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SchMl Student. Intern, Lauran Zlngraff; WAUG Air
Personalty, Alvin Jnlin Wapiti; Wlnntr, Ms. Shirley
WMams of Durfiam and an employee with the Wake
Cannty Sodal Services. Back Rew:WAU8 Intern, Andrew
Staphanion; WAU8 staffer, Cy Fork and son, Eurazmus;
and WAUG Air Personalty, WMam “Dollar BT Chapel.
(Photo by Hinton Studio)
Youth Forum Held At St. Ambrose
As Part Of Second Series Meet
BY SYDNEY J. ROBERTS
Special Tv Hie CAROLINIAN
St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, 813
Darby St., was the setting for the re
cent Youth Forum on “Educational
Strategies for Success,” geared
Especially for youth, ages 10-18, and
their parents. This forum, the second
in a series of three, was held on Feb.
16 with approximately 12S attending.
Three of Raleigh’s local churches,
Martin Street Baptist Church,
Laodicea United Church of Christ, St.
Ambrose Episcopal Church and
Teens Against AIDS, are co-sponsors
of the Youth Forum Series.
The focus and concentration of this
forum dealth with the preservation of
African-American heritage, educa
tional strategies for success, AIDS
prevention and a special session for
parents on parenting skills.
Consultants and workshop leaders
were Dr. Lawrence Clark, vice pro
vost, NCSU; Dr. Dudley Flood, ex
ecutive director, N.C. Association of
School Administrators; Ms. Angela
Cloud, educator, Wake County
Schools and director of Teens Against
AIDS; Ms. Norma Haywood, prin
cipal of Emma Conn School; and Ms.
Karan Modest, counselor, Wake
County School System. '
There were three workshop sesions
for the youth and one with adult focus
for parents. All three of the rotating
session for the youth participants
were filled with facts, discussion and
questions.
Dr. Flood emphasized the impor
tance of attitude and communication
skills as key factors in forming effec
tive relationships in the school en
vironment for educational success in
Minnis Shares
Art With Public
At Courthouse
"Seven North Carolina
Lighthouses,” paintings by Raleigh
artist Paul Minnis, will open Friday,
March 8, as part of the Art in the
Courthouse, a continuing series of ex
hibitions held in the Wake county
Courthouse on Fayetteville Street
Mall. These large, oil-on-canvas pain
tings of the seven lighthouses along
the North Carolina coast were com
missioned in 1988 by Central Carolina
R«nt and Trust Co. and hang in
several of their branch offices across
the state.
They are a part of a large corporate
collection of more than 800 artworks,
the vast majority of. which are by
North Carolina artists that the bank
has collected over the past 20 years.
The bank's interest in collecting
began with their past president and
chainpan of the board, George Watts
mil and upon his retirement with
senior vice president James
Nicholson.
About this pursuit, Nicholson says,
“It gives warmth and humanity to the
bank and affords us the opportunity
to support the artistic community
We all benefit.”
Paul Minnis is widely exhibited ant
collected throughout the region. Hit
love of the coot allows him ample op
portunity to paint it. A longtime
sailor, Minnis has depicted not onl)
the coastal lighthouses but also othei
CTat4i architecture, boat and land
scape scenes as well as many non
coastal images. He was commission
ed by American Airlines in the lab
1980s to paint about a 200-foot mura
in the terminal at Raleigh-Durhan
Airport. Among the many other cor
porations and institutions which haw
commissioned Minnis’ work are IBM
the News and Observer, Capital Cit;
Broadcasting, and the Raleigl
Chamber of Commerce.
The opportunity to show the work o
this popular North Carolina artist i
funded by the Wake County Coin
thouse at 338 Fayetteville Street Mall
the exhibition may be viewed iron
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monda;
through Friday through June 3.
school. Dr. Clark’s use of a slide
presentation of his recent trip to
Africa, maps and pictures of great
African scholars, provided facts to
show how our history is influenced by
our African heritage—a history to be
proud of. Both of these sessions
generated much reflection and think
ing, as did Ms. Cloud’s and the Teens
Against AIDS video presentation,
along with a question-and-answer
period.
While the youth were involved in
their sessions, the parents were
equally involved in their session, led
by Ms. Haywood and Ms. Modest.
From the beginning to the end of the
parenting session on effective com
munication and positive dialogue in a
parent/child situation, the parents’
group realized that instead of a “sit
ting session, this would be an involv
ed and spirited one, filled with role
playing, group discussion, informa
tion sharing and examples of com
munication techniques and language.
