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? THURSDAY, July 20, 2006
Vol. XXXII No. 47
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for others
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Beauty & Brains
HBCU queens, kings
meet in city for
unique conference
BY SANDRA ISLEY
THE CHRONICLE
Kings and queens from his
torically black colleges and uni
Williams
ve r s 1 1 y
arrived in
royal
style last
week for
a four
day con
ference in
Winston
Salem.
The
fifth
annual
Leadership tor Queens from
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities and Kings
Konnection Conference was
held at Embassy Suites. The
event was designed to teach the
kings and queens how to be pos
itive representatives and to teach
them that beauty is only skin
deep.
"I just think that they need to
take the role m<jre serious some
times," said Dale Williams,
director of Student Activities at
Winston-Salem State University.
"That's what this conference is
for. This is a big deal because
African American women need
role models and African
American males need role mod
els, and they may be the only
role model someone sees.
They're not just a role model
beauty; they're promoting col
lege education, they're promot
ing professionalism."
The queens of several historically black schools came to town to learn and be inspired.
Photos by Sandra lsley
Williams founded the
Leadership for Queens, a leader
ship conference for Historically
Black University Queens. She is
the former Miss Tennessee State
University (1992-1993).
Williams believes that expecta
tions are now greater for those
who wear HBCU crowns and
that the kings and queens repre
sent the schools on so many lev
els that they need etiquette train
ing, self-esteem workshops, and
mentoring sessions with others
who have served in the roles.
The job of an HBCU king or
qu4en comes with no handbook
and often no type Of formal les
sons,. yet they are expected to
represent their schools well at
community events and social
functions.
More than 40 kings and
queens attended the conference,
representing more than 20
HBCUs. Courtney Rutledge was
among those who attended. She
used the event as a prep course
for the upcoming school year,
when she will wear the Miss
Jackson State University crown.
"I "hope to find leadership
?training and a purpose; for truly
a campus queen role does go
beyond beauty," she said.
Kings were first invited to
take part in the conference two
years ago by Anthony Jones,
director of Student Activities for
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Popular Body & Soul expanding to Hanes Mall
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BY SANDRA ISLEY
THE CHRONICLE
A slice of downtown's hottest retail
store will soon be available to shoppers
at Hanes Mall . ?
Every since Dana Suggs opened
Body & Soul on Trade Street in 2003,
the store has been a hit with customers.
The Afrocentric shop offers a variety of
products, from books by black authors
to authentic African art. Stationary,
greeting cards and even handbags are
also offered at the shop. The skin care
line offered at Body & Soul is perhaps
the store's most popular items. It is that
line of products, which includes every
thing from soaps, lotions and body
sprays, that Suggs will offer to mall
shoppers at kiosk starting in September.
The city's mall is one of the largest
in the Southeast. Retailers pay a pretty
penny for space in Hanes Mall, which
welcomes thousands of shoppers each
day. Suggs won'-t pay a dime for her
space. She recently won a prize package
totaling more than $49,000
in the first-ever Piedmont
Retail Business Challenge,
a retail competition
designed to find Triad
entrepreneurs with the
most imaginative and cre
ative retail business. The
contest was developed by
CBL * & Associates
Properties - owners of
Hanes Mall in Winston
Salem, Randolph Mall in
Asheboro and Oak Hollow
Mall in High Point.
A winner was selected tor each CBL
& Associates site.
Suggs, a New York native who
worked for powerhouse Madison
Avenue advertising firms before relo
Suggs
eating down South, put together a busi
ness plan for Butter Up, a kiosk that will
offer hard to find shea butter products to
mall shoppers. Shea butter
is extracted from the African
shea tree. Shea butter is
known for its ability to
moisturize and nourish the
skin. Suggs' plan beat out
several other finalists. She is
taking the win with mod
esty.
"There's nothing special
about me." she said of the
win. "It's just hard work and
determination.".
In her case, she also had
years of overachieving on
her side. During her 16 years in adver
tising. Suggs helped design a label
brand for basketball legend Michael
Jordan, the Michael Jordan Collection.
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Belles
say they
will miss
Dr. Cole
Bennett leader will
leave next year
BY SANDRA ISLEY
THE CHRONICLE
The void that Johnnetta Cole
will leave after retiring as
President of Bennett College is
already being felt by local alum
nae. Cole has announced that she
will be vacating the position at
the end ot
the 2006
07 school
year, after
serving
the full
five years
that she'd
originally
promised
the pri
vate, his
torically
Cole
Diaik iiDerai artsaconege ror
women.
"She came to us initially
telling us that she would stay with
us for five years, and we knew
that her five years were coming
up. but we had hopeful thoughts.
1 guess, that she would stay, only
because we loved her so much,"
said Gloria Wilson, president of
Bennett's Winston-Salem
Alumnae Chapter. "Then again,
we would be selfish if we didn't
want her to enjoy her retirement ."
This will be Cole's second
retirement. She came out of
retirement in 2002 to steer
Bennett. She had previously led
Atlanta's renowned Spelman
College. When she came to
Bennett, the school was on aca
demic probation and operating at
a more than $3 million deficit.
The college was taken off of pro
?bation soon after she took the
ty;lm. Since Cole took office, the
college has enjoyed financial
growth and national attention.
"She came out of retirement
to save our school and she has
done her part. It's left up to us
now to keep it going and we just
want her to be happy. We're
going to tniss her even though we
know she'll always be apart of
Bennett. We just know she will,"
said Carolyn Black, a Winston
Salem resident who graduated
from Bennett in 1963.
There is work to be done at
Bennett before Cole bows out.
The capital campaign that she set
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New center opens downtown for those with hearing problems
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Last Friday a symbolic ribbon cutting
with Mayor Allen Joines sent the
message that the North Carolina
for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
(NCDHH) is open and ready to
help clients.
The office, located at 301
North Main Street inside
Winston Tower, officially opened
on June 15 to provide services to
the deaf and hard of hearing in
the area. The office has had over
40 clients in its first month
according to NCDHH President
Lauren Azevedo.
Azevedo was a volunteer who designed
the web site for the Fonyth Center for the
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (FCDHH), which
provided services for the deaf and hard of
hearing in the area for over 30 years before
closing on June 30. The FCDHH closed
because the regional office of the state-run
Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard
of Hearing (DSDHH) in Greensboro, which
offers some of the same services as FCDHH,
is expanding it's staff to be more
active in areas like Forsyth
County. Azevedo started up
NCDHH because she believes that
there are still services and
resources the state office is lack
ing. She said she plans to offer all
the old services that FCDHH did,
with hopefully more to come.
"I want to help the deaf and
hard of hearing be a force in this
community," said Azevedo.
So far the range of help offered
is impressive. NCDHH supplies listening
devices and visual fire alarms for those who
need them. NCDHH also provides interpret
ing services, sign language classes, an inter
preter lending library of books and videos.
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Phoios by Todd Luck
Mayor Allen
Joined and
Lauren
Azevedo cut
the ribbon
last week to
open the cen
ter.
ateful Memory of Our
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