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Anita Stroud Youth Development Center Staff
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Executive Director - Rev. Cassandra Aline Jones, PhD - Dr Jones is a native San Franciscan and is an honor graduate of the San Francisco Unified School System. Her formal education includes: B.A. degree, Spelman College; graduate studies and Lifetime Teachers Certification, Southern Methodist University; M.A.R.E. degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr Jones is the first African American female in the history of Southwestern to earn a PhD degree. For thirteen years she taught in the Dallas Independent Schools: choral music, musical theater, public speaking, and served as a resource/catalyst for the Laureate Program for the Gifted and Talented. Dr Jones also enjoyed teaching private piano lessons to children and youth in her Duncanville, Texas music studio. The church home of Dr Jones is the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC where Dr. Jones serves on the associate minister’s staff, and is also an enthusiastic participant in the Friendship Orchestra playing the violin. |
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Ass't Director - Eula Hawthorne - Mrs. Hawthorne graduated from UNCC with both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Her Bachelor of Arts degree is in Early Childhood Education and her Masters degree is in Education. She has been recorded in the National Reference Institute Who's Who in American Education 1989-1990 Edition for significant contributions to American Education. She has taught in the her church's Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System for many years. Presently, she is a teacher and the Assistant Director of the Anita Stroud Youth Development Center. |
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Instructor - Jackie Nicholson - For Ms Nicholson, the Anita Stroud Child Development Center was her first opportunity to work with children on a regular basis. She started at the center as a volunteer in March 1997 approximately 3 months after retiring from BellSouth, now AT&T, She became a full time employee in January 1998. She remained there working with the 2nd grade students until June 2002. She then accepted a position with the CMS (Endhaven Elementary) After School Enrichment Program September 2002 through June 2004. There she worked with both 1st and 2nd graders. She returned to the Anita Stroud program in January 2007 and is presently working with 2nd and 3rd graders. She finds working with children to be the most gratifying job she has ever had and the children love her. |
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Instructor - Brenda Sullivan - Ms Sullivan joined the Anita Stroud Youth Development Center 2 years ago after 30 years in the Charlotte School System as a Teacher Assistant at Lansdowne Elementary School. She is a representative of the National Council of Negro Women. She also serves on the Christian Education Department, as Church Secretary and Quarterly Conference Secretary at Union Bethel A.M. E. Zion Church. She loves working with children, loves helping them to learn to read, learn their alphabets, mathematics and showing them how to acquire confidence and high self-esteem. |
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Instructor - Brenda Robins - Ms Robins retired from the School District of Philadelphia after working for thirty years in Early Childhood and Special Education and came to Charlotte to start her second career. Ms Robins began her career in child development as a volunteer in high school working at a child development laboratory. As a church member, she volunteers as a child care teacher during church service. When she was an adult group leader, she was part of an organization whose emphasis was youth cultural enrichment and education. The students and adults in the two year program traveled to Baltimore, MD; Detroit, MI; and Windsor, Canada. The program culminated with a twelve day trip traveling and touring Egypt. She believes since children are our future, it is very important that we give them the best start possible in education.
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Emeritus Executive Director - Geraldine Powe - Ms Powe started with Anita Stroud in 1984 as a volunteer and became Executive Director in 1990. She continued as Executive Director until 2007 but still stays involved working with the students on reading and spelling. Ms Powe retired from the Hempstead, NY School System in 1979 after 30 years in Early Childhood Development, working throughout the New York Metro Area. Upon her return to Charlotte, Ms Powe worked with Central Piedmont College conducting Early Childhood Development training classes for several years. |
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