Those with a shot at making or returning to the NBA include Ann Arbor's LaVell Blanchard, Flint's Olu Famatimi and Mateen Cleaves; Saginaw's Darvin Ham, Detroit's Howard Eisley, Jermaine Jackson and Voshon Lenard; and Benton Harbor's Robert Whaley. Fans of high school hoops in Michigan can take pride in knowing that 10 other Michigan high school products opened the season in the NBA, too: Flint's Charlie Bell, Desmon Farmer, and Morris Peterson; Saginaw's Jason Richardson and Anthony Roberson; Rochester's Paul Davis, Grand Rapids' Chris Kaman, Birmingham's Shane Battier, Southfield's Ira Newble, and Detroit's Chris Webber.
... to establish learning groups at three junior high schools; and (3) budgeting for operational expense...
... in Coral Gables and a former player on the Benton Harbor High School basketball team was honored at ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In every state across the country, a high school senior will find out today that they will receive a $10,000 college scholarship from the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc., and that they have been selected as one of only 107 in the entire nation to be named a 2005 Horatio Alger National Scholar. (A complete list of the 2005 Horatio Alger National Scholars immediately follows this release). In addition to the financial award, the scholarship recipients will attend an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the 2005 Horatio Alger National Scholars Conference. Nationally, more than 20,000 high school seniors applied for Horatio Alger scholarships, each describing their personal adversities, and how they have used hard...
...Tyrone Clark, Benton Harbor High School, Benton Harbor, Michigan. Marc ...
... educator and current member of the town's school board. Both are African American and members of th... jobs, community leaders believe, could be as high as 80 percent. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] . The last...
Few Missouri fans probably still hold Quin Snyder with high regard, but they can be thankful that nine years ago Snyder severed ties with troubled recruit Robert Whaley. Otherwise this headline would be accurate: Former Tiger caught hiding drugs in his bum. Thankfully for Missouri's sake, Whaley is known as a former member of the Cincinnati Bearcats, the Utah Jazz and the Toronto Raptors -- not the Tigers. In case Whaley's recruiting tale was seared from your memories of the Snyder era, he was the blue- chipper from Benton Harbor, Mich., whom Snyder cut loose from his scholarship after he was charged with felony sexual assault of a 13- year-old girl during his senior year of high school. Whaley's case ended in a mistrial, and he never stepped foot on MU's campus -- though his rap sheet ...
NORFOLK - died in her home Dec. 23, 2010 surrounded by her friends and family. Mrs. Denslow died from complications stemming from pulmonary fibrosis, which she battled for several years. Mrs. Denslow, the daughter of the late Martin Luther and Pearl Gallop Branch, was born in Richmond, Va., Aug. 22, 1930. She graduated from Cathedral High School, Richmond, in 1948, and immediately accepted employment with the General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C. A year later, she returned to Richmond and obtained a position with the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. It was also the year she met her future husband, Denny, a sailor from Benton Harbor, Mich. She and Denny were married July 22, 1951 in the First Baptist Church, Elizabeth City, N.C. They established their home in...
NORFOLK - died in her home Dec. 23, 2010 surrounded by her friends and family. Mrs. Denslow died from complications stemming from pulmonary fibrosis, which she battled for several years. Mrs. Denslow, the daughter of the late Martin Luther and Pearl Gallop Branch, was born in Richmond, Va., Aug. 22, 1930. She graduated from Cathedral High School, Richmond, in 1948, and immediately accepted employment with the General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C. A year later, she returned to Richmond and obtained a position with the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. It was also the year she met her future husband, Denny, a sailor from Benton Harbor, Mich. She and Denny were married July 22, 1951 in the First Baptist Church, Elizabeth City, N.C. They established their home in...
Chapter one begins, "Eugene Haire, the second of John and Ruby Haire's four children, was born on September 1, 1933, in Benton Harbor, Michigan ... Years later John and Ruby's son would take the stage name [Gene Harris]." It identifies Gene's elementary school and even cites the win/loss record of his high school basketball team. Gene joined the service in 1951. Riding on a train filled with soldiers bound for Fort Bragg, black soldiers were ordered to the back when it crossed the Mason-Dixon line. "Gene told me he had never experienced anything so degrading and infuriating," Harris writes. She does not investigate further and concludes, "Fortunately, Gene's ability at sports and music would help make his time in the Army considerably less dangerous and humiliating that it could have be...
Veteran photographer reflects on his involvement with famous picture 18-year-old assistant had no idea the image would have created such an impact Benton bio Earl Benton, now 79, started working for the Charleston Daily Mail while he was still in high school. He was drafted into the Navy in 1943 and joined its photography school. At first, his superiors wanted him to be a radio man, but he talked his way into photography after showing samples of his work. Benton wound up on the staff of Admiral Chester Nimitz at Pearl Harbor, where he served as a photo mate second class at a news operations center, where all war photographs were processed, developed, reviewed and sent to the mainland. Benton, shown as an 18- year-old at Nimitzs headquarters, made the first print of the famous Iwo Jima ...
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