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The Porter-Leath Early Childhood Foundation (PLECF) was created in October 2004 with a $1,000,000 donation from the Porter-Leath Home. Housed at the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, the PLECF was developed to create a better tool for raising funds to sustain the Agency.
The Porter-Leath House is a historic house in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. It has also been known as the Porter Leath Children's Center, which was originally chartered in 1850 as the Protestant Widows' and Orphans' Asylum. It was named after Dr David Tinsley Porter after he made a donation to the asylum in 1904. [2]
The Dispatch Printing Co. and Scripps-Howard, as the Scripps company was known in the mid-1980s, blamed each other for the demise of the Citizen-Journal.. Under the 26-year joint operating agreement that the two companies had signed in 1959, both papers were printed on the Dispatch Printing Co. printing presses.
Yet, months later in May, the Friends of Sherrod Brown campaign committee received at least two campaign donations from the late Ohioan. The donations amounted to $350.
The first organized charity was the Columbus Female Benevolent Society, formed in 1835 to give clothing and monetary donations to families in need. It was co-founded by Hannah Neil, who went on to establish a day school for poor children in 1855, and established it as the Industrial School Association in 1858.
Porter was platted in 1830. [1] A variant name was Pine Grove. [ 2 ] A post office called Porter was established in 1834, the name was changed to Porter in 1923, and the post office closed in 1959.
Apr. 4—Stairs to be replaced, new shelter to be built COAL GROVE — For those missing the steps at Paul Porter Park, don't worry, they will be coming back. And there will be another shelter ...
While at WKYC, Adair worked with notable co-anchors Virgil Dominic, Dave Patterson, and Judd Hambrick; future Today Show meteorologist Al Roker; and Mona Scott, a reporter-turned-weathercaster-turned anchor who would later become his second wife. In early 1983, Adair moved to Columbus to assume anchor duties at WCMH-TV, that city's NBC ...