COMMEMORATING 60 YEARS OF CRWLC :1961- 2021
• James E. Greene, Jr., 1993-95 • Chauncy E. Haynes & Robert W. Scales, Jr., 1995- 2003 • A. Bates Lyons & Jimmy McMikle, 2003-07 • Elwood Shannon, 2007-11 • Joseph K. Davis, Jr., 2011-13 • Lascel A. Webley, Jr., 2013-15 • Dr. Marvin D. Carr, 2015-17 • Vincent K. Bennett, 2017-19 • Dr. Samuel Odom, 2019-Present C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference celebrated its ‘Golden Anniversary’ (50th) during the Frater- nity’s Centennial (100th) Celebration (2011) under the leadership of the 31st Administration of Kappa Alpha Psi led by Grand Polemarch and 76th Laurel Wreath Recipient Dwayne M. Murray, Esq. Post both the Silver Anniversary and the Golden Anniversary of the C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference, it was transformational forward-thinking and imagination that successfully propelled the Conference into Second Century Kappa. Our evolving undergraduate membership cohort, which makes up the rank and file within Kappa Alpha Psi, is perpetually diverse, fluid, agile. Our undergraduates are well-represent- ed on the world stage yesterday, today, and tomorrow in Every Field of Human Endeavor. The virtual Inaugural National 2020 National C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference served as benchmark inter- secting with the future tackling officer training, leadership opportunity, expert accessibility, attendance validation and certificate attendance/participation. At its core, the principle of the C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference remains to prepare our leaders of tomorrow for achievement within the Fraternity, their careers and their respective communi- ties. The 34 th Administration of Kappa Alpha Psi authored and approved the 2021 - 2025 Strategic Plan led by Senior Grand Vice Polemarch Brother Jimmy
C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference National Chairman Dr. Samuel Odom provides the Leadership Address to the Southwestern Province in 2021.
McMikle (Chairman). Focus Area # 7 focuses upon Training For Leadership and strategy #2 is designed for the C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Confer- ence. The goal is to develop, enhance, and expand opportunities for personal growth, professional development, and life readiness, whether for an internal, external, youth or adult audience. The C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Confer- ence Committee seized upon Strategy # 2 and are well underway with the overhaul and standardization of the Conference to provide transformational leadership opportunities that truly increase the leadership capacity of our membership with a strong focus on our undergraduate demographic. Within the Bond of Fraternity, we must be forever mindful and embrace the belief uttered by Founder Elder Watson Diggs circa 1916, “You must make our motto “Phi Nu Pi” mean something to you. The organization is not one for personal aggrandizement nor one to fulfill petty vanities. It is to aid you in becoming noble, wise and true.” The veracity of this statement now more than ever, serves as our true North directionally in tandem with fidelity as our compass and leadership as our roadmap.
cess and triumph on August 24, 2021… here’s to continuous genius, here’s to Training for Leadership since 1911, and finally, here’s to the upcoming Diamond Jubilee anniversary of the C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference in 2036. Our team endeavors remain laser- focused upon exceptional mentoring and teacher-learner opportunity as the touchstone for Training for Leadership leaning and looking forward to the next sixty (60) years for the C. Rodger Wil- son Leadership Conference. A special acknowledgment and thanks to our twelve (12) C. Rodger Wilson Leader- ship Conference Province Chairmen specifically, Marcus D. Bailey (E.C.); Dr. DeAndre T. Howard (E); Keith Crosby (M.E.); Marvin O. Pettaway (M.W.); Lenell Pryor (N.C.); Anthony A. “Tony” Morgan (N.E.); Jahquan C. Hawkins (N); Samuel W. Bell (S.C.); Dr. Joseph W. Ducksworth (S.E.); John “Tony” Foster (S); Andre G. Harden (S.W.) & Timothy A. Lankford (W) for their reliable, resolute, unswerving com- mitment and meticulous work. φν π
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