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Steven Harris: Corporate Executive of the Year
Steven Harris, CPA, CGMA, a managing partner with one of the nation’s top 50 accounting and business consulting firms, RubinBrown LLP, has been named the St. Louis American Charitable Foundation 2024 Corporate Executive of the Year.
Steven Harris, CPA, CGMA, and a managing partner with one of the nation’s top 50 accounting and business consulting firms, RubinBrown LLP, has been named the St. Louis American Charitable Salute to Foundation 2024 Corporate Business Executive of the Year. Harris, just the fourth managing partner in the firm’s 70-year history and RubinBrown’s first Black managing partner, will be honored during 22nd Annual Salute to Business Networking and Awards Luncheon on Thursday February 22 at the Ritz-Carlton St. Louis. In his role, he works closely with the firm’s chairman, John F. Herber, Jr. while focusing on oversight of operations and representing the firm across all markets locally and
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COMPLIMENTARY
‘Breaking the cycle of poverty through education’
“Have fun and leave everything you touch better than the way you found it.”
By Sylvester Brown Jr.
Vol. 95 No. 41
A conversation with Mary Elizabeth Grimes of Marian Middle School
By Chris King For The St. Louis American Mary Elizabeth Grimes is president of Marian Middle School, located in the Tower Grove South neighborhood. Founded by seven communities of Catholic sisters and several lay women in 1999, it is the only all-girls private middle school in the region serving urban adolescent youth in a faithbased environment. According to Grimes, last year 100% of Marian’s alumnae Mary in high school gradElizabeth uated, and 93% went Grimes on to post-secondary programs. All of its most recent graduates got into their first-choice high schools last year, and they have an average GPA of 3.175. The American talked to Grimes about
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STL dedicates itself to MLK’s works
18th Ward Committee -woman Yolonda Yancie held down Kylie Rucker’s speech as a frigid wind whipped through the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., MLK Observance in Fountain Park in St. Louis on Jan. 13, 2024. “Today, I think Dr. King would say we must respect each other."
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Lincoln U. president on leave following former administrator’s death He faces bullying allegations
By Holly Edgell Midwest Newsroom
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Events span the region Jan. 12-15 By Ashley Winters St. Louis American The St. Louis community honored Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during an event-packed MLK Weekend, culminating with the 55th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at City Hall. The Civic Interfaith Service theme was “Keeping the Dream Alive for the Next Generation” and the ceremony in
the City Hall rotunda began with local youth faith-based choir God’s Boys serenading guests with a gospel song. Community leaders spoke about the importance of MLK Day, highlighting it as a day of reflection and reverence for the iconic Civil Rights leader working towards an equitable society for oppressed people. King’s philosophy of non-violent protest helped to enable the Montgomery Bus Boycott and sit-ins at segregated lunch counters.
BUSINESS
Miles traversed varied path on way to entrepreneurship
Easy Lab Tech offers a variety of specimen collection services. It collects specimens for workplace drug-testing, insurance companies, physicians, laboratories working on clinical trials and more.
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“We do this event in memory of all the people involved in the fight for equal rights,” said Merdean Gayles. Micheal McMillan, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis president and CEO, expressed his gratitude during the ceremony honoring the great leader stating King’s efforts in helping those who face poverty and other financial setbacks.
The president of Lincoln University in Jefferson City is on administrative leave amid accusations of bullying from the late former vice president for student affairs. Lincoln’s online statement about the death of Antoinette “Bonnie” CandiaAntoinette Bailey is three Candiasentences long. It Bailey describes the school’s former vice president for student affairs as “a gifted colleague and always a passionate advocate for Lincoln University, HBCUs and other
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Girls basketball showcase features top prep teams
The lineup is set for the 8th Annual Sweet Hoops All-Girls Basketball Showcase, which will be held on Saturday at Harris-Stowe State University.
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