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New Hires at the RNC
Ready to Court the
Black Vote
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(NNPA News Wire Contributor)
Nationally acclaimed
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16th stellar album.
By Stacy M. Brown
RAPPIN’
NATIONAL NEWS - 20 Leaders of America, a
Tommy Wyatt
Due to unprecedented bipartisan group of Afripoor polling numbers in can-American elected offiCongratulations
the African-American cials and community activMarc Ott!
News that we have all community, Republicans ists; Shannon Reeves, a
been expecting since the have ramped up their ef- professor of political scinew City Council took fort to court Black voters. ence at Alabama A & M
The party has hired University and former naoffice came this week.
City Manager Marc Ott four, new Black staff tional director of state and
will be leaving Austin.
members in a move that local development for the
H e a n n o u n c e d t h i s they hope will not only RNC; Elroy Sailor, the
w e e k t h a t h e w i l l b e help GOP Presidential founder and CEO of the
l e a v i n g i n O c t o b e r t o nominee Donald Trump in J.C. Watts Companies; and
b e c o m e a Wa s h i n g t o n the general election this Georgia State University
Lobbyist as the Executive November, but that will senior Leah LeVell, whose
Director
of
t h e also bolster the party’s father Bruce LeVell is the
International City/County long-term efforts to gain chairman of the National
Management Association,
support among African- Diversity Coalition for
which advocates for local
Americans, a voting bloc Trump.
governments and their
Two of the new hires,
that for decades has
managers.
Bell
and
Sailor, spoke at
mostly voted for DemoOtt became the Austin
length with the NNPA
City Manager in 2008 and crats.
The new staff mem- News Wire, expressing
was the first African
optimism that they can
American to hold that bers are Ashley Bell, who
help turnaround the
position in our city. He helped to launch the 20/
took stern control of the
position and helped the
city to be recognized as
by: Kevin McGill |Associated Press
one of the top managed
cities in the country. He
NEW ORLEANS (AP) James Raine, arranged to
guided the activities of
— She stands convicted in have Smith killed for insurapproximately 14,000
the death of her second ance money.
employees and a budget
James later married
husband, and prosecutors
of around $3.7 billion.
Emma.
He was found shot
have
suggested
in
open
That is an awesome
responsibility, but Ott court she had something to death in their
handled it like the true to do with the demise of Poplarville, Mississippi,
husbands one and three. home in 2011.
professional that he is.
Emma Raine had
Now, husband No. 4
Several members of the
moved
to Missouri and
is
bitterly
denouncing
the
council have been calling
for him to be replaced Louisiana legal system, married John W. Golston
since taking over under saying he’s nearly bank- by the time a cold-case inthe new district election rupted himself paying for vestigation led to her 2013
arrest.
plan. However, there was her legal defense.
never a majority in favor
She faces a mandaEmma Raine was
of replacing him. In fact, convicted of second-de- tory life sentence. But
rather than replacing him, gree murder Friday in the Golston still insists she’s
the council just gave him 2006 death of Ernest not guilty.
a raise. But, it was too Smith. Prosecutors say
Prosecutors in the
little too late.
she and her then-lover, Raine case spun a lurid
Ott will be leaving the city
in much better shape than
when he came. He has been
a very effective leader who
had gained our respect and
admiration. Our loss will be
Washington’s gain.
Mr. Ott made a special
e ff o r t t o m e e t w i t h
citizens who wanted to
discuss their issues and
RIO DE gold for the “Final
he always gave you his JANEIRO (AP) — Five” as well as indiundivided attention.
Simone Biles put the vidual golds in the allMayor Adler is calling
o n t h e c o u n c i l t o a c t finishing touches on around and vault and
s w i f t l y o n n a m i n g a n one of the greatest bronze on balance
interim city manager. He Olympics by a gym- beam.
did not indicate whom he nast ever, capturing
Her five medals
had in mind, however, the her fourth gold of the tie the most for an
logical choice would be games
with
a American woman in a
one of the assistants now
showstopping perfor- single Olympics and
on the job.
Manager Ott will start mance in the floor ex- her four golds tie an
Olympic
record
his new job October 31st. ercise.
The 19-year-old shared by three othThere is no word as to
when he will be leaving. American on Tues- ers.
