Milwaukee Community Journal’s 38th Anniversary Celebration

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“When I Was Seventeen, It Was A Very Good Year” : a song, written by Ervin Drake, in 196l, and sung by many giants, including Nate King Cole and Frank Sinatra, shares the many high-points in life and yet explains how quickly years, like seasons, follow. How true are those thoughts as we reflect upon the Milwaukee Community Journal, now celebrating it’s 38th year of continuous publication.

First called to the role of Publisher by the Teutonia Avenue businessmen, in 1967, I left teaching and supervisory education studies to assist. Milwaukee had experienced riots in 1967. The central city was ablaze. The National Guard controlled entry and exit. We were an island. People had been hurt and businesses were severely damaged.

My plans were to help that summer. But as the need to force insurance companies to pay for damages, after the fiery destruction of business district after district, I found myself writing, editorializing, mobilizing residents to review their own homeowners policies. The insurance companies needed to honor their contracts. Affected business owners needed to get their stores, their shops, up and running again.

Windows were boarded, fire hoses put out the fires but the water destroyed product, furnishings and most importantly, hope. The Soul City Shopper editorials and advertising united the community. Insurance companies soon complied and businesses began to repair and reopen. The unity in the community campaign worked!

There is power in the pen and, most significantly, credibility in providing needed services that build community. That experience showed that legitimate rights earned through purchases, adherence to written contracts, educating readers, voting, and protesting against red-lining certain areas, is a legitimate demand. And withholding or denying services because of race, gender, geographic location, or economic strata is a travesty. Some rights are worth fighting for : Can Milwaukee ever be the same.

Many of our early MCJ readers, mobilizers, grass-roots organizers are among the Honorees we salute, this year. They picked up the Soul City Shopper and Soul City Times, which became the Milwaukee Community Journal. They have been avid readers and supporters since. They truly represent the newspaper’s foundational base.

The Honorees have witnessed our good years and our not so good years. They have critiqued us when we were on target on issues, especially elections, and advised us when we missed the mark. We have always respected their opinions. Our PULSE front page commentary, continues to give good community perspectives that equitably forecasts and affirms. We treasure each opinion, for each has made us better and stronger! We have always wanted to be “your paper”.

BY PATRICIA O’FLYNN PATTILLO

Fast forward to 2014: “ Inspiration Meets Aspiration”: Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic.: Generations United.

Milwaukee, like the rest of the country, is flush with residents over age 55. The baby-boomers, born between 1946 and 1969, daily move into this phenomenon that has been tracked and predicted for decades. Many are remarkably healthy, vibrant, involved, and actively committed to community, just as they were in their youth. They are our advocates! They do inspire!

Yes, they have experienced life...as do we all: Education, marriage, careers, families, advanced employment opportunities, economic recovery after recession and downturns. They have lost loved ones, known the pangs of divorce, in some cases, lived through drug infested neighborhoods as they fought to retain their homes. They have lived life! It’s never been a bed of roses, yet it ‘s full and meaningful and worth living, as their profiles attest.

Life’s negatives were never sought, nor justified, but with resilience, personal fortitude and community support, they have overcome!

They examined options, made sacrifices and believed in better days ahead. They now pay forward and support these aspiring students, who begin their lives. Their lives will inspire our youth who have come through a deep recession that forced many to revamp, review, re-tool. Each student is a Honor student, with a 3.0 g/p/a or better.

And, we congratulate the scholars from Hope Christian School who emulate excellence. One hundred percent (100%) of the 2014 class received scholarship awards. The third year, they had t00 % college attendance and scholarships for all. They are WINNERS!

The Dr. Thomas Scholarship recipients are brilliant and focused, as they prepare for their lives. They have had great inspirers, over the years, and now seek mentor/models who will guide them through their academic pursuits and their professions of the near future. Indeed Inspiration Meets Aspiration, August 3rd. The gifts of both generations are shared.

We salute every MCJ supporter; the Dr. Terence Thomas Scholars. Salute yourself for joining this outstanding group of role models of excellence, resilience, and generosity.

We applaud our Event Sponsors, MillerCoors and Forest County Potawatomi Foundation without whom we could not do this. We applaud our partner, Interfaith Older Adult Programs, the Clinton and Bernice Rose Center, and their Honorees. We salute Director, Henrietta Allen, whose devotion unfolds in the Roselettes, the models, the soloist. There’s a lot of love at Clinton Rose Center.

We salute each 2014 sponsor, advertiser, volunteer, consultant, MCJ staffer and elected official who has worked to bring this annual fund-raising event to fruition. Today, celebrate LIFE, LOVE, RESILIENCE, AND SUCCESS! As we celebrate Fabulous, FIT, Fun and Fantastic:

We celebrate YOU! And we thank YOU!

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Larry Waters Christopher’s Project

The untimely death of Dr. Terence N. Thomas, a first year Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident at Hurley Hospital of Flint, Michigan, in February 1991, led the Thomas family to create an Endowment for other minority students at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Those initial funds were augmented with a $ 25,000 pledge by Speech, his brother, leader of the group Arrested Development. The Dr. Terence N. Thomas Memorial Fund, that grants scholarships to deserving students, was officially incorporated, in September 1996, by the State of Wisconsin.

Graduates from the Medical College of Wisconsin who were beneficiaries of the Dr. Thomas endowment now practice throughout the United States. And two Milwaukee recipients, Dr. Christopher Webb, an eight year scholar, completed his fourth year of Residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Columbia Medical School, New York City and graduated in May 2012 and Angelica Worthy matriculates at the St. Kitts University with support from the fund.

Mrs. Ernestine O’Bee, the legendary co-owner, President, of the Northwest Funeral Chapel, was introduced to the scholarship fund as an Honoree, in 2001. She witnessed the return of many scholarship recipients and later joined the Board of Directors after its formation. A devotee of education and supporting serious students who excelled, she often shared her stories of matriculating at the University of Michigan when few women were completing college degrees. She worked for families to earn extra money for books, while many families pooled resources for talented students to go to top ten colleges and universities. Mrs. O’Bee loved the students. Several knew her personally and benefitted from her advice and her generosity.

Mrs. O’Bee left one fourth of her estate to the Dr. Thomas Scholarship Fund. This unprecedented gift has permitted current students to receive an increase in their annual stipends. Just two years ago, the stipend was $ 1500, last year, it was increased to $2000 and this year each receives $ 2500, comparable to increases in tuitions. The continuing slow economy has affected many parents and campus employment opportunities. The 2011 increase is directly tied to the current economy, only.

Janet Green Pegues attended UWM during her early academic career. A devoted teacher, with over 32 years in Special Education, Ms. Green-Pegues was Dr. Thomas’ aunt. She donated annually to the fund and knew of its successes. Upon her death, a percentage of her funds were directed to help Dr. TNT students.

For several years, her funds supported youngsters who fit the Honorable Mention category and they received $ 1000 awards. This year, the UWM pledge comes from her funds, as well as those for Nirvana Ministries and Pearls for Teen Girls. This $10,000 represents generous support of Milwaukee organizations that prepare students for academic resilience and ultimate success.

Dr. and Mrs. Roland Pattillo have contributed often to the Dr. Thomas Scholarship Fund, over the years. This year they make another $ 5000 pledge to support students pursuing healthcare professions and patient care. Dr. and Mrs. Pattillo are former scholarship recipients and understand the significant role that scholarships played in their academic careers. This affirms their commitment to pay forward, as they also encourage the students to do the same.

The Dr. Terence N. Thomas Scholarship Fund

BEQUEATHS HELP FUND STUDENTS EDUCATIONS

Quinton ThomasFreshman, University of Dayton, OhioFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Aaron WilderFreshman, University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Serah WashingtonSophomore, University of Wisconsin - Stevens PointFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Brianna JacksonSophomore, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

T’Yanna WhiteSophomore, Marquette UniversityFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Mikayla RobertsonSophomore, US Air Force AcademyFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Kendall KeithJunior, University of Wisconsin - MilwaukeeFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Erica ColemanSenior, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Jasmine HinesSenior, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeMajor: Special Education; Concentrating in Natural Science and EnglishFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Crystal OwneyMills CollegeFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Trenton Dockery Emory University - Candler School of TheologyPARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP - $1000

Camille LesterDePaul UniversityFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Patricia E. WalkerFlorida A&M University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical ScienceFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Brittany MaysMedical College of WIFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Diamonique FelderAlverno CollegeFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Donavan JacksonUniversity of Wisconsin-WhitewaterFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Angelica WearyWalden’s University for Public HealthFULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

Caroline WalkerUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (School of Pharmacy)MAJOR: PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy)FULL SCHOLARSHIP - $2000

T h e D r . T e r e n c e N . T h o m a s S c h o l a r s h i p F u n d

Crystal Owney is one of thirteen MBA students nationwide to be accepted into AT&T’s prestigious Finance Leadership Development Program as a summer intern. The program has been ranked 2nd ro-tational programs. Crystal Owney is the first from her school selected to join the Finance Leadership Program. Owney is working out of AT&T’s corporate headquarters in Dallas, TX as a Lead IT Financial Analyst. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to sharpen her finance and leadership skills with a Fortune 11 company this summer. Owney was also selected as 1 of 21 fellows for AAUW’s prestigious Selected Professions Fellowship. Owney competed at the national level and was one of two students from California represented with others ranging from MIT, Princeton, and Harvard. After her 12 week internship, Owney will travel back to California to finish her last year of graduate school in the nation amongst the top MBA.

Mark Behar had been on the front lines of defense for social justice and health care as a right—not a privilege—for all people since his teenage years. He initially championed this cause as an assistant editor of Milwaukee’s Washington High School Scroll Weekly, and president/educator in the local Jewish boys club, Kander AZA of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization.

Three adults served as important role models during this time: Harry Garfinkle, his Hebrew school teacher; Erv Chudnow the adult advisor for his Kander AZA chapter, and Caroline Gardner his high school journalism teacher and faculty advisor for the Washington Scroll Weekly. They all believed in the power of hard work, organization, and attention to detail in spite of adversity.

Mark’s interests in community was groomed by his mother, aunt and uncle, as he pursued health and education while in college, where he majored in psychology. He became an instructor of advanced first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation with the Milwaukee Chapter of the American Red Cross and as a canoeing and sailing instructor of the Red Cross’s Disaster Action Team. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with a bachelor’s degree, he moved to New Orleans, where he pursued graduate credits in experimental psychology from Tulane University.

