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Higher Ed Portfolio { 79 images } Created 12 Feb 2019

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  • Latifa Aboeid in her STEM Early College at NC A&T chemistry classroom, Tuesday, November 3, 2015, in Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals<br />
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Some kids say they want to be a firefighter, an astronaut or a teacher when they grow up.<br />
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By fourth grade, Latifa Aboeid knew that she would be a surgeon.<br />
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“I go back and forth between neurosurgeon and general surgeon, but I know I’ll go to med school,” she says.<br />
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The dream isn’t very far out from reach. At just 17, Latifa has nearly two years of college credits on her transcript, thanks to the STEM Early College at NC A&T, a new tuition-free Guilford County public high school. She is on track to start medical school by age 19.<br />
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The early college is academically rigorous, and Latifa’s a top student. She is researching insulin resistance in Type 1 Diabetes in addition to her regular course load.<br />
 
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  • Gabrielle Rodgers, a junior at  North Carolina A&T State University, in the Manufacturing Lab in Graham Hall on the A&T campus, January 26, 2016. Originally from Maryland, she is the first person in her family to pursue post-secondary education. In addition to studying at the College of Engineering, Gabrielle is a Resident Advisor and a member of the Honors Program. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Irving Allen at the Greensboro Four statue on the North Carolina State University campus, Monday, January 4, 2014, in Greensboro, N.C. Allen's uncle, David Richmond, is on the far left. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Kadrien Wilson at Simpkins Elementary School, Friday, February 26, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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Kadrien Wilson is a senior at Bennett College in her hometown of Greensboro, N.C. Besides maintaining her 3.9 GPA and her position as vice president of the Student Government Association,she is a student teacher for a class of second graders at Simpkins Elementary School. After graduation, Kadrien plans to remain with Guilford County school system and hopes to rise through the administrative ranks to principal.<br />
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JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Dom-Sebastian Alexis is the founder of TheBBoyBallet in Greensboro, NC.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, December 6, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • The James B. Dudley High School Advanced Vehicle Technologies or “AVT” Team in their shop located on the Dudley High campus, March 5, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C. The unique program prepares students to take part in the Shell Eco-marathon, a competition where student teams from around the world design, build, test and drive ultra-energy-efficient vehicles. The team, lead by program founder and Dudley teacher Rick Lewis, prides themselves on hard work, overcoming challenges, and for creatively building vehicles out of re-used and re-purposed parts.
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  • Diante Baldwin finished his UNCG basketball career 14th all-time in scoring history with 1,226 points, third in assists with 437 and fourth all-time in steals with 170. Baldwin is a six-foot guard who grew up in Greensboro and attended High Point Christian before starting at UNCG.<br />
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Photographed, Saturday, July 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • While away from his day job as an engineer for automotive giant Volvo, Will Oakley is able to focus on a different mode of transportation. Oakley spends his spare time carefully cutting, assembling and lacquering strips of wood into custom boats in the shop behind his Greensboro, N.C. home. Upon completion of a project, Will always enjoys testing his new vessel (be it a canoe or kayak) in one of the local Greensboro lakes, as he did here in Lake Brandt on Saturday, April 23, 2014, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • President-elect Connie Book will return to Elon after serving more than two years as provost at The Citadel, where she has been responsible for all academic functions, including curriculum and instruction, research, accreditation, admissions and financial aid and academic support services. She has led strategic planning, chaired the Fiscal Review Board, and launched new programs in nursing, engineering, cybersecurity, intelligence security and advanced STEM education. She has also established an office for study abroad and domestic programs, an office for undergraduate research and the Center for Teaching Innovation.<br />
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Prior to joining The Citadel, Book served Elon with distinction for 16 years. As associate provost for academic affairs, she managed a broad range of academic programs and led the creation of the Student Professional Development Center and the residential campus plan. She previously served as presidential faculty fellow for strategic planning, concentrating on developing the Elon Commitment strategic plan. Book began her Elon career in 1999 as a communications faculty member and served as department chair and associate dean of the School of Communications.<br />
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Photographed, Saturday, September 30, 2017, in Whitsett, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Janet Ward Black is the principal owner of Ward Black Law located in Greensboro.  The 36-person firm is one of the largest woman-owned law firms in our state. Ward Black Law has represented over a thousand clients in the past 4 years with client settlements of over 34 million dollars.* Ward Black Law represents people in personal injury, workers’ compensation, veterans’ disability, family law and defective products litigation. <br />
A graduate of Davidson College cum laude in economics and Duke Law School, Black served as the third woman president of the North Carolina Association of Trial Lawyers and the fourth woman president of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is only the second lawyer in history to serve as president of both organizations.<br />
