A Chattanooga native who became a successful businessman is returning to his hometown to donate $50,000 to the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga and $25,000 to the Bessie Smith Cultural Center.
Darrell S. Freeman, Sr. will be in Chattanooga on Friday, including a stop at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center on MLK Boulevard at 3:15 p.m.
The Bessie Smith funds will go toward electronic cataloging at Bessie Smith and is a continuation of giving that Mr. Freeman has conducted in Chattanooga all year long.
He said, “It brings me much joy to be able to help others in my hometown, especially after a year
that has devastated so many communities. “It is my goal to help as many people as I can for as long as I can.”
Mr. Freeman is the chairman and majority owner of S3 Recycling Solutions, an IT recycling firm. He is the executive managing director of Zycron, a division of BG Staffing, Inc. Zycron is an IT services firm he founded in 1991. He is also on the board of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.
Mr. Freeman holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University.