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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Jerry D. Pope was a dedicated educator and school administrator, who entered the teaching profession as a social studies teacher after having left a career as an executive trainee at the Manufacturers...

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Vera Berry

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Vera Berry was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. She has three sisters and one brother. Mrs. Berry married Jack Berry and had 15 children. She did not complete grade school; however she did attend school...

Holdenville OK United States

Betty Beck English

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Betty Jean Beck was born May 10, 1946 in Eufaula, Oklahoma. She is the second of fourteen children born to Charley and Rosie English. Betty attended Muskogee, Oklahoma Public School District. While sh...

Eufaula OK United States

Charles Price

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Charles was born in Cleveland, Ohio on February 23, 1926, the third son of five boys born to the late Sherman and Sylvia Price. Soon after Charles's birth, the family moved to Buffalo, the city in wes...

Cleveland OH United States

Bettye Jo Wilson Beatty

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Bettye Jo Beatty-Wilson was born in Longview, Texas and reared in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Following her 1955 Douglass High School graduation, she entered the University of Oklahoma and obtained a Bac...

Longview TX United States

Stephanie McLean Beathley

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

My Mother is An Uncrowned Queen. I know that every kid will be writing about his or her mother. I don't know how to make my mother sound more special than she is, but she is very special to me. My mom...

Florence Baugh

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Mrs. Baugh is the former President of the Board of Education of the City of Buffalo and the current Director of Neighborhood Services, Community Action Organization of Erie County, New York. Highly ac...

William Robinson

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

William F. Robinson was born on December 29, 1913 to Annette Harris Robinson and Mitchell Robinson. He was born in Valdosta, Georgia. As a child, he moved with his parents, brother Troy and sister, An...

GA United States Valdosta

Dorothy Bass

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Dorothy Bass began her life in Greensboro, North Carolina were she was an active member of the Bass Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church. She served as President of it's Women's Society of Christian Serv...

Greensboro NC United States

Samuel T. Reynolds

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Mr. Samuel T. Reynolds is one of Buffalo's Uncrowned Kings. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Grambling State University of Louisiana. He has also earned a Masters of Science in Educati...

Janet Barnes

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Janet E. Barnes is an experienced public school administrator, teacher of music, and community activist. She earned a BA, EdM, SEA (Specialist in Education Administration), and MS in Public Affairs fr...

Johnetta Watson Barber

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

The following is an excerpt from Mrs. Barber’s autobiography, A Step Further, which is reprinted with permission of the author. Both the child and the parents took a child’s first day in school when I...