COVER STORY
SGVP Jenkins: Thank you, Brother Polemarch, much appreciated. Williams: Brother Senior Grand Vice Polemarch, let’s start with your thoughts about last Saturday’s event. I was there, but please share with our readers how you were feeling at that moment. Jenkins: I have to tell you Brother Williams, it’s difficult for me to even reduce it to words. That’s funny, especially coming from somebody who quite frankly earns a living by coming up with words to explain circumstances and situations. It’s probably an overused cliché when you hear people say, ‘I never would have thought in a million years that some- thing like this would have happened to me.’ I was just overcome with emotion and I still am. I woke up the next day wondering whether or not it was a dream or if it was real. I saw all the comments on Face- book in the days following and that confirmed to me that I didn’t imagine it. I’m just so humbled and so grateful that the Brothers, who I have so much respect for in this fraternity and in this chapter see something in me, that they thought I
SGVP Jenkins cuts the inaugural ribbon for the Robert L. Jenkins, Jr. Room with members of the Historic Kappa House Restoration Foundation.
“THE BROTHERS OF THE WASHINGTON (DC) ALUMNI ARE PROUD TO DEDICATE THE NEWLY RENOVATED ROOM IN THE KAPPA KASTLE AS ‘THE ROBERT L. JENKINS LOUNGE.’”
was due such an unbeliev- able honor. At the same time, as much as I’ve experienced in my life, particularly in Kappa, things like this only inspire me to earn this right. The privilege to carry myself in a way that when people
come in the Kappa House and enter in the room–they learn about the fact that this was done for me. So, when they see me, they understand why. When they hear me, they understand why. When they see me go through my walk in Kappa,
they say, ‘hey, we see why.’ I have to carry myself in a way that is representative of this chapter, which is reflec- tive of their judgment and doing something similar. I know my answer is kind of all over the place, but I’m still coming to grips with
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