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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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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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  • Priyanka Ruparelia at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in Greensboro, NC. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Parkview Elementary School 3rd grade student Antwon Lyntch sheds tears of joy after learning he would be getting a new bicycle to replace his broken one.<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, Tuesday, December 18, 2018, in High Point, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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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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  • Kya Johnson at the Barber Park children's playground, Friday, April 15, 2014, in Greensboro, N.C. Kya Johnson is the founder and CEO of RainbowMe, an entertainment platform startup created to engage, inspire and inform children of color.
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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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  • Johnson Street Global Studies, located in High Point, added a maker space at the beginning of this school year. Media specialist Ashley Morgan meets with members of the school's Makers Club each Monday.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, January 10, 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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  • Chantz Sawyers graduated May 25 from The Middle College at Greensboro College and leaves as one of the fastest teenagers in North Carolina's high school history.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, May 26, 2017, in High Point, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Lilac Rain Thompson and Charlotte Constantinidi, two graduates of Northwest Guilford, will become UNCG Teaching Fellows this fall. They both want to be a difference maker in the classroom, just like the difference makers they discovered in their own lives.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 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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  • NO ONLINE PRINT SALES__Judy Mays started teaching in 1969 at Mendenhall Middle. She never left. She remained for 48 years, teaching everything except music. In doing so, she taught three generations of Greensboro and became a beloved fixture at Mendenhall, a woman who did everything from take tickets to games to giving bagged treats bus drivers.<br />
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This month, she retired. After six months, she expects she'll start volunteering at Mendenhall because she does love the school and does love the kids. But on the eve of her 70th birthday, she decided it was time. Parents and teachers and students hated to see her go. They do love her.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, June 9, 2017, in Greensboro, 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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  • Aisha Sougou is a rising senior at Weaver Academy in Greensboro, NC. She plays Cat In The Hat in the Community Theater of Greensboro production of Suessical Jr.<br />
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Whitney Chilton is the director of the Community Theater of Greensboro production of Suessical Jr.<br />
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Students act in the Community Theater of Greensboro production of Suessical Jr. The show is a part of Stages for Learning, a summer production camp coordinated by Guilford County Schools.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • 2018 Third-Team All-America <br />
(AP, Sporting News, USA Today, NBC Sports)<br />
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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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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JUNIOR SEASON (2017-18)<br />
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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  • 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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  • Aayush Rabadey, 16, of Team 10195 - Night Owls, a SWGHS student, works on the team's robot.<br />
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High school students work on their competition robots at ECG Robotics, Inc., a non-profit robotics club which was created by the Early College at Guilford High School. The program accepts students from all over Guilford County. The organization began in 2004 with one FRC team and we have continued to grow in the FIRST Family. Our main goal is to excite students about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and encourage them to spread the word into the community.<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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  • First grade teacher, Debbie Lake, has a brief leaf fight with her students on the lawn of Irving Park Elementary.<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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  • Josh Rose, with his son, Michael, a fourth-grader.<br />
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Jesse Wharton Elementary students dressed up as their favorite superheroes Tuesday, November 21, 2017 in honor of one of their real life superheroes — their dads. They got to share a morning meal in the cafeteria where family members also learned about volunteer opportunities at the school.<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, November 21, 2017, 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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  • Generations of students have grown up with Highlander Academy’s beloved caretaker, who tends more than just buildings and gardens. <br />
