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found that he was the only member to be graduated from college, so far. Not much of an incentive?
  Armed with a high school diploma from East Depot High School, LaGrange, Georgia, Smith entered Morehouse College.  With little financial support from elsewhere, he worked full time at Lockheed Aircraft, but still succeeded in graduating in the upper half of his class. August 1971, he was awarded the M.A. degree in Administration by Atlanta University.
  Highlights among his recognitions and achievements are: "Young Man of the Year in Business" by Atlanta's Chapter of Omega Y's Men's International, Inc., 1974-75; election of the Executive Committee of Leadership Atlanta, 1975-76 (the only Black selected.)
  Smith is Founding Secretary for Atlanta Chapter, National Association of Market Developments and a major stockholder in the Atlanta Inquirer, Aide, Inc., under whose auspices several pieces of real estate were developed to help alleviate the housing shortage for the poor; president of Update, Inc. a photography and communications company, and was a participant on the panel for the 74th Annual Convention of the National Business League and spoke on the subject: "How to increase Business Through Black Press Advertising."
  Smith was among a delegation of Blacks invited by the Society of Journalists to be guest of the German Democratic Republic in April, 1975, and guests of the Cuban Government, 1976.
  Excluding being husband to Frances, and father to Pamela, Lori, and John B., Jr., Smith feels that one of the greatest rewards of his adult life was being named by Atlanta Magazine, the Voice of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, as 25 More Who Are Making Atlanta What It is - "City Shapers."

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