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Daytonans front and center at Martin rally
PEOPLE SPEAK
Pastors on program; hundreds of residents show their support BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
Hundreds of Daytona Beach residents participated in the Sanford rally on March 22 to help apply pressure on law enforcement to arrest George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin. Dr. L. Ronald Durham, pastor of Greater JAMES HARPER / DAYTONA TIMES Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Though the Rev. Al Sharpton was one of the noted speakers at last week’s Daytona Beach, helped to organize the rally Sanford rally for Trayvon Martin, Daytonans supported it and worked to make at Lake Fort Mellon Park in Sanford after being contacted by the Rev. Al Sharpton. The it happen.
park is less than three miles from the site of where 17-year-old Martin was shot walking to his father’s girlfriend’s apartment. The Rev. John Long of Tubman-King Community Church in Daytona, presided over the rally and introduced many of the speakers. “We did not come here to party. Those of us in front of you did not come here to entertain you. We did not come to incite you to violence, but we have come to call for an account for the life of another young Black male, caught up in a situation known as walking while Black,” Long said. “Too long Black life has been undervalued. Too many of our children have died needlessly. Too often we sit back in silence and it happens over and over and over again,” he added. Please see RALLY, Page 2
DCF names new Circuit 7 administrator BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
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Dr. James Huger is shown with Al Bouie, president of the local Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and Dr. Hiram Powell, vice president of Institutional Advancement at Bethune-Cookman University.
Huger’s legacy linked to women in his life
Alpha Phi Alpha pays tribute to Daytona Beach icon BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com
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r. James Huger credits two women for his success – his first employer, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of Bethune-Cookman University – and his beloved wife of 71 years, Phannye, whom he met while attending the school. Huger, who has lived most of his 97 years in Daytona Beach, was honored last week by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, an institution he has been a member of most of his adult life. A church service at Stewart Memorial Methodist Church on April 1 wrapped up a threeday Legacy Celebration that paid tribute to Huger; $30,000 in college scholarship money
was raised in his Huger’s name for high school seniors. The celebration included a golf tournament on March 30 and a dinner at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort on March 31 sponsored by the fraternity’s local Beta Delta Lambda chapter. The local icon recently granted the Daytona Times an exclusive interview.
Varied experience
Met Bethune at an early age Huger first moved to Daytona Beach from West Palm Beach, where his father was a well-known minister. He recalls first meeting Bethune when his father invited her to speak at a function in the city. “My brother and I were coming down the hall (at their West Palm home). People of color could not stay in hotels. Mother and her group prepared a meal for her (Bethune) group. I was
The Florida Department of Children and Families has named a man from South Carolina as the new community development administrator in Circuit 7, which covers Flagler, Putnam, Volusia and St. Johns counties. Arnold Anderson will replace Reggie Arnold Williams, who retired Anderson as the administrator Feb. 29 to take on a new challenge as CEO for the Children’s Advocacy Center, which provides forensic services for children that are abused and or neglected. “As the community development administrator, Anderson will work with the resources that are unique to our local communities to ensure that DCF’s social services delivery system is optimized to meet local needs,” said John Harrell, spokesman for the Northeast Region for the Florida Department of Children and Families. Expanding DCF’s Partners for Promise program in Circuit 7 will be one of Anderson’s key priorities, Harrell said. “As part of DCF’s Strategic Vision, the Department is working to engage communities by seeking partnerships to promote local families designed to strengthen families. DCF’s new Partners for Promise program bring local businesses together to partner with the Department to help children and families in need. Anderson’s skills will be valuable in carrying out these initiatives,” Harrell continued.
A much younger Dr. James Huger is shown on BethuneCookman’s campus. in eighth grade at that time,” Huger recounted. He eventually would attend Bethune-Cookman College (BCC) when it offered classes for grades 10 through 12. Huger
also would be one of the first students at the school when it dropped its high school classes, and allowed students to enroll and earn associate’s degrees. Please see HUGER, Page 2
Anderson has served as the director of program services at Carolina Youth Development Center in the Charleston, S.C. area. Anderson also was the director of residential services for Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. in Jacksonville, N.C., where he was responsible for program development at the mental illness and substance abuse residential treatment facility. He has worked as a clinical social worker for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Family Advocacy Program at Fort Jackson, S.C. and served as a mental health counselor with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, and has worked as a child protective investigator in the state of Connecticut. Anderson has a master’s degree in social work from the State University of New York.