To the students, he’s known as Mr. Sonny. He takes care of everything at Highlander Academy, from the stately Vardell Hall to the terraced gardens filled with bright flowers and Carolina pines. For Sonny Patterson, a lifetime of service to this Red Springs prep school hasn’t been a glamorous job, and he wouldn’t want it that way. Sonny began working at Highlander as a custodian in 1966 at just 20 years old, and has been there ever since. These days, he’s not toting students to and from ball games and field trips like he used to, but in many ways, he’s still taking care of the kids. Generations of students have grown up with Sonny, whose best advice for students after all these years is to listen to your teachers and do your best: “At least you’ll have some understanding of what to expect when you do walk out there into this world.” <br />
Caption: After 50 years of service, Sonny Patterson was recognized last August with one of the state’s highest honors, the Order of the Longleaf Pine. <br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Greensboro, 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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  • Amy Murphy admits she’s never met a stranger. So in 2013, when a newspaper photo of needy Greensboro citizens stirred her heart, she marched into a nearby Church’s Fried Chicken, asked boldly for their leftover chicken, and has been serving on a downtown corner every Monday at 7:00 a.m. Murphy eschews the word “homeless,” preferring “my friends downtown,” and no matter how much time and giving she’s expanded into and taken on since that fateful request, insists that “recognizing humanity in others is the best thing I’ve done.” That, and creating her own, distinctive, chicken-lady style.<br />
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Photographed, Sunday, January 29, 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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  • Lamar Brewer has been the chief of the Halls Fire Department for the past 28 years. Even though the position is a big commitment, the department is completely volunteer. As a result, Brewer has made his living restoring antique tractors. He recently combined his two passions when he helped complete a frame-off restoration of a 1941 Ford fire truck from the neighboring community of Roseboro. Manufactured in Virginia, the truck only logged 4,000 original miles. The truck is now on exhibition, painted in a striking “Salisbury Red” color at the Sampson County Historical Museum in Clinton, N.C. The truck holds 300 gallons and can pump 500 gallons per minute.<br />
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  • Mike Crow, 35, is a “Cherokee Friends” who volunteers at the Museum of the Cherokee. Crow is a member of the Warriors of the Ani Kituwah, who perform traditional Cherokee dances. “Kituwah” is the name of the Cherokee “mothertown,” Crow says, important because, while other Native American communities have been displaced, “we still live in the ancestral homeland of our people.” One reason why the Qualla Boundary isn’t the same as a reservation. It’s not even part of the state of North Carolina. Find out why at the Museum of the Cherokee.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, February 12, 2018, in Cherokee, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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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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  • 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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  • Lenoir-Rhyne football team members from the team that won the NAIA national championship in 1960, Marion Kirby, left, and, Dick Kemp. The two were roommates back then, with Richard Kemp a sophomore and Marion Kirby a freshman. The two visit each other at Kemp's home, Saturday, July 9, 2016, in High Point, N.C. <br />
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Kirby and Kemp have remained friends after college, uniquely bound by their experience of winning a national championship together. Kemp was drafted and likely would've had a good NFL career had he not blown out his knee (this was in an era when a knee injury spelled the end of your career). He went on to become a successful high-school coach, winning two state titles. Kirby, meanwhile, went straight into coaching and became a legend at Greensboro's Page High School, where he won four state title<br />
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  • Essa Bishara<br />
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Essa Bishara graduated from Western Guilford High June 7 and became one of eight graduates to step right into a job, thanks to the school's growing logistics program, the only one in a North Carolina high school. Bishara has an apprenticeship with HYFAB, a local  company that manufactures all kinds of water pumps as well as systems to heat and cool all types of buildings. This fall, he will continue working at HYFAB and go to UNCG this fall. <br />
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Photographed, Monday, June 10, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • David B. Hagan, CCIM, SIOR, of Life Brothers.<br />
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Photographed, Monday, June 10, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Breayan Sedano-Roman in Penn-Griffin School of the Arts' Samuel E. Burford Auditorium.<br />
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Breayan Sedano-Roman is the face of Penn-Griffin School of the Arts. He is the president of the senior class, the president of school's robotics team, and he acts in the school's theater productions and plays the flute and saxophone in the band. On June 7, he’ll graduate and head to GTCC for two years before transferring to UNCG to major in drama, minor in dance and focus on the education of both. About Penn-Griffin, Breayan says:   “It’s a school like no other. Everyone wants to be here; everyone wants to learn and be good at the arts. We all become a family."<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in High Point, N.C. 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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  • Mary Ann Watkins- Northeast Guilford<br />
