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Let the School Bells Ring!
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Vol. 42 No. 24
August 14,2013 - August 20,2013
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The New Alfred Ely Beach High School Ribbon Cutting Held
F riday, August 9, 2013
was a wonderful day
in Savannah, Ga that
won’t be soon forgotten. A
ribbon cutting was held open
ing the doors of the new Al
fred Ely Beach High School.
The new 218,808 square foot
state of the art school will
house a multi-story academic
wing, new media center, large
student dining area and kitch
en, large open air plaza, 2000
seat gymnasium with locker
rooms and a new medical and
allied health program.
Hundreds gathered
to witness this grand occasion
and to be among the first to
tour the new facility. Among
them were Brenda Steadman
and other Beach High alumni
who worked with the school
board to insure the new struc
ture would meet the needs
of today’s students. The
new school was another ES-
PLOST funded project that
began several years ago under
the leadership of Otis Brock,
Alumni students, former faculty members, school board members and others gather for the ribbon cutting
III (now deceased). Vanessa
Miller-Kaigler, Interim Ex
ecutive Director, Division of
Facilities Management, saw
the project through. Kaigler
credited Brock for all he had
done on the project before his
untimely death and said in
of the new Alfred Ely
her remarks “you will feel
his presence throughout the
entire building”.
Also on hand to
give remarks was Dr. Lester
Johnson, Jr. who was one of
the first teachers to teach at
the original facility which
Beach High School
opened in 1950. Dr. Johnson
gave a bit of the history going
back to the Beach Institute,
then Cuyler-Beach. Remarks
also came from Eric John
son, President, HGBD Engi
neers & Architects; Virginia
Edwards Maynor, Retired
Superintendent of Schools;
School Board member Irene
Hines, Dr. Joe Buck, School
Board President and Dr.
Thomas Lockamy, Jr. Super
intendent of Schools.
Alfred Ely Beach
High School is one of the
oldest public high schools lo
cated in Savannah, Georgia,
USA.
In 1867, the Beach
Institute was established by the
Freedmen’s Bureau with funds
donated by Alfred Ely Beach,
editor of Scientific American.
The school was privately funded
as a manual training school to
provide a means for newly freed
African Americans to assimilate
into white society. By 1874, the
institute was appropriated by
the Savannah-Chatham Board
of Education for the purpose
of providing free education to
Savannahs African American
citizenry. Although the Beach
Institute closed its doors in
1915, it was reopened as an Af
rican American cultural center
and is currendy operated by the
King-Tisdell Cottage Founda
tion. The Beach name survives
in the name of Alfred E. Beach
High School.
United Way Partners With Kole
Management Company To Create
Transitional Housing Collaborative
“Blessed, relieved, happy, excited,” these are the words Deletis Spruill uses to describe her
feelings upon entering her very own apartment after months of shuffling from place to place.
United Way of the
Coastal Empire, in partner
ship with Kole Management
Company, launches the In
dependent Housing Collab
orative (IHC), an innovative
initiative between many lo
cal agencies and companies
dedicated to helping qualified
individuals and families build
stable housing and self-suf
ficient lives. The initiative
serves homeless individuals
and families who are current
ly enrolled in local human
service programs or those
who have been displaced by
fire or any other disaster.
Kole Management
Company, a Savannah-based
real estate management and
investment company that
operates nine apartment
communities in Savannah
and Garden City, generously
granted five units to provide
clients with transitional hous
ing. Other local corporate
supporters - Georgia Power
Company, City of Savan
nah, Comcast and Furniture
Rentals - came together to
help with utility services and
home furnishing. The Inde
pendent Housing Collabora
tive (IHC) is the only transi
tional housing collaborative
in the Coastal Empire that is
operated directly through in
dividual for-profit companies
from the region.
“For many people
who are homeless, transition
al housing plays a key role
toward achieving economic
independence and self-suffi
ciency,” says Gregg Schro-
eder, President and CEO of
United Way of the Coastal
Empire.
“The agencies and companies
participating in the initiative
have taken an important first
step in enhancing our com
munity by seeking viable and
measurable options that will
help them meet their unique
housing needs. United Way
is especially grateful to Kole
Management Company for
taking the lead in this initia
tive.”
Continued on Page.2
The Committee To Celebrate The 50th
Anniversary Of Desegregation
By Otis S. Johnson
A grassroots orga
nization, The Committee to
Celebrate the 50th Anniver
sary of Desegregation in Sa
vannah, GA is sponsoring a
community-wide celebration
of the “Second Siege of Sa
vannah” which occurred in
1963. This is what the late
Benjamin Van Clark called
the Civil Rights Movement in
Savannah dining the summer
of 1963. The celebration will
be a two-day event beginning
with a symposium about ma
jor civil right victories during
the summer of 1963 on Sat
urday, August 24, 2013, from
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at Savan
nah High School and ending
with an Ole Fashion Sunday
Mass Meeting on August 25,
2013 at the First African Bap
tist Church at 4:00 pm. The
theme for the meeting will
Mercedes Wright Arnold
be: “Reflections of the Past, A
Glimpse of the Future.”
The modern day di
rect action struggle for justice
and equal rights in Savannah
began in 1960 with sit-ins and
boycotts of downtown busi
nesses. However, the major
non-violent protests against
segregated public accommo
dations, the desegregation of
Armstrong State College and
the public schools, and local
participation in the historic
March on Washington in 1963
was a watershed year in the Civ
il Rights Movement in Savan
nah.
“History is more than
dates and events. History is
people...” This celebration will
lift-up what Dr. Martin Luther
King called “the ground crew,”
those unsung, nameless peo
ple that were in the local army
of Freedom Fighters. Some of
these unsung heroes and heroes
will be recognized at the Mass
Meeting on Sunday. One of the
important unsung sheroes of
the Savannah Movement, Mrs.
Mercedes Wright Arnold, has
agreed to be the main speaker
at the Mass Meeting.
Join the march
commemorating the 50th
Anniversary of the March
on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom on Saturday,
August 24,2013, 6pm from
the north side of Forsyth
Park to St. Phillip Monu
mental AME Church lo
cated on Jefferson and Park
Avenue in Savannah.
There will be a doc
umentary “At The River I
Stand” shown after the march
at St. Phillip Monumental
AME Church. It is of the last 3
months leading up to Dr. Mar
tin Luther King, Jr., assassina
tion. The march is sponsored by
Savannah Regional Central La
bor Council (CLC), AFL-
CIO, St. Phillip Monumen
tal AME Church and the
Interdenominational Min
isterial Alliance (IMA). For
more information contact
Brett A. Hulme at (912)
507-8037.
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