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An mldmr looms to ptay tho piano in AAT's Learning is a lifelong adventure , s By JOYA WESLEY Special to THE CHRONICLE _ * GREENSBORO, N.C. - The 22-year-olds finishing up their undergraduate degrees aren't the only senior scholars on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University these days. A&T's Senior Scholar Program is bringing the 65-and up set to Aggie land to learn to play the piano and to use a personal computer for desktop publishing or to navigate the Internet, or* to take classes toward degrees. The program gives older I adults the opportunity to enhance their learning experiences by taking credit and non-credit courses, workshops and seminars. The program was formed as a result of Administrative Memorandum No. 90, published by the General Administration of the University of North Carolina. The memorandum gives state citizens 65 or older the opportunity to take college courses tuition-free. Senior citizens taking A&T credit courses pay only student fees. Students taking the Senior Scholars computer and piano courses must pay a S35 registration fee. "A&T's Senior Scholars Program is likely to be expanded in the near future," said program coordinator Shirley R. Douglas of A&Ts Office of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. A recent interest survey indicated support for a tour trip to Charleston, S.C. The piano course is taught by Walter F. Carlson, former A&T band director and music' education professor, who recently retired after 47 years at the University. Gloria Dyson, computer training coordinator in AAT*s computer center, teaches ~! the computer course. While interest is growing in the computer course, the piano course has been a strong draw from the beginning, largely because of Carlson, who says many of his students in the beginning were his friends and acquaintances. "It caught on right quick," he - says. "They seem to enjoy it and ^ - so do I." Douglas says the " course is so well-attended that the Z program added a summer 2 session. 2 See LEARNING on A3 ? ?? - - 1 73 cents ^ Winston-Salem Greensboro High Point For Reference ol xx,v ^ 21 = __ _ Not to be taken ___ 121197** CAR-RT-SORT* *C012 ^ ? I m 7A | N C ROOM I ? 1 1 B^P P m I from this library I J srr?T?s ^LIB ' % y I I Kl I \ ,I WINSTON SALEM NC 2710.-2755 -JL. -J X ^ The Choice for African-American News and Information ,-m0M ?ddr,ss: wsthron? netunlimitod.n? ^- 3 WAAA ? "980 TRIPLE # -??? This bronzod-tolortd butt of Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr., teulpturod by Wilbur L. Mapp, wot unvoilod at tho program. Community reflects on King By BOMANI MAWULI The Chhonkle Reporter The 18th Annual Noon Hour Commemoration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. attracted hundreds of people across racial lines to the M.C. Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem on Monday. * "Martin Luther King Jr. was smart, well-educated, an humani tarian, a Southern Baptist preacher, an author, a practitioner of non violence, the most effective civil rights leader in this nation's history, an orator, a son, a brother, a husband, a father," said Mutter Evans, owner and general manager of radio station WAAA. The founder of the Noon Hour Observance, Evams served as this year's emcee. This special event was sponsored by radio station, and its co-sponsors were the Winston-Salem chapter of the NAACP and the Winston-Salem Human Relations Commission. During the two-hour service members of the community spoke of the many remarkable roles King played throughout his short life. s?-KiNa<?!A2 City's loan I program hasj dubious fate! Black businesses could lose, their access to hundreds of thousands of loan dollars By SHARON BROOKS HODGE > The Chronicle Editor X Management of the city's small business loan program has been handed over to a sub-contractor while city officials determine whether or not to end it, Assistant City Manager Allen Joines said this week. "Bill Dowell has a track record for doing this sort of thing at Winston-Salem State. In the 10 years he's been working, with that program, he's helped create roughly 7,000 jobs," said Joines. Joines made his comments this week shortly after announcing that the responsibility of managing the small business loan program , would be removed from the duties of the city's special development administrator. Until last week, reviewing and approving loan City promotai Dmrwitk Paigm. applications fell under the discretion of this administrator. * - See LOAN on A2 Juvenile Justice Council initiates discussion A School official says racial balance is a constant focus of the public schools. i BY BOMANI MAWULI The Chronicle Reporter ? Perhaps it was appropriate for the Juvenile Justice Council (JJC) of Forsyth County to hold a meet ing and workshop about the coun ty's school redistrictingplan on the .actual birthday ofoiJr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Jan. 15. That's because the JJC seems to share Dr. King's dream, or vision, of racial equality. King had a dream that one day "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and girls- and walk together as sisters and brothers." And the JJC and the Winston Salem/Forsyth County (W-S/FC) Board of Education appear to be trying to maintain at least a racial balance, if not a union, in its school system. The meeting and workshop took place at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem. The participants, approximately 50, were divided into five groups of about seven members each. One group was composed of mainly school social workers. - The groups discussed the School Redistricting Plan and its specific issues of housing patterns; integration versus segregation; school assignments and transfers; and the tole of the Equity Commission. The Redistricting Plan itself was approved by the W-S/FC Board of Education on May 31, 1995. The goal of this plan is to offer parents and students the choice of attend ing a neighborhood school or another school within their desig nated school or residential zone. The zones, as determined by the school board, consist of eight ele mentary school zones, six middle school zones, and eight "indepen dent" high school zones. The high school zones have "a new liberal transfer policy," which allows a student to choose a high school outside of their residential zone. In addition to teaching the Standard Course of Study, all schools will emphasize a particular theme, or focus, such as mathemat ics and science or communications. However, a racial balance within - See COUNCIL on A3 TVm School Kmdiitrieting Hon crmotm* might mlmmmntary tchool 10not, iii 12th District has changed, Mel Watt, however, has not By JOHN MINTER THE CHARLOTTE POST Three-term U.S. Rep. Mel Watt will run for reelection in a district drastically charigKi from the one he was elected toServe in 1992. The 12th District, one of two majority black districts formed after the 1990 Census, was redrawn last year after a legal challenge on racial grounds. The new district, which begins in Charlotte, once included portions of 10 counties that snaked along 1-85. Now it only includes six and ends in Guilford County, rather than Durham County. The district is no longer majority-black, with 47 percent African American population. Only 42 percent of its registered voters are black. The old district had a 54 percent black population and 51 percent black voter WATT on A3 M?I Watt Alfred Burress is about to make history By JOYA WESLEY Special to the Chronicle GREENSBORO ? Alfred Bun-ess, an electrical engineer from Pdmona, Calif., made history at North Carolina A&T State University last month. , Burress was the first to defend his dissertation, the last step in earning A&T's first Ph.D. At the May commencement ceremony. Chancellor Edward B. Fort will hand him his degree and place on his head the hood that signifies the Ph.D. Until then, Burress is busy exploring job opportunities, although he already has a position in hand. "I'm supposed to be going to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but I'm also looking at other areas," Burress said. "I'll wait until May to celebrate." Fort and the College of Engineering administration and faculty will also be celebrating as the university's Ph.D. programs in electrical and mechanical engineering bear their first fruit. See MJRMSS cm A2 Alfred Burrmtt
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