Arts & Lifestyle
new rTafiiown millionaire
The community of Pfafftown, which at last t
count was home to around 10,000 people, now
has its fourth resident to win $1 million or more
playing the lottery.
Todd Adams, an airline worker from the
Forsyth County community, stopped in to pur
chase a soda on Monday morning at the Stop &
Save Citgo on
Julian Place in
Troulman.
While there, he
decided to try
his luck on a
$4,000,000
Multiplier
Spectacular
ticket.
"I scratched it off and saw I had matched
one of the winning numbers," Adams said. "I
thought I may have won $20 or $40, so when I
looked at it closer I did a couple of double
takes. I got in the car and drove straight to
Raleigh."
Winners of $ 1 million in the game have the
option of claiming it in $50,000 payments as a !
20-year annuity or a one-time lump sum of |
$600,000. Adams took the cash payment and
received a check for $415,206 after state and
federal taxes were withheld.
Adams is the third player to win a $1 mil
lion prize in the $4,000,000 Multiplier
Spectacular game. As of Monday afternoon,
four $4 million top prizes and seven $ 1 million
prizes remain to be claimed in the $20 game.
Three additional Pfafftown residents have
claimed wins of $1 million or more playing lot
tery games.
Mgttttig old newspapers
Since 1959, the State Archives of North
Carolina has microfilmed newspapers from
across the state as part of the North Carolina
Newspaper Project. This initiative includes
more than 1.000 titles published ffom 1751
until 1898 with the goal of preserving these
papers for future researchers.
Two new projects, managed by the UNC
Chapel Hill Library, promise to make these
materials accessible to the public in ways that
might have seemed impossible during the
1950s.
The Chronicling America project focuses
on newspapers printed between 1836 and 1922 1
in the United States to make them available
online. It is a joint project of the Library of
Congress and the National Endowment for the
Humanities. A second project with
Ancestry.com will provide digital access to
newspapers printed prior to 1923 through
Newspapers.com. Both projects use newspa
pers microfilmed by the Collections
Management Branch of the State Archives of
North Carolina and then digitized for UNC
Library.
Ancestry.com will allow free access of the
Newspapers.com collection to users with a
UNC login and on-site at the State Archives,
Outer Banks History Center and Western
Regional Archives. Access to the Chronicling
America online collection is free to all users
and can be found at
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/''
state=North+Carolina.
To date, UNC Library has overseen the dig
itization of 100.000 pages for Chronicling
America and a million pages for
Newspapers.com, including newspapers from
Asheville, Raleigh, Tarboro, Boone and
Charlotte. A full list of the newspapers included
in the State Archives microfilming initiative is
available at |
http://www.ncdcr.gov/archives/Public/Collectio
ns/N onGovernment. aspx#ne wspapers.
"Tech CMy"optntig
"Tech City," a new traveling exhibit, will
open Saturday, June 14 at SciWorks.
"Tech City" allows visitors of all ages to
explore the real-world problems faced by engi
neers. Twelve highly-interactive stations use
hands-on activities which appeal to a wide vari- i
ety of learning
styles as they
promote engi
neering as a
problem-solv
ing process.
Highlights
include:
"Separation Station" where visitors "clean" the
water. "Traffic Jam" in which visitors use com
puters to optimize traffic flow, and '
"Earthquake" where visitors design and build
structures and then test their results against '
earthquake forces on the shake table. "Tech
City" is sponsored in part by Walter Robbs.
Visitors can enjoy the museum, outdoor i
parks, and planetarium for $3 per person. !
SciWorks is located just off University Parkway
at 400 W. Hanes Mill Road. For more informa- |
tion, visit www.sciworks.org or call 336-767
6730.
ScaWjrks
Mo Lucas
Honoring
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Mo Lucas to be feted at
cookout celebration
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The Ninth Annual Mo Lucas
Father's Day Cookout will be held
on Sunday. June 15 at Blum Park.
The event will begin at 3 p.m.
with a parade that will start on
Liberty Street near 25th Street. The
parade will end at the park, 2401
Ivy Ave. The Mo Lucas Foundation
is sponsoring the cookout. It will
include a number of well-deserved
tributes to Lucas.
Lucas has been a mentor to gen
erations of young people. For 60
years, he has been affiliated with
the Winston Lake Family YMCA,
but he has
i ?
oeen a com
munity ser
vant since
before he was
old enough to
drive.
