Marva Pitchford -Jolly Memorial, Chicago History Maker

Marva Pitchford Jolly Edition                      October 30th,   2012      N'Spirational Conversations (c) This newsletter is dedicated to the memory of Master Ceramics Artist/Professor Marva Pitchford-Jolly    ______________________________________________________________ N'Spiration and N'Formation  HLN APP is now available! Download FREE! https://market.android.com/details?id=org.HLN&feature=search_result ___________________________________________________________________________ N'Spirational Conversations My dearest First cousin Marva Pitchford Jolly has made her transition to the Masters Ceramic Garden of Eden on last Monday!   She left in her sleep! How sweet is that? I want to be just like her when I grow up!  No pain, no worries, no nothing. Just sleep and restful sleep as her spirit descends unto the ethers/heavens of the Ceramic Highway of Love! Marva loved what she did so much, she shared her gift with others. After a career in health, she decided it was time to do something different, something she loved to do as a child.  Play in the dirt! Really? Yes really!  I love it! Against all odds (concerned family members included) she began her new career playing in the mud, which became her passion. She got so good at it, she began a career and taught all over the globe, including but not limited to Liberia, her second home, where her brother Charles Pitchford is an Ambassador! The art community is her extended family. She was in the midst of preparing for the 25th Annual Showcase of   Saphires and Crystals, an organization which she co-founded with Felica Grant-Preston. I remember the days of old when she shared her art work at the Hyde Park  Art Fair and she would give us pieces, telling us that one day we wouldn't  be able to afford them, so get them inexpensive while we could. True to her word as well as her work, Michigan Avenue Galleries in Chicago  and all over the world (including the continent of Africa)   swooped up her art work and pieces have become collector's items, in the homes of the affluent  and serious collectors.   (Glad I still have my private pieces from her private collection! Thanks cuz!) Collecting loved ones at family gatherings was her specialty as well. Since most of the matriarchs of the Pitchford family have passed on, Marva was like the Big Mama (without the Big Body!) of the family. I always looked forward to having traditional  holiday  dinners at her place with our beloved Ernestine! (Who could also throw down!) Traditional in the word, but never in the sense of food. Black beans, black eyed peas, cous-cous and baked sweet potatoes were just a few of my favorites!   Marva could cook!  Truly a Southern Girl with a Northern Flair!  (Now you know that's where I got that intro for my bio!) Marva and I both knew people who knew us individually, but didn't know we were cousins. I met a young lady at the Catalyst Ranch here in Chicago some years ago where I was the Keynote Speaker for a women's business networking event where my Champaign, CheeseCake and Conversations Seminar was featured.  One of the attendees, Shuli Eshelle, is a Chicago Film Maker. During the course of our conversation, I discovered that she knew Marva and had filmed a documentary (MudPeoples) on our family farm down in  Crenshaw Mississipp.  Small world! Shuli and I became friends and when Marva showed up at Shuli's birthday party, we just laughed and had a good time.  The last time I saw Marva was up on Devon Ave. Shopping.  I would run into her from time to time, and even made it by the house for family occasions.   My only regret is that I forgot to call her on her birthday this year September 11th!   I forgave myself, knowing that she knows where  my heart is! (You know we can sometimes be a little hard on ourselves!) It gave me much comfort when my sister Vivian told me that Marva would always, always ask about me when there was an impromtu family gathering that I had missed. Marva is a Master @ what she does, and I love her spirit! She taught me so much, just by being who she is. I remember a family dinner when we were just sitting around shooting the breeze with all the family, and the conversation was around The Course in Miracles (A MUST READ!) and it got a little heated between my sister and I. Marva in her Master Matriarchial way simply used one of the MasterMinding principles on us, calming us down, keeping us focused! It's just the little things is life that are so very important and dear to your spirit! It's never about what you have or don't have, how much money or things you've  acquired, but how you've made a difference with the life you've been given. I remember a friend cracked a ceramic piece Marva had given me and I snapped! Their reply was “it's just a piece of pottery!”  NO!  It's not! It's part of my   Marva Jolly Collection! You can't buy that in a store! Only at private events or in galleries!   Even more important, it was a gift from  her heart to mine! It was made from the mud, to a family mud member. Hence, mudpeoples! I am still working on getting over the attachment to things. You know we can't take it with us right? It's a process! It's a journey! Transition is a journey we all must travel. Thank you cousin Marva for sharing your journey with me! I'll always cherish our times together!  Marva Pitchford Jolly, family Matriarch, Chicago History Maker, retired Chicago State University, world traveler, sisterfriend, Aunt to many, Master Ceramics Instructor,  and loved by all who knew her and her art!   R.I.P.   Memorial Sat. Nov. 3rd 11am - Visitation 12 Noon Memorial Service Kenny Brothers Funeral Home 3600 W. 95th Street Marva in Black and White! Classic!  At Chicago State, doing what she does best! Create!             P.S. If you want to make your life better, make someone else's life better! Share this newsletter and maybe save a life! (info@HigherLearningNetwork.org for FREE Subscripton to WEEKLY N'Spiration & NFormation!) Stay on purpose! Stay empowered! Stay tuned to higher learning! Shelomith Yisrael aka Zelda Robinson www.HigherLearningNetwork.org www.ZeldaSpeaks.com www.InspirationalConversations.com http://inspirationalconversations.blogspot.com/   sponsored by   www.ITEX.net Stop paying CASH! BARTER instead! Karen.Kelly@itex.net                                                      ON THE AIR!   Sunday's Midnight Channel 19! If you miss it, you can always catch it online! www.YouTube.com/HigherLearningTVShow                           Community Calendar website of the week! marva jolly www.chocolatecity.cc/2011/06/18/djini-a-collection-of-african-pottery-antique-and-contemporary/   http://inspirationalconversations.blogspot.com/     Please sign our new Facebook page! www.facebook.com/HlnTvShow This newsletter is provided to you by: Higher Learning Network,NFP P.O. Box 11513 Chicago, Il. 60611 (312) 409-6619 Higher Learning Network is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. You may make a donation using our secure site Please choose a project you'd like to make a difference in: Publishing Project (Teaching youth how to publish poetry, journals, etc) Who knows, you may be donating to the next Langston Hughes, Michael Eric Dyson, Tupac, etc. Youth Media Training Supplies (Blank SONY DVD Mini Cam Tapes, Blank DVDs USB Ports, Misc. 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"Benji" The True Story of A Dream Cut Short

