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Walker appointed to NCAA Membership Committee SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE , Winston-Salem State University Associate Director of Athletics and Senior Women's Administrator Tonia Walker has been appointed as a member of the NCAA Division n Membership Committee. The Committee is com prised of nine members who hail from schools across the country. Committee members are required to attend multiple meetings each year where they review and consider issues per taining to the Division II membership retirements and compliance issues, as well as eckicate provisional and reclas sifying members. Walker's term of service on the committee will begin Sept. 1 and will continue through Sept. I, 2016. "I'm extremely humbled and excited to have the oppor tunity to serve on the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. Having been a part of the athletic adninistra tion which led Winston-Salem State University - through its Division ? reclassification, I certainly believe that my expe riences will be helpftil and insightful to this endeavor," Walker said. "I look forward to the opportunity of representing both WSSU and the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and take very seri ously the expected contribu tions that come with serving as part of this esteemed group." Walker has been an integral part of the Winston-Salem' State University Department of Athletics for more than a decade and has occupied nearly every ackninistrative position within the department includ ing spending nearly a year as the Interim Director of Athletics. Walker assumed the role of Interim Director of Athletics on Feb. 9, 2009 and served the head of the WSSU Department of Athletics for the better part of 11 months before returning to her role as the Associate Director in January 2010, following the installa tion of new Director of Athletics Bill Hayes. In addition to her duties as the Ranis' Associate Director of Athletics she also serves as the Senior Woman Adninistrator, a role that she has occupied for eight years. She has been a member of the WSSU Athletics staff since August 2000 and is in her 12th year of service to Winston Salem State University, mak ing her the most senior admin istrator in the WSSU Athletic Department. Walker attended Hampton University as a two-sport ath lete, playing basketball and softball. She is married to Wayne Walker Sr., a former Hampton University football player. They have two chilcken, Daijah and Wayne Jr. ? WWREE Tonia Walker has worked at WSSU since 2000. ADHD frontpage A7 certain problem behaviors, and improve organizational skills. Sleep deprivation, depres sion, learning difficulties, tic disorders and behavioral prob WT1 a I lems may be confused with, or appear along with, ADHD. Every child or adult suspected of having ADHD deserves a careful medical evaluation to sort out exactly what is caus ing the concerning behaviors. Do you need further infor mation or have questions or comments about this article? Please call toll-free 1-877 530-1824. Or, for more infor mation about the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, please visit our web site: http://www.wakehealth.edu/ MAC HE. resi from page AS "The Georgia Songbird," EG Kight, who has been on tour opening for BB King, will also perform. She's a brassy, gutsy, blues singer and guitar player that can really belt out the blues. Rounding out the talent are Mel Melton & the'Wicked Mojos, a smoking* hot Zydeco-Cajun band out of Durham, House of Dues and T.A. James. The Piedmont Blues Preservation Society is a non-profit oiganization dedi cated to keeping the blues music genre alive and grow ing. The Society's goals are to support live performances of blues music in the Piedmont Triad, introduce young and old to the histori cal significance of this music genre and promote blues music for generations to come. Tickets are on sale now at www.piedmontblues.org, and can be purchased at the Carolina Theatre Box Office, 310 South Greene St., charged by phone at 336-333 2605, or online at www.carolinatheatre.com. Tickets are also available at all five Guilford County locations of Bank of Oak Ricfee. Advance tickets are $20 each or $30 day of show. Photo by Taro Yoshida Eric Gales is considered a guitar phenom. wssu from page AI his stay. "It was just an awesome experience for me, learning how to be yourself in any type of environment," said Barnes who has landed a job working as a territory sales manager in Kansas. "I was truly able to learn some things, but the biggest thing I found in Thailand was myself." Georgetown Professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, a syndi cated radio host, author and academic, urged all the gracki ates to be true to themselves dhring his keynote adckess. In a dynamic speech that had the graduates and audience mem bers laughing, clapping and even singing along, Dyson used his wit and extensive knowledge of hip hop and soul music to simultaneously, entertain and educate the crowd. Un tKa ftzMiiiie r\f I1V V?V/ftVU HIV gwnuo Ul artists like Tupac Shakur, Jay Z and Marvin Gaye to encour age the soon-to-be graduates to think, act, love and grow. "In the time that you've been here, you've learned to think and think for yourselves. If you leam to think, your edu cation is valuable," said Dyson, the author of 16 books. "We live in a nation where too many people are marching in lockstep according to what somebody else says." The Detroit native urged the graduates to use their sta tuses as educated people to help others. "Imagine a different world by acting