Camden County to Honor African American Living Legends
For Immediate Release: March 7, 2008
Contacts: RON TOMASELLO

WHAT: MARION LILLEY BISHOP, 85, is among 12 African American Elders to be honored on March 8 by the freeholders and the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission as Living Legends for distinguished leadership in our community. Ms. Bishop was selected because she was the first African American nursing student to attend the Helene Fuld Nursing School of Virtua Hospital, and then became the first African American nursing director at the Camden County Psychiatric Hospital in Gloucester Township.

WHEN: SATURDAY MARCH 8 10:00 AM

WHERE: Grace Temple Baptist Church, 15 East Charleston Avenue, Lawnside

WHO: Louise Lilly Bell, Educator/Administrator

Rev. James Benson, Historian

Marion Lilley Bishop, Nursing/Administrator

Dr. Charles Brimm, MD

Kristin Hunter-Lattany, Author/Educator

Thomas Hilton Lowers, Educator/Administrator

Larry Miles, Sr., Community Activist

Charlie Rice, Musician

Clarence Still, Historian

Lady Bird Strickland, Artist

Dr. Flora Dorsey Young, Educator

Leon “Zach” Zachery, Musican

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