TNJ - People Y2K

The owners of Flowerworks (800) ROSE-411, a flower and landscape business which got new capital valued at $1.2 million from Wall Street’s Capital Strategies Inc. (212) 323-8100, celebrated the acquisition of their future headquarters in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant on Feb. 7th. Front row, #4 and #6 are: Marcia Melendez and Angel Melendez, the owners of Flowerworks.

Susan L. Taylor is now the publications director of the multi-media firm Essence Communications Inc. (ECI), the parent company of Essence magazine for which she was editor-in-chief and senior vice president. In her new position, Taylor is responsible for all editorial operations of the publication as well as the managerial and communications liaison between all of the magazine’s departments, and all ECI divisions.

Andrea Belnavis, president and founder of Miss Black World NY Organization Inc. (MBWNYO), honored exceptionally talented women from Africa, the Caribbean, and the America’s as part of her annual Pageant Week. Seated down is Miss Black World Barbados, Tanya Miller, and standing is Belnavis.

Bennie Gerald McMorris Jr. has been appointed the new dean of students at Hampton University. As leader of the office of student affairs, McMorris Jr. oversees all policies, programs and departments that include residence life, student health services, student activities, career planning and placement, academic support service and testing, and counseling at the 6,000-students population campus. Before he joined Hampton, McMorris Jr. was director of Higher Education Opportunity Program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

The Women’s Venture Fund (WVF), a non-profit multi-service organization that provides information, mentoring and microloans to entrepreneurs in under served communities, honored Cheryl D. George, founder and president of Exousia Business Services (718) 670-3390, an office organization and support services company started in 1994. Pictured here after winning the Significant Women Award, left to right, are: Cheryl George, Maria Semidie-Otrotero, president and founder of Women’s venture Fund, and Los Blades Rasado, Cheryl’s mentor at WVF.

Send a Network Journal Greeting Card With Music to a loved one or friend. In preparing to celebrate Black History Month (February) here in America, the theme of our greeting cards for the next two months will feature famous people of color from the last century.

The music to accompany the cards are Motown and Reggae songs.

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