Congratulation, Mr. Ott day completed an exBiles embraced
on your new position. We
traordinary stretch longtime coach Aimee
wish you much luck and
that included a team Boorman shortly after
God’s speed.
See CHICAGO
Page 3
VP nominee
lambastes opponent
for xenophobic rants.
See KAINE
Page 4
Ashley Bell
record low polling numbers that show Trump currently receiving just one
percent of the Black vote.
They also spelled out
their mission to court students at historically Black
college and universities –
HBCUs – and their ideas
for criminal justice reform.
“HBCUs are a very big
focus of ours and part of
our job is to make sure we
engage HBCUs,” said Bell.
See SAILOR, page 2
Jamie Foxx host
evening of gold for
Anderson alumni.
See REUNION
Page 6
4th Husband: Wife Innocent in So-Called ‘Black Widow’ Cases
yarn of money, infidelity
and murder, and Golston
said Friday that its proliferation in media and
online, where his wife was
portrayed as “a black
widow,” played right into
their hands.
“They had her tried
and convicted before she
went to trial,” Golston told
The Associated Press
when reached by telephone hours after Friday’s
verdict.
Emma, 52, had
moved to Missouri a few
See COLD CASE,
page 5
An undated booking photo provided by the
Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office shows Emma
Raine. Opening statements began Wednesday,
Aug. 10, 2016, in Emma Raine’s second-degree
murder trial in New Orleans in the 2006 death of
her second husband, Ernest Smith. Her third husband, James Raine, 37, was shot to death at the
couple’s Pearl River County, Mississippi, home
in 2011. (Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office via AP)
Biles Wins 4th
Rio Games Gold
in Floor Exercise
United States’ Simone Biles performs on the floor during the artistic
gymnastics women’s apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
her routine, which includes a tumbling
pass named in her
honor and a Brazilianthemed segment intended to play to the
crowd in Rio. She
beamed when her
score of 15.966 was
posted.
Teammate Aly
Raisman followed
with a 15.500 silvermedal performance to
give her a third medal
during Rio and six
overall in her Olympic career.
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THE COMMUNIQUÉ
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Elroy Sailor: “The best outcome for our community is to ultimately be in a
position where both parties feel compelled to compete for our vote”
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
“We don’t have a lot
of time, but HBCUs can
help get the economy to
where it needs to be and
we recognize that.”
They also recognize
that criminal justice reform is a critical issue in
for the Black community.
“We have to make
sure that America can
turn the page from the
current mass incarceration system,” added Bell.
“If we talk about communities being devastated by
a failed criminal justice
system where brothers
and sisters are being disenfranchised and not being able to find a job, we
talk about fixing the
criminal justice system.”
The solution, Bell
said, is the creation of
more entrepreneurs in
the Black community and
improving the capital
gains tax which would allow these entrepreneurs
to perform activities like
buying houses to fix up
and resell for profit.
Bell noted that Congress has put forward a
number of compelling
ideas, like economic empowerment zones and
transforming education
to create a marketplace
where schools have to
compete for students.
“I think the economic ideas and educa-
tion opportunities [put
forth by the GOP] are very
specific to the Black community,” said Bell. “It’s
been eight years since a
Republican was in the
[White House]…we have
to make sure that the
Black vote is competitively
fought for.”
Sailor said it’s important to remember that no
party has exclusivity on
having 100 percent of the
best models for America.
Among the new
team’s assignments, Bell
will serve as Senior Strategist and National Director of African American
Political Engagement and
focus on winning elections
for 2016. Sailor has the job
of Senior Advisor to the
Chairman and will focus
on infrastructure, institutional growth and
sustainability.
“America has the
greatest two party political system in the world,
but I believe the best outcome for our community
is to ultimately be in a position where both parties
feel compelled to compete for our vote,” Sailor
said, before quoting Congressman William L. Clay
of Missouri who said: “We
should not have permanent friends, nor permanent enemies we should
have permanent interest.”
“Republicans have
proposed a series of tax
Elroy Sailor
and investment policies
that create a favorable environment for investors
such as reducing the capital gains taxes, reducing
the burdensome and costly
licensing process for small
businesses, providing local
municipalities the option
to waive certain land use
restrictions resulting from
federal land designations
Bell, Sailor and the others,
the GOP shows it’s “the
party that promotes new
models to solve old problems,” RNC Chairman
Reince Priebus said in a
statement.
