NATIONAL NEWS: SPOTLIGHT ON CAMPAIGN HONORARY CHAIRMAN
“One of the things that I have never forgotten was the night of December 4, 1954 when the 15 th Grand Polemarch Dr. William Henry “Stud” Greene, M.D. came and spoke to my line the night we crossed over. We had not slept in over a week and there we sat a dining room on the campus of Howard University in December, tired, sleepy and weary, but joyful that we had finally been ac- cepted into Kappa Alpha Psi. “Stud” Greene stood before us, talked to us and he recited a poem entitled the ‘Bridge Builder’ by Will Allen Dromgoole that I’ve never forgotten 65 years later and it goes like this: An old man, going a lone highway, Came at the evening cold and gray To a chasm vast and deep and wide Through which was flowing a swollen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim; The rapids held no fears for him. But he turned when safe on the other side And built a bridge to span the tide. Above right: Jacob with 66 th Laurel Wreath Laureate Thomas A. Moorehead; middle, with Silhouette Barbara; below, with 46 th Laurel Wreath Laureate Dr. Ullysses McBride, 56 th Laurel Wreath Laureate Robert L. Harris, Esq., 72 nd Laurel Wreath Laureate Dennis L. Via and 73 rd Laureal Wreath Laureate Rodney C. Adkins.
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