14 The Hampton Roads Messenger


Volume 7 Number 5


First Korean American Wins PGA Rookie of the Year


Entrepreneurship FROM PAGE 10


older have been forced to be creative and explore other options. Out of their perseverance the concept of “senior entrepreneurship” was born, and is starting to pick up momentum.


According to research by Civic


Ventures, approximately one in four Americans ages 44-70 are interested in starting a business or nonprofit in the next decade. This novel concept just may be a feasible and sustainable solution for some.


On the plus side, seniors offer a


wealth of life and business experience, including management experience. They have larger professional networks and are often credited with having better work ethics than today’s younger workforce.


BY KOREAM MAGAZINE Korean American golfer John


Huh was named 2012 PGA Rookie of the Year, making him the first Korean American to win the honor.


Huh had been widely expected


to receive the award after winning a Tour event after just five starts. The 22-year-old’s breakthrough performance at the Mayakoba Classic in Cancun, Mexico helped him edge out Robert Allenby in an eight-hole sudden death playoff — the second


longest playoff in PGA Tour history. “It’s a great honor to have this


award especially as a Korean,” Huh said, according to PGATour.com. “It’s really hard to explain just how I feel right now.”


Huh also attributed his success


to pioneering Korean golfers from the past, such as K.J. Choi and Y.E. Yang.


“I really felt like they opened the


path for us,” Huh said. “I’m really thankful to all of the guys on the Tour, and especially the Korean players.”


Our Faith


By Rev. Dr. Gregory Headen Observing the Season of Advent.


In the holiday


season, we celebrat- ed the coming of our Lord into the world as an infant child, and we also anticipate his Return or Second Coming. Decem- ber’s First Sunday is


the only one in the year when we do not observe the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper reminds us more of His death on the cross while the Advent Season brings to mind His birth into the world. We were never wrong by observing the Lord’s Supper in December because it does point us toward his Second com- ing. It is just a matter of emphasis for us. I spend a lot of time during this sea- son making sure that we have appropri- ate readings for each day of this season. I encourage the spiritual disciplines of prayer, scripture reading, fasting, self- denial, and self-examination. I seek to be a servant of the Lord who partici- pates also in these disciplines. All of these require practice. We may not get it perfect in some quick fashion, but we have to try. We have to try to pray. We have to try to sit down and read


the scriptures, and even if we get dis- tracted, we have to get back to it and try some more. We have to try to eat less, give up some entertainment, and get in front of the mirror to look at ourselves. Again this, year, I have relied heavily upon the Revised Common Lectionary for daily readings. Each day during this season, you have the opportunity to read from the Psalms, the prophets, the Epistles, and the Gospels. If you give yourself to this process, you will be amazed at how much you have read by the end of this Advent Season. So walk with us as far as you can. God is able to give you and me the strength to do the difficult things. I encourage the forming of groups for the purpose of reading and praying together. I encour- age the use of phones for the purpose of talking about the readings and what meaning you get out of them. Don’t be afraid to ask others in the church to pray with you, to fast with you, to seek God’s face with you. I especially chal- lenge the leaders of the church to join with the pastor as we seek to get our hearts in tune to the spiritual signifi- cance of this season. God give all of us strength to do this.


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Senior entrepreneurs are


also more interested in creating a meaningful business, one with a social or community purpose. Roughly half of senior entrepreneurs are involved in social enterprises or nonprofits, according to Elizabeth Isele, co-founder of SeniorEntrepreneurshipWorks.org.


As senior entrepreneurship


has continued to build, new ideas for sustainability and success have emerged. Part of this growing entre- preneurship trend offering multiple benefits involves intergenerational business partnerships pairing seniors with younger entrepreneurs, college grads and even veterans, Isele said at the recent GSA conference in San Diego.


“The concept of pairing senior


entrepreneurs with college grads who are having a hard time finding work is a great concept. This is a win-win situation – both have jobs, economic opportunity and they learn from each


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other,” explained Isele, widely regarded as a national go-to expert on senior en- trepreneurship.


Putting More Back Into Economy “The effect is that these seniors


are mentally and physically well – their health is good, so they are working longer and putting back into the economy, things like Social Security,” Isele said.


SeniorEntrepreneurshipWorks.


org credits its efforts in creating an “entrepreneurial ecosystem” which provides and connects these newfound entrepreneurs with resources, training, workshops and support.


Working with seniors around


the country, SeniorEntrepreneurship- Works.org helps older workers create meaningful, successful and sustainable businesses. The organization provides them business assessment to evaluate whether their business idea is feasible, assists many in finding a bank willing to provide business loans to seniors, and also offers them financial training. The group also follows up with seniors they help to help those who need it get over hurdles many business encounter.


Because it is so important for


seniors to successfully start their own businesses, the Small Business Association and AARP have recognized the trend and are teaming up to offer additional training and resources for this group of entrepreneurs, Isele said.


“This is still such a new concept,


there are not a lot of resources out there yet, but as momentum and interest builds, I am hoping that resources will too,” commented Isele.


Cristina Frésquez wrote this article


for through the MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellows program, a collaboration of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America.


School-to-Prison FROM PAGE 6


“taxi service” shuttling students away from school and into youth jails.


Studying While Black But Meridian doesn’t have a


monopoly on this kind of injustice. Every which way a person can look—from elementary to high school, at a national level and on down to the most local—black students are far more likely to be punished and to be punished more harshly than all other students.


A 2010 study by Russell Skiba, a


professor of education policy at Indiana University, looked at four decades of data from 9,000 of the nation’s 16,000 middle schools. It found that black boys were three times as likely to be suspended as white boys and that black girls were four times as likely to be suspended as white girls. It is a serious, endemic issue.


The federal government’s case


raises troubling questions about the racial disproportionality that school discipline policies produce broadly. Zero tolerance policies, which crack down on school-based infractions with automatic, harsh punishments, are the mandatory-mimimums of the school discipline world. But whatever their merits and drawbacks, said Skiba, they shouldn’t generate racially disparate outcomes. “I think what this suit says is: Whatever you do in a school district, why would it be that there would be


racial and ethnic disparities? If we’re going to choose suspensions and expulsions and police presence, why are students of color overrepresented in that?”


Research shows that if the intent


behind zero-tolerance policies is to discourage misbehavior and foster good learning environments, they don’t do the job. A sweeping 2006 study (PDF) conducted by the American Psychological Association found that zero-tolerance policies don’t actually make schools safer, and in fact can work to push students away from school. If, however, the intent is to push students of color out of school, away from their educational futures and into the criminal justice system, there is also a body of evidence that suggests that zero-tolerance policies are rather effective instruments.


For Gloria Green, the lawsuit is


the answer to prayers she repeated over and over when her son was going back and forth to jail. “It was degrading to me because I was like, ‘My son is not a criminal. Why is he behind bars?’ “


“I would always say, ‘Dang, I


wish there was somebody that could help me,’ because I didn’t know what I could do and I was afraid that if I went to his school and stood my ground it’d make things hard for my child.” She’s fully supportive of legal action now, but not just because she wants belated justice for Cedrico. “I’m excited because I have a 13-year-old coming up in the Meridian Public Schools as well.”


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