Otis Lee

Honoring Lang Dixon, C.L.U.

Otis Lee, Jr. — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:31:56 +0000

Lang Dixon, a perennial Million Dollar Roundtable Award Producer, was the quintessential estate planning life insurance agent. As a team Lang and I implemented estate plans for many of Philadelphia's most Black citizens.

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“The Path” – Charlottesville

Otis Lee, Jr. — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 18:09:58 +0000

When the time came to move to Charlottesville, it was the summer of 1960. For all we knew Charlottesville might as well have been in Charlotte, North Carolina which was named for Queen Charlotte of England. I was thirteen years old, having finished the sixth grade at Baker Upper Elementary School. My father was hired by Paul H. Cale, the superintendent of Albemarle County Schools, to be the new principal of a new Black elementary School, Virginia L. Murray, being completed in Ivy, Virginia, in 1960 about 15 to 20 miles west of Charlottesville off of route 250 west.

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A Father’s Day Tribute

Otis Lee, Jr. — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:33:31 +0000

“Red” they called him fondly, was raised in southern Georgia. One of seven children raised by a widowed mother. He knew poverty, but not hunger; knew deprivation but did not lack for love and affection. He experienced loss, but not the loss of hope, pain but not despair. His energy for triumph over adversity was boundless, and he reinsured that his later life would not reflect his humble roots.

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Black History Month Speech, Southport NC

Otis Lee, Jr. — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 18:43:24 +0000

Now, I am not a historian but I am, a student of history. As one of my favorite historians, John Hope Franklin, has said, I am self tutored on many of these matters. Perhaps self tutoring is the best way to learn anything thoroughly.

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The Door Of No Return

Otis Lee, Jr. — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:09:18 +0000

When I was a kid growing up in Richmond, Virginia between 1953 and 1960, I lived in a middle class neighborhood of single family two story, three and four bedroom homes, some of frame, painted white, others with various types of siding, each built on half acre lots with front yards providing aesthetic balance, and back yards large and deep enough for the neighborhood kids to romp, wrestle, play hide and seek, and dwell in the kid’s world of imagination. In keeping with Southern tradition, each house on the block had long front porches for lazy sitting on summer mornings with a coffee royal; in the afternoon with ice tea; and in the evening with a Jack Daniels. Some houses had garages in the rear of the backyard which sat adjacent to an alley way that ran parallel with the wide paved street in front of the houses.

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Excerpt, From South Boston To Cambridge

Otis Lee, Jr. — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:16:45 +0000

Bring Me All Of Your Dreams You Dreamer: Languidly, the lion roams the jungle of his environment looking for prey. Awakened from his somnolence, hunger motivates his restlessness. To satisfy this basic need, he only wants to attack prey that he knows and feels that he can subdue, after all, he does not want to work but so hard.

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The Price System, an Observation

Otis Lee, Jr. — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:22:06 +0000

Economists view the price system within the macro economy as a function of supply and demand and market share. Prices can be determined by particular producers who exercise price leadership and market share in a particular industry or in a particular commodity. The allocation of resources and their scarcity is also a factor in determining price. A market mechanism normally is required to determine prices. The dictionary definition of price is “the amount of money needed to purchase an object; the cost at which something is obtained.”

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Remarks on the Passing of Bryant McCloskey

Otis Lee, Jr. — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:27:56 +0000

To the family, pulpit guest, and to all of you who have come to pay respects to my friend and to your friend Bryant McCl oskey, good morning and greetings. I am delighted to see so many of my friends from New York life and from my professional days here in Philadelphia. Venessa, when she asked me to say some words about her father, allotted me 2 minutes and I have already used 30 seconds of that time. So let me get right to it.

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Cedar Grove Community Improvement Association Speech

Otis Lee, Jr. — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:41:17 +0000

The forefathers of this organization had the vision and courage to embark on a mission of salvation to improve the health and welfare of this community, a community, at that time that suffered from the twin afflictions of deprivation and the extremes of incivility to say the least. Through later generations the ethic of hard work and perseverance continued and it is a challenge to those of you who have taken on the mantle of leadership to perpetuate that legacy.

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