MILITARY QUEEN MAGAZINE FALL 2021

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Military Queen Magazine

FALL 2020

National & International Tour

Queen Marine Overview Gunn Christian Academy, Birmingham, AL MEGAFEST Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC 2012 London, UK Olympics Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Women Veterans Recognition Day Tulsa, OK New York City Wall St: Financial Center, United Nations, Statue of Liberty & World Trade Center

MILITARY VERERAN’S & Edition VETERAN’S Edition

Paris, France Rome, Italy Edinburgh, Scotland TOURS

Sonya D. Swinton National & International Tour

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Queen Marine Overview Easter Parade Barebones Film Festival

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Gunn Christian Academy, Birmingham, AL MEGAFEST T.D. Jakes Ministry–Dallas, TX

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Oklahoma University 50th Honors Rhode Scholars in Norman, OK

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Visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC

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HOMECOMING : Univ. of Arkansas at Pine, Bluff, AR.

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Empowerment Center, Little Rock, AR

2012 London, UK Olympics Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Women Veterans Recognition Day Tulsa, OK

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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE WALL STREET-Financial Center

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VA Medical Center, Muskogee, OK

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Bacone College, Native American SHARK TANK TV, Okla. City, OK Edinburgh, Scotland Tour (2012) New York City-World Trade Center Women Mission Union-1st Baptist, OK Marine Corp League, Branson, MO Little Rock, AR-Patricia Swinton Washington, DC Power of Two Movie

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Interview Mark Smolowitz Biloxi, Ms Dr Irons Dental Assn.

Japanese Fall Festival, Springfield, MO Paris, France Tour London, England United Kingdom Rome, Italy Montford Point Marine, NC Marine Corps League Det. 993# and Auxiliary of Springfield, Missouri Memorial Day Celebration-May 28 2012 Xernona Clayton Celebration Fundraiser or the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center Muskogee, OK 29th Oklahoma Women Veterans Recognition Day, Tulsa, OK Scottish American Festival, Tulsa, OK Fashion Show-Dillard

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Sonya Swinton-QUEEN MARINE TOUR at the Marine Corps League Birthday Ball in Tulsa, OK.

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because she enjoyed her work as a photographer with the Quantico Sentry Newspaper.

In October 1982, at 24 years old Sonya D. Swinton joined the US Marine Corps eager to become a photojournalist. She had dreamt of becoming a photographer and after completing her Master’s Degree in Education at Penn State University, she decided to research the enlisted Marines in Higher Education for her doctorate degree.

She said that she was happy the Marines had allowed her to do her research project by way of fashion shows, pageants and entertainment programs for the USO in Okinawa, Japan and Quantico, VA. She felt that learning a marketable skill such as photojournalism and traveling the world would be a rewarding experience while researching enlisted Marines

Swinton photographed the base’s activities and events.

Because of her Master’s Degree in Education, she was Higher Education attributes for transferred to work at the Staff NCO Academy for career Maher advanced degree. rines as the Testing and After completing basic train- Evaluation Administrator. ing and being selected for the honor squad she was meritori- She started producing fashion shows and pageants to raise ously promoted to Lance Corporal (E-3) at Paris Island, awareness for the Morale, North Carolina. She entered Photographic School at the former Lowery Air Force Base currently an AmeriCorp*NCCC campus in Denver, Colorado.

Sonya graduated the honor graduate in photography and was meritoriously promoted to Corporal (E-4) in six months, Recreation & Welfare ProMarch 1983. Her first duty grams (MRW) and donations assignment was Quantico, VA for the Navy Relief Campaign.

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In the summer of 1985, she was sent to Okinawa, Japan MAG on Futema Air Wing as the Photographer and Education NCO. She was the founder and director of the Military Entertainment Association.

ment Association sponsored kid’s variety shows, pageants and fashion shows at the Kadena Air force Base USO as well as the surrounding area military bases on the island of Okinawa, Japan.

United Nations Association’s media outreach consultant for third world poverty relief for the Children’s Broadcast Day. Since 2000, the following organizations have commended Sonya for her many volunteer endeavors: A Taste of DC (Washington, DC) the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the Grammy in the In 1986, Howard University in Schools programs for the Washington, DC selected Swin- National Academy of Reton for a fully paid full time cording Arts & Sciences graduate assistantship into their (NARAS©). advanced graduate degree program as a graduate assistant as She has won numerous awards her tour of duty was ending. in broadcasting as a member of She completed the program in the Society of Motion Picture 1987 and began working in and Television Engineers broadcast journalism for the Mayor’s Office of New Carroll- (SMPTE), National Academy ton, MD as the Cable TV Coor- of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS©) Emmy Awards©, dinator after graduation.

American Women in Radio & She became the director of the Television (AWRT) and the Children’s Cable TV WorkInternational Radio & shop. The program trained preTelevision Society Foundation school and elementary students (IRTS). of Prince Georges County,

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She is also the publisher and national radio host of Internet Celebrity TV™ Magazine & Radio Show. Swinton has been called upon to be a panelist in entertainment marketing for several film festivals and a competition judge for the Web Marketing Association’s Internet Advertising Competition (IAC).

