Folks who care given WSF awards
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Six individuals and one ,
organization were honored for
their service to the communi
ty last week at the Winston
Salem -Foundation's Annual
Conynunity Luncheon at the
Bentoa Convention Center.
Lawyers Amy Kuhlman
and Penny Spry took home
the foundation^ highest
honor the Winston-Salem
Foundation Award - for
building social capital
through the work of their non
profit, The Children's Law
Center of Central North
Carolina.
"This honor is at once
humbling and exhilarating for
us," commented Spry. "It is
over the top for us because
we've been under the radar
for so long."
The two women founded
the Children's Center in 2005,
as a way of filling a grievous
void they encountered while
working as attorneys for
Legal Aid.
"We ... realized that if
Legal Aid had served one of
the parents, they could not
also serve the .child ... It's a
conflict of interest," Spry
explained. "The judges were
allowed to appoint the
Guardians ad Litem but there
were no guardians so we start
ed to take on the cases."
The center utilizes more
than 30 volunteers and advo
cates for children in situations
of abuse, neglect, domestic
violence or other highly
volatile areas.
"We have a little bit of
everything right now, but it's
working - we're not letting
any kiddos fall through the
cracks," Spry said.
Kuhlman began her career
as a tax attorney but says
becoming a mother changed
her priorities greatly.
"I get fired up whenever I
think about children that have
a need," she said. "I had the
opportunity to get a law
degree and have a wonderful
education; I feel this is the
best use of it."
Spry and Kuhlman were
also awarded a $10,000 grant
from the foundation to desig
nate for the nonprofit of their
choosing. Not surprisingly,
they chose The Children's
Law Center.
"We don't do this for the
honors and the accolades; we
do this because we're driven
by the children," Kuhlman
said.
Andrea Angelo, the Rev.
Willard Bass, Katherine
Foster, Chevara Orrin and the
West Salem Neighborhood
Association all took home
2008 ECHO Awards, which
have been presented ' jointly
by the ECHO (Everyone Can
Help Out) Council and the
Winston-Salem Foundation
for the past three years.
ECHO was formed as a result
of the Foundation's longtime
effort to build local "social
capital," or stronger commu
nity ties among residents.
Angelo was recognized for
her work as the Advocacy and
Business Liaison for the
Winston-Salem chapter of
PFLAG (Parents, Families
and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays).
"I'm incredibly flattered,"
she said. "It just feels good to
know that the work you do in
the community is valued by
somebody totally unrelated to
what your work is." ,
Bass, a minister at Green
Street United Methodist
Church, is founder of the
Institute for Dismantling
Racism (IDR), which works
with individuals and organi
zations to break down racial
barriers through honest dia
logue and education.
"Our greatest contribution
to the community has been
the awareness that we can talk
about racism in a way that's
not demeaning, that's not
embarrassing, that's not
shaming, but in a way that
embraces people and chal-.
lenges us and brings us to a
point where we can do some
thing about it," he comment
ed. "I'm receiving this award
in the name of all of those
individuals and institutions
who have come to the table
and acknowledged that it's
important to them."
Foster is director of the
Shalom Project, which com
bats socioeconomic and
health disparities in the West
Salem community, where it is
housed, and throughout
Winston-Salem,
"Learning how to start up
a new nonprofit is really diffi
cult, but the ministry is such a
strong one that we've been
Provost named to
national committee
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Dr. David H. Perrin, who is
; provost at The University of
1 North Carolina at Greensboro,
has been named to a three-year
appointment on a national com
mittee of the US. Department of
Health and Human Services.
Perrin will serve on the 21
member Advisory Committee on
Interdisciplinary, Community
Based Linkages of the Human
Resources and Services
Administration, and will repre
sent the
allied
health
area.
The
commit
tee was
created
b y
Congress
to review
programs Perrin
that sup
port interdisciplinary, communi
ty-based training as part of the
, goals of the Health Resources
| and Services administration and
the Bureau of Health Professions.
It advises the Secretary of HHS
and Congress on programs con
cerning Area Health Education
Centers, Health Education
Training Centers, and the
Burdick Program for Rural
Interdisciplinary Training, and
programs in geriatrics, allied
health, chiropractic, and podiatric
medicine. The theme for this
year's 8th annual report is
"Healthcare Workforce Issues in
Rural America."
He is completing his first
year as provost at UNCG, after
serving as dean of the School of
Health & Human Performance
from 2001 to July 1,2007.
Perrin has an extensive publi
cation record in peer-reviewed
journals spanning almost 30
years. He has published six
books and is editor of the Athletic
Training Education Series.
Photos by Bcrnie Carpenter/WSF
Winners Andrea Angelo,frbm left, the Rev. Willard pass, Katherine Foster, West Salem Neighborhood Association President
Steven Shafer and Chevara Orrin.
WSF Executive Director Scott Wierman with Amy Kuhlman, Penny Spry and WSF Board
Chair Paul Wiles.
able to attract some really
great board members and
financial support," she said of
the nonprofit, which was
founded by Green Street
Church last year. "We've
really been blessed."
WhiteSpace Gallery
owner Chevara Orrin has
resolved to promote unity in
the Winston-Salem communi
ty by hosting dialogues about
issues such as race relations
and AIDS and events that
draw a diverse audience.
"When you come to events
at our gallery you see all seg
ments of the community," she
said. "I am so proud of that
because I do look around in
this community and still see
too much segregation; I see
too much separation."
Karen Johnson, the direc
tor of the Charles M. Schulz
Museum in Santa Rosa,
Calif., gave the keynote
address at last week's awards
luncheon. All the winners
were nominated by local resi
dents who felt that their con
tributions deserved special
recognition.
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