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Careers Briefs Cops honoring ALE official The Greensboro Police Department is award ng the Greensboro Meritorious Conduct Bar to Alan Fields, assistant drector of North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement, during the annual Police Citizens Appreciation dnner May 17. r>* t i 1 ? j rieitK, wno was nominaieu for the award by Greensboro Police Capt. Richard Whisenant, is being honored for his work in closing a nui sance hotel, the Greensboro Inn of 135 Summit Ave. The establishment was the source of 4,000 calls for service and self initiated police activity since 1990. A settlement agreement was reached specifying that the hotel, which operated for more than a quarter of a century, is set to dose June 1. A restriction will be recorded against the property that pro vents it from being used for residential purposes. Greensboro police said the hotel has been a haven for a criminal subculture with dug sales and prostitution going unabated by management and staff. When the police department had exhausted its efforts working with the owners and managers, they asked for assistance from k the ALE. Field; has successfully assisted various North Carolina communities in more than 100 nuisance-relat ed investigations, indudng the dosing of a Greensboro nuisance nightclub at 510 Farragut St. in 2010. NACADA picks two from A&T for award ^ North Carolina A&T State University associate phi losophy professor Karen L. Homsby and lecturer Juanita Painter have been sdectedas outstandng advisors by the National Acadbmic Advising Assotiation (NACADA). Painter and Homsby were awarded the Outstandng Primary Advisor and Outstandng Faculty Advisor hon ors, respectivdy, at the NACA DA Region ID conference in Charlotte April 12-14. Painter was named Center for Academic Excellence Advisor of the Year 2011-12 and the New Directions Center Teacher of the Year 2003-04. She is in Academic Advisor within the Student-Athlete Academic Enhancement Program (SAAEP) in the Center for Academic Excellence. she advises new freshmen, transfer aid new continuing students for Aggie Football and all students on the men's and women's basketball teams. Homsby was named Advisor of the Year for the 2010-11 school year by the Center for Academic Excellence at N.C. A&T. She has also been named a Teagle Assessment Scholar in 2010, which enables her to collaborate with faculty, staff and students to improve student learning. Homsby has also been published in several scholarly publications and presented at several conferences and colloqiia presentations. Hagan happy with plan to keep post offices open U.S. Senator Kay R. Hag an is applaudng the plan announced last week by United States Postal Service (USPS) that would allow 234 rural post offices in North Carolina to remain open. "This is great news for rural communities around our state," Hag an said. 'I've fought to keep rural post offices open because they provide crucial economic and social benefits to the community. I'm pleased that the voices of residents in these communities have been heard." Hag an wrote a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahue last summer urging him to delay dosing post offices until North Caohna residents could voice their concerns. A 2011 Commerce Department report shows that mote than 30 percent of U.S. household dd not have broadband Internet access at home. Postal mail remains the one universal service connecting North Carolinians to commerce, government, news and sodal and dvic institutions. Edney new Club president Award-winning journalist Hazel Trice Ediey, ed tor-in-chief of the Trice Ediey News Wire and President/CEO of Trice Ediey Communications LLC, has been elected presi dent of the historic Capital Press Club in Washington, DC. Echey, the former ed tor in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and BlackPressUSA.com, was elected by the CPC board on April 19. It was 68 years ago that the Capital Press Club was ??i ? *i? i csiauiiMicu as uic naiiuiiai | Press Club refused to accept African-American mem bers. As it approaches its 70th Anniversary in two years. The Capital Press Club exists to unite commu nications professionals of color through professional development, networking, new business opportuni ties and entrepreneurship^and issues advocacy. Hornsby Ednty Several promoted at WSPD CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Police Chief Scott Cunningham has promoted Captains Alonzo Thompson and David C. Clayton to assistant police chief. Thompson will oversee the Field Services Bureau, which includes department patrol activities. He is a 28-year veter an of the Police Department and has served in the Field Services, Investigative Services and Support Services bureaus and the Office of the Chief of Police. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. He is mar ried and has two chilcken. Alonzo Thompson Clayton will oversee the Support Services Bureau. He is a 28-year veteran of the depart ment and has served in the Field Services and Investigative Services bureaus. He has a bachelor's degree from John Wesley College. In 1988, he David C. Clayton was selected as Police Officer of the Year, and the Winston Salem City Employee of the Year in 1998. He is married and has two adult children. Also, Scott G. Bricker, Mitchell B. Masencup and Wilson S. Weaver were promot ed to captains; Christa L. Long, John A. Craig and Steven D. Osborne were promoted to lieu tenant: L. Scott Wright, Michael R. Fleming, Matthew J, Mulgrew and Timothy S. Mabe were promoted to ser geant: Tameshia N. Branch, Mariya M. Brewer and Bonnie S. Roberts were promoted to crime scene supervisor; and Marsha K. Higgins was pro moted to crime analyst. Legette earns UNC Award CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Dr. Lee David