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"I remember walking into my first-grade class room at the age of 6 and being greeted by a teacher who was always smiling and happy. She taught me to write and how to behave, but most importantly she Martin ? created an image or what a teacher should be," said Cox. "I also remember walking into my own son's first-grade classroom and seeing that same smiling face. Yes that love and dedication reached another generation in my own family." The bank will give $200,000 to the WSSU School of Education over the next two years for the Bank of America Scholars program. "It's very special. I had no idea that when I graduated in 1961 that one of my students would be instrumental in making such a gift to the uni versity. It's just so special," said Roseboro, whose husband and two children also attended WSSU. Although she has retired. Roseboro con tinues to teach part time at Whitaker Elementary School. Cox is grateful to the university that trained a teacher, like Roseboro. who impacted the lives of his family and so many others. "I recognize the importance, value, sacrifice. , , See WSSU on A4 1 Photo By Kevin Walker Leo Rucker and Cynthia Jeffries stand in front of the mural that is being done in the lobby of the Winston Lake Family YMCA to celebrate the contributions of local blacks to the Y over the last several decades. Colorful Past Winston Lake Family Y depicting its history in mural BYT KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Employees and longtime supporters of the YMCA USA are gathered in Washington this week to mark the 150th year that the Y has extended its mission and services to African Americans. The anniversary has been celebrat ed all of this year but is culminating this week with a special conference - 150 Years of African-American Service in the YMCA - that kicked off Tuesday and is scheduled to end Sat urday. While several representatives from the Winston Lake Family YMCA are on hand for the Washington ceremonies, work is going along steadily on a mural at the Winston Lake Y that aims to depict the contributions and rich traditions of the city's only black YMCA. "What we are trying to depict are all the things that have gone on at this Y over the years." said Cynthia Jeffries, executive director of the Winston Lake Family YMCA. "We con nect the past because it is important for our youth to know where we come from to help them learn where we are going." The Y has commissioned popular local por trait artist Leo Rucker to do the mural. Rucker started the mural, which will span a vast wall in the Y's lobby, on Sept. I. He is about halfway done. The mural should be completed by the middle of November. Rucker and Jeffries scanned the Y's archives and newspaper arti cles, some dating back to the 1930s, to re-cre ate actual scenes from the Winston Lake Fam ily Y's storied history. The Y. which has gone through a number of different site and name changes, was first char ? See YMCA on All Blacks take beating in Robinson literature Council member's Fifth District campaign using shock value to win over apprehensive voters BY T. KEVIN WALKER ; THE CHRONICLE A newspaper editorial that compared Win ston-Salem City Council member Vernon Robin son to retired U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms has been one of the best things that has happened for Robin son's 2004 bid for the Republican nomination for Fifth Congressional District. The campaign has used the quote "Jesse Helms is back! This time he's black," which was lifted from a piece written by a Winston Salem Journal columnist, in many of its news releases and campaign brochures. On one piece of campaign litera ture, a picture of Robinson is fea tured next to a picture of Helms, with the quote boldly printed below the pictures. Inside of the brochure Robinson employs the same type of racially-tinged File Pholo Vernon Robinson is serving his second term on the Win ston-Salem City Council. language that has made Helms and other Republicans contro versial. Robinson insists in tfie brochure that his ultra conservative brand of politics has infuriated "the race hustling poverty pimps like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton." The brochure goes on to state that Robinson - who barely won re-election to the City Council in 2001 and came up way short last year in his bid for the General Assembly - "is not a Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton kind of black guy" "While Jesse Jackson was chasing women and television cameras and shaking down corpo rations for contributions so he could pay hush money to his concubine for their love child, Ver non was serving his country, earning an honest living, and working hard at raising a God-fearing family." Robinson said earlier this week that about 1.000 copies of the brochure were printed by his campaign. Most of them, he said, were distrib See Robinson on AS Men bring Wings to Go to mall Photo by Courtne\ Gaillard Julian Harding, left, and Reggie Phillips recently opened Wings to Go. BY COURTNEY GAIl.LARD THE CHRONICLE Wings to Go has brought "America's best authentic buffalo wings" to Hanes Mall. Located between Belk and Sears department stores on the lower level of the mall. Wings to Go is offering shoppers and wing lovers a place to eat. drink, play and have fun. Wings to Go. which began in Delaware, now has more than 60 franchises in 10 states, most of which are in the Mid-West. Owners Reggie Phillips and Julian Hard ing opened the buffalo wings chain last month, making it the first to open in North Carolina and the largest Wings to Go in the country. According to mall manager Dennis Cerny. Phillips and Harding are the only local black store owners at Hanes Mall. The two thirty-something friends both graduated from Mt. Tabor High School. They decided to sen-' ture into the restaurant business after grow ing tired of the 9-to-5 routine in the corporate 0 ? Sec Wings on A9 Teen pregnancy rates down in N.C. BY COURTNEY GAILLARD THE CHRONICLE Teen pregnancy rates have dropped again in North Car olina for the 12th year in a row, according to the N.C. Department of Public Health and Human Services. The pregnancy rate for girls 15 to ?19 years old declined 7.5 per cent - the lowest rate ever - between 2001 and 2002. The rate for minority teens fell 9.2 percent from 2001 to 2002. In 2002, the overall preg nancy rate for teens was 64.1 pregnancies per 1,000 girls, down from 69.3 per 1,000 in 2001. The pregnancy rate for minority teens fell from 96.1 in 2(H)I to 87.3 percent in 2002. The rate for white teens went from 57.2 in 2001 to 53.6 percent in 2002. a decline of 6.3 percent. D r Timothy Monroe, director of the Forsyth County Depart ment of Public Health. Devlin consid ers the figures to be a remarkable improvement. Efforts such as Family Planning and Materni Sec Pregnancy on AS
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