A Gathering of Good Men
A Venerable Craftsmen of Winston-Salem j
Howard Ward is still busy taking pictures at various
events around the city.
By FELECIA P. MCMILLAN
Special to the Chronicle
For many years, the city of Winston-Salem
has had the privilege of being home for a num
ber of fine craftsmen. Here the Winston-Salem
Chronicle pauses to recognize a few who have
offered their services for more than 30 years.
Howard Ward: Picture Man
Howard Ward started making pictures with
a box camera when he was a student at Kim
berly Park Elementary School. He started first
grade at the age of 9, because he spent three <
years in recovery from a bout with polio. He
has worked in photography for more than 60
years, and he considers himself to be an exam
ple of "how a hobby can become a profession."
He said he is very grateful to his principal
from Kimberly Park.'A.H. Anderson, who
trained him to develop and print film during his
senior year at Atkins"High School. He worked
at Anderson's home each weekend doing vari
ous chores for pay. Anderson trained Ward to
?print and develop film in one day using a roll of
film that had been developed and a roll that had
not.
After his lesson, Anderson said, "Now you
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* . . THURSDAY, January 2,1996 , ?
Cpippanies slow in
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treating diversity
tJ-rMAGGIE JACKSON
S^iaL to the Chronicle
Corporate interest in start
ing diversity programs was
flagging in the two years
before the scandal at Texaco
Inc. erupted, results of a new
study show.
Tlj? survey comes as many
large companies are taking a
sharp look at their efforts to
hire and retain more diverse
workers following Texaco's
record $176 million settlement
cf a racial discrimination suit.
Faced with pressures to
hire more white women and
minorities, 72 percent of the 50
Fortune 500 companies sur
veyed in 1994 had started
diversity programs, mostly in'
the previous few years, said
A.T. . Kearney Executive
Search.
By this year, 74 percent of
the SO companies polled
reported having diversity pro
grams ? only a two-percent-,
age-point increase, according
to the report.
The telephone survey was
conducted before the furor
erupted over the secret tapes
that caught Texaco executives
belittling blacks. Part of the
ensuing settlement involves an
overhaul of the diversity pro
grams at the nation's third- ,
largest oil company.
The survey found that 62
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New program works to
keep teens out of Court -
By MAURICE CROCKER
Community News Reporter
With youth and teen crime
on the rise, the Forsyth Court
Volunteers have developed a pro
gram designed to~reduce the
number of crimes committed by
young offenders.
Teen Court, a program which
operates under the umbrella of
the Forsyth Court Volunteers, is
designed to help deter young
people from becoming involved
with the juvenile correctional
system.
The program allows young
offenders with less-serious mis
demeanors the opportunity to
avoid the sanctions of Juvenile
Court.
"The reason for Teen Court
is because it offers an alternative
for those teens that are involved
in less-serious crimes," said Don
ald Moore, executive director of
Teen Court.
Accordirrg to Moore, the
teens are usually referred by a
court counselor with the juvenile
division.
The teens are then given the
choice of having their cases
processed through Teen Court or
through Juvenile Court.
"These children do have a
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Art Muugan
outgoing director
Mane Roseboro
interim director
Martha Wood
mayor
William Andrews
resigned Dec. '96
Marcie Arcuri
resigned Dec. '96
HAWS after Milligan
A Quagmire, or Quest to be Best?
By BILL TURNER
Chronicle Correspondent
Since this series on the Housing Author
ity of Winston-Salem (HAWS) began Dec.
12 to look at questions raised by the resigna
tion of its executive director, Art Milligan,
the organizational top of the agency appears
shaken.
Board Chairman William Andrews
recently resigned, effective almost immedi
ately ? not "after the new director is
named," he indicated in the Dec. 12 inter
view. Robert Egleston, RJR industrial engi
neer, HAWS board vice chair, automatically
succeeds Andrews. In the past week, accord
ing to informed sources, Marie Flow Arcuri,
another board member, reportedly submitted
her resignation. Of the board's nine mem
bers, Egleston, Arcuri and Ross Griffin of
Wake Forest, are the only white members.
