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The Arts Center in Orange presented
a satellite gallery exhibit
of paintings by artist Lee Nixon,
Jr. in the lobby of Virginia National
Bank on Main Street in Orange.
Nixon works
primarily in
acrylics for
their versatility
and compatibility
with
other media.
His impressionistpaintings
refl ect a need, care, and
reverence for a serene earth, and
the desire to share it with the
viewer through color, pattern
and texture. A native of Orange
County, Nixon teaches at Orange
County High School.
Rev. Rick Torrance was installed
as the pastor of Gethsemane Baptist
Church located in St. Augustine,
FL.
Shannon Wright launched her
own campaign and joined the
race to become New Jersey’s governor.
Her main campaign issues
will be health care, education and
economic development.
Dora Gilliam Wynn was named
Brunswick County, VA’s Assistant
Superintendent. She began
working for the Brunswick school
system in 1969 as a teacher’s aide,
bus driver and substitute teacher.
VSU Alumnus edits “most comprehensive”
book on diabetes among African Americans
Leonard Jack, Jr, PhD, MSc, CHES;
Editor-in-Chief, Health Promotion
Practice and Director, Center for
Minority Health & Health Disparities:
Research and Education
at Xavier University of Louisiana’s
College of Pharmacy is Editor of
Diabetes In Black America: Public
Health and Clinical Solutions to a
National Health Crisis. This book has
been called “without question, the
only and most comprehensively
referenced scholarly-authoritative
resource on diabetes in the African-
American Community.”
Authors contributing to the book
are among the elite in medicine
(endocrinology, urology, oral
health, primary care, etc.), nursing,
public health (e.g., epidemiology,
behavioral and community
health, health education, health
policy), psychology, social work
and education. Dr. Vivian Fonseca,
Editor of the American Diabetes
Association’s Journal, Diabetes Care
wrote the book’s forward. Dr. Garth
Graham, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Minority Health, Offi ce of
Trojan Pride Knows No
Boundaries!
MAJ Charles Gatling ’94, Support Operations
Offi cer with the 299th Brigade
Support Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade
Combat, 1st Infantry Division displayed
his Trojan Pride by adorning the MND-B
dining facility in Baghdad, Iraq with a
VSU banner.
Maj. Gatling wanted to show others in
this theater of operations that a great
institution, Virginia State University, has
representatives in theater supporting
Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global
war on terror. “I could not let State go
unrepresented,” he said, “because it
deserves to have its fl ag fl own with any
other university being represented in a
combat theater.
Minority Health, U.S. Health and
Human Services, contributed the
book’s afterword.
The book is published by Hilton
Publishing, a company dedicated
to improving the health and wellbeing
of minority populations.
Hilton provides detailed information
regarding the book on its
website, www.hiltonpub.com (from
the homepage, click: “Shop Publications”).
Visitors may purchase the
book from the Hilton website in advance
of its release. The book is also
available for pre-sale on Amazon.
com and elsewhere.
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