B.E. Corporate Executive of The Year

Thursday 9/3/09

With special thanks to Jonathan Blount, WOKB Radio - 1680 AM, today Barbara Chandler and I were interviewed along with Candace S. Matthews during a remote broadcast at the J.W. Marriott, Grand Lakes Resort. Radio personality, Marion Edwards conducted the interviews. The occassion? Black Enterprise Magazine Conference.

Who is Candace S. Matthews? She is the 2009, Black Enterprise Corporate Executive of The Year. Candace S. Matthews is Amway's Global Chief Marketing Officer. Candace photo graces the cover of the September 2009, issue of Black Enterprise Magazine. Candace and her husband are proud parents of 4 children (three foster children and one neice). The family resides in Ada, MI.

Candace Education: B.S., Metallurgical Engineering & Administrative & Management Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1981; M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1986. She a member of the Executive Leadership Council; Board member of Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Cosmetic Executive Women, and Figure Skating in Harlem.

Candace Business Philosophy: "Treat everyone with respect regardless of their position". During the broadcast interview Candace shared that you must know who you are and your values.

The best is yet to come! Candace' father, Eugene Joseph Sheffield once pastored one of the churches in Hannibal Square. She shared that every summer they drove from Penn and summered in Winter Park. I presented Candace copies of the Sheffield family pedigree research from the Family History Center here at the Heritage Center. She was estatic as she read the names of her father and older siblings. She shared pictures of her oldest sister, May and her father as a young minister.


The Heritage Center staff extended an invitation for Mrs. Matthews to attend and hold a place of honor in the 2010 Unity Festival.

If you know or have any information about the church where Reverend Sheffield served or have any pictures please share them with us for our collection. Reverend and older members of his family are listed as living in Winter Park, Fl, Orange County on the 1930 U.S. Census when he was 28 years old.

Thanks,

Fairolyn