GHH Reunion Program 2023

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FAMILY REUNION ITINERARY

Hilton Embassy Suites Hotel, St. Charles, MO

July 7-9, 2023

FRI., JULY 7

3:00-8:00 P.M. ........................MEET & GREET GHH REGISTRATION EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL

8:00 P.M.- ............................ PLACES TO VISIT: STREETS OF ST. CHARLES MAIN STREET AMERISTAR CASINO MID RIVERS MALL

SAT., JULY 8

9:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. .................. GHH PICNIC CREVE COEUR LAKE PARK BRANWOOD, CORP. SITE #2 PAVILION 13725 MARINE AVE., ST. LOUIS, MO 63146

9:00 -10:00 A.M. ............ GHH REGISTRATION AT PAVILION

9:00 -10:00 A.M. ........................... RECREATION CANOEING, KAYAKING, FISHING, BICYCLING, WALKING TRAIL

10 -11:30 A.M......................... KICKBALL AND TUG OF WAR TOURNAMENTS BEGIN (ACROSS FROM THE PAVILION) FAMILIES COMPETE AGAINST ONE ANOTHER FOR TROPHIES AND MEDALS

10:00 A.M.-11:30 A.M. ........................ BINGO UNDER THE PAVILION

PRIZES GIVEN AWAY

11:30 A.M.-1:00 P.M. ........................... LUNCH UNDER THE PAVILION

1:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. ........................ KICKBALL TOURNAMENTS CONTINUE (ACROSS FROM THE PAVILION)

SAT., JULY 8 (CONTINUED)

3:00 P.M............................ GHH PICNIC ENDS

4 - 10:00 P.M. ............................. GHH “TOUR DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS” MEET IN LOBBY

7:00 P.M.- ........................ WESTPORT SOCIAL

910 WESTPORT PLAZA DR, ST. LOUIS, MO. 63146

LIVE BAND, BASKETBALL, PING PONG, POOL TABLE, SHUFFLEBOARD, DARTS, FOOSBALL, KARAOKE, FOOD, DRINKS FREE TO ENTER MEET IN THE LOBBY

SUN., JULY 9

9:30 A.M.-11:30 A.M. ....... CHURCH SERVICE PASTOR JERRY MCAFEE

NEW SALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

2507 BRYANT AVENUE MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55104

11:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M. ....... GHH YOUTH MEET GUEST RAPPER: RONALDO GRIFFIN (WILLIE MAE WILSON’S SON-IN-LAW) COMEDIAN - UNC

5 YEARS OLD AND OLDER

1:30 P.M.-6:30 P.M. ............. GHH BANQUET

2:00 P.M. -3:30 P.M............FOOD IS SERVED

3:30 P.M. -6:30 P.M.......................PROGRAM

GHH PRAYER & CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL CHAIRMAN TED GLASPER INDUCTS

GHH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

GHH FAMILY TREE

GHH FORMER SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS SPEAK

GHH GAME SHOW

GHH AWARDS PRESENTED

CHAIRMAN TED GLASPER REMARKS AND NEXT REUNION

WelcomeFamily!

This is our 20th anniversary & 40th annual family gathering!

We are so happy to have our first time family and friends here in St. Louis where our first reunion started. There are a lot of new family members attending the reunion this year. We are so glad you came. Our St. Louis Committee has worked very hard to try to make this an enjoyable weekend. We have always tried to encourage our young people to attend our reunions. This year, GHH will have over 70 children from infants through sixteen years old and many 18 year old through 30 year old. When Detroit, Michigan hosted the family reunion, there was a huge turnout of young people too. Our young people are our future. It is time for us to train up our young people and prepare them to get ready and take over our family reunions. The preparation doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and training. Let’s start today.

Ted and Lillian Glasper

In honor of our 20th anniversary, we will hold a candlelight memorial and hear from past scholarship recipients Sunday. Many of our loved ones have gone on and this weekend we want to celebrate them. These loved ones are the reason we are here this weekend. Without them, there wouldn’t be a GlasperHolmes-Heaston Family Reunion. Our scholarship recipients will also speak for the first time about what they’ve experienced since receiving the GHH Scholarship.

Again, thank all of you for coming. We hope you have fun and get to know family you’ve never met before.

Love,

Ted Glasper

National Chairman Ted Glasper

GLASPER HOLMES HEASTON

These are the roots that link us together!

Cecelia Holmes & Earnest Glasper

Ophelia Holmes & Edd Heaston Rosie & Bedford Holmes

Amos Holmes

Jim & Julie Holmes

Once Upon a Time...