in your own com munity to make the world a better place," he said. "You've got to act with integrity in your everyday lives." Dyson spoke out against the passage of Amendment One, which he called "horri ble." "Why are we so obsessed with a person's sexual orienta tion or their race or their class or where they came from? That doesn't define who they are," declared Dyson, an ordained Baptist minister. "...Jesus said love your neighbors as your self. Ain't no asterisk in there." Dyson told the crowd not to be afraid of change. "If you ain't changing, you're dying. If you're not evolving, you're heading back wards," declared the Princeton alumnus who fathered a child when he was just a teen. "...The greatest marie of your education is that your heart will continue to open, your spirit will continue to deepen and your mind will continue to evolve." Business management major Martha McMurrray knows a thing or two about evolution. Five years ago, when she was brutally attacked by two pit bull terriers, the Matthews native says her out look was bleak. "After the attack, 1 felt like this hideous being," she relat ed "1 was so angry." The attack robbed McMurray of her short-term memory. She grappled with nightmares and bouts of severe anxiety, but she was deter mined it would not hold her back from achieving ho- edica tional goals. Despite the many challenges she faced McMurray graduated from high school and college on time. "It was awesome. I can't even describe the feeling," said McMurray, who graduated with the highest GPA in her major. "Everyone thought I was going to die after the attack, and here I am getting my degree." McMurray says she has much to look forward to in the future. She is headed to Atlanta to start a job at the Hershey company, and is engaged to be married next summer. iNot everyone in the gradu ating class was as fortunate as McMurray and Davis. The WSSU family honored the memory of three students who passed away during their tenures at the school. Former students De'Angelo Devaughn Simmons, who was slated to graduate in December 2011, and Jillian Rose Charlet, who was expected to graduate Saturday, were both honored with posthumous degrees. 'Today, we honor two stu dents whose untimely deaths took them too soon from our midst and deprived their fami lies of the opportunity to walk across this stage," Reaves said in conferring the degrees. Former football player Michael Lee Calvin Champaign, who passed away in May 2011, was given a posthumous certificate of attendance. Martha McMurray BMWs from page AS food, drinks and more. Owners of vintage BMWs are invited to bring their rides. Vintage BMWS include all pre-war BMWs, 502, 507, isetta (300 and 600), 700, 2000, 1800, 1600, 2002, 2500, CS, Bavaria, 320, 323, e23 (1st generation 7-series), el 2 and e28 (1st & 2nd gener ation 5-series), e24 (6-series), all e30s, Mis, andZl roadsters and all BMW motorcycles up to 1985. A series of events will be held leading up to the Old Salem display, beginning on May 24, when BMW owners will gather at Senor Bravo, 241 S. Marshall St. On Friday, May 25, the group will attend "The Rockfoid Run" rally starting at ? Farmington Drag way and ending at Westbend Vineyards in Lewisville. The Old Salem event is free. The best time to view the cars will be between noon and 4 p.m. For those with vintage BMWs who are interested in attending, visit The Vintage web site, atthevintage.com. 'a. v" ?' > ^ Our Transportation Planners are Updating their P.P.P!* * That's DOT-speak for1Public Participation Policy f The Winston-Salem Department of Transportation is updating its policy for soliciting public participation for projects in Winston-Salem and the surrounding area: A draft of the updated PPP can be read online at DOT.CityofWS.org or at public libraries in Forsyth County and King, each municipal town hall, the N.C. Dept. of Transportation Division 9 office at 375 Silas Creek Parkway, and the Winston-Salem Dept. of Transportation at 100 E. First St, Room 307. A public hearing on the updated PPP will be held at 4:15 p.m., July 19 in Room 530 of the Stuart Municipal Building, 100 E. First St, Winston-Salem, or send your comments to Kevin Edwards by e-mail (kevine@cityofws.org), fax (748-3370), or letter [lfc (Winston-Salem DOT, P.O. Box i I 2511, Winston -Salem NC 27102). Be sure to send it by July 9. till Questions? Call 747-6881 Winston-Salem The Winston-Salem Urhan Ana Metropolitan Ptannmq (tyniutton (MPO) does not ndude participation or drscrtmtnate in any program or artntty receiring Federal assistance on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sen, age, or dKaMtty Any person who brieves they hwe been aggrieved by an unian^d discriminatory practice regarding the WkHMm Salem Urban Am WO pro-ams has a right to Me a formal con^laint with the Phi#p Vneen, Transit Planner, City o! Whwon-Salent, flO Boo 2511,27102. nAthin one hunrhed and eighty (180) days following the date oi the adeged dBafcnirution occurence. Presented by UHC School of the Arts i Kenan Institute for the Arts EVENING CONCERTS: Friday, June 8,7:30 p.m. The Del McCoury Band with special guests, Martha Bassett, The Branchettes Saturday, June 9,7:30 p.m. Preservation Hall Jazz Band The Tony Rice Unit The Tres Amigos Sunday, June 10,7:30 p.m. Jim Lauderdale Bishop Dready-Manning Bump and Logie Purchase tickets to evening concerts at tt Stevens Center, by calling 336-721-1945 online at uncsa.edu/performances e or J_ Celebrating the Music of the American South JUNE 8-10, 2012 f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL of the ARTS
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