The program she created while president of the 16,000 member Bar Association, “4 ALL,” has been used as a model in the United States and Canada for providing free legal services to the poor.<br />
Black is a frequent lawyer educator and motivational speaker. She is a Trustee Emeritus of Hood Theological Seminary and has served on many non-profit boards and on many international mission trips. She received the North Carolina State Bar’s Distinguished Service Award in 2009 and the Charles Murphy Award for public service by Duke Law School in 2010. Black has been named in North Carolina Super Lawyers, North Carolina’s Legal Elite and The Best Lawyers in America.  She also retains an AVVO rating of 10, which is the highest rating that can be achieved.  Black is a member of the Women’s Presidents Association and C12 Christian CEOs and Business Owners’ Group.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, August 31, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • After school tutoring program at Partnership Village.<br />
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Photographed, Thursday, February 22, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Nasradin Osman with flies on one of Andrews High School's flight simulators.<br />
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Nasradin Osman, a refugee from North Sudan, graduated June 10 from the Aviation Academy at T. Wingate Andrews High School and now begins his academic journey to become part of the airline industry. He wants to fly planes or work his planes. That has always been his dream. But he didn't begin to pursue that without heartache. His arrival in Greensboro five years ago was a journey itself. And essentially, he came alone.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, June 9, 2017, in High Point, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Math: Guilford County Schools' Arts Integration Academy at Allen Jay Elementary School.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, January 7, 2019, in High Point, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Kindergarten teacher Nancy Close receives hugs from her students, Kharisma Jeter, left,  and Jasmine Bates, as they help her tidy up her room. Close has taught for  nine years.<br />
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2017 Guilford County School System's last day of school.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, June 12, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Chase Johnson, gives the bell of his trumpet an intense stare while cleaning his instrument before class.<br />
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Rodney Milton, the band teacher at Greensboro's Swann Middle School, was one of two teachers who participated in Orchestra Jumpstart, a four-day band camp for local students at Ragsdale High. One of Milton's students was Harsha Sunnapu, a rising fourth-grader at High Point's Florence Elementary.  <br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Rodney Milton, the band teacher at Greensboro's Swann Middle School, was one of two teachers who participated in Orchestra Jumpstart, a four-day band camp for local students at Ragsdale High. One of Milton's students was Harsha Sunnapu, a rising fourth-grader at High Point's Florence Elementary.  <br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Dola Nie Mah, 10, with his new rubber ball made with glue and other simple ingredients.<br />
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Fifth graders at Irving Park Elementary create bouncy balls during as science experiment at the school Friday, November 17, 2017.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, November 17, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Cone Elementary third grade students celebrate together as they learn they will all receive bicycles,<br />
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Front: Left to right, Serenity Estevez and Juelz Garner.<br />
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Back: Left to right, Camarion Williamson-Mosley, Ashley Hernandez, Jaden Chambers.<br />
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Bikes For Kids Foundation, a non-profit based out of California, teamed up with six sponsors and Guilford County Schools to give away anywhere from 50 to 100 bikes at six Title 1 schools. A total of 455 bikes were given away this week. Bikes For Kids Foundation expects to continue the bike giveaway next year.<br />
When completed, a total of seven schools and 505 bicycles will be awarded.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, December 17, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • O’Donnell, visits the classroom of Dauna Jessup, the school's Chorus/Dance teacher.<br />
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Ged O’Donnell, a British born and Irish proud educator, has become Guilford County’s turn-around principal by employing everything from teacher organization to old-fashioned positive reinforcement to spur students and teachers on. Test scores have increased, discipline problems have decreased, community support has grown and school spirit has spiked first at Montlieu Elementary in High Point and now at Kiser Middle in Greensboro.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, December 13, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Areej Hussein is held on the shoulders of her cheering family after graduation. Her brother, Mohamed Hussein, is at right and cousin, Abeer Ali, lifts her onto her shoulder. Her cousin Mohamed Ellabib, 13, is in the foreground carrying her diploma. Students spend time with friends and family after their graduation ceremony as part of the first graduating class of the STEM Early College at N.C. A&T. Hussein  has big plans too, "I will be studying at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill as a pre-med student. I plan on majoring in Biology and pursuing two minors in entrepreneurship and Arabic.  I also plan to study abroad in college. I will then go to medical school. Im still debating between becoming an endocrinologist or general surgeon.  I plan on working here for sometime and later working over seas in the Arabian gulf. I also want to start my own  hospital in Sudan in my later years. Later in life, I also want to join Doctors Without Borders." The commencement ceremony was held in Harrison Auditorium on the A&T campus, Wednesday, May 25, 2016, in Greensboro, NC.  Forty-two graduates completed high school in two years and will enter college with 60 hours of course credits. The science/technology/engineering/math-focused school was founded in 2013 with more than $1 million in support from Greensboro, NC-area companies, foundations and organizations, to prepare students for careers in fields such as engineering, renewable energy and biomedical sciences. Graduates will further their education at schools such as NC A&T, NC State, Duke, Princeton, Cornell and the Naval Academy. JERRY WOLFORD  / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Grimsley High School principal Johncarlos Miller.<br />
