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Gibbs Achieves Success from page 1 thing," Gibbs said. "I wanted to do it all. She later worked in the mental health unit at Reynolds Health Cen ter in Winston-Salem, the first gradu ate nurse the center had ever hired. "1 had lived in Winston-Salem for 29 years, and I was working two jobs to support three kids/ said Gibbs, who also worked as a nurse at N.C. Baptist Hospital. Her first hus band died in 1980 when he was 34. She decided to move to Califor nia because her life was too pre dictable in Winston-Salem, she says. "I was in a rut," Gibbs said. "I was afraid of being complacent." In 1978, she loaded her three children in her car and drove to Chula Vista, Calif., a suburb of San Diego. "1 took me four days to drive there," Gibbs said. "And we lived in a hotel for six weeks." She accepted jobs as a nurs ing supervisor in a private psy chiatric hospital and at the San Diego County Mental Health Center. Her family later moved into an apartment and then a town house. She and her younger chil dren moved to Augusta, Ga., after her second husband, a Marine sergeant, was reassigned to nearby Albany, Ga. Moving to Georgia inter rupted her graduate studies at University of San Diego where she had a 3.76 grade point aver age. She enrolled in psychiatric nursing at the Medical College of Georgia, where she received a master's degree in 1986. She was the only black to graduate from one of the seven programs of nursing at the Med ical College. Gibbs was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau Inc., the international honor society of nursing while she was at the Augusta campus. She beams like the sun she talks about her three children. Her oldest daughter, Willette Tate Battle. 29, is attending graduate scrawl at Howard Uni versity, where she is pursing a degree in graphic arts under a full scholarship. She graduated from Albany State University with a degree computer science and liberal arts. Battle's art displays were exhibited in several museums in Albany, Gibbs said. Melissah Tate Scott, a 27 year-old paralegal, teaches kindergarten in San Diego. She is married with two children as she studies at law at home. Will Yancey Tate III, 24, has played wide receiver for the Ari zona Cardinals, a NFL football team. He was injured last year with a broken leg. Tate received an architectural degree from San Diego State University. "The best way for parents to teach their kids what they want to be is to be that themselves," Gibbs said. "Parents must be more accountable and responsi ble for their kids. That's the way that I did it. My kids don't smoke or do drugs. And they speak respectably to people." Gibbs has visited several countries in her career. She has traveled to China, the former Soviet Union, Hong Kong, Fin land, Holland, the Philippines, Kual Lumpur and Senegal in West Africa. She studied the cultures in those countries. "Each year, I get an invita tions to different countries," she said. "There's only so much that you can learn out of a book. You have to travel to learn much more". When she was in Kenya, she was adopted by an African tribe and given the name, "Njeri." Like most African Americans, she didn't know where their ancestors lived in Africa, Gibbs said. While she was visiting the Dakar, Senegal, she toured Goree Island, the place where African slaves were kept before they transported to America, Asia, and the Far East. "That gave me a strong sense of myself," Gibbs said. "The people who survive Goree Island and the middle passage were from the strongest stock in Africa." Gibbs, 46, who is now single, graduated from the United States International University in San Diego with a master's degree in clini cal psychology in 1990. A year later, he obtained her doctorate in psychol ogy from the same school. She is listed in the publications, 2,000 Notable American Women, 7995, World Who's Who of Women, 1995; Who's Who of Professional and Executive Women, 1989-90; Marquis Who's Who of America, 1987-88. She works as clinical psycholo gist and diversity trainer in San Diego. "People Hook me and don't believe that f ever have a hard day," Gibbs said. "I raised three kids by myself without any help from any body. Anyone else would have got ten on welfare." I i the contract for Liberty % Street design ic $125,000 ..BOW, fP"? ?P= ?""????Sjt IB a 1994 ? value * a stroll- comparison released by the for down-1 city, the<lotal tax value of " it program; Liberty Street - is U banners; $22,003,600 while the value novations of West Fourth Street was ? Cherry- $26,960,600. ^^eck; $4.7 The total number of Wachovia properties on Liberty Street mil- are 318 while there are only lie Safety 39 on West Fourth Street 100 for the . After the proposals were id $50,000 received on the design of hall Gate- Liberty Street, staff recom mendations show the con im cost of tract was awarded to Jack a<A HEART ATTACK MEANS I'LL DIE OR NEVER BE THE SAME* SOME PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE THAT." ? ? ? ? - ,, ? . . c . * , ? ? ? Sarah Lundrigan, R.N.,C.E.N., Bowman Gray/Baptist Hospital Emergency Department . '? ? 1 ^ * *>? ' "It's so important for peo ple to learn the symptoms of heart attack and get treatment early. Modern treatments like clot-busting drugs and angio plasty can stop a heart attack before heart muscle is lost. "With early treatment, many people can go back to func tioning at almost 100 percent after a heart attack. Yet some people still believe that having a heart attack means they'll die or never be the same." The Emergency Depart ment at Bowman Gray/ Baptist Hospital is organized to give prompt, effective treatment for chest pain. Oyr medical team is on duty 24 hours a day ready to use the latest proven heart saving therapies. If you have persistent CHEST pressure OR PAIN, especially IF IT TRAVELS TO the jaw OR arm OR IS ASSOCIATED WITH shortness OF breath OR sweating, call 911. Don't delay. Chest Pain Care Bowman Gray/Baptist Hospital Emergency Department for MORE INFORMATION, CALL 1-800-446-2255
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