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Human Rights Activist Bob Lemon Remembered As an Oklahoma City Print News for the Heart of our City. Volume 54, Issue 11 November 2016 Read us daily at www.city-sentinel.com Ten Cents Page 54 Page 9 Page 12 Advocates of SQ 780 and 781 launch TV ad campaign 31st annual Peace Festival Elvis Costello spins tales and serenades during solo concert Federal Election House District 94 Larry Joplin – Scott Inman YES (to retain in office) U.S. Senate P. Thomas Thornbrugh – James Lankford House District 97 YES (to retain in office) Oklahoma County Election Jason Lowe Oklahoma County Sheriff State Questions John Whetsel House District 99 George Young S.Q. 776 City-area Legislative Races (death penalty methods) – NO Greg Treat Judicial Retention Votes S.Q. 777 Senate District 47 (right to farm) – neutral State Supreme Court S.Q. 779 House District 82 James R. Winchester – (penny sales tax for common, Kevin Calvey YES (to retain in office) higher and careertech Douglas L. Combs – education) – neutral House District 83 YES (to retain in office) S.Q. 780 Randy McDaniel (sentencing reform) – YES Court of Criminal Appeals S.Q. 781 House District 85 Rob Hudson – (use of savings from Matt Jackson YES (to retain in office) sentencing reform – YES Carlene Clancy Smith S.Q. 790 Oklahoma City Public School school building maintenance (Technology updates, $54.4 House District 92 (to retain in office) (repeal of Section 5 ‘Blaine District Questions (Bonds including air conditioning, million bond) – YES Joe Griffin Amendment’ language) – YES totaling $180 million) safety and general Court of Civil Appeals S.Q. 792 equipment) – YES Proposition No. 3 House District 93 John Fischer – (allow liquor sales in grocery Proposition No. 1 (Transportation Equipment, Mickey Dollens YES (to retain in office) stores) – YES (total bond of $106 million for Proposition No. 2 $19.2 million bond) – YES Dr. Freda Deskin, superintendent and founder of the ASTEC Charter Schools, to receive UCO’s distinguished alumni award Staff Report Dr. Deskin has been an educa- tion leader for over four decades. Freda Deskin, superintendent She taught for 15 years at the pre- and founder of ASTEC Char- collegiate level and nine years at ter Schools, will be honored by the University of Oklahoma. She University of Central Oklahoma served for six years as a univer- (UCO) as a Distinguished Alum- sity dean at OCU until found- ni Award on November 4. The ing ASTEC Charter Schools in recognition will come at a lun- 2000. Deskin has been honored cheon in the George Nigh Uni- numerous times at every level versity Center on the UCO cam- for her teaching and leadership pus. skills and for her community According to a press release commitment. (L-R) Grand Marshall Bob Lemon, rode with his son Chrys Lemon, and Harold Watson in the 2013 OKC Pride Parade while announcing Deskin’s honor, “For According to the release from daughter Robyn Lemon Sellers walked alongside waving a Pride flag. more than 50 years, UCO has ASTEC Charter Schools, “De- Photo by Darla Shelden. honored its most outstanding skin has long been an innova- alumni with the Distinguished Freda Deskin tor in education, impacting hun- Alumni Award. These individu- dreds of thousands of learners. Human rights activist Bob Lemon als truly are Central’s brightest 6-12. Dr. Deskin earned a bach- She established the ‘Oklahoma shining stars. The award rec- elor’s degree in elementary ed- Odyssey of the Mind,’ the Okla- ognizes their outstanding ac- ucation from the University of homa Aerospace Academy, the remembered as an Oklahoma City complishments in education, Central Oklahoma and a mas- International Aerospace Acad- arts and sciences, business/pro- ter’s degree in secondary educa- emy, ‘Team Quest,’ ropes and treasure fessions, community service or tion and a Ph.D. in Instructional leadership programs at both OU university service.” Leadership and Academic Cur- and OCU and co-founded For By Darla Shelden lived in Perryton, Texas and ally focused on the LGBT (les- Dr. Deskin is the Chief Ex- riculum from the University of Youth Initiatives (FYI), a high City Sentinel Reporter were active in their church. bian, gay, bisexual, transgen- ecutive Officer/Founder/Su- Oklahoma (OU), where she was school dropout awareness and They were unabashed liber- der) situation when we learned, perintendent of Advanced Sci- a National Collegiate Scholas- prevention program.” Robert Dell Lemon, advocate al Democrats who believed all to our total amazement, that we ence and Technology Education tic All-American. She holds a In 1985, Deskin was selected for human dignity and equality, people are entitled to both equal were the parents of a gay son.” Charter (ASTEC) Schools in certificate in strategic manage- as a finalist in NASA’s “Teacher died Oct. 22 at his home in Okla- protections under the law and Former Oklahoma Governor Oklahoma City. ASTEC was the ment from Harvard University in Space” project, becoming one homa City. He was 87 years old. universal respect as children David Walters said, “Bob was a first start-up charter school in and has completed additional of only 100 individuals in the Born in Shattuck, Oklaho- of God. They had five children, gentleman who was deeply com- the state and serves nearly 1,000 coursework in finance at Okla- world with the official title of ma, in 1929, Lemon frequently Del, Jim, Chrys, Robyn and Eli mitted to his beliefs. … Not all of inner-city students in grades homa City University (OCU). continued on page 6 stated, “I grew up in West Tex- “Moque.” us have the courage, the gener- as during the dustbowl and the During a 2011 interview with osity, the willingness to sacri- depression, and I’m straight, but The City Sentinel, Lemon re- fice in order to live our lives in a I’m not narrow.” called, “My wife and I visited a similar manner.” First Friday on the Paseo is Friday, Nov. 4 Am OSU graduate, Lemon re- church in Kansas City ... in 1977, Former Oklahoma Corpora- Staff Report ceived his J.D. from the Univer- where we heard a woman read tion Commissioner Jim Roth sity of Texas and practiced oil a letter from her gay son and said, “I always knew Bob to be The Paseo Arts District’s and gas law in both Texas and she told a sad story. She and her an extraordinary gentleman, a First Friday Gallery Walk for Oklahoma. He was a pilot and a husband were forced to leave a man of infinite empathy and a November will take place on 32nd degree Mason. church that they were members moral compass that cared for Friday, Nov. 4, from 6 - 10 p.m. Bob married his soul mate of for sometime. everyone around him. He was Featured this month in the Mary Lou Smith in 1950. They “In 1993, Mary Lou and I re- perhaps the finest man I will Paseo Art Space (3022 Paseo) ever know in my life.” through Nov. 26 is Jann Jef- In 2005, Bob saw the film In- frey’s “Conversations,” new laws & Outlaws, a documen- glass creations and paintings tary which tells the true stories that give shape to the tones and of couples and singles, both gay voices in conversations that and straight. It won the Grand can seem to take on a life of Jury Prize at the deadCENTER their own. Film Festival in Oklahoma City. The street entertainment “When I came to Oklahoma is Stephen Salewon, a singer/ for the festival, Bob and I be- songwriter. He grew up in La- came friends,” said Drew Em- gos, Nigeria and relocated to ery, the film’s director. Lemon Oklahoma City with his fam- signed on as Executive Produc- ily at the age of 13. Influenc- er. The film was dedicated to es from his African roots, Red the memory of Mary Lou, who Dirt Music, likes of Jack John- lost her life to cancer in Decem- son, Mumford and Sons, and ber 2002. Coldplay, lay a foundation for Blue Landscape Nathaniel Batchelder of Okla- the melodic and soulful tunes a broken heart or cut like a our innate desires. A self-proclaimed unabashed liberal, Bob Lemon was always ready to support the homa City’s Peace House said, Democratic party. he considers Indie Folk. His knife; he expresses the attri- Street cuisine offerings for Photo by Darla Shelden. continued on page 2 tales are such they could mend butes within the spectrum of continued on page 13 Page 2 www.city-sentinel.com November 2016 NEWS See us online, and on Facebook and Twitter Plans made for January Human rights activist Bob Lemon JFK Dinner, regional remembered as an Oklahoma City Special Olympics treasure continued from page 1 basketball slated for Nov. “Bob Lemon was simply a grand gentleman gifted with an un- 5 at Santa Fe Family Life common humility and rever- ence for each individual’s life journey.” Center Amy Wheeler, executive di- By Patrick B. McGuigan To donate in support of SF- rector of Hedgebrook a retreat A Special Olympics basketball player Editor FLC, or to help support the for women writers in Washing- runs upcourt during the 2015 Special either the Special Olympics Olympics regional basketball tourna- ton said, “I’ll never forget meet- The 2016 Regional Special event or the January gala, con- ment, held at the Santa Fe Family Life ing Joan Baez with Bob, back- Olympics Basketball Tourna- tact executive director James Center (SFFLC) in Oklahoma City. This stage at the Broadway Cen- ment will be presented and Timberlake via telephone at year’s tourney will be held Saturday, ter in Tacoma. We’d talked our hosted by Santa Fe Family Life 405-840-1817.
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