Family Life Center Newsletter December 2013 | Page 3

Best Dish Winners
Best dish was based off
what each attendee listed
on their Thanksgiving Event
Survey:
1st Place
Robin Wright – Shemar
Fields’ mom (Dressing)

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2nd Place
Crystal Brown – Jarvis
Curtis’ mom (Greens)

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3rd Place
Lashanda Windom – Eric
Vaughn’s mom (Yams with
Marshmallow Topping)

Taire Johnson gives his mother Tara Johnson a poinsettia as an act of gentlemanly greatness, while
grandmother Meg Johnson smiles and enjoys the moment.

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SWAGG Academy: Greatness and Giving
On November 20, 2013, SWAGG Academy held their Thanksgiving Celebration, “Proudly Pushing
Positive Performances through Potluck” on Tougaloo College Campus in Holmes Hall Auditorium.
The program began with a brief overview of the Active Parent Now Initiative and expectation of
participants’ parents of SWAGG Academy. Next, Shemar Fields and Makare Loggins, both 3rd
grade students at Walton Elementary School, said the ‘Welcome’ and ‘Purpose’ of the program,
respectively. Then, Mr. Timothy Queen and Elliott Anderson, SWAGG Instructors, facilitated
presentations by their groups which included the SWAGG Creed and SWAGG ‘Sound-Off’.
Afterwards, the young men of SWAGG Academy presented a family member with a flower to
display an ‘Act of Gentlemanly Greatness’ and in return, they receive their first award for this act,
the official SWAGG handkerchief. This ‘Gentlemanly Gesture’ was followed by the int