50 leaders of the future - Special Issue - The New Generation of the '90s

Ebony, August, 1990 by Lynn Norment

PHOTO : board of trustees member, Boston Technical Center; board member, Family Day Care.

PHOTO : James H. Paige III, 29, Charleston, W. Va., state banking commissioner, youngest to hold

PHOTO : post; overseas 104 state banks, 69 bank holding companies; chairman, W. Va. Lending and

PHOTO : Credit Race Board, and W. Va. Board of Banking and Financial Institutions.

PHOTO : Zna Portlock, 26, Los Angeles, counsel/labor relations, 20th Century Fox Film Corp.;

PHOTO : co-chair, 21st Century Leadership Council state conf.; coordinator, UNCF Walk-a-thon

PHOTO : Team; member, Urbanites auxiliary of L.A. Urban League; trustee, Bethel A.M.E. Church.

PHOTO : Tricia Purks, 28, Washington, D.C., associate attorney, Laxalt, Washington, Perito &

PHOTO : Dubue, board member, Washington Urban League; corporate officer and secretary, Levy

PHOTO : Farms, Inc. in Virginia; extensive foreign travel; speaks several languages; experienced

PHOTO : translator.

PHOTO : C. Adrienne Rhodes, 29, New York City, director of communications, United Negro College

PHOTO : Fund, where she is youngest woman in senior management; co-founder, New York chapter,

PHOTO : Black Public Relations Society; recipient, World Institute of Communications' "Merit

PHOTO : Award."

PHOTO : Llevelyn D. Rhone, 26, Rochester, N.Y., project engineer, Xerox Corp.; executive

PHOTO : director, Concerned Assoc. of Rochester, Inc., an internal networking organization of

PHOTO : Xerox employes; co-founder, Project: KID; former vice president, Alpha Phi Alpha

PHOTO : fraternity.

PHOTO : Benjamin E. Robinson III, 26, Hartford, Conn., correspondent banking officer, Connecticut

PHOTO : National Bank; president, North Hartford Federal Credit Union; vice chair, Greater

PHOTO : Hartford Branch, American Red Cross; board member, Greater Hartford Urban League.

PHOTO : ReDonna S. Rodgers, 30, Milwaukee, Wisc., director of volunteer services, New Concept

PHOTO : Self-Development Center; consultant, Social Development Commission; chair, Channel 10/36

PHOTO : Black Nouveau Adv. Committee; vice chair, Assoc. for Volunteer Adm. of S.E. Wisconsin.

PHOTO : Jared L. Samples, 25, Atlanta, City Councilman representing Ninth District; former

PHOTO : resident member, Atlanta Housing Authority Board; vice president, Perry Homes Tenants

PHOTO : Association; former member, Georgia State Univ. Affirmative Action Advisory Committee.

PHOTO : Rev. William D. Smart Jr., 30, Jackson, Tenn., pastor, St. Paul C.M.E. Church; president,

PHOTO : Jackson-Madison Co. NAACP; chair, East Jackson Economic Development Commission; state

PHOTO : chair, NAACP Religious Affairs Com.; vice pres. marketing, United Way of West Tenn.

PHOTO : Tavis Smiley, 25, Los Angeles, adm. asst. to Mayor Thomas Bradley; operations chair, L.A.

PHOTO : Young Black Professionals; board member, Inner City Found. for Excellence in Education,

PHOTO : Ecumenical Black Campus Ministries of UCLA, and Challengers Boys/Girls Clubs.

PHOTO : Shanita R. Spencer, 30, Omaha, Neb., project coordinator and community outreach and