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Mark Lamkin could be Donald Trump's business associate


By STEPHEN THOMAS, Staff Writer Monday, September 19, 2005 7:36 AM CDT


SHEPHERDSVILLE - Could the president of his own company be fired?

He could, if he was in the same room with Donald Trump.

Mark T. Lamkin, MBA, RFC, CSA, is president and CEO of Lamkin Wealth Management, based in Louisville. He will be one of 18 contestants appearing in the NBC television reality show, "The Apprentice: Season Four," featuring Trump.

Lamkin is a Bullitt County native, a former student at Overdale Elementary, Hebron Middle and North Bullitt High School.

A former baseball and football player, the '87 North Bullitt graduate also coached the Eagles in the '90s and still participates in team funding.

"I do stay in contact with them," Lamkin admitted.


Even football coaches could not prepare Lamkin for his encounter with "The Donald."

Lamkin attended Western Kentucky University for three years before earning a finance degree with the University of Louisville and an MBA through Bellarmine University. He and his wife, Jennifer, still live in the Louisville area with their two children.

With 15 years of financial planning experience, Lamkin went solo four years ago with his own financial services company.

Lamkin refers to himself as a "serial entrepreneur," always hoping to help the local area. As he mentioned it, Lamkin starts businesses and then sells them for profit.


"That's one of the reasons why the show was interested in me," he said.

"The Apprentice" was created with Trump in mind. The show consists of 18 candidates, divided into two teams, participating in various tasks. Weekly winning teams receive rewards, while losing teams will lose a member when The Donald says, "You're fired!"

Season Four includes a few new twists, including the first time Trump has hand-selected each contestant.

Also new this season are weekly project managers. A different member of each team will be selected as project manager for the week.

According to Lamkin, the project manager of the losing team must select two team members to join them in a meeting with The Donald. One of the three will be fired.

"Participating is totally different than being an 'armchair quarterback' watching these shows," he said, comparing the experience to being "in a fishbowl."

According to Lamkin, over one million tapes and interviews were received by NBC from hopeful contestants. Lamkin participated in an open casting call held in Louisville earlier this summer. He said many friends suggested that he try out.

"I had no intentions of doing it, I had no time for it. I never watched reality TV," said Lamkin. "But then my Mom asked me. She liked the show."

Lamkin produced a three-minute taped bio along with a 12-page application. He soon received a call from the show's producers. Following a meeting with the producers, Lamkin was on his way to Hollywood with his fellow contestants.

"There's a tremendous amount of talented contestants from various companies," Lamkin said, mentioning that friends were made and that he still keeps in touch with a few of them.

So what was it like to meet The Donald?

"(Trump) just commands a room when he comes in," said Lamkin. "Everything centers around him."

Lamkin even commented on Trump's grooming techniques.

"The hair's real," he said. "It's as bad as advertised."

The shows were all pre-recorded, with secrecy a key issue. Therefore, Lamkin can't discuss details. If you want to know how he did, you'll have to tune in and watch.

Regardless of the results, Lamkin did state that the experience has made him a better person.

"My comfort zone was stretched beyond belief," he said. "That's when great things happen."

"The Apprentice: Season Four" is scheduled to air Thursdays at 9 p.m. on NBC. The show premiers this Thursday, Sept. 22.

Lamkin will view the season premier at Lucky Strike Lanes at Fourth Street Live in Louisville as part of a VIP Red Carpet Launch Party. The event will feature surprise guests, special entertainment and "Trumptinis."

For more information about Lamkin, visit www.marktlamkin.com. For more information about "The Apprentice: Season Four," go to www.nbc.com.

I am SOOOOOO worried about Louisiana... WHY??? My family lives there, the surronding Baton Rouge area and one lives in New Orleans. The family member in new Orleans went to Beaumont, TX. The family in baton Rouge--5 of them, decided to go to Mississippi to find a room in the Northern part--near Memphis. The rest decided to stay through it until it gets worser.

I pray that the people there in LA, MS, Ala, and Fla are safe.

Sarita

Hi! Been not blogging for so long!

This Thursday ( September 1st) is the year anniversary for my aunt's death. I am dreading and happy at the same time. Why? I wish my aunt was here with me. But im glad because I am lucky i got to know him the past 28 years.
Im also grabbing a trip to North Carolina (hopefully) this Thursday to see my other young 'uns. MY neice will be turning 3 this monday and she is GROWING fast!!! I better zoom there and grab the time with her.

Sarita

Wednesday July 27, 2005

Deaf professor brings hope to deaf in Russian culture

By BOBBIE CURD
Staff Writer

LANCASTER - Nina Coyer never thought she'd see herself anywhere near Russia, especially twice in two years. Due to her involvement with Hands of Hope, a charitable social service organization, she knows she will be returning.

The organization is run by part-time Danville residents Tina and Alex Savelyev, who also live in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country that became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. The group's mission is to equip and train the large population of deaf and hard-of-hearing to be self-sufficient contributing members of society.

Coyer was born hard-of-hearing, and her condition has worsened with age. She taught at Kentucky School for the Deaf for 12 years before accepting a position as an assistant professor at Eastern Kentucky University eight years ago, teaching American Sign Language, deaf culture and interpreting. She is known as a deaf culture expert and advocate.

Tina Savelyev had interpreted for Coyer and asked her to talk to the teachers in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

"The population of deaf or hard-of-hearing there is 10 percent compared to 1 percent here," Coyer said.

There is a law against teaching sign language in hard-of-hearing classrooms in Bishkek, and Coyer wanted to help residents understand what signing can do for their students.

Coyer herself didn't learn to sign until she was 19 years old and attending Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the only deaf liberal arts school in the world. She also met her husband, Roger, there.

"Neither one of us had signed before that," Coyer said.

