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Northview High School Holds Black History Month Programs
February 22, 2008
“Rising above our obstacles” was the theme of the annual Black History Month program Friday at Northview High School.
“Everything one learns in the classroom will help later in life”, Greenville, Alabama, Councilman Jeddo Bell told the Northview freshmen and sophomore classes. “Are you setting goals for what will happen tomorrow?”
Bell (pictured left) read a list of prominent and historic black Americans to the students…Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington Carver, Tiger Woods, Booker T. Washington and others.
He said he once asked a student who the student would like to “be like” as an adult. The student pointed out that no one had yet cured cancer or found the solution to world peace.
“‘I don’t want to be be like anyone else, I want to be myself’,” Bell quoted the student.
“You might not want to be like someone else; you might want to be like yourself,” he said. “The ball is in your court. You can be whatever you want to be. You just have to make up your mind to do it.”
Bell is a retired educator from the Butler County (Alabama) Schools, where he taught alongside Northview Principal Gayle Weaver. He currently works at LBW Community College and serves as vice mayor for the City of Greenville.
Earlier in the day, the junior and senior classes at Northview attended a similar program with Jarl T. Young, CIO and regional information technician for the Gulf Power division of the Southern Company. Young joined Southern Company in 1989 in the marketing organization at Gulf Power. Since then, he has held a variety of leadership positions in the marketing organization and was Gulf Power’s Pensacola district manager before assuming his current role.
Both programs included a variety of entertainment, including poetry reading, a slide show presentation, a mime show and a live music video. The annual event was sponsored by Northview’s Minority Culture Club under the direction of Annie Gilmore.
For more photos from Friday’s program, click here.
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