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Photographed, Thursday, February 15, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Adam Carlin and Jaslyn Sims with a drawing of Sims created by a member of the art class.<br />
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Adam Carlin, the executive director of Greensboro Project Space, created a four-week summer arts camp where local students learned about fiber art, installation art, printmaking, improv, animation and ceramics in a downtown art gallery that once was a warehouse. One of his students was Jaslyn Sims, a rising eighth-grader at Brown Summit Middle School.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, August 2, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Jim and Karen Reynolds<br />
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For a pair of pilots with countless flights under their belts, flying a 1946 airplane from coast to coast proved to be their greatest adventure yet.<br />
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After being diagnosed with cancer in , Jim Reynolds wanted to do something big. So, for their 50th wedding anniversary, he and his wife, Karen – both longtime pilots – traveled from their Ashe County home to Port Townsend, Washington, and bought a 1946 Taylorcraft, a tiny two-seater that they intended to fly across the country. After 53 days, 3,900 miles, 19 stops, and 193 gallons of gas, they finally flew out over the Atlantic Ocean, completing their most difficult journey to date. Weather, plane maintenance, schedule conflicts with local airports, and the limited capabilities of the 70-year-old plane often caused setbacks for the Reynoldses. But the kindness of strangers gave them strength to finish what they started, teaching them that if God could get them through this trip, he could get them through Jim’s cancer. “As long as he holds my hand and guides me through it,” Jim says, “I’m OK with whatever happens.”  – Katie King<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, November 21, 2017, at the Wlikes Co Airport in Wilkesboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • The sound is less ping and tinkle than clickety-clack, and you’ll see the crowd of smiling, toe-tapping listeners before you see percussionist Abby Roach, or Abby the Spoon Lady — one-named, like Cher — on the sidewalk, rhythmically tapping a pair of steel spoons against her palms, fingers, thighs, and forearms. Originally from Kansas, Abby taught herself to play spoons while riding boxcars across the country before accidentally (“I took the wrong train,” she explains) landing in Asheville four years ago. Between sets, she greases her hands and spoon handles with a salve concocted specially for her skill set, and instruments that come from a kitchen drawer. Admirers approach, and there’s the ping! as Abby hits the oversized bell at her foot: another buck for the buskers.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, May 5, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • At 65, Erica Julien saw a one-inch ad for fencing lessons in the paper. Six years later, she’s now a white-haired, 6-time champ of national competitions with the Cape Fear Fencing Association. Beck prefers the epee to the foil or saber, and carries her equipment — including a mask of mesh so thick that it’s stabbed with an ice pick before bouts as a safety check — in a golf bag travel box. Julien makes her home in Wilmington, N.C.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, August 16, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • WE LIVE HERE: Ian Snider, 34, issues continuous, gentle commands to Jim, a Suffolk Punch work horse who can pull a 3,000-pound load. “I have empathy for my working partner,” Snider says, “which you don’t have with a tractor.” Owner of Mountain Works Sustainable Development, Snider is a forester who uses horse-power rather than extraction machinery, a method important in situations like this one, a mountainside in the small town of Creston, North Carolina selectively cleared for a bird habitat. He’s teaching this “tool that’s still important to keep in the toolbox for modern forestry,” to students at Appalachian State University.<br />
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Photograpphed, Monday, January 9, 2017, in Creston,, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Ken Toda worked for years as a photographer, specializing in product photography for the furniture industry. Toda earned an associates degree from Randolph Community College and a batchlor’s degree from Elon University, After a successful career as a freelance studio photographer, Toda turned his love of cameras into a repair shop that feels much more like a museum. He estimates that he has approximately 4,000 cameras in his store. Toda is holding a Busch Pressman 4x5 inch film camera. The press-style folding camera was popular for decades before medium format, and later 35mm film, cameras replaced them.<br />
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Nathan Pope is a thirteen-year-old Blues musician from Liberty, NC. Nathan is photographed in his neighbors barn where he played as a kid. Nathan picked up his first guitar at age 2 and started playing songs by ear when he was in the first grade. The trio plays during their performance at Wicked Mojo’s in Burlington NC on Sunday, July 3, 2016. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Matt Merkle, right, attracts a crowd with his 1955 Packard, when he stopped for some ice cream, Saturday, August 13, 2016, in Salisbury, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Marshall Rauch founded Rauch Industries in 1952 as a thread manufacturer, based in Gastonia, N.C. Seeking alternative uses for thread, he came up with the idea of wrapping thread around Styrofoam balls to make the classic satin ornaments of the 1960s and 70s. The company ultimately branched out to producing glass and ceramic ornaments as well. While he sold off the ornament business in the mid-1990s, he stays busy with a multitude of other business ventures. Rauch also served as a North Carolina state Senator from 1967 to 1990, representing the 25th district.
