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SECCA hires Browning
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
(SECCA) has hired Patricia D. Browning as its new
director of Development and External Affairs. She
began her duties on Nov. 30.
SECCA Executive Director Mark Leach says, "Pat
Browning has proven leader
ship experience in the develop
ment arena on a national level,
and we're thrilled to have her
join our talented team. Her
expertise in the major gift area
along with her professional
background at the collegiate
level, will be of great value as
we invigorate our fundraising
efforts ahead of SECCA's 2010
reopening."
Browning, served as execu
tive director of The Ladies
Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Foundation in
Daytona Beach. Fla. Under Browning's tenure at The
LPGA Foundation, it received the Charity Navigator's
highest rating (four stars) for sound fiscal manage
ment.
Selected as the first executive director of The
LPGA Foundation in 2006. Browning's major accom
plishments included establishing and funding the
Dolores Hope LPGA Financial Assistance Initiative
Fund for people in the golf industry , increasing overall
funding for the Foundation's educational and scholar
ship programs and re-establishing the Foundation's
Board of Directors. (
Browning, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan
University, began her development career at Franklin
& Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., and served there
from 1991 to 2006. Browning's last position at
Franklin & Marshall was Senior Development Officer.
Museum of History in
Raleigh opens Barbie exhibit
The N.C. Museum of History opened the " Barbie
? Simply Fabulous at 50!" exhibit last week to com
memorate the half-century anniversary of the world's
most popular doll.
Beginning with a first-edition Barbie, this small
Mattel Image
One of the very first Barbie
dolls made by Mattel.
exhibit offers
glimpses of the his
tory and evolution
of the American
icon and business
phenomenon. A
variety of stylish
outfits, including
five shown in
Barbie's first TV
commercial in
1959, are on view,
along with her fab
friends, sports cars
and other items.
Additionally, the
exhibit features 16
personal and some
times hilarious
Barbie stories from
North Carolinians
across the state.
"Barbie ? Simply
Fabulous at 50!"
will run through
July 5. 2010. in Raleigh. Admission is free.
Since 1950, over one billion Barbie dolls repre
senting 50 nationalities have been sold in 150 coun
tries. For more information about the Museum of
History, call 919-807-7900 or access ncmuseumofhis
tory org or Facebook. The museum is located at 5 E.
Edenton St., across from the State Capitol.
USA Network honors teacher
Brian Jeffrey, a California high school teacher, has
received USA Network's first-ever Characters Unite
Award, an honor created to recognize an individual
who has made a significant and lasting difference in
efforts to fight prejudice, stereotyping and discrimina
tion. The award was pre
sented by "Psych" co-star
Dule' Hill at a special
luncheon on Wednesday,
Dec. 2, at the Newseum in
Washington, DC. It fol-'"
lowed the groundbreaking
Characters Unite National
Town Hall Meeting mod
erated by NBC News
Special Correspondent
Tom Brokaw.
As the recipient of the
first Characters Unite
Award, Jeffrey received a
$10, (XX) grant from USA
Network to donate to his
project or a related non
USA Network Photo
Brian Jeffrey
profit organization. Jeffrey
will also be featured on Charactersunite.com. Selected
from an incredible group of individuals, Jeffrey was
nominated for the award by the National Education
Association, one of the 20 Characters Unite NGO part
ners invited to submit nominations for this award.
Jeffrey. 47, an English teacher from Rancho
Cucamonga, co-founded a multiracial student club
called "Socially Together and Naturally Diverse" or
STAND as a positive way to bring students together to
celebrate their diversity and confront racism, sexism
and homophobia. Initially, STAND helped to quell ten
sions in LA in the wake of the 1992 race riots but
today, the clubs have spread to schools across the
country. In addition, he started a group called STAND
UP, which performs a play written by Jeffrey based on
the true life experiences of current and past members
of STAND.
Long-lost 'sisters'
reconnect
City rekindles cultural connection with Bucaranianga, Colombia
CHRONICLE STAFF RHPORT
Bucaramanga, Colombia, a thriving metropolitan city of F,2 12.657, has become Winston-Salem's
fifth "Sister City." joining Urigheni, Moldova; Kumasi, Ghana; Nassau, Bahamas; and the Yang Pu
district of Shanghai, China.
The Bucaramanga idea was initiated by
Mauricio Cote, a member of the Sister
Cities Winston-Salem board who is a
native of Bucaramanga. Winston
Salem and Bucaramanga origi
nally established a Sister City
relationship in 1967. The part
nership was put on hold in
1999, aftej a lack of activity
between the two cities.
In a letter to Mayor fl
Fernando Mendoza of I
Bucaramanga, Mayor I
Allen Joines noted that the I
two cities share similarities I
that present opportunities I
for cultural, educational, 1
technological and economic
exchanges.
