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(he School of Business and
Economics' professional
development initiative to
introduce students to the skills
and attitudes they will need to
develop while in college to
successfully prepare for a
career in today's dynamic
economy.
Burke, a retired educator
and guidance counselor with
the Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County School System, has a.
longtime associa
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She has served as a
Winston-Salem Cily
Council member
since 1977. She was
the first female and
African-American
to serve as chairman
of the council's
Public Safety Com
miuee. anc cuiicut- ?
ly serves as mayor
pro tempore and on
the Finance Committee.
Hayes-Calvert, a single
mother of three, broke into the
construction work business
with just $200 in 1986, where
"the good ol' boys" controlled
the market. Since those early
days, she has made great
strides to become a major
player. In 2005. S&L Painting
and Decorating was awarded
its largest contract, more than
$1 million to paint the new
Dell manufacturing facility.
S&L Painting and Decorat
ing is at the same time main
taining its contracts with Win
Ston-Salem State University,
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C. A&T State
University, High Point Uni
versity, University of North
Carolina-Greensboro, and
N.C. School of the Arts.
Sandra Miller Jones, a
native of Winston-Salem, is
founder and chairman of Seg
mented Marketing Services
Inc. (SMSi) and publisher of
Urban Call. She was one of
the first African-American
women to receive a Master of
Business Administration
degree from Northwestern
University's Kellogg School
of Business. She became the
first African-American
woman manager at Quaker
Oats Co.
She managed several of
Williams
Quaker Oats' major franchis
es, including the $100 million
plus Quaker Oatmeal busi
ness. In addition to her corpo
rate successes. Jones used her
talents during that time to help
start a business initiative lor
the League of Black Women in
Chicago, to help found the
National Black MBA Associa
tion and the Chicago Minorit)
Purchasing Council, to
increase female involvement
in the National Association of
Market Developers, and to
assist numerous women in
their business startup efforts.
Dana Suggs is
the owner ol Hotly
and Soul, a cultural
boutique and art
gallery located on
Trade Street in the
heart of the arts dis
trict in downtown
Winston-Salem.
Originally from
New York, Suggs
? has a background in
advertising and
helped to develop award-win
ning advertising strategies for
such Fortune 500 companies
as McDonald's, General
Foods and Anheuser-Busch.
She created a line of
Kwanzaa ornaments that have
sold nationally in major
department stores such as
Sears; Bed Bath & Beyond;
Kmart; and Walgreens. The
product was featured on the
"Oprah Winfrey Show" and
many trade and lifestyle mag
azines.
Theldora Small Williams
co-founded TES Engraving &
Sign Co. in 1995. TES pro
duces Americans with Disabil
ities Act (ADA) compliant
signage, nameplates, interior
and exterior signage, name
badges, and custom acrylic
awards for businesses nation
wide. Major clients include
American Express, Blue
Cross/BlueShield. BB&T,
Bank of the Carolina, Busi
ness Control Systems, South
east Region NAACP, and AF
Bank. Her company currently
employs seven people.
She and her business have
been the recipient of numer
ous awards and honors,
including: 2001 Supplier of
the Year, Carolinas Minority
Supplier Development Coun
cils Inc.; Triad Minority
Council Award; and, Blue
Cross/BlueShield World Class
Supplier Award.
Gallery named after longtime supporter
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Since the Delia Arts Center's
humble beginnings in the early
1970s, Simona Atkins Allen has
been intimately tied to the trail
blazing center. She knows every
thing about it, from top to bot
tom. So her friends and fellow
Delta Arts colleagues had a huge
task on their hands over the past
several months as they mounted
a secret campaign to name the
center's gallery in Allen's honor.
They pulled it off, though.
Allen was let in the loop Satur
day evening during an unveiling
ceremony at the Delta Arts Cen
ter on New Walkertown Road.
Dozens of Allen's friends, sorors
and family members gathered at
the center around 6. Dr. Harvey
Allen Sr., Simona Allen's hus
band of many years, was
instructed to not bring Allen to
the center until around 6:30. By
that time, the 4,763-square-foot
gallery had been turned into a
swank banquet hall complete
with piano and podium.
Allen arrived to cheers and
applause. Part of the program
was dedicated to recalling
Allen's longtime support of the
center, which broke new ground
in 1972 when local members of
Delta Sigma Theta opened it. To
this day, there are still few art
galleries that have been opened
and operated by black women.
Allen has been involved with
the center from the beginning.
She served as president of the
Photos by Kevin Walker
Simona Allen (center) was surrounded by family and friends Saturday evening.
center's board for many years.
Friends say she has held some
position on the board ever since
the start of gallery. Allen was
instrumental in helping Delta
Arts raise enough funds to move
from its former location on Third
Street to the new space on New
Walkertown. The new building
is much larger and has already
been well received by the com
munity since it opened earlier
this year.
Allen has also worked to
build the gallery's endowment.
In fact, she had been working to
recruit donors for the endow
ment, selling the idea of naming
the gallery after other people.
Dianne Caesar, the executive
Si m o n a
Allen is con
gratulated
by Louise
Smith,
another
longtime
supporter
of the Delta
Arts Center.
director of the center, and others
worked secretly to secure donors
to name the gallery for Allen. In
all, more than a dozen people
gave more than $15,000, which
will be added to the center's
endowment.
"She is such a modest per
son, that the only way we could
do this was secretly," Caesar
said.
The arts have always been
important to Allen. She is a grad
uate of Fisk University and
Oberlin College Conservatory of
Music. She gave private piano
lessons for years and also taught
music at Fisk. She has also
served on the boards of local arts
organizations, such as the Arts
Council and the Winston-Salem
Symphony.
The apex of the program was
the moment that a black veil was
pulled away from a gallery wall
to reveal the words "Simona
Atkins Allen Gallery." Allen
watched the unveiling from the
back of the crowd before her
friends and family members
insisted that she stand in front of
the wall bearing her name. Allen
looked up at the letters of her
name and smiled and posed for
pictures.
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return these funds to the treas
ury."
Kennedy added: "The tax
payer-funded propaganda cam
paign coming from the White
House is another sign of the
culture of corruption that per
vades the White House and
Republican leadership."
The PR effort unfolded
before
Spellings
took the
helm of
t h e
depart
ment
early this
year. Her
spokes
woman ,
Susan l ^ 1
Aspey, Spellings
said,
"Under Secretary Spellings'
leadership, stringent processes
have been instituted to ensure
these types of missteps don't
happen again."
"We've said for the past six
months that this was stupid,
wrong and ill-advised," Aspey
said. "There's nothing in
today's action that changes our
opinion."
At issue was a $240,000
contract to have Williams, who
is black, inform minorities
about Bush's law by producing
ads with then-Education Secre
tary Rod Paige. Williams also
was to provide media time to
Paige and to persuade other
blacks in the media to talk
about the law.
Nancie McPhail, Williams'
chief of staff, said Friday he
would have no comment until
he had a chance to review the
GAO findings. Williams previ
ously has apologized and said
that he "exercised poor judg
ment."
The GAO also looked at a
broader Education Department
contract with Ketchum, a pub
lic relations firm, to publicize
the Bush education agenda.
This effort included production
of a "video news release" pro
moting the education law that
looked and sounded Jike a
news story. t v
At least one television sta
tion in New York used the
package in 2003, substituting
its own reporter for the
voicsover but followed the
script and video the department
provided.
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