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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
by CLAIR BAXTER
News Editor
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity hosts several events this week to make this year, its 100th anniversary, a “year to remember.”
Appalachian
State University’s Pi Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha will have a coming
out show Wednesday at 7:06 p.m. to introduce new members and to educate
the campus about the fraternity.
Following the presentation at 9 p.m. in the Summit Trail Solarium, the
fraternity will hold a “Too Cold, Too Casual” cocktail party with food
and music. The fraternity will collect a $2 donation at the door for
“March of Dimes.”
Friday night will bring the annual Miss Black and Gold Pageant.
The event, in Grandfather Mountain Ballroom at 7:30 p.m., “is designed
to highlight … lovely contestants and to showcase all they have that
make them scholarly, hardworking and determined young ladies,” said M.
Jonathan Jackson, an Alpha Phi Alpha member.
Each college chapter of the fraternity holds a local pageant and the
winner from each school has the chance to compete at the area,
district, regional and national level.
“It is important that we as brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha promote
scholarship and uplift women; for behind every man is a strong woman to
help hold him up,” Alpha Phi Alpha President Jamarl D. Clark said.
“We really encourage all people to come out to our events and understand the rich history of our dear fraternity,” Clark said.
Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jessie Owens were members of Alpha Phi Alpha.
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