As a
teenager,
Lucas became
a scout master
at Mt. Zion
Baptist
Terry
Church and organized more than
100 scouts. Along with other
founding members, he set a mile
stone at Winston-Salem College,
currently known as Winston-Salem
State University, by starting a chap
ter of Kappa Psi Phi Fraternity; the
chapter still exists today.
Shortly after returning home
from the Korean War in 1953,
Lucas found his passion when he
accepted a job at the Patterson
Avenue YMCA (now the Winston
Lake branch) working with the
city's youth.
Decades ago, Lucas deejayed at
the weekly dances at the Y on
Thursday nights; attendees paid 25
cents admission to dance the night
away. Lucas got a third of the pro
ceeds.
"That's what 1 went to school
on. that's the way 1 paid my way
through school," he explained.
"Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and
Sundays, I used to have gigs."
Lucas is the unofficial father of
the Winston Lake y* Branch
Director Terry Matrtotf&s says he is
"the history of the Winston Lake Y
because his affiliation with the Y
extends back to when it was the
Patterson Y. He has a vast history
and he just loves the people. He's a
part of the Y."
Michael Terry, who grew up in
the Piedmont Park community and
founded the Mo Lucas Foundation,
is among the many who Lucas men
tored.
Terry was a member of the
famed "Mo Lucas" steppers, a
step team Lucas organized as
an outlet to keep young people busy
and positive. The steppers per
formed at parades and events
throughout the state and region.
"There wasn't anything to do in
(the) neighborhood, so the step
team was a positive influence that
saved him." Terry said. "Mo Lucas
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Hollywood Reporter: UNCSA
Drama one of best in the world
SPECIAL TO THE
CHRONICLE
The School of Drama at
the University of North
Carolina School of the Arts
(UNCSA) has been ranked
#6 in the world by The
Hollywood Reporter, and
its high school program is
#3.
The June 6 print issue
of the magazine, available
now online, ranked 25 col
lege programs and 10 high
school programs based on
its poll of 60 top casting
directors and agents.
In 2013, UNCSA's col
lege program was ranked
seventh in the world. In
2012, it was among the
magazine's first published
list of 25 best programs.
Schools that year were list
ed alphabetically and were
not ranked. This is the first
year The Hollywood
Reporter has ranked high
school theatre programs.
"It is gratifying to be
recognized for what we
already know," said Drama
Dean Carl Forsman. "Both
our high school and college
programs are among the
very best in the world. Our
faculty are top notch, and
that allows us to attract stu
dents who are very talented
and have a passion for act
ing and directing."
The magazine noted
that UNCSA accepts 28 out
of 450 college applicants;
that after its 2013 showcas
es, 17 of 25 grads landed an
agent or manager, and 10
months after graduation. 13
have Screen Actors Guild
or Equity cards. As notable
alumni, it mentioned M;try
Louise Parker and Dane
DeHaan.
Ranked above the
UNCSA college program
are Yale, Juilliard, Carnegie
Mellon, Tisch School of
New York University, and
the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art in London.
The magazine's high
school list of "launchpads
for teenage talent" ranks
Interlochen (Mich.) in first
place and LaGuardia (New
York City) in second place.
UNCSA Photo by Steve Davis
UNCSA's Lorenzo Roberts and Michael Berry in
' King Hedley II."
End of an Era
The last print
edition of JET
magazine hit
newsstands on
June 9. The
cover of the issue
features images
of previous cov
ers from
throughout the
magazine's 63
year history. JET
will continue
publishing
online. A new
weekly digital
magazine app is
scheduled to
launch June 30.
I Local artist finalist in competition
SPECIAL THE CHRONICLE
Winston-Salem's Benjamin Mowers is
among the finalists in the 2014 Sister I
Cities international Young Artists and
Authors Showcase.
For more than two decades, the Young
Artists and Authors Showcase has given
youth from around the globe the opportu
nity to express their vision for a more uni
fied. peaceful world through original art- '
work and literature.
The 2014 Showcase encouraged youth i
to submit entries inspired by what Sister
Cities International's tagline: "Connect
globally. Thrive locally." means to them.
The theme challenged youth to express
how connectivity has impacted them for
the better and enabled their community to
thrive.
"For 26 years, youth from around the
globe have sent their inspiring work for
this Showcase. This year's entries also
showcased immense talent and passion.
We're very excited to share the work of
these talented youth with the world on our k
web site and Tumblr," said Mary D. Kane, ?
Sister Cities International President and y
See Showcase on A9 I
Winston
Salem resi
d e n t
Benjamin
Mowers'
entry,
"Connecti
ng Like a
Child."