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Death Notice - Josephine Cunningham Minnis
SHELBYVILLE - Josephine Cunningham Minnis, 75, died June 30, 2008. She was a 1951 honor graduate of Lincoln Institute and for several years was employed as a member of the Lincoln Institute administrative staff. Survivors include her son, Albert L. "Chip" Minnis, IV. Funeral Mon at 1pm at Bethel A.M.E. Church. Visitation 6-9pm Sun at Webb Funeral Home. Flowers welcome or expressions of sympathy to Masonic Homes of Shelbyville. Arrangements by Morton-Beckley Funeral Directors. Online condolences at www.morton-beckley.com
Published in the Lexington Herald-Leader on 7/2/2008.
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THE REUNION IS COMING! THERE IS STILL TIME TO REGISTER
The National Lincoln Institute Alumni Association
REUNION CELEBRATION * July 11, 12, 13, 2008
We are pleased to announce the plans for Reunion 2008 have been finalized. The reunion will be held on July 11, 12, 13, and 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Louisville, KY., and the former Lincoln Institute Campus, Simpsonville, KY.
Reunion Headquarters: The Hyatt Regency Hotel, 320 W. Jefferson, Louisville, KY 40202, 1-800-233-1234, (502)581-1234, Fax: (502)540-3128. Reservations made after June 10, 2008 are subject to availability and at the hotel's prevailing rates. Guess Room Rates at the Hyatt Regency Hotel are: Single Occupancy $115.00; Double Occupancy $115.00; Triple Occupancy $140.00; Quadruple Occupancy $140.00. In order to qualify for reunion rates your reservation must be made by June 10, 2008.
The registration fee for Reunion 2008 is $185.00. The packet includes tickets for Friday Evening Campus Activities; the Saturday Evening Banquet; the Saturday Evening Dance; the Sunday Morning Brunch; the Hospitality Room, Friday and Saturday; a Souvenir Journal; a Lincoln Institute Alumni Souvenir Tote Bag; and transportation to and from the campus for those who need it. . The Golf Tournament on Friday, the lunch on campus on Saturday, and your personal hotel cost are not included in the $185 reunion packet.
Those not purchasing the complete reunion packet may purchase individual tickets for all planned events. Prices are Hospitality Room (Friday and Saturday - $30.00 total); Friday Evening Campus Activities - $20.00; Saturday Banquet - $55.00; Saturday Dance $30.00; Saturday Banquet, Dance/Social combined $80.00, Sunday Brunch - $40.00; Souvenir Journal - $10.00. The price for the lunch on campus on Saturday is $5.00.
Please send your registration as soon as possible and/or by June 10th, 2008 to: The National Lincoln Institute Alumni Association, Attn: Reunion Chairperson, P.O. Box 43964, Louisville, KY 40253. Registering early will enable us to have a more accurate count of the persons attending the different events.
Friday, July 11th:
The Seventh Annual Lincoln Institute Alumni Golf Tournament will be held at the Weissinger Hills Golf Course in Shelbyville, KY. First tee time is 8:00 a.m. All players must be present by 7:30 a.m. Please contact Kenneth Johnson at 502-292-0120, Email kojohns2811@aol.com , or Cecil Turner at 502-244-0328.
Friday, July 11th:
Registration at the Hyatt will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for those who have pre-registered to pick up their tickets, and for those who want to secure additional tickets. The Hospitality Room at the Hyatt will be open from 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
The bus will leave the hotel at 8:30 p.m. for the Friday Evening Campus Activities. The activities from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. will include – Old School Dance, Karaoke, Food, and Door Prizes.
Saturday, July 12th:
The bus will leave the hotel at 9:00 a.m. Saturday Campus Activities: Informal Social Hour, 10:00 a.m.; Memorial Service, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Speaker – Bishop J. Anthony Coleman. Music – Voices of Hope; Lunch – 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. We will leave the campus at 3:00 p.m. The Hospitality Room at the Hyatt Regency will be open from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Banquet, Hyatt Regency: 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. – Speaker, Gary Brown, Alumnus, Class of 1962, and Vice- Chair of the Lincoln Foundation Board of Trustees. Dance/Social Hour – Hyatt Regency: 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Sunday, July 13th:
Brunch, Hyatt Regency: 9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Our speaker will be Gladys Carroll Rodman, the daughter of two of our distinguished faculty members, and Alumnae of the Class of 1962.
