IN OUR SCHOOLS
Driver Education Offered
Driver Education is offered to students whr> havf crh^ftnling pmfr.
lems during the regular school year, transfer students, dropouts and pri
vate school students,
BEP and Local Academic Progi
Basic Education Program Summer School will include grades M2
and is offered to all who qualify at no cost to the student. .Students who
fail to meet minimum standard scores on the North Carolina Minimum
Skills Diagnostic Test in grades 3, 6, and 8 are required to attend BEP
summer school to be promoted to the next grade. Students in grades 1 , 2,
4, and 5 will be selected on a priority basis with retention and teacher
recommendation as criteria for the slots available. Elementary classes
will be held at HalUWoodward and South Fork. . ? ? ? -r? 1 ? ?
Recommendations for Summer School
Seventh-graders will be recommended for summer school by teach
ers using test qfiteria and failure to meet local standards for promotion.
The middle-school program will be held at Ashley, Hanes, Paisley and
Petree. The high-school program is for students in grades 9-12 who have
failed basic and regular level mathematics, English, biology and required
social studies courses. Each high school will have its own students if
enrollment is sufficient /
BEP Program Offered
Local summer programs will also be offered for elementary, middle
ind high-school students who do not qualify for the BEP program but
>vho wish to reinforce skills, repeat a failed course, or take a new course.
VU1 new high school courses will be offered only at Parkland. A fee is
charged. The BEP and local academic summer school programs will run
July 5-29.
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| ? Teachers to Return to School
! Teachers for year-round school will return to July 11; the first day
?for students is July, 18. (Bolton, Easton. Kimberley Park. Konnoak Ete
TTientary Schools and part of Philo Middle School). For tradition calendar
schools, teachers will be returning on August 1 7 and the first day for stu
dents wiil be Wednesday, August 24. Open house will be Monday,
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"In Our Schools" 4s a weekly calendar of events that chronicles
%/ting-ons in our local schools. If you would like your event information
included send them to: "In Our School*", The Chronicle , P.O. Box 1636,
Winston-Salem, MC., 27102. You may also fax it to 723-9173
? Superintendent to Be Announced
The Board of Education will meet to select a superintendent tomor
row, at 1 p.m. An announcement of the selection will be made when con
tract negotiations are complete and may come. Friday evening, during the
weekend or on Monday.
Students Selected for Production
The Program of Special Interests and Fine Arts includes enrichment
activities for selected students who have completed kindergarten through
5th grade at Mt. Tabor and a musical theatre production for 6th through
1 1th grade at Jefferson, It will run for five weeks, June 20 - July 22.
T1" Computer Camp to Be Held
Nine-day Technology Adventures (Computer Tump) for 2nd
through ^th graders will be held at the Career Center. Students wiil will
use personal computers to create multimedia presentations, control
robots, publish newsletters and write computer programs. Sessions are
July 5-15 and July 19-29;
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Summer Art Honors at Sawtooth
Summer Art Honors at the Sawtooth Building-for middle- and high?
school students emphasizes drawing, painting, photography, ceramics*
metals, jewelry and fabrics. Students may select a two- or four^eek
program June 20-July 1 and July 5-15.
Resident to Attend WCU
Collowhee ? Daya M. George, granddaughter of Mary C. Lee
4360 Northampton Drive, has been
selected to auend^the Legislator's
School for Youth Leadership. Devel
opment at Western Carolina Univer
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She attends Carver High School
in' Winston-Salem and is a rising
12th- grader. t ;
The Legislator's School for
Youth Leadership Development
offers some 300 rising 8th- through
12th-graders an opportunity to
develop skills- in leadership, critical
thinking and communication.
Located on the campus of Western
Carolina University, the three- week;
residential program utilizes the oil- Daya M. George
tural and recreational resources of WCU and the setting adjacenl to the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
If is operated in two sessions, June 18 - July 8 (10th- 12th grades)
and July 10-30 (eighth and ninth grades),' by WCU's Office for Rural
Education. During their stay, students participate in academic and spe
cial interest courses in photography, journalism, computers, aivastron
omy and other topics. Community service work and discussions about
current issues, led b^ state and regional leaders, are important aspects of
the program. If is funded by the General Assembly. A similar school
operates at East Carolina l^niversity.
'. Student Receives Scholarship?
Fleet Finance awarded Amret Thompson of North Forsyth High
School and Leigh Miller of Mount Tabor High School a $500 scholar
ship recognizing their outstanding community service and academic
achievement. The Fleet Fiance Scholarship Program, the first in an
annual program, provided $500 scholarships to 98 high school seniors in
eleven states for their freshman year in college. More than 500 high
school seniors applied for the Fleet Fiance Scholarship. Program. A
- Scholarship Review Committee independent of Fleet Fiancfc selected the
final 98 scholarship winners. J ;
Board of Education Meets
Today from 1-4:30 p.m., the Board of Education will interview
finaiilists for the job of superintendent. At?6:30 and 7:45 p.m., one or two
additional public forums! wfth finalists will be held in rfie auditorium in
the Administrative Center, 1605 Miller St.