Sign language guarantees understanding

Statistics show that 30 percent of content is understood when reading lips, and 70 percent is "a guessing game." With sign language, 100 percent of the content is understood.

In the Bishkek hard-of-hearing school, a portion of the class is taught with teachers hiding their mouths behind a mask so that children may not read their lips.

"They are not trying to be mean. I understand that they are trying to get the kids to focus on hearing. Their hearts are in the right place, but I asked them 'If you can teach a child 100 percent compared to 30 percent, which would you chose?'" Coyer said.

But getting the area to "hear her out" didn't happen overnight.

Coyer made her first trip to Kyrgyzstan last year and spoke with the director of Special School 21 for Hard-of-Hearing and Late-Deafened Children, where teaching sign language is outlawed.

"My first visit I only worked on building trust with the director," Coyer said, explaining that the Kyrgyzstani culture is very protective of its ways. The teachers eventually agreed to hear Coyer's presentation in June of this year, but it wasn't at all what she expected.

Coyer said she planned on speaking for 15 minutes about her background, then would go on to teaching techniques.

"But they were so shocked that I was almost deaf and had a degree and taught, so I spent two hours answering questions and having conversations about how I got where I am," Coyer said. She was even asked if she was "given" her degree. This element of her visit really underlined what she knew about their culture: they felt the deaf and hard-of-hearing were invalids, could not hold jobs and certainly could not go to college.

"What I have achieved in life affected all of the teachers deeply, and it was a very emotional talk," Coyer said.

Some participants were in tears

Some of the participants were in tears during the discussion, realizing that the children of the area had been held back for so many years due to the ideology that is 50-75 years behind.

Until she went to Gallaudet, Coyer never thought she would be able to be an achiever. The oral approach to teaching hard-of-hearing children was strictly followed until 1971, Coyer said.

"Then I got to the university and I saw students who were going to be doctors and lawyers, anything they wanted to be," Coyer said.

Coyer's husband was along for the trip to Russia as well. He is retired from KSD after 29 years of teaching physical education and coaching football, basketball, track and cross country.

"Roger spoke to them some, and they just couldn't believe that the deaf played sports," Nina Coyer said.

Soon Roger Coyer was teaching the children football.

"The change of attitude won't happen overnight, it may take 20 years," Coyer said.

Next on the Savelyevs' list is to circulate a petition, Coyer said, in hopes of getting the government to observe the difference signing makes in the classroom, allowing the technique to be taught to the hard-of-hearing.

"Nina brought a peer component to that educational community. While we do have the respect of those administrators and teachers, we are not 'one of them.' As an educator, Nina is one of them and that makes a world of difference. Being deaf herself, she also represents the students they teach here. What an awesome combination to put before them in a conference setting," said Tina Savelyev.

"I told the teachers that they have to have hope for those children. They have to believe, or the children won't believe in themselves. If I can do it, then they can, too," Coyer said.
Copyright The Advocate-Messenger 2005

Jackie Bragg had a "daughter" Crystal who attended KSD and died last fall.

Wednesday July 27, 2005

Danville man dies when car crashes into house

By TODD KLEFFMAN
Staff Writer

A Danville man was killed and his wife seriously injured Tuesday afternoon when their car crashed into a house on Dorothy Drive, police said.


J.D. Chambers, 85, of Erskin Drive, died at the scene. Cornelia K. Chambers, also 85, who was driving, was airlifted to the Chandler University of Kentucky Medical Center, where she remained in critical condition this morning, a hospital spokeswoman said.


Boyle County Coroner Dr. James Ramey pronounced J.D. Chambers dead at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center. He said the man died of massive blunt force trauma to the chest.


The couple were headed north on Waveland Avenue, ran through a stop sign at Dorothy Drive and crashed into the front of Jackie Bragg's house at 198 Dorothy Drive. The accident, which occurred about 4:15 p.m., caused severe damage to the car, the house and its foundation, according to a police report. "I was in the kitchen in the back part of the house cooking supper. I didn't see it but I heard it," Bragg said today. "It was like an explosion. It shook things off the wall. It shook candles over. It scared me to death.


"I opened the door and there were two old people out there. It looked like the man was already gone and the woman was hurt real, real bad."


Police are still investigating the accident and trying to determine what may have caused Cornelia Chambers to run the stop sign in her 1988 Dodge Shadow. There were no indications that she tried to stop or make any evasive maneuvers, the report said.


Bragg said the couple often drove down Waveland while traveling to and from their house on Erskin, a few blocks from the accident site. "I can remember seeing them going down the street. They always drove real slow," Bragg said. "She must of had a heart attack or something, and hit the gas."


Bragg said relatives of the Chambers stopped by her house Tuesday evening to check on her. "They said she was in pretty bad shape," Bragg said.


Bragg, 68, has lived at the residence for 15 years and said Tuesday's accident was the second time a vehicle had run the stop sign and struck her house. About three years ago, a truck crashed into the house, but fled before police arrived, she said. That accident caused about $4,500 in damages, she said.


"After I get it fixed this time, I'm not staying here. I can't go out again and see two people like that. I can't stand it no more," she said.


The accident marked the first traffic fatality of the year within Danville City Limits, police said.

Copyright The Advocate-Messenger 2005

It also included a pic of the school students where my uncle teaches.. At the left top .. the first student standing is my cousin, Dorothy. I almost didnt notice her, not for my grandmother who noticed her. She looks so Asian! I guess she is settling in with her original culture....

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Finally found a better way to share pics! Shutterfly is a good choice. Here is 3 of my shared albums. :) Enjoy!

My Uncle Leeland's Commission
http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeBOWbFy2bN3eQ

Parents' 35th anniversary
http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeBOWbFy2bN3aA

SBCD Trip 2005
http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeBOWbFy2bN3aA