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2 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, March 3, 2010
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
59th Southern Regional Press
Institute Held
Baye’, Dr Carmen Manning Miller, Department Chair, Mass Communications, Edna Jackson,
Mary Wyatt, V.P. Academic Affairs, and Eugene Brannon, Student Government President
By Whitney Hunter,
Savannah State University
Susan Catron, executive edi
tor for the Savannah
Morning News, said last
Thursday at Savannah State
MRS. EUTHA LEE
COLEMAN
November 30, 1929 - July 29, 2009
Mis Lutha Lee
Coleman was moved
from Oak Grove
Cemetery on
December 2.1 2009
to Laurel Grove
South to be with her
husband, Lee Watson
Coleman, Sr {)952).
She is survived by
her children, grand
children, great
grandchildren and
great great grand*
children whom she
loved dearly
University's 59th Southern
Regional Press Institute that
future journalists should not
be discouraged by the fleet
ing economy.
“Please know it is about
the business, not about what
we do as journalists,” Catron
said. “What we do as journal
ists' is very important; find
me a business that is not
struggling in this economy.”
The annual event,
whose theme was
“Investigative Reporting,
Utilizing New Media,”
awarded Catron, a University
of North Carolina graduate,
the prestigious Louis R.
Lautier Award For Career
Achievement.
Catron quoted Michael
Gartner, a former newspaper
editor and one of her many
idols, to a packed audience in
the Kennedy auditorium.
“Spreading the facts
See SRPI, pg.14
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Savannah Children’s Choir Presents
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding
The Savannah
Children’s Choir will pres
ent their 2010 Artist-in-
Residence, Esperanza
Spalding, in concert on
Tuesday, March 9 at 7 p.m.
at the Lucas Theater.
Tickets are $5 - $75, avail
able at the SCAD Box
Office by calling (912)
525-5050.
In addition to her
public concert, she will
work with the SCC in an
open rehearsal on
Monday, March 8 from 5-
7:30 at St. Paul’s, 34th &
Abercom. This rehearsal
is free and open to the pub
lic. While here, she will
also visit area public and
private schools, meeting
with choral and band stu
dents.
“We’ve chosen
Esperanza for her com
pelling music, and her even more
compelling story. In past years’
residencies, we’ve focused on
opera. This year, we wanted to
focus on the American tradition
of jazz,” comments SCC Artistic
Director Roger Moss. “Also,
because she is a singer as well as
an instrumentalist and composer,
we’re able to bring her message
to an even broader group of
young musicians throughout
Savannah.”
Her story is anything but
typical. She was bom in 1984
and raised on what she calls “the
other side of the tracks” in a
multi-lingual household and
neighborhood in Portland,
Oregon. Growing up in a single-
parent home amid economically
adverse circumstances, she
learned early lessons in the
meaning of perseverance and
moral character from the role
model whom she holds in the
highest regard to this day - her
mother.
“She was very strong-
willed, very independent,”
says Spalding. “She did a mil
lion things. She was a baker, a
carpenter, she worked in foster
care homes, she worked in
food service, she worked with
Cesar Chavez as a labor organ
izer.”
At 16, Spalding left high
school for good. Armed with
her GED and aided by a gener
ous scholarship, she enrolled
in the music program at
Portland State University. “I
was definitely the youngest
bass player in the program,”
she says. “I was 16, and I had
been playing the bass for about
a year and a half. Most of the
students in the program had
already had at least eight years
of training under their belts,
and I was trying to play in
these orchestras and do these
Bach cello suites. It wasn’t
really working, but if nothing
else, my teachers were saying,
‘Okay, she does have talent.’”
For more informa
tion, go to www.savannah-
choir.org, or call (912) 228-
4758.
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