Star & Enterprise Letters to the Editor: published Feb. 11

Group seeks Terrell’s Bay graduates, volunteers

Dear Editor,
Terrell’s Bay School in Centenary has been reacquired and is being renovated and restored to return as a place to promote community enhancement projects.
We need to contact every student, alumni and faculty member to get a school history. We also are forming a committee to serve as front-line volunteers in this redevelopment project. We need to locate people who are willing to give of their time for the project, dealing with the restoration of the school. Volunteers are needed to serve as a chaplain, public safety director, athletics and activities coordinator, community and fund raising coordinator, food and beverage director, media center and library director, building and grounds director, maintenance director, museum curator, grant coordinator and historian. We also need a volunteer to coordinate all graduated class secretaries and past staff members and to set up a contact sheet and telephone center for notifications about events.
If you are not a past student or alumni, but had a family member or friend that was, and that has died, we would also like from you to volunteer as well. We need pictures, trophies and other memorabilia from the school’s past for a display and photos for the Web site.
If you are in contact with, or have the information to contact any class secretary from a graduating class of Terrell’s Bay High School, or need information, please visit http://www.TerrellsBay.com and leave your information in the contact section. You can also contact me at (843)423-2252. E-mail your photos to .
Thank you,
Jackie Crawford

Artist thanks community for support

Dear Editor,
This is a note about “Tin Top Alley, a.k.a., Smith Street,“ Mullins ... I would like to wish each and everyone divine blessings from the depths of my heart ... I am writing to let you know how much I love my state and how proud I am to be a Carolinian, born in a little tin roof house in “Tin Top Alley,“ in the 1940s.
God has blessed me with the gifts of acting, writing and singing, all of which began in cotton, tobacco, and migrant worker fields and in Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, some 47 years ago ... and I’m still going …. hallelujah!  I have sung in films, (Lean on Me), on Broadway in Raisin, at the Vatican for Pope John and throughout Europe, North Africa and the United States. I am a soloist and I have sung with my Carolina Gospel Ensemble, featuring Lee Mack Crawford, the Bethea Sisters, Yatch Gerald and Deon “DuB” Campbell.
When I found out that “Tin Top Alley,“ that “dead-end” street where I was born ... was to be changed, I was hurt, angry and very disappointed. I even spoke directly to some politicians, with whom I am familiar, about restoring the name “Tin Top Alley, a.k.a, Smith Street.“ But I have not gotten any responses.
I have proudly told the world about my city and state, hoping to someday boost our economy and even bring interested tourists to our fair state, South Carolina! I will never stop loving my people, my country or my home, no matter what, but I do believe Jesus hears my plea.
Thank you, dear friends for listening and thanks for your support throughout the years.
Sandra Reaves-Phillips