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Community Milestones
Photo Courtesy of David King
After an outstanding 2008 season, Clint King (with flag) is a top national prospect in short-track racing. (See IN OTHER AREAS)
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Published: November 24, 2008
Community Milestones -
IN THE ARTS
□ Author Bobbi Meislohn of Lewisville has had her collection of haiku, titled Still Life on Mottled Canvas, published by Comfort Publishing LLC. It is available through several Internet sites.
IN OTHER AREAS
□ Clint King, 13, of Denton has been named on Speed51's Short Track Power Ranking, making him one of the nation's top prospects in short-track racing. King's 2008 season included the 2008 Northern Region and the National Pro Challenge Series Stock Car Racing Championship. Eleven victories, nine poles, most laps lead and two championships made King's season the best of any individual driver in the series' history. He is also the series' youngest Northern Region and National Champion.
King carries his motivation to succeed on the track into the classroom at South Davidson Middle School. He is in the the Academically and Intellectually Gifted (AIG) eighth grade and currently is a straight-A student with a 96 percent overall grade-point average while taking advanced courses. He is also a recipient of the prestigious President's Education Awards Program for Outstanding Academic Excellence and has maintained his status as an honor-roll student at every grade level. King was also recently named the first-chair trumpet player in the Davidson County All-County Band.
□ More than 150 members of the N.C. Extension and Community Association met in Fayetteville recently for the group's 88th meeting. The annual gathering provides a chance for members to reconnect, hear inspirational speakers, attend leadership training and hold a business meeting. The conferences approved bylaws and standing rules allowing for more flexibility for the overall organization as well as strengthening the partnership between the NCECA and the N.C. Cooperative Extension. Davidson County's Cooperative Extension Service was represented by county-council president Melody Evans and ECA liaison agent Jeannie M. Leonard.
□ PAVE ReCycles, a used-bicycle collection, brought in about 90 bikes and raised almost $800 for Bikes for the World, a nonprofit organization in the Washington area.
Bikes for the World ships used bicycles to charities in developing countries to provide people with basic transportation to work, school or social services. The bicycles also help create jobs for people who repair and maintain them.
The PAVE Creative Group held collections in Winston-Salem on Nov. 1 and in Greensboro on Nov. 8, with support from Friendly Center, Reynolda Village and the Wake Forest University cycling team. This is the third collection for Bikes for the World that PAVE has sponsored. The bicycles collected at PAVE ReCycles will probably be shipped to Panama and Uganda.
□ The Strategic Planning Council that advises the cooperative extension program at N.C. A&T State University welcomed new members to its ranks during its recent meeting.
Council members present the needs of their various communities to extension administrators and programmers, who provide research-based educational programs and information on critical issues to people throughout the state.
The new members include:
Ellis Aycock of Newland, a retired lawyer and member of the Avery County Farmland Preservation Committee and the Newland Farmers Market. He has been instrumental in helping local farmers, through the extension, to develop and market organic vegetables.
Harvey Moser of King, the president of the King Farmers Market. He has provided leadership that has dramatically increased the vendor and customer participation at the market. He is a local farmer who works with limited-resource farmers to promote sustainability.
Hollis Wild of Glendale Springs, who works with the New River Community Partners, a not-for-profit natural-resources protection organization.
She also runs a plant nursery, and, with her husband, Jay, is a vegetable farmer who volunteers her time and knowledge of horticulture at workshops and meetings organized by the cooperative extension.
□ The N.C. Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, announced its six new members on the council board in October. They are:
Glen Anthony Harris is an associate professor of history at UNC Wilmington. He is the author of numerous articles on topics ranging from African-American-Jewish relations during the first decades of the 20th century; postmodern slave narratives; and interracial marriage. Harris is currently researching and writing a book-length manuscript titled Intellectual Struggles Between Blacks and Jews From the 1940s Through the 1960s: A Prelude to the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Conflict.
Tom Hanchett has served as staff historian at Charlotte's Levine Museum of the New South since 1999, where he has curated a string of prize-winning exhibitions. He has written on such subjects as North Carolina music traditions and black Rosenwald Schools, and his research into the history of American shopping centers has been hailed as "groundbreaking" by The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell.
Reginald Hildebrand is associate professor of African and Afro-American studies at UNC Chapel Hill. The focus of his research is the period of emancipation and reconstruction in America. Currently, he is working on a collection of essays on W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and the theologian Howard Thurman. Hildebrand serves as co-chairman of the N.C. Freedom Monument Project.
