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The Prince George’s County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority hosted more than 1,400 guests from across the region at their Annual Crab Feast fundraiser on Aug. 12 at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt, Md. Proceeds from the event will support the chapter’s programs to continue to provide assistance to the needs of the Prince George’s County community.
Edwinna Love, Jakki Wilder and Saundra McNair
Event Committee Leadership Stacia Shields, Diane Venable and Henri Cooper join Rene Buckmon (2nd Vice President), Miriam Brewer (1st Vice President) and Greta Wiggins-Lewis to welcome guests.
Photos by Angela Holmes
Channel Brown, Karen Burks, Ronald Burks, Jr., Kevin Ford, Jr.
Miriam Brewer (1st vice president) shows off the Delta Stroll Kichelle Joseph and Dominique Joseph
Cassandra Logan and Renita Chappell
Sandra Anderson, Mary Hall Cooper, Joyce Hall Shambley, Harold Shambley
Presentation to Committee Chair Rosa O’Neal
Leslie Hagans-Johnson, Nadine Bennett, Jonya Wagner, Beverly Reed
Eastern Regional Director Rosia Blackwell Lawrence and Prince George’s County Delta Alumni Chapter President Greta Wiggins-Lewis
Alumni and former teachers of the Hoffman-Boston (H-B) Junior Senior High School gathered from Aug.12-14 to observe the centennial anniversary of the school. The high school was established in Arlington, Va. to educate the children of freed slaves whose families had come out of the Freedmen’s Bureau and Queen City, the current sites of Arlington Cemetery and the Pentagon. The speaker for the “Senior Prom” was the Rev. Wilbert Talley, a 1962 graduate and first quarterback of the school’s football team. The oldest graduates in attendance at the celebration at the Arlington, Va. school were: Loretta Reid, Delores Downey, and Florence Ross from the class of 1949. Today, the school is an elementary Alum school, enjoying serving more dinner than 26 nationalities. Kimberley Graves, current H-B principal and Carmen Dela CruzScales, assistant principal
Karen Willis (Event Committee), Robin Jacobs (Past Eastern Regional Director)
Frankie Evans and Brenda Cox with welcoming remarks
Courtesy Photos Classmates gather for a group picture
Ron White, Class of ‘64 and Mary McCoy, former Ms. Senior District of Columbia
Prom King, Rev. Roy Carter and Prom Queen Carolyn Syphax Young
Alumns dancing to old school music by DJ Nate D Skate
Crowning of Prom King, Rev. Roy Carter
Prom Queen Carolyn Syphax Young
Elizabeth Evans and William Gee light the Memorial Candle
Members of the Class of 1948 draw names for King & Queen of the Prom
Louise McGregor, former Home Economics and Special Education teacher
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The Afro-American, September 10, 2016 - September 16, 2016
Almenta Bell, Yvonne Frye, Everene Johnson-Turner and Patricia Payne
Ann Branch, Lonnie Sprull and Marian Finney
Toni Purdy, M. Bertha McCloud, Freddie Hendricks and Roberta Johnon-Herndon
Gwen Taliaferro, Sharon Wiggs and Denise Gordon
Gwendolyn Jackson, Harry Johnson and Denise Smith
Betty Clark, Landa McLaurin, Senator Catherine Pugh, Mildred Long Harper, Joy Pinder Savage and Rhonda Alexander
Patricia Carter, Dr. Sheila V. Plater and Joyce Tunstall Dixon
For the past seven years, the Steppin’ Out Bunch has been drawing a crowd of retirees who get together on the opening day of the Baltimore Public Schools to celebrate their retirement. The event, School is Open, But We Don’t Have to Go, was held this year at Martin’s West in Baltimore on Aug. 29. The event, which also serves as a fundraiser for their scholarship fund, has grown to include over 1,200 retired educators.
Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine
Rita Cooper, Barbara Lee, Owen Lee and Carolyn Jones
Anastatia Phillips Benton, Laura Phillips Byrd, Joyce Holmes, Ben Holmes and Doris Holmes
MIldred Long Harper, founder, Steppin’ Out Bunch welcomes the crowd to the event Ollie Johnson, Thomas Frasiier, Andrew Bates and Morgan C. Kelly
Baltimore’s Bethel AME Church was packed with notable figures for the final sermon of Bishop Frank M. Reid III as pastor. Reid served as pastor for over three decades. This July he was elected as the new Bishop for the African Methodist Episcopal Church at the 50th Quadrennial Conference that was held in Philadelphia, Pa. His replacement is the Rev. Patrick D. Clayborn.
Morgan State University hosted a reception for three Cuban students and the assistant dean from the Facultad de Comunicación at the University of Havana. The exchange followed students from Morgan’s School of Global Journalism & Communication spending the summer in Cuba shooting a documentary.
Prof. Max Barbosa Miranda, University of Havana
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Photos by JD Howard
(L-R): Front row - Daniella Fernandez, Zenaida Costales Perez, associate dean of the school of communications at the University of Havana, SGJC senior Kendra Hawkins, Randdy Fundora. Back row - Max Barbosa Miranda, SGJC senior Katia Jordan, and Prof. Jackie Jones Photos courtesy of Morgan State University
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