While Democratic
Presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton has
pledged to engage the
Black community in part by
placing ads in AfricanAmerican-owned newspapers, the GOP hasn’t made
the same promise.
and allowing all small and
Bell and Sailor both
medium-sized businesses deflected the question
to fully deduct most in- about whether or not the
vestments in the first year RNC will engage the Black
of purchase,” Sailor said. community by advertising
“Such provisions will in Black-owned media,
incentivize businesses to even though more than 80
increase investment in percent of Blacks believe
equipment and machinery that messages that they
that will increase produc- read and hear about in
tivity.”
Black media are more relWith the addition of evant to them, according
Georgia State University
senior Leah LeVell,
whose father Bruce
LeVell is the chairman of
the National Diversity
Coalition for Trump.
to Nielsen’s 2012 report
on African American consumers. Sean Spicer, the
chief strategist and communications director for
the RNC, didn’t respond to
an e-mail request to comment on the issue.
Asked why Blacks
should vote Republican
this fall, Sailor answered,
“I think the sincerest pastor is one who is not focused on converting you to
becoming a Baptist,
COGIC, Methodist, but
rather I think the sincerest pastor is one who sees
his mission to make sure
that his church has the infrastructure required to
minister to the needs of
the people, such as clothing the naked, feeding the
hungry, housing the
homeless, and being compassionate to those in
need.”
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HEADLINES
Vice President Nominee,
Tim Kaine Stops In Austin
Ana
Jordan
for the
Texas
House
District
47
by Tsoke
(Chuch) Adjavon |
Villager Columnist
Democratic candidate, Ana Jordan, plans
to challenge the incumbent in the Texas House
District 47 election. Jordan wants to “eliminate
the partisan gerrymandering of district and replace it with an independent redistricting commission”. She believes
that there is a need for
voters and citizens to get
involved with the local
government; however,
the gerrymandering of
districts hampers voters
from direct engagement.
It hinders the engagement because gerrymandering often times tends
to add more people in a
district that support a
certain political party
while cutting out those
who oppose that party.
Not only is she running on “gerrymandering” but also on other issues, that include health
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by Tsoke
(Chuch) Adjavon |
Villager Columnist
Ana Jordan
care issues and women’s
rights issues. On the
women’s issues, she believes that there is a need
to “protect a woman’s
choice”. In addition, she
believes that the State
Legislature should restore
funding
to
nonprofits that work with
women reproductive
rights such as Planned
Parenthood. Also, she believes that the state of
Texas should restore the
funding of Medicaid that
it cut.
Moreover, she is
running because her Republican opponent has
failed to “represent” the
people of the district due
to the fact he supported
the 2011 redistricting of
the 47th Texas House District. Prior to the 2011
redistricting of the Texas
House District 47, there
were more Democrats
and as a result it was
more of competing races.
Although, Mrs. Jordan
faces a tighter race, she
believes that she can win
based on the issues that
are championing.
On August 6, Senator
Tim Kaine the Vice President nominee of the
Democratic Party came to
Austin, Texas. The VP
nominee met with the
members of the local
Travis County Democratic
Party. Some of these local
members of the Democratic Party who met with
Tim Kaine included the
Mayor of Austin, elected
members of the Texas Legislature, candidates, Precinct Chairs and local community.
During the event,
Tim Kaine spoke passionately to the audience. He
mentioned that Texas will
be a priority for the campaign, even though it is a
“Republican state.” Furthermore, he spoke of the
need to elect Hillary
Clinton as president of the
United States due to the
fact of her being the most
qualified candidate running for this position. In
addition, he mentioned
how Mrs. Clinton has a
long track record of reaching out to all people, no
matter their social-economical background.
Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee, Tim
Kaine visits Ttravis County, Texas Tuesday, August
9, 2016 in an effort to gear up voters.
After giving the reasons why to vote for
Hillary Clinton, he also
lambasted Trump for “xenophobic and hate mongering speeches”. For instance, he pointed out
Trump’s xenophobic rant
against Mexicans Americans and Mexicans migrants. He talked about
the fact that Trump at-
tacked the parents of a
fallen American soldier. In
other words, he pointed to
the fact that Trump is a
person who divides Americans based on race and
religions. Consequently,
he exhorted everyone in
the room to work hard to
elect a person like Mrs.
