LPM Activities (continued) LPM Productions Activities (continued) LPM Productions was involved in so many activities, that there are too many to even try and mention. Listed below  are few of the activities that L P M  Productions was involved in:  L P M  Productions created a music program that became a city wide standard.  The  program allowed high school  students and their high school band teachers the opportunity to be employed during the summer by the City of  Chicago, so they could continue to study and play music.  As a result of being the pioneers of  the program, L P M   Productions was rewarded with  “year ‘round employment by the City of Chicago for over seven years.”    L P M  Productions trained its  members all of the necessary elements and component required to become well  rounded professional music industry personnel.  LPM taught music business training, stage design and setup, and all  of the technical requirement to operate concert equipment. L P M strived itself on doing things different and better  than any other musical organization in Chicago.  For example, LPM Productions’ administrative and technical staff  were usually young females that wanted to learn and be a part of the music industry.  The male staff concentrated on  learning the craft of artists management, stage management and concert & tour management.  Every member of the  organization received some kind of professional music industry training.  All members of LPM Productions were  trained and taught the “Business of Music.”  One of LPM Productions biggest bragging points was  that;  any member of the organization male or female   could fill in as the sound engineer at any given time.  LPM Productions members were taught every aspect  of the music and entertainment business.  During the 1970’s some of the members of LPM Productions opened the LPM doors and offered dance classes to  young girls.  A lot of young girls in the neighborhood took advantage of the opportunity and participated in the dance  classes and learned how to perform stage dancing.  In the 1980’s L P M  Productions employed young men (a paid payroll) to work as the road crew staff for LPM  Productions. The program was very successful and numerous families in the South Chicago neighborhood were able  to reap the benefits of a child in the family being on a year-round paid program and were able to bring addition funds  into the household.  The LPM Productions male staff included:  Bryant Thomas, Dwayne Robinson, Terry Allen, Darryl, Mark, Earl and  David Briggs, Kevin Jones, Lloyd Parker, DeAndre Gatlin and numerous others.  LPM Productions maintained a professional administrative staff made up of young people from the South Chicago  neighborhood.  These young people were exposed to many exciting and interesting people,  places and things. They  were able to experience things that they would otherwise not have been able to have experienced.  For all that has happened, LPM Productions thanks God for 40 years of friendship with each other and for all of the  things that LPM Productions participants were allowed to see, feel and experience together and separately.