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Timothy pAULE™, the trade mark photographer locally recognized by his editorial/fashion style is making his way through Detroit.  Professionally, he has been a photographer since 2008 with his start as a photo journalist for Wayne State University’s, South End New’s Paper.  Within that same year, he was picked up as a freelance photographer for the Michigan Chronicle, and Detroit’s Free Press Metromix.com. Alongside his passion as a photographer, Timothy is also a graphic designer, abstract artist, professional percussionist. and also a proud member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Nu Sigma Chapter, 11/19/05.

The Chicago Urban League today will name Andrea Zopp as the eighth president and chief executive in the civil rights organization’s 94-year history.

Zopp, 53, has been with Exelon Corp. since 2006, serving most recently as its executive vice president and general counsel. She also has held corporate jobs with Sears Holdings Corp. and Sara Lee Corp.

But she came into the public eye in the 1990s, when she was the first assistant Cook County state’s attorney, running the office day-to-day and handling high-profile prosecutions.

Zopp said the legal and business background will help her as she addresses what she called the Urban League’s most critical need: money. She said the organization has suffered financially as other nonprofits have and needs to “diversify its revenue base and reconnect with a lot of its sources in fund-raising.”

She also said the league needs to speak out more on violence affecting African-American communities and to emphasize programs it offers to address the problem. The programs include mentoring for black males and advice for entrepreneurs.

Active with the National Urban League, Zopp said she has long respected the Chicago group. “Really, it was the history of this organization and its importance in the African-American community that led me to this job, along with the recognition of the skills I bring that can help it along,” she said.

Known to friends as Andy, Zopp is a Beverly resident who is married and has three children.

The chairman of the Chicago Urban League’s board, Jim Reynolds, praised her “legal expertise, business acumen and heartfelt passion for building stronger communities.” Reynolds, chairman of Loop Capital Markets, said Zopp will lead the group “to a higher standard of excellence in its program delivery, advocacy and resource development.”

Zopp succeeds Cheryle Jackson, who left the organization to compete in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Jackson became vice president of government affairs for aviation supplier AAR Corp.

Dr. Roslyn Clark-Artis, executive vice president of Mountain State University’s Beckley campus, has been named chief academic officer for the university.

Artis will be responsible for all curricular and programmatic academic decisions regardless of the campus or modality. All academic decisions will be centralized under her leadership to ensure consistent and high quality education for MSU’s student body.

The new structure provides that all academic deans will report directly to Artis in order to ensure all academic decisions are under the direction of one person.

An active member of the West Virginia State Bar Association, the Mountain State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, Artis practiced law with Brown & Levicoff PLLC from 1995 to 1997 and The Wooton Law Firm from 1997 to 2003 before embarking on a career in academia.

After having served as an adjunct professor for more than six years, Artis joined MSU as director of the legal studies program in 2002. In 2003, she resigned from the active practice of law and accepted an appointment to the position of senior academic officer for distance education at MSU. In this capacity she assumed responsibility for the university’s independent study and online programs as well as management of MSU’s branch campuses in Martinsburg, Orlando, Fla., and Center Township, Pa.

Subsequently, in June 2004, she was appointed to the position of provost for distance education.

Thereafter, Artis served as vice president of university advancement where she was responsible for all university fundraising efforts, corporate development, governmental, public and alumni relations.

Most recently, MSU President Charles Polk appointed Artis to the position of executive vice president of the main campus at Beckley. Her responsibilities included corporate development, governmental and public relations, alumni development and services as well as management of all academic courses and programs.

She also continues in her role as president of the Mountain State University Foundation and manages all university fundraising efforts.

Artis earned a B.A. in political science (magna cum laude) from West Virginia State University, a Doctor of Jurisprudence from West Virginia University School of Law and an Ed.D. in higher education leadership and policy from Vanderbilt University.

She is an active member of several community boards and organizations, including the United Way of Southern West Virginia (immediate past president), YMCA of Southern West Virginia, Raleigh General Hospital Board of Trustees, Mountain State Bar Association (past president) and the West Virginia Board of Law Examiners.

She is also a former member and past president of the Beckley Area Foundation Board of Directors. She is a member of St. Paul Baptist Temple, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. (past president), The Links Inc. of Southern West Virginia (president) and is a member of the Woodcliff Garden Club (past president).