She was selected as the executive Director of Community TV USA Network in 1990 for the online program production and became the Vice President of Marketing and Advertising for the organization’s online advertising.

Swinton was selected by the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff as a Distinguished Alumni at the Nat’l Assn for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) and a Presidential Community Service Award from the Corporation for National Service headquarters in Washington, DC. Swinton served as one of the first African American senior staff members to develop the first campus of the National Community Civilian Corps NCCC*AmeriCorps programs in 1994 in Perry Point, MD.

Sonya Swinton is the author of STAR POWER: Internet Celebrity, Successful Marketing, Advertising and Promoting to the Entertainment Industry (2002) and owner of Sonya became an awarding winning broadcasting director Swinton International and community service advocate Enterprises. for senior citizens and veterans.

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Tour traveled to the following: Dallas, TX; Atlanta, GA; Washington, DC; Birmingham, AL; Little Rock, AR; Kansas City, MO; New York, NY; Richmond, VA; Orlando, FL and Miami, FL. Sonya Swinton serves as a Director of the Media Ministry for the Missions America Coalition L.O.V.E 2020 (MAC).

In 2011 she traveled on a Ten City Tour throughout the USA (Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Little Rock, AR, Hampton & Richmond, VA, Dallas, TX Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA and Raleigh, North Carolina) and completed her first 2012 European Tour in London, Paris, Rome and Edinburgh, Scotland and several other cities in the United Kingdom for the

The National Tour kicked off in 2015, at the T.D. Jakes, MEGAFEST Christian Conference in the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, TX with over 200,000 in attendance.

Swinton and her management tour team are in the process of creating awareness and funding for the QUEEN MARINE MISSIONS for the Tokyo, Japan Olympics in 2020.

magazine. In 2015 & 2016, Swinton served as a high school graduation speaker for the Gunn Christian Academy in Birmingham, AL. Sonya’s Ten City

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Easter Bunny & Sonya Swinton, Queen Marine at the Children’s Easter Parade of Fashion at Arrowhead Mall

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Sonya Swinton-QUEEN MARINE TOUR at the Marine Corps League Birthday Ball in Tulsa, OK.

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Dr. Sonya Swinton proudly presented Chancellor Hansell Gunn with the Distinguished National Excellence in Educational Leadership Award at the Gunn Christian Academy’s Commencement Ceremony at the Bessemer Civic Center in AL. Dr. Swinton is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC. She has a Doctor of Divinity in Biblical Studies from a National Christian Seminary with a Masters Degree in Education from Penn State University. She is also a distinguished alumni with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

On June 25 2017, Dr. Swinton celebrates over 20 years in Global Christian Missions Outreach by serving in the Mission America Coalition’s L.O.V.E 2020 Campaign Media Ministry for the 2020 Missions to Tokyo Japan Olympics. She is also a member of the Women Mission Union (WMU) Women on Mission© at 1st Baptist Church.

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Chancellor Hansell Gunn is presented with the 2015 Distinguished National Excellence in Educational Leadership Award at the 2015 Gunn Christian Academy’s Commencement Ceremony by Dr. Sonya D. Swinton

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Mrs. Eunice Lewis, Mrs. Reba Cunningham are the staff of the GUNN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY withDr. Sonya Swinton, QUEEN MARINE Leadership Tour and at The Gunn Christian Academy graduation.

Bishop T.D. Jakes invited the Dallas business community, area families and visitors to join him at Klyde Warren Park to kickoff MegaFest 2015, the nation’s largest inspirational festival, on Thursday, Aug. 20.

Prior to the kickoff celebration event, media was given the opportunity to interview Bishop Jakes, Mr. Jones or Mayor Pro Tem Mónica Alonzo.

Above photo: Sonya Swinton interviews Bishop TD Jakes about his new book Destiny and His new TV program. Below photo: First Lady of the Potter’s House and wife of Bishop Jakes is Mrs. Serita Jakes. Internet Celebrity TV Magazine & Radio Show national host Sonya Swinton interviewed Mrs. Serita Jakes on her mission for this year’s event.

VIP guest chat with Bishop TD Jakes before the kickoff event at Klyde Warren Park. Below photo: TD Jakes Meets with Dallas Mayor Mike Raulings, Sonya Swinton interviews Sarah Jakes-Roberts, the crowd gets ready and an Actor from Tyler Perry’s Madea on the Run movie.

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Left to right photo: Sonya Swinton QUEEN MARINE National Leadership Tour met recording artist Ricky Lee performing for the Oklahoma Women Veteran 30th Anniversary Recognition Day Awards Ceremony on October 4, 2014 (Sat) in Norman, OK Embassy Suites.

Photo: Linda Flowers

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Sonya Swinton-QUEEN MARINE Oklahoma University 50th Honors Rhode Scholars in Norman, OK.

