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The training will run for 56 hours with some Saturday sessions. No prior experience is necessary. The center seeks volunteers with a genuine interest in helping victims. There is no charge for the training but volunteers must join the YWCA ($15). Anyone interested in volunteering should contact the director, Sian McLean, at 1-688-4396 by Sept. 15 for a pre-training discussion. Minorities and men are especially encourag ed to volunteer. SEPARATION AND DIVORCE Wane County Community Schools and the Women’s Center is offering a course this fall that will summarize the issues of separation and divorce in North Carolina. The course will cover child custody, support and visitation, as well as equitable distribution of marital properties. The course will be held at Garner Senior High School on Wednesday, Sept. 14, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and the cost is only $2. For more information call Community Schools at 790-2434. SHOOT THE HOOPS Wake County Community Schools and Raleigh Parks and Recreation will again be offering Men’s Open Play basketball program. This is the answser for men who enjoy basketball but cannot commit to joining a team. The basketball program will be offered at Carroll Middle School Wednesdays, Sept. 14-Dec. 7, from 7:45-9:30 p.m., at Martin Middle School Tuesdays from Sept. 13-Dec. 6, from 7:15-9:15 p.m.; and also Thursdays, Sept. 15-Dec. 8, at the same time. The cost is $17. For information on how to register, call Community Schools at 780-2434. MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC Wake County Community Schools invites you to make your own kind of music in courses in “Drums: Beginning and Intermediate” and “Trumpet: Beginning.” The courses are designed for students in grades 5-12 and adults and each cost only $25. Both courses are held at Enloe High School and the dates are Thursdays, Sept. 15-Nov. 17, from 7-9 p.m. for drums and Tuesdays, Sept. 13-Nov. 15, from 7-9 p.m. for trumpet. For more information on how you can register for “Drums” or “Trumpet,” call 799-2434, or go by any Wake County public school or library and pick up a Community Schools catalog of courses. r ILM EXHIBITION, CONCERT The North Carolina Museum of Art will present films and a concert in conjunction with the exhibition, “Kaleidoscope: Pattern in Art,” on view Sept. IS through June 25,1989. Musical performers Jacqueline Culpepper and John Ferguson will pre sent a concert called “American Kaleidoscope: Rhythms and Patterns in Music,” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2. The concert will explore patterns in har mony, melody and rhythms of ragtime, jazz and contemporary American music. Admission to the concert is free. At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 23, the museum will present an hour-long series of film shorts on pattern and rhythm. Films to be shown are “Kinetic Sculpture of Gordon Barlow,” which documents the moving art of the toy designer; “Circles II,” which introduces kinetic sculpture and choreography by Doris Chase; “Seeing Rhythm,” which compares musical and visual rhythms; “Rhythm and Movement in Art,” which focuses on rhythm in an cient art and contemporary architecture; and “Sonambients: The Sound of Sculpture of Harry Bertoia,” which documents Bertoia’s practice of using sounds and images to relate art to nature. Admission to the films is free. For more information about the programs or the exhibition, call the museum at 833-1935, Ext. 143. CPR CLASSES The Raleigh YMCA will conduct a class in adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation. American Red Cross certification available upon successful completion. The class will meet Saturday, Sept. 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The class will be held at the Raleigh YMCA at 1601 Hillsborough St. For further in formation, contact the program office at 832-9386. Cost is $20, due with registration one week prior to class date. Poverty Rate Up For Blacks Reports Census The real median income of black families was $18,100 in 1987, accor ding to the Department of Com merce’s Census Bureau. This figure is not statistically dif ferent from the 1986 median of $18,250 after adjustment for a 3.7 percent in crease in consumer prices. The median income of white families increased by 1.1 percent, to $32,270, while that of Hispanic families, at $20,310, did not show a statistically significant change. The ratios of black to white and Hispanic to white family incomes were 56 percent and 63 percent, respectively. Neither showed a statistically significant change from their 1986 levels. The median income of black married-couple families was $27,180 in 1987, compared with $35,300 for white and $24,680 for Hispanic families. The black-to-white and Hispanic-to-white married couple in come ratios were 77 percent and 70 percent, respectively. Neither show ed a statistically significant change from 1986. Among families owith a female householder, no husband present, the median imcomes were $9,710 for blacks, $17,020 for whites, and $9,81$ for His panics. The apparent difference between median incomes for blacks and Hlspanics was not statistically., significant. Per-capita income of blacks was $7,500, not a statistically significant from 1986 in real terms, while Hym. of whites and Hispanics were $13,030 and $7,610, both higher than their 1986 levels. The number of black persons below the official government poverty level was 9.7 million in 1987, an increase from 9.0 million in 1986. The poverty rate was 33.1 percent, an increase from 31.1 percent. The white population living below the poverty level in 1987 totaled 21.4 million not a statistically significant from 1986, The poverty rate amnwg Whites, however, was 10.5 per cent, a decrease from U.O percent. Communication Seen As A Key To Real Success BY DR. WILLIAM L. TUTMAN Special To The CAROLINIAN WINNING COMMUNICATION Effective communication is the key to effective living. Yet, few people have been taught how to com municate. If you tried to pilot an airplane without first learning the rules you would make serious mistakes. Likewise, communication has its rules, and if you don’t know them you will probably get into trou ble. Communication means getting your message across to another per son so that the person gets the exact message you are sending. Com munication often fails because the other person is not ready or willing to receive the message. If you talk to a person when their attention is someplace else, for the purpose of communication that per son is not there. Since they are not there, no communication takes place no matter how much you talk. So rule number one in communication is BE THERE—give your full attention to the other person. Perhaps you have tried to tell a per son something, but they cut you off with an answer or objection before you finished. That person was not willing to be a receiver. In order to communicate, people must take turns being senders and receivers. Even if your message is clear, if the other person is unwilling to receive it, no communication will take place. So rule number two is TAKE TURNS BEING THERE AS A SENDER AND AS A RECEIVER. . To improve your own communica tion skills, practice the following: 1. Be there and give your full atten tion to the other person. 