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Obituary: Oklahoma University resident director Ennis Koonce remembered for kindness, life lessons
Source Ennis Koonce never left a day of work without stopping by each coworker’s desk to say goodbye. Those same coworkers now walk past the same neatly kept, now-vacant desk as a reminder of his untimely passing April 5. Koonce had a multi-faceted career at OU. He served as an Adams Center resident director, higher [...]
Alpha Phi Alpha marks 100 years on the campus of the University of Minnesota
Source It started with 12 black men at the University of Minnesota who started a social club in 1911. The club became a chapter of the national Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in 1912. In less than a week, the fraternity will celebrate its 100th year on campus. The historically black fraternity will celebrate in conjunction [...]
Actor, Alpha Frater Hill Harper’s New National Partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Continue reading on Examiner.com Actor Hill Harper’s New National Partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research
Source Actor Hill Harper is supporting a new national partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), Call to Service for St. Jude initiative, which launched earlier this month. “NPHC organizations have deep roots in education and making a difference in the lives of our youth. Engaging this richly diverse membership [...]
Marshall Deltas, Alphas Host Rally Seeking Answers in Trayvon Martin Case
Source The shooting death of Trayvon Martin is one that has struck a chord with communities throughout the country, and students at Marshall University gathered Friday to remember Martin and to make the national conversation a local one. More than 100 students, faculty and community members gathered at the Memorial Student Center Plaza for its [...]
McDonald’s promotes Alpha Frater Don Thompson to CEO as Jim Skinner retires
Source McDonald’s Corp. CEO Jim Skinner is retiring and will be succeeded by the company’s No. 2 executive, President and Chief Operating Officer Don Thompson. The Oak Brook-based fast-food company said this evening that Mr. Skinner, 67, will leave the company and the board on June 30 after 41 years. Mr. Thompson, 48, will take [...]
Progressive Greek Magazine: Winter 2012 Issue
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and Masons Join Forces to Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
On January 15, 2012, graduate and undergraduate Alpha Kappa Alpha women along with the men of the Jericho Lodge #20, Free and Accepted Masons, Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of PA partnered to celebrate the life Martin Luther King Jr. The event was held at Barack Obama Academy of International Studies. The event opened [...]
Knoxville Alumni Alphas Receive Outstanding Alumni Chapter of the Year Award
Source The Alpha Mu Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. won the 2011 Outstanding Alumni Chapter of the Year Award at its district convention in Johnson City. The Knoxville chapter has been in existence since 1930. The criteria for the award is based on fraternity and community service, as well as developing programs [...]
Police Investigate Death of Alpha Frater Dwyone Joiner
Source Family, friends and the Cody High School community are mourning the loss of a long-time teacher. The body of 33-year-old Dwyone Joiner was found in his Sussex Street home in Detroit Wednesday. Detroit Police say he was killed from a gun shot wound, but investigators are not releasing any other details into the death. [...]
Remembering King: Classmates, colleagues recall influence
Source A classmate. A fraternity brother. A colleague in the American struggle for civil rights. A high school student. Their lives intersected with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Decades later, on the holiday celebrating King’s life and the civil rights movement he led, these contemporaries of King recall how the young preacher from Atlanta [...]
