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Parkland .
gears up
for football
season
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Hunt
agency
honors
clients
Kin gather
for their
75th \
reunion !
Onward, Christian Students
Ministers
Conference
awards
scholarships
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE _
Anthony Speas gave up
football to concentrate on his
studies. A former reserve
quarterback at Parkland
Magnet High School, Speas,
who graduated in May, says
his love for the sport had to
take a back seat to his ambi
tious senior year.
"He let his goals for foot
ball go. I knew he was grow
ing up then," commented his
mother, Mary Speas.
When he first told his
friends he was quitting the
team, they didn't believe him,
Speas says.
They soon discovered just
how serious the aspiring
physician really was.
"It paid off," he related
with a grin. "I did better than
I did in all four years."
Speas' performance in the
classroom and dedication to
his studies paid off in other
ways too. He and five pther
students from the WS/FCS
system became the recipients
of Martin Luther King Jr.
Scholarships from the
Ministers Conference of
Photo by Lay la Farmer
Graduates pose with their parents and members of the Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem.
Winston-Salem and Vicinity.
The students - one of whom
was already away at her col
lege of choice - were honored
last Thursday with a special
ceremony at Mt. Zion Baptist
Church.
"Students need an oppor
tunity to go to college and to
better themselves," comment
ed Dr. Linda Beal, president
of the Ministers Conference.
"We wanted to give the schol
arships to the most deserving
people we could find."
In order to be eligible for
consideration for the $1000
awards, each student had to be
accepted to a historically
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Rising freshmen get a high school crash course
Photos by Lay la Fanner
m
A student
takes part in
a DNA lab
experiment at
Parkland ear
lier this week.
Right: Rising
freshman
Savon Rorie
stands in the
hallway at
Parkland.
Program designed to cut dropout rates
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
Dropout rates in this community and across the nation have
long been a topic of heated discussion and debate.
While the theories on why and how they w.i u, A ,
happen may vary and prevention efforts are
diverse, most experts can agree that low
graduation rates have a negative effect on
the economy and on society as a whole.
In the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
School System, Parkland High School's
6S.8 percent graduation rate is of particular
concern to school officials and the commu
nity, as it is the lowest in the system.
In an effort to derail the pattern of stu
dent failure, the YMCA of Northwest North
Carolina teamed up with Big Brothers / Big
Sisters and Family Services to implement a
unique program dubbed "Graduating Our Future." Funded by a
See Freshmen on All
Dr. Allen
Better
Late than
Never?
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Local doctors react
to AM A apology to
blacks
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
The American Medical
Association has boldly done
what few people or organiza
I tions are willing to do -
admitted they were wrong.
The association, which is
home to more than 250 ?00
practicing physicians across
the natipn, issued an apology
earlier this month for its role
in the perpetuation of segrega
tion and apatfay towards civil
rights issues that concerned
blacks.
African Americans were
barred from the association
until the late 1960's, accord
ing to reports.
"... the AM A failed, across ?
the span of a century, to live
up to the high standards that
define the noble profession of
medicine," writes immediate
Past President Dr. Ronald
Davis, in a recent issue of the
Journal of the American
Medical Association or
JAMA. "...These dishonor
able acts of omission and
commission reflected the
social mores and racial segre
gation that existed during
those times throughout much
of the United States. But that
context does not excuse them.
The medical profession, which
is based on a boundless
respect for human life, had an
obligation to lead society
Sac Apology on A4
HAWS building losses tenants
Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership and Center for Community Safety find new homes
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Two longtime tenants of the down
town Loewy Building on Fourth Street
have relocated.
The Downtown Winston-Salem
Partnership (DWSP) and the Winston
Salem State University Center for
Community Safety (CCS) have left the
Fourth Street building for other down
town locations.
Forsyth Economic Ventures, a non
profit subsidiary of the Housing
Authority of Winston-Salem (HAWS),
owns the building and wants the ground
level space that the two agencies occu
pied for showier clients that can draw
more business to the building, one of the
downtown's most historic. HAWS offices
o&upy the third and fourth floor of
Loewy, and other tenants include a law
office and financial service firms.
The leases were up for both the
Center for Community Safety and
DWSP. Both were offered other spaces in
the building, but the agencies declined.
"We offered them space in the interi
or of the building so we can bring in a
retail establishment or a business estab
lishment tnat would ennance tne ouuaing
or increase revenues and fit well within
the downtown corridor here," said Larry
Woods, the executive director of the
Housing Authority, which bought the
building six years ago.
The Downtown Winston-Salem
Partnership supports the effort to use its
former ipace for a more people-friendly
business. The goal of the non-profit
group is to promote downtown economic
development and revitalization. It active
ly recruits businesses the area, advocates
for existing businesses and produces
events like the downtown Summer Music
Series.
DWSP moved just last week. Its old
office is already filled by the local cam
paign of presidential hopeful Barack
Obama. That office is ortly temporary,
though. It will close after the November
election.
DWSP's new home is the Chatham
See Loewy on A9
nmn by Kevin Walkn
Bennie Williams helps decorate the windows of the new
Obama for President office in the Loewy Building.
In Memory of
Charlene
Russell Brown
"Growing and Still Dedicated to Serve You Better"
jRuggell Jfimeral ffiome
Wishes to Thank Everyone For Their Support
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