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  • Bob Timberlake is an internationally acclaimed painter and designer who makes his home in Lexington, North Carolina. He graduated with a degree in Industrial Relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1959 and began his professional painting career in 1970. In addition to a successful painting career, Timberlake launched a furniture line, has been recognized by several presidents and was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. 11/1/16<br />
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  • Nadia Stewart, center, a new immigrant from the Philippines, pauses to have her photo made with her family. Her husband Keith Stewart and children Annika Stewart, 4 , and Lily Stewart, 1.<br />
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The family is from Winston-Salem, NC.<br />
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New U.S. citizens celebrate after taking their oath during a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Charlotte Field Office on November 22, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. <br />
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  • Dale Britt captains the 53-foot Sensation, launched in 1987 (and now restored and repowered), the very first hull built by the legendary Jarrett Bay Boatworks of Carteret County. It carries the classic lines of a custom Carolina-built sportfishing boat: the exaggerated Carolina bow flare, the knife-edge deep-Vee entry. Jarrett Bay has grown from a humble start to a position as a revered boat-building marquee, and “Hull No. 1,” as Sensation is sometimes called, bridges nearly 30 years of Carolina heritage.<br />
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, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Joyner Library's Ralph Scott, Curator, Printed Books & Maps in front of one of only three original Edward Moseley 1733,  “A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina.”<br />
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Without benefit of aerial photography and satellite imagery, Edward Moseley got a lot right with his 1733 map titled “A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina.” It covers a wide sweep of territory, from the Santee River delta in South Carolina up to southern Virginia and west to the Piedmont. The mouth of the Cape Fear below present-day Wilmington is nearly spot-on, with the coast making a sharp westward turn and the cape thrusting like a dagger into the sea. <br />
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Only three of Moseley’s original 1733 maps are known to exist in the world. One is housed in the Public Records Office in London while another is kept at Eton College in England. The only map in America, and the one likely owned by Moseley himself, is framed on the wall of the Special Collections room at East Carolina’s Joyner Library.<br />
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Photographed in the Special Collections room at East Carolina’s Joyner Library, Friday, March 3, 2017, in Greenville, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Kenneth Cato performs a Back Tuck as Coach Ray Fredrick, right, and Anna Reeb, co-captain, turn the Double Dutch ropes.<br />
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The Bouncing Bulldogs are a jumprope troop based in Chapel Hill, NC.  Since their founding more than two decades ago, they have won nine world championships and seven national championships, and they’ve traveled the globe competing and doing demonstrations as talk grows worldwide of turning jump rope into an Olympic sport.<br />
The Bouncing Bulldogs have traveled as far away as China and Australia. Closer to home, they’ve become fan favorites everywhere in their uniforms created by acclaimed designer Alexander Julian, a Chapel Hill native. <br />
The Bouncing Bulldogs even anchored the 2007 jump-rope documentary, “Doubletime.” <br />
In April, the Bouncing Bulldogs opened what Head Coach Ray Fredrick Jr., a retired PE teacher, believes is the world’s first jump rope gym.<br />
It’s 5,800 square feet, a building that sits on the border of Chapel Hill and Durham. It cost $1.3 million, almost all of which was raised since 2011. The donations came from 400 people, with 95 percent coming from the families of jumpers.<br />
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Photographed, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Mary Jane Seagle, 80, and Jean Ann Privett, 77, stand in the Belwood Community Center in Belwood, NC. Formerly the lunchroom of their small high school, the Belwood Tomato Club now meets there on a routine basis.<br />
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Photographed, Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Belwood, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Pilot Bill Wilkerson  is helping to rebuild an iconic DC-3 airplane at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. <br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, November 21, 2017, in Spencer, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals<br />
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Pilot Bill Wilkerson of Pleasant Garden, North Carolina was among the first black pilots in the country. Wilkerson flew 15 years for Piedmont Airlines, which became a part of US Airways in 1989. In 1980, he became the second black person to earn the rank of captain with the company. The retired pilot still wears his captains’ uniform while he gives tours at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.<br />
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Wilkerson grew up in the projects of Knoxville, Tennessee with his two other siblings and his single mother, who worked as a domestic. She gave her kids the books she received from her clients.<br />
