Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 2/17/2021 5:05:45 PM The one message that stuck with Jim Guy ever since he was a young boy growing up in Cleveland, Ohio was the importance of getting an education. His parents grew up in the 1920s, and life as Black people coming of age was anything but easy. “They were subject to severe racial discrimination,” Guy said of his parents James and Josephine. Yet they persevered, with James eventually beating the odds and becoming a doctor, and he wanted his only son to know that it would take hard work – “twice as much as a white man,” Guy remembers his father telling him all the way back to when he was in second grade. That was the path he needed to follow to a bright future.