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United Way honors two
Wells Fargo's Stan Kelly and the Forsyth
Medical Center Foundation's Dr. Elms Allen
have been honored for their voluntarism and
contributions to hetterino
the community.
The recognitions were
made by United Way of
Forsyth County's
TocqueviQe Leadership
Society during a reception
at the Reynolds House on
Oct. 30. The Tocquevilk
Leadership Society is
comprised of more than
200 local households who
give $10,000 or more
annually to United Way.
Kelly, regional presi
dent of Wells Fargo's
Carolinas Community
Banking, was the recipient
of the Paul Fulton
Tocqueville Leadership
Society Award, which is
given to an outstanding
volunteer who has demon
strated untiring commit
ment, visionary leadership, resourcefulness
and creativity in meeting the needs of our com
munity.
Allen, vice president for major gifts at the
Forsyth Medical Center Foundation, received
the inaugural Tocqueville Council Volunteer of
the Year Award, which was established to rec
ognize one of these excellent volunteers for
their dedication, persistence and impressive
results.
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LIS master's offered online
The Department of Library and
Information Studies (LIS) in the UNCG
School of Education is now offering its Master
of Library and Information Studies (MLIS)
degree online. The fully online MLIS comple
ments the face-to-face program on the UNCG
campus.
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MLIS, accredited by
the American Library
Association and the
Natiooal Council for
Accreditation of
Teacher Education, can
be completed full-time
in four semesters and
prepares graduates for
careers in public, aca
demic, school, corpo
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rate ana specialized
libraries as well as other information settings
locally, nationally and internationally. The
MLIS-School Library Media Specialization is
nationally reviewed and recognized by the
American Association of School Librarians as
a program in the School of Education, which is
accredited by the National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education.
"Online delivery of our MLIS is not just an
opportunity to provide our quality program
beyond our geographic area," says department
chairperson Clara M. Chu. "Through e-Hubs
our online students will have the same oppor
tunities as those on the Greensboro campus to
connect and learn with our extensive profes
sional and academic network."
lb learn more about the online MLIS, visit
lis.uncg.edu, download a brochure at
http://learnmore.uncg.edu/mlis-brochure
download/ or email lis@uncg.edu.
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Smith named PULSE Fellow
North Carolina A&T University associate
professor and Department of Biology Chair
Dr. Mary A. Smith has been selected to serve
as a Vision and Change Leadership Fellow
for Partnership for Undergraduate Life
Sciences Education (PULSE).
PULSE is a joint initiative of the National
Science Foundation
(NSF), Howard
Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI), and
the National Institutes
of Health/NIGMS
(NIH/NIGMS). Over
the next year, selected
fellows will work as a
team to produce an
implementation frame
work describing strate
gies for change within
academic departments.
Smith is now part of a team of 40 fellows
competitively selected from an application
pool of over 250. The team's goal is to stim
ulate systemic changes within biology
departments at all types of post-secondary
educational institutions, based upon the find
ings from the 2011 report Vision and Change
in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call
to Action and other similar calls for transfor
mation of undergraduate life sciences educa
tion.
The Vision and Change Leadership
Fellows come from 24 states and the U.S.
Virgin Islands. They represent research uni
versities, liberal arts colleges, comprehen
sive/regional universities, and two-year col
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Livingstone to award scholarships at Thanksgiving event
for families in need
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
A strong showing of benevo
lence on the part of Livingstone
College staff, faculty and students
could result in a lucrative career
change for some Rowan County
residents.
The Salisbury-based school will
Provide
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dinners to 25
area families.
The
Thanksgiving
meal will be
served at the
college's
Events &
Hospitality
Center on Nov.
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which is being provided by
Livingstone staff, faculty and stu
dents, will be prepared by students
enrolled in Livingstone's new
Hospitality Management and
Culinary Arts program. About two
dozen members of the Livingstone
family, including President Dr.
Jimmy R. Jenkins Sr., will serve as
waiters and waitresses for the fami
lies.
The school's kindness won't end
there. All the families will be sent
home with prepared meals that
they'll simply have to re-heat on
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Enterprise Center to hold Open House
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
The Enterprise Conference and Banquet Center will open its doors Saturday, Nov. 17 from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to celebrate the conversion of the former Salvation Army Boys and Girls
Club gymnasium at 1922 South Martin Luther King Drive into a conference center and meet
ing space.
