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photo by Marcus Frazier
Jannifer Robinson listens to guest speaker Donna Lindley speak at Thursday’s Leadership Natchez graduation at Dunleith.
Leadership 2008 class graduates
Published Friday, May 16, 2008
NATCHEZ — Jubilant chatter filled Dunleith Plantation on Thursday during Leadership Natchez’s graduation ceremony and luncheon, marking the end of the class of 2008’s nine-month curriculum of tours, speeches and civic activities.
Graduate Charlie Speed, president of Regions Bank, unveiled the class project — the construction of three to four pavilions at Duncan Park. Ralph Tedder, director of the Natchez Recreation Department, presented the idea to the class.
“We wanted to pick a project that would touch the most people,” Speed said. “We have agreed to accept (Tedder’s) challenge.”
Speed said the pavilions are in high demand as the summer looms. The pavilions — measuring 20 feet wide by 40 feet high — will be placed throughout the park area. After meeting with engineers to discuss construction, the class thought it would be best to use building kits.
Speed said city officials have agreed to put up the pavilions while county officials have agreed to lay the foundation.
“We’ve got continuity — people coming together to take on a project,” Speed said.
The class is now entering the fundraising phase of the project, which will cost $20,000 to $25,000.
“We have raised around $3,000. We’re very confident that we’ll come up with the money. We’ll be knocking on some of your doors,” Speed said.
Graduate Debbie Hudson, president of the Natchez-Adams County Chamber of Commerce, expressed her gratitude to employers for supporting the program. Without their support, Hudson said, Leadership Natchez would not be possible.
“The class was great and I enjoyed the people most of all,” she said. “I’m very proud Leadership Natchez is part of the Chamber of Commerce.”
Graduate Marcus Sullivan of United Mississippi Bank said there’s a lot of work to be done.
“There’s a long road ahead of us,” he said. “We’re going to raise money for the project and we look forward to working with next year’s class.”
The class included: Angela Bland, Britton & Koontz Bank; Amy Campbell, Natchez Regional Medical Center; Michael Cates, Paul Green and Associates; Cullen Foley, Concordia Bank and Trust; Lynda Hall, Natchez Community Hospital; Hudson; Brandi Lewis, Britton & Koontz Bank; Sturleen Morris, Natchez-Adams County School District; Speed; Sullivan; and Angela Yates, Natchez Regional Medical Center
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Posted by EnKiKur (anonymous) on May 16, 2008 at 2:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Kevin, was this article re-edited sometime today after it was originally put up this morning? I thought I saw something about the roots of the Leadership program earlier... maybe I am mistaken.
Posted by EnKiKur (anonymous) on May 16, 2008 at 3:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Did the graduates give speeches as part of their curriculum, or listen to speeches given by others? Either way, what were the speeches about, a common theme or diverse topics, and if the speeches were given by others, who were the others and who do they represent?
What civic activities did the Leadership students participate in? Did these activities have some specific aim in keeping with the core philosophy of the national and local Leadership program, what is that core philosophy and does Leadership Natchez core philosophy differ in significant ways the national policy? Is there an international Leadership program?
I am just curious that such a communitarian sounding program would be promoted by Natchez leadership that in the past was opposed to trade unions with the general idea in the south being that trade unions were communist organizations.
I am curious because I see representatives of two of the three legs of Sustainable Development, Economics-Education-Equity, represented in the Leadership Natchez Program with banking, real estate, health care and education. I don't see any representation of the Equity leg though.
Is Natchez preparing to embrace some kind of internationally collaborated development program that takes precedence over national sovereignty?
Posted by EnKiKur (anonymous) on May 16, 2008 at 3:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I ask those questions because of things like this Kevin:
Conference Symposium on Leadership 2008
'Excavating the Layers of Institutional Culture: A Key to Internationalization'
"...The 2008 Conference Symposium on Leadership will address this critical need for those who occupy leadership positions and contribute significantly to campus internationalization and policy formulation. This half-day symposium will provide frameworks for understanding the management of higher education institutions and institutional culture.
...Symposium participants will learn not only how to dig through the proper campus structure and channels of communication that lie on the surface, but also to uncover the informal culture of personalities, power, social systems, and politics that must be harnessed in order to effect change."
The informal culture here referred to Kevin, is the people who pay for all this formal culture of institutions; the people these very institutions feel must be harnessed and changed. People who would be very opposed to this change if they knew it was happening and how it is being carried out, and what the ultimate goals of it are as stated in over a century of documents best summed up in Bill Clinton's mentor Carroll Quigley's book 'Tragedy and Hope' and in Carnegie Endowment scholar David Rothkopf's new book 'Superclass and the Inequity of Globalization'.
Rothkopf laments that national governments are still wary of relinquishing control to international governance that could end global inequity. What he and the Carnegie Foundation, among many other foundations promote is a system of
international government that bears no resemblance to anything the local middle class leaders would recognize as democracy.
A local leadership that identifies itself as primarily Christian and having allegiance to the US should closely examine any large wooden horses they find outside the city gates.
Posted by EnKiKur (anonymous) on May 16, 2008 at 3:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)
An overview local leaders and others should take a look at, from Yale University:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.artic...
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