Newspapers / Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.) / Aug. 26, 2004, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
H*C_HRONICLE centl Celebrating 30 years of Community Journalism Vol. xxx No. 5: Fan Day brings out masses at WSSU - See Page B1 School's oldest freshman prepared - See Page A10 Slade says goodbye to FTCC - See Page A3 Boston comes together for event -See Page CI School offers another chance Start-up money for 'street school' came frontiyates grant BY COURTNEY GAILLARD THE CHRONICLE Brandy Woodberry can't wait to go back to school. The 16-year-old suffers from bipolar disorder and has made little progress in traditional public schools in recent years. She and around a dozen other students will begin their ninth grade year at the Twin City Acade my on Aug. 30 where they hope lo receive another chance at get ting an education. "I think this is going to be good. I'm getting tired of sit ting at home with nothing to do but watch (TV)," said Woodberry, who feels the small, family-like efass *ize at Twin City will suit her learning style better. "I'm ready for an educa tion. I'm ready to graduate." The academy, also known as the Winston-Salem Street School, is one of 39 street schools in the country geared toward at-risk children like Woodberry. A moral code is enforced at Twin City, where students are encouraged to be self-sufficient. Street schools offer a traditional high school curriculum that meets state educational guidelines and standards. The school is part of the National Association of Street Schools (NASS). which is a nonprofit organiza Scc School on A9 Reaching Out Margaret Glasgow (left) and Moriah Rhyne, young mem bers of Reynolda Presbyterian Church, prepare food at the Bethesda Center Saturday for a special outreach pro gram sponsored by the church. To read more about the event , see page A9. The Life of a Champion Local filmmaker profiles lady boxer in latest project BYT. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE You can say that Carlette Ewell has been fighting for all of her life. If it wasn't other people, it was cir cumstances thqt she battled. Abandoned by her birth parents, Ewell grew up by day on the tough streets and by night in group homes. She was a mother by her early 20s, but neither the madness nor the battles ended there. She had to fight her boyfriend at the lime to keep from becoming a domestic violence statistic. Today, Ewell - now 33 and the mother of a 10-year-old boy - is still using her fists. But these days she is getting paid and recognized for it, Ewell, a city native, is one of the coun try's burgeoning female boxers. If Ewell already sounds interesting to you, you are not alone. Local film maker Charles McClennahan had only met Ewell and her trainer/boyfriend. Eddie Gregg, for a few minutes before he knew that he wanted to tell her story through the lens of his camera. "Right away I could see the story," said McClennahan. "I started talking to them, and the stories just started to unravel." Months of footage from interviews, training, fights and simple everyday stuff have been pieced together for "Street Style," a 70-minute documen tary film that McClennahan hopes to premiere next month. The title comes froqi an incident that happened during Ewell's profes sional boxing debut in Greensboro three years ago when friefWs of her opponent began to pelt Ewell with threats and obscenities from the crowd. "They were just saying all these things to me, and I am standing there with my gloves on," Ewell recalled with a smile during an interview last week. "And I am telling Eddie to hurry up and get the gloves off because I See Ewell on A10 Photo by Kevin Walker Carlette Swell is the focus of the film "Street Style." Poet helps welcome record class Maya Angelou tells WSSU's largest freshman class be their very best BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE About 1,000 new students started classes at Winston Salem State University on Monday. It seemed like every last one of those new students showed up last Thursday for a New Student Convoeation held at the campus' Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium. The large numbers - virtu ally every seat in the auditori um was occupied - at the event were aided greatly by the evening's keynote speak er, literary legend Maya Angelou. The program was dominated by Angelou's words of encouragement, her poetry and sense of humor. Angelou is accustomed to speaking to young people. She has been the Reynolds profes sor of American studies at Sec WSSU onAlO Photo hy Kevin Walker Maya Angelou speaks to the news media before her speech at WSSU last week. Beside her is Chancellor Harold Martin . Gore returns from African mission BY COURTNEY GAILLARD THE CHRONICLE ^ When you look through Shirley Gore's photo album that chronicles her trip to Africa, you don't see faces of people with AIDS. The smiling, jubilant expressions of people, young and old, don't indicate a place where mil lions of people are devastated by a deadly disease. As Gore flips through the pages of pictures taken with a disposable camera, she recalls with excitement the two weeks she spent in Uganda this past May on a mission of a lifetime. "I said to myself one day (that) I want to go (to ""Africa)." said Gore, who represented her church, Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, on the mission trip. "I was excited. I've always wanted to go. To me. it was the right thing at the right time for me to go." This was Gore's first mission trip despite being presi dent of the mission ministry at her church for almost 10 years. She and six other Americans, all members of the Lott Carey Convention, spent two weeks in Jinja, Uganda, ministering to people with AIDS. Lott Carey is a national organization of black Baptist missionaries that has part nered with 12 African countries. The outreach program sends missionaries, such as Gore's group, to underserved. impoverished rural villages to distribute medications, con duct AIDS prevention counseling and to spread the word rTKHo ny l ?Hirti?ey Uaillard See Gore on A10 Shirley Gore looks at pictures from her African trip. In Grateful Memory of Our Founders , Florrie S. Russell and Carl H. Russell, Sr. "Growing and Still Dedicated to Serve You Better " Wishes to Thank Everyone For Their Support H22 Carl Kussell Ave. ( at Martin Luther King Dr.) Winston-Salem, NC 27101 (336) 722-3459 Fax (336) 631-8268 rusfhome @ bellsouth.net i He uniy Lhoicejor African-American ana community MWm.
Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 26, 2004, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75