On August 8, 1898, a baby boy named Ernest Glasper was born to Tommy and Mary Glasper.  On June 21, 1899, a baby girl named Cecelia Holmes was born to Bedford and Rosie Holmes.One sunny day Earnest and Cecelia met and fell in love.  To this union, sixteen children were born:   Ernest, Jr, Rosie Mae, Alberta, Cecelia, Virginia, Louise, Chalmes, Clarence, Tommy, Allen, Alice, Theodes, Roy, Virgen, Jerry, and Eddie Lee.  Twelve of their children lived to be adults:  Ernest, Jr., Rosie Mae, Alberta, Cecelia, Louise, Chalmes, Clarence, Tommy, Alice, Theodore, Roy, and Jerry.   Three of the twelve are currently living:  Alice, Theodes (Theodore), and Roy.

Ernest and Cecelia Glasper lived in Hayti, Missouri.  Down the road from the Glaspers lived two families who became very close to the Glaspers and later became a part of their family… the Presberrys and the Prides.  In fact, two Presberry brothers fell in love with two Glasper girls, and three Glasper brothers fell in love with three Pride girls, and the three families joined and are still joined together today.

One summer, one of the Glasper boys, Tommy, thought it would be a great idea to have a family reunion.  So, he called all his brothers and sisters and told them he was organizing a family reunion at Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri.  It was a hit!  Families came from all over the country with their children to eat, drink, and fellowship.

In the summer of June 1981, another brother, Chairman Ted, decided to organize another family reunion in St. Louis, Missouri and made it a three-day event with a Meet & Greet on Friday evening, a picnic on Saturday, and on Sunday, a morning church service and banquet that followed.  Almost 300 family and friends attended the reunion.  At that reunion, his brother, Chalmes, nominated Theodore as the president of The Glasper Family Reunion. It was carried out and unanimously approved.

Chairman Ted contacted family members in St. Louis, Missouri, and held a family meeting at his and Lillian’s home.  Chairman Ted organized the St. Louis Headquarters Committee.  This committee would be responsible for receiving and paying out all monies and correspondence and helping other families in different cities organize a reunion.  President Ted appointed his wife, Lillian, as the treasurer, Ida Presberry as the secretary, and Gay Glasper Thompson as the Event Coordinator.

Chairman Ted and Lillian started traveling the country to find Ernest and Cecelia’s sibling’s children and invite them to family reunions.  They found Cecelia’s brother Joe Holmes’ children, Cecelia’s aunt Ophelia Holmes and Edd Heaston’s children, Cecelia’s cousins through Amos and Lucy Holmes, Ernest Glasper’s brother Tommy and Hattie Glasper’s daughter Dorothy Glasper’s children, Ernest Glasper’s sister Harriet Glasper’s

children, and Ernest Glasper’s brother Clarence Glasper’s children.  They traveled north, south, east, and west.  They researched archives.  They videoed some of their interviews with aunts, uncles, and cousins who have left us.

At the reunion in San Antonio, TX, Chairman Ted’s brother, Clarence Glasper, nominated President Ted Glasper to be GHH’s Lifetime Chairman,  It was carried, and he was unanimously voted in as the Lifetime Chairman of the Glasper, Holmes, Heaston Family Reunion.

Chairman Ted Glasper organized an Executive Committee consisting of all of his siblings, his wife Lillian as treasurer, and niece Linda Mason Mincey as secretary.  This committee was responsible for implementing and carrying out rules for the reunion.  As Chairman Ted’s siblings began passing away, he appointed the oldest sibling of his siblings to sit on the board to represent their parents.  After the Holmes and Heastons joined GHH, he invited Robert Daniels to represent the Holmes and Eddie Heaston, Sr. to represent the Heastons.   Robert Daniels has passed away; therefore, he has invited Elizabeth Matthews and Twyla Redd to represent Amos Holmes.  His brother Tommy Glasper has passed away; therefore, his oldest child, Leonard Mark Glasper, will represent him.  Regina Glasper will be invited to sit on the board representing her mother, Dorothy Glasper Williams.

Gay Glasper Thompson, GHH Event Coordinator, approached the GHH St. Louis Committee about allowing her to organize a GHH Scholarship.  At the GHH Family Reunion held in St. Louis, Missouri, GHH held its first reunion, where over $35,000 was raised from all over the country to kick off our first scholarship.  Three judges were chosen to read a threepage typed essay and listen to and judge a three to five-minute speech about the essays.  Seven family applicants applied, and applicants were given $500-$5000.  There was also a raffle for a car valuing over $11,000 given away.  The winner was Lenora Glasper.

