THE GALLERY: NATIONAL FOUNDERS' DAY
KAPPA NEWS
Grand Board Member Ivan Garcia established protocol during the 13 th Annual National Founders' Day Observance Opposite Page: Clockwise: 27 th Grand Polemarch Robert, L. Harris, Esq.; Grand Polemarch Battles recounts the Founding of Kappa Alpha Psi ® ; Junior Grand Vice Polemarch Cross readies for the Observance; the local Chapter Polemarchs and South Central Province Polemarch Leonard Clemons receive national recognition ; Rev. Dr. Tony C. Evans, Sr., National Chaplain, exhorts the brothers to keep the Christian principles upon which Kappa Alpha Psi ® was founded "as a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our pathway." Below: Junior Grand Vice Polemarch Christopher Cross, left, with Grand Board Member Ivan Garcia.
Hill has received numerous awards from such organizations as the National As- sociation of Black Journalists, GLAAD and the international Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Also, Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solu- tions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia Univer- sity and Morehouse College. Trained as an anthropologist of education, Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hill exhorted the members pres- ent to appreciate the times that we live in, to listen and reflect on the experienc- es of our Founders and our forebearers and to make sure we teach those coming behind us to persevere.
as a fully financial and active Kappa man.
Waymond Caine, George Wesley Ed- munds, Guy Levis Grant, Edward Giles Irvin and John Milton Lee. With our energy renewed, the broth- ers were once again reminded as in Romans 8:37... in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. Here’s to Kappa Alpha Psi ® !
Dr. Hill's message so transfixed the audience with a spirit of rededication to Phi Nu Pi, until his effects of his oratory will long be remembered. There was a palpable sense of pride in Brother Hill and his delivery, particularly given that he is called upon by the media to give voice to the context of our times. He so moved the audience that the Grand Polemarch was able to appeal again, as last year, to the brothers and channel that Good Old Kappa Spirit that was ablaze from Dr. Hill's remarks into raising five figures within minutes in support of Kappa initiatives. Thereafter, all hearts and minds were cleared to receive the reflections in the tribute to the Founders: Elder Watson Diggs, Dr. Ezra Dee Alexander, Byron Kenneth Armstrong, Henry Tourner Asher, Marcus Peter Blakemore, Paul
Dr. Hill also discussed reclamation and offered examples of what it means to the community when a brother lives
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