Legette, professor of music in the Department of Fine Arts at Winston-Salem State University, has been awarded the 2012 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. Each school in the UNC system picks a respected educator for the honor each year. The award, the highest honor for superior teaching offered by the j UNC system, was established in 1993 by the UNC Board of Governors. Legette has been a valued member of the WSSU academic community for more than 21 years, serv ing as a fac ulty mem ber, scholar and commu nity servant. He was rec o g n i z e d Saturday dur ing WSSU's graduation exercise by a UNC Board of Governors member, who presented him with an engraved bronze medallion and a stipend check for $7,500. Dr. Legette's strengths were sum marized, including his immense peda gogical skills, thorough knowledge of instrumental music techniques, knowl edge of jazz/wind band music and saxo phone performance skills. He has also been described as an individual of great personal and professional integrity, who is loyal to students, the University and the community. In addition to teaching and advising students, Legette serves on numerous University committees and is well regarded in the Winston-Salem commu nity as a musical performer, composer and arranger with original copyrighted material. He earned his P.h.D in music education and certificate in com puters in music from Florida State University, a M.A. in music education from the University of Iowa, and B.S. in music education from Fayetteville State University. Lee David Legette \ Rev. William Barber II speaks. NCCU Photos Soul or our nation is on trial, Barber tells NCCU grads SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE , North Carolina Central University awarded bachelor's degrees to 536 students on Saturday, May 12 during commencement ceremonies at its O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium. But before the graduates walked across the stage to collect their diplomas, they were rous innli; oh ol 1 on Ktr the Rev. William Barber II to engage in the never-ending fight for social justice. Barber, a 1985 gradu ate of NCCU and the president of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, brought the crowd to its feet with an addkess that recalled the messages and the cadences of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. You live at a turning point in his tory," Barber said. "These are tough times, trou bling times. We see mean and oppressive poli tics taking us in the wrong direction. Why are you here? Because there's a God who has to raise a counterforce to injustice." Barber noted that he had recently concluded the statewide "Putting a Face on Poverty Tour," ckawing attention to the continuing reality that 1.6 million state residents ? including 600,000 children ? 4iVe below the poverty line. "We found human beings living under bridges and in the woods," he said. "We have seen poverty that makes you sick and ashamed "The soul of our nation is on trial," Barber continued "If our values are right and our budg ets are just, we can build a better society. We can put the poor at the center of our public pol icy agenda. We can reject hate and division. We can finish the job of being, in word and deed one nation under God with liberty and justice for all." KT/~,rM T Charlie Nelms present ed Barber with an hon orary Doctor of Humane Letters degree and citation "in recog nition of his tireless service to society as a warrior for justice and social change and a speaker of truth to power." As has become his custom at commence ment ceremonies, Nelms publicly recog nized a few of the grad uates for their accom plishments and their success in overcoming obstacles. He praised LaSaunda Maynor, who graduat ed cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health Education. A mother of three, she was encouraging her eldest daughter to plan for college when her daughter uiged her to do the same. So Maynor enrolled at NCCU, taking her classes and completing internships while . continuing to work five 12-hour shifts a week as a nursing staff specialist at Durham Regional Hospital. He also praised Alejandro Espitia as "an exemplar of the phrase student-athlete." Espitia, a native of Bogota, Colombia, graduated See NCCU on A6 Honor grad Alejandro Espitia (center). Thread that Binds DCCC Photo Freelove Coleman (left) of Thomasville is pinned by Davidson County Community College English Instructor Susan Scarboro last week during a red thread pinning ceremony on May 4. The pins, Scarboro said, symbolize the thread that will always connect graduates with the college and their instructors. The Lexington-based DCCC graduated 727 students on Saturday, May 12 in front of the Mendenhall Building on the Davidson Campus. Professor: Emotional bullies cause coworkers undue stress CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT School childen aren't the only ones dealing with bullying, aooording to a noted Triad professor and work place trends specialist. Miller Lucky says that tens of millions of adkilts are dealing with "emotional bullies" at work each day. Companies are losing millions of dollars each year because the emo tional bullies are causing undue men tal illness and low productivity among their coworkers. Simply, employees get stressed, avoid going to work, literally developing sick nesses, or are not focused on per forming their jobs due to workplace bullying, believes Lucky, a human communications researcher, creative engineer and associate professor at North Carolina A&T State university. "Like many Americans, I've been a victim of workplace bullying for over 12 of the 20 years since being at my current job. However, I used my experiences as research and development for positive solutions to the See Lucky on A6 Lucky
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