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The Choice for African American News
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2
;HERIS HODGES
CHRONICLE
Martin
Winston-Salem State Uni-
iity and the N.C. School of
Arts showed their worst to
roup of people last week in
er to get the funding they
d to fix critical problems.
The Joint Select Legislative
nmittee on Higher Educa-
1 Facilities Needs toured
SU and NCSA to conduct
fact-finding investigation. The committee,
ired by N.C. Sen. Tony Rand and N.C. Rep.
jrge Miller, met with the chancellors from each
litution and students who have been impacted
the poor conditions at the schools.
On WSSU’s campus, a big problem is the lack
space and adequate wiring for the university’s
iputer science department.
WSSU is asking for more than $48 million. The
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By Cheris Hodges
The Chronicle
Election night proved that people in Forsyth
inty wanted experience representing them in the
/ember election.
Larry Womble, 66th district representative, tram-
i his opponent, Teresa Mason, a political new-
ler.
Womble received 2,365 votes. Mason received 633
s.
In the 67th district, Pete Oldham easily defeated
'comer Carlton Pressley. Oldham garnered 2,267
js while Pressley received 1,282.
Oldham supporter Brenda Colter said she voted
Oldham because he is for education.
T know Mr. Oldham. He is sort of like a perma-
t member of the community. He was my teacher
high school. I followed him over to Winston-
;m State and I followed him to Raleigh,” she
1.
Colter said she has been reading up on Oldham’s
;er and she likes what he stands for.
See Elections on A4
Photos by Kevin Walker
Sister Joan Pearson helps children with art proiects at the Multicultural Family Festival Saturday.
The child-friendly event was sponsored by several local agencies.
Festival promotes racial unity
T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
To the Steady beat of coun
try, Latin and hip-hop music,
Reginald and Stephanie Alston
pushed their 14-month-old son,
Preston, in a stroller through
the spacious Education Build
ing on the Dixie Classic Fair
Grounds Saturday.
The young couple stopped
at various booths set up around
the facility, taking in the sights
and sounds of Irish dancers,
Latin cuisine, Asian martial
artists and jazz musicians. Such
diversity made up the second
annual Multicultural Family
Festival, an event aimed at
bringing the city’s growing mul
tiracial population together for
a day of fellowship and bridge
building.
Being in multicultural envi
ronments is nothing new for the
Alstons.
Reginald is from New Jer
sey and Stephanie is a native of
Connecticut. The couple, who
are African American, said that
because of their Northern
upbringings, they feel right at
home beside Hispanics, Asians
or any other ethnic groups.
It’s a comfort level that they
want to instill in their young
son; that’s what brought them
to the festival, they said.
“We do not want him to
think that there is just black
and white,” Reginald Alston
said, motioning toward little
Preston. Stephanie Alston
added that the battle against
racism and ignorance can be
won through educating chil
dren about the beauty of diver
sity.
“The kids are never too
young to appreciate others,”
she said passionately. “All kids
come into this world loving.”
The Alstons were among
several hundred who came to
soak in the event, which devel
oped from Mayor Jack
Cavanagh’s Hispanic Task
Force in 1999. Several organi
zations have latched on to the
festival, providing the funds
and support to stage it. Among
them are Winston-Salem State
University, Novant Health, the
Forsyth County Public Library,
the Winston-Salem Urban
League and Crossing 52, an
See Festival on A4
After getting her face painted, this
girl drew in the children's area.
Mona Wu writes
in Chinese.
a child's name
Hos
employees
revist past
BY CHERIS HODGES
THE CHRONICLE
In 1939, Dr. H. Rembert Malloy Sr. had an
internship at Winston-Salem’s Reynolds Memorial
Hospital.
Malloy is a native of the city and attended
Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. But
when it was time for him to put his medical knowl
edge to work, he wanted to come back home.
In 1944, Malloy became a full-time doctor at
the hospital. He stayed there until 1981. He had
offers to go other places. He was even offered a job
at Meharry Hospital as head of surgery. Malloy
told them no.