While at Tulane, Mark was one of five founders of the Tulane University (Gay Student Union (GSU), a student organization designed to provide a nonalcoholic alternative to the very prevalent culture of gay bars. At that time, being gay anywhere in the country was met with discriminatory action, so under-culture bars and other hiding places, often accelerated the spread of hepatitis, syphilis, and the yet unrecognized HIV.

“Rejection from family and support systems continue to be one of the worst forms of discrimination that plague our communities, and continue to be a driving force that keeps us from life-affirming activities,” he said.

MARK P. BEHARMilwaukee Health Services

Returning to Milwaukee, Mark became an emergency medical technician and director of one of the nation’s first gay men’s STD clinics in the late 1970s. This clinic eventually morphed into the Brady East STD Clinic today. His medical director at the time, family practitioner Bob Bolan, encouraged him to consider a career as a physician’s assistant, and in 1979, Mark was accepted into the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. He received a second bachelor’s degree in 1981 as a physician assistant. In 2000, he received a Master’s of Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Nebraska-Omaha Medical Center. ‘

Mark worked full time in women’s health at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin from 1981 through 1993, and served as a part time non-physician colposcopist from 1990 through 2012. (Colposcopy is a gynecologic procedure to evaluate patients with abnormal Pap smears, as an aid in prevention of cancer.) He was the first physician assistant to win the Colposcopy Recognition Award from the American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology in 2000.

During this time he also worked full time in family medicine at Aurora Sinai’s Wisconsin Avenue Family Care Center, where he also served as a clinical faculty member for the Physician Assistant Program at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW Medical School Department of Family Medicine Residency Program. He also served as a volunteer public access television producer and director, and won local and national awards for excellence.

Long before Magic Johnson shocked the nation with his announcement about his LA Laker retirement from HIV, Mark had co-authored a number of papers in collaboration with other professionals on STD’s and HIV/AIDS. He gave his profession’s first talk on AIDS in 1982.

Magic was a major role model for boldly confronting the disease, and helped health care professionals like Mark introduce the difficult discussion about sexual responsibility and safer sex. Denial, misinformation, misguided judgments about health work hand in hand with lack of formal education, access to decent jobs, crack cocaine use, overindulgence in alcohol, and gun violence, which all degrade our collective health and well-being.

Mark served as a volunteer Gubernatorial appointee of then Wisconsin Governor Anthony S. Earl’s Council on Lesbian and Gay Issues. He became a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and a recognized Clinical Preceptor.

Mark joined Milwaukee Health Services, Inc. in 2004. In addition to the maladies such as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, he retains a keen interest in men’s health, women’s health, gay, lesbian and transgender health, HIV/AIDS, and integrating the information into an effective electronic health record system. He also continues to provide free care as a clinician at Brady East STD Clinic, where he is the longest serving volunteer.

Mark is a trailblazer, having been one of the first people in Milwaukee to openly talk about HIV/AIDS to the media, long before others had the courage to do so. He has worked for over four decades to promote being fabulous, fit and fun.

REV. WILLIE BRISCO MICAH, PRESIDENT

Rev. Brisco is the leader whose vocal, demonstrative, ecumenical arm focuses on areas such as education, jobs, economic development, housing and community stabilization, safety and alternative drug treatment diversion.

MICAH is a multi-racial, interfaith organization committed to addressing justice issues that have an impact on the community and on the members of MICAH’s congregations. Its goal is to empower people to act together in pursuit of justice and to organize so that people of may traditions can come together to speak with one voice for justice. They have helped eliminate drug houses and local establishments where crime has flourished. They have established “safe zones” and Holy Ground around congregations, created opportunities for neighborhoods to work together and strengthened relations with elected officials and city services to effectively deal with issues to improve our communities.

Reverend Willie Brisco, retired from Milwaukee County in 2009. He left a stressful yet gratifying job, only to begin a new one. The golden years are supposed to finally free us of early wake-ups, and permit late breakfasts, slow coffee’s and golf, or long lunches.

Reverend Brisco’s family came to Milwaukee in 1966 from Detroit, by way of Sardis, Mississippi and settled at 15th and McKinley, where he began his last year of elementary school.

“Our neighborhood was very diverse. We knew kids from many blocks. The men carpooled to get to work. The little old women watched out for the children. We watched the deterioration. We came to Milwaukee to be shielded from the Jim Crow South, and we were protected, nurtured and loved. We saw two and three families living in one household and, as they ‘got on their feet,’ they moved on. There were jobs and a strong sense of unity in goals and experiences,” said Rev. Brisco.

“Today, there are no jobs. Instead, we see drugs, gangs, neighbors do not know each other, even when they live upstairs from one another. Young men drop out of school and hang on corners. They have never seen men leaving for jobs, with hard hats on, nor move their families on to better lives. This is far worse than Jim Crow days. This is hopelessness..

“MICAH has a major role to play. Retired teachers are volunteering to help other teachers. Teachers are getting support from them as they work to prepare our youth for the Common Core, the national yardstick for knowledge that every child should know, and be able to regurgitate at each grade level. The suburbs have a stake in this, as well. They cannot look at these shortcomings as an inner-city problem, for in truth, our country is lagging behind some of the Third World countries in education so this is a national problem. Today we have a government not for the people and by the people but in-spite of the people,” he said

Rev. Brisco said that MICAH will continue to work, on the behalf of its 38 member churches, their congregations and their neighborhoods, but people must understand that voting is a privilege and failing to vote, will take us back to pre-Civil Rights days, pre-Voter’s Rights days. He said the problem is that many residents do not know what it was like during that era. He said we must be just as enthusiastic about electing Aldermen, the right Governor, Mayor, Supervisor, State representatives, as we were about electing the President.

Rev. Willie Brisco, a magnanimous leader inspires and encourages those who aspire. He is Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic

DORIS HOPKINS-BROWNINTERFAITH/ CLINTON AND BERNICE ROSE CENTER

Some of the joys of the intergenerational phenomenon is the respect that each generation holds for the other. For example, Doris Hopkins-Brown knows and has swooned to songs like “Solid As a Rock,” by Ashford and Simpson. How the lyrics: “We learned to trust, not run away.” And, “Nothing changed, we just got serious; and the thrill is still hot, hot, hot, hot!” resonated for Doris in her hey-day and continues to describe her in many ways.

Born an only child, yet raised with 12 cousins who lived next door, Doris learned to communicate and socialize early. She understood the importance of pecking order and being able to stand up for herself, and stand for something.

Few people remain in the same house for 27 years, or live 37 years on Dr. King Drive and over 50 years in the same neighborhood, but Doris and her family have. They remain the anchors who represent foundational families, even as many blocks changed and became difficult, sometimes even fearful.

“At those times, we had to go to God,” Doris responded. “We did not like it, and collectively, we said “no way, but we did not run away.”

Through her membership at the Ebenezer Church of God in Christ and association with HeartLove Place, Doris determined that she would not fear, but that she would be strong and let the transitional renters know they would not take their block. Through the efforts of committed neighbors, they began to see the re-establishment of homeowners and strong neighbors who were determined to live where they desired to live.

The mother of two children, she lost one in 1994. His death, one of the statistics that we hate to hear about, left her deeply crushed .

“These losses are real. They are more than numbers and television clips. I still have difficulty talking about his death,” she said. However, she beams as she discusses her remaining son, and her four grands and four great-grands, the loves of her life.

A nurse, who worked over 28 years at the Milwaukee Mental Health Complex, Doris, spent years caring for those with mental health issues.

“I’ve seen a lot, and life is not a bed of roses, but you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again,” she shared. “There are legitimate trials and tribulations but life is what you make it.”

When she retired from mental health, she earned a certification to teach pre-school. She taught K4-K5 for five years and taught with the Rainbow Summer Program before retiring.

When arthritis became a problem Doris came home, but only briefly because she was accustomed to being busy. She joined the Board of Directors of HeartLove Place, an ecumenical collaborative of churches that minister within the central city. It was a perfect marriage for her skills, neighborhood and interests.

Doris joined Interfaith Program for Senior Adults, funded by the Milwaukee County Department on Aging, at the Clinton and Bernice Rose Senior Center, to better her health and relieve arthritis. She signed up for a class titled, “Tai Chi Energy for Arthritis.”

The class helped her condition, and she wanted to continue, but the class leader was not returning, so he taught her what to do. Today, Doris is the group leader of the class. She also volunteers daily, helping in the dining room and the reception desk when needed, and serving as a hostess for special events held at the Senior Center.

The Clinton and Bernice Rose Senior Center is a home away from home for Doris and her friends. These active seniors also travel several times during each quarter. They go to plays, museums, and often out of town trips are planned.

Doris reads at least two books each week, and she looks to Scripture, her religious community and her faith to sustain her. Her block today is almost all family. As homes opened up, other family members bought in and her neighborhood is stable again.

“We love our community, our center, our families and friends,” Doris Hopkins-Brown jubilantly shares.

Doris is Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic. She demonstrates that substance is significant and character is ‘solid as a rock”.

ANNIE CARTERINTERFAITH/ CLINTON AND BERNICE ROSE CENTER

We have heard about grandparents raising grandchildren. It’s real! And while the love for one’s grandchildren equals or even exceeds that of their children, raising grandchildren is not the natural cycle of life. Ask grandparents like Annie Carter who lovingly built her family, one child at a time!

Now matriarch to eight wonderful children and great-grandmother to 33, Annie Carter is the consummate grandmother. Some of her children are by blood, others are by adoption, but all are her children! Annie gives love freely without designation of how they came to her care.

Annie had four children but she lost her daughter in 2012. When the courts considered separating her daughter’s children, Annie immediately sought guardianship. The three grandsons were awarded to her in 1983, the youngest of whom is now 30 years old. The other children have come through the courts from families that needed state support to ensure a healthy, happy environment.

“All of these children are Allen’s,” Annie shares. “I thought, Lord, you’ve brought me these children, please give me the strength! Strength for the tasks required plus strength to lovingly guide them. This only comes through prayer and the belief that God has brought us to this place, and He will carry us through it,” Annie confides.