Clinton who will work to
unite Americans.
Central Texas Ivory Community
Holds Independence Day Celebration
by Tsoke
(Chuch) Adjavon |
Villager Columnist
On August 13th the
Ivorian-American community of Central Texas finally
held their Independence
Day celebration. It was a
memorable night in which
the Ivorian American community was joined by
other African communities in Central Texas for the
celebration. For instance,
there were people of
Burkinabe, Togolese, Ghanaian, Benin, and Nigerian
American communities
present. They came to
show their support to the
Ivorian American community.
Over the past years,
the president of the
Ivorian Community of
Central Texas area. Moreover, these celebrations
are used to bring new
members into the Ivoirian
Association of Central
Texas.
The nation of Ivory
Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) received its independence
on August 7, 1960’s. For
over 40 years, the Ivory
Coast was a beacon of
peace, tranquility and of
economic development.
During these years, the
Ivory Coast experienced
Douglas Kouame,
high economic growth
attends Independence
rates which made it the
Day event. Photo by
leader among other West
Tsoke (Chuch) Adjavon
African nations. People
Central Texas has played a from other West African
crucial role of organizing nations and even from
the Independence Day cel- around the world moved
ebration. According to Mr. to the Ivory Coast in order
N’dri, “There are about to get a piece of the
300 Ivoirians living in the “Ivoirian Dream”.
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Police claimed Raine
showed little emotion
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grew cold continued from page 1
An Aug. 2, 2013 booking photo provided by
the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office shows Emma
Raine. Emma Raine is charged with second-degree murder in the 2006 death of her second husband, Ernest Smith. (Orleans Parish Sheriff’s
Office via AP)
months after James Raine’s October 2011 death.
Golston, 50, said he had not known Emma very
long before he married her in December 2012 but knew
she was three times a widow.
“Her honesty,” he said when asked what drew her
to him. “She seemed really nice and she was easy with
her heart. I still don’t see all this devious stuff that I’ve
been seeing on the internet. I still don’t believe that
she could have done that.”
They had only been married about a half a year
when police showed up. “They said it was for forgery,”
he said. But police in New Orleans actually jailed her
on a murder charge in Smith’s death seven years earlier.
Smith had been gunned down just outside the
couple’s apartment in an all-but abandoned complex
in eastern New Orleans, where months earlier, floods
following levee failures during Hurricane Katrina had
laid waste to everything.
Police claimed she showed little emotion at her
husband’s death, but the case soon went cold.
James Raine’s murder more than five years later
would lead to its reopening. According to testimony
from Raine’s brother Enoch and two uncles, adopted
brother Terry Everette was shaken by Raine’s gunshot
death. He anxiously confessed to the family that he had
killed Ernest Smith years before at the behest of James
and Emma for $10,000 of Smith’s $800,000 benefit.
The relatives said they urged Everette to turn himself in. They waited months. He never did. So, they contacted a cold case detective in New Orleans.
Everette was tried and convicted of second-degree
murder in December 2014. It was then that prosecutors introduced evidence they said indicated the 1994
death of Emma’s first husband, while he was under care
following a car accident, was suspicious.
That evidence was not allowed at Emma’s trial this
week.
Prosecutors produced insurance records and other
documents showing Emma had increased insurance on
Smith over the years. Even her defense team acknowledged she engineered a forgery scheme to keep Smith’s
daughter from her share of the benefits.
But, in echoes of the defense argument, Golston
insisted Friday that the murder case was built on hearsay and documents that don’t prove guilt.
“I think this whole thing was fabricated. It was a
setup and it wasn’t right,” Golston said. “She didn’t have
anyone killed and she didn’t kill anyone.”
Asked his occupation, Golston said he was “an average worker.” He said he didn’t want to try to calculate how much he has spent on Emma’s defense. “I’d
get sick. It bankrupted me, almost.”
He faults the prosecutors and the judge and says
defense attorneys were too slow to run down leads.
“I don’t go to New Orleans and I won’t,” he said.
“From what I’ve seen, the judicial system down there
is really corrupt.”
