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4 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, April 22, 2009
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Retired Negro League
Pitcher Returns Home
Nathan “BoBo” Smalls
Nathan “BoBo” Smalls,
native Savannahian, spent
the past two weeks speaking
to youngsters in schools and
recreation centers in
Savannah and the Low
Country of South Carolina.
Smalls addressed two
history classes at Savannah
State University.
Also, he was inter
viewed by Marva Harris and
Heru Iman of the Ralph Mark
Gilbert Museum and Egypt,
local media personality of
Clear Channel Radio.
As Retired Colonel
Theodus Drayton remarked
after hearing him speak to
students at Ridgeland High
School (South Carolina),
BoBo Smalls has a message.
His message to young
people is a 10 point plan: Be
respectable; Be your own
person; Don't Let anybody
tell you what you can't do;
You don't have to fit in; Just
say "NO"; Be responsible;
Learn to listen; Ask for help;
Find someone you can trust;
Pray Daily.
Lizzie Shellman of the
St. Paul's Academy for Boys
and Margaret Thomas,
Herbert Glaze, and Sheila
Cato of The Ninth Grade
Academy and Alternative
Academy at Beaufort High
School (SC) awarded Smalls
with gifts and a Certificate of
Appreciation.
After each of his
speeches, students and adults
gave standing ovations and
asked for autographs.
Other venues in
Savannah included Haven
Elementary, Scott
Alternative, Beach High,
Frank Callen Boys and Girls
See, Pitcher, page 14
SSU Theatre Dept, to
present Pericles
Savannah State
University theatre depart
ment will perform the
Shakespearean romance of
Pericles on Apr. 23-26,
2009 at 8 p.m. in Adams
Hall on SSU campus.
Tickets are $10 gen
eral admission and $5 for
students/faculty.
This lesser- known
work of Shakespeare
focuses on the tragedies
and triumphs of Pericles,
played by
Stephan Dorn.
Pericles is a good
prince subjected to the
evils of men and the harsh
ness of nature.
He undeservedly
loses both his wife and his
daughter, and in his devas
tation he faces a heart
breaking end, so he thinks:
fortune has a different,
more miraculous plan for
Pericles and family.
This show brings to
Savannah State something
completely different and
off the wall.
The costumes worn in
this production will be fea
tured in a fashion show
during Recycle
Savannah’s Green Fest.
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Junior League and
Family Violence Council
Colaborate on Campaign
Savannah Branch
NAACP to hold Annual
Life Member’s Breakfast
“What children hear,
HURTS. For a lifetime” is
the theme of a public rela
tions campaign being under
taken by the Savannah-
Chatham Family Violence
Council, with generous sup
port from The Junior League
of Savannah, to educate par
ents about the devastating
affects of domestic violence
on kids.
“Too many parents—
especially mothers—con
vince themselves that if chil
dren do not directly witness
violence it doesn’t affect
them,” said Kris Rice, direc
tor of the Coastal Children’s
Advocacy Center and FVC
member. “Tragically, that’s
just not true. Whether or not
they see the abuse, kids are
traumatized by hearing vio
lent arguments and seeing the
aftermath of the abuse.
They frequently blame them
selves, and feel helpless and
terrified—because there’s
nothing more devastating for
kids than knowing that their
mom is being hurt.”
undertake their own addi
tional efforts.
“The media and enter
tainment industries are pow
erful forces in breaking
through complacency and
focusing national attention
on important issues,” said
Drew E. Altman, Ph.D.,
President and CEO of the
Kaiser Family Foundation.
“Kaiser is pleased to partner
with the Obama
Administration and the CDC
to help build and sustain a
coordinated national media
response to HIV and AIDS
in the United States with par
ticular focus on the most
impacted communities.”
Partnership with
National African-American
Organizations Extends
Reach of Campaign.
The Act Against AIDS
Leadership Initiative
(AAALI) will work with
leading organizations in
multiple sectors of the black
community - civic, business,
The Family Violence
Council sought help for the
outreach campaign from the
Junior League, which enthu
siastically agreed to support
the project, according to
League President Lynn
Brennan. “Our focus this
year is women’s and chil
dren’s advocacy,” Brennan
noted, “so this project dove
tailed perfectly with the
emphasis our membership
had selected.”
