha games will be played. The event S. Wood said. We w ant to ensure also is expected to inject more than them a sear in advance that the tran- S8 million into the local economy sition w ill be a smooth and comfort- each year. able one. We're all verv excited about Representatives of the CIAA this, but it's a thoughtful, focused announced last September that the excitement. We've been vers dili conference had accepted Winston- gent in our planning, said Wood. Salem's bid to host the tournament committee chairman. 1 from 1994 to 1996. The tournament. which will be the single-largest Emest H. Pitt, publisher of the ; event ever held in the city, is Winston-Salem Chronicle and a co expected to attract about 20.000 . chair of the committee, said the puT pose o! the Richmond trip is to make sure CIA \ Vahs Will Teel ci*m p 1 c t c ! > \\OkOMu\! when they come to the city W\' re going to go all out to make sure, that when the fans lea\e Richmond. the> will be ready to come to W iiiNton-Salem. lie said. Pitt said there will be a city information booth, m the lobby of the coliseum. He said tans in Rich mond also will be able to book hotel reservations from the game site for the l^ii_lournament in Winston Salem, The delegation will also be responsible tor tellimffans what's there to do m Winston-Salem, said Pitt. That > something we may have to work on. he said, evoking laugh ter from the crow d of about 200. Dan Brock, vice president of Marketing Services for L'SAir and the host committee's other co-chair, said an executive committee will oversee the responsibilities of seven other committees and named those who made up each of the groups. Greene Receives Scholarship To Elon Anthony Greene, an honor roll senior at Glenn High School, has received a football scholarship to Elon College. \> The 250-pound defensive end is a four-year starter at Glenn and captain of the team. He was named as a Metro 4-A All-Conference player. Greene said his high school coach, A1 Hooker, sent his name as a prospective player to coaches at Wake Forest University, James Madison University and Western Carolina College and Elon Col lege. "All of the coaches called but Western Carolina," Greene said, "but when I visited Elon. I liked the campus, so I told them 1 was committed to them." Greene said he and another freshman will compete in the fall forthe starting position. He said he plans to enter Elon's pre-electrical engineering program and transfer to N.C. State. Georgia Tech. or N.C. A&T to complete his engineering degree. Greene is also on the high school track team, senior class president, and a member of the Ebony Club and Spanish Club. He is involved in Project Ensure at Wake Forest and a member of the Sigma Beta Club of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. He is the son of Melinda Greene of Winston-Salem. 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