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Week of March 11,2009 - March 17,2009 • Vol. 37 No. 3 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
Greenbriar Celebrates
Volunteers and Donors
The Board of Directors and staff of Greenbriar Children's Center hosted the Annual Volunteer/Donor
Appreciation Luncheon on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church. Greenbriar
recognized and congratulated all of our 2007 & 2008 volunteers and donors for their commitment to the chil
dren of this community.Volunteers of the Year Award Recipients are: Individual: Theresa Vann-Baker; Small
Business: Madeleine T. Walker School of Ballet; Civic Organization: West Chatham YMCA; Religious: St.
Thomas Episcopal Church. Donors of the Year Award Recipeints are:Individual: Will & Henry Hale; Small
Business: Poppell Brothers Carpet; Corporate: The Westin Savannah Harbor;Civic Organization:
Emancipation Proclamation; Religious: Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church
Wooten and Morrison Receive
One Small Voice Award
Pictured from L-R, John Patterson, CEO of JCB, Lois Wooten, Mary Morrison, and Dee Williford
Obama
Family
Celebrated
During
Black
Press Week
President Barack Obama
Black Press Week, the
annual celebration of the
birth of the Black Press of
America, March 16, 1827,
will salute America’s first
family, celebrate civil rights
champions and honor a polit
ical pioneer during its annual
Newsmaker of the Year
Award Dinner March 19.
“Black Press Week
promises to be the most
exciting ever,” says Dorothy
R. Leavell, chair of the
NNPA Foundation, unveiling
this year’s honorees, selected
by member publishers. “The
pride of our profession glad
dens our hearts as we
acknowledge the first
African-American president
and replay the role of the
Black Press over these 182
years.”
The top honoree is the
Newsmaker of the year,
which will go to the entire
first family of President
Barack Obama, in celebra
tion of their historic impact
on America as a family and
as public servants.
They include the presi
dent, First Lady Michelle
Obama, and their daughters,
Sasha and Malia.
The Lifetime
Achievement Award will go
to civil rights icon the Rev.
Joseph Lowery, co-founder
and former president of the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, who
recently rendered the bene
dictory prayer at the presi
dential inauguration.
Two Outstanding
Community Service Awards
will go to Xemona Clayton,
president and CEO of The
See Black Press, page 8
Mrs. Lois Wooten and
Mrs. Mary Morrison were
honored on Saturday,
March 7, 2009 by the
Savannah Children’s Choir.
The award, which rec
ognizes the work that some
times unsung heroes accom
plish, has gone to Henry
Moore, and Lady Bamford .
“Lois and Mary have
been two of our most enthusi
astic supporters since we
began the Savannah
Children’s Choir,” comment
ed Roger Moss, co-founder
and artistic director.
The event featured a
special performance by the
Savannah Children’s Choir,
with a cocktail reception
that followed the award cer
emony hosted by JCB with
additional support from
Hunter Maclean and the
Mary Lane Morrison
Foundation.
The
Savannah
Tribune
Salutes
Alma
Williams
Mrs. Alma Williams
In observance of
Women s History Month, The
Savannah Tribune is
reprinting excerpts from an
article published in The
Black Mountain College
Museum Arts Center
Magazine recapturing the
experiences of Mrs. Alma
Stone Williams, a
Savannahian, and Spelman
College graduate who was a
trailblazer in integration in
higher education - being the
first African American to
integrate Black Mountain
College near Ashville, NC, in
1944. Williams is a member
of Holy Spirit Lutheran
Church, is an associate pro
fessor emerita of Savannah
State University, and has
received numerous awards
and honors. And remains
active in her community.
Excerpts from Black
Mountain College Museum
Arts Center Magazine,
Winter 2007/2008.
“There's a story in
Martin Duberman's seminal
study Black Mountain: An
Exploration in Community
about the college's first
attempts at racial integration.
It begins the first year of the
college's life, 1933. Charles
Templeman Loram, Sterling
Professor at Yale, has asked
to visit the campus with his
students, one of whom is
Black.
The faculty holds a
meeting to discuss the issue.
Someone asks the question
that is on everyone's mind:
See Williams, page 8
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