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About Elaine Ray
Elaine Ray is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer and a 2020 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
During her career, she has worked as a writer and editor for Essence magazine, an editorial writer for the Boston Globe and a communications leader at Stanford University.
She is the winner of the 2016 Gival Press Short Story Award for Pidgin and holds an Online Certificate in Novel Writing from the Stanford University Continuing Studies Program.
In 1990, she and her colleague Peggy Hernandez shared first prize for editorial writing from the Education Writers Association. In 1993 and 1995, respectively, Elaine won second prize and third prize, for editorial writing from the New England Associated Press News Executives Association. In 1995 she won a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford. Elaine has written freelance articles and columns for the Boston Globe, Essence, Black Enterprise, Modern Maturity, the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle.
In 2005, Elaine joined forces with other Palo Alto Unified School District parents to found the Parent Network for Students of Color, an organization dedicated to advocating at all levels to create a climate of high expectations and academic achievement
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-mark 75tth birthday and 55 years on stage
On Friday, March 18, 2016, Anchor Events Place, Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, was agog as veteran actress and matriarch of Ray family, Madam Olajumoke Ray Eyiwumi, popularly called Mama Ray celebrated 75th birthday and 55 years as a theatre practitioner.
The event put together by the entire Ray family attracted dignitaries from far and near.
The elated and joyous celebrant expressed gratitude to God for keeping her alive to celebrate the milestone ages both in her life and career, when ENCOMIUM Weekly had a chat with her. We spoke to some of her children who extolled her virtues and gave glory to God that the event turned out successful.
‘She is fantastic mother to celebrate’-LASUN RAY
How does it feel celebrating 75 and 55 years on stage for your mom today?
It feels great. I feel particularly happy for what we’re doing for her today because she really deserves it even more. Because her life is that of a high-calibre entertainer that the industry has ever produced. She is not just an entertainer, she also gave birth to many entertainers. I believe you also heard it when former Lagos first lady. Mrs. Abimbola Fashola extolled our mother’s virtues and the Ray family as a whole. Sh
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Updated: Aug 7, 2023
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