Sophisticated Settings - Lifestyle October 15 2016

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The Afro-American, October 15, 2016 - October 21, 2016

Sana Pretlow, fashion show ticket chair, Devera Barnhart, fashion show Vice chair and Alotta Taylor, fashion show chair

Frances Ball, Cynthia Brown, Edith Fitzhugh and Gladys Fitzhugh-Pemberton

On Sept 25, the Northern Virginia Section of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) held its 39th Annual Luncheon Fashion Show at the Sheraton Tysons Hotel in Tysons, Va. Proceeds from the show will be used to support NCNW’s community services and advocacy within the local Northern Va. communities.

Photos by Rob Roberts

Linda Alston, Brenda Cox, Barbara Gee and Sharon Cochraham

Helene Fisher, fashion show raffles chair and Cathy Riddick-Brown, sponsorship ads chair NOVA NCNW members

Sonya Greene, Beverly Nance, Rae Martel, Delores Williams and Judy Jackson

Paula Duckett (seated), Mel and Shirley Chambers and Patricia Grant; Beatrice Blocks (standing), Bernice Alton, Dr. Alotta Taylor and Ann Marie Anderson-Lawson

Pinning of the third star by his mother, Mrs. Piggee and wife Kassi

Army Maj. Gen. Aundre Piggee was promoted to Lt. Gen. on Sept. 26 at the Pentagon. Piggee also assumed the duties of deputy chief of staff for Army Logistics on Sept. 23. He has provided service to his country for 35 years and is currently one of 50 lieutenant generals in the Army.

Nadeh Jones, Catherine Jones and Richard Jones

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Gregg (left) and Lt. Gen. Gwen Bingham congratulate the Piggees.

Gen. and Mrs. Via with Maida Piggee taking a selfie.

Gen. Dennis Via administers the oath of office to Lt. Gen. Piggee

Lt. Gen. Piggee with University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff classmates and former instructors

Four Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Army Generals

Photos by Eboni Everson-Myart/ US Army

The Piggee family

Col. (Ret.) Robyn Bess and Lt. Gen. Gwen Bingham

Remarks

by Lt. Gen. Piggee

Army leadership (front row)

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The Afro-American, October 15, 2016 - October 21, 2016

Dr.Joanne Martin, Founder, National Great Blacks in Wax Museum

Kevin Kamentez, Baltimore County Executive Lyndra Marshall, Chair, MD Commission on African American History and Culture, Prof. Dale Green and Donna Cypress

Daniel Ford. Director Institute for Clinical and Translation Research, JHU

Lacks family members are Pam Wiks, Lawrence Lacks, son, Alfred Carter Jr., grandson and Jewell Carter

The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group held its first annual luncheon on Sept. 30 at the Fleming Senior Center in Baltimore.

The fundraiser luncheon was a benefit for the Wax Figure of Henrietta Lacks for the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

Henrietta Lacks was a Baltimore resident who died in 1951 whose cancerous cervical cells (HeLa) marked the first instance of continuous growth of human cells outside the body.

The HeLa cells would go on to transform modern medicine.

One of the more immediate results

was the development of the Polio vaccine. Her family was not made aware of the phenomenon until some 25 years after the discovery. The keynote speaker and author Dr. Roland Pattillo was the only African American to study HeLa cells under Dr. George Gey at Johns Hopkins University.

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Mansfield Jones and Andrew Bratcher

Dr. Adele Newson-Horst, HLLG Executive Committee Donald L. Jones, Roxine Lacks-Phillips and Harold Phillips Shirley Kane, Glord McQuire, Turner Station resident and Diane Tunstall

David Horst exhibited his portrait of Henrietta Lacks.

Master of Ceremonies Theodore Mack

William Omar Smith and wife

Arkia Gowins-Wade, HLLG Executive Committee

Doris Bagley, wife of Thomas Bagley, who is in the hospital, receives an official citation from State Delegate Richard Metzgar who was honored as Man of the Year.

Woman of the Year, Muriel L. Christian Gray receives citation

Audrey Demar and Lana Jenkins

Gregory “Smacks�

Wallace leads the Line Dancers

James Ford and Nia Johnson

Myra Curtis and Robert Tolson

Committee members Jimmie Hayes, Danny McCoy, Wanetah Wilkins and Carol G.Turner

Gwen Y. Cobbs and Carol G. Turner

The Frederick Douglass High School class of 1966 celebrated its 50th year James Gittings anniversary at the American Legion shows his Post #22 on Oct. 1. Frederick Douglass moves on the H. S. of Baltimore, Md. (est. 1883) is one dance floor. the oldest public high schools in the country. Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was a graduate of Douglass. The event committee members included E. Gaines Lansey Jimmie and Pat Tunstall Hayes, Danny McCoy, Wanetah Wilkins and Carol G. Turner. The class included many life-long friends and former Booker T. Washington Junior High School classmates. DJ Jammon Jess provided the music. The event raised $2500.00 towards a Peggy and scholarship for students at Janette Little Orrester Shaw and Emanuel the school.

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Photos by Anderson R. Ward

Dr. Joanne Martin, Marsha Jews, Keeping it Moving, WEAA

Rev. James McEachin, George Smith, Danny McCoy, Nate Batey, Arthur Jackson, Rev. John Lunn and James Ford

The men of Douglass H. S. Class of 1966