Annie’s journey often challenged her and there were times she wondered how she could continue, but the children loved one another, loved her, and understood that her love was unconditional. She retained her home during the time the children were growing up and only lost it during the recent recession, after providing 30 years of stability for the kids. And still she has gone on!

Always a life-learner, she participated in the Milwaukee County

Homemakers’ Program and received her certification in 1968. She took classes at MATC for Secretarial Sciences, followed by classes through the Veterans Administration in Medical Terminology in 1969. She became a Unit Secretary at St. Michael’s Hospital in 1972, and worked there for many years.

Her work in healthcare led to her employment at the Marina Nursing Home. She also counseled young women through the St. Martin Center, where she worked to challenge, encourage and equip girls for better lives.

Attractive and conscientious about beauty and improving oneself, Annie took classes at IBA Cosmetology School and, after graduation, worked for five years as a skin specialist, for the renowned Mrs. Edna Matthews, founder/owner of Edel’s Face and Day Spa in the Grand Avenue Mall.

Following hip replacement surgery in 1995, she was referred to the Milwaukee County Displaced Homemaker’s Program and was assigned to Interfaith Program on Senior Adults. She worked at the Interfaith downtown office for four years and later transferred to the Clinton and Bernice Rose Senior Center. “There I found love, people who were thrilled to give a good hug on a challenging day. I enjoyed this work,” she shared.

Annie also found many programs in which she participated. Walking, the fitness center and mild dance helped strengthen her hip recuperation. New friends, new peers, and a loving family supported her and brought new meaning to her life.

“The Center is like a fountain of youth. We can be divas, dancers, singers and performers. We have karaoke, The Rose Grace Choir, and I often sing when we perform. I have displayed art from the art classes and I volunteer at the center each week,” she said.

“Henrietta Allen is a superb Director. We started at the center at the same time. She is truly amazing. She makes us all family and we love her. Henrietta has made this center a phenomenal program center for all people. She brings an energy that permeates our walls and every person who comes here.”

Annie is looking forward to wowing her family as she sings at the Jazz Brunch. She will also model an outfit showing that age is in the eye of the beholder. Annie Carter, you inspire those who now Aspire! You are Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic and we salute you.

TYRONE DUMASDUMAS CONSULTING

Tyrone Pierre Dumas is a 2014 graduate of National Louis University in Education Leadership. Now 62 years young, this life-long learner exemplifies what fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic inspirers can accomplish. His commitment to life, learning and bettering life in the community makes him a model for students and others considering advanced classes.

After a brief stint as Principal of Emmaus Lutheran School, a Milwaukee Parental Choice K-9 School, and prodding from his wife, Dumas enrolled in an Accelerated Leadership program at National Louis University in 2012. He achieved this while volunteering, lecturing, working and taking care of family.

His education began while watching his mother create, run, and successfully maintain her businesses for years. Witnessing her tenacity, vision, and ability to network to accomplish her goals were daily realities that impressed him as a child.

“We helped Mother at Darlene’s Lounge—her signature bar and restaurant—in our youth. It was never easy but she envisioned entrepreneur-independence at a time when women seldom ventured into their own businesses,” he explained. “She believed in quality, having a good product, and serving her clientele with commitment. These values were at the center of our early lives.”

Beginning his personal career, Dumas graduated with an Associate Degree in Architecture from MATC in 1975 and received his BS Degree in Architecture from UW-Milwaukee in 1977. His major was one few African Americans had chosen. At the same time he was fine-tuning his architectural skills, he was also performing as a comedian, working with existing organizations and schools, using a keen sense of humor to explain regular life-experiences.

His first employment experiences included working for the Milwaukee County Department of Public Works, the City Department of Public Works Bridges and Public Buildings, Snap On Tools, and Miller Brewing as a Corporate Engineer.

Then from 1999 through 2002, Tyrone was hired by MPS for the Bradley Tech, Director of Technical and Trade Education Initiative, where he worked with colleagues to design curriculum for MPS’ plan for improving K-12 trade programs. That was followed by working as Project Manager of Neighborhood Schools. As Project Manager of School Closings, from 2005-2007, he coordinated the School Closing Engagement and, with a consultant, developed the criteria and framework to involve teachers, administrators, parents and the community in the closing process. He left MPS in 2011, after years of community impact and implementation.

“Today, I am the Interim Director of an after-school program for the SOS Center, and simultaneously, I am a part-time administrative assistant for farmer, CEO, and Founder of Growing Power, garden-guru, Will Allen. With his leadership team, we are focusing on project initiatives such as site acquisition analysis,” he said.

Tyrone has written a humorous cookbook, titled “Food Is My Orgasm”, which is about food, healthy eating and the elimination of health disparities, such as diabetes and hypertension. Once overwhelmed by diabetes, he has now controlled his diabetes and continues to up his success-quotient. He openly shares his book and daily practices with others.

In his role as elder, educator, spouse, parent, grandparent, Dumas continues to view his life, passions, and commitment to making a difference as the architect professional. He has been married to the love of his life for over 42 years. They have two children—both college graduates—and four grandchildren.

Dumas has worked 20 plus years with the Dr. King Elementary School, bolstering black male educational pursuits through black male imagery. In 1992, as a volunteer, he recruited other professionals as chaperones to go on the annual Civil Rights Tour and tour of HBCU schools.

“My desire is to give more to life than what I take from it,” he expounds. “This exposure is the first out of city, out of state experience for over 95% of the youngsters. It is extremely important, for a child can only believe that they can conceive!”

Tyrone P. Dumas analyzes, designs, critiques, solves problems, and he gets results. He is a man for all seasons who continues to live and promote connections, as he grows daily in wisdom and life lessons which he freely shares with clients, his students, his community. He is Inspired while he continues to aspire! He is fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic.

F. PATRICIA DUNNINTERFAITH/ CLINTON AND BERNICE ROSE CENTER

Patricia is a successful corporate-model. She retired in 2004 from We Energies, where she reported directly to the Senior Vice President on many issues, including sexual harassment and diversity related issues.

As a member of the Local Union I, she was only the second female Vice President to hold that office. Her work with business unit directors and managers to assess training needs, and work to implement programs about customer relations, human resources, team building, verbal and non-verbal communication effectiveness, were exemplary.

After a total of 35 years with the utility company, Pat moved on to her next phase in life. A world traveler and a life-long learner, she confides, “I don’t believe in having a bucket list, I live life day by day. If it’s important enough for me to want it, and consider it, I do it. I don’t believe in the word “retirement. I have revamped, refined and retooled but I shall never retire,” she laughs.

She and her husband have traveled to 33 of the 50 states. She has learned multiple languages and she’s visited several European countries. Travel is important for everyone, she believes. Exposure negates many pre-conceived notions and the examination of culture, people, places and monuments bring history alive, she’s learned.

An avid reader, Pat is a new member of a local Book Club. The group reads many Black novels, light pieces like “Sundown Town”; political offerings like the “Anita Hill Story” and recently suggested, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

Currently she is a consultant and CEO of Dunn and Associates that utilizes her years of experience in management and strategic development for companies desirous of expanding design and implementation programs specific to organizational needs.

Not a person to enjoy going to the gym, yet very committed to fitness and having fun, the Clinton and Bernice Rose Senior Center just seemed to be the perfect solution, for Pat.

“We went to Garfield Park as youngsters for picnics, ice skating and sledding, so many childhood activities were on those grounds but my daughter, Kim, told me about the programs at the Rose Center,” she said.

“The Roselettes is my love today! We have a wonderful group of women, aged 60-85 years, with most of them being 76 years and older. I’m one of the babies in the group, and they are such an inspiration to me! Some of the ladies are still working, all of them stay active, others are caregivers, they are my mentors,” she said.

The Roselettes, famous for their precision, consistent performances and their love of giving back to the community, recently held their annual show and fund-raiser, at the Clinton Rose Center, with food by Chef Terry Lynn and Vice President of Community Affairs, Thelma Sias served as the Emcee.

The Rosellettes perform in uniform and dance in coordinated cadence as they do the “Wobble” and “The Electric Slide” to name a few. Their programs are designed to meet the needs of the audience for which they are performing, and go from three minutes to a full program of 30 more than minutes. Dunn is the Vice President of the Roselletes and Lois Redic is the dance chair who ensures that the members can perform the program and strengthen the group.

In addition to dancing, Dunn volunteers as a Voting Registrar and mentors several young women about the networking necessary to mount the corporate ladder.

Her attitude, willingness to volunteer, share her experiences and demonstrate her enjoyment of dance and people and bringing happiness to others are the basis of Pat’s recent “Courage to Change the World Award” that was given in the Dominican Republic, May 8, 2014.

F. Patricia Dunn is a trailblazer who enjoys life and grows up while growing others, along with her. She is fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic. She remains a corporate model supreme!

MUSIC Chris PipkinsCHRISTOPHER’S PROJECT

MASTER OF CEREMONIES Larry Waters

WELCOME Larry Waters

THE OCCASION Arlisa Mc Henry GREETINGS Tom Barrett, Mayor, City of Milwaukee

INVOCATION Rev. Judith T. Lester

SOLO Annie CarterProject Interfaith / Cinton and Bernice Rose Center

PROMENADE OF HONOREES & INTRODUCTION OF SCHOLARS: THE GENERATIONS UNITED

Mike Mullis, Student CoordinatorDr. Terence Thomas Scholarship Fund, Inc.

FABULOUS, FIT, FUN AND FANTASTIC Karen DotsonCommentator

Casual Wear, Church Wear & Formal Wear

SPECIAL AWARDS Rewa DurhamNortthwest Funeral Chapel

RAFFLE AND SILENT AUCTION Beverly KernKerrent Events, Inc

ROSELETTES Rose Center Dancers, Pat Dunn, Pres. Lois Redic, INSTRUCTOR

F. Pat Dunn, Pres, Lois Redic , InstructorMembers: Gwen Templer, Arcola Edwards, Sarah Logan,

Della Hatcher, Marian Beach, Dora Scott, Betty Haynes, Katie Mc Coy

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Patricia O’Flynn Pattillo, Publisher

HONOREE SALUTE Video Salute, Jamila Benson, Benson Assoc.

BENEDICTION Rev. Judith T. Lester

VICTORIA FRAZIERNORTHWEST FAMILY ACTIVITY & EVENTS CENTER

Sometimes retirement brings a brand new life, a second career, an opportunity to be your own boss and to help others become entrepreneurs, employers and advisors. Victoria Frazier is such a person. She is a business woman, a woman of new birth, and she empowers other women. Victoria Frazier is Fabulous, Fit and Fantastic.

