Ferndale graduate to speak at NAACP event

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September 14, 2008

BY TED POTTS The Tribune-Democrat Sun Sep 14, 2008, 11:33 PM EDT

An area native who formed one of the Southeast’s leading engineering consulting firms will be the featured speaker for the Johnstown Unit, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual Fighting Fund for Freedom Banquet.

Stanley L. King, president and CEO of S.L. King & Associates Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, is slated to speak at the event.

The banquet will be held at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Pasquerilla Conference Center, Napoleon and Walnut streets, downtown Johnstown.

King graduated from Ferndale Area High School in 1968.

King earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 1973 from Drexel University, Philadelphia, and a master’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Akron, Ohio, in 1977.

In1996 he founded S.L. King & Associates. The architectural and engineering firm has offices throughout the country and specializes in energy, transportation and the environment.

King has directed, supervised and led the firm through a wide variety of multi-million dollar projects for a diverse group of public and private clients, he said.

He is married to the former Zipporah Rivers of Wadsworth, Ohio. They observed their 28th wedding anniversary on Aug. 30.

Bruce Haselrig Sr. is banquet committee chairman and Clea Hollis is Johnstown Unit president.

Haselrig said adult, youth and organization/business Freedom Awards will be presented at the banquet. He noted that the youth award can go to a young person or to an adult who works closely with youths.

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