"Because of our heavy
emphasis on preparing our
people for work in emerging
technologies, we are espe
cially interested in explor- ,
ing a partnership in the A
biotech industries," ^
Joines said.
Located in north
ern , Colombia, ^
Bucaramanga is home to 15
universities and has more than
160 parks, giving it the nickname
"City of Parks."
The city's Sister City partnerships are under the auspices of Sister Cities International, a non-prof
it organization dedicated to creating and strengthening partnerships between U.S. and international
communities.
Talent competition could net
local teen hundreds of dollars
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The next Omega Psi Phi Talent Hunt Contest will award $600 in prize money to local high school
students. The event will take place on Sunday, March 14, 2010 at Dillard Auditorium on the campus
File Pho<o
Omega Psi Phi members with two past Talent Hunt contestants.
of Winston-Salem State
University.
Students who want to
compete in the contest
should contact Emory Jones
at 336-655-1019 or via
email at
emoryjones 1 @hotmail .com
for an application.
Contestants must perform
semi-classical, classical or
Broadway music, and all
music must be memorized.
The first-place winner
will take home $300; the
second place prize is $200;
and the third-place finisher
wins $100.
The first-place winner
will also receive an all
expense paid trip to the fra
ternity s conclave in
Raleigh in July.
Jn addition, the first-place victor will be eligible to compete in the district competition in May in
Columbia, S. C.. where prize money totaling $3,200 will be split among the first-, second- and third
place winners.
Dr. Loren Schweninger
Online library
brings features
tales, documents
of forgotten slaves
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
The 1860 U.S. Census
registered the names of. slave
owners and the age, gender
and color of slaves. But there,
as in much of the historical
record, slaves are nameless.
The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro's new
Digital Library on American
Slavery
http://library.uncg.edu/slaver
y/ - provides the names of
more than 83,000 individual
slaves from 15 states and the
District of Columbia.
The database indexes peti
tions related to slavery filed
in county courts and state leg
islatures. The petitions cover
a wide range of legal issues,
including wills, divorce pro
ceedings, punishment of run
away slaves, calls for aboli
tion, property disputes and
more. The full tejit of the peti
tions is available on micro
film at many university
libraries.
"It's among the most spe
cific and detailed databases
and Web sites dealing with
slavery in the U.S. between
the Revolutionary War and
the Civil War," said Dr. Loren
Schweninger, the UNCG his
tory professor who directed
the collection of the petitions.
"There's no Web site like this,
either in extent or content.
The amount of information in
here to be mined is enor
mous."
Schweninger. the
Elizabeth Rosenthal
Excellence Professor in
History, led the Race and
Slavery Petitions Project, an
18-year effort to collect,
organize and publish the peti
tions that began in 1991. The
Digital Library on American
Slavery, created in coopera
tion with University Libraries
of UNCG, is the final phase of
the project.
A complete collection of
the full petitions, "Race,
Slavery, and Free Blacks:
Petitions to Southern
Legislatures and County
Courts, 1775-1867," has been
published on 151 reels of
microfilm. In addition to
UNCG's Jackson Library,
See Slavery on A9
Annual food-raising
conceit is on Dec. 17
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CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT "
For the 20th season, the Winston Salem Symphony will join with Sealy
and Fox 8 to present the annual Holiday Concert to benefit the Salvation
Army on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Joel Veterans
Griffey
Memorial Coliseum.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. The Winston
Salem Symphony Youth Philharmonic, under
the direction of Margaret Rehder, will present a
pre-concert program of holiday tunes at 6:30
p.m. Seating is on a first-come basis, and admis
sion is free with the donation of canned or non
perishable food items to benefit the Salvation
Army Food Bank.
Last year, the event, which also includes a
separate concert in Greensboro, generated more
than 400,000 cans of donated food. Though all
non-perishable donations are welcome, the
Salvation Army especially needs rice, beans,
cereal, pasta, peanut butter, bottled fruit juice.
diapers, infant formula and canned food of any
kind.
The concert - known for providing family entertainment with sacred
and secular holiday music - will be led by assistant conductor Matthew
Troy. There will be guest appearances by the Winston-Salem Symphony
Chorale, the Central Carolina Children's Chorus, Fox 8 news anchors Nfill
McNeill and Julie Luck, WMAG's Bill Flynn, gymnasts from Salem
Gymnastics and a special appearance by acclaimed operatic tenor Anthony
Dean Griffey.
The Season of Sade
PRNewsFoto/Epic Records
Popular British singer Sade released her first new
single, "Soldier Of Love," in nearly a decade on
Tuesday. The song, which is from a CD of the same
name, debuted on www.sade.com. The new CD is slat
ed for release on Feb. 8. It will be her first disc since
the multi-platinum "Lovers Rock" in 2000.