Fellowship
Community AME Zion Church Scholarships
Rev. Antoinette A. Rochell of the
A.M.E. Zion Church Cascade District
Sis. Debra Streeter, Treasurer; Sis. Sylvia Harris, Sis. Gail Thomas,
Secretary; Sis. Pamela Etheridge, 2015 Awards Recipient; Sis. Doris Ann
Smith, Chairperson; The Rev. J. W. ‘Matt’ Hennessee, Pastor of Vancouver
Avenue First Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon; Sis. kymbreanna
L. Elliott, 2015 Awards Recipient; The Rev. Robert F. kemp, Presiding
Elder of the A. M. E. Zion Church Cascade District; Bro. Ronald k. kemp,
son of the late Sister Jennie T. kemp; and Rev. Joyce M. Smith, Pastor of
Community A.M.E. Zion Church in Vancouver, WA.
address of Rev. J. W. ‘Matt’ Hennessey,
“Where Will We Find You?” (Subtitle:
“Where Will God Find Us”) – Luke 2:45-
50.
Winners were Kymbreanna L. Elliott, a
junior at Seattle Pacific University in
Seattle, and Sis. Pamela Etheridge, the
granddaughter of Rev. Nellie B. Thomp-
son and Rev. Odell H. Thompson the
founders of Pauline Memorial A.M.E.
Zion Church in Salem, Oregon. She is
pursuing a degree in Counseling for Drug
and Alcohol.
You can mail your tax deductible contri-
butions (checks or money orders) to the
following address:
Community A. M. E. Zion Church
Jennie T. Kemp Memorial Scholarship
Fund Committee
3605 E. 13th Street
Vancouver, WA 98661
Page 10 The Portland and Seattle Skanner May 13, 2015
PHOTOS COURTESY COMMUNITY A. M. E. ZION CHURCH
‘A
cquiring UnderstandingTh-
rough Education’ was the
theme of the Ninth Annual Jen-
nie T. Kemp Memorial Scholarship
Awards Program held April 26, at the
Community A. M. E. Zion Church in Van-
couver. The event and awards are in honor
of the former First Lady of Community A.
M. E. Zion Church, the late Sister Jennie
T. Kemp.
Sister Jennie had a passion for education
and African-American history. Forty-nine
(49) individuals pursuing a degree or
advanced vocational training at various
colleges and universities across the United
States have received financial assistance
from the combined efforts of the scholar-
ship committee members and faithful
supporters of the Jennie T. Kemp Scholar-
ship Fund.
Also, the scholarship committee has
made donations to a number of HBCUs
and other colleges around the country.
The highlight of the evening was the
From left,scholarship winner Sis. Pamela
Etheridge; the Rev. Robert F. kemp and
scholarship winner kymbreanna L. Elliott.
Harriet Tubman Wins $20 Vote
By Donovan M. Smith
Of The Skanner News
F
amed abolitionist Harriet Tubman
came out victorious in an online poll
that garnered over 600,000 votes to
have a woman replace President Andrew
Jackson on the $20 bill.
Tubman edged out former First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt, receiving just over
7,000 more votes in the two month cam-
paign started by grassroots non-profit
Women on 20s.
“Our paper bills are like pocket monu-
ments to great figures in our history,” says
Women On 20s Executive Director Susan
Ades Stone. “Our work won’t be done until
we’re holding a Harriet $20 bill in our
hands in time for the centennial of women’s
suffrage in 2020.”
More than a dozen other women were in
the running including: Shirley Chisholm,
the first African-American woman elected
to Congress; civil rights icon, Rosa Parks;
Barbara Johnson, the first Black woman
from the Deep South elected to the US
House of Representatives; and Sojourner
Truth, another noted abolitionist of 1800s.
Upon the May 12 announcement of Harri-
et as the majority favorite, organizers from
Women on 20s posted a video online urging
President Obama to direct Treasury Secre-
tary Jack Lew to begin the process of
replacing Jackson’s image on the currency.
Last year, before the campaign to update
the twenty, Obama called the idea to put a
woman on an American dollar “a pretty
good idea.”
Jackson, the country’s 7th president, a
former militia-man, and slave-owner, has
graced the 20 dollar bill since 1928—about
a century after his death.
The bill has undergone a slew of changes
since its inception in 1861.
Other characters—real and fictitious—
that have graced the face of the 20 include:
Lady Liberty; Pocahontas; founding father
Alexander Hamilton; President James
Garfield and even the current face of the $1
bill, George Washington.
Women on 20s is urging the public to
keep up the momentum by sending Obama
messages of support for the cause using the
hashtag: #DearMrPresident.
Organization founder Barbara Ortiz
Howard says the value of this change goes
beyond money.
“Our work is not over but our triumph is
that the simple truth that women deserve to
be valued more in our culture was heard and
echoed by young and old, not only across
the country, but around the world.”