A school in Sydney's southwest has opened a hair salon in a classroom to help at-risk students steer away from unemployment and crime. More than a dozen teenagers who are now working professionally say they've been granted a future they never thought was possible.
A school in Sydney's southwest has opened a hair salon in a classroom to help at-risk students steer away from unemployment and crime. More than a dozen teenagers are now working professionally as barbers and braiders - who say they've been granted a future they never thought was possible.
December 22, 2020
H. Richard “Dick” Harp, 90, passed away at his home in Winding Creek Village, Millsboro, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, due to heart failure.
Dick was born in Detroit, Mich., April 18, 1930; he was the secondborn to Harry (also a minister) and Henrietta Harp. He moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wis., and later to Atlanta, Ga., where he graduated from Bass High School. Graduating with an AB from Anderson College in Indiana, he returned to Georgia where he graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary, with his Bachelor of Divinity. He served as the associate pastor to his father at the Neighborhood Chapel Church of God in Atlanta, and became the senior pastor at the church following his father’s death, remaining there for five years. He went on to serve as minister at National Memorial Church of God in Washington, D.C., from 1958-95.