2 - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014 - THE CAROLINA TIMES
Chapter Picture Identification:Seated: Erma Smith-King, Edena Thomas, Helen Horton, and Angeline Baker Standing: Brittany Judd, Joyce Roland, Bertha Wil-
ams, Wanda Wilkins, Connie Kelley-Sidberry, Betty Borden, Marie James, Gloria Anderson, Willie Gilchrist-Stanfield, and Connie Levister.
Speaker:Dr. Johnea Kelley
Central Carolina
Black Nurses
Council Holds
Annual Lecture
Dr. Johnea Kelley deliv
ered the 23rd Annual Educa
tion Lecture sponsored by the
Central Carolina Black Nurses
Council, Inc. (see picture at
tached) at the Friday Center in
Chapel Hill on December 7,
Her presentation, “Join Me in
a Conversation about Health
Disparities,” traced the histori
cal development of sociopo
litical practices and influencers
that under gird health inequi
ties, and offered interventions
that can be implemented to
ameliorate them: Dr. Kelley is a
retired nursing professor whose
career spans and 59 years as a
staff nurse, head nurse, nurse
educator, and administrator
in various hospitals, commu
nity settings and universities
in Durham and throughout the
United States (see picture at
tached)
The Distinguished Service
Award was bestowed upon
Jabar A. Akbar, RN, BSN,
MPH for outstanding contribu
tions to the chapter and com
munity (See picture attached)
Mr. Akbar is a nurse at Duke
University Medical Center and
is pursuing the MSN from Win
ston Salem State University.
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Distinguished service award: left to right are: Marie James, left, and Gloria Anderson, right,
present Distinguished Service Award to Jabar Akbar.
Durham Kappas Attend Founders Day Celebration
Durham Kappas,recently joined brothers from around the triangle to celebrate Kappa Alpha Psi’s Triangle Area Founders Day
Celebration. The fraternity was founded in 1911 on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Kappa Alpha Psi is the
second African American fraternity incorporated as a national organization. Elder Watson Diggs and nine other African American
students at Indiana University embraced a mutual vision to form a fraternity. Durham Alumni Chapter was founded ten years later as
the first graduate fraternity in the city of Durham. The fraternity is committed to helping African American youth fulfill their potential
as productive men.
Michael D. Page, Chairman of the Durham County Board of Commissioners and Past President of the Kappas of Durham Foundation
was presented Durham Alumni Kappa Man of the Year Award. Additionally, Alfred E. Russell, Retired Veterinarian and significant
contributor to the Kappas of Durham Foundation Community Center was presented the Durham Alumni Senior Kappa Man of the Year
Award.
Since its inception, it has trained more than 150,000 men, particularly undergraduates, for leadership roles in their communities
and the attainment of a high degree of excellence in their academic pursuits. There are currently over 700 undergraduate and alumni
chapters on college campuses and in major cities throughout the world. Kappa Chapters exist in Germany, South Africa and Korea. The
International Headquarters is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kappa has undergraduate chapters at Duke, NCCU and UNC. James Edward Shepard founder and first president of NCCU was a
member of Durham Alumni Chapter.
Some nationally known members of Durham Alumni are: A. Moore Shearing Past Grand Polemarch and founder of the North Carolina
Mutual Provident Association, the forerunner of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and Southeastern Province Polemarch;
James T. Hawkins, Past Senior Grand Vice-Polemarch and local business leader; James “Babe” Henderson, Past Grand Board of Directors
Member, Past Grand Keeper of Records and Exchequers, and Laurel Wreath Laureate (Highest Award Presented by the fraternity and
Past Financial Vice President ofNorth Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; J. M. Hubbard, Past Southeastern Province Polemarch;
Charles Clinton Spaulding, Past President ofNorth Carolina Mutual Insurance Company and Laurel Wreath Laureate; Frank G. Burnett,
Past Middle Eastern Province Polemarch; Conrad Pearson, Civil Rights Pioneer and Director of Region 3 (Province Polemarch); John
L. Stewart, recipient of Journalistic Award at the 58 th Grand Chapter Meeting in Miami Florida; Lenzie G. Barnes, Elder Watson Diggs
Award (Second Highest Award presented by the fraternity); Randal M. Rogers, Past Middle Eastern Province Polemarch; Joseph King
Davis, Jr. Past Middle Eastern Province Polemarch: Ronald O. Rohadfox, CEO of Construction Control Services; and Charles Johnson,
Past President of the National Black Medical Association and Bert Collins, Past President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company. .
The Durham Business
& Professional Chain held
its “Health, Wealth & Hap
piness” Lunch on Thurs.,
January 23, at the Palace
International(1104 Broad St
in Durham). The program is
part of its One O’Clock Lun ¬
Join The Chain monthly at is
lunchon meetings.
Ms. Joyce Page, MPH at the
NC Division of Public Health
and Director of Project DI
RECT (Diabetes Control and
Prevention) was the guest
tspeaker.
cheon held monthly.
Members of the Durham Graduate Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi
The Alston-Slade 20th
Annual Family Reunion
was held during late Sum
mer here. The founder and
1st Matriarch Mrs. Minnie
B. Slade Alston received a
special tribute during the
event.
The family has traced its
lineage from the West Indies
to Ethiopia.
The family can trace six
generations of the families
of Alstons and Slades.
The reunions began La
bor Day 1994 at Duke Park
in Durham.
Along with a picnic and
dinners, the family wor
shiped at the Firs Congre
gational United Church of
Christ in Durham.
Mrs. Minnie B. Slade
Alston hoped a scholarship
would be organized by the
family.