Cameron C. McCoy is the featured guest speaker at the 51st Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon of Talbot Association of Clergy and Laity at noon, Wednesday, June 8, at the Eastern Shore Conservation Center, 114 South Washington Street in Easton. This potluck/brown bag event is open to the public.
Mr. McCoy may be the youngest speaker ever to address TACL’s annual meeting. Yet, he has inspired enormous crowds at civic holiday events with his poetry, essays, and oratory, and is best known for studies and readings of his life’s model at the annual Frederick Douglass Day ceremonies at the Talbot County Court House.
Bound for Morehouse College in Atlanta, McCoy is a recent graduate of Easton High School, where he was president of the Student Government Association during both his junior and senior years. A member of the National Honor Society, he has been honored as a Maryland Scholar and a Maryland Scholar with Distinction. The winner of numerous state and local essay and academic awards, he has been a member of the EHS NJROTC, and has participated in a variety of leadership experiences including Maryland Leadership Workshop, Boys State, RYLA, and Voices of Democracy. The son of Mr. Leroy and Dr. Lois McCoy, he is a youth and worship leader at the Union Baptist Church of Easton.
“There may be older, wiser voices,” TACL chairman Bishop Joel Marcus Johnson said, “but it is spiritually invigorating for us to hear the voice of the future. Cameron reminds us of Jesus saying to his disciples that they would perform miracles greater than his own. In Cameron’s sense, we are hearing from tomorrow today, unleashing us from the past.”
It is also the custom at the annual Meeting to present community leadership excellence awards, the recipients’ names made public during the presentation ceremony. A subsequent release will include photos and bios of the honorees.
TACL, now entering its 52nd year, is Talbot County’s interfaith organization promoting its spiritual welfare through works of compassion, justice, peace and reconciliation for the common good. It achieves these through education, relationship building, and its diverse ministries. For more information about TACL, please write to [email protected] .
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