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THURSDAY, November 8, 2007
Giants of
the past
return
to WSSU
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School's
first nurses
return for
reunion
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Alphonso Chaplin raises his hands in praise.
Searching
for
Deliverance
'Street Life ' Conference again
strives to change lives
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Lisa Frasier is breaking free - in more ways than
one.
Released less than a month ago from prison for
drug possession, Frasier, 24, is facing an up hill bat
tle to turn her life around.
Frasier
"What I learned - you get
out of life what you put into
it," she declared. "If you're
out there willing to put forth
to an effort to get what you
want out of life, it will come."
Fraiser sought help wher
ever help was available,
including at a local agency
that helps former inmates and
the Darryl Hunt Project for
Freedom and Justice, which
also offers programs to the
formally incarcerated.
"I'm going back to school. I'm going to pursue
my GED," said Frasier, who has big dreams of one
day working in the real estate industry and helping
other young women out of similar predicaments.
Though she is optimistic about the direction her
life is taking. Fraiser knows she can't do it alone.
That's why she joined the throngs of others at the
See C2C on A12
Field (House) of Dreams
Winston-Salem State, city celebrate opening of $5 million building
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
ITT
Physically, it's the Taj Mahal
of field houses, with its spacious
21,000-square-feet and top-notch
amenities. But at last week's ded
ication for Winston-Salem State
University's new athletic facility
at Bowman Gray Stadium, it was
the symbolism of the $5 million
field house that made the
strongest impression.
Tlje field house, with its meet
ing rooms, athletic administrative
offices and immense weight and
locker rooms, is being viewed as a
sign of the new WSSU, a school
that is constantly emerging in
size, scope and national stature.
"It's a first-class building for a
Division 1, first-class program,"
said Robert Northington, a former
City Council Member who now
heads the Winston-Salem Public
Assembly Facilities Committee.
The city, which owns the 70
year-old stadium, picked up about
$1 million of the field house's
price tag. The rest of the bill was
picked up by WSSU, which has
nearly exclusive use of the stadi
um, although drag racing events
are held there part of the year.
City Council Member
Joycelyn Johnson said the city's
partnership with the university to
build the field house is something
that other cities should consider.
She plans to brag about thj col
laboration, and its glorious
results, at a National League of
Cities gathering next week in
WSSII FW>
Earline and Curtis Richardson dedicate the building's Hospitality Suite, which is named for the couple.
Also pictured is Chancellor Donald Reaves, left.
New Orleans.
"This is the best practice for
the country," she said.
Held in the midst of home
coming week, the outdoor dedica
tion ceremony drew hundreds of
students, alumni, city leaders and
community supporters on a nippy
Friday afternoon. After the cere
mony and the cutting of the cere
monial ribbon, attendees were
invited to tour the facility or take
part in three separate, indoor ded
ication ceremonies.
Three areas of the building
were named for alumni who not
only gave generously toward the
field house's construction, but
have dug deep into their pockets
for WSSU many times over the
years.
"If it hadn't been for Winston
Salem State, we would not have
been able to contribute anything,"
Earline Richardson, a 1971 gradu
ate. said, crediting her alma mater
See Field house on A15
Foster teens are raising
awareness of their plight
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
The Forsyth County Foster Home and
Adoption Services van was a new
addition to tnis year s winston
Salem State University
Homecoming Parade. The plain
white vehicle carried no waving
beauty queens or champion run
ning backs, just an important mes
sage - local teenagers are in great
need of loving foster homes.
The teens themselves volun
teered to personally deliver that
message to the thousands of people
that gathered along the parade
route Saturday. More than a dozen
young men and women walked alongside the
van, passing out bright red fliers to the masses
along Fourth Street and Martin Luther King Jr.
Drive. The fliers touted the Forsyth County
Department of Social Services' great need for
families willing to become foster-adopt
Burrell
resource families for the hundreds of young
people DSS takes in every year. Teenagers are
harder to place in foster care because most
families prefer younger children.
Carmelita Burrell - coordinator
of LINKS, a program that connects
teens in foster care with the
resources they need - came up with
the idea of promoting the foster care
division at the parade and many of
the youth in the LINKS program
wanted to help out. The teens also
carried a banner in the parade.
Burrell said the teens are one of
DSS' best recruiting resources.
"I tell them all the time 'You
have a voice, you have a voice to
speak and be heard' and that's what
I'm doing is empowering them to use their
voice," said Burrell.
The greatest need is for families willing to
take-in a teenager for a temporary foster stay.
See Foster teens on All
Photos by Todd Luck
Foster teen Lakreisha Morris hands out fliers.
Photo by Kevin Walker
Taylor
Dewberry
proudly wears
her Ms. Ebony
Fashion Fair
crown
Saturday dur
ing Winston
Salem State's
Homecoming
Parade. The
teen won the
title last Friday
and took home
prizes and
scholarship
money.
Style & Substance
Another new business comes to Corridor
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Liberty Community Development
Corporation is taking another step toward its
goal of bringing a brighter future to the
Liberty Street Corridor, a stretch of road that
runs from Smith Reynolds Airport into the
heart of downtown.
On Tuesday, the CDC will celebrate the
much-anticipated grand opening of a new
business along the corridor.
Oliver Enterprises has taken up resi
dence in a remodeled house in the 1700
block. The home is owned by Louis and
Verdie Morris and was in need of extensive
renovations. The condition of the house had
gotten so bad that the city had threatened to
level it, said Jim Shaw, the chairman on the
CDC's board.
The couple agreed to lease the house to
See CDC on A1S
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Lucious Oliver and Jim Shaw stand outside of the revamped home.
In Grateful Memory of Our
Founders,
Florrie S. Russell and
Carl H.Russell, Sr.
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