From Nanyce Tuttle’s 2004 Lowell Sun interview with “Local Hero” Lura Smith:

Each year, the biggest and best day in Lura Smith’s busy life is Martin Luther King Day.
It’s the day that Smith, the elegant, effervescent assistant to Middlesex Community College President Carole Cowan, plans for all year long – a time for her and her family to host an ever-growing group of family and friends at a joyous, inspirational, heartwarming celebration of the life of the late, great civil rights leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Let me share this invitation with our readers:

The Lura Smith Family

of  Lowell Massachusetts

requests the pleasure of your company

at the 13^th annual reception

Celebrating the Life of

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

12 noon -2 pm

Monday January 17, 2011

Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell

300 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way

Lowell, Massachusetts

Attire: Sunday Best

A donation can be made to

The Lura Smith Fund

at the Middlesex Community College Foundation