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A&T professorship honors Shirley Frye CHRONIC ! K STAFF RFKJRT An endowed professor ship honoring Shirley T. Frye has been established at her alma mater - North Carolina A&T State University. Frye is a well-known community organizer and the wife of former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry Frye. The Shirley T. Frye Distinguished Professorship in Urban Education was established through a $500,00(1 award funded by the C.D. Spangler Foundation's Challenge Grants program for the University of North Carolina System. The School of Education received * a $250,000 challenge grant from the foundation and a $250,000 match from the UNC Distinguished V Professorship Endowment Trust. Frye was chosen for her contributions as an alum and for her advocacy for excel lence in education. She start ed her professional career in Frye Greensboro as a public school teacher and briefly taught at Bennett College.' She served as an administra tor in the public and private sectors at ty.C. A&T and at WFMY TV. She is most known for her commitment to service and her involve ment in more than 100 local, state and national organiza tions. Frye is the recipient of 25 awards, "including the 1985 Governor's Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award. PtuHos by Layla Farmer Lou Baldwin receives his award from Center Case Manager Mary Hinton. Bethesda from page A J During last week's anniversary event, current Bethesda residents like Mary Holman talked about how the Center's programs have helped to change their lives. Holman said drug and alcohol addic tion rendered her to the streets. "I had been using for about 20 years, starting at the age of 13," she related, "...it led me to a life of being homeless." Holman has participated in various support groups at the Center. She calls the five months she has spent at Bethesda life changing. "I'm on the verge of receiving a voucher for (my own house)," she proudly related. "My dreams for the future are com ing true." Tonya Mack returner! to the Bethesda Center in 2006. "I'd been to Bethesda twice before, but I wasn't ready to change," Mack remarked. "When I came to Bethesda this time, I was ready and willing." Mack spent her days vol unteering around the Center and eventually became a staff member. Homelessness is now in her past. She has a two bed room apartment of her own. "Where I used to live, I now work," Mack related. "It's a great place for me because I know the people and I understand them." Anthony Williams, a mili tary veteran, ended up at Bethesda after he was laid off. He was able to sustain himself for a short time on his savings, he said, but when no other job materialized, he found himself homeless. "When I walked through the doors, my first thought was, 'Thank God. I don't have to sleep on the streets,"' he commented. Despite his dire circum stances, Williams says his time at the Center has given him Ryan hope. "Bethesda has given me a new outlook on life," he stated. "...I've made new friends here, but most of all, Bethesda has helped me in my spiritual growth. I was able to find ... a closer walk with God at this homeless shelter." The center has found per manent housing for nearly 60 chronically homeless people - those who have been on the streets for one year or more - in each of the last three years, a fact that Executive Director Mike Ryan is quite proud of. The Center, which opened a new wing last Hprpmlvr it; thriv < ing, despite waning I funding, he said. "We are doing more with less " he commented. The Center pre sented Beacon I Awards to those who contributed signifi cantly to its mission over the last year. uoier Memorial AME Zion Church and Lou Baldwin Jr., president of the BaldwinPproperty Management Co.. were the first-ever recipients of the awards, which the Center plans to present annually. Baldwin has worked close ly with the Center to help resi dents get adequate housing. He says he believes it is part of his moral obligation as proper ty manager. "Landlords and property managers in the community need to be part of the solution to this homelessness issue," Baldwin commented. "We need to be willing to open the doors and take a chance on some folks who might not oth erwise qualify for housing." Goler member Joyce Henry accepted the award on behalf of the church. "It has truly been a blessing for Goler to partner with the Bcthesda Center and the Ten Year Plan (to End Chronic Homelessness)," Henry said. "It's always a pleasure to know that ... you can be an asset to the people in the community." Forum from page ,K1 lone that people will get lair and equitable treatment." Cunningham, who was named chief about IS months ago, made it clear that he doesn't want to be judged by the Police Department's past sins, which include the high ly-publicized botched inves tigation of Darryl Hunt, a black man who spent nearly two decades in prison after cops erroneously fingered him as the killer and rapist of Deborah Sykes, a young, white woman. "I can't go back and fix issues that happened five years ago ... 10 years ago," said Cunningham. "Judge me by what I do and judge this Police Department by what it's doing today." The police chief told the dozens crammed into a small meeting room at the Gateway YWCA that he plans to make the Police Department mirror the racial diversity of the community by the time he retires - although he said later that he has no set retire ment-date yet. Progress is already being made in the city's longtime struggle to recruit more offi cers of color, Cunningham said. The latest class of 32 recruits is made up of mostly white men (18), but the num ber of blacks (five men and (7 rUCMi AMEI1IM Ph.*.? by Kevin Walker A member of the audience asks a question. one woman), and Hispanics (two men and one wpraan) are much better ths^n past classes. Cunningham added that in his 15 months on the job, 15 percent of all the minori ties and 14 percent of all the women currently oa the Police Department's payroll were hired. * Pauline Morris, the other forum panelist, compliment ed Cunningham for making some "N inroads in police/Hispanic relations. Morris, the head of the International Center at Forsyth Technical Community College, addressed issues key to the city's growing Hispanic com munity. She corrected one audience member who asked a question about "illegal" immigrants. "1 choose to call people undocumented immigrants," she said. Morris , dissuaded Hispanjcs from not partici pating in the 2010 Census. She said Jthere is talk among some of boycotting the gov ernment's population count as a way to protest the barri ers that some immigrants still face to receive some servic es. Garrity said the City of Winston-Salem's workforce is more diverse than ever, but that work still needs fo be done. The city still lacks racial diversity in its highest ranks and in departments such as Inspections, he said. Eversley said racial diver sity, or, a lack thereof, is only an issue because systemic racism - and comments such as the ones made by Keith - have created a negative image of minorities in the minds of white -peopje, who more often than not. are charged with deciding who will get hired. "It takes a lot of work for employers in this city to see people of color as human beings," said Eversley. TAKES THE PAPER OUT OF WORK Stay on top of your business cash flow with SunTrust Online Cash ManagerSM. Being able to manage your cash flow effectively is critical to the success of your business. 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