The Pri nce Ge orge’s Pos t OMMUNITY EWSPAPER FOR RINCE EORGE S OUNTY SINCE A C N P G ’ C 1932 Vol. 86, No. 42 October 18 — October 24, 2018 Prince George’s County, Maryland Newspaper of Record Phone: 301-627-0900 25 cents County Council, National News upper Marlboro Sailor Serves at Correspondent Ebony McMorris Navy’s Premier aviation Help The Training Source Maintenance Command Celebrate Its 25th Anniversary By CHIEF MAss CoMMUNICAtIoN sPECIALIst BILL stEELE By PREss oFFICER respondent Ebony McMorris is the Navy Office of Community Outreach the training Source emcee, for the organization’s 25th Anniversary Dinner & Auction. sAN DIEGo—A 2007 Freder - pairing aircraft at what is now art management sys - sEAt PLEAsANt (october 5, the event—“Engineered for Ex - ick Douglass High school grad - known as Naval Air station tems. 2018)—when Mitchellville resi - cellence: Building Bridges to the uate and Upper Marlboro, Mary - North Island. since its humble to provide main - dent Evelyn Kim Rhim left IBM Future”—takes place from 6 p.m. land, native is serving at the Fleet beginnings almost a century ago, tenance excellence in october 1993 to start a commu - to 9:30 p.m. on thursday, Nov. 1, Readiness Center southwest, the facility has been at the fore - where it’s most nity-based nonprofit organization, at Metro Points Hotel in New Car - based at Naval Air station North front of weapons system sustain - needed, FRCsw she had no idea what the next 25 rollton. PRM Consulting, Pepco, Island. ment, providing innovative naval maintains field sites years would bring. she only knew and t. Curtis & Company, are Petty officer 2nd Class aviation maintenance solutions at Naval Base ven - she was called to help others, pri - among the sponsors. Auction items Joseph Dyer is a Navy aviation utilizing the latest technologies. tura County—Point marily through job training. “It has include art, personal fitness ses - administrationman responsible today, as the Navy’s premiere Mugu, Marine Corps been far more difficult than I sions, dinners, Disney tickets, golf for tracking aircraft hours, main - west coast Maintenance, Repair, Base Camp Pendle - PHoto BY CHIEF MAss CoMMUNICAtIoN thought it would be, but I am in - paraphernalia, electronics and ho - tenance and other inspections for and overhaul facility, FRCsw ton, and MCAs Mi - sPECIALIst ALEx DIAz credibly proud of the impact of our tel stays. washington-area vIPs aircraft, engines and weapons. specializes in the maintenance, ramar in California, Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Dyer work on individuals, families and from business, government, and “You get to help out other ten - engineering and logistics support MCAs Yuma, Ari - communities,” says Rhim, founder the community will be in atten - ant squadrons, making sure their for a wide range of high-perfor - zona, MCAs Kaneohe Bay, Dyer and other FRCsw sailors and executive director of the dance. components don’t go high time,” mance aircraft, servicing more Hawaii, NAs whidbey Island know they are a part of a legacy training source, Inc. over the last 25 years, the said Dyer. that 225 airframes and 35,000 washington, as well as in oki - that will last beyond their life - A quarter-century later, the training source has expanded the Dyer credits success in the components annually. nawa and Iwakuni, Japan. times providing the Navy the na - training source stands among a variety of programs offered, re - Navy to lessons he learned grow - “I like the job I do at this com - Dyer’s proudest accomplish - tion needs. handful of Prince George’s ceived numerous awards, and been ing up in Upper Marlboro. mand,” said Dyer. “I get to help ment in the Navy so far is a de - “Military service means hav - County’s 4,000-plus nonprofits featured in print and broadcast me - “I learned you gotta be strong and assist, I get to dig deeper and ployment to Japan in 2012. ing the courage to stand up for that have earned the coveted stan - dia. Additionally, Rhim has been throughout life, you gotta keep come up with the answer.” “I am very proud of that,” he what is right, having a commit - dards For Excellence® accredita - honored by the NAACP, Maryland going,” he said. “Keep shooting FRCsw provides world-class said. “It allowed me to meet a ment to get a job done,” said tion, based on operating at the Black Mayors and the Prince for the stars and anything is pos - support to Navy and Marine whole lot of diverse people and Dyer. “At the end of the day be - highest level of ethics and account - George’s County Chamber of sible.” Corps tactical, logistical and ro - accomplish one goal.” ing able to stand up and say I’ve ability in the