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Victoria has lived in Milwaukee with her husband and son for over 30 years. A teacher of teachers in the Milwaukee Public School system, with graduate and post graduate degrees, she has mentored many administrators currently in the system and always enjoyed sharing information, teaching youngsters to love education and using her talents in her church Sunday School class, for many years. Victoria is a teacher’s teacher!

After deciding to spend more time helping her husband, J.C. Frazier, CEO of Northwest Funeral Chapel, she took Grief Counseling at Marquette University before retiring from MPS. Modeling one of her mentors, Mrs. Ernestine O’Bee, who did grief counseling for the funeral home well into her late-nineties, Mrs. Frazier had thought her forte would be in “after-care” for families serviced by the funeral home. However, opportunity knocked, unexpectedly. Her husband wanted her to learn more about the business and when they decided to remodel, the 4034 W. Good Hope Rd site into the Northwest Family Activity and Event Center, he chose her to bring this new venture alive.

“I had always been involved with the funeral home and I looked forward to working with grieving families, but I had not thought about being so intensely involved until this opportunity came along. I believed there was a real need to have additional facilities, within our community, that serve our families, social, educational and conference needs. Northwest Family Activity and Event Center has become my new passion,” she said.

Opened in October, 2013, as part of the Northwest Funeral Chapel’s 20th anniversary celebrations, Northwest Family Activity and Event Center is a full-service rental facility. Designed to cater to corporate conferences, with full Wi-Fi and soon Skype capability, individual meeting rooms for clubs, organizations and the Greek orders, plus an exciting out-door pavilion for BBQ, picnic and outdoor weddings, family reunions, dinners, showers, parties and celebrations, the Northwest Family Activity and Event Center is exceeding first year expectations.

Thanks to the vigilant leadership of Victoria and her catering and event planning team, new dates are already posted for 2015 and beyond. And the elegant upstairs, downstairs dining rooms can serve easily a group of 200, including dancing. The center has gained a splendid reputation for cleanliness, punctuality, quality set-ups and friendly, professional service. “Retirement? I do not understand the word, “she proclaims, “I‘m now putting new tools into my tool-box, and with God’s help, I’m re-inventing myself and I like it.”

Her greatest joy has come in empowering other young women, photographers, wedding planners, event planners, counselors, who are using the facility on an on-going basis. “They say they find the center warm and inviting, and that affirms what we have been trying to establish. Beverly Kern has been a God-send, she is tireless and always positive. She has been a joy to work with. Her years of experience has added much to those beginning events,” she said.

Working with young mothers is a special objective Victoria hopes to actualize this Fall. She wants to be able to hear their concerns and help them identify resources, programs and other mothers who can guide them, so that their babies have the benefit of this knowledge, the tutoring and the opportunities for advancement.

“When we plant positive seeds, nurture them, we see positive results. Regrettably, our children receive too much negative reinforcement, from their homes, the radio and television from their neighborhoods. We have to teach them to “bloom where you are planted”, and with nurturing, they do! There is much hope, and the Northwest Family Activity and Event Center plans to focus on that, this year.”

Plans this Fall include the “Back to School” event on August 23rd, at the 4034 W. Good Hope Rd. location. Several retreats are scheduled, training seminars, family reunions for the full weekend, using the entire facility for their Family picnic, formal dinners, family history updates, breakfasts and games.

Victoria, affirms that life can begin anew after one retirement and provide quality, services, business opportunities and personal fulfillment, at any age.

RONNIE GRACEDIVERSE AND RESILIENT

Maya Angelou says: “When we know better, we do better.” This can certainly be said for Ronnie Grace, our honoree, a face and mentor for HIV Prevention in our community.

Grace exhibits the commitment, courage, and expertise that changes health disparity quotients in the LGBT community. As the Program Coordinator of HIV Prevention and Testing, at Diverse and Resilient, inc., he works with males, female and the Transgender Programs, and lives the life he desires to create for others.

Diagnosed 27 years ago with HIV, Grace was first employed with Comprehensive Health Education. He was in the forefront of discussions and awareness in the Black community, where he openly broached subjects like medications, testing, acceptance, and resources at a time when stereotypes often exempted openness.

“Over the years much has changed. Yet much has to change to balance the number of cases diagnosed versus those infected; and services to treat those infected versus those in denial, and therefore not receiving care,” Ronnie shares. In fact, this imbalance led Grace to develop the Men of Color Empowerment and Support Group, in 2009. In 2011, the group was awarded the LGBT Staff Awards for their work with men with HIV.

Ronnie’s personal journey has been a trajectory of finding himself, as a HIV infected person, medically, spiritually, socially and professionally. Personal health issues consumed him for a brief period of time, however after addressing them, he returned with personal changes that enhanced his health and desire to share his knowledge, experiences and skills with others. He is a mentor and a model.

“Compared to cities such as Los Angeles, Washington, DC and Atlanta with much higher LGBT communities, Diverse and Resilient

has excelled in reducing cases among Black men.” he said. “Our youth program, our condom campaign, our women transgender programs have been the most successful in the state.”

Governor Scott Walker recently announced that 81,000 Wisconsinites used the Obamacare network. The Affordable Care Act brings access to many who had no care. “In the last two years, Diverse and Resilient administered over 1000 tests. Today, young men and transgender women using street hormones can see doctors. This will save lives. Our goal is to reduce the transmission rates and eliminate full-blown AIDS. The stress of no insurance is devastating mentally and physically. Availability of good healthcare can only strengthen our mission and result in fuller, quality lives. Families, who sometimes reject loved ones, can now refer, support and encourage healthy lifestyles.” Grace shared.

Ronnie Grace graduated from Washington High School and attended UWM before going to New York, where he modeled. In 1975 and 1976, he modeled under the Beverly Benson Modeling Agency, where he, Norman Knox and Al Culbreath were major models in Milwaukee reviews, and with the Jackie Carter Agency, as well.

“For those who recall the Dr. Bop “Super Dude’s Contests”, I was a finalist and also performed as a Ballroom instructor with the Fred Astaire Agency, for years,” he reflects.

An old proverb goes “No one can understand my journey or my path until you’ve walked a mile in my shoes.” Ronnie Grace knows the journey and he knows the successes, he devotes his life, daily, to helping others journey without having to repeat the shortfalls. He wants his life to make life for those who can benefit...and daily he does! He is inspiration wrapped in aspirations. He is fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic.

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VIOLA “VI” HAWKINSMILWAUKEE COUNTY DEPARTMENT ON AGIING

Viola ‘Vi” Hawkins says her mission has been to “be an empowering voice for people who strive to make their living environment a better place. Through the Milwaukee County Commission on Aging and the State Aging Advisory Committee, I would like to see my knowledge of community needs, concerns and resources to advocate for the common good of senior citizens living in Milwaukee County and the greater community as a whole.”

Vi came to Milwaukee in 1957 from Louisiana to live with her sister and brother-in-law. After marriage and two children, she became involved with Reverend W.B. Gregg, Pastor of St. Matthews AME Church Attorney Lloyd Barbee, and Realtor Sherrod, among others, to change central city lines and defacto-segregation of neighborhood schools.

“I was one of the marchers protesting many of the major issues that were quickly changing Milwaukee. When Dr. King was assassinated, when the community marched about the unjustified death of Ernest Lacy, and when we expressed our distrust of Chief of Police Harold Breier, I was a part of those historic times. We stayed the course, and later marched for open housing and other issues with Father Groppi across the 16th Street viaduct,” she said.

Vi’s involvement in many of the foundational issues of the growing Black community brought her face to face with politicians, newsworthy leaders locally and nationally. Most of all, her experiences taught her how to ask the questions and to express the needs of the community she passionately represents.

“There are over 153,000 seniors, 60 years of age and older in Milwaukee County. As a member of the State Aging Advisory Board, I’m the only person of color on the committee. The other members come from the

other 71 counties in the state, and often their image of Milwaukee County is flavored by what they’ve heard on the news,” she said.

“Originally my attendance at these meetings was met with gracious curiosity but today there are sincere hugs and requests for my opinions. You earn trust and credibility. We have to be represented and our issues have to be heard at the State Aging Advisory table,” said Vi.

After 25 years of volunteering throughout the City Housing Authority Developments, Vi’s employment portfolio began at Lapham Park Housing with the City of Milwaukee. She worked as a Supportive Services Coordinator with the Housing Authority, including being a liaison between residents and city management. She later transferred to Hillside for the renovation of the $40 million dollar project. She was an intake specialist/supervisor for the Women, Infant and Children’s (WIC Program), for four years and she developed after school programs for youth at Silver Spring & Custer High.

Her education credentials include UWM Board Member Institute training and classes focus on Community Education, MATC, with a major in Business Administration and Management; and the National Center for Economic and Community Development Leadership Training, and Future Milwaukee Institute Training.

Hawkins’ volunteerism spans 50 plus years, including the American Red Cross, Friends of Dineen Park Neighborhood; Interfaith Older Adults Board member; Troop Leader of Cub Scouts, Explorer Post of the Boy Scouts of American; and Aerobics program for the community surrounding Lincoln Park Lutheran Church; Voter Registrar and Pollster for the City of Milwaukee.

An athlete in her youth, Vi played softball and volleyball in Milwaukee City/County’s Recreation Department League and enjoyed playing in bowling leagues. Today, one of her passions is The Jazzy Jewels Dancers. The dance troupe has been together for eight years and they perform all over the city, and the state. Sassy, talented women ages, 65 to 82 years, the ladies are family.

When asked about aches and pains, Vi responded. “We’ve had rotator cup, hips and knee replacement surgeries, one person has a pacemaker/defibrillator, but we don’t sit and twiddle our thumbs. God gave us the gift of life. It’s what we do with it that is our gift back to Him,” she said.

Viola “Vi” Hawkins is a community-thought leader, an advocate, ambassador, friend, and a child of God who uses her gifts to glorify her existence. She is fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic.

SAMUEL HOLLANDINTERFAITH/ CLINTON AND BERNICE ROSE CENTER

Sam Holland is a man who loves to play in the dirt. As the world becomes more aware of natural, non-processed food and improving health and lifestyles, Sam Holland’s love of gardening becomes even more important.

