by Lynette Hanson
Oct. 16, 2003
What little girl hasn’t dreamed of being a princess? Anna Barber, a 20-year-old member of the Gena Band of Choctaw Indians in Gena, La., not only had that dream, but she was actually crowned princess when she was 15.
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James Meredith
by Donna Ladd
Oct. 1, 2003
Talking to Mr. James Meredith is a right-brain experience. The conversation isn’t linear, organized, disciplined. It jumps around to topics that the thin, intense grandfather is interested in at the very instant. As the 70-year-old Kosciusko native talks first about the legacy of slavery in Brazil (where he just visited); the need for people to "blend" in society; Ole Miss back in 1962 when he integrated the stubborn old institution; the oddity of growing older; and finally young people’s need to work harder, you can easily see why his name ended up in lights. It's hard to imagine someone more unique, more creative, more daring, more willing to offend one or another status quo.
by ladd on 10/01/03 at 11:45 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
Oct. 1, 2003
Talking to Mr. James Meredith is a right-brain experience. The conversation isn’t linear, organized, disciplined. It jumps around to topics that the thin, intense grandfather is interested in at the very instant. As the 70-year-old Kosciusko native talks first about the legacy of slavery in Brazil (where he just visited); the need for people to "blend" in society; Ole Miss back in 1962 when he integrated the stubborn old institution; the oddity of growing older; and finally young people’s need to work harder, you can easily see why his name ended up in lights. It's hard to imagine someone more unique, more creative, more daring, more willing to offend one or another status quo.
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Keith Tonkel
by Lynette Hanson
Sept. 17, 2003
For going on 35 years, Keith Tonkel has been in the pulpit, serving the congregation and neighborhood of Wells United Methodist Church on Bailey Avenue. His office, on the second-story back corner over the parking lot, is filled with memorabilia…
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Sept. 17, 2003
For going on 35 years, Keith Tonkel has been in the pulpit, serving the congregation and neighborhood of Wells United Methodist Church on Bailey Avenue. His office, on the second-story back corner over the parking lot, is filled with memorabilia…
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Cheers to Gailya Porter!
Last week, we learned that Smith Elementary has ranked as a Level 5 school. We featured principal Gailya Porter as "Jacksonian" a month ago in our education issue. Here's an encore of that story in honor of a remarkable school and community.
Aug. 7, 2003
One day last spring, students at G. N. Smith Elementary were behaving rather suspiciously when principal Gailya Porter arrived. “They were acting like they were enjoying the day,” she remembered later with a laugh, sitting with perfect posture in her small, but cheery office. The students were tickled because they were trying to keep a secret.
by ladd on 09/06/03 at 07:55 PM Comments (2) -- Read More...
Aug. 7, 2003
One day last spring, students at G. N. Smith Elementary were behaving rather suspiciously when principal Gailya Porter arrived. “They were acting like they were enjoying the day,” she remembered later with a laugh, sitting with perfect posture in her small, but cheery office. The students were tickled because they were trying to keep a secret.
by ladd on 09/06/03 at 07:55 PM Comments (2) -- Read More...
Camp Best
by Lynette Hanson
Sept. 4, 2003
Seated in his corner office at 3318 North State Street, Camp Best beams his excitement about that eclectic part of the city known as Fondren. He calls the area’s artistic renaissance the "Fondren glow," explaining, "It causes this light to shine on a community; it causes a feeling amongst people of community, and it starts to heal things.”
by ladd on 09/05/03 at 12:52 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
Sept. 4, 2003
Seated in his corner office at 3318 North State Street, Camp Best beams his excitement about that eclectic part of the city known as Fondren. He calls the area’s artistic renaissance the "Fondren glow," explaining, "It causes this light to shine on a community; it causes a feeling amongst people of community, and it starts to heal things.”
