Submitted photo
Sorors pose with the speaker of the Vital Issues breakfast. Left to right: Delegate-Clarissa Felder, Valeria Edwards, Local President-Patsy Squire, Author-Dr.
Vilicia Cade, Delegate-Donna Mickens,Anne Moye, Alternate-Mae Burner, and Cynthia Russell.
Phi Delta Kappa chapter attends conference
Special to
the chronicle
The Annual Eastern
Regional Conference of the
National Sorority of Phi
Delta Kappa, Inc. con
vened in Langhorne, Pa.
during the week of April
21-24 at the Sheraton
Bucks County Hotel.
Eight African
American teachers in
Jersey City, NJ. started the
National Sorority of Phi
Delta Kappa, Inc. in 1923.
The purpose of the sorority
includes 'To foster a spirit
of sisterhood among teach
ers and to" promote the
highest ideals of the teach
ing profession." The soror
ity has expanded through
out the United States with
many educators as active
members. The National
President is Charlotte
Williams of Baltimore, Md.
Patsy Squire serves as the
president of the local Beta
Lambda chapter.
Rho Chapter of the
National Sorority of Phi
Delta Kappa, Inc. hosted
the 76th Eastern Regional
Conference. The confer
ence theme was "Enriching
Lives: Pursuing Excellence
for All!" Over 400 sorors
attended the regional con
ference. Members from the
Winston- Salem Beta
Lambda chapter attending
included the President -
Patsy Squire, past chapter
presidents-Ann Moye and
Valeria Edwards,
Delegates-Donna Mickens
and Clarissa Felder,
Alternate- Mae Burner, and
Treasurer-Cynthia Russell.
Eastern Regional
Director, Noreen E. Little
from Hempstead, New
York presided over the con
ference. During the same
period, the Anthropos, the
male affiliate group under
the leadership of Eastern
Regional President
Anthropos Derwin Sawyer
Boyd convened for their
48th Eastern Regional
Conference..
Beta Lambda Chapter
members took advantage of
every moment of the con
ference. The first session
on Friday was the leader
ship institute which had its
emphasis on helping mem
bers of the sorority to know
the duties of each office in
clear details.
The second'session pro
vided professional devel
opment workshops
throughout the day. Topics
included:
?Teaching in the 21st
century!
?How Does Your Staff
Garden Grow?
?The Bully, Bullied and
the Bystander!
?Assistive Technology
for Adults with Disabilities
?In the- Ways of the
Ivory Tower: Black
I
Women in Professoriate;
Strengths and Challenges
The first plenary ses
sion convened on Friday
evening, followed by a
welcome reception, games
and a fashion show.
Saturday's Vital Issues
breakfast featured speaker
was Dr. Vilicia Cade,
Senior Director of
Secondary Education,
Christina School District,
Wilmington, Del. Her
topic was: How do we get
Youth That Experience
Trauma to Excellence? Dr.
Cade emphasized the
importance of leveraging
obstacles and valuing
excellence. Dr. Cade gave
us four action steps to take
back to our schools: 1.
Understand root causes; 2.
Eradicate obstacles; 3. Be
resilient; and 4. Endure to
excellence. Dr. Cade also
reminded us to lead with
humility. She was avail
able for her book signing,
"If Not for Love."
Participants attended
professional as well as per
sonal workshops, followed
by the second plenary ses
sion and concluded with
the Torch Lighting
Ceremony.
The awards banquet
was held Saturday during
which the banquet present
ed two $6,000 scholarships
from the Eastern Region to
high school seniors and a
$1,000 scholarship to a
soror pursuing a doctoral
degree.
The conference con
cluded on Sunday after the
third plenary session.
Farrakhan coming to
Winston-Salem in May
SPECIAL TO
THE CHRONICLE
The Honorable
Minister Louis Farrakhan
is coming to Winston
Salem May 21-22 to
keynote a national fund
raising effort to help estab
lish and construct the
Fuller & Dudley
Entrepreneurship Museum.
The three-day event
begins on Saturday, May
^?-,21, at the Benton
Convention Center and will
feature several national
and international business
leaders including George
Fraser, best-selling author
of "Success Runs In Our
Race," and creator of
Fraser-Net, the nation's
largest professional net
working organization; Lisa
Nichols, CEO of her own
company and best-selling
author of six books includ-'
ing, "Chicken Soup For
The African-American
Soul," a celebrated trainer,
facilitator and life coach
whose tags-to-riches suc
cess story has fast become
a national blueprint for
established and aspiring
entrepreneurs; Debra
Bartlett, the renown
Caribbean media mOgul
and Chairman of the CEO
Network; and the leg
endary founder of Dudley
Products, Joe L. Dudley,
Sr., best-selling author of
"Walking By Faith," who
started the company that
bears his name with $10, a
dream, a prayer and dogged
determination that led hint
to build what has now
v ? .
become a third-generation
black-owned business, a
rarity in black America.
Held in honor of the
late Chicago-based busi
ness tycoon and civic
leader, SB Fuller, the
nation's first self-made
black male millionaire, and
Dr. Dudley's 79th birthday,
the event comes to a dra
matic conclusion on
Sunday, May 22, at a star
studded black-tie affair fea
turing the legendary leader
of the Nation of Islam, the
Honorable Minister Louis
Farrakhan, whose keynote
address will outline plans
for business, financial, eco
nomic self-sufficiency and
community responsibility.
On Sunday, May 22,
Joe L. Dudley Sr.'s 79th
birthday celebration is a
gala black tie event to raise
funds for construction of
the Fuller - Dudley
Entrepreneurship Museum.
This is where Minister
Farrakhan, the chief organ
izer of the historic 1995
Million Man March that
brought more than a mil
lion black men to
Washington, D.C., will
bring the message to close
out this historic event.
. An overflow crowd is
expected to attend the
event which will be held at
the Embassy Suites.
Advance registration is
required. No tickets or reg
istration material will be
available at the door. To
secure RSVP registration,
call 336-782-8383 or email
rayeandrosie@aol.com.
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