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Adams has new title at A&T
GREENSBORO - Robin Adams has been named the
director of agricultural communications for N.C. Agricul
tural and Technical State University.
In this capacity, she will lead a unit that provides satel
lite programming, video produc
tion. publications, news writing,
graphic design and computer serv
ices to the A&T School of Agricul
ture and Environmental Sciences.
Before coming to A&T, Adams
was university relations director at
the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. She also has been the
coordinator of public/media rela
tions for the Durham County Hos
pital Corp., press secretary for U.S.
Rep. Mel Watt and a reporter for
the Greensboro News and Record
and Winston-Salem Chronicle.
Adams holds a B.S. degree in English/literature, lan
guages and journalism from Elon University.
Adams
Joel Coliseum Complex wins Prime
Site Award for eighth straight year
The Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Complex has been named a Facilities Magazine Prime
Site Award Winner for 2001. This marks the eighth con
secutive year the facility has received the award. Each
year there are about 40-45 winners chosen from across the
country. In 2001. there were 43 award winners. The Joel
Coliseum Complex joins The MARK of the Quad Cities
in Illinois as the only entertainment facilities in the coun
try that have won this distinction eight years in a row.
The Prime Site Awards are based on the opinions of
those in the industry directly involved with site selection
for events - promoters, booking agents and event plan
ners. Voting is based upon convenience of location, attrac
tiveness of the facility, quality of staff, maintenance, food
and beverage functions, technological capabilities, and
ease of setup and breakdown.
Joel Coliseum Complex Director Bucky Dame said,
"Out staff works very hard to make this facility one of the
best in the country. Consistency of service to those who
utilize the facilities is always one of the hardest elements
to achieve. Obviously, we have been able to deliver. This
award is for our great staff."
Sam's Club donates $1,000 to
Salvation Army Boys' & Girls' Club
Sam's Club donated $1,000 to the local Salvation
Army Boys' & Girls' Club. Sam's Club wanted to show
its support and commitment to the community through an
agency that provides programs that focus on children's
literacy. The Salvation Army Boys' & Girls' Club pro
grams include one-on-one tutoring. Power Hour, REACH
and homework assistance programs. In addition to these
literacy programs, the Salvation Army and Forsyth Coun
ty have teamed up to provide a satellite library at the club.
Wal-Mart and Sam's Club also have partnered with
The Salvation Army Boys' and Girls' Club for the nation
al Job Shadowing Day. The Job Shadowing Program was
formed in 1998. by the Job Shadow Coalition, and
includes America's Promise, the Alliance for Youth,
Junior Achievement and the Society for Human
Resources Management.
The goals of the program are to give children the
opportunity to experience a day in the life of a working
professional, and to understand the connection between
what they are learning in school and the working world.
Locally, 25 Salvation Army Boys' & Girls' Club members
participated in the Job Shadowing Program on Feb. 5.
Financial Times ranks Babcock
School among world's best
The Financial Times of London has ranked Wake For
est University's Babcock Graduate School of Manage
ment No. 65 among the world's 100 best graduate busi
ness schools, according to a survey released Jan. 21.
It marks the Babcock School's third appearance in the
newspaper's international survey, which is available
online at www.ft.com.
Babcock ranks 46th among U.S. business schools in
the survey. Among sub-categories of the survey, the qual
ity of its published faculty research placed Babcock 43rd
in the world and 39th among U.S. schools.
'The Financial Times ranking reinforces Babcock's
growing reputation among the world's most elite graduate
business schools." said R. Charles Moyer. dean and
GMAC Insurance Chair of Finance at the Babcock
School. "The ranking reflects the hard work of our facul
ty and staff, and the strong work ethic of our very talent
ed alumni and students."
Babcock is one of only 33 graduate business schools
in the world ranked by Business Week, the Financial
Times. Forbes. U.S.-News & World Report and The Wall
Street Journal. The school also is included in The Prince
ton Review's Best Business Schools and has been praised
for incorporating societal-business issues into the class
room by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen
Institute's Initiative for Social Innovation Through Busi
ness.
John Hope Franklin to speak
at Guilford College on March 6
Noted historian and author John Hope Franklin will
discuss his forthcoming autobiography in a public lec
ture at Guilford College March 6 at 7:30 p.m. Dr.
Franklin is a distinguished professor emeritus at Duke
University and is perhaps best known for his book
"From Slavery to Freedom" now in its eighth printing.
The lecture will be in Dana Auditorium and is open to
the public at no charge. For more information, call
316-2248.
ABWA honors Watson and Belton-Brown
SPf < I y rOTHE CHRONICLE
The Forsyth Chapter of the
American Business Women's
Association elected its 2002-2003
Woman of the Year and Top 10
Business Woman. Robin M. Wat
son won the honor of Woman of
the Year and Mose Belton-Brown
won Top 10 Business Woman.
Each year, chapters emphasize
the outstanding achievements and
contributions members make by
electing a Chapter Woman of the
Year and Top 10 Business Woman.
These women will serve as role
models for the entire membership,
as well as achieve recognition for
their accomplishments as busi
nesswomen. _.
Watson has been a member of
the Forsyth chapter for than two
years. She is currently the
newsletter editor and the Pied
mont Triad Area Council repre
sentative for the chapter. She
attended Western Carolina Univer
sity. She just recently went back to
work at the city of Winston-Salem
after her husband decided to run
the family radio station full time.
Before working at the city, she
worked at the family radio station.
WSMX 1500 AM. a full-time
I
gospel radio
station, as.
the execu
tive adminis
trator.
