Sunday, February 07, 1999
Imagemaker Award winners
The Imagemaker Awards celebration Saturday recognized individuals who have excelled in several areas. Those honored were:
• Advocacy: The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights leader and founder of housing assistance programs for African Americans.
• Arts: Tarrence Corbin, artist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.
• Corporate achievement: Amin Akbar, senior vice president at Provident Financial Group and founding member of the Urban Bankers of Greater Cincinnati.
• Education: Cleaster Mims, president of Marva Collins Preparatory School and Summer Bridge Cincinnati, an enrichment program for students.
• Entertainment: P. Ann Everson Price, a singer who has opened as part of a trio for national recording artists.
• Entrepreneurship: James Clingman, founder and executive director of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce.
• Medicine-Health: Marsha Thom as, parish nurse at the New Jerusalem Baptist Church.
• Public Service: Albert Brown, Cincinnati police officer who started Computer COP program to teach computer skills and foster relationships between the community and police.
• Research-Technology: Anita Sherrill, respiratory therapist responsible for designing a system to help ventilator- dependent children be more mobile.
• Sports: Steven and Barbara Reece, founders of Communiplex Services and promoters of basketball tournaments.
• Special Recognition Awards: Carl Lindner for philanthropic contributions; Oatess Archey, Indiana's first African-American sheriff; WCPO Channel 9's I-Team for coverage of stadium minority contracts; and Bill Bradford, African- American mayor of Elsmere.
• Emerging Leaders Awards were given to LaGina Carter, who uses dance ministry to inspire others; Jonathan Brown, Waycross Elementary principal; John Gray, minister at Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church and performer; and Patricia Garrett, who serves on the boards of several arts groups and is starting a tutoring program.
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