The Glasper, Holmes, Heaston Family Reunion has been held in: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Sacramento, CA; Kansas City, MO; Memphis, TN; San Antonio, TX; Dallas, TX; San Diego, CA; Detroit, MI; Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Tucson, AZ; Benton Harbor, MI; and St. Louis, MO. Our family reunion is forty years strong.  This weekend we celebrate our 20th anniversary!  Thanks go out to all of our family and friends who have supported our vision to keep family alive!

A Family that Prays Together Stays Together!

Biography of Tommy & Mary Glasper

The Roots of the Glasper Family embedded in the United States soil have sprouted a proud and industrious people who today are scattered throughout the U.S. and foreign countries. Despite its wanderlust, the Glasper Family has remained a close-knit extended family whose parents have placed the children first in their lives.

Tommy Glasper was born in the Southern United States in the year of 1853. He was sold as a slave at a very young age. Upon reaching manhood in Osceola, Arkansas, he became a man of freedom and wealth.

Later in his life, he met and married Mary Cherry, also of Arkansas. To this union, eight children were born (3 boys and 5 girls): Celia, Clarence, Earnest, Dairy, Tommy, Lucienda, Harriett, and Georgia (twins). This union marked the commencement of many years of marriage filled with struggles, happiness, sadness and prayers.

Rearing a family of eight children during the first half of the 20th century in rural Arkansas was not an easy task. To rear them, to serve and be served, to respect and be respected, to love and be loved, was a reflection of the values Tom and Mary held and installed in their family. The values are a blaze in the soul of the Glasper Family and give us the zest to enjoy the good times, the courage to accept the difficult times, and the wisdom to accept advice from our seniors.

In the year of 1930, after a fruitful life with Tom, God saw fit to call Mary to rest. Many years later, after abounding life as a sharecropper, Tom departed this world in 1951. Life’s struggles for Tom and Mary were called to an end.

Tom and Mary are gone now, but the fruit of their labor will never die. Their spirit is with us this weekend. We thank you for the love, respect, goals and values that you have instilled within us. These principles are being passed down from generation to generation.

Tommy Glasper & Mary Cherry

Celia Glasper

Clarence Glasper Earnest Glasper Diary Glasper

Lucienda Glasper

Tommy Glasper

Harriet Mae Glasper

Georgia Glasper & Uncle Dump Vincent

•Lucy Holmes

•Amos Holmes

•Eldridge Holmes

•Robert Holmes

•Ophelia Holmes

•Katherine Holmes

•Bedford Holmes

•Geanie Holmes

•Sammy Holmes

TREE

•Alex Jr. Holmes

•Fannie Holmes

•Beatrice Holmes

•Johhnie Holmes

Profile of Amos Holmes

•Elise Holmes

•Naomi Oliver

•Jessie Oliver

•Eddie Bell Oliver

•Matthew Oliver Jr.

•Otha Lee Oliver

The life of Amos Holmes history takes us back to slavery. Amos was one of two children that we know about. He and his brother were born as slaves. We assume that they were in Mississippi because his master moved and relocated to Arkansas. We also know that his brother was sold before the move and that his new master moved to Tennessee.

Amos Holmes had seven children and to the best of our knowledge, they were born in this order: David, Jim, Alex, Frances, Joe, Sarah, and Lucy. In our family tree, we show all of these lines. We have not found any descendents of Frances nor of Joe Holmes. Lucy Holmes had no children, but she did raise a child - Annie Lou Ghosten.

Our family tree continues to grow with members of the family that did not know we were all here. A lot of this goes back to how some grew up not knowing how we are related.

Amos Holmes

David Holmes Jim Holmes Alex Holmes

Frances Holmes Joe Holmes Sarah Holmes Lucy Holmes

Heaston

Profile of Saul Heaston

Saul and Minerva Heaston lived in Blytheville, Arkansas during their children’s early childhood. They had six children: Estella, Jennie, Jake, Jordon, Lee, and Edd. When they left Blytheville, they relocated to Barlett, Tennessee. After awhile in Barlett, they moved to Tipton County, in the Jamestown River Bottom area.

We do not have any information on three of the children Estella, Jennie, and Jordon. Jake married Doshia and they had two children. Lee and Lizzie were married and they had one child. Edd married Ophelia Holmes and they had two children. They also raised two children who were Ophelia’s first cousins. It is not clear who were the parents of these two children because Ophelia’s father had six brothers and sisters.