“We had a large garden when I was kid; at age 14, my mother allowed me to dig up enough back yard to plant what I wanted. I chose a hand full of pop corn kernels from the grocery store. Much to my mother’s disbelief, most of those corn kernels quickly sprouted to a bountiful harvest. From that harvest, we had plenty of cream (fried corn) and boiled corn on the cob, everyday for about a week. We even had fresh popcorn, for the following Christmas. My mother saw me a little differently from then on.”

Gardening is more than a hobby for Samuel Holland. It’s also his therapy.

“There have been days I would come home from work so tired and beat I barely had enough energy to lift one foot in front of the other. Then I’d notice one of those pesky weeds needed to be plucked out. I’d find myself emerging from my little crop with dusty knees and dirty hands, 20-40 minutes later, with a refreshed and rejuvenated attitude,” he said.

Holland is an urban gardener who fancies the normal plants like okra, tomatoes, snow peas, squash, and beans but he has a passion for the exotic plants like snake gourds and other varieties of sweet corn. When others are watching television, Holland is searching seed catalogues for new varieties or examining new gardening techniques.

These days, Holland uses most of his plants himself but, of course there are some crops that are really bountiful and he gives them away. But

most of it he freezes and lining his shelves are Ball glass jars and lids, just waiting to be filled with produce, because he also cans produce.

About ten years ago, Holland was an insurance salesman but after taking time off to care for family members, his license expired.

“Before discovering Clinton and Bernice Rose Center, I spent many months struggling to meet the challenges of unemployment. At the Rose Center I found lives in greater need than my own and I was encouraged to come back and hangout there where others were dealing with illnesses and ailments and they could use my assistance.”

“Each day, many seniors come to the Rose Center for our health checks, for communications and valuable information sharing, exercise, a hot meal, sometimes the only hot one of the day. We are a family! Each person is valued and respected with the dignity that keeps them comfortable to keep coming back.”

Holland says he is a changed man, from 25 years ago.

“I never considered myself a giver until after allowing GOD to change my life and my spiritual journey. I am anchored to the word of God. From reading the Bible, I have been inspired to share my heartfelt compassions with all who will listen to my gratitude for health, mobility, the joy of my Christian experience. Gardening is part of my personal therapy but it is only one of the several venues I use to pass on the blessings that have been given to me.”

Holland is an unofficial guide. He helps show people around the center when there are visitors. When there are programs, he willingly helps set up the chairs and helps the custodial staff in a pinch. For years, he has faithfully, helped with the outdoor distribution of hundreds of boxes of food for the Hunger Task Force, to aid some of Milwaukee’s most vulnerable citizens.

Holland continues to grow in gratitude and strength as he uses his time to help the Community Research Council, the Walnut Way Show Project, the Community Planning Council and the Walnut Way Conservation Corporation.

“The Clinton and Bernice Rose Senior Center will always have a special place in my life for it permits me to blossom.”

Samuel Holland, you are fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic.. Thanks for your thankfulness!

MELISSA JONESMOLINA HEALTHCARE

Distinguished Honoree Melissa Jones is not only an effective change-agent, she is also the Community Outreach Leader for Molina Healthcare. Born in Milwaukee, Melissa graduated from Washington High School in 2000, where she was involved in many extracurricular activities and clubs. Community issues and interest in making a difference were important in high school, prompting her to participate in the Tom Barrett for Congress campaign, as a member of the Youth Advisory Council.

Melissa earned an Associate degree in Liberal Arts and Humanities from Milwaukee Area Technical College and continued at UWM from where she graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Community Education, in 2010.

A networker, by nature, with mentor-support from Azerd de Cryms, Director of the American Heart Association, she volunteered with the Heart Health Equity Council and Planned Parenthood. Her interests in the Heart Association were influenced by her own congenital heart defect, diagnosed at birth. She learned a lot about her health and began to share that information with the community.

Volunteering and holding down a full time job, while nurturing her eight-year-old son, as a single Mom would have overwhelmed many but with her son’s father’s help, they co-parent, which strengthens the mental, social, emotional health and stabilizes their family.

Believing she could combine her interest in community outreach and her expertise and skills, when Molina Healthcare declared their mission and strategies for changing the health diaspora, Melissa immediately applied and began her present job just over a year ago, as the outreach leader.

“This job is my niche! Molina’s visions are so aligned with my own. It’s great to be able to work within a company like this. It feels like family,” she explains. “I see my outreach with the professional community and the grassroots. It’s where I am supposed to be.”

Working closely with groups like the NAACP and the Urban League’s Young Professionals kept Melissa close to what’s going on but what was missing was the connector. Her role at Molina Healthcare has provided the connections that she has brought to the table.

And, the passage of the Affordable Healthcare Act is the stimulus for making good health a major initiative in the community.

“There are so many options now for getting good healthcare and living longer, healthier, more quality lives,” she beams. “My role is to bridge patient and professional services. I want to educate the community that the physician works for you, so ask questions. Doctors want to cure and the patient wants to heal, so they share a common goal, but it’s the patient’s responsibility to follow his advice, monitor reactions and take the medication as prescribed,” she said.

Melissa meets her community where they are. She goes to corporate meetings and community meetings. She targets the child-bearing population, those often without income, at the W2 building or the WIC building so they can see her, learn of her services and share the many programs available to them and their babies.

“Agencies like the Social Development Commission help in getting prescriptions through the Prescription Assistance Program, so getting the insulin for one’s diabetes or the medications for hypertension are available. No one should die from strokes or diabetic comas, if they do not have the resources,” she said

“Our fast-paced lifestyles are creating hyper-active youngsters in the classroom. Often working mothers return to work when their babies are six weeks old. When the child begins school, what has been taught in day-care is often the baseline for their academic start. And, their ability to adjust to rapid movement, rapid adjustments and quick eye-brain movement, as babies and toddlers, regrettably can be viewed as ADD or ADHD, for which medicines are given to calm that child down. It’s an unfair prognosis,” she said.

“I try to teach parents how to “slow down.” I often encourage them to take a few minutes to de-stress themselves, and teach their children how to calm down; how to see the plants, hear the birds, see some pictures in books, permit the brain to see beyond the urgency of the demands the family daily experiences. These are education leadership skills that are important to me, to my commitment to change and to the strategies and visions of Molina.“

Melissa is a game changer. She is a community advocate who knows that patience with performance is the way to continue bridge the healthcare gap. She is inspired, and she inspires us all.��

LORETTA KINGSBYNORTHWEST FUNERAL CHAPEL

Lorretta Kingsby is a striking figure, tall, stately, with beautiful silver hair; you’re automatically drawn to her. This is especially true as she ministers to her families in her role as a Licensed Funeral Director at the Northwest Funeral Chapel. Lorretta Kingsby is a legend, a servant supreme.

A mother of three children and grandmother of seven, Lorretta began her career as a registered nurse at the Milwaukee County Mental Health division, where she worked for 24 years.

After suffering burnout, she began to think it was time for a change. She signed up for classes at MATC in Funeral Services, and she loved her classes and saw herself being able to help people. That was over twenty years ago.

Lorretta trained under Mrs. Ernestine O’Bee at the legendary O’Bee Funeral Home at 2400 W. Center Street. The first female African American Funeral Director in the State of Wisconsin, Mrs. O’Bee took Lorretta under wing and mentored her through her internship and the yearlong apprenticeship.

Mrs. O’Bee was a life-learner who believed in education, growth and upward mobility and she insisted upon it from all of us. She taught me how to be gracious under stress, how to be humble without being weak, how to share without fear of personal loss, how to control anger and keep your thoughts to yourself. Most important, she taught me how to forgive and still love unconditionally.”

Lorretta Kingsby followed the advice of her mentor and went on to become a Licensed Funeral Director in 1992, joining a unique cadre of Women Directors in the State of Wisconsin.

Today, in addition to arranging funerals and working them, Lorretta guides the Pre-Planning Division at Northwest Funeral Chapel.

“There are many myths and old wives tales associated with death and dying. I encourage everyone to ask the questions. It is important that families know their loved ones are valued in our business. Each person is honored, respected and given dignity, that we pledge and honor every day,” she said.

Lorretta continues to educate the public by conducting seminars throughout the community—at the YMCA, the Salvation Army, churches, and high schools during career days. Her message to people is that “education is an on-going process and we must continue to inform the community on the changes that have occurred in our industry. Too often we postpone these discussions and have to grapple with crisis planning,” she said.

Lorretta has thought about retirement but has never been able to set a date. “Somehow, the need to serve has precluded my desires to travel,” she laughs.

We salute Lorretta Kingsby and wish her continued good health, a long, happy life, and many years of ministering to her families. And if she can example her mentor, who lived to be almost 100 years of age, we all would be very happy!

Her motto is one she learned from Mrs. Ernestine O’Bee, by Dag Hammerskjold.

It says: “A bell is not a bell until you ring it. A song is not a song until you sing it. Love was not put in your heart to stay. For love is not love until you give it away”.

Lorretta Kingsby is inspired as she inspires, doing God’s work with commitment and conviction. She is fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic.

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CHARLOTTE LEWISINTERFAITH/ CLINTON AND BERNICE ROSE CENTER

We call her “Miss Incredible”, others describe her as a multi-tasker. Whatever label you give her, she is definitely “Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic! This 2014 Honoree walks three miles a day. And it does not stop there…she also bowls—in three different leagues each week! Not only must you have the time, and the money, but you also have to have the skills to be kept on the teams. No team wants a loser so Charlotte Lewis has to have some serious skills!

Born in Mississippi, Charlotte moved to Milwaukee in 1972. A go-getter all her life, when she was diagnosed with arthritis and became active with the Milwaukee Arthritis Foundation, she was referred to the Clinton and Bernice Rose Center for Senior Adults where she joined the Walking Club. There are over 50 participants enjoying the fellowship and the other activities extended to the club, by other groups.

Charlotte participated in the Susan G. Komen Bowl for the Cure, sponsored by the Milwaukee Bucks, in February of this year, and helped raise more than $ 1000.

“Walking eases my pain; when I miss a few days, I can tell. Walking is therapy for me and the many participants at Clinton and Bernice Rose Center. It is said ‘if you don’t use it, you’ll definitely lose it’.