Artis has traveled extensively and lectured regularly on topics from politics to personal management. In 1998, she traveled to West Africa as a part of a contingent of African American leaders to educate African women on issues education and economic empowerment.

In 1999, she was recognized by President Clinton as one of the “1000 Points of Light” in communities across the country for public service and in 2000 was recognized by the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus as “A Leader in the Making.”

More recently, Artis was recognized by the West Virginia Executive magazine as a 2008 “Young Gun.” She is also the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Living the Dream Award for Community Service and has been named one of West Virginia’s 40 Under 40.

The daughter of the late Robert M. and Christina E. Clark, Artis was raised in Beckley, where she currently resides. She is the wife of Selby R. Artis and the parent of six children, Will, Wesley, Rebecca, Christopher, Jayden and Jocelyn.

State Sen. Royce West has put out the call across Texas for members of black fraternities and sororities to become volunteer mentors with Big Brothers Big Sisters, which pairs youths with caring adults who steer them on a positive path.

West, D-Dallas, an Omega Psi Phi fraternity member, met this month with Greek organizations and other service groups at Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Dallas headquarters. He discussed how more mentors would help the many youths – particularly young black boys – who need a guiding hand.

Big Brothers Big Sisters has hundreds of youths on the waiting list for mentors. In most of their cases, Mom works outside the home and Dad is absent.

West points to the low graduation rate among black males in Texas as an issue for mentors’ attention. He said members of black Greek organizations are equipped for supportive roles. As community leaders, they have “unique power” to make change, he said in a prepared statement before meeting the groups.

“It is our duty to answer the call of our most vulnerable youth,” he said in the statement.

West’s new statewide initiative creates a mentorship pipeline for black students from third grade to their college sophomore year. The program will begin in North Texas this fall, using volunteers as “goal models” for the youths.

Groups that will work with West and Big Brothers Big Sisters include the National Pan-Hellenic Council, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Region 10 Education Service Center and the Texas Education Agency. To learn more, visit www.bbbstx.org or call 1-888-887-2447 or 214-467-0123.

At a time when most Greek organizations have seen alcohol disappear from rush season, two fraternities have seen the disappearance of rush entirely.

There are three members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. after a national moratorium on recruiting, and the number could dwindle to zero if it holds for the next two years.

The loss of Alpha Phi Alpha at UNC would mean more than the loss of a slot at annual National Pan-Hellenic Council step show. It would mean losing a group that has been on-campus since 1976.

The moratorium came as a surprise to the group in January, when it had 11 members.

Hazing incidents at other universities brought a halt to recruiting for chapters across the nation.

“It caught a lot of chapters off-guard,” said Terence McPherson, the UNC chapter’s president.

Phi Beta Sigma, another historically black fraternity, is also dealing with a halt in recruiting. Members could not be reached for comment.

At the time of the moratorium’s announcement, Jenny Levering, assistant dean of student life for fraternity and sorority life, said the UNC chapter had no recent history of misbehavior.

Omar Glover, the UNC chapter’s vice president, said he thinks the fraternity’s national leadership has his chapter’s best interests at heart.

If the ban holds through next year, Glover said he is poised to be the chapter’s lone member. McPherson and Treasurer DaShon Williams are both seniors.

Glover said he is confident that he could lead the chapter by himself, but the moratorium has already made its operations more difficult than last year, especially when it comes to the planning and funding of events.

“It’s really making us creative,” McPherson said.

In the past, the group was able to hold events like its annual Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant without worrying about how to pay for them.

This year, members said the group has to pay more attention to planning and funding events than before. In addition to the sale of tickets and memorabilia, they have had to look to alternative sources of funding, such as donations from alumni.

The group said it has not yet had to cut any of its planned events due to reduced revenue. Alumni have been more than a revenue source for the group. The members said they look to recent graduates for guidance and help when it comes to the nuts and bolts of running a fraternity. They said personal communication with former members is not uncommon, but the number of conversations about business they have had with them is more than they anticipated.

“They really put us in a position to keep going on,” McPherson said.

The three men “crossed the line” — or formally joined the fraternity — in Fall 2009. Glover said he was influenced to join the fraternity by his father, who was a member during his college years.

They said the occasional freshman approaches them to ask about joining the fraternity.

