The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority bowlers (I to r.): (front row) Jackie Jessup, Ginetta Evans, Gladys Wilson,
Lorrine Allison and Debbie Daniels; (2nd row) Pam Wagner, Rosalind Redd, Cathy Poole, Stable Steven
son and Sadie Daniels; (3rd row) Mashica Jefferson, Debra Freeman and Elizabeth Newton; (4th row)
Crystal Hairston , Gasometha Foster, Valarie Saddler, Cheryl Thompkins , Renita Thompkins-Segers and
Patsy Murrill. s
Deltas Bowl for Kids' Sake
Nineteen sorors of the Winston-Salem Alumnae
Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority participated in
the Big Brothers/Big Sisters "Bowl for Kids' Sake" on
March 6.
The annual event helps raise funds for Big Broth
ers/Big Sisters of Forsyth County Inc.
Participants come from social organizations and
corporations throughout Forsyth County. Each orga
nization collects monies and pledges and each bowler
attempts to earn points toward those totals.
The Deltas had five teams bowling and raised
$1,000.
Louise Smith is president of the Winston-Salem
Alumnae Chapter.
Studio Observes Founderts~t?ay
Benson Musical Studio will
observe its Annual Founder's Day
on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Saw
tooth Center. This special memorial
program will be held in memory of
the founder. Dr. Minnie S. Friday
and Mack Gallman. co-chairman of
the Board of Trustees. Special guest
appearing will be classic pianist Vir
ginia Welsh and the Bethel Presby
terian Youth Chorale of Phi ladel
phia. Welsh is a native of
Winston -Salem, having moved to
Philadelphia during childhood. She
received her education at Echols
College, Temple University and
Antioch University. She studied
piano under Pearl Nicholson and at
Settlement School of Music. In
1992, she retired from the Philadel
phia School System. Her many hon
ors and awards include candidate for
the Fulbright Hayes Oslo Sweden
Awards, the Columbia University
Exchange Program in England, the
Zeta Phi Beta Meritorious Award
_iind the Mayorls-Award for Com
mission on Literacy in Philadelphia.
Welsh will be performing works by
Bach. Animaux. Sinding and Rsach
maninoff. Performing with her will
be Darlene and Dominique James,
Hanelle Brown. Sabrina Reed,
Catherine, Sheninne, and Faqur
Washington. Local guest appearing
will be Anita Gilliam, Sherdrick
Adams, the Mack Gallman Youth
Choir of Hanes Memorial C.M.E.
Church, poetXermine Torrance, and
performing concert artist Christo
pher Benjamin and Shirley P.
Miller? Virnessa D. BensoiK lead
instructor for Benson will be the
host.
Diggs. Hosts Film and Lecture Series
Diggs Gallery at Winston
Salem State University will host a
lecture or film every Thursday in
March at 7 p.m. in conjunction with
the "A^he: Improvisation & Recy
cling in African-American Vision
ary Art" exhibit. The exhibit is on
display through March 29. All pro
grams are free and open to the pub
lic.
The gallery presents two films
t o d a \ "Nellie's Playhouse" and
"Boneshop of the Heart: Folk Offer
ings from the American South."
"Nellie's Playhouse" explores
the art of Nellie Mae Rowe's sculp
tures. dolls and paintings. It also
captures the high spirits that moved
her to create. She describes the
process with animation and humor
as she tells of the spontaneity of her
art and of her passion, "not for high
things but for just junk."
"Boneshop of the Heart ..." is a
highly original and thought-provok
ing film exploring art forms so radi
cally different from the familiar folk
traditions of pottery, basketry and
quilting that the artists defy classifi
cation. Variously known as "out
siders" or "visionary" artists. "Tin
Man" Charlie Lucas, Vollis Simp
son. Thornton Dial. Bessie Harvey
and "Sandman" Lonnie Holley have
arrived at idiosyncratic styles of cre
ative expression in response to
encounters with trauma, racism,
oppression and religious experience.
The March 18 lecture is "The
Wood Will Tell You What to Do:
Root Sculpture by a Dozen Self
Taught Artists." The slide lecture
presents works of exhibiting artists
Bessie Harvey, Ralph Griffin and
Charlie Lucas. Also discussed will
be Miles Carpenter, Jesse Aaron,
Willie Leroy Elliott, Annie Hooper,"
Clyde Whiteside and others. Brooke
Anderson, director of Diggs Gallery'
and assistant professor of fine arts at
WSSU, will lead the lecture. Ander
son received her master's in folk art
studies from New York University
and moved to Winston-Salem in
1992.
"Nellie's Playhouse" and
"Boneshop of the Heart ..." will be
shown again March 25.
Gallery hours are Tuesday
through Saturday, 1 1 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Call 750-2458 for more informa
tion.
K/ds' Conner
What's up 'round the 'hood?
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 17
10 a.m. ? The Children's Theatre presents
United Stage's production of "Straighten Up and Fly
Right at the Arts Council Theatre, ,61 0 Coliseum
Drive A second performance will be at 1 p.m. The sto
ries performed in this work uses chants, mimicry, dia
logue. rhymes and music to enliven and energize the
audience. The stories are the result of the great migra
tion of African Americans who traveled from the
South to Michigan during the first half of this century.
