A SENATE RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR MARVA NETTLES COLLINS FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUTH AND FOR HER LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION AS THE FOUNDER OF THE WESTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND TO CONGRATULATE HER UPON BEING NAMED A 2014 HONOREE OF THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE. Whereas, the members of the Senate of the State of South Carolina were pleased to learn that the Little Black Dress Scholarship Committee will honor Marva Collins for her outstanding work in education through the Westside Preparatory School; and Whereas, on Saturday, March 15, 2014, the recipients of the 2014 award will be recognized at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Columbia at the Little Black Dress Scholarship Luncheon, entitled Trip to “A the Motherland...A Tribute to Nelson Mandela”; and Whereas, several years ago, Irma Smith Lowman of Columbia and Mary Reed of Orlando, Florida, brought the Little Black Dress Luncheon to Columbia to generate camaraderie while honoring distinguished women who have given service to the community. Proceeds from the event are contributed to a welldeserving, disadvantaged student; and Whereas, born in 1936 in Monroeville, Alabama, at the height of the educational inadequacies that plagued the segregated South, Marva Deloise Nettles attended Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she studied secretarial skills; and Whereas, she taught in Alabama for two years before moving to Chicago, Illinois, where she met her beloved husband, Clarence
A SENATE RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR MARVA NETTLES COLLINS FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUTH AND FOR HER LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION AS THE FOUNDER OF THE WESTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND TO CONGRATULATE HER UPON BEING NAMED A 2014 HONOREE OF THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE. Whereas, the members of the Senate of the State of South Carolina were pleased to learn that the Little Black Dress Scholarship Committee will honor Marva Collins for her outstanding work in education through the Westside Preparatory School; and Whereas, on Saturday, March 15, 2014, the recipients of the 2014 award will be recognized at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Columbia at the Little Black Dress Scholarship Luncheon, entitled “A Trip to the Motherland...A Tribute to Nelson Mandela”; and Whereas, several years ago, Irma Smith Lowman of Columbia and Mary Reed of Orlando, Florida, brought the Little Black Dress Luncheon to Columbia to generate camaraderie while honoring distinguished women who have given service to the community. Proceeds from the event are contributed to a welldeserving, disadvantaged student; and Whereas, born in 1936 in Monroeville, Alabama, at the height of the educational inadequacies that plagued the segregated South, Marva Deloise Nettles attended Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she studied secretarial skills; and Whereas, she taught in Alabama for two years before moving to Chicago, Illinois, where she met her beloved husband, Clarence
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