Tuesday, October  23, at 7:00 pm (CST),  ESPN will air the documentary "Benji" The True Story Of A  Dream Cut Short. 
 
On 20 November 1984, Benjamin "Benji" Wilson was the #1 high school basketball player in the nation. 
Ben attended Simeon Vocational H. S. in Chicago. His team was one day away from the first game 
of the season, prepared to defend their State Basketball Championship. It was anticipated they would 
become the first back-to-back champions from Chicago. When that game was played the following day, 
Ben Wilson was dead, gunned down  less than a block from the school. Read below and learn 
how mean the streets can be and how the slightest perceived disrespect can end and change lives 
in an instant. 

Ben Wilson was murdered in 1984, nothing has changed during that time.

 

Kirkland Burke

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 “Benji” The True Story of a Dream Cut Short – 30 for 30 ESPN Documentary – Official Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esCHW1ylEHQ&feature=related

 

Nov. 21, 2011  - Ben “Benji” Wilson on CBS Chicago- 27 Years Later, Pain Lingers From Ben Wilson’s Death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQytxdt8g6o&NR=1&feature=endscreen

 

 

R. Kelly talks about his memories of Ben “Benji” Wilson's Funeral

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ZV3i0jYjA

 

Ben “Benji” Wilson – Nike Commercial 1997 – NBA Playoffs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCloi-BR4VM&feature=related

 

Basketball Star’s Slaying Described By Girlfriend – Oct 9, 1985 – Chicago Tribune

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-09/news/8503080823_1_ben-wilson-simeon-vocational-high-school-benjamin-

 

wilson

 

In her testimony, Wilson`s girlfriend, Jetun Rush, described the moments after Wilson was shot to the Criminal Court jury. ``Benji had his arm around me and he said: `I got shot. They shot me,` `` she said. 
In the prosecution`s opening argument, Assistant State`s Atty. Kenneth Malatesta told the jury about Wilson`s good character and his rapid rise to stardom through basketball.
 
``Life was good for Benjamin Wilson in November of 1984,`` Malatesta said. He said Wilson was ``a self-starter. A young man who had goals . . . who had become a star at a young age.
``Nov. 20 was a cool and sunny day in our city,`` he said. ``It started out routinely for Ben Wilson. . . . But it was to be the last walk of his life.``
 
Wilson and Rush left Simeon Vocational High School, where they were students, and walked up Vincennes Avenue toward a group of young men, Rush testified. As they went around the group, Wilson bumped into one of the youths, she said. That youth was William Moore, 17, of 8522 S. Bishop St., who is on trial with Omar Dixon, 16, of 8000 S. Bishop.
 
Wilson said, ``Excuse me,`` Rush said. She said Moore responded, ``What`d you say, man?`` Wilson repeated it, and Dixon approached Wilson and ``asked him did he have any money . . . and he started going into Benji`s pockets,``  Rush testified. Wilson pushed him away, she said. Dixon said, ``Let`s shoot this punk,`` and Moore pulled out a gun and fired twice, Rush said.
 
Defense lawyers argued that things happened differently.  Public defender Rita Fry, one of Dixon`s lawyers, told the jury that Dixon played no part in the shooting and never told Moore ``to shoot Ben Wilson. He never went in his pockets.``One of Moore`s attorneys, Isaiah Gant, told the jury that Moore admits he shot Wilson.
 
But he said Moore fired the shots in self-defense after he was confronted and threatened by ``what he believed to be the tallest man in the world . . . 6-foot-7, 239-pound Ben Wilson.

Oct. 17th newsletter

October 17th, 2012      N'Spirational Conversations (c) This newsletter is sponsored by   www.ITEX.net Stop paying CASH! BARTER instead! Karen.Kelly@itex.net  ______________________________________________________________ N'Spiration and N'Formation  HLN APP is now available! Download FREE! https://market.android.com/details?id=org.HLN&feature=search_result ___________________________________________________________________________ This issue includes info on: 1. N'Spirational Conversations 2. Community Calendar N'Spirational Conversations As you well know, it appears that many people are doing better, but really aren't. People are still unemployed, under-employed and still losing their homes, getting evicted etc. That's one of the main reasons why I not only host, but gain valuable information at the monthly West Side Minister's Coalition Meeting. 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