Teresa Gaither, leader of the Junior Girls Scout Troop at Easton Elementary,; pulled the
members together to complete this year's cookie sale on March 6 at the South Park
Shopping Center.
Local foundations award
$150,000 to Crosby Scholars
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
The Crosby Scholars Com
munity Partnership has received a
$100,000 grant award from the
Kate B. Reynolds Foundation for
the Crosby Scholars college
scholarship program. The awards
are made to students in Winston
Salem/Forsyth County Schools
who have completed program
requirements and who meet finan
cial aid guidelines. Crosby awards
are generally "last dollar" scholar
ships, monies provided to bridge
the gap between other forms of
financial assistance and the cost of
attending college.
The Winston-Salem Founda
tion has awarded the Crosby
Scholars Program a grant of
$50,000 for planning and imple
menting development strategies,
which will include individual,
corporate and foundation solicita
tions as well as special events and
collaborative proposals with other
community organizations.
The Crosby Scholars Program
serves some 2,500 middle and
high school students each year
with a comprehensive mix of col
lege preparation seminars and
workshops, including leadership
development, community service,
career awareness, productive citi
zenship and financial aid sessions
for students and their families.
Established in 1992, the pro
gram initially received the core of
its financial support from the pro
ceeds of the Crosby Golf Touma
m*>nt With thr? olrsco <vf thie truir ?
nament, Crosby staff and board
have initiated efforts to build new
funding sources.
"The success of our students
in both regionally and nationally
prominent colleges is the very
important legacy of the hard work
and commitment of the thousands
of friends who produced the Cros
by Tournament," said Mona
Lovett. executive director. "We
view this new chapter as a critical
opportunity to expand our reach
into the community and continue
to offer young people the
resources to develop their best
attributes to become leaders and
productive citizens of Forsyth
County."
The program has hired Bebe
Kern Somerville to lead the orga
nization's fund development
efforts. Somerville's experience
with grant-writing and fund-rais
ing initiatives includes Cities in
Schools of Palm Beach, Warren
Wilson College, The Asheville
School, Wake Forest University,
the Touched by Technology cam
paign in Forsyth County and the
Baton Rouge Area Community
Foundation.
Singles group
is formed
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
A new singles group from
Winston-Salem was organized
on Oct. 19, 2001, at 6 p.m. at
the lovely home of Pency
Yarborough on Treetop Lane.
Yarborough and Annie P. Wil
son are the group's coordina
tors.
The group decided that it
would not have officers, club
dues, scholarships, mailings
expenses except for costs of
individual activities. Every
thing is handled by telephone.
The coordinators wanted a
more relaxed singles group.
Each month on the third
Friday, the group gets together
at 6 p.m. to celebrate the birth
days for that month with cards
and good food. Each member
volunteered to take a month to
host the meeting. The group
decided on some outings such
as movies, travel, museums,
plays, cookouts, a one-day
cruise, dining out and athletic
games, just to name a few.
Thus a gathering of 18 peo
ple led to the formation of a
singles group. The objective is
to create a family-like atmos
phere and share in a variety of
activities together.
The Nov. f6 and Dec. 21.
2001, meetings were held at
Yarborough's house. Her co
hostess was Annie P. Wilson..
There was great food.
Delores "D" Smith and
Merfe Wylie hosted the Jan. 18,
2002, meeting at Smith's cozy
home. A great soup was pre
pared for the group with a vari
ety of crackers and sodas.
Members participated in fun
musical games. Smith credited
Wylie for that delicious soup
floating with meat and vegeta
bles.
The Feb. 15 meeting was a
Valentine's night out at
(^'Cities" on Stratford Road. The
atfire for that night was red and
'"white. The members looked as
if thev were ready to celebrate
TfAl Li, -. c ,
M their,night too. The food was so
defjcious. What an atmosphere
to dine in. There was a name
drawing for a Valentine stuffed
dog toy. Jeannetle T. Lewis
won the red stuffed animal,
which-ntsde her the sweetheart
for'the night.
The March meeting was
held in the attractive basement
of Amos Harper. Harper had
prepared a delicious St.
Patrick's Day dinner for the
group to enjoy. The menu con
sisted of corn beef and cab
bage. barbecue ribs, whole
white potatoes and carrots,
Mexican corn bread, pound
cake, vanilla ice cream and a
variety of sodas. Harper had
decorated his basement in St.
Patrick's Day decorations.
There were several games for
the members to analyze and
share.
The members wore green
and white to represent St.
Patrick's Day. Thurmond Ford
was co-host of this wonderful
March meeting.
The remaining hostesses
are: April - Andrea Bush and
Sandra Kay Lawson; May -
Mary (Cookie) Davis and Jean
nette T. Lewis; June - Selena
Nichols, picnic - Doris
Gilliam; July - Oliver White,
Eva Howell, and Pency Yarbor
ough; August - Naomi Suber.
Willie Mae Gray; September -
Louise Beale and Annie P. Wil
son; October - Wanda Hill and
Cleester Hickerson; November
- another outing to be
announced; and December ?
Josephine Griffin and Mary
Alice Ledbetter.