Golston was uncertain when asked how the conviction will affect his future and his marriage. “I don’t
know what I’m going to do,” he said. “But I have to live,
too.”
The fallout is hard on James Raine’s family, as well.
His adopted brother, Everette, is serving a life sentence.
Like Emma, he was convicted of second-degree murder.
Raine family members declined comment after
sitting through the trial but handed out a prepared
statement thanking police and prosecutors, expressing
sympathy for Smith’s family and saying they will “pursue closure” in James Raine’s still officially unsolved
death in Mississippi.
California Paper Apologizes
over Simone Manuel Headline
by: Paul Elias
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —
The Mercury News of San
Jose, California, apologized
Friday for an insensitive
headline about U.S. swimmer Simone Manuel.
The 20-year-old
Stanford University student
became the first AfricanAmerican woman to win a
gold medal in an individual
swimming event when she
tied for first with Penny
Oleksiak of Canada in the
100-meter freestyle Thursday night.
After the race, the San
Francisco Bay Area newspaper omitted Manuel’s name
in a headline reading
“Olympics: Michael Phelps
shares historic night with
African-American.”
The Mercury News,
which covered Manuel’s
collegiate career at nearby
Stanford, tweeted an apology, saying the headline was
insensitive.
It was posted on the
newspaper’s website about
United States’ Simone Manuel prepares before a women’s 100-meter freestyle
semifinal during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics,
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
9:45 p.m. and quickly removed and replaced with
one carrying Manuel’s
name with Phelps. The
headline was not printed in
the newspaper.
Readers took to social
media sites almost as soon
as the offensive headline
was posted to complain
about the gaffe.
“This is a terrible head-
line,” Mercury News sports
columnist Tim Kawakami
posted on Twitter while the
headline was still live. “It’s
my paper. I might get in
trouble for saying it, but it’s
a terrible headline.”
Executive Editor Neil
Chase said no one will be fired
because it appears there
were no bad intentions in
writing the headline.
Instead, Chase said
there will be a “tough conversation” to determine exactly how the headline
came to be written and
published without any
staffer raising concern. He
said a “couple different
people saw it” before it was
posted.
“We made a mistake,”
he said.
Marion Barry’s Son Dead of Apparent Drug Overdose
by: Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent
Marion Christopher
Barry (Twitter Photo)
Marion Christopher
Barry, son of Washington,
D.C.’s late “mayor for life,”
has died from an apparent
drug overdose, according to
news reports. He was 36.
According to the
Washington Post, Barry’s
girlfriend found him and he
was taken to George Washington University Hospital
Aug. 13.
Cora Masters Barry,
widow of the late Mayor
Marion Barry, confirmed
Austin Community College
District is soliciting bids to provide
for Special Event Room Rental and
Catering for the ACC General
Assembly for 2017.
Invitation for Bid
(IFB) No. 971-16029CC
All bids must be submitted to ACC
Purchasing by no later than
September 8, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.,
Central Time. Bid packages are
available on the ACC Purchasing
website at http://www.austincc.edu/
offices/purchasing/advertisedsolicitations or in the ACC
Purchasing Office, with advance
notice (512)223-1044, between the
hours of 9am and 4pm CT, Monday
through Friday.
All bids must be sealed and
returned to the ACC Purchasing
Office, ACC Service Center, 9101
Tuscany Way, Austin, Texas 78754,
by the date and time indicated
above. Electronically
transmitted bids will NOT be
accepted unless otherwise stated in
the documents.
The ACC Board of Trustees
reserves the right to reject any and/
or all responses and waive all
formalities in the solicitation
process.
Barry son’s death to
Washington’s NBC affiliate.
Barry was the son of
the late mayor and Effi
Barry, who previously died
of leukemia in 2007.
Marion Barry served
as mayor of the District
from 1979 to 1991 and
1995 to 1999. He also
served on the Council of the
District of Columbia for
three terms. He died in
2014.
The younger Barry atAustin Travis County Integral
Care is currently soliciting
proposals through a Request for
Proposals (RFP) process for
Equity Investor/Syndicator and
Construction Lender Services.
RFPs may be sent
electronically, by contacting
Brody
Ballard
at
[email protected] or (512)
440-4022 beginning August 15,
2016. The deadline to submit a
proposal under the RFP is 4 p.m.
