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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Academy Award nominated actress in town tonight
Academy Award nominated actress Taraji P. Henson will be the special guest during Central State University’s A Night for Philanthropy, an event designed to honor alumni and friends who have designated a principal or legacy gift to the institution.
University spokeswoman Fran Robinson said that Henson will address the crowd and interact with those in attendance.
“She will be around to talk to people about why it is important to preserve our (historically) black colleges and universities,” Robinson said.
Very limited seating is still available for the event 6 to 9 p.m. tonight at the Schuster Center.
Call (937) 376-6373 for more information.
Twenty-six people will be inducted in to the 1887 Legacy Society. The group has donated $2 million to the university in Wilberforce. The money will be used for scholarships and academic programming.
Henson, a grad of the historical black Howard University, earned an best supporting actress Academy Award nomination for her role in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
She has also had roles in “I Can Do Bad All by Myself,” “Date Night” and “Hustle & Flow.”
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TweetHuffington Post column about Dayton nun being bounced from plane stirs controversy
Here’s why you should read carefully.
A headline on a satirical Huffington Post column written by Jalees Rehman, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, raised eye brows last week.
It seems many people were struck by the headline “Catholic Nun Forcibly Removed From Plane for Wearing ‘Muslim Garb’ and thought the fictional story about Sister Cora-Ann, a Catholic nun from the Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Dayton, was true.
Rehman spun a web about a nun in a burqa being bounced from an airplane.
He uses popular fictional characters as witnesses to the sister’s virtual ousting - Elizabeth Bennet ( Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”), Damien Thorn (The Omen), Frodo Baggins (J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings”) and Blanche Devereaux (Golden Girls) among others.
The column was posted on the Huffington Post’s comedy site, but many thought it was true.
“There was a huge response to the article and many took it to be a news report without realizing it was satire,” Rehman said via email. “I am not sure if they did not read the article and just passed on the headline by Twitter or whether they read it and were so intent on seeing the prejudice that they skipped over the satire bit or whether it is too close to reality.”
Rehman had cardiology training in Indianapolis at Indiana University. He said he’s never been to Dayton, but several of his colleagues either moved to Dayton or had previously lived here.
“From what my colleagues/ friends have told me, (Dayton) is a classic American city - conservative American Midwestern values paired with a lot of ethnic diversity, broad range of socioeconomic disparity, a lot of opportunities to engage in the arts and culture, thus in many ways similar to Indianapolis, of which I have fond memories. That is why I chose Dayton,” he said.
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TweetAll-day memorial service jam to honor “Dancing Tom”
Friends are organizing an all-day memorial service for a man who boogied his way into the hearts of many Miami Valley festival-goers.
Dayton’s Tumbleweed Connection, 454 East 5th St., has agreed to host the fun-filled memorial service to honor Thomas Clemens and his family beginning at 1 p.m. May 8, family friend Romy Leet said.
Known around town as Tomkat or “Dancing Tom,” Clemens was known for his dance moves at local festivals and live music clubs.
Leet said the memorial service will honor his free spirit.
“There will be (live) music, food and of course lots of dancing,” she said.
Clemens died last week in Hospice of Dayton after a lengthy illness.
Leet said the community’s response to his passing has been overwhelming with many people asking if a memorial service would be held.
“You just couldn’t have a regular memorial service,” she said. Area bands will preform.
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TweetBeavercreek woman to appear on “Undercover Boss”
Shelly Sun, the CEO and co-founder of healthcare provider BrightStar Care, saw firsthand what life is like for those who work for her company in the Dayton area as part of her experience on “Undercover Boss.”
Lisa Whittaker, a nurse for the BrightStar location in Centerville, unknowingly showed the boss around during the reality show to air 9 p.m. Sunday on WHIO-TV.
Whittaker, a Beavercreek resident, and Sun visited clients’ homes in the south part of Dayton, said Pat Luers, owner of the Centerville BrightStar franchise.
Undercover Boss follows executives as they go undercover as employees in their businesses.
The show has featured executives from White Castle, Roto-Rooter, Chiquita in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky areas as well as Great Wolf Lodge in Mason.
Luers also appears on the show which he considers a positive experience. He said it portrays a realistic image of home healthcare.
“It really is daunting when you think about home healthcare,” Luers said. “It really gives everybody an idea of what healthcare is.”
Sun also found the show positive.
“The experience deepened my appreciation for our caregivers and their relentless efforts to improve their clients’ quality of life and relieve the stress their families face on a day-to-day basis,” she said in a press release.
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