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2 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, April 27, 2011
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Davenport House Museum To Award
First Community Service Scholarship
Raven Bryant
The Isaiah Davenport
House Museum will present
the Davenport House
Scholarship for Community
Service to Savannah Arts
Academy senior Raven Bryant
on Sunday, May 15 at 5:30
p.m. at the home’s annual
Spring Garden Party. Bryant
will be the first recipient of this
new scholarship award.
Raven Bryant has been
involved with the museum
since 2008 when she participat
ed along with 14 other
Savannah Arts Academy stu-
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dents in the fall Junior
Interpreter program.
Bryant is both an employ
ee and a volunteer at the
Davenport House, working as a
docent on the weekends and for
special programs like “Yellow
Fever!” She attends Junior
Interpreter meetings regularly,
assists with activities such as
Super Museum Sunday and
helps with the Christmas living
history program as well as the
Savannah Garden Expo.
In addition to her service
to the museum, Bryant also
attended the Governors Honors
Program in the summer of
2010, majoring in Social
Studies. At Savannah Arts
Academy, she is currently
ranked number three in her
class of 169 and has a 4.0 grade
point average. A Girl Scout and
a leader of the youth group at
First Union Baptist Church, she
has been accepted to a number
of well-respected colleges
including Vanderbilt University.
“Raven Bryant embodies
the excellence and commitment
that set the standard for future
scholarship recipients,” said
Davenport House Director
Jamie Credle. “We congratulate
her on her exceptional service
to the Davenport House
Museum and her dedication to
Savannah.”
In evaluating eligible
young people, museum staff
reviewed volunteer service and
commitment to the museum of
students in the class of 2011.
The Davenport House began
the Junior Interpreter program
in March 2003 to provide an
educational and a service-ori
ented program for students in
grades nine through twelve.
Savannah Arts Academy
teacher Rod Mackay was
instrumental in creating the pro
gram and has been an advocate
for it ever since. Since 2003,
more than 130 students have
participated in the Davenport
House’s Junior Interpreter pro
gram.
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industry is one that must
unequivocally be embodied with
visionary leaders who are detail-
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people from all walks of life,
excellent communicators and
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Julius Royals, an established
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derful reflection of such attrib
utes. A seasoned veteran with
more than 20 years of admirable
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name as one of the best in the
industry. In fact, media icon, Hal
Lamar (owner of HL News
Media Service in Atlanta,
Georgia) once called Royals a
public relations whiz.
A native of Savannah,
Georgia, Royals is a graduate of
Tuskegee University, where he
majored in Business
Administration. Adopting
Tuskegee’s independence phi
losophy of “building our build
ings, making our bricks” as his
own, Royals always had the
mindset of an entrepreneur.
Fascinated by the importance of
politics, he began to scratch the
surface of entrepreneurship
when he served as a consultant
for Martin Luther King, ffl’s
1986 run for Fulton County
Commissioner.
His demonstrated abilities
as a leader landed him positions
on the national advance staff for
Mrs. Coretta Scott King in 1986,
the 1988 Democratic National
Convention, the 1990 Nelson
Mandela United States Tour, as
well as the Presidential
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with Mrs. King afforded him the
opportunity of being a part of
Dr. King’s 57th birthday, which
also marked the first year of the
national King holiday.
Royals is a member of the
Society for the Advancement of
Management (SAM) and the
Lewis Adams Masonic Lodge.
He is a recipient of the
Tuskegee University Historical
Quiz award (issued by the
National Park Service), former
chairman of the Tuskegee
University Negro College Fund
Campus Campaign Drive.
He has served as the
National Director of the
Historically Black Colleges and
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ties as well.
He is licensed by the Federal
Communications Commission
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grams, and has worked with
R&B artists to include The
Commodores, Lionel Richie
and other entertainers.
Royals is the father of two adult
children, Riette and Jarone and
resides in Atlanta, GA. When
he is not busy, he enjoys watch
ing and attending football and
basketball games as well as the
performing arts.
Miller Elected to Board of
Fair Housing Council
Carl Anthony Miller, a
native of Savannah, was
recently elected to serve on the
Board of Directors of the
Savannah Chatham County
Fair Housing Council. The
board acts as the governing
body of the Savannah Chatham
County Fair Housing Council
which is a non-profit organiza
tion that began in 1994.
The mission of the organ
ization is to provide all citizens
fair housing services that will
result in the protection of equal
housing opportunity from dis
crimination based on race,
color, national origin, sex, reli
gion, familial status or disabili
ty. Miller, age 25, will be the
youngest member to sit on the
Board.
Miller, an accomplished
scholar, was named a 2011
Fellow at Vanderbilt
University's Peabody School of
Education and Professional
Development. He was also
selected to participate in the
National Institute for Urban
School leaders at Harvard
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Active in community
affairs, Carl Miller is a member
of the Savannah chapter of the
NAACP, the Urban League,
the Masonic Order (PHA
Lewis Adams Lodge #67) and
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
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He also volunteers with the Big
Brother Program of the Coastal
Empire.
He is a member of the
Mt. Hermon Baptist Church
and is the son of Dr.
Quentina Miller-Fields and
Eric Fields.