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Wilkerson’s mother purchased “The Library of Universal Knowledge” for her children and young Bill read the chapter called “How to Fly.” The boy ‘flew around the world’ through the articles inside National Geographic and Reader’s Digest. He was so intrigued, he engulfed himself in model airplanes and begged his mother for flying lessons. She initially refused, so Wilkerson and his friend paid $5 for a flying lesson at the Knoxville airport. His mother eventually gave in, and by the time he was 16 years old, Wilkerson was in flight school. Five years later, he obtained his pilot’s license.<br />
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Wilkerson enlisted in the Air Force and served as a mechanic until 1971. Three years later he got the job at Piedmont. While Piedmont was jokingly called the “puddle jumper” airline, Wilkerson was proud to work as one of the first and few black pilots in the industry. He gained much attention as one of the few black men in uniform.<br />
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Wilkerson logged more than 17,000 hours as a pilot for Piedmont. He was finally able to take his family to the places he’d only seen in the National Geographic magazine as a child. In 2011, he was in
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  • Heather Scavone is the Clinical Practitioner in Residence for the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic at the Elon University School of Law. Prior to joining Elon in 2011, she directed the statewide Immigration Legal Services program of Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas, which provided representation to hundreds of refugees and political asylees each year.<br />
Scavone has chaired the North Carolina State Refugee Office’s Immigration Committee since 2005. She is a cum laude graduate of North Carolina Central University School of Law and from Guilford College, where she earned a B.A. in French. Scavone is fluent in both the Italian and French languages.<br />
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  • Nick Mangili is the farm manager for the Guilford College Sustainable Farm, located just north of the main campus in Greensboro, N.C. Farming was a tradition at Guilford College that was suspended for 70 years, restarting in 2015. They now provide fresh food to the dining hall and greater community. Last year the grounds produced over 10,000 pounds of produce.<br />
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Photographed Friday, December 9, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • President-elect Connie Book will return to Elon after serving more than two years as provost at The Citadel, where she has been responsible for all academic functions, including curriculum and instruction, research, accreditation, admissions and financial aid and academic support services. She has led strategic planning, chaired the Fiscal Review Board, and launched new programs in nursing, engineering, cybersecurity, intelligence security and advanced STEM education. She has also established an office for study abroad and domestic programs, an office for undergraduate research and the Center for Teaching Innovation.<br />
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Prior to joining The Citadel, Book served Elon with distinction for 16 years. As associate provost for academic affairs, she managed a broad range of academic programs and led the creation of the Student Professional Development Center and the residential campus plan. She previously served as presidential faculty fellow for strategic planning, concentrating on developing the Elon Commitment strategic plan. Book began her Elon career in 1999 as a communications faculty member and served as department chair and associate dean of the School of Communications.<br />
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Photographed, Saturday, September 30, 2017, in Whitsett, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Art Close works with senior Francisco Montenegro while he drives a fork lift simulator in his Logistics class at Western Guilford High School.<br />
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Western Guilford offers logistics training taught by Art Close. Starting-level classes study warehousing and distribution. That includes the basics of how warehouses function: how to use tools, how to do inventory and so forth. The advanced class, for students who have completed the starting class, covers supply chain management and goes into more depth on topics introduced in the first class. Bob Gantt, the school system’s director of career and technical education said that Western Guilford seemed like a good fit for a logistics program because it’s close to the airport and certain businesses and distribution centers.<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Dudley High School’s Donald Sweeper teaches several Project Lead The Way courses, including Introduction to Engineering Design, Principles of Engineering, Environmental Sustainability and Engineering Design and Development.<br />
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Students, left to right.<br />
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Hezechiah Curtis 10th grade<br />
Barrett Crawford 10th grade<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Dudley High School’s Donald Sweeper teaches several Project Lead The Way courses, including Introduction to Engineering Design, Principles of Engineering, Environmental Sustainability and Engineering Design and Development.<br />
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Student:<br />
Taneij'a Baldwin 10th grade<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Last day of school at Ronald E. McNair Elementary School.<br />
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A celebration for retiring principal George A. Boschini.<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Colfax Elementary School's Emma Gwyn, 9, right, reads the book, "You Wouldn't Want to be a Slave in Ancient Greece," with her classmates in Maegan Denney's class in the room's "Reading Bubble."<br />
