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IN OUR SCHOOLS Violence Reduction ^ - A two-day conference on Strategies for Effective Collaboration about Community Resource* for Pre venting/Reducing Student Violence will be held at the Benton Convention Center today and tomorrow until 4 p.m. Each school will be represented by one adminis trator. a guidance counselor, all school social workers and psychologists, liaison officers and representative police officers. This will be a problem-solving meeting with par ticipants sharing their capabilities and frustration^, in trying to help students and families. The sessions will be videotaped and then produced for sharing with the schools, parents and community groups. Call Pamela Chisholm at 727-2350 for infor mation. School Applications ? Applications for the Downtown School. Mbore Alternative School and Kimberley Park Alternative School for next fall are now available and must be returned by March 11. Most openings are for kindergarten. A few open ings may be available at higher grades at each school. The Downtown School also has openings for 3- and 4 year-old preschool classes. j Applications are available at Jin >:_elementary school in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County system; the Administrative Center. 160S Miller St.; at any - Housing Authority office; at city recreation centers; and at the Black-Phillips-Smith Government Center, 2301 N. Patterson-Ay cl. ? Academic Competition West Forsyth and Rcynolds.high schools remained undefeated in fourth-round matches of the Winstf>n v Salem/Forsyth County S^HmtCAcadcmic Competition as ofTcfcjT ""/? ~~ " ' . East Forsyth Iccfin the overall scoring lor the day. Leading individual subject teams wcrcrCarver in Eng lish, Reynolds in mathematics. West Forsyth (with a perfect 68 points) in science, and East Forsyth in social studies and general knowledge. 1 Field Trip to Sawtooth 1 Students from Walkcrtowri Middle School will have a field trip today to the Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts. ! x i ? mSM ? iiigB - - ? ^ttidenls urSnerwood Forest Elementary School will be entertained during lunch today by the Singing Strings group. ' ' Drama Presentation Ml. Tabor's Drama Club will present "Steel Mag nolias" in the auditorium today, Friday and Saturday. Parents friends and 4he public are invited. Admission is $4. Call Valerie Matey at 765-6855 for information. Touring Diggs Gallery Third-. 4th- and 5th-grade students from the Downtown School will take a field trip to tour Diggsj Gallery. This is sponsored by an Associated Artists Arts in Education Grant. Phone-A-Thon The P.T.A. Executive Board of Konnoak Elemen tary will have a Phone-A-Thon. Feb. 14-15. The event is to raisy .money tor new playground equipment. Orchestra to Perform The Winston-Salem/Forsyth Counts All-County Orchestra will be in concert Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Reynolds Auditorium. Peter Perret will be the guest conductor for the high school section. James Basta will be the guest conductor for the middle school section. Free admission. School Board The Board of Education will meet Feb. at 6| p.m. "In Our Schools' is a weekly vnleQdar erf' events that timmicles aoinvs-tm in ear local scfomh. If sou would like your event or information included, send them to: "In Our Schools." The Chronicle. P. Ok Box lb$b. W'inston-Siilem. XC 27102. You may also fax it 10 723-9 17 > . xLl CORRECTIONS In the Jan. 2" edition, the Chronicle incorrectly |reported the number of African- American anchors at CI I TV- 12. The station has two. lIso. incorrect dates were reported about events at WSSUTS^yid Driskell will speak March 8 at 7:30 p.m.. and the Rev: Nicholas Lewter will speak March 10 at 7:30 p.m. The Chronicle recrets these errors. Attending WSSU Becomes a Family Affair from page A1 ?3 * Goldsmith, a sophomore political-science major. i-T^a transferred to WSSt from S.Cf!" A&T State L'ni\ersity in 1989. and the famih was put back together again. ^Another of Barber s daughters. Dar lene Jackson, who is Goldsmith s mother, graduated from WSSL* in 1988 with a degree in special education. I had always wanted to go to col lege. but because of my family I put it on ? the back burner." she said. As a mother of five. Barber went as far as the 10th grade before she dropped out of Atkins High to be married. Nonetheless, she was nagged by an incfessant dssire to go to college. Barber attended a business school1 for a >ear while the children were young, and she eventual!} earned a*diploma at tty; old Anderson High School (which is now a conference center, office space. and classroom building on W'SSL* s cam pus) when her oldest child. Walter was in the sev enth grade. Fpr a couple of sears, she was a patient-care technician ? a sophisti cated word for nurses' aide, she said ? at the old Kate Biting Hospital. She then moved to N.C. Baptist Hos pital and staved there until 1975. steriliz ing surgical instruments- linens, uniforms and other items. Heart problems forced her to leave Baptist. During her year-long recover), she enrolled in a medical secretarial course at Forsyth Technical Communit> College, which made it possible for her to return to Baptist as a unit secretary, translating doctors' orders onto appropri ate forms. , When the same medical symptoms ? shortness of breath and chest pains ? returned in \9n7. .she left the hospital for good. She then found permanent employ ment in subscription sales at the Winston Salem Journal, where she has been ever since. Through the university's Office of Continuing Education, which was estab lished to meet the needs of adult learners. Barber enrolled as a special student for two semesters, taking six hours each in the general-education curriculum. On?e completed, she enrolled full time. ?Apart from having reconstructive knee surgery in May 1992. which cost her college credit and six months out of work. Barber has been a steady pYesence on campus. "I did not get discouraged by the surgery because I knew that the Lord was giving me strength." she said. "But it has n't been peaches and cream." David Barber, who attended WSSU part time in 1985 but quit because of employment opportunities, is indebted to his mother for 'shoeing me I had no excuse for not getting an education ? that education plays a vital role in any thing you" want to accomplish." "I was thankful for the jobs I had, but this (a coHege degree) will help me get something better in