The Chronicle
takes home five
national awards
Paper faced much larger competitors
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The Chronicle received five awards for journalism excel
lence last week from the National Newspaper Publishers
Association, a federation of more than 2(K) black-owned
Layla Farmer
Anthony Hill
newspapers. I he group held its annual
Merit Award competition during a con
vention in Minneapolis. Minn.
The Chronicle took home three
first-place awards in the Best Use of
Photographs. Best Special Edition and
Best Feature Story categories. The
paper also won a second-place honor
in the Best Sports Section category
and a third-place award for Best
Business Section.
The Best Feature Story award went
to Chronicle Reporter Lay la Farmer
ior ner siory on enevara Urrtn. a local
woiman who was molested as a child
by her father, the noted Civil Rights
leader James Bevel. The Best Special
Edition award was for The Chronicle's
tabloid and news coverage honoring
Dr. Maya Angelou on her 8()th birth
day last year. Both Farmer's story and
the Angelou special addition also won
first-place awards earlier this year
from the N.C. Press Association. The
Best Sports Section went to Anthony
Hill, The Chronicle's former sports
editor.
" I he Mejrit Awards are always a
tough competition, especially for u,s because we are compet
ing with papers based m much larger markets like Los
Angeles. Philadelphia. St. Louis and Chicago," said T. Kevin
Walker. The Chronicle's managing editor. "When we put out
the best product that we can each week, our goal is never to
win awards, but it feels good to all of us to be recognized for
our efforts."
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over his father, trying to per
form mouth-to-mouth and
CPR She sprang into action,
taking over the CPR and call
ing 9-1-1, but Rodney Boyce
was already gone. The family
later learned that he had died
of a heart condition that even
he was unaware of.
In the months since
Rodney's passing, Lysa and
Isaac Boyce have struggled to
pick up the pieces of their
lives. Lysa Boyce says she
Rodney Boyce
has otten
reflected
on the
skills her
husband
had
taught
Isaac,
never
knowing
he would
need to
use them
so soon.
Father and son were close,
she- said.
They enjoyed cooking break
fast for her in the mornings
and playing all sorts of imagi
native games.
"Me and my daddy used to
come up with good imagina
tions," said Isaac, who will
start kindergarten in the fall.
"He was fun and he liked to
do things with me."
Paramedics was a favorite
game of theirs, Lysa said. Fn
the game, Rodney and Isaac
had often practiced perform
ing life saving measures like
?PR and mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation on each other.
"Isaac was in the hospital
when he was little due to (an
illness), and then he had a ton
sillectomy when he was three,
so he just got really fascinated
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Isaac with his mother, Lysa.
with the medical (proce
dures)," she explained.
Rodney and Isaac
befriended the firemen who
came to the apartment com
plex where the family lived
on calls and routine checkups.
They had visited several fire
houses together. Isaac col
lected stickers from each fire
station which he placed on his
little firemen's hat. one of his
most prized possessions.
"We had to get a new hat,"
his mother said, relaying the
frequency of their visits.
The collection of toy
firetrucks and rescue vehicles
in Isaac's. room also mounted
over the years, Lysa says,
"If his dad saw a bigger
firetruck (in the store), il was
his," she related.
Lysa says the couple
-Relieved their son V-faseina
tion with emergency profes
sions was more than just a
passing phase, yet she never
imagined that her young son
would act so courageously in
Isaac shows off his medal.
the face of a real emergency .
"I never in a million years
dreamed that any of this
would happen," she said.
Isaac was honored for his
heroism earlier this month at
his daycare, the Sunshine
House. Forsyih Count j
Manager Dudley Watts,
Forsyth County EMS Director
Dan OzLmek and Compliance
Officer Rodney Overman pre
sented Isaac with the first -
ever Forsyth County EMS
Hero Medal, complete with an
Honorary FCEMS Paramedic
certificate and a FCEMSvJuii
with his name embroidered on
it. " '???* . i,-..';."
The ceremony was bitter
sweet for his grieving mother,
but she says she is proud ot
what Isaac did. >
"I think in a way it was
God's plan for him to he the
one to find (Rodney (because
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making him a stronger person:
for the actions he instanta
neously took." she said. "One
day, he's going to realize what
a significance it was that he
just instantaneously /jumped
into action and was not
scared."
Carver
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nice achievement gains this
yeaf across the board," he
said. I hope that will be
sustained in this next school
year."
The Carver Road
Network for Better
Education has supported the
school throughout its ups
and downs. The Rev.
Samuel Stevenson, president
of the Network, says he was
glad to see someone of
Barber's caliber tapped to
take over at the school.
"I've seen him -mostly in
church settings," said
Stevenson, who serves as
pastor of Grace Presbyterian
Chuch. "I know something
about his good work as prin
cipaf, (because) that's been
in the news the last few
years. What I know has been
good, and I've had a very
good impression of him in
our personal meetings and
sessions."
Barber will have his
"work cut out for him" at
Carver; Stevenson says, but
the Network will support
him in any way it can.
Stevenson says he is hopeful
that Barber will be as suc
cessful at Carver as he was
at North Hills.
"I like what he has been
able to do-where he has
been," he commented.
Rev. Stevenson
Piggolt-Long
".,.My hope is that we will
see some new life at Carver
High School, and not just
within that immediate com
munity - something that will
be of notice here in Winston
Salem and beyond."
Barber has been with the
school system for nearly 35
years, beginning as a teacher
at Anderson High School in
the 1970s. The 59 year-old
Winston-Salem native says
he had thought very serious
ly about retiring at the end
of the 2008-09 academic
year, but concluded that he
couldn't bear to leave his
life as an educator and
administrator behind just
yet.
"I'm committed to young
people and it's something
that I enjoy doing," he
remarked.
After more than a decade
in elementary education,
making the move back to his
high school roots will take
some adjusting. Barber said.
"I think it's going to be a
huge challenge," he com
mented. "...I'm sure that
there will be some adjust
ments that I will have to
make; but it's something that
I'm looking forward to."
Tackling test scores will
be among his top priorities.
Barber said.
"My desire is to see the
school grow as much as it
can. It makes me feel good
when young people come
through and they're able to
get the education that they
deserve and ... go on to
become productive members
of society. That's what I'm
looking for," he said. "My
hope is that it will be a great
marriage between Carver
and myself."
Carver PTA President
Fele^ia Piggott-Long, who
is a community correspon
dent for The Chronicle and a
teacher at Carver, says she's
pleased with Barber's
appointment.
"1 do know Mr, Barber,"
she said. "1 know he's a
man of great professional
ism and has great concern
for our children in the com
munity. He's very involved
in the community, so I look
I
forward to working with
him. His reputation pre
cedes him."
Three other principals
were also appointed last
week by the School Board.
Donna Horton, the former
principal of Meadowbrook
Alternative School in King,
will take over as principal of
Carter Vocational High
School next year. Sharon
Abercrombie. who formerly
served as principal of the
Performance Learning
Center in Concord, will be
the new principal of the
Forsyth Middle College pro
gram at Forsyth Tech: and
Ed Weiss will make the
switch from Wiley Middle to
Mount Tabor High School.
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nies doing business in the
U.S. by phone to promise a
loan or ask you to pay for it
before they deliver.
or advance fees, as a condi
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employment cases. He has served
the NCBA as a member of its
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of the Audit and Finance,
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committees.
Wester is a Fellow of the
American College of Trial
Lawyers and the American Bar
Foundation.
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was placed in nomination by Janet
Ward Black, immediate past presi
dent of the NCBA and chair of the
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Morant. dean of the Wake Forest University
School of Law.
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