The adults requested another session
at the next forum in May, and offered
ideas and suggestions.
A continental breakfast and a
“refresher” during the rotation of the
sessions were available to all par
ticipants, as well as a pizza lunch at
the conclusion of the program.
Other participants were this writer,
Rev. Arthur Calloway, Ms. Linda
Williams, Odell Watson, Ms. Clemen
tine Trotter and Joe Springer.
The third Youth Forum is schedul
ed for May and will be held at Martin
Street Baptist Church. Committee
members, representing all three
churches, with youth represen
tatives, comprise the overall steering
committee for the Youth Forum
Series.
Blue To Present Note
To Duke University
DURHAM—The Hon, Daniel T.
Blue, Jr., speaker of the North
Carolina House of Representatives,
will present a public lecture at 5 p.m.
Thursday, March 7, in the R.J.
Reynolds Industries Theater in the
Bryan Center at Duke University.
Blue this year became the first
black to be elected speaker of the
state House, making him only one of
two black state house speakers in the
nation.
The program will include greetings
from Leonard C. Beckum, Ph.D.,
university vice president and pro
vost; remarks from former Durham
mayor Wilbur P. Gulley and from
Paul Woodson, president of the Stu
dent Government Association at
North Carolina Central University;
an introduction from Duke President
H. Keith H. Brodie, and the talk by
Blue.
His lecture will be followed by a
New Trend,
Blacks Are
Moving In
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP)-Blacks from
predominantly white neighborhoods
often find they aren’t “black enough”
when they enroll at predominantly
black colleges or universities, ex
perts say.
Instead of finding their racial
heritage, they grow more confused
about it. j
“It’s a common problem,” said Dr.
L. Vernon Allwood, who directs
special projects at the Morehouse ;
School of Medicine and has counseled
students rejected by other blacks.
“Their parents are middle class.
They're sent to private schools, but
when they get together with blacks,
they stand out.”
Although many of the Atlanta
University Center students who
criticize blacks with middle-class
white backgrounds also are middle
class, they grew up in a black com
munity, Allwood said.
“They have black role models and
they have the black experience,"
Allwood said. “But a black coming
' from a white private school, he’s go
ing to have cultural shock.”.
1 That rejection leads to a deeper
problem, Allwood said: Many blacks
! still have trouble defining what being
black is.
“We’ve come from being called col
1 ored, Negro, black, African
. American—what are we?” Allwood
‘ asked. “We’re never going to come
1 together as a people unless we accept
who we are."
• Shelby Steele, a San Jose State
J University English professor who has
(See NEIGHBORS, P.14)
REP. DAN BLUE
dosing prayer from the Rev. William
3. WiUimon, dean of Duke Chapel.
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SETTING UP SHOP IS 8TOPPED AT HOME
“To found a great empire for the aole purpose of
raising up a people of customers, may at first sight
appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation
of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that ||.
governed by shopkeepers,” said Adam Smith
(1723-I7M), in “Wealth of Nations.” Not one of M
visiting Soviet entrepreneurs endeavoring to learn
about America’s free enterprise system would say a
word about Mr. Adam’s thoughts. In fact, these
young Soviet soldiers in the capitalist camp, if In
deed San Francisco can be considered a captive
confinement, came voluntarily to learn the tricks of
the capitalist trade to take back to Russia to earn
more rubles. Racists and Russians will observe
wide-eyed with what ease each American white
owned business was willing to welcome these new
found capitalists into their companies and home for
30 days. Teaching them the tricks of their trade
while denying such doing* for their own countrymen
and women.
While white Ru**ia is not yet governed by a nation
of shopkeepers, the notion of going that way is way •
out front. From the looks of the San Francisco Bay
area involvement in creating capitalists from com
munists, the shifting form, “Soviet Socialist” to a
nation of “Soviet shopkeepers,” should not take a
decade. During the last two weeks of January and
the first two weeks of February this year, 20 Soviet
men and women worked within the leadership
structure of such enterprises as the Bank of San
Francisco, Summit Bank of Oakland, San Francisco
Visitors and Convention Bureau, a bakery, hotel,
music service, metal manufacturing company,
research Institute, business college, law office,
management consulting firm, restaurant, etc.