Jonathan Howes is special assistant to the chancellor and adjunct professor of regional planning and public policy at UNC Chapel Hill. In February 2001, he completed his tenure as interim general manager at WUNC radio, where he serves as chairman of the community advisory board. Howes is past president of the Botanical Garden Foundation. He served as mayor of Chapel Hill from 1987 to 1991 and as Secretary of the N.C. Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources in 1993-97. Howes chairs the board of the N.C. Parks and Recreation Authority, which is responsible for administration of the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund.
Carol Lawrence, a professional writer and editor from Asheville, is the principal with Carol Lawrence Consulting, which helps nonprofits in Western North Carolina increase fundraising success, prepare for large-scale campaigns, develop leadership, and improve organizational effectiveness.
Hephzibah Roskelly, a former director of the composition program at UNC Greensboro, now holds the Women's Studies Professorship. She teaches courses in rhetoric and composition and American literature and culture. She is author of five books, is the Linda Carlisle Distinguished Excellence Professor at UNCG, and has won the university's Outstanding Teaching Award.
All new members, except Hildebrand, were appointed by Gov. Mike Easley.
□ Toby Bost was awarded The Order of the Long Leaf Pine by the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service, Forsyth County Center, at the fall meeting of the organization's advisory council. Bost retired from the Cooperative Extension in May after 31 years of service as an agricultural agent and garden writer.
The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, created in 1965, is the highest civilian honor that can be granted in North Carolina. The award was approved by Gov. Mike Easley's office.
IN ATHLETICS
The Riverwood Therapeutic Riding Center has announced the winners at the 2008 Therapeutic Riding Association of Virginia Horse Show on Oct. 11 and 12 in Lexington, Va.
The winners are:
□ Liz Baldwin of Winston Salem won Grand Champion of the Advanced Trot Division. She placed first in Equitation, Musical Freestyle and Pole Bending and placed second in U.S. Dressage Federation Intro B Dressage. She participated in the Costume Class.
□ Austin Holloway of Lewisville moved up to the Advanced Trot Division this year and placed fifth in her Dressage, Equitation, Trail and Pole Bending classes. She participated in the Costume Class.
□ Jillian Rogers of Pfafftown moved up to the Intermediate Trot Division this year and placed fourth in Equitation, sixth in Trail and fourth in Pole Bending. She participated in the Costume Class.
First time participants in the Minimal Trot Division were:
□ Ariel Frye of Mount Airy, who placed fourth in Equitation, second in Trail, and participated in Pole Bending and Costume Class.
□ Madeleine McGuire of Winston Salem placed sixth in Equitation and participated in Pole Bending, Trail and Costume Classes.
□ Patrick McGrath of Yadkinville showed in the Walk Only Division. He placed third in Equitation, fourth in Trail, and second in Pole Bending. He participated in Costume Class.
All the riders spent many weeks raising funds so they could participate in this two-day show. Their families were in attendance, as well as their coaches Susan Hubbard and Laura Pallavicini.
IN EDUCATION
□ Sara M. Patterson graduated cum laude from Queens University in Charlotte on May 2 with a bachelors of arts in music. She is a 2004 graduate of Mount Tabor High School.
Patterson is currently serving the people of Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa, as a missionary with Adventures in Missions, a Christian mission organization in Georgia.
Patterson is the daughter of Fred and Debbi Patterson of Winston-Salem.
□ UNC School of the Arts alumnus Jim Vincent has been appointed an honorary member of the UNCSA Board of Trustees. His appointment, by Chancellor John Mauceri, was ratified by the UNCSA Board of Trustees earlier this month. He is the second of seven honorary trustee positions to be appointed to represent the areas of dance, design and production, drama, film, music, visual arts, and academic programs. He will provide a national perspective in the dance arena. His term is for two years.
"We are grateful that Jim Vincent has agreed to serve his alma mater as an honorary trustee," Mauceri said. "His experience as a dancer, choreographer, ballet master, teacher, and artistic director for dance companies around the world gives him a unique perspective as he advises UNCSA. Jim is a creative and passionate leader in the dance world, and he represents the highest achievements of our alumni and all we do at UNCSA."
Vincent's distinguished career as a professional dancer includes a 12-year tenure with Jirí Kylián's Nederlands Dans Theater, guest appearances with Lar Lubovitch, and two years with Nacho Duato's Compania Nacional de Danza in Spain. As a dancer, he has worked with many choreographers, including Kylián, Duato, Lubovitch, Glen Tetley, Christopher Bruce, Ohad Naharin and others. He served as ballet master and rehearsal director for Nederlands Dans Theater II and Opéra National de Lyon, and was the assistant artistic director to Nacho Duato with Compania Nacional de Danza.