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Mary Ann Watkins graduated June 7 from Northeast Guilford High.At Northeast Guilford, she became a school leader. She was the captain of the volleyball team, co-captain of the basketball team, and she has been president of her class every year. This year, she was the school’s student body president, the voice of the morning announcements and the public face of the Rams. Like her two older brothers, Jacob and James, she will attend Appalachian State and pursue a degree in nursing. She became interested in healthcare after her dad's three-year battle with lung cancer. Her father, Jim, died when she was a fifth-grader at Madison Elementary. He was 54. <br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Greensboro, 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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  • Landen Clark Johnson- Dudley High School<br />
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Landen Clark Johnson graduated June 7  with honors from Dudley High where he studied engineering in Dudley’s Early College Academy. He wants to become a computer software engineer, and he chose to go to Dudley Early College Academy because he liked the challenge. He also chose Dudley because he wanted to play football, and as an inside linebacker, he excelled. His talent helped him receive a full athletic scholarship to play football next fall for Catawba College in Salisbury.<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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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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  • Isabella DePue<br />
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Isabella DePue graduated June 7 with honors from Grimsley High, and she’ll go on to college, major in Hispanic studies and work to become an immigration lawyer. She wants to fight for and be a representative of the people who come to America to make a better life. Her academic excellence helped her earn a scholarship to one of the best private schools in the country. Her social activism and her entrepreneurial drive of selling at Greensboro's Corner Market for the past two years what she makes and what she grows probably helped, too. Davidson College awarded DePue the coveted Presidential Scholarship, which provides $25,000 a year to help cover the cost of college.<br />
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Photographed, Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Kashayia Coltrane will graduate June 8 from Eastern Guilford High. She leaves as a honor student, a four-sport athlete, a leader and a mentor. She now heads to college looking to major in biology and enter the medical field to help other people. “Graduation means everything,” she says. “It means a new chapter. Independence. Being on my own. I am ready. I am ready to grow for me.”<br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at Eastern Guilford High in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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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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  • Judith Sams, now 77, grew up in the White Oak mill village, located in Greensboro, N.C.<br />
She was born in 1940 at St. Leo’s hospital and brought home to 20th Street, where, along with her parents, who both worked in the mill, her aunt and grandfather, also White Oak employees, lived. Some member of the extended family was always living with them; her aunt Lily May took in boarders, as many families did. Judith’s mother worked in the weaving room; her father was a beamer, a skilled position that required close, painstaking work, and “if he had a bum day,” meant less pay. Whatever your job at the mill, the work was hard. Lily May, who was short, stood on an overturned box to perform her job. But except for every now and then about the heat, they didn’t complain. They had a job.<br />
And they had a house. With five rooms, typically, including a living room with a stove, two bedrooms that could be divided for more sleeping space, a kitchen that ran the length of the back, and a bathroom just outside, big enough for a galvanized washtub when it was bath time. No one owned their house; the inexpensive rent depended on the number of rooms. Judith dislikes surviving photographs that show the streets and houses as stark, severe. Her own yard was grassy and full. Every property had a fruit tree or shrub, also planted by the mill: pear, plum, fig, apple. Spruce Street was so named for the many spruce trees planted along its borders.<br />
Judith no longer lives in Greensboro. But in her Whispering Pines home, particular pieces of furniture hold special significance, and not just because “Company Store” is stamped on their bottoms. A chair from the meeting room in the recreation center, where she and her husband Paul first met. A bureau from Lily May’s house. A wicker porch chair, in which her mother held and sang to her.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, July 14, 2017, in Whispering Pines , 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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  • Santa, Cliff Snider, visited children at a holiday party hosted by Community Support Services at The Terrace at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, Thursday, December 11, 2022, in Greensboro, N.C. <br />
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Community Support Services is a private agency that offers specific comprehensive services to each individual served. Our agency provides services to Innovations recipients with developmental disabilities as well as adults with intellectual disabilities/mental illness. We also provide Therapeutic Foster Care to children identified as At-Risk Youth. Community Support Services offers a variety of support services to our consumers, staff, and families. We are committed to ensuring that each client functions at his or her full potential in the home and the community.<br />
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