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Profll In uce
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BUSINESS FINANCE
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Bruce Llewellyn found out that
ri k and responsibility ma e win- Many mailboxe are being
ning am. tuffed th e d y with offers that
By NATHANIEL SCOTT
DETROITER
continued from Pig 1
Soon to graduate, Daniel Ander­
son, engineer and carpenter, ays he
is working on passing thc English
Proficiency Examination, an ex­
amination used at Wayne State
University to test the English skills
of potential graduates.
Anderson, joined the group as a
result of a three year friendship. He
said, "We are a hard working honest
group of guys that are loyal and
trustworthy and have formed atrue
friendship and we hope to expound
that kind of loyalty, trust and
friendship with every citizen in the
Ro edale Park community as well as
Detroit.
Believing that he has had some
unique training - ome training that
ha not been available to many
Detroiters - Harry Bullard said, "I
helped my brother Bruce with his
senior project. He was wiring a very
complicated system. After working
DREAM
contlnu d from Be
people sldlls.
He deroonstratcd that he was willing
to work harder at 1iJIerent jobs than o�r
people," said the Maniot J)COOrRl ex­
ecutive.
Warren 1OOmpson wes one of �
company's top 25 executives, had over­
ight over a $130 million budget am over
2,(XX) employees in his span of super-
vision, BOO still he left. ,
11lEPUBUC muldn'Uookforthc
rarre of Th>IIlI*>n I-bpitality on �
restawan� that he will own. After �
purchase is oomplcted, 1lx>mp;on's res­
tauranl chain will opel1l� W¥Jer � �
in April, Pol elli added. Their
plans include hotel condominiums,
remodeling and expansion of Nic -
el Lounge. ..
Thus far, the hotel has attracted
a number of Black conventions,
Polselli added. The most recent
w the 45th Annual National
Quarttet Convention of America
(Ind.) Inc.
In adclition to conventioneers
Polselli added, "We have been get­
ting (the busine of) a lot of Black
churches."
Ir
rvlc
vice.
Pro II In uce
Joshua mlth
He designed computer ystema
that olved problems before they
came up. And it w that kind of
magic that brought J hua Smith and
Maxima Corporation into the major
league.
Smith began in 1978 a one-
man minority b Ine . By 1985,
Maxim was named federal contrac­
tor of the year by the Commerce
a·
Chllrlu Ross is h08t of 1M IID­
tioNJUy syndicated rtulJo program,
"Your Per. onal FiNmc
F ILY BUS' ESS - Nkenge Nickerson and her 13-year-otd cousin Kiyante DavIs t8nd the faml�
busi during the 45th Annual National Quarette ConVention of Amertca 000.) Inc. the Plaza Hotel
in Southfield. (pt� t7t Soott)
ume have been lured
into yin much $2,000 to
ve their "credit repaired." Some
offe promi quic re ults for tho e
d perate to e e b d mi e.
The e o-c Iled credit rep ir
clinics promi e to erase negative
day and night he saw the dedication
that I had and asked me to be part of
the group. I was honored"
WHERE DOES HE see the
company in ten years? "Being well
diversified working from a base of
computer technology and actually
getting into the manufacturing end,
Bullard said.
The group said they would also
have computers to fit, the budgets of
low imcome familie .
For now, all four have agreed to
seize the moment and make this their
dream come true.
Seminar
lated
OU11fFJELD - "Faith!" the
writer wrote, "can move moun­
tain." And it wa because of
spiritual faith that a mother,
daughter and granddaughter
opened the gift shop, Nikki's In The
Plaza three weeks ago.
NUdd' In The Plaza i located
on the ground floor of the Plaza
Hotel, 16400 J.L. Hudson Drive,
formerly the Sheraton Southfield.
INSTFADOFPUITINGin The owners are grandmother,
� and t3rgy for somcooc else Jacqui Lamar, mother, Pamela Mat- According to Nickerson, the"
in order to get a go� watch from thews and granddaughter/daughter, youngest member of the family trio
ke Nic erson. that owns and 0 '
"'�_Ral.mlllll ••• ��"��11U1bop cam an .... �_.aeu
aoo a pension plan meG of functional i terns nd' 0<1, the family
pany. array of artistic do dads: jewelry, operates Ultimate Nails in Days nn
Holder of an MBA from the vases, clocks and statues that are of which is also located ip Southfield.
Darden School 0 Busiress at the African, Oriental and European And so fate! not faith" has
: " UniversityofVuginia, lOOmpson designs are a mixed bag of delight. brought West East and moved
staI1edwithManiot8San�istant The Plaza Hotel is minutes north South North. However, fate and
Manger Trainee in a Roy Rogers of Eight Mile Rd. It is a venture of demographics aside, Lamar, the
Restaurant outlet ''Yes I flipped Infinity Group, which business mother aid, "the opportunity
hamburgers," Thompson says partner and Plaza manager Reno presented itself and with vision we
proudly of his training toward 1m Polselli said is based in Beverley will be very succe ful." .
goal. Hills, California. Nikki's hours are 8am. until
He also learred theirnportance lOpm. Monday through Saturday
of keeping the company's New THE FIRM purchased he and Sunday from Sam. until6pm.
Jersey Turnpike restaurants' hotel, their only Michigan property
restroomsclean forC\6to�satis-
faction and loyalty after � gaired
tbc position of Regional Manager
during his 9 years with � com­
pany.
Cwrently � higtrst ranking
Black in all of Marriott's world­
wide operations, the 32-year-<>ld
Thompson is smwing African.
American youth that it is
reasonable to have a personal
dream that goes further than
dreaming oflittle Black am white
boys and girls pl� toge�r, or
of "keeping rope alive" in adream
that someday � could be elected
to political offire.
Rather than relying on the
whims of his corporate las, or
elections by the gereral poolic, for
his destiny, Warren Thompson set
a plan for his fate and he worked
hard to cbartand achieve it He ..
been truly suaxssful in moving
toward his dream. With a S40mil­
Ilon-a-year enterprise, Warren
Thompson bas already set a future
of financial indeperxe for his kids,
their kids aOO 1m kids', kids' ldds.
'IHOMPSON'S SUCCESS
STORY shows the kinds of
dreams Black Americans muld
start to focus on. Im1cad of dream­
ing of in�grating the work force,
ani restrooms, IOOre people of our
kind should seek k>join Thompson
in owning the operations for a
workforce.
"I wanted to strike out on my
own, although Maniot has been an
excellent place to learn � res­
taurant business," said 'Ibompson,
who also was mentor to dozens of
upwardly mobile Blacks during
1m yearn with the company.
He's atne tory," said
tbe Marriott recruiter woo fouOO
Thompson while he was in 001-
lege. "He was in � right place at
tb: right tim; but he also had a
good academic background, good
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Tbompson along with a mn-related
partner Darrell Th>mpson, will buy the 31
cwrentBob' J;3igBoys ftomManiottaro
convert them to Shoney' style-res-:
taurants in a $17.6 million deal.
In implementing his dream,
�n'scompanywi1lcovert the res­
ta\DlJt \.U1i1S, each of which will provide
family tyle rrals at model1l� prices, at
a cost of from $15,(XX) to $350,00> each.
�n's "roIe--model" advice is:
"Plan �ur work BOO work your plan."
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