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2017 Guilford County School System's last day of school.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, June 12, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Kay Neal II, examines her evidence.<br />
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Southern Guilford High School students perform tests during the GSR and Tool Marks Lab in Ms. Montgomery’s Honor’s Forensic Science class Friday, November 17, 2017.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, November 17, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • EBay targets cities in which a diverse, local retail base struggles to fill the void left by big manufacturers. Retail Revival is an intensive, 12-month ecommerce and business training program hosted in partnership with cities with promising entrepreneurial communities. The program launched in Akron, Ohio in early 2018 and has since expanded to nearby Lansing, Michigan and across the Atlantic to Wolverhampton in the UK. Motivated small businesses in these cities have now opened their doors on the eBay selling platform and, with the mentorship and support offered through the program, reached tens of thousands of customers around the world.<br />
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“We know that small local businesses are the backbone of our local economy and 80 percent of what local businesses make stay in the local economy,” Mayor Nancy Vaughan said at the announcement at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum.<br />
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Small businesses can apply to participate in the 12-month program. EBay will provide participating retailers with a free e-store front and ongoing assistance and training, dedicated customer service and promotional support, such as feature articles, to connect Greensboro retailers to eBay’s 179 million active buyers. EBay will also match up businesses with similar, successful businesses as mentors.<br />
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According to Liz Crabill, the chief deputy secretary of the N.C. Department of Commerce, retail accounts for about 1.2 million jobs in the state.<br />
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Suzy Deering, the chief marketing officer of eBay Americas, said at the announcement that the company has more than 200,000 active sellers in North Carolina.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, February 6, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Math: Guilford County Schools' Arts Integration Academy at Allen Jay Elementary School.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, January 7, 2019, in High Point, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Guilford County Schools' Arts Integration Academy at Allen Jay Elementary School.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, January 7, 2019, in High Point, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Music teacher Winnona Roshan works with her students at Jefferson elementary school.<br />
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Five Guilford County elementary schools acquired 20 to 30 electric pianos, allowing them to create a piano lab at each school and give students a stronger music education experience. Lang Lang International Music Foundation, which is supplying the pianos for Irving Park, Falkener, Sedgefield and Jefferson elementary schools in Greensboro and Oak View Elementary in High Point. The foundation also provided training for the music teachers at those schools and access to a music library.<br />
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Photographed, Thursday, January 31, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Justin Outling is a business litigation attorney with the Greensboro-based law firm Brooks Pierce. Since 2015, he has served as a Greensboro city council member representing the residents of District 3, which is primarily comprised of the northeast section of the city. Outing graduated from the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 2005 with a degree in Political Science. He is married to Cora Outling, another Made in Greensboro featured subject.<br />
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  • Khairy Jenkins is the author of the book, "If My Horn Could Speak." It's this self-help book for kids his age. He'll graduate from Dudley and head to A&T in the fall where he'll play in the band and work toward becoming a veterinarian.<br />
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Photographed, Thursday, May 17, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Kim Gatling is a Partner at the Greensboro law firm Smith Moore Leatherwood, where she concentrates her practice in intellectual property prosecution, licensing, and litigation. Gatling earned her bachelors degree from North Carolina A&T State University before attending George Washington University Law School. She serves on the board of the United Way of Greater Greensboro and  sits on the Board of the Cone Health Foundation.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, January 13, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Angel Thomas is a graduating senior at T. Wingate Andrews High School in High Point. She has participated in many notable organizations such as Young Pilots Club, Civil Air Patrol, Super Nerds and Aggie Bots Robotics teams, Upward Bound, and served as a youth chair on the Board of Directors of the Sparrow’s Nest.  She completed two job shadowing experiences with AT&T and MetLife.<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • David Melville is a senior set to graduate from Northern Guilford High School. He has won six state running titles for cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. After graduation, Melville is going to study physics at Harvard.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, May 16, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Ishmale Powell is set to graduate from Page High School at the age of 15. He is set to go to UNC-Charlotte to major in engineering. <br />