CST on September 5, 2016.
Historically
Underutilized
Businesses, including MinorityOwned Businesses and WomenOwned
Businesses,
are
encouraged to apply.
tempted to fill his father’s
shoes, mounting an unsuccessful bid for his father’s
former Ward 8 seat on the
D.C. Council in 2015 that
saw him coming in at sixth
place in the contest.
Barry also struggled
with drug abuse—somewhat mirroring his father,
who was infamously videotaped using crack cocaine
by the FBI and arrested back
in 1990.
Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Construction
Manager @Risk, will be soliciting proposals from
subcontractors and material suppliers for the construction
of the City of Austin, COA Project No. 11222.001, ABIA
– Terminal/Apron Expansion and Improvements
Project. Proposal Package 6 consists of Package 3D –
Terminal Expansion Subsurface & Superstructure which
includes Demolition of Paving Earthwork, Underground
Utilities, Concrete Foundations, Structural Steel,
Underground Mechanical and Electrical, and Structural
Precast. The Proposal Package will be available on May
17, 2016 by contacting our office, mentioned below.
Proposal selection will be on a best value basis. A PreProposal Conference will be held at 1:00PM on May
25, 2016 at 2716 Spirit of Texas Dr. Room 174, Austin,
TX 78719. On June 16, 2016 at 2:00 PM, we will accept
proposals for this package at our office, 10211 ½
Hotel Dr., Austin, TX 78719 . All City of Austin Certified
Disadvantaged Business Enterprises are encouraged to
submit proposals. The project’s DBE Goal = 8.01%.
Hensel Phelps Construction Co. is available at (512) 8349848 or fax (512) 834-9844. Our company is an E.E.O.
Employer. We encourage and actively solicit proposals
from Disadvantaged Business Enterprises for all projects.
New Jobs for the
Week of 08/14/2016
Assistant, Student Services
South Austin Campus
Job# 1608008
Clerk, Document Imaging
Highland Business Center
Job# 1608004
Assistant, Student Financial Aid
Round Rock Campus
Job# 1608005
Specialist, Advising
(Student Services)
Round Rock Campus
Job# 1608010
Specialist, Financial Aid
Highland Business Center
Job# 1608014
Faculty, English
Location is as assigned
Job# 1608013
Apply at HR
Middle Fiskville Rd.
6th Floor, Austin, TX 78752
Job Line (512 223-5621
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EEOC/AA/M/F/D/V
Are you interested in doing business
with the City of Austin?
We are here for you!
City of Austin
Purchasing Office
Vendor Registration
512-974-2018
[email protected]
www.austintexas.gov/department/purchasing
For information on the City of Austin’s Minority/
Women-Owned Procurement Program please contact the
Small & Minority Business Resources at 512-974-7600 or
visit www.austintexas.gov/smbr.
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Class of 1966 L.C. Anderson High School Reunion
The Class of 1966
of the Original L. C.
Anderson High School
celebrated their 50 th
Class Reunion on July 37, 2016 in the sunny
community of Thousand Oaks, California in
the home of Mr. Jamie
Foxx and George Dixon
who is a member of our
class. Over seventy
people traveled to
sunny California for this
celebration. Our team
for this event was; “Enchanting Evening of
Gold” as the ladies
dressed in elegant semiformal dresses and the
men were debonair
dressed in black tie. We
were serenaded by
Mariachi during dinner
and later danced to the
sounds of the 60’s and
70’. Some members of
our class received the
“Golden Yellow Jacket
Award” for their outstanding service in the
community, church,
school, servant award
and distinguish leadership awards. This was
a new award that the
50th Reunion Committee
created and class voted
to continue this award.
Each member and guest
received for keepsake a
50th Reunion a T-Shirt
and a 50th Anniversary
Medallion. The committee awarded Mrs.
Pamela McCullough a
gold watch for 50 years
of planning the reunion
and also gave Mr. Finnis
Carter a gold watch for
40 years of service. This
50 th Celebration in
sunny California will always be etched in our
minds.
Pictured above are members of the Class
of ‘66 with their host, Jamie Foxx (front
and center). Pictured below, Class of ‘66
paraphernalia from the reunion.