The remaining six blacks are evenly split
between men and women.
Marie Roseboro, board chairman of the
East Winston Community Development Cor
poration, has been offered the positiorf as
interim executive director of HAWS, accord
ing to the board's personnel chairman, D.D.
Adams. *
Those changes combined make for a
dilemma at HAWS. And inner causes for the
abrupt departures of Andrews and Arcuri
amplify the situation even more. At next
week's board meeting, answers to several
questions will either deepen the daze caused
by these changes or result in HAWS living
up to its motto: We Quest to Be the Best!
Following are among the most asked
questions: (1) Why did Andrews and Arcuri
leave the board'.' (2) What process and deci
sion points did the board use in selecting the
interim director of HAWS ? qualifications,
duties, authority,-pay? (3) Who, besides
Roseboro. did the board consider for the
interim position? (4) Will Egleston be voted
in by the board as-its chair of choice? (5)
Finally, where does the mayor stand on all of
this?
Winston-Salem residents in HAWS com- 1
munities stand to gain or lose the most, Z
depending on how those questions are
addressed at its Jan. 7 meeting.
No doubt, when Milligan stepped down
as executive director of HAWS last month, a
number of questions came up. Milligan, in
less than five years, by all accounts, has put
Winston-Salem on the cutting edge of public
housing management. For his management
skills ? combining diplomacy and plain ten- ; ;
derness with military-style discipline and - ?
principles of business ? Milligan became
the poster child of the business of public {
housing. For the last two years, he has been "
wooed by similar agencies in Boston and San
Francisco. In less than a month, he leaves to
head-up the Tampa Housing Authority. ,
A good public housing man is hard to
find, said critics who thought aloud that the
city did not do enough tt> "keep Art." Some,
Ginny Britt, for example, formerly of the
Crisis Control Ministry, went so far as to crit
icize city officials (Mayor Martha Wood, for
example) for not making a counter-offer to
Milligan's Tampa deal. Britt. in a letter to the ;
editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, dis
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Harambee! Harambee! Let's pull together. The audience participates in a rousing unity chant.
Dec. 26 marks 30 years of Kwanzaa |
By FELECIA P. MCMILLAN
Special to the Chronicle
"Habari ganj? What's the news? For 30
years now, African Americans have been asking
this question. The response would follow with
one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa, appro
priate to one of the seven nights of Kwanzaa,
Dec. 26 - Jan. 1.
Kwanzaa is a KiSwahili word that means
First. Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chair
of the Department of Black Studies at California
State University at Long Beach, is the creator of
the holiday and author of the Nguzo Saba, the
seven principles. The principles include Umoja
(unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination),
Ujima (collective work and responsibility), Uja-.
maa (cooperative economics), NTa (purpose),
Kuumba (creativity), and Imani (faith).
The Nguzo Saba, introduced in 1965, were
advocated as a "communitarian African value
sysj*m necessary to build community and-serve
as social glue and moral orientation for cultural
practice," according to Karenga in his text I
"Introduction to Black Studies." I,
The seven principles came out of the ideol- ?
ogy of Kawaida, which is a theory of cultural ?;
and social change. The creation of the holiday ;
came on the heels of the Watts riots, which !
erupted in August 1965 when a predominantly
African-American community in Los Angeles,. ;t
Calif., reacted to the arrest of Marquette Frye,
an African-American motorist, Aug. 11. The
people in the community were already disgrun- ;
tied about low wages-, racism and poor housing
practices. -; ?
The citizens of the community believed that **
Frye was treated too roughly by the police. That
night, the police and passing cars were bom
barded with bottles, bricks and slabs of con
crete. Following the four-day riot, 4,000 people ?*
were arrested, hundreds were injured, and 34 v*
were killed, according to author Angela Shelf "i
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