Achievers to add 6 to hall, honor 2 with scholarships

The keynote speaker has been pastor of his church for 40 years.

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WARREN — The Trumbull County African-American Achievers Association will name six new members to its Hall of Fame and honor two scholarship recipients at its 24th annual indiction dinner at 6 p.m. next Sunday at DiVieste Banquet Hall, 754 North River Road.

The six new members are Thomas Conley, director of the Greater Warren-Youngstown Area Urban League; David Herron Jr., a linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings; Thelma Holman, operator of Eli’s Famous Barbeque on Niles Road in Warren; Elaine Price, a political activist and business owner who works at Trumbull Correctional Institution; Daryl Rodgers, supervisor of Trumbull County Drug Court; and Geneva Reid, a community activist.

Two high school students, Jahmarra Warfield of Harding and Dante Marsh of Howland, will be honored as scholarship recipients.

Keynote speaker will be the Rev. Sterling E. Glover, whose talk is entitled “Bridging the Gap. Coming together. Yes We Can.”

The Rev. Mr. Glover has been pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Cleveland for 40 years and a former member and chairman for eight years of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority.

A native of Passaic, N.J., Mr. Glover has doctoral degrees in sacred theology and divinity and is dean of academics at the Temple Bible College and Seminary.

Conley, of Beauford, S.C., and now living in Liberty, first worked for the urban league in 1986. He hosted a biweekly radio show and was a key figure in negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding between the city of Warren and the U.S. Department of Justice concerning racial profiling and police relations. He also is a Liberty school board member.

Herron graduated from Harding, was used mostly as a blocking back at Harding for running back Maurice Clarett but changed to linebacker at Michigan State University, where he started 34 out of 50 games.

He is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. David L. Herron Sr. of Warren and is the brother of Ohio State running back Daniel “Boom” Herron.

Holman, a member of St. James Church of God in Christ, Warren, serves on the church’s missionary board, nurse’s guild and is a Bible instructor.

A retired nurse, Holman, of Niles, also serves as district missionary for the Warren district of the Central Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Ohio for the Churches of God in Christ denomination.

Price, a Harding graduate, works as secretary to the warden at the Trumbull Correctional Institute and owns Priceless Events as an event planner.

She is group leader of a Trumbull County grass-roots organization called Trumbull for Barack for Change, which had 160 members and registered over 2,000 people to vote in the last election.

Rodgers, a LaBrae High School graduate, played football at Youngstown State University under Coach Jim Tressel and has a master’s degree from Tiffin University.

In addition to supervising the drug court, he is an instructor for the Kent State University Police Academy and an associate minister at his church.

Reid is a member of the Trumbull County Department of Job & Family Services human services planning committee, is first vice president of the Trumbull Community Action Program board of directors, and past vice president of the Community Legal Services board of directors.

Marsh, a two-time all-district selection in football, also was all-county in the 110-meter hurdles and 2008-09 homecoming king at Howland.

Warfield ranks No. 31 out of 267 in her class academically with a 3.4 grade-point average and was a four-year letter winner in basketball at Harding.

She plans to attend Ohio State University. She also works at the Kmart Super Center in Niles.

For tickets to the dinner, which cost $25 per adult, call (330) 369-5640.