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Sonya Swinton-QUEEN MARINE TOUR in Washington, DC. Visited the Arlington Nat’l Cemetery & the Women in Military Service for America Memorial.

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Sonya Swinton-QUEEN MARINE TOUR in Washington, DC. Visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial.

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HOMECOMING at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

Sonya Swinton is the former Miss University of Arkansas (UAPB) Campus Queen.

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Little Rock Fashion Week Brandon Campbell, LRFW producer, Sonya Swinton-Queen Marine Tour & Mark Edwards, KTHVCBS channel 11. Brandon was awarded the Internet Celebrity Magazine’s Distinguished Fashion Industry Achievement Award.

Upper right photo: Keith Swinton & Sonya Swinton at the LRFW Media/VIP Mixer.

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Little Rock Fashion Week Brandon Campbell, Little Rock Fashion Week (LRFW) producer, Sonya Swinton-Queen Marine Tour & Mark Edwards, KTHVCBS channel 11.

Brandon was awarded the Internet Celebrity Magazine’s Distinguished Fashion Industry Achievement Award.

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QUEEN MARINE, Sonya Swinton speaks as the Empowerment Center Dedication-in Little Rock, AR

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Arizona Memorial, Arizona Memorial Entrance Pearl Harbor Entrance

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Pearl Harbor, Ford Island-Hawaii.

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OKLAHOMA’S WOMEN VETERANS AWARD PROGRAM

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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE WALL STREET-Financial Center &Trump Building

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Sonya Swinton, Queen Marine with veteran Phillip Farrand and Debbie Greener, VA staff at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center’s 5 West Inpatient Rehabilitation Medicine Department. Below photo is the Yellow Team Outpatient Clinic area front row : Kevin Dewayne Patton; Back Row (l to r) Pat Bosworth, Judy Durhman, Jacki Gallardo, Sonya Swinton, Queen Marine, Nancy Lee, Rolanda Hutton, and Laiza Jimenez (Mackey).

Above photo l to r: Dr. Anderson, Dr. Raymer, Twyla Clark, Melinda Nichols, Sonya Swinton,-Queen Marine, Debbie Lacore, Jewell Benson, and Patrick Lybarger of the Emergency Room Department on the 1st Floor of the C. Montgomery VA Medical Center.

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Left bottom photo l to r: Cynthia Rosales, RN, Sonya Swinton,-Queen Marine, Joan Ames, RN 4 West Medical/Surgical Unit.

Above photo l to r: Ericka Foster, Sonya Swinton,Queen Marine, and Alice Harris in the Radiology Service on the 2nd Floor at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center.

Sonya Swinton, Queen Marine visit with veterans at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center’s 5 West Inpatient Rehabilitation Medicine Department are (l to r: top row) Cameron Case, Carl Muscott and David Miller (middle row: l to r) Dwayne Jackson and Paul Cooper (bottom row photo: l to r Greg Hall and Billy McClellan.

Above photo l-r: Linda Flowers, Sonya SwintonQueen Marine, Chief, Chaplain Service Forrest Kirk, Emmanuel Thompson, Steven Firtko.

They are the faithful VA staff that work in Chaplain Service area.

Bottom photo (r to l): Bec Hallum of the Education Service area and James Taylor, TWE Housekeeping Aid at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center….

Above photo l to r: Greg Sorenson, Chief, Voluntary Service, Sonya Swinton,-Queen Marine, and Richard Crockett, Associate Medical Center Director of the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center. CONGRATULATIONS to Greg Sorenson and the dedicated staff of Voluntary Services!

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Abraham Clark of Springfield, Missouri and Gourd dancer Catherine “Katie” Howell, Comanche Princess of the Little Ponies Clan.

Left top photo: First runner-up Alexandria Lovato, left, 20142015 Miss Indian Bacone College Jada Silverhorn, and 2013-14 Miss Indian Bacone Ariel.

Above photo: POW WOW Head staff are the Northern Drum Redland Singers and the Southern Drum, Poor Boys.

Below right photo is a Comanche Little Ponies participant.

Right top photo: Tara Domron (Osage Tribe) Head Woman Dancer. She and holds a B.A. in Native American Studies from the University of Oklahoma and is currently working toward a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science. Tara is also a former Osage Tribal Princess, Miss Indian Oklahoma University Junior Miss Indian Oklahoma.

Below photo: Comanche Little Ponies Host of the Gourd Clan in performance.

Sonya Swinton, publisher of Internet Celebrity Magazine and Abraham Clark of Springfield, Missouri and Gourd dancer at the POW WOW in Muskogee, OK at the Bacone College camp grounds. Below photo: Catherine “Katie” Howell, Comanche Princess and Little Ponies Clan.

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Sonya & Keith SWINTON at the SHARK TANK TV SHOW’S auditions in Oklahoma City, OK at the DeVON Arena.

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Branson, MO.

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Anthony Brumsey & Sonya Swinton At the Marine Corps League Convention in Branson, MO.

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Reggie Swinton and Sonya Swinton LITTLE ROCK, AR PATRICIA SWINTON PRODUCTION

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