Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Lord knows we wouldn't want this vagabond lurking about our community!


Subject: R. Donahue Peebles Honored by Amsterdam News in NYC
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:56:56 -0500
From: kpryles@peeblescorp.com
To: donpeebles@peeblescorp.com

Last night, Mr. R. Donahue Peebles was honored at the Amsterdam News’ 100th Anniversary Gala at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. Mr. Peebles was recognized with honorees Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Congressman Charles Rangel and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Distinguished guests included former President Bill Clinton, Rev. Al Sharpton, designer Kenneth Cole, Comptroller Bill Thompson and Governor David Paterson.

The festive event was both a celebration of New York City’s best community-focused newspaper and a fundraiser to facilitate the modernization of the newspaper’s historic chronicles.

ABOUT THE AMSTERDAM NEWS GALA

The Amsterdam News was founded in 1909 to provide an editorial voice which would reinforce to Black New Yorkers that their lives were important. The Educational Fund’s goal of the 100th Anniversary is to raise funds to transfer the newspaper’s extraordinary archives to a digital format with the hope of expanding access to critical chapters of African-American history. Amsterdam’s archives include articles by prominent African-Americans such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Herb Boyd, Kevin Powell and Malcolm X as well as more than half a million photographs depicting news and life in Harlem, Black America and various Black cultures throughout the world. 

Kendall Pryles
Communications Director
The Peebles Corporation
550 Biltmore Way, Suite 970
Coral Gables, FL 33134
P: 305.442.4342
F: 305.442.4345
kpryles@peeblescorp.com

18 comments:

Jeffrey W Simons said...

please please please whoever posted that obnoxious Nancy Hall song trashing Don Peebles . . . I beg you, its the holiday season and suicides are always on the rise . . . don't post it again!!

Neil Old said...

Or as we like to refer to Nancy - "Screech".

600 LB Gorilla said...

The sitting President could have came to Pacifica, had Peebles bought & built out the quarry!!!!

Jeffrey W Simons said...

hmmm, I wonder why this wasn't posted on Riptide . . .

Scotty said...

Whoever added that link to the song needs to be disciplined harshly.

It's like a car accident... You don't want to click it, but you can't help yourself. As your skin starts crawling and you are overcome with nausea, though, you instantly regret it.

Jeffrey W Simons said...

even though I knew what would follow, I still pressed PLAY. How sick is that, Scotty?

Unknown said...

You guys are hysterical!

Lowland Jimmy said...

Jeff you made me do it. I hit the play button. Now I'm hitting the bottle!!!!

Alone in Pacifica said...

I hit the play button and my dog left home...

Doggie Luvr said...

I hit the play button and five seconds later all the dogs in the neighborhood were howling along.

Paws Scaggs said...

I hit the play button and my dog started foaming at the mouth and attacked me.

Muttley Crue said...

We haven't heard notes like that since the time a mob of fans stepped on our tails.

Yoko Ono said...

Nancy-san even makes me sound good!

Simon Cowell said...

Sounds like Cher right after a root canal.

The Ghost of John Lennon said...

Yoko:
Nancy even makes you look good!

General Buck Turgidson said...

I can neither confirm nor deny this song was used to torture al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, but Ms. Hall's inimitable voice has been a critical tool in coercing intelligence from suspected terrorist cells

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said...

I would rather be water-boarded!

William Hung said...

Nancy my hero. SHE BANGS!