Softball
star talks
about her
ambitions
- See Page B2
Watt talks
Medicare
with local
seniors
- See Page A3
WSSU to
welcome
author
Powell
Sex and
faith are
subjects
of book
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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OK COMMUNITY JOURf*
Vol. XXX No. 31
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2
The Littlest Guest
Photo by Chalic Pfaff
The Chronicle's 21st Annual Community Service Awards Banquet drew more than
600 people to the Benton Convention Center last Thursday where they watched more
than two dozen people receive awards for their service. Among the guests was this
little guy who upstaged many adults with his mature table etiquette.
Student/soldiers to come
home from Middle East
V
Platoon has
been overseas
for nearly a year
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
Twenty-nine Army
reservists from the third pla
toon of 991st Transportation
Company are expected to
return to Winston-Salem in
about a
Matthews
week.
The pla
toon is
based at
Smothers
Army
Reserve
Center
on Mar
t i n
Luther
King Jr.
Drive. I he platoon is a
detachment. Most of 991st
Transportation Company is
based in Salisbury. The unit
transported food, supplies and
sometimes ammunition to
U.S. forces in Iraq.
Fourteen of the reservists
in the platoon are college stu
dents who were abruptly
pulled from the classroom in
January 2003 when their com
pany was activated. The
reservists were enrolled in
colleges throughout the Triad,
including Winston-Salem
State University, N.C. A&T
State University and Greens
Photo by Kevin Walker
Lisa Davis talks to one of her " babies " by telephone from
Kuwait. Davis is the platoon's sergeant.
boro College. The platoon is
also overwhelmingly African
American. Of the 29
reservists, 25 are black.
.Lisa Ann Davis, the pla
toon's sergeant, said that
many of the college students
in the platoon joined the
reserves to get money to pay
for college. They never
dreamed that they would be
called to fight a waf.
"They are really young.
Some of them were in their
first year of college," said
Davis, who affectionately
refers to members of the pla
toon as her "babies." Davis, a
23-year veteran, accompanied
her platoon to Iraq and spent
two months with them before
a medical condition required
her to come home. This week,
she is at Fort Bragg, waiting
for her babies to return to
American soil. The platoon is
expected to return to Win
ston-Salem by April 17.
In some ways, Davis said,
See Soldiers on A9
Execs bring
corporate ladder
tales to WSSU
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
The corporate world can be
dog-eat-dog and cutthroat, three
African-American executives
told Winston-Salem State Uni
versity students last week. To
survive, they said, it takes the
proper armor: a good education,
mentors and the drive to go
above and beyond.
For the past several years,
the National Urban League has
been sending groups of black
corporate-types to black col
leges around the country to
school students on the dos and
don'ts and pluses and minuses
of the business world. The pro
gram, called the Black Execu
tive Exchange Program, or
BEEP, has made stops at WSSU
for the past four years.
Last week, three executives
visited more than a d07.cn class
rooms over two days at WSSU,
where they told students that
being mediocre doesn't cut it
anymore. Today's human
resources departments are look
ing for people who are not only
bright, but have a variety of
skills to bring to the table, they
said.
Anne Marie Rowe-Straker
of the Federal Reserve tank of
Photo by KcVin Walker
Bank executive Anne Marie
Kowe-Straker makes a point
lait week at WSSU.
New York told students that they
must work on being a multi
tasker and not put all of their
creative tggs in one basket.
"What took 10 people to get
done, managers are now looking
for one person to do," said
Rowe-Straker, who caused
some students to ooh and aah
when she told them she controls
about $1.8 trillion on any given
day at FRBNY.
The students that will gradu
ate from universities in the next
Set BEEP on A10
Ready, Set, Study
Wake students'
program promotes
good study habits
COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE
Tierney Kraft and Eliza
beth Eubank couldn't believe
that an Old Town Elementary
School fifth-grader was doing
her homework on a bucket at
home. The Wake Forest sen
iors volunteer as tutors at the
school and recently found out
that many other students like
the fifth-grader don't have a
decent place at home to study.
"The fifth-grade teacher
said that only four out of 20
kids in her class do well
because they were the only
ones with positive study envi
ronments (at home)," said
Eubank, who is double-major
ing in studio art and sociolo
gy
Kraft and Eubank devel
oped DESK (Developing Edu
cation Through Student
Knowledge) where they will
provide 20 elementary stu
dents with desks, chairs,
school supplies and tutoring.
The project has been fully
funded by the Z. Smith
Reynolds Community
Responsibility Grant. A local
used furniture warehouse,
Skidmore's, donated all of the
desks and chairs, some of
Photo by Kevin Walker
Tierney Kraft and Elizabeth Eubank transport one of the desks they have collected.
which can run hundreds of
dollars apiece.
"It's such a small thing at
home, but a desk can have a
big impact. We know that if
we clear off our study space
and have a good work envi
ronment, then it really
increases our ability to do
work," said Kraft, who is a
business major. "So many of
these kids who are in need
have tutors, which helps, but
then they go home and they
don't have a work environ
ment or know about good
study habits,^
Limited quiet space at
home, says Old Town princi
pal Tobie Arnold, is some
thing many of her students are
accustomed to working in
where the battle for concen
tration is constant. Old Town
faculty identified children
Sec DESK on AS
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