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Marshall Threatened by Board to Keep Quiet
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A Board member feels some discussions should be held in public ?
B> DAVID L. DLLLARD .
Chronicle Staff Wnter
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Walter Marshall, a member of
the city/county school board, said
the school board abuses its execu
tive-session privileges and some
times holds discussion that ought to
be discussed publicly. ? J
He also said he has been threat-'
ened by the. board and by schools
attorney Douglas Punger for making
statements about issues discussed in
executive session.
"My problem is 1 feel, that we
abuse the executive session. ... 1
just think we're too secretive," Mar
shall said in an interview. "Some
members feel like they are dealing
with personal business and not pub
lic business. I'm very uncomfortable
with that." ^
Marshall, one of two blacks on
the, nine-member board, said it is
necessary for the board to hold
executive sessions, but he feels
many of the meetings have been
held to keep things from public,/
view.,
"I have been threatened by the
the school board and school attor
ney," he said. "They think I'll make
a comment and it could be illegal
and 1 would be held accountable for
it." I . ? ' . .
Punger could not be reached for
comment. ' I
The issue of the board meeting
in executive session, surfaced
recently as the board held closed
sessions to discuss the hiring of a
superintendent. Marshall thinks
more of the discussion could, "have
been held publicly.
Grace Efird. chairwoman of the
board, said some meetings related to
selecting a superintendent were held
in executive session because they
were administrative matters and the
board didn't want to lose potential
candidate*.
"In the last search, information
was leaked out that might have dis
couraged some, that's the reason we
didn't want it publicized," she said.
Board member Nancy Wooten
said Marshall wasn't silenced but
said board members should keep
certain information amongst them
selves.
"It was an agreement of the
board to keep it within the board up
to a certain stage," she said. "There
are some things that you have to say
in executive session. If he felt free
to release the information, that both
ered me."
Wooten said the board should
have an executive session whenever
discussing personnel matters.
"If you want candor instead of
feel-good, then you want it to be
public, "but a lot of things are per
sonnel matters," sne said.
Marshall said he plans to work
within guidelines, but wasn't wor
ried about the threat when the mat
ters are of public interest.
Walter Marshall^
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"They're very uncomfortable
with my opposition ... to public
business being done behind closed
doors, " he said. "The threat doesn't
bother me. ' ?
I was elected by the people, n0t
the board." f
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Committee Avoids Executive-Search Firm
A NAACP feels selection process wt up To avoid Mack finalists ,
By DAVID L. DILLARD
Chronicle Staff Writer '
Local NAACP Presi- *
dent Bill T&tum says the
search process used by the
city /county school board to
select a superintendent was
designed to keep blacks
from becoming finalists for
the position. . .<?'
He also said he got
.from "reliable sources"
information that "between
nine and 1 1" African-Amer
licans had applied for the
position, but most were dis
qualified because they did
not complete the applica
tion.
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Bill Tatum
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an outside firm, which is the
method most used by
medium lu laige school sys*
tems.
"Susan Jernigan, a
recruiter with Sockwell & ~
Associates, a Cfiarlotte
based executive-search
firm, said! it can be advanta
geous to use a search firm.
"Using a search firm ?
and most organizations do
when looking for the chief
executive ? you generally
increase the size and quality
of the candidate pools,"
Jernigan said. "We have a
unique marketing strategy
that gets people who
wouldn't ordinarily apply
?for a position."
"It, was an unfair
process in selecting a superintendent
and the African -American commu
~ nity should not sit dormant and
a llow this to happen,'' he said.
"When you look at the finalists, it
says (the school board) never had
the intention of getting an African
American for superintendent. That's
a tough statement, but 1 call it as I
? see it."
Tatum wrote a letter to school
attorney Douglas Punger, dated June
7, requesting the criteria used by the
screening committee to select the
finalists and the racial breakdown of
all candidates.
Punger had not responded bv
early Wednesday.
The screening commitee, made
up of four members of the board,
reviewed all applications and con
ducted all interviews. Urace fctird,
chairwoman of the school board,
said the board chose to do (he search
itself to get a better view of candi
dates instead of hiring an outside
executive-search firm.
__^She said, the board did "exten
sive advertising" in periodicals and
journals aciuss the country and thai
39 people responded. Of the 39, a
screening committee, headed by~
Geneva Brown, was chosen to
review applications and narrow
them down to 1 1 candidates.
