Semper Fi: Retired Sergeant Major Eugene (Dobie) Gillis

Semper Fi: Retired Sergeant Major Eugene (Dobie) Gillis

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2500112/fan_mail/new] It was my honor and pleasure to interview my high school classmate and friend, Dobie Gillis. I did not know him in high school, but I am glad to have gotten to know him now. His story is the story of so many young men in the Boomer generation--particularly his service in Vietnam. I hope you will listen and learn. Make every moment count! E-mail me at Lindagracemorris@gmail.com and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

The Luck Family Saga Continues: Life with Ted and Alyce Luck

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2500112/fan_mail/new] Dr. William Wade, the subject of Season 2, Episode 2, invited me to attend the Luck Family Reunion that was held in Baltimore this year. Of course, being the #1 fan of Cherry Hill's Dr. Jerry Luck, I jumped at the opportunity. That is where I met Ted and Alyce Luck, both retired educators--but not really. If you listen to this episode, you will learn a lot. This family intrigues me because they are descended from enslaved persons Jerry and Luvenia Luck. Jerry was determined that all of his children would be educated and become doctors and lawyers. The family settled in Danville, VA. Many of them came to Washington, DC, to live with a relative who opened her home so they could attend Dunbar High School because African Americans in Danville could not go beyond the 8th grade. From Dunbar, they went to Howard University. This family had a process for moving on up. Make every moment count! E-mail me at Lindagracemorris@gmail.com and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr., L.L.D.: An Original Montford Point Marine

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2500112/fan_mail/new] I was introduced to the Montford Point Marines three years ago around Veteran's Day when I attended one of their awards ceremonies at the War Memorial in Baltimore. I didn't know their story before going. Fast forward to February of this year when one of my high school classmates, Eugene (Dobie) Gillis, a retired Marine who lives in California, forwarded me an email in February about the Montford Point Marines Association's 61st Annual Conference being held in  Baltimore July 8 -12. I believe in signs, so I said I would go and try to meet an original Montford Point Marine to interview for my podcast. Don't you know that I did just that. Today, July 9, the first day of the conference I met Ambassador Britton, and he agreed to share his remarkable story of how a little boy from the tiny town of Blue Heaven, South Carolina, grew up to become a scholar and a gentleman. Make every moment count! E-mail me at Lindagracemorris@gmail.com and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Presiding Elder Emeritus, Reverend Cordell Hunter's Journey from the Hills of Cherry AKA Cherry Hill

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2500112/fan_mail/new] Reverend Hunter's calling is to saving souls. His life of activism reminds us that we are our brother's keeper. Even in retirement from his Presiding Elder capacity, he continues to work to bring the next generation to God and to remind them of their anointing.  Make every moment count! E-mail me at Lindagracemorris@gmail.com and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Diane Dennis-Mills: Seed from the Rich Soil of Cherry Hill!

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2500112/fan_mail/new] Nobody believes me when I tell them how wonderful life was in Cherry Hill except others of my generation who grew up in this brand new, state of the art, first planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government. We were more or less an experiment and boy did we succeed. There are enough witnesses on this podcast from Cherry Hill for you to know that this is our story, and we are sticking to it. Diane is another example of the excellence forged in the children of Cherry Hill. Listen to her unique journey. Make every moment count! E-mail me at Lindagracemorris@gmail.com and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.