page 20 CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER __ JUNE 6 __ JUNE 12, 1970
Hightlight of the annual May Music Festival sponsored by the Chicago Music Association was the awarding of citations to local musicians, "for outstanding contributions to music in the community." Photo left: The four recipients are (from left) Thomas Talman, mistister of music at Liberty Baptist Church; Mrs. Jeanne Fletcher Nallette, pianist and director of the Mallette School of Music; John A. Martin organist and director of the Martin Studios of Music; and Mrs. Julia mae Kennedy, signer, teacher and music director at Frist Church of Deliverance. Photo right: Dorothy Donrgan, jazz piaist, admires her Appreciation Awart during the festival. Sharing her delight are Theodore Charles Stone(left) CMA president, and Andrew Dancan, director of music at Wendell Phillps High School and one of the awardes. The annual festial took place at St. James methodist Church.
page 5 CHICAGO DEFENDER-ACCENT-SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1978
I am sure that many wonderful words of appreeciation have been said to Madame Alyce Lavinia Martin-Meine and John Martin for their artistic role they played in the cultural life of Chicago's community, but nothing has yey equaled the tribute they will receive from The Cultural Citizen's Foundation at St. John Church-Baptish on Friday, June 30 at 12:30 p.m.
John and his mother Mrs. Martin-Meine are amoung several distinguished citizens who will be honored at the Testimonial-Tribute Awards Ceremory held in memory of the lae General Daniel "Chappie" James of the United State Air Force and the late Rchard J. Daley.
As a highlight of the ceremonies actor James Lewis Hicklin III will orate the famous speech of Booker T. Washington, "Dip Your Bucket Where You Are" deliivered by the famed educator in the autumn of 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition.
Madam Meine is a graduate of Chicago Musical College where she major in piano and the American Conservatory of Music where she took her advance profession degree in organ.
During a period of fifty years she has been active as an accompanist, a soloist and church organist.
She is a member of the American Guild of Organist and serves each Sunday at the Eighth Church of Christ Scientist where she has been playing for more than thiry years.
Her son john John, is one of the greatest intructors in music in Chicago and one of the finest accompanis to be found anywhere in the world.
For many years he traveled with notable singers assisting at the piano in concerts. A few years ago he inherited the Clarence White School of Music where Prof. Gossett taught for many years.
The school was renamed the John Martin Studios and individuals of all ages might receive musical instructions.
As a young boy, John demonstrated a gift for music and his family of distinguished musicians saw to it that he had the best teachers possible. He was a student of Dr. Rudolph Ganz and Molly Margolies at the Chicago Musical College and continued advanced studies in music at the American Conservatory of Music.
He is a member of the American Guild of Organist and has concertized, in addition accompanying other, throughout the world.
Others who will receive awards and tributes include Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist Convention, Inc., Dr. William A. Johnson pastor of St. John Church-Baptist, Dr. Roy E. Hick, chairman of the Department of Music at Tuskegee Institude Choir,A. W. Williams, Thomas P. Lewis, president of the South Side Bank and Trust Company, Joseph Betrand,treasurer of the City of Chicago, Dr. Vivian Little, Mrs. Vera Rockhold, Mrs. Julia Fairfax, William C. King, Montgomery, Ala., Rev Obie Rush, East St. Louis, Madame Georgine Moore, Mrs. Barbara King, Montgomery; James Comptom, executive director for the Urban League, Lord William Hancellous Browne, bass-baritone; A Bankston Owens, organist and pianist at Quinn Chpel,Dr. Presten Bradley, pastor of the Peoples Church of Chicago, Madame Dorothy Shavers, and Tessie Roberts.
John Austin Martin became the sole owner of the family home after his mother Alyce Meine Nichols and brother Harold A. Martin died.
The Home at 7747 South Wasbash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois was sold for S115,000. The list price was $119.900. it was sold as is with the sell closed on November 2007. The home was built in 1947. John's stepfather Otto Meine and mother Alyce Martin Meine purchased the home in the 1950's after Zephyr's son Burton was born.