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students rose 17 percent
and there was a ISO percent
increase in fundraising.
She served as president and
CEO of The Freeman Group,
Inc.. a consulting group, after
parting ways with Livingstone.
As the founder of The Freeman
Group, Inc.. she has provided
contractual consulting services
for various organizations since
2004. including serving as a
senior fellow at the University
of Maryland Eastern Shore,
providing fundraising consul
tation for a $14 million capital
campaign.
"I am honored to have been
chosen to lead this historic
institution," Dr. Freeman said.
"It is a rare opportunity in the
2 1 st century to succeed the
founder of a university."
Freeman recently served as
the vice president of develop
ment at the Foundation for
Independent Higher Education,
an organization representing
650 private colleges and uni
versities and 36 fundraising
organizations. She also found
ed and served as program
director for the Kellogg
Collegiate Women of Color
Leadership Development
Institute.
Freeman has served in
many leadership positions at
<_ Norfolk State University,
Southern California College
and Orange Coast College,
both in Costa Mesa, Calif;
Morgan State University, East
Tennessee State University and
North Carolina A&T State
University.
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iDunston is WSSU's first Bunche Society Member to study abroad
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Winston-Salem State University
Ralph Bunche Society (RBS) scholar
Antoinette Dunston has received a
$5,000 scholarship from the Ralph
Stokes Fund to study in France next
semester.
Dunston is a junior Marketing
major with a minor in French from
Townsville, N.C. She currently has a
cumulative 3.4 GPA. This experience
abroad will be Dunston 's third, but
this will be her first experience
abroad as a Ralph Bunche Society
Scholar.
Dunston's first study abroad expe
rience was the summer of 2006 in
Chambery, France. Her second was
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Antoinette Dunston
last summer in Benin and Ghana. She
will spend the spring 2008 semester at
the University d'Angers in Angers,
France. She will there Jan. 14 - May
26.
'I will be studying French tq com
plete my French minor. Because of
my scholarship from the Phelps
Stokes Fund, I don't have any out-of
pocket expenses,' said Dunston. "I am
very grateful for the opportunity to
study abroad again and for the schol
arships that I have received."
Dunston said after she graduates
she plans to join the Peace Corps and
hopefully return to Africa to help out
in any way she can. After her tour in
the Peace Corps, Dunston said she
hopes to land a position within the
government, but if that does not work
out, she wants to return to France to
teach English.
All of Dunston's trips have been
coordinated through WSSU's Office
of International Programs.
Named for one of the nation's
most important proponents of interna
tional understanding and cooperation
and the first person of color to win the
Nobel Peace Prize, the Ralph Bunche
Society is designed to cultivate stu
dents' global citizenship, foreign lan
guage skills, and Bunche's values as
an internationalist. WSSU is the first
university in the nation to serve as a
host site for a pilot program named in
Bunche's honor.
Hum-hells
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Winston-Salem lo the new
home in Clemmons' posh
Waterford community.
The family moved from
Washington, DC. two years
ago and says that the incident
was their first brush with
racially-motivated crime.
"I've never been the victim
of any type of crime, living in
the inner city, so moving to
the suburbs, it was a shock
that it would happen out
here," said Victoria Hanchell.
a native of Chicago who
serves as assistant director in
the Office of Undergraduate
Admissions at Winston-Salem
State University.
Even Binford, who hails
from a generation that was far
more accustomed to such
atrocities, says that she had
never experienced such a
thing.
The incident also came as
a surprise to Major F. Brad
Stanley, media liaison officer
for the Forsyth County
Sheriff's Department, who
says he has only seen a hand
ful of racially-motivated
crimes occur in the county
over the course of his 15-year
career.
Stanley visited the
Hanchell home last Thursday.
"It appears that this is an
isolated incident," he com
mented, adding that technical
ly, the crime would be classi
fied as vandalism since prop
erty was damaged. "We've
The Rev. Tejado Hanchell with his wife , Victoria, their daughter, Zaria, and Victoria HanchelVs mother, Cheryl Binford, stand
outside of the family's home in the Yi ate r ford community of Clemmons.
not had any similar incidents
reported up in that area."
With the exception of the
incident, the Hanchells say
they have been greeted warm
ly by local residents.
"I've been in the commu
nity and had experienced no
problems," Rev. Hanchell
said. "Even when we moved
to this community, our neigh
bors ... welcomed us."
Although the Sheriff's
Department doesn't anticipate
any further incidents, they are
taking every precaution,
Stanley says. ?
"What we have done in the
interim is increased our visi
bility in the neighborhood and
in the Village of Clemmons,"
he revealed. "(The Village
has) taken this very seriously
as well and have actually
hired some additional officers
to be in the area at different
times since this incident."
An investigation is cur
rently underway.
Despite the menacing tone
of the incident, the family
says they are not completely
unnerved and that it is busi
ness as usual in their house-'
hold.
"We take proper precau
tions, but we're not afraid,"
the reverend said. "Because
we're people of faith, we have
that peace that only God can
grant in the middle of a situa
tion like this.
"We refuse to allow the
actions of a small segment of
society to cause us to change
our way of life, to cause us to
change our outlook, even dur
ing the holiday season," he
added. "This will not steal our
joy or make us feel any less
than."
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