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The Afro-American, October 10, 2015 - October 16, 2015
Dr. Joann M. ChristopherHicks, chief of staff, Florine “Peaches” Camphor, Helen O. Carr
Alumni Lillie Camhn,’50, Kathalene Carey, ‘70, Juanita Morton, ‘50, Norma Faulkner, ‘50
Alumni Dion Lawson ‘87, Duane Johnson ‘91
Laura Morris Knight, Janice Mason, Ellen C. Johns
Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine Dr. Maria Thompson, president, Coppin State University
Kyle Locke, director of Annual Giving, Janice West
In spite of the heavy showers and the threat of Hurricane Joaquin in Baltimore, many supporters, friends and alumni of Coppin State University braved the weather on Sept. 29 to meet and greet Dr. Maria Thompson, the recently appointed president of Coppin, at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum on Pratt Street. Dr. Thompson welcomed her guests and gave a brief talk on some of the writings of Fanny Jackson Coppin, a Black educator and missionary who married Rev. Levi Jenkins Coppin, pastor of Bethel AME Church in Baltimore.
Deborah T. Sullivan, interim human capital chief, Baltimore City Public Schools, Watina Greene, information technology business manager, Coppin State University
Coppin’s mother-daughter alumni, Janine Conaway,’82, Theresa MatthewsGresham,62’, Vondelette Gaither (Anchorage, Alaska)
Missionary Lisa Rogers, Bishop William E. Gaines Jr., Winky Camphor
Shirley Stokes, Dr. Maria Thompson, president, Coppin State University, Dr. Thelma Thomas Daley
Photos by Anderson Ward
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts hosted the 20th anniversary of the Baltimore Book Festival on Sept. 25-Sept. 27, at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The festival featured many author appearances and book signings, hundreds of exhibitors and booksellers, non-stop readings on multiple stages, cooking demos by celebrity chefs, poetry readings, workshops, panel discussions, walking tours, storytellers and hands-on projects for kids, street theater, live music, and a variety of food, beer and wine.
Choir from Cross Country Elementary
Black Writers Guild members Jeanna Tillery, Glenora Wells-Sanders, Deliah Lawrence and Maxine Bigby Cunningham
Kids from William Paca Elementary Kevin Brown (Nancy By SNAC Cafe) and Chef Sheldon getting ready for cooking demonstration The Baltimore City Youth Poetry Team
Argentine Craig from the Baltimore Ethical Society
Afro Columnist Rosa Pryor and husband William “Shorty” Trusty
Former Oriole Al Bumbry
Former Harlem Globetrotter “Choo” Smith entertains
Tyler Mills, Ashanti Langston and Taylor Williams from the National Academy
Gussie and author Horace Mungin from South Carolina
Ronald L. Smith reads excerpts from his book “Hoodoo”