Scenes from the 47th Annual Freedom
Fund Banquet of 2001 (continued)
Guest Speaker John Lewis is greeted by St. Louis NAACP
President John A Bordeaux, Sr. (left), Urban League President
/ CEO Dr. James Buford, Rev. Scott and Alton NAACP President James
Gray. Dr. Buford gave greeting for the program
"A Step Beyonjd" (Sgt. Bob Ellison and Charlotte
Hart) thrilled the audience with mellow music.
Bankers Mary Dix (Firstar-left) and Delmar Tegtmeier
(Union Planters, second right) chat with Rev. Scott, and the Congressmen.
Banker Marquita Wiley (left) co-chaired the banquet.
She congratulates awardees John Kendrick, Mrs. Calhoun, Dr. LaRona
Morris and Dr. Cheryl Childress and Chairman Joe Wiley.
Mesdames LeCompte, Howze and Burena Howard chat with
Top Teens at the banquet as Congressman Lewis and Rev. Scott look
on.
TLOD National First President Peggy LeCompte (sixth
from left) and ESL TLOD President Dr. Edna Allen and ESL TLOD
members pose for cameraman Sherman Fowler. Mrs. Calhoun, who died
on the Monday after the banquet is third from left.
Award winning business woman Scotia Scotia Calhoun
(second left) is shown with left to right Curtis Paradise, Burena
Howard (she did the VIP programs), Mabel Releford, Rev. Andrew
Bailey, Vivian Green, Kenneth Kelly, Lola Key (Courtesy chair)
and Bernice Howze, Program chair.