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Photographed, Monday, May 21, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Victoria Epps is a senior at Penn-Griffin School of the Arts in High Point. She has played the flute since the 6th grade, when she first enrolled at Penn-Griffin. She sees the band room as her home -- or in her words, "Home, Sweet Home.”<br />
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Photographed, Monday, May 21, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Carson Burgess, a S.E. Guilford senior, has been an entrepreneur for 7 years. This fall he will attend UNC-Chapel Hill  where he is a preferred walk-on for the UNC football team. At age 12 Burgess started selling athletic shoes on ebay, making up to $600.00 a month.<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Caitlyn Smith is a senior at the STEM Early College at N.C.A&T. She has set her sights on pursuing a mechanical engineering degree at A&T or a material science and engineering degree at N.C. State. She is a Junior volunteer firefighter with the Whitsett Fire Department and the keeper for the Eastern Guilford soccer team.<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Gabriela Ortega will graduate June 16 from Southwest Guilford High School. She was awarded a $5,000 scholarship from a first-place finish during the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast, from a speech titled “Where do we go from here?” In the fall, she will enroll at N.C. A&T with the intention to major in engineering.<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Made in Greensboro - JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals<br />
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Photographed , Friday, October 16, 2015, in Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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Keenan Smith: “I’m a multi-dimensional individual right now”<br />
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Bio: As an athlete, full-time student at NC A&T and the COO of Little Brown Box Works, an imaginative think tank concerned with pushing the world forward by disrupting technology, Keenan juggles classes, business meetings and athletic training all in a day’s work.
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  • The Center Pointe condominiums, located across from Center City park, offers upscale living in the heart of downtown.<br />
Models: Morgan Loman and Abriana Pastrana<br />
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Photographed, Monday, February 26, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Joanna Zieglar, a graduating senior from Dudley High, took her passion for cars and turned it into a career path for college.<br />
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Photographed, Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Rodney Milton, the band teacher at Greensboro's Swann Middle School, was one of two teachers who participated in Orchestra Jumpstart, a four-day band camp for local students at Ragsdale High. One of Milton's students was Harsha Sunnapu, a rising fourth-grader at High Point's Florence Elementary.  <br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Photographic Technology instructor Dhanraj N. Emanuel with students, left to right, Khadejeh Nikouyeh, Nicole DuBois and Douglas Kinley.<br />
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Randolph Community College has worked for nearly 50 years to develop its state-of-the-art, two-year Photographic Technology curriculum that now attracts students from across the country and the world. Boasting a multimillion dollar, 35,000-square-foot photographic education facility and five full-time faculty/staff and three adjunct instructors, RCC serves up to 140 students annually. Encompassing the latest digital and multimedia technology, the curriculum builds from a foundation of traditional film and darkroom techniques. RCC students enjoy nationwide, hands-on internship opportunities which can lead to careers in a variety of professional disciplines. After completing their foundation year, students choose a second year in one of three concentrations areas: Portrait Studio Management, Photojournalism, and Commercial Photography. RCC’s national reputation for excellence and value has been earned by a commitment to the very best in photographic education.<br />
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  • Randolph Community College has worked for nearly 50 years to develop its state-of-the-art, two-year Photographic Technology curriculum that now attracts students from across the country and the world.<br />
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  • Twins Remy and Cameron Phipps were born minutes apart. They’ve always lived within steps of one another. They’ve taken the same classes, rode the same bus, played the same sport and voted last spring at Ragsdale High as Prom King and Prom Queen. Now the pair will attend N.C. State and live two floors apart in Sullivan Hall, the school’s honor dorm. Remy and Cameron were photographed at their Greensboro home and on the campus of Ragsdale High School on July 12, 2016.  JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • 2018 Third-Team All-America <br />
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2018 First-Team All-ACC<br />
2018 First-Team All-ACC Tournament<br />
2018 ACC Most Improved Player<br />
2018 NABC & USBWA All-District <br />
2018 CoSIDA Second-Team Academic All-America<br />
2018 Skip Prosser Award (ACC’s Top Scholar-Athlete)<br />
2016, 2017, 2018 Academic All-ACC<br />
2017 NCAA South Regional Most Outstanding Player<br />
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CAREER<br />
Admitted to UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School’s undergraduate program, which is ranked seventh nationally • Earned Academic All-ACC honors for the second time in as many years • The 14th Tar Heel to earn Academic All-ACC honors in multiple seasons • His father, Mark, also earned Academic All-ACC honors as a UNC quarterback in 1986 and 1987.<br />
