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WESTVIEW CEMETERY
PHOTO/HOSE STURDIVANT YOUNG
Fund raisers like this December gathering in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Friends of Old
Westview Cemetery help support preservation efforts at the historic burial ground.
D.C. group works to preserve
historic Wadesboro cemetery
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By Robin Y. Queen
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The restoration of Old Westview Cemetery in
WadeslxjTO is a top priority for a Washington-
based nonprofit group
Rose Sturdivant Young, president and
founder of Friends of Old Westview Cemetery
began the preservation project in 2001, when
her family returned Wadesboro to bury her
mother. Ethel Sturdivant, in the family plot.
Young noticed that the grounds were over
grown with weeds and brush and headstones in
disrepair
She returned to Washington and began
pfiTorts to rehabilitate Old Westview Several
radio stationB broadcast public service
announcements to locate people who might
have relatives buried in the cemetery
FOWCs mailing list now includes members
who live alcsig the East Coast and as far away
as California
Last year, the non-profit marked several
accomplishments, including:
• Documentation of histcsical information. A
genealogist found that among those buried
there are veterans of both world wars and
slaves.
• An internet site detailing the cemetery’s his
tory,
• And North Carolina State Historic
Preservation Office presented Old Westview at
the National Register Advisory Committee’s fall
meeting in Raleigh. The cemetery now may be
eligible for listing on the register.
FOWC is recruiting financial support for a
sign and a fence Fot information, call (877)
331-6989 or legal counsel Gary Swindell in
Chariotte at (7(M) 376-1388.
Rally to support at-risk school
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North Carolina fails to pro
vide low-income school dis
tricts necessary resources to
educate students
At 10 a m Saturday, West
Charlotte alumni will gather
on the sidewalk beside the
school to offer their support
For Bumgarner, who attend
ed WCHS at the start of
'lesegregation in public
schools, the rally is necessary
to protect the school’s legacy
and future
■This is the rich history of
West Chariotte,” he said. T
was one of the first white stu
dents I love West Chariotte
We cane together as a school
I had my head kicked in once
or twice, but I got involved.”
• Earlier this week, CMS
announced a decline in the
dropout rate for 2004-2005
that improved over the previ
ous year
CMS reports the dropout
rate for gi^es 7-12 at 2.25,
down fi^m 3.20. TTie rate for
grades 9-12 is 3.14, down
considerably from 4 48 in
2003-2004.
At the state level, the
dropout rate in grades 7-12
was 3,23 percent while the
rate for grades 9-12 was 4.74
percent The numbers repre
sent decreases over the 2003-
2004 data (3.29 for grades 7-
12 and 4 86 for grades 9-12).
CMS officials credit the
decrease on eariy interven
tion programs that keep stu
dents in school. The Finding
Opportunities Creating
Unparalleled Success, or
FOCUS program was devel
oped in CMS where children
need individual attention
and extra support
The district also credits the
case manager model used in
high schools. In those
schools, case managers are
directly involved with stu
dents who are at-risk of drop
ping out of school Case man
agers provide support to
teachers working with these
students and serve on the
school’s intervention team In
addition, the case managers
work directly with families of
at-risk students through
home visits and providing
support and interventions.
Another strategy in place is
the truancy prevention pro
gram that provides addition
al Charlotte-Mecklenburg
resource officers to focus on
truancy at West Charlotte,
West Mecklenburg and
Garinger. Officers make
home visits to investigate
non-attendance and are rou
tinely patrolling areas within
close proximity to the schools
for students who are not on
campus
Director Gordon Parks first
made mark as photographer
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his gritty visual essays mi
the grinding effects of pover
ty in the United States and
aiaoad and on the spirit of
the civil rights movement
“TTiose special problems
spawned by poverty and
crime touched me more, and
I dug into them with more
enthusiasm.” he said.
"Working at them again
revealed the superiority of
the camera to exjdore the
dilemmas they poeed”
In 1961, his photographs in
Life of a poor, ailing
Brazilian boy named Flavio
da Silva brou^t donations
that saved the boy and pur
chased a home fer him and
his family
“The Learning TVee" was
Parks’ first feature film in
1969 It was based on his
1963 autobiographical novel
of the same name, in which
the >'oung hero grapples
with fear and racism as well
as first love and schoolboy
triumphs Parks wrote the
score as well
In 1989, The Learning
Thee" was among the first 25
American movies to be
placed on the National Film
Registry of the Library of
Congress. The registry is
intended to highlight films of
particular cultural, histori
cal M- aesthetic importance
The detective drama
■“Shaft,” which came out in
1971 and starred Richard
Roundtree, was a m^jor hit
and spawned a series of
black-oriented films In
1972, Parks directed a
sequel. “Shaft's Big Scene!"
He also published books of
poetry and wrote musical
compositions including
“Martin,” a ballet about the
Rev Martin Luther King Jr.
Parks was bom Nov. 30,
1912, in Fort Scott, Kan., the
youngest of 15 children. In
his 1990 autobiography.
“Voices in the Mirror,” he
remembered it as a weald of
racism and poverty, but also
a world where his parents
gave their children love, dis
cipline and religious faith.
He went throu^ a soles
of jobs as a teenager and
young man, including piano
player and railroad dining
car waiter. His breakthrough
came when he was about 25,
after he bou^t a used cam
era in a pawnshop for $7.50.
He became a fieelance fash
ion photographer, went on to
Vogue magazine and then to
Life in 1948.
“Reflecting now, I realize
that, even within the limits
of my childhood vision, I was
cm a search for pride, mean
while taking measurable
glimpses of how certain
blacks, who were fed up with
racism, rebelled against it,”
he wrote
When he accepted an
award firm Wchita State
University in May 1991, he
said it was “another step for
ward in my making pieace
with Kansas and Kansas
making p)eace with me ”
T dream terrible dreams,
toribly violent dreams." he
said The doctors say it’s
because I suppressed so
much anger and hatred fiom
my youth I bottled it up and
used it constructively”
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Levine Mu&eum of the New South present
A WOMAN’S PLACE
featuring leteran neivsjoumafist
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Folitxcs and one of the world’s most prominent
female journalists shares ’’Political Tales and
Personal Tnum^.- Lessons for Lije ”
Monday, March 13, 7:30 pm
McColl Family Theatre at ImaginOn
300 L Seventh St, uptown Charlotte
tickets: $5 for museum members; $10 tor non-members
CALL Children's Theatre ol Charlotte Box Oflice, 704.9712828
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Project On TRAC:
An Asthma Education Program
for Children & Families
www.projectontrac.uiicc.edu
UNC Chariotte is seeking children between 9 and 12
years of age interested in participating in a research study
of asthma control who may benefit from asthma education.
ALL participants will receive asthma education materials and
up to $250 in participant stipends. Study-related services are
available for qualified participants who:
♦Are 9-12 years of age
♦ Have had a diagnosis of asthma for at least two years
♦ Use medication every day for asthma control
For more information, families should
call the Project Manager at (704) 687-4712.
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