“It feels good to be a local boy,” he said with a
smile.
Malloy retired from the hospital in 1981. He
had given 37 years of service to his city and the
only hospital that treated and cared for African
Americans during the days of Jim Crow and segre
gation.
Saturday, Malloy returned to the hospital, cur
rently Reynolds Health Center, for the last time.
The health center is going to be moved downtown
The building is going to become the home of vari
ous Forsyth County offices next year.
More than 40 former employees of the hospital
- including administrators, doctors, nurses and
housekeepers ~ were on hand Saturday for fellow
ship with their colleagues.
“We were like a real family,” Malloy said. The
family atmosphere of the afternoon was evident as
everyone walked around the conference room hug
ging people they hadn’t seen in years or someone
they had only seen in passing.
“I miss them,” Malloy said. “We see each other
occasionally, but today we can talk about the many
memories (we have together).”
One of the organizers of the event, Aretha
Broadway, said she wanted to give all of the former
employees a chance to fellowship with one another
and relive the memories, good and bad.
“This has been a glorious time,” she said excit
edly as people began to make their way to the buf
fet table. “We thought this would be a great oppor
tunity to say thank you.”
Broadway was the executive housekeeper at the
hospital. Many of the people on her staff returned
to the hospital and hugged her tightly when they
saw her smiling face.
“I feel excited...to see people looking so well
and healthy,” she said as she scanned the crowd.
Broadway said she wants this group to stay in
touch with one another and have more events like:
this one. She had an address book at the entrance
of the conference room so that she could get the;
addresses of the Reynolds Hospital staff.
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Pioneering women honored for standing against oppression
ocai labor
oneer honored by
mily, friends
r. KEVIN WALKER
i CHRONICLE
Lorese Smith Harris has had to
on the impressions of others
mild an image of her mother.
When Harris was just 5, her
ther died of stroke at age 35.
picture she has been able to
ce together through others’
ounts is of a fearless woman
3 despised injustice and put
ers before herself.
Harris said she has always
ieved her mother was “a great
y.” A commemoration service
d in her mother’s honor last
;k greatly solidified that belief
An all grown-up Harris fought
k tears as a group of mostly
lily members praised the
nan Harris says she’ll never
See Smith on AS
Matriarch of South
African freedom fight
remembered
BY PAUL COLLINS
THE CHRONICLE
Photo by Kevin Walker
Tim Jackson writes down the address and tele
phone number of Moranda Smith's only child,
Lorese Smith Harris. Jackson wants to complete an
oral history of Smith, a giant in the local labor
movement.
Sheila VM. Sisulu, South African ambassador to
the United States, praised Madie Hall Xuma’s contribu
tions to the women’s movement in South Africa Friday
during a commemorative ceremony in which a bust of
Xuma was unveiled. Dozens of people attended the cer
emony, which was at the Albert H.Conference Center at
Winston-Salem State University.
Madie Hall Xuma was a graduate of Winston-
Salem Teachers College who married Dr. Alfred B.
Xuma, an important figure in the South African Free
dom Movement. She was bom in Winston-Salem in
1894, the daughter of Dr. H.H. Hall and Ginny Cowan
Hall. Dr. Hall was the first African-American physician
in Winston-Salem. Madie Hall earned a degree in edu
cation from Winston-Salem Teachers College, now
Winston-Salem State University.
In 1937, while in New York pursuing a master’s
degree at Columbia University, she met Alfred Bitini
Xuma. She journeyed to South Africa in 1940 and mar-
See Xuma on A9
Photo by Paul Collins
Among those on hand for the unveiling of the bust of Madie Hall
Xuma were, from left, artist Leon Woods; Sheila V. M. Sisulu, South
African ambassador; attorney Harold L. Kennedy Sr., a member of
Madie Hall Xuma's family; WSSU Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr.;
and, far right, Larry Leon Hamlin, director of the ceremony.
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