nonprofit sector. the Commerce. “I know our survival FRCsw traces its heritage to tary wing aircraft and their com - As a member of the U.s. done the honorable thing is why organization is also Guidestar® has been a faith-walk and the result 1919, when the Navy began re - ponents, by utilizing state-of-the- Navy’s aviation community, I serve.” Platinum rated, a distinction held of fantastic partners who believe by less than one percent of non - in and support our work,” she says. profits nationwide. Dinner seats are available for “the training source repre - $75 per person. Contributions— Statue of Pioneer african-american Woman sents excellence in the nonprofit including sponsorships, ads, and sector,” says County Executive silent-auction donations—are tax- Reporter Points to ‘Future of equality’ Rushern L. Baker III. “It is an deductible and welcome as well! By ALBANE GUICHARD A few days later, Washing - from today. Yet African-Amer - of the Dunnigan statue at the honor to salute the outstanding Proceeds will benefit unemployed Capital News Service ton Post media reporter Paul ican female reporters still rep - Newseum, sculptor Amanda contributions that the organization and underemployed individuals Farhi published an article en - resent a small part of the white Matthews said that “Alice provides to our community. I com - who need our training to secure wAsHINGtoN—Last month, titled “the white House press House press corps. Dunnigan envisioned a future mend you for the important work employment and enable better sup - the Newseum unveiled a statue room is overwhelmingly white. And the few who manage to of equality and she dedicated you do to improve all levels of port of themselves and their fami - of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the Does that matter?” make it to their long-awaited her life to that vision.” economic diversity by giving peo - lies. to purchase tickets, make a first African-American woman Almost 70 years separate destination, the white House’s the present is not the future ple the skills they need to obtain donation, or learn more, please to receive press credentials to Alice Allison Dunnigan’s bat - James. s. Brady Press Briefing of equality Dunnigan had employment.” visit www.thetrainingsource.org, cover the white House. tle against racism and sexism Room, still struggle with dis - hoped and fought for. the Prince George’s County or contact Kim Rhim at 301-499- crimination from within, there has been undeniable Council is the Honorary Host 8872 or kimrhim@thetraining - as Brittany shepherd progress, but women of color Committee, and Reach Media Cor - source.org. underlined in her recent remain a very small percentage story for the Washing - of American newsrooms over - tonian . all: 7.95 percent of newspaper “‘Good’ journalism staffs, 6.2 percent of local ra - in the trump-era has be - dio personnel and 12.6 percent come synonymous with of local television news oper - access. But when you’re ations, according to a study re - talking with people who leased earlier this year by the view any hint of race as women’s Media Center. an on-ramp to identity “women are more than half politics, it’s almost im - the U.s. population, and peo - possible for a black re - ple of color nearly 40 percent. porter to gain their But you wouldn’t know this trust,” shepherd wrote from our media—because U.s. about her experience in media does not look like, the white House. sound like, or reflect the diver - shepherd goes on de - sity and experience of more scribing her skin color than half the population,” cen - as “a barrier and as - ter president Julie Burton sumption (her) non-mi - wrote in the forward to the nority colleagues aren’t report. required to face.” the road to equality is still Dunnigan had to face long, but remembering pioneer the same barrier in the figures such as Dunnigan can 1940s. be a source of inspiration on one might have the way. thought that in 70 years, Right before the cloth was that barrier would have lifted from Dunnigan’s statue, been broken down, but her great niece Penny Allison shepherd’s article and Lockhart burst into tears: “I the ratio of African- can’t wait until little boys and American women in the girls in schools to journalism white House press students and everyone get to corps (less than a dozen, say ‘wow, let’s talk about Alice PHoto CREDIt: ALBANE GUICHARD/CAPItAL NEws sERvICE among hundreds of jour - Allison Dunnigan today.’” WaSHINGtON—Penny allison Lockhart and amanda Matthews nalists) indicate that it standing proud next to alice allison Dunnigan’s newly unveiled has not. statue at the Newseum. 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