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Monica Minter
Seated comfortably with perfect posture, Monica Jeanyá Minter calmly focuses on the photographer, her eyes never leaving his face until she thoroughly understands his instructions. Nothing about the busy Friday afternoon outside Banner Hall distracts her. The Murrah High graduate is a young lady with a new role—Mississippi's Miss Hospitality. Since being selected in July, 21-year-old Minter—a senior at Jackson State University where she is a political science major with a 3.4 GPA, the current Miss Jackson State and active in many campus organizations—has already been on the job.
by ladd on 08/21/03 at 07:22 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
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Vickie and Bill Giles
by Lynette Hanson
July 24, 2003
The old saying goes: Marriages are made in heaven. Actually, some are made at football games and barbecues as well. In November 1979, Meridian native Bill Giles was a graduate football assistant at Mississippi College. He smiles as he tells how he finally got up the courage to ask out the blonde-haired, blue-eyed majorette from Jackson that he had been admiring from afar, even though he didn’t figure she’d give him the time of day. Funny, but Vickie says that when she sat behind him in PE class, he "never gave me the time of day," either. Bill quickly points out that he was "kinda shy," and Vickie agrees, smiling at him, her fingers intertwined in his.
by ladd on 07/24/03 at 02:30 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
July 24, 2003
The old saying goes: Marriages are made in heaven. Actually, some are made at football games and barbecues as well. In November 1979, Meridian native Bill Giles was a graduate football assistant at Mississippi College. He smiles as he tells how he finally got up the courage to ask out the blonde-haired, blue-eyed majorette from Jackson that he had been admiring from afar, even though he didn’t figure she’d give him the time of day. Funny, but Vickie says that when she sat behind him in PE class, he "never gave me the time of day," either. Bill quickly points out that he was "kinda shy," and Vickie agrees, smiling at him, her fingers intertwined in his.
by ladd on 07/24/03 at 02:30 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
Jay Sones
by J. Bingo Holman
July 10, 2003
Jay Sones, 28, sits across the small table at Fenian’s talking on his cell phone (the kind you can send pictures through) with his baby sister, Meg. He tells her that I’m interviewing him and responds when she asks why, “I guess people just can’t get enough of me,” and gives his characteristic chuckle. He’s wearing a three-quarter sleeved gray-and-scarlet baseball shirt with jeans. Dark spiky hair covers his head and frames his greco-roman facial features.
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July 10, 2003
Jay Sones, 28, sits across the small table at Fenian’s talking on his cell phone (the kind you can send pictures through) with his baby sister, Meg. He tells her that I’m interviewing him and responds when she asks why, “I guess people just can’t get enough of me,” and gives his characteristic chuckle. He’s wearing a three-quarter sleeved gray-and-scarlet baseball shirt with jeans. Dark spiky hair covers his head and frames his greco-roman facial features.
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Cordie Aziz
by Lynette HansonPhoto by DeWayne Morris
June 26, 2003
Seated behind a bare executive desk at Cindy Ayers-Elliott’s campaign headquarters, Cordie Aziz seems right at home. She radiates hope for her future and confidence in her ability to do anything she decides to do.
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Rusty Pyron
by J. Bingo Holman
June 12, 2003
The glass door with the word “Tattoo” painted on it in red opens into a room painted in neutral colors. Inside Eternal Body Art, customers flip through plastic poster-sized files attached to the walls filled with flash art. Rusty Pyron, 36, stands behind a glass case filled with nose rings, naval rings, tongue rings and large gage earrings beside his wife of 14 years, Lisa, and their 6-year-old daughter, Cheyenne. Wearing a dark blue “Pirańa” t-shirt, dark blue jeans, flame-decorated suspenders and “more than one and less than a hundred” tattoos, Pyron creates a forceful presence. Not an overly tall man, about 5’9”, he nonetheless appears menacing until he begins to talk, blue eyes flashing, about his daughter, whom he repeatedly refers to as his inspiration. “That’s my girl right there, now,” he says.
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June 12, 2003
The glass door with the word “Tattoo” painted on it in red opens into a room painted in neutral colors. Inside Eternal Body Art, customers flip through plastic poster-sized files attached to the walls filled with flash art. Rusty Pyron, 36, stands behind a glass case filled with nose rings, naval rings, tongue rings and large gage earrings beside his wife of 14 years, Lisa, and their 6-year-old daughter, Cheyenne. Wearing a dark blue “Pirańa” t-shirt, dark blue jeans, flame-decorated suspenders and “more than one and less than a hundred” tattoos, Pyron creates a forceful presence. Not an overly tall man, about 5’9”, he nonetheless appears menacing until he begins to talk, blue eyes flashing, about his daughter, whom he repeatedly refers to as his inspiration. “That’s my girl right there, now,” he says.
by ladd on 06/12/03 at 06:51 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
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