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Churches give Cook
more than $13,000
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The Rev. Joseph Parks hugs principal Pamela Pelc.
BY PAUL COLLINS
THE CHRONICLE
Cook Elementary School had a lot to be
. thankful for last Thursday.
Representatives from seven churches
Grace United Community Church. Mount
Pleasant Baptist Church. Philips Chapel Bap
tist Church, Saint John CME Church, Saint
Mark Baptist Church, Saints Home United
Methodist Church and Union Chapel Baptist
Church were on hand to present cheeks
totaling more than $13,000 from a revival
held in March.
Pamela Pelc, school principal, could hard
ly contain her excitement when the total figure
was announced. In an interview before the
assembly began, she said that she was expect
ing somewhere between $10,000 and $12,000.
The money will be used for such things as
paying for field trips for children who can't
pay for them, student incentives (attendance,
good behavior, good citizenship and achieve
ment). buying classroom computers, buying
270 chairs for the gymnasium, buying books
for slow readers and buying math manipula
tives (for hands-on use - counters, scales,
things the children work physically with).
"We are thrilled to pieces." Pelc said. "It
means that we can get things for the children
that otherwise we would have to do without. It
is a blessing. Put a whole bunch of exclama
tion marks behind it. It's wonderful. It is a
blessing. And they are letting us use the
money for what we need for the school. They
are not dictating 'oh, you have to buy this;
you have to buy that.' ... Some people might
have a concern about separation of church
and state but they are doing this...as a com
munity outreach."
"A lot of our students are what you would
call at-risk students," Pelc said. "About 97 per
cent of our children are on free and reduced
lunch....We do have a lot of needs in our
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Photo by Kevin Walker
Carol Cooley speaks at a meeting vrith Happy Hill residents.
Community looking for
happier times on the Hill
BY CORTNEY L. HILL
THE CHRONICLE " ?' "
A student of Wake Forest University is
helping to make Winston-Salem's Happy
Hill community a better place to live. As
part of a project, Carol Cooley, a senior
sociology major, hopes that her work will
be used to help the residents achieve a bet
ter community,
Cooley spent seven months listening to
and talking with residents, going to neigh
borhood association meetings and sorting
through surveys. This past Tuesday. Coo
ley helped the group outline a plan to make
Happy Hill what the residents want it to be.
"A community is built on its assets, not
its needs," Cooley said. "When you find the
positives in people, you can then begin to
draw from that and foster a community."
Cooley mentioned that Happy Hill just
wants what all neighborhoods desire and
that's a clean and safe neighborhood. In
an ideal world, residents of Happy Hill
would have that kind of neighborhood as
well as more community involvement.
Cooley's work with the Happy Hill ^
community is her senior honors thesis in
sociology. Students who graduate with
honors in sociology complete an additional
six hours of credit during their senior year.
Angela Hattery. Cooley's adviser for the
writing and research project, said that Coo
ley's method is at the forefront of a new
movement in sociology. "This method is
cutting edge," said Hattery. an assistant
professor of sociology at Wake Forest.
"Typically the sociologist sets the guide
lines with the researcher's goals at the fore
front. Carol let the association guide the
research and put their goals first."
Wake Forest's Volunteer Service Corps
office connected Cooley with the Happy
Hill community through Neighbors for
Better Neighborhoods (NBN|. a Winston
Salem Foundation group that provides
money and training for neighborhood
associations.
Levastian Glenn, director of NBN,
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Photos by Kevin Walker
?l?Pf Duncan, a Greensboro stylist, gives instructions to his models before a fantasy competition lost weekend.
Brains and beauty
State convention pushes for
better professional standards
BYT KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The beauty business is becoming much more
about business and a little less about making clients
beautiful, according to some in the N.C, State Beau
ticians & Cosmetologists Association Inc.
The group of beauty industry professionals
from around the state wrapped up their 62nd annu
al convention in the city yesterday. The event began
last Saturday.
The theme of this year's convention - "Climbing
the Stairway to Success Which Steps Are You
Missing?" aptly captures the new goals of profes
sional cosmetology organizations around the coun
try, said Minnie Ervin, a well-established Winston
Salem beautician who serves as education dean for
the state association.
"It's not all about hair any more," she said. "We
are offering courses on computers, business admin
istration, financial management.. .We want to keep
people abreast of what is happening and new in this
profession."
Much was made at the convention of the need to
bring professionalism back to the beauty industry.
To ensure that consumers get the best service possi
ble, state regulators have somewhat of a strangle
hold on the profession. But Morris "Boz" Boswell,
president of the state association, announced plans
to put a little control back into the hands of beauty
professionals. A bill backed by the association is
waiting for General Assembly approval, Boswell
used the convention to educate members about the
bill and to urge them to lobby their local legislators
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Suzanne Ophelia creates Ja'merican dreads for a volunteer dur
ing the convention as people look on.
For the Good Times
HAWS retirees come together
for memory lane stroll
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE '
Those who work in public housing feel they have a
unique job description, one that involves shaping young
minds and guiding futures along with providing safe
and decent housing for those who may otherwise be
homeless.
With memories of that calling still fresh in their
minds, recent and longtime retirees of the Housing
Authority of Winston-Salem gathered last week for a
reunion luncheon. They took a collective walk down
memory lane with plenty of laughs and "remember
when" stories along the way.
"We feel that we are a big family and we are Jtcre to
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Photo by Kevin Walker
AWS retirees share a laugh outside the Hawthorne Inn.
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