Over the years, Charlotte’s employment included MATC, McDonald’s, Eagle Knitting, and Koss Electronics. All of the jobs required standing for long periods; no doubt, exacerbating her condition. At age 50, she began to seek ways to help her pain.

When her daughter became high school age, Charlotte decided to return to Mississippi so her daughter could take advantage of the richness of her southern heritage. An only child, her daughter graduated from

Callaway High School in Jackson, Mississippi, where she participated in many organizations and was crowned Ms. Senior Class, Class Favorite, Jr. Patron of the Mayor’s Office and Ms 10.

Upon her daughter’s entrance to Tougaloo College, Charlotte relocated to Milwaukee. Her daughter has since blessed her with three grandchildren, Brandon, Bryant and Brianna. She has also been blessed with three wonderful great-grandchildren, Aaliyah, Kyra and Ka’ Mya.

Today, Charlotte’s beloved grandparents’ home remains intact and continues to signify strength passed on throughout generations. There are several new homes surrounding the grandparents‘ home. Many of the younger family members have built homes and are enjoying the joys of this simple, yet wonderful life.

Charlotte reminisced that it was a different kind of life!

“It was peaceful, we had everything we needed and all we wanted. Cousins were all around us and we considered ourselves sisters and brothers. My grandfather showed us we could have whatever our heart desired through hard work and family ties. He was among a select few who could buy a new automobile every other year…in Mississippi, she said.

“In addition to the fun things that I do at the Rose Center, I am a crossing guard from 7:15 to 7:50 each school-day morning and then I go back from 2:15 to 2:55 to see that the children get home safely.”

And would you believe that in between, from 12 until l p.m., Charlotte goes to the Rose Center to walk; or work out in the fitness room and, on good weather days, she walks at the Lakefront, keeping those knees functioning at their optimum.

“I have been a concession lead at the Bradley Center at the Bucks home-games since 2000. I get to see the games, cheer for our great team, and, once, I won a suite by participating with the Bucks’ sponsored “Bowl for a Cure: 2014.”

There’s an old saying: “ An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.” One never has to worry about Charlotte and idleness. She is busy, productive, active and happy. Charlotte challenges us all to use our bodies to better our families and our community. We thank you for being the epitome of “Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic!”

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DR. ARTHUR MINESMILWAUKEE HEALTH SERVICES

An old African Proverb goes: “A wise man strives for good health while a foolish man strives for wealth.” Truer words were never spoken and Honoree Dr. Arthur Mines knows well the importance of that message. For 33 years, he practiced medicine as a family doctor. Family doctors treat everyone, in all areas of health. His specialty includes babies, mothers, fathers, children, seniors—the entire family. His understanding that disease can oftentimes be “dis”- ease makes him a special professional for improving the health disparities in our community.

Presently, Dr. Mines is one of the quality health professionals at Milwaukee Health Services, Inc., at their 2555 N. King Drive and 8200 W. Silver Spring locations. Known for patient satisfaction, Dr. Mines has always been committed to changing the statistics in the African American community. He will play an even greater role now as the Affordable Health Act continues to rollout, successfully, within the community.

Disparities, morbidity rates, predispositions to certain maladies, that are culturally influenced, are the areas for which Dr. Mines is especially suited. His attention to lifestyle changes and supporting patients as they commit to taking the next steps, have been consistently expressed as his “gift.”

In his youth, he, like many high school students, was not certain about what he wanted to become. He knew he liked science, but it was after time in the United States Army that he considered becoming a physician.

During the Vietnam War, he worked as a combat medic. Working side by side with career physicians, they encouraged him to consider medicine as his life-career. They saw something special in his care and attention to detail.

“My medic-role brought me front-line experience with injury, wounds, amputations and repair of mangled parts. That confirmed my ability and opened the door for me to become a medical doctor.”

Dr. Mines earned his Bachelor’s of Science degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Illinois, College of Medicine-Chicago Medical Center. He moved to Milwaukee in 1978 and completed his residency in Family Practice at St. Michaels Hospital. During that residency, he met two physicians who impacted his understanding of the profession, immensely.

“Dr. V. Lubsey and Dr. George Lane were my mentor/role models. They shared openly and impressionably,” he explained. “I shall always be indebted to their personal/professional guidance.”

“My parents instilled that education was the key to my future,” he shared. “My father worked two full time jobs—as a bus driver and hospital orderly. My mother, a computer key punch operator, always told me that I could be anything that I desired if I studied. My parents saw to it that I had opportunities they never had. I stand on their shoulders.

“My work ethic came from my high school track coach. He taught me to give that extra effort and to push harder when I thought I had no more to give. That training helped me with my studies throughout medical school,” said Dr. Mines.

These virtues were ever-present when Dr. Mines opened his practice in Milwaukee from 1981 to 1990. As the practice grew, he joined Family Health Plan and continued to build patients and relationships through 2000. Aurora Health Care recruited Dr. Mines in 2006, whereupon he joined Milwaukee Health Services, Inc.’s Isaac Coggs Heritage Center and continues to practice there today.

Years of experience and patient satisfaction led to Dr. Mines’ appointment at the Medical College of Wisconsin as Assistant Clinical Professor in 1986. Over the years, he has helped to guide many medical students, who went on for residencies locally and nationally. Additionally, he teaches Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.

“My philosophy to future doctors and medical professionals is that what we can impart to others; and how we can make a difference in the patients’ lives is what really matters. A kind word, empathy and compassion, will last longer after we have fulfilled our mission in their physical world. Ministering to the whole patient ultimately heals the body, the spirit and mind. Kindness coupled with our medical science is the ideal combination.”

“I’ve learned that sometimes all a person needs is an ear to listen, a hand to hold and a heart that understands. This knowledge is at the core of Dr. Mines’ bedside manner and his patient satisfaction equation.

So how does the good doctor stay fit, fabulous and fantastic... He enjoys radio-controlled model airplanes, digital camera photography and using computerized editing, music and traveling.

“My wife and I enjoy the blessings that have been given us. And I am thankful for this art and the joys that have come in seeing patients heal and become whole,” he said. Dr. Arthur Mines is Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic, and an Inspiration to our medical aspirants.

DANA WORLD-PATTERSONFOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM/HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Dana World Patterson has become the face, voice and advocate for Human Trafficking in Milwaukee. This term has significant meaning and an undeniable presence, over the past two years, as a result of Martha Love and Dana World Patterson.

Often confused with teenage prostitution and frequently mis-identified, even by police and professionals in the justice system, human trafficking is not a Middle East phenomenon. It is a growing business that feeds upon illicit sex that enslaves and frequently captures unsuspecting youth—male and female.

Dana World Patterson is a Milwaukee native and a graduate of Marshall High School, who graduated from Jackson State University, in Mississippi, with a degree in Speech Pathology. She received her Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and pursued counseling with an emphasis on substance abuse.

Throughout her professional career, however, she has had a drive to “own her own business.” She created a for-profit corporation called Visions Etiquette Training and Image Consulting, almost 25 years ago.

With a contract at the YWCA, World Patterson taught students to build confidence, improve scholastic competency and increase graduations and higher education pursuits.

“This decision was by far one of the best I’ve ever made,” World Patterson shares.

“While I thought I would be emphasizing speech pathology, increasingly, I found myself working on educational leadership areas. I was teaching more and more classes about table manners, treating people fairly, being kind,” she said.Meanwhile, Dana began attending meetings convened by Martha Love about human trafficking.

“These foundational meetings, revealed a direct correlation between vulnerability, early touching experiences and human trafficking. While we continue to learn, daily, about the statistics, the underlying reasons, and the ways to avert this travesty, more and more people are beginning to hear us and join us in seeking to reduce the number of youth being led into this sex-slavery dynamic,” she said.

The statistics on human trafficking are harrowing, over $32 billion dollars, annually, is said to be circulating in the sex-trade. And the money goes to the pimps/trafficker, not to the victim/sex workers.

“We must know that in Human Trafficking there is no choice, “World Patterson said. “This slavery component led me to create Foundations For Freedom, the non-profit arm, whose mission is to speak to women and girls, building confidence and awareness of the presence of human trafficking so they can recognize traffickers and take control before they are lured into the unthinkable.”

How Milwaukee has become an Ivy League city in the human trafficking chain defies acceptance, and World Patterson reminds that it is this attitude that made human trafficking grow to the magnitude that it has.

“Typically, 13 - 14 year olds are the target of the pimps; however, some have begun as early as 9-10 year olds. Unfortunately girls are birthed into the trade, locally and internationally,” she said.

What’s the next step, Dana quickly states: “Awareness! We must open our eyes to the problem. We are beginning to make a small dent in awareness. People now know what we’re talking about; they are looking to identify the problem. Next, we have to acknowledge that everyone is at risk. It goes beyond address, color, and socio-economic status. Then we must call it what it is; we can no longer see it, know it but call it something else. We must raise the truth!”

“Alverno University recently held a forum on human trafficking where the signals, the things we must look for, and the services available to help the community understand the youth who are being pursued, was explored. We must take charge, as a community, and bring stability to our young,” she explained.

Dana World Patterson personifies inspiration that meets, services and supports aspirations. Her life, her passion, her pursuit of health, confidence and control of one’s own life make life for many teens positive, productive and profound.

Dana World Patterson takes “profit” out of the teen equation. She exemplifies fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic. We applaud her and pledge support, not denial, options not sex, a future through community awareness for many young men and women in the city of Milwaukee. Dana World Patterson inspires us all.

LOIS REDICINTERFAITH/ CLINTON AND BERNICE ROSE CENTER

If ever you meet Lois Redic you will be enriched. She is a bundle of energy, a cup of love and kindness, and a vessel of faith. Her smile, personality, her witness to God, as the source of her joy, is an on-going testimony.

“I accepted Jesus early in my life,” she shares; and she has been a member of Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church for over 48 years. Lois, quickly adds, “My philosophy has been one of “ Here I Am Lord!”

Raised by her grandmother, who came to Milwaukee at the age of 94 years with her daughter, Lois’ mother, and her siblings, chose Mt. Moriah, as their church home. Grandmother, daughter and Lois have taught Sunday School, a family tradition they all enjoyed.

And while life has had its challenges, Lois exudes excitement when she speaks of the love of her life, her husband, Henry.

“I call him Louis. We met at church, where else”, she laughs. “He is my soul-mate. Spiritually we are always on the same page. He completes me as I complete him. This December 18th, we will be married 20, wonderful years. Church is at the forefront of his life and scripturally he leads our family in faith,” she said.

