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London Branch

Photo and story by Lynette Hanson
September 2, 2004

The day I sat down to talk with London Branch, 67, he was dressed in a kelly green and old gold retro-style knit shirt with a collar, tucked neatly into his slacks.

Branch came to Jackson 20 years ago as an associate professor of music at Jackson State and retired in May after accomplishing what he�d been hired to do�build a symphony orchestra, �the best-kept secret in Jackson.� In fact, he says, �Jackson State is the best-kept secret in town.�

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Kathryn Rodenmeyer

by Beth Kander
Photo by Charles A. Smith
August 26, 2004

Jackson native Kathryn Rodenmeyer, 37, was described to me as a filmmaker, so when I met her in her Fondren home, I first asked her about her work in film.

After completing her degree in photojournalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Rodenmeyer returned to Jackson and worked in public relations, taking her first television job in 1991, then beginning independent work in 1995. She's now president and co-owner of a video production company, Mosaic Media. Filmmaking has always been her passion. Laughing, she describes venturing into filmmaking: �I had no money, but I had good ideas.�

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Mike Padilla

by Robert Williamson
Photo by Brett Potter
August 19, 2004

Mike Padilla, 20, a Millsaps College student�an actor, a director, a techie and an award-winning playwright�is involved in the theater at Millsaps on every possible level. Right now he�s working backstage on �The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr: Abridged,� which opens Aug. 25. Next up, he�s directing Jean Anouilh�s version of �Antigone.� When I asked him when we could get together, he told me to �just stop by the theater any time, I�ll be there pretty much all day.� I finally caught up with him sitting at a makeup table in the dressing room at Millsaps, writing in his notebook. Surrounded by masks, wigs and witch hats, Padilla seemed entirely at home.

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Spit McGee

by Donna Ladd
Photo by Wayne Hinton
August 12, 2004
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I had only known Willie Morris through his books. It was his words, read in faraway places like Colorado and Manhattan and Nantucket, that helped me realize how southern I really was, that I wasn�t the only Mississippian to be stung by northern condescension, that you can, and often should, go home again.

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Cheryl Lasseter

by Lynette Hanson
August 5, 2004

Cheryl Lasseter, the weekend morning anchor at WLBT-TV3, was Cheryl Frazel when she arrived in Jackson, a Baltimore native who grew up in a suburb. While earning her communication degree at Towson University in 1992, she deejayed at the college radio station. �I always had TV in the back of my mind, but I never thought I could do that; that was for really, really talented people,� Lasseter said as we talked in the children�s book section of Lemuria, while her 18-month-old son Sean played nearby.

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Joecephus Martin

by Jessica Kinnison
Photo by Jaro Vacek
July 29, 2004

Joecephus Martin, 24, is comfortable in his own skin. As I watch the time, he sits back in a black leather chair, and says, �I�m from the South, I don�t rush.� He is a teacher, a rapper, a student, a voter, a listener, a talker and a realistic dreamer.

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Ann Williams

by Casey Parks
Photo by Charles A. Smith
July 22, 2004

Ann Williams, 54, is a bit tough, a little hard to take in at first. But that�s because she�s passionate. And she speaks the truth.

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Andy Hilton

by Swetha Regunathan
July 15, 2004
Photo by Jaro Vacek

Andy Hilton, with his curly-blonde locks, seems like any 24-year-old�slightly laid-back and slightly restless, ever ready to talk about ideals. What surfaces, however, is a great sense of his unique vision: "I want to use design skills to benefit the community.�

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Richard Weiss

by Casey Parks
Photo by Jaro Vacek

Before Richard Weiss, 36, got busy providing art house and other indie films to Jacksonians, he worked in the tech industry. After cutting his teeth renting foreign films at Video Library, Weiss started making databases of the movies he had seen and ones he hadn�t seen but wanted to. Even though Video Library offered a wide selection, Weiss wanted more: �I noticed that there were a lot of things on DVD that they probably could never carry.�

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David Dennis, Jr.

by Lynette Hanson
Photo by Jaro Vacek
July 1, 2004

Tall, slim, wearing his hair in neat, short braids, David Dennis Jr. looks like a high school basketball player, maybe on his way to play in college�if he�s got the grades. That�s the stereotype, anyway.

Stereotypes represent an oversimplified opinion or a prejudiced attitude about an individual or a group. Dennis, 18, is not a proponent of their use.

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