A national management training program is
underway that plans to “place hundreds of Soviet
entrepreneurs In small businesses across the coun
(See REINVESTMENT, P. 14)
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Ligon Hosts
Fourth Year Of
Career Day Meet
For the fourth straight year a
Career Day project at one of the
magnet schools in Wake County has
received outstanding community sup
port from citizens who volunteered to
introduce young people to their
chosen careers and job descriptions.
The fourth annual Career Day pro
gram was held at Ligon GT Magnet
School on Tuesday, March 5. The first
three periods of the school day were
set aside for this activity. Citizens liv
ing and working in the Raleigh area
volunteered to share their time and
expertise to introduce students to oc
cupations from their own personal
perspective.
Preparation for this year’s Career
Day started in September 1990 when
students were asked, as part of their
orientation to eighth grade, to name
their occupational goals. Their
responses were used to choose the
careers to be featured in this year’s
activity.
Presenters were invoted to the
Ligon Career Day who were highly
recommended because of their exper
tise and exceptional performance in
their chosen careers. Some
presenters brought materials in the
form of videos, filmstrips, brochures
and other printed materials. Some
participants used demonstrations,
discussion, or showed samples of
their subjects.
Presenters were welcomed to
Ligon individually by seventh-grade
guides wearling “Welcome Tulpis,”
and escorted to the media center for
coffee and fruit and fellowship with
counselor Ms. Anne Wilson.
Counselor Artura Ritter acted as
troubleshooter, making sure the traf
fic flow was smooth and calm.
Department chairperson, counselor
Shirley Hinton, acted as overseer,
(See CAREER, P. 14)
DELTA DARUND-Tamara Strang at Rachastar Hi. MnitaiaU was racantty
Hamad, “1990 Msa Datta Daring.”
UR6ED TO ACT-The Student Bovommont Association was urged to mobilize
ttiolr (areas through oducatloa and arganizatian. Sean Mack, a Washington, D.C.,
native, and Business Administration ma|or and tho Chief of Staff In tlw Student
Bovomment Association, leaks an as tho speaker addresses the African
American Forum, Speaker Norman Hi, president, the National Chapter of the A.
Phlip Randolph Institute, Washington. O.C.
Etheridge Noted Stakes
Are High For Schools
Rural school systems have a vital
stake in the continuation of North
Carolina’s three major education im
provement efforts, State Supreinten
dent Bob Etheridge said recently.
Urban systems, according ,to
Etheridge, already have a broad cur
riculum but many rural systems can
not maintain or will not be able to im
prove curriculum offerings without
the funds provided by the Basic
Education Program.
Etheridge said the BEP is pro
viding the resources small systems
need to put programs in place to fight
the dropout problem; teachers and
other staff members to lower class
size, expand course offerings and
help for at-risk children; and better
access to supplies and materials.
Cuts systems were farced to make
in the fall of 1990 hurt the BEP’s im
plementation with many systems,
particularly smaller ones, forced to
return money provided by the BEP
for this year.
Continuation of funding for the
BEP is the top item on the legislative
agenda for Etheridge and the State
Board of Education.
Another of the key funding issues
involves the School Improvement and
Accountability Act, Senate Bill 2.
NAACP Meets
The Wendell-Wake County
Branch of the NAACP will hold
Its monthly meeting Sunday,
March 19, at 4 p.m. at Riley Hill
Baptist Church, Wendell. The
public Is Invited to attend and
business of Importance will be
discussed.
The Rev. Alphonso Fullwood Is
pastor of the church. Mary E.
Perry Is president of the branch.
Local schools and school systems
developed school improvement plans
under Senate Bill 2. Etheridge said
the commitment made by the
General Assembly to reward
teachers for their many extra hours
and responsibilities for Senate Bill 2
must be honored for reform efforts
will be jeopardized.
Senate Bill 2 is tied to the Basic
Education Program because school
improvement plans are based on the
resources provided by the BEP.
Another key ingredient to school
improvement efforts is the fulfill
ment of the commitment to the new
teacher salary schedule. The third
and final year of implementation of
this schedule must not get off track
this year, according to Etheridge and
other educators, because inequities in
salaries are being addressed under
this new schedule. The old salary
schedule, after years of being frozen
and after several across-the-board in
creases, was not fair. The new
schedule addresses a long-term need
for fairness and competitiveness.
Etheridge has spent time during
the first few weeks of the legislative
session describing for legislators the
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