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Vol. XXXIII No. 2
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Habitat fulfills more dreams
BY FELECIA P MCMILLAN. PH. D.
THE CHRONICLE
Delighted families and ener
getic builders made Habitat for
Humanity of Forsyth County's
annual Labor of Love building
blitz a productive and memo
rable holiday weekend event.
The families will realize the
American Dream thanks to
Habitat, which has made dreams
come true for two decades in
Forsyth County, and several
local businesses, organizations
and churches that have agreed to
provide building manpower and
financial support for the con
struction of the homes.
Willie Mae Davis, 39, and
her four children are making
plans to move into their new
home. Davis' two daughters,
Keiri and Tabitha. and her two
sons, Kevin and Koby, will
move into one of the seven new
homes built in and along
Greeley Street. Memhiers of
Greater Cleveland Christian
Church and Southern
Community Bank assisted Davis
in the building process Saturday.
The church and the bank are
sponsors of the Davis house.
Cynthia Coleman and her
daughter. Kendall, will be neigh
bors of the Davis family.
Coleman's home is sponsored
by 84 Lumber and First
Christian Church. Charlene
Davis and her daughter, Victoria,
will reside in a home that was
made possible by BirdFest 2006,
an annual Habitat fundraiser.
Members of Bunker Hill United
Methodist Church, Piney Grove
United ?Methodist Church and
Clemmons United Methodist
helped to build Charlene Davis'
house.
Pamatina Simmmons and
her two sons, Larry and Gregory,
will reside in Dell's first local
Habitat house. Kasandra
Williams and her daughter,
Angel, will live in the house
sponsored by Friends of Kay
Lord, a longtime director of
Habitat who retired recently.
Women Build 2006 spon
sored the home built for Elsie
Hildebrand and her son and
daughter. Kim Adams and her
two children will live in a house
sponsored by Forsyth Technical
See Habitat on A9
Photos by Feiecu McMillan
Homeowner Pamalina Simmons ( standing ) works with volunteer Cynthia Johnakin.
Recalling
9/11 victims
with local ties
Reynolds High graduate will be
remembered Friday during
football game
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Monday will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11,
Teague
2001 , terrorist attacks that claimed the
lives of 3,000 people, including a few
with local ties.
Sarah Clark, a Winston-Salem
State University alumna, was aboard
American Airlines Flight 77, which
was crashed into the Pentagon. Clark
was a teacher. She was accompanying
her students on a trip to Los Angeles.
Mark Schurmeier, a 1979 Wake Forest
University graduate, died when
American Airlines Flight 11 crashed
into the North Tower of the World
Trade Center. Schurmeier, working
for Freddie Mac at the time, was on
the 106th floor of the tower for a conference. Sandy Bradshaw
of Greensboro was a flight attendant
aboard United Flight 93, which many
believe was slated to crash into the
U.S. Capitol or the White House. It is
believed that those on the flight con
fronted the hijackers, causing the
plane to crash, instead, in a barren
field in Shanksville, Penn.
Sandy Teague, who graduated
from R.J. Reynolds High School in
1988, was also aboard the American
Airlines flight that crashed into the
Pentagon. Teague, who worked at
Georgetown University Hospital in
Clark
Washington D.C., was on her way to
Australia. It would have been her first trip aboard; she had
planned the getaway, for a year.
Reynolds will honor Teague tomorrow (Sept. 8) during half
time of the Reynolds/ Carver High School football game. The
game will take place at Deaton Thompson Stadium, 1401 W.
Clemmonsville Rd.
Teague's mother, Elaine Teague, is expected to be on hand,
as well as other members of the Teague family. Sandy Teague
was a member of the band during her days at Reynolds. The
school's band director. Ian Hargis, and band representatives are
expected to present a plaque to the Teague family and pl?y a
special half-time show in honor of Sandy Teague.
Magazine again says Wake good for blacks
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Wake Forest University
was named one of the top 50
colleges for African
Americans in the September
issue of Black Enterprise (BE)
magazine.
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Five
other
d o r I h
Carolina
col leges
made the
list - Duke
University,
North
Carolina
Central
University, Davidson College,
the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill and
North Carolina A&T State
University. A&T placed third
on the list, higher than any
other North Carolina school.
To come up with the rank
ings, the magazine surveyed
more than 500 African
Americans working in higher
education, including chancel
lors, presidents and directors
of student affairs about the
social and economic environ
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Wake Forest students enjoy class outdoors on a sunny day. ,
ment for African-Americans at
accredited four year colleges.
The rankings gave schools'
black student graduation rate
the most importance, followed
by academics and social envi
ronment. The magazine also
took i^ito account total black
undergraduate enrollment; the
percentage of black students
among all undergraduates, and
the schools' ..past Black
Enterprise rankings .
The article lists Wake
Forest, which is 22nd on the
list, as only having 249 black
students Out of 4,128 under
graduate students, but the uni
versity's black graduation rate
is a very high 89 percent.
Wake Forest also made the list
last time.
Martha Allman, Wake
Forest's director of admis
sions, said she hopes the arti
cle will help attract more
See Wake on A5
Gettin> Down
Phom by Pdeota McMillan
Alumni of Atkins High School take to the dance floor dur
ing a weekend reunion. Several Atkins classes took part in
the reunion. See page B 14 for more details.
In Grateful Memory of Our
Founders,
Carl H. Russell, Sr.