Louis had no children and eagerly adopted Lois’ four. He has been a strong male model for their son, Mc Quinn and the girls, Michelle, Margena and Mae. The girls reside in Milwaukee and Mc Quinn, who graduated from Tuskegee University, has lived in Tennessee, Georgia and now California.

Retirement and excursions are common expectations by this time in life, and Lois and Louis pack their bags and hit the road often. They’ve traveled all over the United States and enjoyed many cruises and international destinations, as well. Their son Mc Quinn has treated them to multiple trips and cruises. They have also enjoyed cruises with friends. “ We try to get at least two trips, each year. And, sometimes we just go places where “nobody knows our name,” Lois laughs.

The Redic’s are anchors in their neighborhood.

“We’ve watched it change multiple times, yet we wanted to remain and retain this traditional part of Milwaukee. Several homes have already received historical designations and we expect ours to be one of them, over time,” she said.

Much of Lois’ daily activities include the Clinton and Bernice Rose Senior Center.

“I retired, after 27 years, from the City of Milwaukee Library system. I spent most of my years as the head Reference Librarian at Finney Library, retiring as the Branch Manager at the Dillard Library. I have always loved books and I looked forward to my hugs and the interaction with people who frequented the libraries.”

“I always retained a bucket-list of things I wanted to do and when my Dad came to Milwaukee, I took him to the Clinton and Bernice Rose Center. He didn’t stay here, but I said then that I’d be active at the center one day. So, when I retired in 2003, I returned to the Clinton and Bernice Rose Center,” she said.

Lois was invited to join the Roselettes and quickly began to learn the repertoire. The troupe performs throughout the community whenever asked, including Garfield Avenue Days, African World Festival, Juneteenth Day, nursing homes, assisted living centers and schools.

“We have fun, we stay fit, and we help one another as we learn. Sometimes we just hang out at the center. These things don’t cost you a single dime but they bring life, and love and laughter to you everyday”.

“We thank God for the staff at Clinton and Bernice Rose Center, especially Henrietta Allen, our Director, who puts her heart and ministry into making a place where we can come, enjoy, support one another, laugh, learn, heal, and help! Clinton and Bernice Rose Center is more than a complex, it is a family.

Faith, Family and Fellowship are gifts this Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic Honoree gives to each reader as the joy of her life. Lois Redic, Librarian and

Leader, given with love, as “Inspiration Meets Aspiration.”

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ANGELINE SMITHNEFERTARI BEAUTY AND BARBER BOUTIQUE

“Hair, Hair all that wonderful Hair!” Songs, poems and stories have been written about it. Women love it and hate it. Men cut it, grow it, and little girls love to play in it.

Angeline Smith, owner of Nefertari Beauty Boutique, on King Drive, has been passionate about hair since she was a little girl. A 30-year aficionado, she is treasured for having “growing hands.” Growing hands are a gift given and honored by women of color as God-given and God received. Many customers who came to Angeline with serious hair problems and had them resolved through her love and professional attention praise her quality care, attention to moisturizing and regularly scheduled treatments.

Angeline attended IBA Cosmetology School, received her license in 1983 and went on to work at a number of local salons. Always committed to not just following trends but creating healthy hair, she freely discusses what she does and the nutrients she has found to help build strong hair. She confided that what one eats is just as important to hair quality as what is placed on it.

“There’s an old saying, ‘There’s nothing new under the sun”, Smith reflects. “We used extensions years ago...we’ve dyed hair, pressed, curled, done naturals, Afros, even worn wigs; however, each of these options must be done by someone trained in complete hair care,” she said.

So, who are the people who inspired Angeline? “My mother and aunts were early role models. They were beautiful women who always looked beautiful. My mom had 15 children and she taught us to be beautiful. We had everything—love, food, health, rules that had to be followed and there were high expectations for everyone of us. We knew we had to succeed.”

Madame CJ. Walker is another of Angeline’s role models. Madame Walker was born two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1867. Black

women were coming from the fields and the chains of slavery. Cleanliness was often a side bar, as there were no modern facilities, so hair was either braided, corn rowed or tied under head-wraps, which absorbed perspiration and shielded the head from the sun. Perspiration has natural salts that destroy natural oils on the hair follicles, so broken, brittle, short and unkempt hair were the norm for many Black women before Madame C.J. Walker.

Madame Walker created new products, moisturizers, shampoos and scalp salves, as well as the famous pressing comb, and with help from her newspaper/advertising husband, Charles Walker, she began to travel around the country selling her concoctions with documented successes. Kinky, frizzy hair could be trained and tamed with her products. And by applying heat in the new pressing comb and her pressing oils, Black women were able to grow hair and design coiffures and wearable styles.

Madame C.J. Walker became the first female African American millionaire and in 1912, her factory in Indianapolis provided jobs, training and product for the burgeoning African American freed communities. She died in 1919.

“Today, younger women are returning to many “natural styles” while curls, waves, braids, and locks are worn. All are expressions of our hair and can be embraced, but ALL REQUIRE CARE. Like your teeth and nails, hair needs continuous care,” said Angeline.

She listens, hears and pays forward. Some of her customers have been coming to her since they were children. She has seen them graduate, marry, and bring their children. Family members, a daughter, niece and other extended family members have modeled Angeline’s love, compassion and customer relations as they work daily to make customers beautiful and hair healthy, in Nefertari’s Beauty Boutique.

After 30 years, Nefertari’s Beauty Boutique and its illustrious owner, cosmetologist, Angeline Smith is thankful to God.

“I thank Him for the many professionals who have come through my shop and now carry these skills and gifts of growing hands to others. I thank Him for my beautiful mother, now 90 years young. I thank Him for the people we’ve been able to give “second chances” and watch them grow, prosper and create opportunities for others. I thank God for this opportunity to share with young people this marvelous history, this beautiful experience of bringing beauty to many while being blessed in this process. “

And blessed she is as she blesses us. Angeline Smith is fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic...and she is a gift to us all.

EUGENE SMITHGENE’S LANES, CEO

Eugene Smith is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur! His work ethic as a certified steamfitter, for over 20 years, speaks to his tenacity. However, it takes work ethic, a lot of savvy, grit, and fortitude to create a job for yourself and many others. It’s taken all of these to run his businesses successfully for over 35 years. Eugene Smith’s entrepreneurial history is an example of economic development worthy of review.

Jesse Jackson often talks about the importance of civil rights, for building our communities. And he stresses the need for silver rights, economic development if our communities are going to grow exponentially.

Eugene Smith knows these concepts from both sides of the community coin. “To be able to work and provide for one’s family is a blessing. But to create work for others and myself is a blessing that multiplies. This keeps money in the community and returns money for other jobs,” he said.

“A friend asked me to come by a building he was thinking about buying. He never showed up, so I bought the building. That was my first business—Gene’s Nite Life on North Avenue, in 1979,” he shared.

Then Smith saw another opportunity—Gene’s Supper Club became his second venture. And then there was Tee’s Everglades, today called Geno’s Grill. And typical of a good businessman, you see another opportunity and if the math is right, and the staffing adaptable, you move on!

Gene’s Lanes and Lounge keeps Eugene his employees and thousands of Milwaukeean’s fit, fabulous every day. The Brunswick certified bowling venue is one of a couple in Milwaukee’s central community. Currently the lanes are under reconstruction and leagues, teams and specialty groups will soon become a reality. Smith keeps the facility active by

holding multiple Steppers classes and Urban Line Dance, on Saturday afternoons. Seventy-five to 100 dancers come each week and the numbers are growing.

“Bowling is exercise,” Smith said. “Unlike many forms of exercise, bowling is more fun than hard work. With competitive leagues, family, male, female, and multi-generational groupings available to everyone, bowling meets everyone’s needs. Beginners classes, school and birthday parties, anniversaries, bridal and baby showers will be held at Gene’s Lanes.” Gene’s Lanes and Lounge is already a people place. And soon it will be a phenomenal place!

So who have been role models for this spirited entrepreneur? Other entrepreneurs, of course. “Boobie Moore was one of my first role models. Other mentors include Catfish, Arlis Jones, Robert D. and Jewel Currie. We all mentor each other,” he said.

Well how does this busy man relax? What does he do for fun? “My hobbies include fishing, traveling, and golf. They always take me away from the tasks with the business. And I have a strong support system through my family, and friends. And, yes, I exercise. It takes away a lot of tension and I eat healthy. Eat well to live well,” Smith confides.

Smith shared, “Take care of yourself first. You can’t give to someone else what you have not given to yourself. No, I do not mean be selfish, we have too much of that. But do unto others as you would want them to do unto you, is good advice for everything in life.” Smith reminded us that getting one’s credentials is very important and he strongly supports everyone of the students being honored today. But he also said that in life we often start out in one thing and end up in something totally different. So, he suggests that, “We have to learn how to be flexible, to be open to new thoughts and ideas--to evolve as the world evolves. New technology is changing our world by the second. And still many things remain the same. We all need love, and food and fun and family and community. And, we all need a place to pull within and reach beyond the exterior. Create those opportunities to feel, to examine, to refresh and to listen,” he said.

An old adage, Mr. Smith, responds. “Everyone is going to learn. You will learn from the world of school or from the school of hard knocks. But learn! Then after you learn, be willing to share! “

Eugene Smith is a successful entrepreneur who has winning skills and traits. His success has evolved over 56 years of growing personally and helping others grow. He understands the importance of paying forward as he invests into future Milwaukee. He is fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic.

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CHERRYE TROTMANMPS TEACHER, RETIRED

Milwaukee has many treasures, especially those who remain Fabulous, Fit, Fun and Fantastic. They are builders in the city, elected officials, educators and community leaders. Cherrye Ballard Trotman is one of those treasures.  She, her late husband, Reginald, and her sister Ruby Young—now 101 years young—built roots in Milwaukee’s’ Black Community back in 1945.

Cherrye’s heritage is illuminated by education role models like her mother, a teacher and graduate of Alabama State Normal School in 1905. During this time, the requirement for a teacher’s certificate was a year of college after high school, so throughout the country educators were in abundance, especially among Black families.  While many women left teaching once they married, they made strong mothers to children and were taught the value of education early in their lives.  This was true also in Milwaukee.