Vincent has choreographed a number of works for Nederlands Dans Theater I and II and Switzerland's Stadt Theater Bern. In 2002, he choreographed, for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, counter/part, which has been performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, as well as with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Vincent's second work for the company, Uniformity, premiered at the Joyce Theater in New York in 2005. His newest creation, Palladio, premiered in Chicago in April 2007.
Earlier this month, he was honored with an Alumni Achievement Award from UNCSA.
Vincent is currently the artistic director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He is a 1978 graduate of the UNCSA School of Dance.
□ Michael Zagoria, a junior at Auburn University, has been elected president of the Alpha Lamba Chapter of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity for 2009-10. He also has been named to the university's dean's list for the fall and spring semesters of the 2007-08 school year.
Zagoria is the son of Ron and Kathy Zagoria of Winston-Salem and a 2006 graduate of Reynolds High School.
□ Jazma Phelps, a third-year student in biological sciences at N.C. State University, along with other university students from across the United States, will attend the 2009 presidential inauguration as part of the University Presidential Inaugural Conference.
The five-day program provides scholars with a deeper understanding of the history behind the electoral process and the traditions surrounding the presidential inauguration.
Inaugural scholars will have the opportunity to interact with a major presidential candidate, White House officials, congressional staff members, political experts and other VIPs such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and former Vice President Al Gore.
After witnessing the inauguration, scholars will watch the inaugural parade, as the president, vice president and their families make their way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol Building to the White House. Scholars will also attend a black-tie inaugural ball.
In addition to participating in inaugural events and festivities, the scholars will have the opportunity to explore the historic sites and monuments of the capital and engage in panel discussions and political debates with political experts and commentators such as James Carville, Mary Matalin, Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson.
Phelps is the daughter of Tyrone and Wenna Phelps of Winston-Salem.
IN THE MILITARY
□ Army Reserve Pvt. Octavia E. Boyd has graduated from basic military training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C., to be a member of the Army National Guard or Reserve Split-option Program. The program allows students between their junior and senior years of high school to attend National Guard or reserve weekend drills while still in school and pursue a military career specialty after they graduate.
During the nine weeks of training, Boyd studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military-justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field- training exercises.
She is the daughter of Jennifer Peebles of Mocksville and attends Davie High School in Mocksville.
□ Army Reserve Pfc. Quinten R. Mims has graduated from basic military training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C., to be a member of the Army National Guard or Reserve Split-option Program. The program allows students between their junior and senior years of high school to attend National Guard or reserve weekend drills while still in school and pursue a military career specialty after they graduate from high school.
During the nine weeks of training, Mims studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military-justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field-training exercises.
Mims earned distinction in the course as an honor graduate. He is the son of Kellie Gaines of Walkertown and is a student at Atkins High School.
□ Pfc. Brent F. Patterson graduated from the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga., on May 9 and was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, 2-35, Alpha Company in Schofied Barracks, Hawaii. His unit deployed to Iraq in October. Patterson attended Reagan High School and is an Eagle Scout in Troop 919 of Pfafftown. In May, he was selected and tapped as a Vigil Honor member of Wahissa Lodge 118 of the Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America. The Vigil Honor is the highest honor a member can receive.
Patterson is the son of Fred and Debbi Patterson of Winston-Salem.
□ Army Pfc. Matthew L. Short has graduated from Basic Combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. During the nine weeks of training, Short studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading and land navigation, foot marches, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.
Short is the son of Steven and Nancy Short of Clemmons.
□ Robert M. Staley has been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army National Guard. At his commissioning, Staley was assigned to the 139th Regiment, Combat Arms, at Fort Bragg. He has served in the military for two years.
Staley is the son of Larry J. and Patsy Staley of Mocksville; his wife, April, is the daughter of Michael H. and Debbie S. Green of Milling, also of Mocksville.
Staley, a 1989 graduate of Davie County High School, received a bachelor's degree in 1994 from Western Carolina University.
□ Army National Guard Pfc. Matthew T. Denny has graduated from basic military training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C., to be a member of the Army National Guard or Reserve Split-option Program. The program allows students between their junior and senior years of high school to attend national guard or reserve weekend drills while still in school and pursue a military career specialty after they graduate from high school.
During his nine weeks of training, Denny studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, militar- justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field- training exercises.
Denny is the son of Matthew Denny of Winston-Salem and is a student at Glenn High School in Winston Salem.
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