the future," Bar ber said, Goldsmith said she admires her' grandmother for her determination. "She is an inspiration to me," said Goldsmith/ who at one time had considered attending a community college, but was dissuaded by Barber. Lisa said she intends to become a computer analyst so 1 can help take care of my monu Blacks Suspended 3 Times the Rate the disproportionate numbers. Econom ics. white teacher/black student relations -?r and single-parent hotnes w?r*~a44 advanced as some of the causes for the ? iH-g+i number of black expulsions; Sheila Chandler, the single mother of Joseph, said that her 14-year-old son vsas a straight- A student at Brunson Ele mental . but uhen he moved on to Cook, his grades dropped to D s and F s. Chandler blames the drastic drop in her son's grades and his current troubles on a number of factors. One of them, she , said, has to do with the absence of black teachers who care She said that hpr son has more white teachers nov> and he doesn t relate to them. 1 Chandler said. "The teachers really liked him." she added. ^ "1 feel like black children are being left out." she sa'id. "You have to make black children feel W anted." She also said that her son. who was suspended earlier this year for skipping school, is going through thai "teen thing of not wanting to. do his homework." but. "he's not a bad boy." She said tpat her suffered a childhood injury thafcost the s ight in one eye, causing him ? to read slower than other children. Gn the advice of school officials, trist. She' recently found out from the specialist that nothing was wrong with her son. "I thought he (Joseph) was really nuts." she said, laughing. Although a school official told Chandler that Joseph shouldn't be sent to Petree Middle School - the school that offers troubled children a second oppor tunity to make it within the system - that's where he will be for the remainder of this year. Walter Marshall from page Al ? 6r^ Crime Package Called Unfair I em of crime ? lock em up and throw away the key ? is a hysterical response." he said. "Simply locking up an individual 'does not address the root cause of why he has turned to crime in the first place." ~ The Rev. Serenus Chum Sr., pastor of Mi. Zion Church, said some of th$ tnntiinr ,Hnnt is requesting in the crime plan package could he better utilized. "We do not believe that it i> a pro ductive or enlightening" appn*lch to the problem.' Churn said. "It seems to lean tar too heavilv on the erection of new iaiK and the incarceration of more black citizens. "It is strange that we have no . money, but we have ample resources when it comes to jailing blacks, he said. In times when we lack housing and jobs and education, we're still able to find mil lions of dollars to lock up people." ? Churn said the crime-plan package Gov. Jim Hunt does not address the sociah economic ' and political oppression that plays a role in leading people to a life of crime. He said more of the attention needs to be on creating jobs. Part of the violence and part of the Rev. Serenus Churn Sr. crime problem is in the hopelessness and despair felt by young people as they hope to tind a meaningful future for them selves." he said. "Any package that does not include anything that addresses that is woefully inadequate." rrrfrom page A1 ? m * He said the costs of building new jails could go toward building homes for people of low income and shelters for the homeless. "With people sleeping on the street, if there is any building to take place* it should be low -cost housing io that faitii ' lies can be sheltered." he said. "Crime., ?does pay.btrtlt pav^r for- those who rrifc* to oppress and depress the disadvan* . ? ? . ? . . i. The Rev. Donald Jenkins, pastor of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, said r more focus should be on community i reinvestment. "That certainly has to be part of rebuilding, the prevention of crime." Jenkins said. He also said none of the governor's plans would have a positive impact on the African-American community. A service honoring the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was held Saturday night at Macedonia True Vine Pentecostal Holiness Church. The sen ice featured the Rev. Dr. Ronald Davis Jr. as keynote speaker. The service, like the other more well known local activities held in commemoration of the slain civil-rights leader's birthday, was postponed on Jan. 17 because of inclement weather. . Davis, pastor of St. John C.M.E. Chu?fch. spoke on How do we move from chaos to Rev. Ronald Davis Jr. community?4' His speech attempted, among other things, to apply King's philosophy to today's "chaos." The service was sponsored b\ the the Minister's Conference of Winston-Salem, of which Davis is the president. The Minister's Conference also supports the Martin Luther King Jr. Seed Scholarship program, which encourages 'African Ameri cans to attend predominant I v black collcccs hx awarding them financial assistance. Seven SI. 000 scholarships were awarded last year. Davis said. , Fund Raiser Nets Over $2,00CL p moved a bit closer to being able to afford a new rescue squad after a fund raise* netted the volunteer outfit over S2.000. ; The Pi^TEe* squad held a fund raiser on Jan. 29 that featured professional ballroom dancers and audience participation. I thought it went swell# said Joyce HenrN.'a member of the squad's board of Henry said the event raised $2,105. and all of it was added to the approximately S2K.000 that had alreadx bJen raised lor the new rescue vehicle, Vandals destroyed one of the squad's vehicles in October. Squad officials hope to have the $70,000 needed to buy a nevv one bs March. Community Outreach to Celebrate" Anniversary TTiIs^Weekend 9 The Communi t v Outreach pro gram will celebrate its t'rrst anniver sary this weekend with seminars on Saturday. Feb. 12. and a banquet on Sunda\ . The seminars, which are tree, will be held at the Anderson Center at Winston-Salem State I'niversits from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The banquet, at 3 p.m.. u ill also hi' held at tht- ArnVrinn T ten ter. The R^\ . Mel v in "Ripr Wilkins will be the cuest speaker. Banquet tickets are $20. ?. The Salenuiires of Midway. N.C.. will provide the entertain ment.' Winston-Salem Chronicle Twin City's Award-Winning Newspaper 617 H* Liberty Strtei * Wlwiton'Satem, NO 27102 ? (919)722*8624 Single Copy 75c Mail Subscription R^es (payable with order) 'i? 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