Recognitions:
We would like to recognize all 50 year graduates from the years 1957 and 1958 at the Saturday Evening Banquet. Please notify Nora Craig at 502-339-1647, E-mail njcraig8@aol.com if you graduated from Lincoln during these two years.
We also want to recognize the 1954/1955 State Championship Football Team, and the 1955 State Championship team at the Banquet. Please forward your name to Gary Brown, 859-873-7666, E-mail gbrowntss@aol.com.
Additional Information:
We invite you to show your support for Reunion 2008 by advertising in our Reunion Journal. The prices are: Back Cover - $325.00; Inside Back Page - $250.00; Inside Front Page - $300.00; Regular Page - $200.00; 1/2 Page $100.00; 1/4 Page - $50.00; 1/8 Page - $35.00; Pictures - $10.00 extra. Patron List $2.00 per line. Send your request by June 1, 2008 to Alumni Journal, P.O. Box 1323, Shelbyville, KY. 40065.
If you have questions prior to the reunion please contact Nora Craig at (502) 339-1647, E-mail Njcraig8@aol.com; or Patricia Beckham at 502-239-0152, E-mail pagemee@holtmail.com.
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THE SEVENTH ANNUAL LINCOLN ALUMNI GOLF TOURNAMENT
Friday, July 11, 2008
Weissinger Hills Golf Course
2240 Mount Eden Road
Shelbyville, KY 40065
502-633-7332
$70.00 Entry Fee Includes:
Green fee, ½ cart, lunch and refreshments, trophies and prizes; Closest to the Hole, Longest Drive
Divisions
1. Golden Senior – 65 years +
2. Senior 55-64
3. Junior 17 and under
4. Woman’s Division
5. Open Division 18-54
Committee Members
Dorothy Dowe 502-245-0370
Kenneth Hayden 502-245-4295
Kenneth Johnson 502-292-0120 kojohns2811@aol.com
Mary Marshall 502-633-7424
Milton Smith 502-245-4580
Cecil Turner 502-244-0328
Mail check or money order to:
Lincoln Alumni Golf Tournament
13118 Old Henry Road
Louisville, KY 40223-4738
Attn: Dorothy Dowe
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DID YOU KNOW?
1890 – Eckstein Norton Institute
Eckstein Norton Institute was established in Cane Springs in Bullitt County, Kentucky, in 1890. Dr. William J. Simmons resigned as President of the State University in Louisville to establish Eckstein Norton Institute a school whose curriculum emphasized an industrial education for African Americans. With funding from prominent Louisville businessmen such as Louisville and Nashville (L & N) Railroad executives Eckstein Norton and Milton Smith, Simmons purchased 75 acres of land across the Bullitt County line near the L&N rail line in Cave Springs.
In mid- September the school opened with one central brick building surrounded by six frame structures and twenty-four students and sixteen teachers that had followed Simmons from the State University. Although the institute opened with the motto, “Education of the hands, head, heart and mind”, it offered classes such as bookkeeping; the pride of the school was the industrial department which offered training in carpentry, blacksmithing, farming, painting, cooking, tailoring and dressmaking. Simmons believed after he firmly established Eckstein Norton, he would be able to establish a branch location closer to Louisville to train competent domestic servants. However, Simmons died later in October of that year. Undaunted, the Louisville businessmen continued to support the school and convinced Simmons assistant Dr Charles Parrish Sr. to become its President, a position he held until the schools closing.
The school had an outstanding music department and a band. The 1911 school report of Lee L. Brown … reveals that this band, under the direction of Professor R.R. Brown and band leader John White, played before President Theodore Roosevelt at the laying of the cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial Building … on February 12, 1909.
After donations from the Louisville businessmen slowed the school was closed and merged with Lincoln Institute in Simpsonville in 1912. By that time, the school had reportedly served 1794 students and graduated 189.
See George C. Wright, Life Behind a Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky 1865 – 1930, (Baton Rouge 1985)
Special note:
Eckstein Norton as noted above was a prominent businessman in Louisville, Kentucky for the Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad. He would become the President of the L&N Railroad for a number of years. When Lincoln Institute opened its doors the girl’s dormitory located on the East side of the campus was named for him. After the boy’s dormitory was destroyed by fire in 1948, a new modern building, Morris Belknap Hall was built and became the girl’s dormitory. It was touted to be one of the most safe, fire retardant buildings in the state. The boy’s were relocated to Eckstein Norton and remained the boy’s dormitory until the school’s closing.
