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Vol. 83 No. 20
CAC Audited AUGUST 18 – 24, 2011
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Salute honors two called to help
Freeman given highest NAACP award
Fun with math and science
Frankie Muse Freeman receives Spingarn Medal
Valerie Pennington and Rayna Blackshear
By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American
By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American Valerie Newton-Pennington and Rayna Blackshear have more in common than being two excellent educators. They both fell into education unexpectedly. On September 16, Pennington will receive IN the 2011 PNC Early EDUCATION Childhood Education 2011 Award at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2011 Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Gala. Blackshear will receive the SEMO Counselor of the Year award. The dinner and gala will be held at the America’s Center. Help somebody Valerie Newton-Pennington never planned to become a teacher. In college, she started on the career track to become a nurse. “I was going through my nursing internship, and I kept wondering if I was cut out for this job,” she said. “I always wanted to See SALUTE, A7
Photo by Wiley Price
Michael Parson and his daughter, Miraj, age 6, get a robotics demonstration from Harris-Stowe freshman and engineering student Charles Kirksey III during the recent Science and Math Academy Fair at the university.
“The woods are lovely dark and deep, but we have promises to keep and miles to go before we sleep.” Just before civil rights legend Frankie Muse Freeman exited the podium on July 28 as the 96th recipient of the NAACP Spingarn Award, she Photo by CG Taylor adapted the words Frankie Muse of Robert Frost’s Freeman became poem “Stopping by the 96th recipient Woods on a Snowy of the NAACP Evening” to remind Spingarn Award guests at the NAACP’s 102nd Annual Convention that the organization has much work left to do. As she donned the Spingarn Medal, which has since 1914 symbolized the outstanding noble achievement of an African American, it was a fitting tribute to a woman who has committed her long life to freedom-fighting, including more than 60 years of work as a civil rights attorney. See FREEMAN, A6
“It’s what you call a dream come true.” – Freeman R. Bosley Jr.
BOSLEY RECOGNIZED BY HARRIS-STOWE Harris-Stowe State University opened the new Freeman R. Bosley Jr. Residencae Hall last Friday with a host of dignitaries and supporters, including HSSU President Henry Givens Jr., board member Luther Rollins, Belma Givens, Board Chair Thelma Cook, Sydney Bosley, Freeman Bosley Jr., U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay, St. Louis License Collector Michael McMillan, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder and state Rep. Tishaura Jones.
Residence and dining hall named for Mayor Freeman R. Bosley Jr. By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American Harris-Stowe State University celebrated the opening of its second residence hall and new student dining facility on Friday, August 12. The university named the recently completed 65,000-square-foot, four-story structure in honor of attorney Freeman R. Bosley Jr., the first African-American mayor of the City of St. Louis and long-time advocate of the university and its mission.
“This opening truly represents the final phase in the transformation of our university,” said Dr. Henry Givens Jr., president of Harris-Stowe University. “We could not have achieved this mission and vision without the unwavering support of attorney Freeman R. Bosley Jr. I am privileged to be dedicating this facility in his name.” During his tenure as the mayor of the City of St. Louis, Bosley played a critical role in the university’s acquisiSee BOSLEY, A7 Photo by Wiley Price