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St. Petersburg • Clearwater • Largo • Tarpon Springs • Dunedin • Safety Harbor VOLUME 44 NUMBER 24 FEBRUARY 9 - FEBRUARY 15, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA John Johnson Honored With Florida Memorial 2012 USPS Black Heritage Stamp University To Inaugurate Dr. Henry Lewis III As Its 12th President BY ZACHARY RINKINS pharmacy and science exciting SPECIAL TO THE to them.” CHALLENGER Lewis started his career at COPPS as an instructor and MIAMI GARDENS - Florida assistant director of clinical Memorial University (FMU), programs in 1974. He was named South Florida’s only historically dean in 1994. During his tenure at black university, is poised to inau- COPPS, he increased the college’s gurate Dr. Henry Lewis III, as its endowment from $1 million to 12th president in a Feb. 9 ceremony more than $22 million. His legacy on the campus at 10 a.m. at COPPS includes educating 25 Lewis, a longtime Tallahassee percent of the nation’s African resident, served the local American pharmacists. community as an educator, univer- “Henry has always wanted to sity administrator, politician and secure more resources and money business leader. In 2011, he joined to expand and make institutions FMU after serving 15 years as dean better,” Smith continued. BY THE ASSOCIATED the newsweekly Jet in 1951. of Florida A&M University After 12 months as FMU’s PRESS “His magazines portrayed (FAMU) College of Pharmacy and president, Lewis has successfully black people positively at a Pharmaceutical Sciences (COPPS). opened four state-of-the-art residen- ARKANSAS CITY - time when such representation Lewis also served as an interim tial facilities, issued all students Publisher John H. Johnson, was rare, and he played an president at FAMU, and was previ- netbook computers, and brokered who created Ebony and Jet important role in the civil rights ously shortlisted for the presidency articulation agreements with institu- magazines, will be honored on movement,” Stephen Kearney, of Daytona Beach’s Bethune- tions in Ghana, Senegal and Russia. this year’s Black Heritage manager of USPS’ Stamp Cookman University. His administration is in the process stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Services, said when announc- “It feels absolutely fantastic to of securing unprecedented resources Service. ing the stamp last year. move into a leadership role at a for a black institution. A ceremony is planned in The magazines became two major university like Florida “We are getting ready to Johnson’s hometown of of the longest-running black- Memorial,” said Lewis. “One of my purchase two brand-new Cessna Arkansas City, AK, where he oriented magazines in the goals was to become a university 172SP airplanes with G1000 navi- Dr. Henry Lewis III lived until moving to Chicago country. president, and this opportunity at gation for our Aviation program,” he with his family at age 15. The Black Heritage stamp, Florida Memorial University revealed. “Resources like these are students for an increasingly compet- ourselves from the pack.” Johnson founded Johnson featuring a color photo of allowed me to realize that goal.” vital to keep our students at the itive global marketplace. The Franklin said he thinks of Publishing Co. on a $500 loan Johnson taken by photographer For many of the people who forefront of modern education and president works tirelessly and his former dean as a servant leader. using his mother’s furniture as David McCann, went on sale know Lewis, this moment was a innovation, like Barrington Irving, expects the same from his students. “Deep down, he is a public collateral. At the time, he was last Tuesday, and is being long time coming. His mentor, our recent graduate who became the “Dr. Lewis cares for and expects servant,” Franklin said. “When working as a clerk at a black- issued as a Forever stamp. former FAMU President Dr. Walter youngest and first black pilot to suc- the best from his students,” said he was considering taking this owned life insurance company. Past honorees include Smith, noted a consistent commit- cessfully fly around the world.” Gallop Franklin II, former FAMU job, I recall him saying, ‘I think He created Ebony in 1945 Congresswoman Barbara ment to excellence and service. For Lewis, the job of a universi- student body president and pharma- I can help them achieve their with a press run of 25,000 Jordan, singer Ella Fitzgerald, “He saw himself beyond being ty chief is never finished. His weeks ceutical doctoral degree candidate. goals.’ He is at FMU to help and copies. Its circulation topped Supreme Court Justice a pharmacist,” said Smith, president are filled with frequent travels across “He wanted us to be head and I am happy for him.” 1.6 million at the time of Thurgood Marshall, poet of FAMU from 1977-1985. “He the globe, nonstop fundraising, day- shoulders above our peers. He Johnson’s death in 2005 at the Langston Hughes and baseball really wanted to become capable of to-day institution management and always challenged us to separate LEWIS age of 87. Johnson also founded player Jackie Robinson reaching young people, and making meeting the challenge of preparing continued on pg. 9 Florida Bill Would Ban Opinion ...................................2 Buying Sweets With Food Stamps Community .........................3-5 BY KELLI KENNEDY small percentage of cases, but the intended to help Florida’s poorest ASSOCIATED PRESS state does not track what items were families from being spent in the Black History Month...............6 purchased. wrong places,” Storms said in a FORT LAUDERDALE - The bill recently passed a statement. Entertainment.........................7 Florida’s poor can use food stamps committee. A companion bill in the But critics say the government Sports ......................................8 to buy the staples such as dairy state House is being considered by a shouldn’t dictate what people eat. products, vegetables, fruits and subcommittee. “What I choose to ingest even State & National .....................9 meat. But they can also use them to The bill would also require the though I may be on food stamps, buy sweets like cakes, cookies and state to launch a culturally sensitive that’s at my discretion. I don’t need Church Directory ...........10, 11 snack foods like chips, something a campaign to educate people about government telling me what I can Church News........................11 state senator wants stopped. the benefits of a nutritious diet. and cannot purchase,” said Rep. Sen. Ronda Storms, (R- Supporters say it would help recipi- Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed, a Valrico), also wants to limit other ents follow healthy eating habits and Pompano Beach Democrat who Children and Families, which VISIT welfare funds, known as Temporary prevent taxpayer funds from being voted in committee against the bill oversees the food stamp program, Assistance For Needy Families, used to purchase luxury foods like (SB 1658). She said the bill is would have to get federal approval The Weekly from being used at ATMs in casinos bakery cakes when they can whip up demeaning and invasive and she from the U.S. Department of and strip clubs and anywhere out of a cheaper box mix. worries the education campaign Agriculture to implement the bill if it Challenger state. The bill comes after reports “Most individuals using public would imply to “minorities and low- passes, which may be tricky since that the debit cards welfare recipients assistance dollars are using the funds income folks that they’re not intelli- no other states have been successful. ONLINE now receive were used in those to get by and to provide for their gent enough to make selections on places, as well as locations in Las families. However, we should do the foods they want.” STAMPS www.TheWeeklyChallengerNewspaper.com Vegas and the Virgin Islands in a what we can to prevent dollars The state Department of continued on pg. 9 How To Reach Us: News: [email protected] • Advertising: [email protected] • Phone: (727) 896-2922 • Fax: (727) 823-2568 2 THE WEEKLY CHALLENGER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012 The Weekly Challenger Newspaper The Weekly Challenger Ethel L. Johnson . CEO/Publisher Emerita L. Dianne Speights . Publisher/General Manager We Value Diversity. We Value Education. 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