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"GEMS" of Dr. Whitney M.Young Sr.
"People who are good for excuses are good for nothing."
" It is better to be prepared for something better than not have it. Than to have it and not be prepared for it."
"Study to show thou self approved unto God,a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth."
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Lincolnites Still Making a Difference
Dr. Bernard Minnis leads JCPS diversity programs
Reprinted from The Louisville Defender, February 14, 2008
Bernard I. Minnis, Ed.D. was appointed last month as the Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) district’s Assistant Superintendent of Diversity, Equity, and Poverty Programs. His initial responsibilities will be to work with minority communities as the district implements a modified student assignment plan and address the challenges surrounding achievement gaps between groups of students.
Dr. Minnis is well prepared to tackle this new assignment. Prior to his retirement after a distinguished 30 year career as an educator, Dr. Minnis held numerous administrative positions with JCPS including middle school principal, Associate Superintendent for Human and Community Relations, Director of Vocational Programs, Adult Education, and the Louisville Education and Employment Partnership (LEEP), Director of School-to-Career Initiatives, and Assistant superintendent for Equity and Poverty Issues. He came out of retirement in 2005 to work part-time as the Special Assistant to the Superintendent, serving as a principal advisor on issues of equity and other related issues of equity and other related areas.
Dr. Minnis also has held several positions of leadership at the Kentucky Department of Education including Deputy Associate Superintendent for the Office of Instruction; Director of Special Vocational Programs for the Disadvantaged, Handicapped, Cooperative Education, and Work Study. He also was appointed Director of Public Relations and Community Relations of the Charleston County School District in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dr. Minnis supports the growth and enhancement of the education profession. He is vice presidentof the Jefferson County Association of School Administrators (JCASA), and is a member of the Executive Board of the Greatr Louisville Alliance of Black School Educators (GLABSE). His work in human relations and as an educator has garnered him numerous awards including the Catto Watts Black Understanding Service Award, Whitney M. Young Jr. Service Award (Boy Scouts of America), Louisville Defender Community Service Award, Project One Montest Eaves, Jr. Community Service Award, and Office of Youth Development Distinguished Service Award.
Also active in the community, Dr. Minnis currently serves on the following boards; Boy Scouts of America (Lincoln Heritage Council), The Louisville Enterprise Group, Louisville Urban League Campaign for African-American Achievement Steering Committee, Youth Alive, Inc. and the African American Heritage Council Advising Committee. Past board affiliations include the NAACP, Louisville, Jefferson County Human Relations Commission, Chestnut Street YMCA, Black Achievers, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Community Action Agency, The Housing Partnership, Cathedral Heritage Foundation, and the Coalition for the Homeless. Dr. Minnis and his wife Ethel are the parents of three adult children.
CONGRATULATIONS Charles A.Jones, Class of 1958- Louisville Courier Journal (02-10-2008)
Charles A. Jones - Congratulations on becoming the Dayton Foundation's new board chair! The Dayton Foundation has named a new Governing Board chair, Charles A. Jones, retired chief operating officer/assistant city manager (deputy city manager) for the City of Dayton. Formerly from Campbellsburg, Kentucky, he is a graduate of Historical Lincoln Institute High School in Shelby Co., Kentucky. Jones currently is a member of the Executive Committee and the Marketing/Public Relations Committee, serves for the Foundation on the Commission on Minority Inclusion (formerly the Diversity Task Force), chairs the Neighborhood School Centers' Oversight Committee and previously chaired the Foundation Grants and Programs Committee. He has held numerous prominent volunteer and interim leadership positions throughout Greater Dayton. Since his retirement Jones has been the interim city manager for the City of Riverside, interim CEO of YWCA of Dayton, interim CEO for Planned Parenthood of the Greater Miami Valley and an adjunct professor for Wright State University. He currently or previously was a member of the boards of Miami Valley Hospital, Parity, World of Wonder Charter School, African-American Community Fund, Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority, Antioch Publishing Company, Dayton Art Institute Associate Board, Dayton Urban League and the Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Corporation. He is a past deacon for Trinity Presbyterian Church and a member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Charles Jones also is a recipient of the Top Ten African-American Male Award and the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Humanitarian Award. He earned a master's degree in public administration from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree from Kentucky State University. The Dayton Foundation is the regional community foundation that serves the multi-county Greater Miami Valley. The foundation's last quarter assets were $346 million. The Foundation helps donors find the best and most tax-wise ways to achieve their charitable objectives, invests and manages donors' charitable funds, and provides grants and leadership to grow philanthropy and help meet present and future community needs. www.daytonfoundation.org.
