THE TRIBUNAL AID
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VOLUMN 1, NO. 10
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1973
15 CENTS
PRESS RUN 5000
Local Gains Principalship
THE TRIBUNAL AID CONTEST BEGINS
'Mr. William H. Thomp
son, formerly of High
Point and now a resident
of Bloomfield, Connecti
cut, was recently named
prinicipal of Hartford,
Connecticut’s largest
school.
Mr. Thompson, whose
parents, Mr. & Mrs.
Robert Thompson Hve at
1228 S. Downing Street in
High Point joined the
Hartford Public School
System in 1963. He is the
first Black man to gain a
principalship at a Hart
ford Public High School.
Thompson first went to
the Hartford School
System as a long-term
substitute. From 1964
until 1969 he taught in
that system. The school
year of '69 - '70, he served
as School - Coordinator.
Then in 1970 he was
promoted Assistant ^o the
principal of Hartford
Public School. His de
dication to his work as
well as his abilities to
admisiter won him rapid
promotions. In May 1971,
Op ens Dental
Office Here
Dr. Benjamin A. Will
iams recently opened a
dental office here at 327
N. Main Street.
Dr. Williams, ' 34, an
army veteran, also is a
former mathematics
teacher at Millbrook High
School in Raleigh, N. C.
He attended North Caro
lina A&T State University
as well as North Carolina
Central University where
he received a Bachelor of
Science degree in chem
istry.
His professional train
ing consist of Howard
University, Washington,
D. C., he externed in Oral
Surgery at Freedman's
Hospital, Washington, D.
C. His rotating internship
was completed at St.
Elizabeth Hospital, also of
Washington, D. C.
Dr. Williams is a
member of Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity, the Chi
Delta Mu medical fra
ternity, the National
Dental Association, the
American Dental Associ
ation and the Oral Cancer
Society.
The son of the late
George C. Williams and
Mrs. Beatrice Williams
formerly of Morehead
City, Dr. Williams is
married to the former
Miss Evelyn H. Koonce of
Kinston, North Carolina.
he became acting vice
principal; in November
1972, he was named vice
principal; and in June
1973 he was promoted to
principal.
In his new roll, he is at
the helm of the second
oldest public high school
in the country. Addition
ally, it offers more than
250 courses. The school
requires a staff of more
than 200, and maintains
an enrollment of approxi
mately 3,000 students. Of
those, 45% are
Black, 35“/o are white,
and 20% have Spanish
surnames.
Mr, Thompson, 39,
attended the former
Leonard Street Elemen
tary School followed by
the former William Penn
High School. After gra
duation, he went to West
Virginia State College
where he graduated in
1956 with a B.A. degree.
His major was Pohtical
Science and two minors
were Philosophy atid
History. In 1970 he
completed his masters
studies at University of
Hartford.
Married to Shirley
Washington, of Wilhams-
burg, Virginia, who also
holds a masters degree
from University of Hart
ford, they have two
children, WiUiam, age 11
and Cynthia, age 8. Mrs.
Thompson is a reading
teacher in the Hartford
School System.
They make their home
at 265 Tunix Avenue,
Bloomfield, Conn.
Most of you will
remember ‘‘Willie” when
he worked so loyally at
Washington Street Phar
macy during his high
school years.
The Tribunal Aid is
sponsoring a newspaper
selling contest for the
children in the High Point,
Thomasville, Winston-
Salem area. The children
are enthusiastically a-
waiting the outcome of the
contest which starts
August 1, 1973. The
contest is structured to
enable three prizes to be
given away. One prize, a
bicycle will be given to the
boy who sells the greatest
number of papers. An
other prize, a bicycle, will
be given to the girl who
sells the greatest number
of papers. An additional
prize will go to the boy or
girl seUing twenty-five or
more individual subscrip
tions. Everyone is sure he
or she will win one of the
three bicycles. The end of
contest is December 12,
1973. Results will be made
on December 19, 1973.
Each city is in competition
only with itself.
There are children
participating from several
geographical areas in the
city of Winston-Salem.
The are:
Cheryl Lynn Mayes
Age 12
Brown Intermediate
School
Shiloh Baptist
Stephanie Denise Gray
Age 11
Brown Intermediate
School
Shiloh Baptist
Johnnie Renee Gray-
Age 9
Lewisville Elementary
School
Shiloh Baptist
Stephanie Anita Brown
Age 11
Brown Intermediate
School
Shiloh Baptist
Lisa Maria Brown
Age 10
Brown Intermediate
School
Shiloh Baptist Church
Walter Ceasar
Age 14
Mt. Tabor Jr. High
Piney Grove Baptist
William Fair
Age 10 '
Fairview School
Warnie Lee Patten
Mineral Springs Jr. High
Galillee Baptist Church
Grady Palmer
Age 12
Waughtown Elementary
Shiloh Baptist Church
Kenneth Maurice
Samuels
290 Pinetree Raod
Age 10
Mineral Springs
Elementary School
New Trinity Baptist
Bernice Brunson
Age 11
Brown Intermediate
School
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Lurline Moore
Age 10
Brown Intermediate
School
St. Peters Holiness
Betty Mack
Age 11
Skyland Intermediate
School
St. John Baptist
If anyone is interested
in participating in this
contest please contact
Mr. Velma Hopkins at
1228 Highland Ave. or by
phone at 725-1442.
