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May 2022

Melanie Page: A Leader From Birth

Text by Jayde Scogin/ Photos courtesy of Melanie Page Melanie Page was born to her Irish-Italian mother, Joan Ventura, in a “girls home” in Alabama. Ventura was only 17 years old at the time when […]

Young girl with dark hair smiling for a portrait photo where a tan shirt and necklace — Melanie Page in her sixth grade photo from Turner Middle School. Photo courtesy of Melanie Page.

A young woman with long brown hair holding her newborn child and smiling — Joan Ventura with her newborn child, Melanie in 1969, before Ventura gave her baby up for adoption. Photo courtesy of Melanie Page.

An young woman with dark hair wearing a multi-pattern shirt sitson a brown and white couch next to a young boy with short dark hair wearing a blue denim jacket over a yellow and black shirt, and young girl with long dark hair wearing a pink shirt — Melanie Page meeting her birth mother, Joan Ventura, and half-brother, Scottie, for the first time. Photo courtesy of Melanie Page.

young woman posing for a portrait style photo wearing a black white and red uniform — Melanie Page after the capping ceremony at Georgia Baptist College of Nursing. Photo courtesy of Melanie Page.

An older, women with silver hair pulled back, wearing a black shirt smiling wearing a black top in front of red and black background. — Melanie Page, 2021. Photo by Jayde Scogin.

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