Orange Mound Collaborative

Orange Mound Community Salutes Neighborhood's Leaders

Oct 09, 2000

The Orange Mound Collaborative presented the sixth graduating class of Leadership Orange Mound to the Orange Mound community at the Second Annual Leadership Awards Ceremony on June 23, 2000 at the Holiday Inn Select.

Those graduating included: Joyce Bland Carter (Orange Mound Pacesetters), Emma Phillips (Melrose Alumni Association), Pamela Stevison (Orange Mound Development Corporation), Carol Jones (Mt. Moriah Baptist Church), Diana Echols (Orange Mound Collaborative), Cheyenne Johnson (Mt. Pisgah CME Church), Donzaleigh Frazier (Mt. Pisgah CME Church), Dorothy Wright (Melrose Alumni Association), Michael Saine (Orange Mound Development Corporation), and Adriann Wilson (Mt. Moriah Baptist Church).

Leadership Orange Mound is annual series of classes coordinated by the Orange Mound Collaborative designed to provide residents and others interested in the Orange Mound community with the skills and networks to be more effective in neighborhood improvement activies.

At the Orange Mound Leadership Awards Ceremony, 14 other individuals representing 12 organizations in the community were honored with the Orange Mound Leadership Award. These individuals were selected by community organizations for service to the community.

Those honored included: Frances Barnes (Melrose High School), Donna Coward (Southeast Mental Health Center), John Coleman (Orange Mound Civic Organization), Carolyn Crawford (Orange Mound Family Resource Center), Sara Reed Dixon (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority's Stork's Nest), Virginia Glover (Melrose High School Alumni Association), Pearline Grandberry (Mt. Moriah Baptist Church), Jeff Hentz (Hanley Elementary School), Emma Phillips (Melrose High School Alumni Association), Joyce Raynor (Barron Heights Transitional Center), Mable Rutherford, (Mt. Moriah East Baptist Church), Carlotta S. Watson (Mt. Pisgah CME Church), Roshun Wilson (Orange Mound Development Corporation) and Elizabeth Young (Orange Mound Collaborative).

The Collaborative is a nonprofit organization committed to making Orange Mound a better and safer place to live, play, work and learn. Since its inception in 1991, the Collaborative has formed partnerships with organizations inside and outside of Orange Mound to strengthen the neighborhood and its families.