Next week High Point
and Thomasville's con
testants will be listed.
Present Use Of Hospital Is Questionable
Mrs. Lee Fay Mack
Since its inception as a
general hospital, Rey
nolds Memorial Hospital
has felt the clutches of
those who have ideas to
see it operate as anything
but a general hospital. It
has been the prime
example of the farce that
democracy represents in
Forsyth County in any
issue which affects the
community-at-large and
especially the poor and
minority in the commun
ity.
Reynolds Memorial has
a long history in the
eastern part of Winston-
Salem. It grows out of the
old Kate Bitting Reynolds
Hospital which was tra
ditionally Black and
which for many years
operated against segre
gation, rumors, fixed
deficits and even politics.
This is supported by the
fact that even though
there was one Hospital
Authority, the responsi
bility for operating the
hospital was the City’s,
there were two medical
associations, doctors from
Kate Bitting could not
practice in other hospitals
in the city, the quality of
equipment was outmoded
at Kate Bitting, and out in
the community many
changes were underway
which would eventually
alter the whole hospital
concept in eastern Win-
ston-Salem.
In 1970, a multi-million
dollar physical plant was
opened to replace Kate
Bitting Reynolds Hospital
and was named Reynolds
Memorial Hospital. {It
was opened as a general
hospital, but the underly
ing intention was for it
never to operate as a
general hospital.) Though
this had been traditional
ly a hospital operated for
mostly a community of
socially and economically
under priviledged, there
was another community
discussing; planning, and
deciding what the fate of
health care delivery
would be in the easter
sector of Winston-Salem.
The new physical plant
began operation in Jan
uary 1970 and the first
signs of change became
apparent when the re
sponsibility for operating
Reynolds Memorial was
shifted from the City of
Winston-Salem to the
Forsyth County Hospital
Authority, Inc. in March
1971. The contradiction in
this is that Reynolds
Memorial should never
have been the responsi
bility of the City. State law
prescribes health as a
function of the County.
Several months later,
June 1971, it became
public knowledge that
Reynolds Memorial Hos
pital would exist as
anything other than a
general hospital. The
main argument used to
close the hospital as a
general hospital was that
the Reynolds persisted to
have a deficit and that
this deficit was growing.
Two questions seem
evident as a result of that
argument. How does a
nOn-profit institution
merit being labeled a
deficit operation especi
ally if it receives the
supplemental operating
budget it needs as an arm
of government? If the
deficit is growing based
on Reynolds clientels have
the federal programs
impacted the city and
county as they have been
“written up” to do.
The fact is that
Reynolds was closed
because overt segregation
still exist in Forsyth
County today. The funds
and the physical plant
were already available,
but the type of community
needed was not present.
Out of aqpproximately
four hundred doctors in
Forsyth County, only
twenty-five regularly ad
mitted patients to Rey
nolds. These twenty-five
doctors were Black.
Added to this form of
ethnic segregation and
other forms of ethnic
segregation is the fact
that economical segrega
tion continues to exist and
is perpetuated by the very
nature of Forsyth County.
"If you have the means to
pay for medical expenses
then you go to the
Western section of the
city and if you can't pay
then you go to the eastern
section of the city. The
traditionally white hospi
tals have even been
geographically segregat
ed from the traditionally
black hospital. So, what
comes out of the whole
maze is that Reynolds
Memorial Hospital is no
longer a general hospital
because a system of
institutionalized segrega
tion demands that this be
the case.
Today there stands in
the place of a general
hospital what is called
■'The Family Health Cen
ter,” It purpose is for
out-patient treatment. It
operates on a sliding fee
scale which in itself is a
means where someone
pays for health services
irregardless of the differ
ences in the paying
abilities of the clientel.
Even though it meets the
segregationist need of
providing in separate
institutions health care
for those who can and
cannot pay, it is inade
quate and it is still
evolving into some other
kind of health care
facility.
The physical design of
the building makes it
inadequate for long term
patients and outpatients
care. Yet the services are
being provided, and aside
from the clientel being
confused, a deficit con
tinues and other hospitals
have need of expansion.
Residents outside of the
city, pass this facility to
get to other hospitals.
There is not even
emergency care except of
an episodic nature.
What is transpiring on
the inside of Reynolds is
the evolvment of a
complex of ‘‘glorified
private like offices” of
specialists and consul
tants, in everything ex
cept general and/or
primary medical care for
meeting the needs of the
type of community which
needs it.
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