Recommended for ages 4 and up. Tickets are S3 for
children and adults. For information, call 725-171 1.
ONGOING
? The 4-H Club of the North Carolina Cooperative
Extension Service is sponsoring several summer
camps and retreats for youth. Camps include topics in
horsemanship, computers, electricity and new technol
ogy. sailing and marine ecology, space, teen issues,
wildlife and fish and game, photography. For informa
tion call 767-3557.
? Register your child now for the 1993 YWCA
summer program. The Time of Your Life." The pro
gram will includc field trips, art. drama, swimming,
recreation, sports, frrcnds and fun. The program begins
March 20 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the YWCA. 1201
Glade St. A deposit for one week of the summer pro
gram is $10 For information, call Kathy Ausen at
722-5138.
? The YWCA. 1201 Glade St.. has planned some
exciting after-school activities for kids to commemo
rate and explore the importance of women in our com
munity. Every week in March the YWCA will have
speakers from many walks of life who will talk with ??
the kids about their contributions and career choices.
The sessions are free. Sessions will be held March 16,
22. and 30. For information call Ellen Paine at 722
5138.
? Habitat For Humanity of Forsyth County Inc. is
sponsoring a design competition for high school stu
dents. From now until April 16, architectural students
in the county's eight regular high schools who join the
competition will be busy designing a three -bedroom,
900 to 1 ,100-square-foot house. The best design will
be used by Habitat to build a house as part of its mis
sion to provide affordable housing to low-income fam
ilies in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. The com
petition is voluntary, but students who participate will
receive course credit for their work. For information,
call Kenneth Carlson Jr. at 722-5700.
*1.99 Happy Meals
What you want is what you get.""
Mt. Tabor Celebrates Black History
By ROSEANNE WILEY
Special to the Chrom jV
Black History Month at Mt. Tabor High School was
celebrated in various w.t)?. Fckcu*- McMillan ami the*
Ebony-Amencan Society (E \S) held tour assemblies to
help students learn about African Americans and to cele
brate the accomplishments of blacks.
The first assembly was held Feb. 3. 'What is Kwan
zaa" was conducted in the library. This program featured
Mt. Tabor's Gospel Choir and Delores Smith, president
of the Winston-Salem Urban League. Smith explained to
-the student* what the seven days ui Kwa~n7ad stand tor.
A skit was performed by EAS students and written by
McMillan and the students at the Kemet School of
Know ledge. ?
The second assembly took place in the auditorium
on Feb. 12. This assembly was a panel discussion on
whether African-American history should be in our high
school curriculum. The panel consisted of R. Layman
Marshall. Guy Spear. Judge Loretta Biggs. Dr. Ernest
Wade, Terry Utt aryj Alicia Harvey. The panel was
under the direction of McMillan. The assembly began
with the Negro National Anthem sung by Angie Lew is.
The panel 'was established to. find a solution, not to cre
ate a problem. W'ith this in mind, the panel did just that.
The third assembly on Feb. 17 w as an oratorical on
African-American leaders. The program featured poems,
skits and interviews by great African-American poets
and heroes. Participants for the African- American
_ women were: Sheretha Jennings as. Harriet Tubman:
Che Ellerbe and Reynita McMillan as "Little Soul Sis
ter"; Mae E. Piggott delivered the Last Will and Testa
ment of Mary McLeod Bethune: 'and McMillan. Utt and
Anne Ragan did an interpretation of the three images, a
rock, a river and a tree, in Maya Angelou s inaugural
poem. On the Pulse of Morning."
Participants for Afncan-Amencan men were: Chris
Maul den a o k e r T. Washing ton and W.E.B.
DuBois . Xavier McCarter in Go Down Death"; Tito
Robinson in Letter from a Birmingham Jail"; Layman*
Marshall and Brian Young in "Interview with Malcolm
X"; and Tremaine Torrence with an original poem
Stand Tall. My Brother."
The assembK ended with a rap What Happened to
the Dream?" written and rapped by McMillan and her
brother. Benjamin Pig^ott. "This again was a gTeaf
assembly and the best, if 1 may say so myself." said
Candace Wiley.
The fourth assembly on Feb. 23 was a skit "The -
Church Fight" by Ruth Gaines-Shelton. The actors were
Benita Parks. Xavier McCarter. Amelia Smalls, Brian
Young. Knachelle Hodge. Kim O'Ptiarrow, Aisha Baker,
Bernard Cole. Dequan Jones and Brian Cherry. The skit
was about the Morning Glory Baptist Church. The con
gregation tries to put its pastor out of the church. It was
produced to allow students to know that being jealous
and dishonest is not the way to go.
1 feel that even though we only get one month to
celebrate, this one month has been very enlightening to
me as well as to my peers," said Benita Parks.
The last assembly was on Feb. 24. It was a dramatic
reading of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" by Jerome
F. Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. McMillan's fourth and
fifth period students performed the skit about Henry
David Thoreau's non-violent protest of slavery and the
Mexican War. Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience"
greatly inspired Dr. Martin Luther King }r. ?
Shretha Jennings , a senior , performs the poem
" Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield.
Chris Maulden, student body president, performs
"Booker T. and a poem by Dudley Randall.
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