The event, which is free and open ?
to the public, will provide an oppor
tunity to view the new space and to
learn about some of the businesses
that currently are housed ift The
Enterprise Center.
"While we are celebrating our
opening and invite the general public
to see this great new meeting space,
we are also creating an opportunity
fdr entrepreneurs to showcase their
businesses," said Carol Davis, execu
tive director of the S.G. Atkins CDC,
which is the developer of the
Enterprise Center. "This Open House
will Iw a mixture nf fun and netwnrlr
ing with the local job creators being incubated at the Enterprise Center. These talented peo
ple are finding niches in the marketplace, operating a business, and making a living for them
selves and their families. They are creating jobs at a time when addressing unemployment is
at the forefront of our national agenda."
Eighteen small businesses, many of which are women and minority-owned, will be fea
tured at the open house. Their offerings include home healthcare services, digital media pro
duction, information technology consulting, "green" business lending, transportation, and
consumer products such as cosmetics, health and wellness, baked goods and jewelry.
The Enterprise Conference and Banquet Center's adaptive reuse of space provides seating
for up to 312 people for conferences, meetings, seminars, social events and other gatherings.
For more information, contact Davis at 336-374-6900.
John Davenport
Chamber
has new
leadership
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
A new group of local
business leaders have
been selected to join the
board of the Greater
Winston-Salem Chamber
of Commerce.
Marc Schaefer, presi
dent/CEO of Truliant
Federal Credit Union, is
the chairman of the 2013
Chamber Board of
Directors. Other board
leaders include First Vice
Chairman Scott Sewell,
vice president of technol
ogy acquisition and
development at Cook
Medical; and Second
Vice Chairman Jerry of
Cook, vice president gov
ernment relations and
trade at Hanesbrands.
Those elected to
three-year terms on the
board are: City Council
Member Robert Clark;
Greg Cox of Bank of
America/Merrill Lynch;
John Davenport of
Davenport Transportation
consulting; urew uixon
of Inmar, Inc.; Allen
Joines, mayor of
Winston-Salem and head
of the Winston-Salem
Alliance; Milton Kern of?
SunTrust; Dr. Susan
Pauley of Salem
Academy & College;
Patti Shugart of Carolina
Liquid Chemistries
Corp.; and Eric
Tomlinson of the
Piedmont Triad Research
Park.
The Greater Winston
Salem Chamber of
Commerce membership
includes about 1,800
businesses located in
Forsyth County and other
parts of the Triad. The
Chamber is dedicated to
establishing Winston
Salem as a technology
driven economic center,
while providing services
to strengthen existing
businesses, support entre
preneurs, and encourage
small business creation.
Minority Suppliers Honor Ford
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National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) President Joset B. Wright (center, holding award)
presents the 2012 Corporation of the Year Award to Ford Motor Company last month at NMSDC's annual con
ference in Denver, Colo. Among the Ford officials on hand to accept, was Tony Brown, group vice president of
global purchasing (sixth from the right), and Ford purchasing and supplier diversity executives. Also pictured are
severed NMSDC members and board leaders.
N.C. student leaders help increase voter turnout
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
According to preliminary
results, turnout at several
North Carolina student
precincts were up this elec
tion year.
The numbers at North
Carolina State University's
precinct increased by 13 per
cent between the 2008 and
2012. Western Carolina
University increased by 3.25
percent this year.
"Despite the dire predic
tions of low youth turnout
today, young people once
again showed that when voter
mobilization efforts pay
attention to them, they show
up on Election Day," said
Renford Lynch, North
Carolina Public Interest
I
Research Group (NCPIRG)
New Voters Project
Campaign Coordinator and a
sophomore at NC State.
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Lynch and a team of
dozens of student leaden of
NCPIRG's New Voters
Project spearheaded an inten
sive voter mobilization drive
on campuses over the past
several weeks to help register
and urge students to the polls
on Election Day.
Using scientifically
proven voter outreach and
mobilization techniques such
as peer-to-peer phonebanks
and canvasses, text message
outreach and classroom
announcements, the cam
paign made tens of thousands
of vote reminders in the days
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N.C. State students take part in the paper mustache voter
turnout promotion.