Saul Heaston

Estella Heaston Jennie Heaston Jake Heaston Jordon Heaston Lee Heaston Edd Heaston

• Harriet Heaston

• Augusta Heaston

• Mattie Heaston

• Elijah Holmes

• Maria Holmes

• Lee D. Heaston

• Leslie Heaston

A FAMILY THAT

Prays Together

STAYS TOGETHER

GHH PASTORS & MINISTERS

Pastor Kevin Mitchell Mt. Zion, MBC, Dowagiac, MI

Pastor Harvey Presberry Canfield Church of God, Detroit, MI

Pastor Aaron Letcher Pleasant Green, MBC, St. Louis, MO

Pastor Quintin Redd and Elect Lady Twyla Redd Logos Worship Center, St.Louis, MO

Reverend Dennis Langdon and Trinida

Ordained Elder of Morgan Park United Methodist Church, Chicago, IL

Reverend Bruce Williams, Sr. Los Angeles, CA

Pastor Joe Frazier, Jr. New Jerusalem, MBC, Tucson, AZ

Pastor Jerry McAfee New Salem, MBC, Minneapolis, MN

Reverend Bruce Williams, Jr. New Salem, MBC, Minneapolis, MI

A Tribute to Ida

The GHH St. Louis Committee and Family would like to thank you for 40 years of service as the St. Louis secretary

We Appreciate You!

GLASPER - HOLMES -HEASTON

Graduates!

Miles Crawford High School Graduate Class of 2022

Gianna Johnson Graduated from Esthetician School in the 11th Grade

Brooke Johnson Graduate in Communications

Shayla Sanders Associates of Business Administration Oakland Community College 2023

Gabrielle Alexandra Thompson Sales Doctor of Optometry - Graduating May, 2024 SUNY, New York

Monyca Johnson Wayne State University School of Medicine Masters of Public Health

Ardell Henderson III Cornell University, Grand Rapids, MI MAY 5, 2023

Naida Langdon Currently a Law Student

Amyia Smith High School Graduate Class of 2023

Deven Johnson High School Graduate with Honors Awarded scholarship to South Mountain College, AZ

Frederick D. Garnett Bachelor of Science in Accounting National Society of Leadership & Success University of Phoenix

GHH FAMILY MEMBERS

Clarence Glasper

Tamiko Matthews-Merriwether & Marietta Matthews

DeAndre Antonio Calhoun

Darryl Jerome Glasper

Ernest and Bertha Glasper

Clifford E. Matthews

Cassandra Glasper

Robert Daniels

Pastor Chalmes Glasper, Sr.

WHO HAVE PASSED ON •

ROOTED IN faith

STRENGTHENED BY family

Pastor Willie G. McAfee

Chalmes Glasper, Jr.

Elijah Presberry

Ella Marie Glasper

Willie L. Presberry

Ocie Mae Davis Glasper

Gregory Glasper

Roxie Glasper

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TWYLA REDD - BANNY’S KITCHEN, ST. LOUIS, MO

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Glasper-Holmes-Heaston Executive Committee

Theodore Glasper Chairman

Lillian Glasper Treasurer

Linda Mincey Secretary

Committees

GLASPER-HOLMES-HEASTON ST. LOUIS COMMITTEE 2023

Theodore Glasper GHH Chairman

Ida Presberry Secretary

Ernestine Neal

Darlene Echols

Ida Presberry

Wanda Henderson

Mary Booth

Ella West

Leonard Mark Glasper

Alice McAfee-Clay

Roy Glasper

Regina Anderson

Elizabeth Matthews

Margaret Henderson

Twyla Redd

Eddie Heaston, Sr

Lillian Glasper Treasurer

Stewart Victor Glasper Financial Secretary

Ella West Assistant Financial Secretary

Cedric Glasper St. Louis Local President

Gay Glasper Thompson Reunion Coordinator

Derrick Glasper Chaplain, Picnic Food Committee Coordinator

Korey Estes Picnic Food Committee

Stewart Victor Glasper Picnic Food Committee

Vernon Matthews Picnic Food Committee

Quintin Redd Picnic Food Committee

Courtney Sales Picnic Food Committee

Howard West Picnic Food Committee

Lauren Wilson Picnic Food Committee

Elizabeth Matthews T-Shirts

Angela McAfee T-Shirt Design, Booklets & Booklets Design Coordinator

Mary Manning, Twyla Redd, Kimberly Presberry, Ronaldo Griffin Picnic Games Committee