A committee of League
volunteers, chaired by
Margie Stringer, has provid
ed expertise and support for
the project, including plan
ning the April 16th kickoff
event.
The campaign will
include public service
announcements, print and
bus ads, and billboards, and
will take place the last two
weeks of April, during Child
Abuse Prevention and
Awareness Month and
Crime Victims Rights Week.
Brochures providing
See Campaign, page 14
media and education - to
deliver campaign messages
and conduct community out
reach activities.
The initiative’s partici
pants include: 100 Black
Men of America, American
Urban Radio Networks,
Coalition of Black Trade
Unionists, Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation,
National Action Network,
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), National
Coalition of 100 Black
Women, National Council of
Negro Women, National
Medical Association,
National Newspaper
Publishers Association,
National Organization of
Black County Officials,
National Urban League, Phi
Beta Sigma and the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference.
Mayor Otis S. Johnson
The Savannah
Branch of the National
Association for th
Advancement of Colored
People(NAACP) will hold
the 6th Annual Curtis V.
Cooper Life Members
Breakfast on Saturday,
David McLaughlin,
Savannah Technical
College’s recipient of the
Georgia Occupational Award
of Leadership (GOAL), has
been selected as one of 12
finalists to advance to the
state-level competition.
The announcement was
made via email by
Commissioner Ron Jackson
on April 15, 2009.
GOAL, a statewide
program of the Technical
College System of Georgia,
honors excellence in academ
ics and leadership among the
state’s technical college stu
dents.
The competition begins
when students are nominated
by their instructors at each of
the state’s 33 technical col
leges and four Board of
Regents colleges with techni
cal education divisions.
Through two rounds of
local judging, one GOAL
winner is selected for each
college.
The college GOAL
winners then participate in a
preliminary judging within
their respective consortiums
through which the top 12 are
chosen.
On May 20-21, 2009,
the 12 finalists will travel to
April 25, 2009 at 9:00am.
The breakfast will be
held at the EOA
Administrative Building
located at 1120 May Street.
Reserve your table
today. Tickets are $25.00.
Please be aware that
seating is limited.
Speaker for the event
will be Mayor Otis S.
Johnson, Ph.D.
Tickets May Be
Purchased at the NAACP
Branch Office918-B Martin
Luther King, Jr. Boulevard -
912-233-4161-or fax 912-
233-3088.
Prince A. Jackson, Jr.,
Ph.D., President.
Atlanta for the next leg of
the competition at the
Renaissance Waverly Hotel
in Atlanta, GA.
McLaughlin will be
accompanied by his nomi
nating instructor, Salvador
Aranda.
A panel of leaders from
the business, industry, and
government sectors will
interview the GOAL final
ists to determine the best
ambassador for technical
education and will select the
state’s 2009 GOAL winner.
“I am honored to have
made it to the top 12 and will
continue to represent
Savannah Tech to the best of
my ability in Atlanta,” says
McLaughlin. “Even though
it is a competition, I look
forward to meeting new peo
ple and the opportunity to
share my experiences with
them.”
McLaughlin has lived
in Savannah for two years
with his wife and daughter.
He is attending
Savannah Technical College
for Industrial Systems
Technology where he is also
the Student Council
President and the Industrial
Technology Club President.
After completing his
program of study, he plans to
pursue a career as a multi
craft technician in industrial
production.
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Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
WOMEN'S REVIVAL
April 23 - 25, 2009
Thursday Evening 7:00 PM
Messenger:
Evangelist Beatrice Washington
Ehenezer Baptist
Point of Praise: Minister Carolyn S. Warren
Friday Evening 7:00 PM
Messenger:
Pallor Johnnie M. Allnow
live Gospel Baptist dI Savannah
Point of Praise: Minister Carolyn S. Warren
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REVIVAL
CHOIR
Saturday Evening 5:00 PM
Evangelism Play
Somebody Knocking At My Door"
Featuring Evangelist linette Phillips
Central Baptist Church Of Savannah
Contact Persons
Carolyn Brown
379-1014
Audrey Kline
846-4166
Located at
367 Keans Neck Rd, St. Helena Island, SC
843-646-4742
HIV/AIDS ..continued from page 3
Savannah Tech’s GOAL
Winner Advances to
State Competition