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March 01, 2010

Family, Peers Gather to Honor Baldwin

Category: News || By John Barna

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Retired state Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Baldwin receives a proclamation in her honor from Tom Maglicco --- acting for state Rep. Marc Gergely --- as her husband, Arthur, left, and son, James, second from left, look on.

Baldwin, a longtime Allegheny County judge who was recently named chief legal counsel to Penn State University, was the featured speaker at McKeesport Heritage Center's annual Black History Month program, held Saturday afternoon.

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The program included a performance of the traditional African-American spiritual "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" by city native Byaar Meekins (above), a former member of the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, accompanied on the piano by Marilyn Wood Baldwin (below), chair of the center's Black History Program committee and a member of the center's board of directors.

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Additional photos follow after the jump.

(All photos by John Barna, special to Tube City Almanac.)

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Above, Jordan Slater, 10, a student at Francis McClure Intermediate School in White Oak, reads her original poem "The Wheel Around the World: Martin Luther King Jr. Day."

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Lydia Lockhart (above), professor of business management at Penn State Greater Allegheny Campus in McKeesport, spoke about Baldwin's legacy as a judge, advocate and educator in international law, while the Rev. Earlene Coleman, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Downtown, delivered a prayer.

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Other guests included retired Allegheny County Judge Livingstone Johnson.

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J. Terrence Farrell, president, board of directors, McKeesport Heritage Center, welcomed visitors to the program.

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