They welcome the interest, but do not discuss the ban. And they do not want to discourage prospective members.

If the fraternity’s membership dissolves, members said the fraternity’s strong alumni network should be enough to keep the name alive. They said they remain optimistic that it would not get to that point, but are considering appealing the moratorium if it does.

And Glover said he cannot envision a UNC without the group.

“The people who would want to be Alphas will never decrease,” he said.

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When students show up to the King/Robinson magnet school on Wednesday, they’ll find 500 backpacks waiting for them, stocked with goodies inside.

The backpacks, donated by the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, were assembled over the weekend at the Community Center at 230 Ashmun St.

Of course, it’s not just backpacks that the students are getting. It’s what’s in them which makes them special: glue sticks, pencils, pens, notebooks, rulers, crayons, erasers, scissors and folders.

Lined up on either side of the table like a true assembly line, volunteers handed down the bags, and called out what they were putting in them, and how many of the items, as each bag was going down the table.

In the past four years, Phi Beta Sigma’s New Haven Alumni Chapter has given over 1,500 backpacksin various K-8 public schools in the city. John Watts, the chapter’s director for social action, said the fraternity’s goal is to give out 500 backpacks this year, bringing their total to 2,000 bags.

Watts, chair of the School Supply Drive, said the fraternity plans year round to bring the materials together for the drive, but they pull the materials together during the two to three weeks before school starts.

“We try to bring in other organizations, Sigma Gamma Rho [Sorority], Zeta Phi Beta [Sorority], the New Haven Police Department, there’s a lot of community supporters, so….we try to get them to invest in our programs,” Watts said. “And we try to put ‘em on the bag, too, so that way, … the kids can see who supported the school supply drive.” He went on to explain why: “We need to invest in kids. And with the bad economic times, this program … the worse the economy gets, this program can be a big blessing on families with low-incomes.”

Watts said the fraternity works with the Board of Education each year to identify which schools need supplies. This year, King/Robinson was the lucky winner.

“We did Lincoln-Bassett one year, so we try to move around each year, so,” said Watts. “We want the public’s continued support. This is our fourth year, and we’re looking to do it each year and continue the blessing for New Haven students going back on the first day of school.”

Natalie Roach (president of Zeta Phi Beta’s Phi Lambda Zeta Chapter), agreed with Watts. At a time when parents have to deal with purchasing food and clothing, “this will make it easier and alleviate the trouble of going to buy school supplies for them, and just to show [the community] that were all here, working together and making sure they are taken care of.”

“We’re looking forward to seeing the looks on the kids’ faces when they get the bags,” she said.

The University of South Florida chapter of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity has been suspended while detectives investigate allegations of off-campus hazing, university officials said Monday.

Tampa police said the alleged hazing took place at 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 22 and 23 at an address on W Busch Boulevard.

Police received a report about the incident Friday night and detectives have since conducted “numerous interviews,” Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.

“We are investigating to determine if a crime occurred,” she said. None of the suspects are current USF students, no arrests have been made and the investigation is expected to take several more days, police said.

No one received medical treatment as the result of the incident, McElroy said. But neither she nor USF spokeswoman Lara Wade would say what the nature of the complaint was.

University students, faculty and staff learned of the investigation late Monday afternoon in an e-mail from USF system president Judy Genshaft. The e-mail did not initially identify the fraternity, which set the campus abuzz.

“That was kind of a shock,” said student body vice president Spencer Montgomery, 22, a senior majoring in communication. “I was sitting at my desk (when the e-mail arrived) and it was like, whoa.”

As soon as administrators learned of the allegations, USF took what Genshaft described as the “severest possible action.” The fraternity chapter in question was suspended and the chapter’s national organization was notified so that it could begin an investigation.

The suspension means that the chapter in question is not recognized on the campus. “They can’t meet, they can’t rent rooms, they can’t operate on this campus,” Wade said.

USF has 40 Greek organizations, only some of which have fraternity or sorority houses on campus.

While the police investigation is pending, USF will suspend any students involved in the incident, and “we will respond to all hazing incidents in the same way,” Genshaft wrote.

“Hazing is illegal,” she said in the e-mail. “It is against university policy, and it is totally unacceptable at USF.”

