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December 8,2010-December 14,2010* Vol. 38 No. 41 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
MLK Observance Day Association
Announces Honorees, Theme
Alderwoman Mary Osborne
Larry Chisolm
Elizabeth K. Jackson
T he Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Observance Day
Association pres
ents the 2011 Honorees
reception on Sunday,
December 12, 2010 at 5pm at
the King-Frazier Ballroom of
Savannah State University.
The Grand
Marshals are Alderwoman
Mary Osborne and District
Attorney Larry Chisolm.
The Civil Rights
Honoree is Elizabeth K.
Jackson.
The 2011 Theme win
ners will be honored. They
are: 1st Place, Riche'
Williams, "Dream with a
Vision, Live with a Passion;
2nd place Alexis Harris,
"Dreaming Is Believing,
Believing is Achieving and
Achieving = Success".
The MLKing, Jr.
Observance Day Association
Board of Directors extends
an invitation to the
public.For additional infor
mation, please call the office
at (912) 234-5502 or the
president’s office at (912)
341-0042.
Second Harvest Holds Ribbon Cutting
for the Kids Cafe Community Kitchen
O n Monday,
December 6, the
Second Harvest
Community
Kitchen hosted a ribbon cut
ting ceremony for the Kids
Cafe.
Kids Cafe is an after
school feeding and tutoring
program for low-income chil
dren, ages 5-17. Second
Harvest has 35 Kids Cafe
sites in Bulloch, Chatham,
Glynn and Toombs Counties.
More than 2,100 chil
dren attending Kids Cafe
receive a hot nutritionally
balanced supper in a safe and
nurturing environment. Each
child also receives homework
assistance or tutoring to
improve his or her academic
achievement. Established
in Savannah in 1989, Kids
Cafe is now nationwide with
more than 1,700 cafes around
the country.
During the ribbon cut
ting, it was also announced
that the prestigious Kresge
Foundation has extended the
opportunity of a matching
grant of $200,000 to
America’s Second Harvest of
Coastal Georgia for the Kids
Cafe Community Kitchen
that will enable the food bank
to expand two programs that
specialize in reducing hunger
by ending the cycle of pover
ty in our community.
Second Harvest offi
cials, city and county leaders
were on hand to take part in
the ribbon cutting.
Community Kitchen is
now recruiting students for its
January class. Please contact
Iris Holmes McCraw at 721 -
1798 before December 15.
For more information
about Kids Cafe Community
Kitchen, or hunger in our
community, please visit
www.helpendhunger.org, or
call (912) 236-6750.
Humphries to
Speak at SSU
Commencement
Frederick S. Humphries, Ph.D.
S avannah State
University will hold
its 177th commence
ment ceremony at 10
a.m., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010,
in Tiger Arena. About 170
students will receive under
graduate and graduate
degrees. Frederick S.
Humphries, Ph.D., president
emeritus of Tennessee State
University (TSU) and Florida
A&M University (FAMU),
will be the guest speaker.
A native of
Apalachicola, Fla., Humphries
graduated magna cum laude
from FAMU in 1957 with a
Bachelor of Science degree in
chemistry. Humphries was
also a distinguished military
science graduate and is report
ed to have been the first black
officer commissioned into the
Army Security Agency, the
Army’s signal intelligence
branch from 1945 to 1976.
The Tennessee Board of
Regents named Humphries
president of TSU in 1974,
amid growing controversy
over a proposed, new multi
million dollar facility for the
night school extension center
at the nearby University of
Tennessee at Nashville
(UTN). Humphries left TSU
in 1985 to serve as president at
FAMU. During his 16-year
tenure, enrollment more than
doubled; the university attract
ed 657 National Achievement
Scholars; the number of sci
ence and engineering students
increased tenfold; and doctor
al degree programs increased
from one in 1985 to 10 in
2000. Humphries been a
Regent Professor at the
FAMU College of Law since
2003.
Established in 1890,
Savannah State University is
on the move to become the
best value-added university in
the nation. The university’s
4,100 students are enrolled in
23 undergraduate and five
graduate programs in three
colleges: Liberal Arts and
Social Sciences, Business
Administration and Sciences
and Technology.
Inside This Week’s Edition:
Small Business Assistance Holds Annual
Meeting, pg. 2
Savannah Feed the Hungry Collects Toys for
Distribution, pg. 4
Local J.D. Byrider Named Franchise of the
Year, pg. 8
Gulfstream Partners with Chatham County
Schools, pg. 13
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