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Honoring and congratulating the Reverend Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr. and Mrs. Velma H. Williams Goode on the occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniversary on August 20, 2010.
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WHEREAS, W. Wilson Goode, born on August 19, 1938, was the son of sharecroppers. He moved to Philadelphia as a teenager in the 1950s. For more than forty years, the Rev. Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr. has been a leader. He has led in the military, the government (federal, state and local levels), the Church, and through civic, social action and neighborhood organizations; and
WHEREAS, Velma H.Williams Goode was born and raised in Littleton, North Carolina. She received her secondary education with high honors from McIver High School before migrating to the City of Brotherly Love in 1958. She studied at the University of Pennsylvania where she was employed for twenty-seven years. She retired as an Administrative Coordinator of Graduate Studies for the Biomedical Graduate Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania in 1996; and
WHEREAS, Rev. Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr. is director and organizer of the nationally acclaimed Amachi Program, a national faith-based mentoring model for children of incarcerated parents. He is an ordained Baptist Minister with over 50 years service at the First Baptist Church of Paschall. Dr. Goode has served as an officer in the U.S. Army. He also led ground-breaking work in faith-based housing for low and moderate income persons. He was the first African American member and later chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. He again broke racial barriers with his appointment as Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia. He would follow that as the City's first African American Mayor for two terms. He subsequently spent 7 years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education under the Clinton Administration. He has earned degrees from Morgan State University (BA), the University of Pennsylvania (MA), Eastern Baptist [now Palmer] Theological Seminar...
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