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TV news anchor Eric Reynolds to visit Jackson High School
Men in the Jackson community have volunteered to work together and serve as mentors for these young men. Anthony Ezell, developer and coordinating advisor of the Messengers, is an instructor at Jackson High School and the founder/minister of COPY-M ministries (Christian Organi-zations Preparing Young - Men/Women). Asberry Daffin, an ambassador for COPY-M, is employed with Boise Inc. as the company's community recruiting coordinator (college recruiting) and public relations. He is also involved with many community service projects in Jackson. "Although we have several big brothers involved with the Messengers, Daffin has been an exceptional motivating force when it comes down to involvement, creative ways and means and using his influence to create opportunities for these young men," said Ezell. "It is because of Daffin's initiatives that the Messengers will have the opportunity of meeting and hearing the words of Eric Reynolds." The meeting will be Friday, May 9, 9:30 a.m., in the Jackson, High School auditorium. A minimum of 50 young high school men dressed in shirts and ties are expected to attend. Other male professionals, businessmen and ministers who are interested are also invited to attend the event. Reynolds is a broadcast journalist of more than 25 years and a United States Air Force veteran. He is a graduate of the Department of Defense Information School. He also majored in mass Communications at Norfolk State University, with additional studies at Morehouse College and Columbia Bible University. He has extensive experience in various aspects of broadcasting. Some include radio station owner and general manager of four stations in Virginia and North Carolina; radio and television broadcasting specialist and staff sergeant in the United States Air Force, with American Forces Radio and Television Service; television and radio broadcast account executive, writer, producer, director, talk show host, sports director, news and sports anchor and reporter at radio and television stations in Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, and Portugal. Incidentally, Reynolds and Fox 10 News at 5 and 9 p.m. news anchor Bob Grip once worked together in the 1980s for NBC affiliate WAVY-TV in Norfolk, Va. Reynolds co-anchored and coproduced the Fox 10 Morning News program, with his wife, Eleanor Reynolds, for five years. They were one of the few husband and wife television news coanchor/ producer teams in the nation and are said to be the first African-American husband and wife team to do so in the world. Reynolds is the recipient of numerous awards. Some of the most recent include the Eagle Award given by the Mobile Chamber of Commerce and the Communication and Leadership Award from Toastmasters International District 29 in Mobile, in recognition of the accomplishments of he and his wife's company, FunStuff Productions.
(Biographical information taken from the Fox 10 News Web site.)
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