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A poet, a professor, and an essayist, Melvin B. Tolson liked to tell people that he was born in Moberly, Missouri, one of four children, in 1900 to Rev. Alonzo Tolson, a Methodist minister, and Lera Ann Hurt Tolson, a seamstress of African-Creek ancestry and Lera Ann Hurt Tolson. Nevertheless, convincing evidence has surfaced that 1898 was a more accurate date. Alonso Tolson was also of mixed race, the son of an enslaved woman and her white master. He served at various churches in the Missouri and Iowa area until settling longer in Kansas City. Reverend Tolson studied throughout his life to add to the lim-
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Jeanette Diane Harjo was born December 29, 1947 in Holdenville, Oklahoma. She passed away on September 28, 2022 at the age of 74.
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We received the following letter from our good friend Tom Adams. It was great!
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Wes Watkins Technology Center recently celebrated the newly renovated Health Careers Simulation Lab with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. WWTC was established in 1987 to provide technical education and farm business management to Hughes, McIntosh, and Okfuskee counties, and later incorporated parts of Okmulgee County. The school began with two programs: Farm Business Management and Practical Nursing. Since then, the technology center has expanded to 10 programs and an extensive offering of short-term and workforce and economic development training. In 1994, the Glen D. Johnson Health Complex was built and included a 1363 square foot skills lab.
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