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Played in 105 games and made 38 starts (one as a sophomore) • Scored 857 points and has 565 rebounds • Career high 33 points at NC State (2/10/18), 18 rebounds vs. Boston College (1/9/18), four three-pointers three times and five assists five times • Scored in double figures 36 times • Pulled down 10 or more rebounds 21 times (15 or more six times) • Has 18 double-doubles • Was the 44th Tar Heel to make 50 or more three-pointers and has the sixth-highest percentage among those players (.417).<br />
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Third-team All-America by the Associated Press, the Sporting News, USA Today and NBC Sports • First-team All-ACC and the league’s Most Improved Player • One of two players to make first-team All-ACC who were not on the preseason All-ACC first or second teams (with Virginia’s Kyle Guy) • First Tar Heel ever to make one start as a freshman and sophomore, then earn first-team All-ACC honors as an upperclassman • One of 15 finalists for the John R. Wooden National Player of the Year award • One of five finalists for the Karl Malone Award (top power forward) with Deandre Ayton (Arizona), Marvin Bagley III (Duke), Nick King (Middle Tennessee) and Mike Daum (South Dakota State) • The second Tar Heel to win
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  • Cooper White is the valedictorian of Northeast High and plays first base on the school's baseball team. He was raised on a grandparents' 85-acre cattle farm in the corner of Guilford County. His parents, Brad and Jenny White, built a house next to his paternal grandparents, and Cooper has lived there since second grade. He hunts and fishes on this property, and he's been doing that since he was three with his dad and his grandfather. <br />
Cooper's dad is one of his baseball coaches at Northeast High. His grandparents, Travis and Donna White, live about 200 yards from his house. Surrounded by three generations of his family, there isn't a day that goes by that he's not with his grandparents.<br />
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Photographed, Saturday, May 15, 2021, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Cameron Holder discovered her love of theater at the age of eight. Since then, she has appeared in more than a dozen plays and musicals. One of her favorite roles was playing Dorothy in a musical mashup “The Wiz.”<br />
Cameron’s mother, Donna Leigh Holder, died Sept. 29, 2004. She had leukemia. She was 32. Cameron doesn’t remember her mom. But she tries to keep her ever-present in her life.<br />
Next fall, Cameron will attend UNC-Pembroke and plans to major in acting.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Northern Guilford’s Parker Stewart has received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. It's something he has wanted to do since he first saw an Army-Navy game on TV five years ago. He's a patriotic teenager with all the All-American trappings -- Eagle Scout, West Point cadet and star of the track team. Scouting and track, he sees, as part of him. He's now an assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 103, his longtime troop, and he sees track and scouting as "family."<br />
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Photographed, Monday, May 17, 2021, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Gabriel Irizarry attends The Middle College at A&T and is number seven in his senior class.Next fall, he'll head to UNC-Charlotte to study kinesiology. He wrestled at Ragsdale for three years and was expected to be captain this year. But he had to leave the team  because he needed to get a part-time job and save money for college. As a sophomore, Gabriel lost his father, Alex, after complications following knee surgery.<br />
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Photographed, Sunday, May 9, 2021, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • School administrators from around the region participate in the Guilford County Schools Summer Leadership Institute held at the Donald W. Cameron Campus of Guilford Technical Community College, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Greensboro, N.C. Sharon L. Contreras, Ph.D., Superintendent, Guilford County Schools, was the keynote speaker.<br />
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  • Ryan Garber with his brother Isaac (right).<br />
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Ryan Garber is an impressive teenager. He's the school's valedictorian and its student body president, and right now, he's bound for UNC-Chapel Hill to student business/finance and economics and join Naval ROTC. He's not in ROTC at HPC because he's an IB kid, and they're wicked busy. But really, he hopes to go to the U.S. Naval Academy. He's wait-listed, and he'll know by late June if he gets in. His game plan: Enter then. <br />
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He's also close to Isaac, his twin brother. He's five minutes older than Isaac. But really a world separates them. Ryan is whip smart; Isaac has Downs Syndrome. Since they were young, Ryan became the translator, the defender, the best friend to his brother. Isaac will remain at HPC in its Life Skills program until he's 21. <br />
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Photographed, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Shianne will enroll in Winston-Salem State this fall to study nursing. Part of that is what she saw happen to her mom. Raquel Leak. Her mom died of a heart attack. She was 47. Afterward, Shianne was taken in by Vanessa Quick, a mom and grandmother she had met through her friend. Shianne moved in with Vanessa when she was a sophomore and Vanessa -- "Miss Vanessa" to Shianne -- raised her like her own. Matter of fact, she bought Shianne a car for Christmas because she knew she needed wheels for college.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, June 22, 2020, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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