Twyla Redd Bus Tour Coordinator

Ella West Picnic Decorations & Picnic Equipment Facilities Coordinator

Christine McAfee Taylor Banquet Decorations Coordinator

Steadfast leader listens rst

By Andrew Schunk Rubber News Staff

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio —In any company, employees need the proper tools to complete the job, a lesson that Mechanical Rubber Co. Inc. CEO Cedric Glasper learned while growing up in Hazelwood, Mo. Glasper, 54, has been named the 2021 Rubber News Executive of the Year, and his selection is due in large part to that quality and others gleaned throughout his life, beginning in the 25,000-person suburb that sits just northwest of St. Louis.

From the 80,000-sq.-ft. Mechanical Rubber manufacturing campus in Strongsville, Ohio, just west of Cleveland, Glasper recalled assisting his father, Ted, a UPS driver, as the two tinkered away under the hood of the family car.

“My father loved working on cars. I was holding the flashlight and he asked me to hand him a precision screwdriver, and that is not what I gave him,” Glasper told Rubber News. “He immediately said, ‘I need the right tools for the right job!’

“And that stuck with me. My people can’t succeed if I don’t give them the right tools to succeed.”

Those people include the 14 or so Mechanical Rubber employees at the Strongsville facility, as well as the 18 (or so) employees at the 54,000-sq.-ft. Warwick, N.Y., campus, where the seals, gaskets and custom contract company has been based since 1941.

While Glasper may not be doling out hand tools to workers, he is passing along his values, including hard work, diligence, independence and integrity—and those are just a few that were cited by his colleagues and employees.

Glasper also is quick to embrace the uncomfortable—often couched in the unknown—for the sake of personal and professional growth.

“There are two types of change,” Glasper said. “Change that happens to you and change that you make happen. Moving to different neighborhoods all my life, you have to adapt and communicate with all types of people. This really helped me in my professional life, as it did my two siblings as well—they also learned this.

“We talk to everyone and we are not one-sided in our communications.”

Glasper said he likes to run a “flat organization,” and prides himself on being approachable while ensuring his employees at all levels communicate clearly with each other.

“It’s exactly why I don’t like (the term) managers—I need leaders,” he said. “I look at it as a wagon wheel—there are spokes and there is the hub, and you can be one or the other. This is what I try to teach to new hires.”

The traits that Glasper has imparted to both tenured workers and new hires alike are not lost on them.

Alisa Sherow, who has worked at Mechanical

By Erin Pustay Beaven Rubber News Staff

Deals happen when the right pieces—and right price tags—fall into place. And as 2021 comes to a close, it looks as though the pieces and prices are coming together for a quite a few companies.

A flurry of mergers and acquisitions have been reported by rubber industry companies in recent weeks, and, according to a pair of economic experts, it’s likely to continue through the end of the year.

Bill Wood, founder of Greenfield, Mass.based Mountaintop Economics & Research Inc., cautions against looking too deeply into trends behind the M&As and making too many connections to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sometimes, the uptick in M&A activity is just that, an uptick.

“What is causing all the M&As? The fact that there is a lot of M&As,” Wood said. “It can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

And that could be the case right now as favorable market trends and an influx of capital influence buying and selling decisions. It’s all part of an economic cycle that creates ideal moments for M&A.

“Money and access to money at the present time is cheap, and access is relatively easy,” Wood said.

“If you have leverage, you can go out and borrow money at relatively low rates, and by that, I mean

the interest rates, as we know, are low.

“And what are you going to do with the money? … You can invest in new equipment or you can invest in buying a whole factory, buying the whole shop. Because if you have cash, and a lot of people do have a lot of cash—there is no shortage of capital in the country—you can’t put it in the bank and make anything,” Wood said.

“The stock market is pretty high, you can’t buy back your own stock a lot of times anymore, they have done that. And multiples are really pretty high on the market, so if a guy is selling his company, you are going to look hard at it. … All of these financial and economic things point to the idea that now is an auspicious time to make a deal.”

All considered, it’s tough to say that the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects it has on global business—and the rubber industry, specifically—is playing the key role in the recent surge of M&A activity, Wood said. He believes that factors traditionally influencing buyers and sellers remain steadfast: Companies are looking for

Your commitment to family, unity, and lasting memories is truly inspiring. Here’s to many more years of shared joy and cherished reunions. Cheers to the

Reunion’s continued success!

YOUR GHH FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE YOU FOR 65 Years of Marriage!