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LISC CELEBRATES SUCCESSES AS OFHCE CLOSES By Gordon Walek They say that breaking up is hard to do Now i know, I know that it's true Don't say that this is the end instead of breaking up i wish that we were making up again -Neii Sedaka and H. Greenfieid Ordinarily, the clos ing of a business office is not a cause for ceiebra- tion. And when staff and partners of the Winston- Salem office of Local Paula McCoy Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) gather at the Piedmont Club on the evening of June 19, there’ll be little back- slapping or high-fiving. There will, however, be a few toasts of quiet celebration. Because although the LISC office, which helped jump- start neighborhood revitalization in Winston-Salem, Is closing at the end of the summer, its legacy — In the form of new affordable hous ing and stronger communities — will endure. Continued on Page 10 CALLED BY HIS GRACE 99 Before I formed you In the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 (NIV) Even the threat of death couid not prevent God’s promise from being fulfiiied on February 28, 1972, in Baitimore, MD, when Nathan Edward Scovens was birthed into this worid. For Jerri Ann Jones, the painfui experience and extreme compiications dur ing childbirth graduaiiy began to fade when a heaifhy six-pound baby boy was placed in her arms. With much gratitude and appreci ation for the gift that God bestowed upon her and through much fasting and praying, she named him Nathan. The name Nathan is of Hebrew origin and means “gift from God”. It was her desire to provide the proper nur turing and to establish a soiid Dr. Nathan E. Scovens foundation in raising this chiid up to be a servant of the most-high God. She instiiied in him that prayer is the key to continuous power, and that through prayer, there is nothing that the peopie of God cannot accompiish together. Even in her passing, her lega cy and spirit continues to live as Continued on Page 19 PASSING OF JOSEPH RODNEY LAWRENCE, SMSi EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Joseph Rodney Lawrence Winston-Salem, N.C. — It is with deep sadness and great sorrow that the partners, headquarters and field staff of Segmented Marketing Sen/ices, Inc. (SMSi) announce the passing of Joseph Rodney Lawrence, SMSi executive vice president and Urban Call publications associate pub lisher. After a very brief illness, Mr. Lawrence, 59-years- old, passed on May 10 at his home in Kernersville, N.C. fol lowing a short stay at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He is survived by his wife, Sharon, and 13-year-old son, Christopher, and adult children Krystyn Johnson, Marshall Wade and Harold Johnson; a sister, Sharon Julian; and brothers, Dillard Lawrence and Brandon Burt. “For the past 30 years Joseph Rodney Lawrence and I worked as a team. In the entrepreneurial and corporate sectors, and his business acumen and natural ability to work with others was invaluable” noted Lafayette Jones, president of Segmented Marketing Services, Inc. (SMSI), publisher of Urban Call. Lawrence became a partner in Continued on Page 8 WE HONOR FATHERS INSIDE... Life & Style: Modeling 101 Q&A 3 America Should Believe in a Second Chance .... 9 Politicians: Blacks, Minorities are the Victims of Your War on Drugs ^ I Saving Our Black Males 16 1 Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Emancipation 30 I’m Not Ready to Buy in the Demise of the Black Male 39
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