*((There is a photo of Charles in the Photo Album)
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DID YOU KNOW?
Lincoln Institute had a tough time finding a place to be built. Below is an article appearing in the "The Shelby County Record", dated Friday May 28, 1909.
INDIGNANT, Are Many of Those Who Live Near Simpsonville at the Prospects of The Lincoln Memorial Institute Being Located There
Resolutions Adopted at a Mass Meeting Held Saturday.
Options were given to a Louisville real estate agent some time ago on several farms near Simpsonville, and the generally accepted opinion is that The Lincoln Memorial Institute, a branch of Berea College, will be located there. The pupils at the school will be all negroes and the idea of having a school of that kind in the community is not looked upon favorably by many of those who own farms in that locality.
Last Saturday afternoon a mass meeting of the indignant citizens was called to meet in Simpsonville and forty or more persons were present. Mr. Mack Walters, a very prominent farmer of that vicinity, was made chairman and Edwin G Morgan, who recently purchased the farm known as the Ernest Tyler place, was made secretary, speeches denouncing the scheme were made by John Connor, Newton Frazier, A.D. Waller and others, and upon motion a committee composed of Newton Frazier, W.H Crapstar and E.G Morgan, was appointed by the chairman to draft suitable resolutions. The resolutions were unanimously adopted as read and are as follows:
“Be it resolved by the citizens of Simpsonville and surrounding counties in mass meeting assembled. “
“First, that we oppose the location of the Lincoln Memorial Institute in this community, as being detrimental to the best interests of our people, and a menace to our homes.”
“Second, that we call on all good citizens who have interest of their homes and families at heart to lend their support and sympathy in this movement to discourage the location of the institute here.”
“Third, that we appeal to those neighbors from whom options have been secured on their lands to stand steadfast for the best interest of the community and to decline to sell their property for such a purpose.”
“Fourth, that we specially commend those who have refused to sell their lands to be used for a purpose that will be detrimental to the best interest of the community and beseech them to remain firm in their stand for what is just and right.”
“Fifth, that in view of the fact that other cities and counties in the State have offered inducements to have the school located in their midst, we respectfully urge the officials of the institute who have the selection of a site in charge to go to one of the counties that desire the school and not foster it on a community and among a citizenship that does not want it.”
“Sixth, that we appeal to the commercial bodies of the City of Louisville who are trying to raise the $50,000 fund for the benefit of the institute, to permit the trustees to locate the school in any locality in the State of Kentucky and not confine it to thirty miles of Louisville.”
“Seventh, that a copy of these resolutions be furnished the press and mailed to the officers of the proposed institute.”
All of those present were enthusiastically opposed to the school being located there, and it was suggested that Louisville should be boycotted by the people of the neighborhood if through its influence the institute is built near Simpsonville. The options, however, were given in good faith, signed in white and black, attorneys have been making abstracts of the titles, and it is said that enough money has been paid to make the contract binding. The report in a Louisville paper to the fact that the attorneys employed to make abstracts of the titles had received notice to discontinue their work and get out of town was entirely without foundation.
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LINCOLN INSTITUTE ARTIFACTS
Working with Mr. Larry McDonald, President of the Lincoln Foundation we are having some success finding some artifacts that came up missing during the transition from a high school to the Job Corp. If you know the whereabouts of any trophies or other items which may belong in our archives we would appreciate hearing from you.
Contact - Gary Brown (859) 621-9342 or email gbrowntss@aol.com.
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DO YOU HAVE A STORY LINE?
There are a lot of former students doing great things around our nation. Don't keep the stories to yourself, share them with all of us. If you're not making news, tell us about your grand kids. Don't be lazy, hit me with an email at gbrowntss@aol.com. This might be your only chance to make the front page.
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