Joyce Hairston:  

I grew up on Cleveland¿s east side the Eddy Road area, and graduated from Glenville High School. I have two Children who are grown. I went to Vocational School, majoring in computers, I was always very fashion conscious, being influenced by my mother who was a seamstress and quite a clothes horse herself. I worked for the IRS as a computer tech and Administrative Assistant, during that time I became acquainted with people who were running the East Cleveland Festival, at the time it was a very small one day affair. We wanted the newspapers to come and cover it, but when they didn¿t I decided to take some pictures and write an article and to my surprise they published it, I started publicizing that and it grew into writing publicity articles for civic events and interviewing celebrities. We started having fashion shows, working with the youthful and not so youthful members of the community, since most of them had never modeled, and I had, I put together classes and taught them and put on some very successful and entertaining shows and a lot of the girls went on to bigger and better things. My motto has always been that fashion comes in all sizes, so we would always have big beautiful women as well as petite models in our shows. I formed the Magic Touch Models on my own and was sponsored by the Minority Construction Coalition. I have worked in civic activities in the Cleveland and East Cleveland areas since 1981. My area of interest and expertise is promotions and entertainment with an emphasis on youth activities. I have worked with the East Cleveland Festival Committee, the Glenville Festival Committee and the Slavic Village Festival Committee. I have enjoyed working on these projects and have helped promote, tea...Expand for more