She also
worked in a
part-time
capacity as
executive
director of
SIFT Inc. (a
nonprofit
organization to help low-income
kids and parents) from 1998-2001.
She is active teaching computer
classes" for kids and adults at
Friendship Baptist Church, and
she is a member of the National
Association of Broadcasters and
the National Association of the
Self-Employed. She is also a
Junior Achievement instructor,
youth church instructor and VIP
donor of the American Red Cross.
Belton-Brown has been a
member of the Forsyth chapter
since its beginning in 1981 and is
currently the vice president of the
chapter. She received her B.A.'
degree from Winston-Salem State
University, her M.Ed, degree in
history from N.C. A&T State Uni
versity and furthered her educa
tion al UNC-Chapel Hill and
UNC-Greensboro.
She worked at Wachovia Bank
for five years and was a history
teacher in Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Schools for 12 years
before opening her,own Allstate
Insurance Co. in 1986. In 2000,
she incorporated her business as
the Mose Insurance Agency Inc.
Some of her accomplishments
include: vice president of the
Greater Winston-Salem Chamber
of Commerce board of directors;
president of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Winston-Salem Alumnae
Chapter; YMCA Black Achievers
Business Award recipient; "Miss
Alumni" of Winston-Salem State
University; three-time recipient of
the Winston-Salem Sales and Mar
keting Executives "Distinguished
Sales Award"; 2001 co-sponsor of
the Black Achievers; and vice
president of the National Women
of Achievement, Kernersville
chapter.
There are more than 144
ABWA chapters in the United
States. Each chapter will be repre
sented with its winners and hon
ored in December at the national
convention in Nashville, Tenn.
These women will come together
at the
Woman of
the Year
Luncheon
and compete
for the
national
titles of
Woman of
the Year and
Top 10
Business
Woman.
These women demonstrate
how involvement in the associa
tion has contributed to significant
achievements.
For those persons interested in
the American Business Women's
Association, the Forsyth chapter
meets the first Tuesday of every
month at 6:15 pm. If you would
like to get involved, contact Car
olyn Samuel, membership chair, at
722-9527.
The mission of the American
Business Women's Association is
to bring together businesswomen
of diverse backgrounds and to pro
vide opportunities for them to help
themselves and others grow per
sonally and professionally through
leadership, education, networking
support and national recognition.
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Watson
Ballon-Brown
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Double-Team Reading
Photo courtesy of Wachovia
Bud Baker and Ken Thompson, the heads of the new Wachovia, left the office for a while earlier this
month to read stories to students at Forest Park Elementary School. The men took part in the annual
African-American Read-In Chain, which promotes the reading of African-American-themed literature.
OFFITBANK elects
King head of board
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
CHARLOTTE - Gloria Pace King,
president of United Way of Central Car
olinas Inc.. has been elected to the board
of directors of OFFITBANK.
King is responsible for overseeing
the multimillion dollar United Way
functions for the Central Carolinas.
Based in Charlotte, she also has man
agement responsibility for corporate
functions, including information servic
es. compliance, communications and
dispersing funds to hundreds of various
United Way agencies.
King joined United Way Services in
Cleveland. Ohio, as a senior vice presi
dent in charge of community investment
and resource management in 1988. She
became president of the Central Caroli
nas in May 1994. Before joining the
United Way. she was president and chief
executive officer of the Visiting Nurse
Association of Cleveland.
King is a registered nurse who
received a bachelor's degree in business
administration from Cleveland State
University and a master's degree in busi
ness administration from Baldwin Wal
lace College She is a member of the
board and the Nominating and Gover
nance Committee for Carolinas Health
care System. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Health Services Foundation, Charlotte
Arts and Sciences Council. Mecklen
burg Partnership for Children-Smart
Start. Charlotte Merchants Foundation
Board, advisory committee of the John
S. and James L.
Knight Founda
tion, Links Inc.,
Charlotte chap
ter and the Char
lotte Alumnae
Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta
Sorority.
King was
named a 1996
Newsmaker of
the Year by the
Charlotte Busi
ness Journal. and received the 1997
Frank C. Carr Memorial Award from
INROADS Charlotte and the 2000 POP
Award from the Charlotte Post. She also
was named the Charlotte Post Woman of
the Year in 1999.
OFFITBANK, headquartered in
New York City, currently has offices in
Atlanta. Charlotte. Miami. Palm Beach.
San Francisco and Winston-Salem.
Clients are located in 39 states. Latin
America. Europe and Asia.
King
A&T gets new
police chief
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
GREENSBORO - Mar
lon C. Lynch is the new police
and public safety director at
N.C. Agricultural and Techni
cal State University. He will
3 U pC I -
vise the
police
and safe
ty pro
gram on
N . C .
A & T ' s
campus,
which
includes
8.300
students
and .2.4
sworn police officers.
Most recently, Lynch was
deputy director/major of
police and public safety at the
University of North Carolina
at Charlotte. He served as
department head in the chief's
absence; commander of police
operations; department liaison
to internal and external agen
cies; public information offi
cer; and special events coordi
nator. The university's campus
has 18.300 students with 37
sworn police officers.
Lynch also has served as
assistant director of thp. police
department at Davidson Col
lege. He led the department in
the director's absence: coordi
nated community policing;
was department liaison to
campus groups: trained offi
cers: and was patrol com
mander. Lynch was a lieu
tenant in the police department
at Southern Methodist Univer
sity in Dallas. Texas. He
supervised field training and
community-oriented policing
along with special events and
dignitary protection. He
received two Life Saving
Awards from Southern
Methodist.
A native of Chicago. III..
Lynch is married to the former
Tamika Miller, and the couple
expect their first child in May.
Lynch