While Genshaft said USF’s Greek organizations provide rewarding and enriching experiences to students, she added that “unfortunately, this group held a secret off-campus meeting and violated the standards and policies of not only our university, but the rights of our students.”

This is not USF’s first incident of hazing.

In December 2006, the 70-member USF chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha shut down amid allegations of alcohol and hazing violations. The chapter had already been put on probation as a result of previous alcohol violations.

In 1999, Alpha Eta chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority was suspended after pledges complained that they had been beaten with a wooden paddle severely enough to inflict bruises.

Carlos A. Whitaker, a 1994 Marshall High School honors graduate, recently was promoted to director in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse.

He has the responsibility for managing a team of professionals that sell and trade equities and equity derivatives for some of the largest hedge fund clients of the bank including SAC Capital, Moore Capital, Och Ziff Capital Management, York Capital, Magnetar and HBK Investments.

Whitaker also received an Investment Banking Outstanding Achievement award from the company for his skill in leveraging the bank’s resources to complete a large and complex transaction that was outside both his geographic and product coverage area for one of the bank’s largest clients.

Whitaker began working for Credit Suisse at their Houston office in 2000. After three years, he was transfered to Boston, where he worked for three years. He is currently based in the New York office.

Whitiker is a May 2000 University of Texas-Austin honors graduate. He earned three degrees – a bachelor of arts from the Plan II Honors Program; a bachelor’s of business administration in accounting; and a master’s in accounting from the Professional Program in Accounting. He was a sommerfeld Scholar for maintaining a 3.75 or better grade-point average. He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.

Whitaker is the son of Willie and Faye Whitaker and has one sister, Angela Whitaker. He has a son, Bryce Whitaker, who is attending the York Preparatory School in New York City.

Credit suisse is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The bank earned accolades during the recent financial crisis for its prudent risk management and strategic allocation of capital. In 2009, Credit Suisse was recognized as “Bank of the Year” by the International Financing Review.

Barbara Ann Tarver, who worked in Baltimore schools as a teacher and assistant principal for more than three decades, died Aug. 22 from injuries sustained in a two-car crash early that morning on Interstate 70. She was 61.

Ms. Tarver was born, raised and educated in Baltimore. She graduated from Western High School in 1966 and earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from what is now Coppin State University, where she joined the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. in 1970.

A few years later, she received a master’s degree from the same school, remembers friend Ann Ezell.

“She loved people; she never met a stranger,” Ms. Ezell said.

They met in 1974, as young teachers at Beechfield Elementary School, and became close, socializing and raising their children together. Ms. Tarver’s daughter, Joi Myles, was the center of her life, Ms. Ezell said.

Ms. Tarver also taught at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School and Garrison Middle School, Ms. Ezell said. She last worked at a school in West Baltimore’s Lafayette Square before her retirement about three years ago.

Her fashion sense skewed toward loud colors and bold, glittery jewelry that matched her personality, Ms. Ezell said. She loved to read, complete word search puzzles and mentor city students through various after-school programs.

And Ms. Tarver continued to challenge herself, receiving an “Aspiring Leadership” certificate from the Johns Hopkins University, family members said.

Funeral services were held Saturday at the St. John AME Church.

Besides her daughter, Ms. Tarver is survived by a sister, Joella Malone, and her father, Henry Tarver, all of Baltimore.

Welton C. Flynn, MBA, Manager for H Welton Flynn Accountants and Auditors, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in financial services.

A specialized professional in income tax consultation and representation, Welton C. Flynn now lends nearly three decades’ expertise to his position at H Welton Flynn Accountants and Auditors. As Manager, Mr. Flynn is charged with a broad portfolio of processes including the management of tax, accounting, auditing, consulting and financial services. Mr. Flynn has demonstrated sustained excellence in such operations and was named Cambridge Publishing’s 2009 Professional of the Year in Financial Services, as well as its 2010 VIP Member of the year.

Mr. Flynn, now a successful professional, exhibited early talent as a student of California State University at San Francisco, where he earned dual bachelor’s degrees. Graduating with a GPA of 3.83, he went on to attend Regis University, where he graduated summa cum laude and received an MBA in 2006. Mr. Flynn credits his success to his patience and consistent effort and will continue to draw upon these strengths as he strives to expand his client base in private business.

Mr. Flynn is a proud member of the San Francisco Accounting Organization and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

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