The members to date life:
Louise R. Beale. Andrea M.
Bush. Mary (Cookie) Davis,
Thurmond Ford. Doris Gilliam.
Willie Mae H. Gray, Josephine
F. Griffin. Amos W. Harper.
Cleester Hickerson, Wanda L.
Hill, Eva B. Howell, Sylvia
Jenkins, Sandra Kay Lawson.
Mary Alice Ledbetter. Jean
nette T. Lewis. Howard
McCullough. Selena H.
Nichols, Delores D. Smith,
Naomi .Suber, Mary W. Web
ster, Oliver White. Merle
Wylie, Annie P. Wilson.
Delores Yancey, and Pency M.
Yarborough.
The singles group is open
for new members who are sin
gle by choice, not married, or
widowed. If you are interested
in becoming a member, contact
Annie P. Wilson at 723-8149 or
Pency Yarborough at 725-8851.
Bone loss resumes when hormone
replacement therapy stops
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Stopping hormone replace
ment therapy does not appear
to accelerate loss of bone in
postmenopausal women,
according to a long-term fol
low-up of the national Post
menopausal Estrogen/Prog
estin Intervention (PEPI)
study.
Writing in Monday's
(March 25's) edition of
Archives of Internal Medicine,
the research team said, "Our
results suggest that women
who stop hormone replacement
therapy may resume bone loss,
but it will be at a rate similar to
women who never took these
drugs."
The seven-year study also
showed that while bone mass
increased substantially in the
first 36 months after starting
hormone replacement therapy,
there was little gain in bone
mass after that. Among women
who remain on hormone
replacement therapy for up to
five more years, bone mass
remains stable at a higher level.
The PEPI study involved
more than 800 women at seven
academic medical centers. The
national coordinating center
was at Wake Forest University
School of Medicine.
Mark Espeland, Ph.D., one
of the authors and professor of
public health sciences (biosta
tistics) at Wake Forest, said the
current results stem from a
safety follow-up study lasting
up to five years after the end of
the initial three-year PEPI
study. "We wanted to follow
these women to see if there
were any long-term health
consequences."
During the follow-up,
investigators monitored both
occurrence of fractures and
changes in bone density as
measured by bone scans.
Declining bone density
increases the risk of fractures
and leads to osteoporosis. It is
a natural process of aging that
occurs in women who do not
start hormone replacement
therapy, and was confirmed in
the placebo arm of the PEPI
study.
"PEPI helped establish that
estrogen can lead to short-term
increases in bone mineral den
sity in postmenopausal
women," Espeland said.
But several other studies
had raised questions whether
bone loss may accelerate when
hormone replacement therapy
stops. Instead, the PEPI results
showed that when hormone
replacement therapy stops, the
rate of hone loss is abot]t the
same as the natural process.
Espeland said the long-term
follow-up "gave us a chance to
examine the consequences of
remaining on estrogen of stop
ping estrogen after three
years."
He pointed out that the
increase in bone mass after ini
tiation of hormone replacement
therapy gives women who stop
a higher starting point; it is
several years before their Ijone
loss declines to the point where
they would have been Had they
never started treatment.
Sustained use of hormone .
replacement over many, years
may increase a woman's risk of
breast cancer. Results ffom
PEPI allow doctors to consider
ffljier strategies such as pre
scribing hormone replacement
therapy for a period of time,
then stopping it, then resuming
in a few years.
"Our paper indicates this
could have some benefits in
increasing bone mineral densi
ty and preventing fractures."
Espeland said.
Liston, retired N.C. A&T professor, will chair
session at psychological association convention
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Dr. Hattye H. Liston. retired
professor pf psychology from
N.C. Agricultural and Techni
cal State University, will chair
a session at the Southeastern
Psychological Association, for
all states from Washington,
D.C., to Florida. This 48th
annual convention will con
vene in Orlando, Fla? March
21-24.
Liston was the first African
American woman in North Car
olina to be licensed to practice
psychology. She has been cited
as an author, versatile
researcher, behaviorist, sub
stance misuse and abuse con
sultant and a bio-feedback
practitioner. She also has
received a number of accolades
and recognition in various pub
lications.
Liston will be accompanied
to Orlando by her granddaugh
ter, Natasha Williams, assistant
city attorney in Winston-Salem.
If you are, or ever were, a kid- ) I
you're invited. J j
Open House Apri120-21? Sat. l-4pm & Sun.2-5pm
Please join us as we celebrate the completion of our new. state-of-the-art facility, and be one of the
first to see this region's premiere children's hospital. With entertainment, giveaways, refreshments
and free parking, it promises to be two fun-filled days for parents and kids alike.
Brenner Children's
Hospital & Health Services
part of ?Wake forest University Baptist Medical Center
Guest speaker Judy Woodruff.
CNN anchor, at I pm 4/20
Local sports athletes and mascots
Child ID kits from the WSPD
Rooftop playground
Self-guided tours
Face Painting
Magicians
Clowns
Entertainment
Sign up today for our free parenting classes. April 22 -26.
For more information, call Health On-Call" 336-716-2255 or
1-800-446-2255 or visit www.brennerchildrens.org.