"All nine board members read
from those 1 1 and decrded on six
semifinalists," Efird sajd. "We split
up into teams of mostly three and
went to the home base of where they
worked and did background checks
last week."
l atum is worried that Brown,
the only black member of the
screening committee, will be used -
as a scapegoat to answer the black
community's outcry against the pro
cedufe.
. "Geneva Brown should not be
the whipping board because of (the
board's) unfair practice," he said. "If
they had put Walter Marshall on
there, it would have been two-on
two and perhaps a better chance of
being fair and equitable."
UVown s&id the process was fair
but no effort was made to pursue a
minority.
"There was nothing wrong wilh
the process, there just wasn't an
attempt to get a minority," she said.
"We had the applicants but we have
to vote on them and seven members
(of the nine-member board) are
white. If you don't seek a certain
group, you don't find them."
Brown, who also spent last
week talking to candidates, feels
among the four finalists for superin
tendent that there is "a very good
one."
There's no need to make a
mess out of things." she said. "I
don't think we should jeapardize the
chance of getting him."Efird also,
said the board thought it was best to
conduct the search instead of hiring
Board members took flights,
and personally visited the site of
candidates themselves. Efird said
she doesn't know how much the -
school system spent on interviewing
the candidates, but the cost includes
travel, lodging and meals. Last
week, the commitee was in Marble
. head, Mass., to interview a candi
date for the job.
Jemigan said the price range of
a search finn varies accuiding to the
services, but a basic service of
selecting candidates could run less
than $10,000.
""It results in a different pool
than just using the (school) board,"
she said. "We try to match the orga
nization with a person who will be a
good match. It frees up a lot of time
for the board."
The school board has been
7 interviewing finalists for the posi
tion and plans to select a superinten
dent tomorrow.
State's Black Superintendents Passed Over from page 1
who might be interested."
The others black superinten
dents in the state are: Larry Bell of
Sampson County, which has 6.677
students; Willie Gilchrist of Halifax
County, which has 6,293 students;
Willie Peele of Martin County,
which has 5.007 students; James
Wilkerson of Warren County, which
has 3.016 students; Norma Sermon
Boyd of Jones County, which has
1.521 students; and George Hood of
Weldon County with 1.200 students.
None of the semifinalists,
whose names were released last
week, currently preside over a sys
tem with more than 17.500 students.
They were: Donald Martin Jr. of
Rowan-Salisbury, which hasl 7,500
students; George Fleetwood of Ran
dolph County, which has 14,000
students; Jesse Register of Iredell
Statesville, which has 13,400 stu
dents: Andrew Overstreet of Orange
County, which has 5,500 students;
William Leary of Gloucester. Mass.,
which has 4,100 students; and James
Kent of Marblehead, Mass., which
has 2.550 students.
The list now stands at four as
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two candidates ? Leary and Kent
? were knocked from the list Mon
day afternoon.
The NAACP questions why the .
search process was done in secrecy
and didh^t produce any black final
ists. Bill Tatum, president of the
local NAACP, said he believes the
search was racially biased and didn't
produce the best candidates.
"We want to know why the
process of selecting a superintendent
was kept closed from the public." he
said. "We feel the board could be
looking at a superintendent that may
have been terminated from another
system."
Tatum said the candidates cho
sen might not be sensitive to minors
ties because they have low percent
ages in their school systems.
"We do not accept any of the
candidates." he said. "Not because
they are not qualified, but because
no African American was consid
ered and the number of African
Americans they have dealt with are
not equitable to the ratio in Forsyth
Gountv."
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County school system, the fifth
largest in the state with 38,000 stu
dents, has a 38 percent minority
population.
Board member Nancy Wooten
said she was impressed by Kent
because of his track record with
minorities.
"The person I'm most
impressed with didn't make the cut,"
she said. "I had presumed (Kent)
was a minority. From his resume, he
showed a large amount of sensitivity,
for blacks. That's why he was high
on my book."
Tatum said the NAACP will be
at the public forums expressing their
disappointment with the candidates
chosen. The forums were scheduled
for last night and tonight.
Father, Sports Kept Agnew on Right Path from page 1
Park resident council/said Agnew
was well-mannered as a child.
"He^jvas always a good boy and
when he comes back he doesn't
shelter himself away from the kids;
he spends time with them." she sajd.
"I think other people that go on and
make it should try to help pull up
other people. He's an inspiration to
these children."
The "Community Day with
Ra<" wilt be held tommorow at the
CWirence E. Gaines Center on the
campus of Winston-Salem State
University.
The event will start with an
autograph session and a celebrity
basketball game with Agnew and
several professional football and
basketball players.
Agnew. now in his fifth season
with the Patriots, said he would like
to win the Super Bowl, but his
biggest thrill is seeing someone less
fortunate become succesful.
"Nothing compares to seeing a
kid happy that they can-go to
school," he said. "I'm just living for
that day when one of my scholars
becomes successful. That's when I'll
be happy:"