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A Student and A Soldier
High schoolers taking advantage of program that allows them to complete Army training
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Private First Class Quinten Mims
is the newest member of the Army
Reserves, having graduated from
basic training this summer. But after
-that, he returned to another type of
?training: classes at Atkins High
School.
Mims; 17, is one of many high
school students taking advantage of
a program that allows them to com
plete military basic training between
their junior and senior years. He did
the split option training, which
allowed him to either join the Army
National Guard or Reserves.
This year, nearly 4,000 high
school students who enlisted in the
Army Reserves came through split
option training. Once Mims gradu
ates from Atkins next year, he'll
spend his summer doing Advanced
Individual Training in his specialty
before attending college in the fall.
Sgt. 1st Class Lillian Acevedo,
station commander for the local
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Photo by Todd Luck
Pfc. Quinten Mints attends the new Atkins High School.
Army recruiting station, says the
option is very popular among high
school students.
"Most of them already have it in
mind that they want to be in the mil
itary as a career option, and they see
this as a way of getting in their
quicker," said Acevedo. s
Normally basic training is done
back-to-back with Advanced
Individual Training. Those who wait
until after high school graduation to
begin training often find that it lasts
into the fall, causing them to start
college late.
Mims trained at Fort Jackson,
S.C., where he was an honor gradu
ate. His goal is be a doctor in the
Army. Taking the biotechnology
tract at Atkins, a magnet school that
focuses on science and technology,
got him interested in medicine. He
said the Army Reserves was a good
way to see if the Army was right for
him. Mims said after boot camp, he
was sure he made the right choice.
"When you go to basic, it's a
whole different thing than What you
see in the movies and what other
people tell you," he said. "It helped
me really narrow my decision down
to 'Ok, this is what I really want to
See Mims on A9
Future of MLK Drive debated
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
The room was abuzz with
creativity Monday night as
profession
al archi
t e c t s ,
designers
and every
day folks
put their
heads
together to
dream big.
The
o
Davis
Community Concept
Charrette drew more than 75
local residents to United
Metropolitan Missionary
Baptist Church. A charrette
(shu-ret) is a fancy name for
an "intense creative ses
sion." The intent of the
meeting was to gain insight
and ideas about the future of
a key area of East Winston
from the people who live,
work and play in the commu
nity every day.
Groups crowded around
tables with large aerial maps
spread before them. They
pointed and gestured and
spiritedly debated the pros
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Albert Porter, Jane Milner and James Grace (all standing) survey a map.
Photo by Layla Fanner
Jimmy Boyd
NAACP
to be led
by Boyd
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
A retired Winston-Salem
Police Department sergeant
has been elected as the next
president of the Winston
Salem Chapter of the NAACP.
Jimmy Boyd, 59, is a well
known local resident. Besides
his years on the police force,
in 2005, he narrowly lost a
seat on the Winston-Salem
City
Council.
It was
Boyd who
was the
victor in
the recent
N A A C P
election .
He beat
r-> f
Diana
Williams
Hairston
Cotton, the only other con
tender for the seat. He will be
officially sworn in at the
chapter's first meeting in
January 2009.
Boyd, owner of Boyd Bail
Bonding Company, succeeds
outgoing President Stephen
Hairston. Hairston, also a for
mer member of the WSPD,
has led the organization since
2000.
"In a way, I'm sad because
I believe I just started putting
my feet in some solid contacts
in the city," Hairston related
in an interview with The
See NAACP on A?
You Go Girl!
Photo by Kevin Walker
"Miss Pam," the owner of Dance with Me Studios, shows that age
is nothing but a number as she shimmies her way down Liberty
Street during Saturday's Christmas Parade. The crowd responded
to her enthusiasm with loud applause and cheers. Read more
about the parade on page B8.
Ready to Rumble
American Indian heroine taking on the US. government
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Elouise Cobell, an American
Indian activist and lead plaintiff in the
biggest class action lawsuit in U.S.
history, shared her story at the Wake
Forest University School of Law last
Thursday.
Cobell sued the U.S. Government
in 1996 over alleged mismanagement
of trust accounts it holds for American
Indians. In the late 1800s, American
Indians were granted land by the fed
eral government. According to the law
at the time. American Indians were
incompetent, so the government
became the trustee of the land - man
aging it and then giving the revenue
generated by the land to its American
Indian owners. But owners say they
have received little or nothing.
See Cobell on A4
Photo by Todd Luck
Elouise Cobell speaks at Wake F orest University.
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