When Cherrye and Reginald settled on 22nd and Roosevelt, a solid Black middle class was evolving.  Most of their neighbors came to Milwaukee with degrees from universities throughout the South, and many had Master’s degrees, PhDs, MDs, and JDs from major institutions. Cherrye graduated from Alabama State University with a degree in Secondary Education; however, MPS did not give her a secondary placement. She was assigned as an elementary teacher at H.L. Palmer Elementary School for 29 years, followed by six more years at Washington Irving School, teaching math and reading to deaf students with the help of an interpreter before her retirement.

Reginald, an entrepreneur, owned many properties in the central community so, jointly, they provided a strong, stable environment for their daughters. 

“As a teacher at Palmer Street, I created the first Girl Scouts Troop and designed the first MPS Scout-a-Rama that continues today,” she said.

“These were the times when families were working, and the parents were involved, even with jobs.  They understood what the cookie proceeds would be doing for their children so they participated and competed to make their children top sellers. It truly was a family affair.”

Cherrye’s Scout-a-Rama continues at a number of churches today, all by-products of the Girl Scout Groups that Cherrye and her colleagues started at Palmer Street. 

“I watched Milwaukee change from a city where getting a degree was a natural step to a better life, to seeing people talk about GEDs as good enough.  Our push to get the girls their uniforms and sashes from the Boston Store was soon met with, “why do they have to have uniforms?”  It was apparent that many of the things we had pushed, promoted and watched foster good grades, good behavior, and increased interest beyond the neighborhood was being replaced by attitudes of “who do they thing they are?”

“Our children are talented; just watch them manipulate their smart-phones, their video games, their television shows, their computers.  We must support them, encourage them and commend their successes.  We need to increase their exposures and opportunities to see themselves beyond their neighborhoods.  We still must play that role,” Cherrye reflects.  “Our kids are worth it; we must value them and show them.” 

This spirit has led Cherrye to help many youngsters. Recently she went to Tuskegee University to attend the graduation of one of her mentees.  He sent her a special recognition certificate thanking her for her role in reaching and encouraging.   Another one of Cherrye’s mentees graduated from Philander Smith Collage in June. She helped him financially, spiritually, and socially.

Cherrye Trotman’s life continues to increase, and this treasure continues to create new treasure in the children she has taught, those she has adopted, and in her two daughters and her grandchildren.  Cherrye Trotman epitomizes inspiration that models “fabulous, fit, fun and fantastic!

ZATIRA WASHINGTONGETTING FIT WHILE GIVING GOD THE GLORY

What do you do when you learn you have hypo-thyroidism and your weight gain will continue without medical support? What do you do when you go to work one day and you’re met with a pink slip because the company has decided to eliminate your department? How do you go on when you’re met with one challenge after another? Zatira Washington is a strong woman, a woman of faith, who has learned to pray and stand!

Our 2014 Honoree is a young woman who celebrated her 40th birthday in 2013. She works with women of all ages in her fitness program called: “Getting Fit While Giving God the Glory.” She created the program because she wanted a environment where she could exercise to gospel music in a fun setting.

Giving God the glory is synonymous with Zatira’s philosophy about life and living. She believes you can’t fall and crumble when life throws you a curve ball.

After raising her daughter Zerenity, who recently graduated from UW-Whitewater and surviving Kohl’s accounting department’s closing in 2014, she knew that decided she wanted to relocate to Dallas, Texas. She prayed and finally determined the time had come for her to leave her city of birth and begin anew.

Soon, “Getting Fit While Giving God the Glory” will have a Dallas affiliate. Zatira awaits the closing on her home, while packing and becoming recertified for the YMCA Group Exercise certification and obtaining her CPR/ AED for infants, children and adults.

A 1991 college prep graduate of Rufus King High School, Zatira is from a faith-believing family. The 15th child, and the youngest daughter in a family of 17, she has been a life-long achiever. Her parents have been married 61 years, so strong values are long-standing expectations for the entire Washington family.

In high school, she was 140 pounds and never worried about weight, but as the years progressed and she did not focus on or realize that she was getting larger and larger sized clothing, and the scale read 230 pounds, she decided to visit her doctor.

She was informed that she had a goiter. After blood tests, her diagnosis was confirmed. Bulging eyes, weight gain or severe weight loss, either hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism and excessive sweating, are the signs of the disease.

Her endocrinologist prescribed radioactive treatments, which progressively reduced the goiter and she was informed that she would be on medicine for the rest of her life. �“I had an unhealthy routine of eating cheeseburgers, bacon, home fries with onions, and I would watch television while eating. I never thought about what I was doing to myself. I felt I was okay.”

“While most of my family was thin, I suppose I didn’t see my gain as an issue. Maybe there was some denial but many of my church family were large and overweight, as well. Sometimes the routine is church, eating, more church, more eating. Of course unhealthy foods were the culprit. This was the culture.”

“I got a membership at the YWCA and began to exercise after work. I also began to read all of the food labels.”

Zatira continued with boot camp classes which included rigorous, hard, continuous cardio and strength building exercises. She also begin sharing her successes with her church family. She was determined to be free of medications and she liked the way she felt and looked.

“I got down to a size 10. When she began to be less dedicated to her workout and food regime she gained a few pounds back. But as soon as I came to myself, I began my routine again,” she shared.

Zatira is a member of Bethany COGIC, under the leadership of Pastor Annise Washington Sr. Her volunteer projects have included campaigns for “Dress for Success” for the Salvation Army. A recent graduate of Marquette University’s Future Milwaukee class, her project included teaching homeless residents how to purchase, cook, and seek healthier foods; and to eat at the dinner table. Many homeless people eat on the run, and too often junk foods or fast foods are the norm.

She is the Director of Health and Wellness for Calvary District and she also writes a quarterly Health and Wellness newsletter. A graduate of Lakeland College, with a Bachelors of Science degree in Business, Zatira also received an Associate degree in Business from Cardinal Stritch in 2004, and a certification of completion from the Bishop Aldolphus Allen School of Ministry in 2013.

Zatira is fit, fun, fantastic and she certainly is fabulous. Just look at her before and after photos and you’ll see her devotion to faith, to protecting her health and sharing her gifts and talents. Zatira Washington, truly you INSPIRE!

LISA WILLIAMSWILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES, REALTOR

Entrepreneur, financial advisor, community advocate, builder of equity and stability, all describe Lisa Williams, Broker/Owner of Williams & Associates Realty.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Lisa’s interest in real estate began when she was looking to purchase a home for herself. New to the many necessary requirements before making a purchase, she had to learn what she was supposed to do. Owning a home is just one of the equity builders in a person’s financial picture, but statistics reveal your home is probably one of your highest, most valuable assets in your personal estate. According to Lisa, the importance of Economics 101 should begin while you are in high school or before you head off to college. For example, she feels you should learn about the interest rates of student loans and understand what you will have to pay on loans before you can begin to think about buying a home.

Know the mathematics of costs versus value, value versus trends and fads. Your credit history can help you build financially or make it impossible for you to get anything on credit. So learn while you’re young, now rather than later. Good credit builds a good future.

“While getting what’s hot or what’s new may feed our egos, they do not feed our pocketbooks. They certainly do not build your fortunes. They say a car loses significant value as soon as you drive it off the lot. In most cases, your home will continue to bring increased value over the long-term,” said Lisa.

“While we have seen a recession and periodic downturns, depreciations on your home are usually temporary adjustments and they eventually

balance out. Your home will retain value, so when you think you’re ready call me. I can help you begin your finance-building picture,” she said.

Realtor Williams has taken many classes, seminars, continued education courses and certifications that she eagerly shares. Her extensive credentials included memberships and workshops at the National Federation of Housing Counselors; National Association of Realtors, Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors; Member of Multiple Listing Services; Milwaukee Realtist Association; Graduate of Real Estate Institute-GRI; Certified Residential Specialist-CRS; Registered HUD foreclosure agent; Nominee for 2006 Inner City Growth Assets Awards; Accredited Buyer Representative- ABR Trained; Military Relocation Professional-MRP; and she is the Five Star Best in Client Satisfaction Real Estate Agent; and Certified Broker’s Price Option Realtor-BPOR.

We mentioned that she began learning about real estate when she was trying to buy her home; well she learned a lot about buying and soon postponed purchasing her own home and, instead, purchased rental and investment properties. She owned three properties before she finally purchased her home.

Lisa has helped a lot of others do the same through advocacy, community-building and personal stability. Before she became a realtor, however, she thought she would be a teacher. As sometimes happens, she was first offered a position as a Housing Counselor for a non-profit agency, “So I thought, will I make any money doing this? Can I do this?” A friend convinced her that she would be educating individuals and families early on in the home buying process, so she thought, “I can do this!”

“And today, my customers encourage and inspire me. There are many changes in the industry and being able to help those seeking to become homeowners is very rewarding. Seeing their joy, their happiness and their advancement keeps me motivated.”

Remaining motivated also requires maintaining balance in our lives beyond the finances. “I love spending time with my family and friends. Often it is difficult, but I’ve learned you must make time for yourself and the rest will fall into place. I love traveling, bowling, concerts and plays.”

Financial health and physical health are important for a long, successful, meaningful life so Lisa insures that her body, mind and spirit are fed. “I believe in daily prayer and exercise. I say a prayer before I leave the house. I try to eat healthy, with a lot of fruits and vegetables, and drink plenty of water. I’ve cut out lots of salt, junk food and sodas. And I laugh often. The body needs endorphins—the happy hormones—so enjoy the simple things in life.”

Lisa Williams is committed to making life better for others in the community. She is fit, fun, fabulous and fantastic, and she pays forward to build future homeowners in the city of Milwaukee.

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Thank You: MillerCoors, Forest County Potawatomi Foundation; Evinrude, Inc. We Energies Foundation; Dr./Mrs. Roland A. Pattillo; Hupy and Abraham Law; Northwest Funeral Chapel; Johnson Controls; Boston Store; Milwaukee Health Services; Interfaith Older Adults Program; Diverse and Resilient; Molina Healthcare; Milwaukee Urban League; Milwaukee County Department on Aging; Mr./Mrs. Larry Waters; Mr.Mrs. Fred Rook. Williams Realty. Citations: Congresswoman Gwen Moore; Mayor Tom Barrett; Senator Nikiya Harris-Dodd

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