Anyone who’s now getting along in age and grew up in the city of Greensboro is highly aware of the tremendous impact that former Mayor Jim Melvin had on shaping of modern Greensboro. Sadly, the man who devoted so much of his life to trying to improve and advance the city died in the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 10, leaving behind a very long list of lives he had helped improve and ways his existence had benefited the city he loved.
Though everyone knew him as Jim, his full name was “Edwin Samuel ‘Jim’ Melvin.”
Born on December 24,1933, in Greensboro – during the depths of the Great Depression – he achieved major financial success in life and, more importantly, he garnered a great deal of respect from the residents of Greensboro who repeatedly chose to elect him as their mayor…