2. Be willing to be a sender and in tend to get your message across. 3. Be willing to receive and give full attention to receiving until the sender has finished. COMPLETES BASICS—SalathM Alton Mack, tan alMs. Lauvania E. Mack and Witta Mack af RaMgh completed basic training In the Navy attar graduating from Broughten Mgh School. He want to school at Aviation Ordinance In MMngton, Tenn. Ha Is now In San Francises, CaHf. aboard the USS Belteau Wood. Four Wake Tech Students Pass Welding Exam Four students of the Practical Welding program at Wake " chnical Community College recently passed the American Welding Society cer tification examination. The certification exam conducted at Wake Tech’s Testing Center by the American Welding Society enables welders to earn higher salaries and receive better jobs, according toj Terry Williams, Practical Welding department head. All government jobs, nuclear con struction and most private construc tion companies require certified welders, he added. Receiving certification are Steve Green of Garner; Charles Grissom of Raleigh; Jimmy Tipton of Apex; and Macon Tuns tall of Durham. Green, Grissom and Tunstall are all 1988 graduates of Wake Tech’s Practical Welding certificate pro gram. Teacher Terry Weeks Addresses Annual Event GREENVILLE-The 1988 National Teacher of the Year will be the featured speaker at a program saluting public school teachers Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Nursing School Auditorium at East Carolina Univer sity. Terry Weeks of Murfreesboro, Tenn., will address the first annual Salute to Excellence in Teaching pro gram. His presentation, “The Teacher as Leader: Planning for Ex cellence in Instruction,” is sponsored by the Middle School Leadership Academy and the ECU School of Education. Weeks, 37, is a seventh grade social studies teacher at Central Middle School. He credits his decision to become a teacher to the influence of his teachers at a tiny K-12 school he attended. “Thanks to their dedicated efforts, I have been introduced to the wonders of the universe, and have developed a belief that I could achieve dreams,” Weeks said. _ Ite said .his teachers gave him a SWITCHES • SPEAKERS • TEST EQUIPMENT • SUPRESS THE SURGE Line Monitor Power Conditioners bySLWABER Du-1155 Reg. SL WABER *39.95 Electricity is filled with voltage spikes, power surges andnoise interference that can *29“ cause circuit failure and even damage to your valuable electronic equipment. The DG-115S spike and noise suppressor from SL Waber filters out electronic pollution with a high energy handling capability. Built-in relabilitv. reach/ to use 414 Hillsbon M-Th 7 Street • 828-2311 IMERS • CONNECTORS • MUL good self-image and that he hopes to have a similar impact on the lives of others. Weeks was chosen for the National Teacher of the Year award last spr ing. He was honored at a White House ceremony in April in which President Reagan presented him a crystal ap ple, the traditional symbol of teaching. His presentation at ECU is free and open to the public. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)—An attack on a black woman by white supremacists in ac ity park has resulted in a pioneering anti-hate hot line to help those victimized by racism or prejudice. Two minutes after the phone line was plugged in last Monday, the first call came in from a gay beaten in a “gay bashing” incident in May. He wanted to know whether the service would help other gay men and les bians, said coordinator Norma Menacci. Th‘- answer was yes. Another call came from an Asian woman who said her 12-year-old son found racial epithets on his locker and was attacked by Hispanic youths. “If they have been victimized, we’ll call the police to go with them if they are uncomfortable doing it,” said Mencacci, who believes the hot line she helped establish may be the first such service in the nation. The line, which was advertised in spot radio announcements, is open 24 hours a day, and has received 25 calls since Monday, including some from prospective volunteers. One call fielded last Tuesday by volunteer Olga Nelson came from a warehouse worker who said he was being called anti-Semitic names on the job. His boss had failed to stop the harass ment, he told Nelson, a Nicaraguan refugee, who will staff the line for two hours each Tuesday. Non-emergency calls such as this are handled the following day after a group discussion. In the case of the Asian mother whose child was harassed, Mencacci suggested a ses sion be set up at the child’s school to educate students about racism. The line grew out of an incident last year in which a black woman walking through a city park was accosted by a group of whites who called her racist names. After the attack, a handful of San Jose residents held a demonstra tion against racism and began fork ing with Santa Clara County’s Human Relations Commission in setting up the hot line. The $2,000 it took to train the volunteers and buy phones was raised by a non-profit group called Friends of Human Relations. “The community decided to get together and decide how to diminish this type of activity. It was determin ed at first to call it the ‘anti-racism hotlihe,’ but they realized there is violence against people for race, religion, sexual preference and ethnicity,” said Trudy Kilian, a con sultant in the county’s Office of Human Relations, where 10 volunteers take turns manning the phone during business hours. Over night and weekend calls are routed to the volunteers at a local crisis line. “All that we know is that we’ve been getting more and more material about the number of hate crimes across the country, as well as some that have taken place here,” Mencac ci said. “Some of them hadn't hit the headlines. Our feeling was that once the black woman hit the headlines, it was time to move. We still don’t know whether we’ll get a lot of calls or very few. I hope we’ll get them,” she said. The volunteers among them speak Spanish, 1 2916 Sylvester Street Raleigh, North Carolina • Drywall • Frames • Doors • Ceiling •Metal Studs FMK ESTIMATES! 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