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2016 MLK Scholarship Breakfast Honors Students and Community
Activist
Sojourner’s
Truth Staff
On
Saturday, January 16, the brothers of the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, Inc, Alpha Xi Lambda Chapter held its 24th
annual MLK Scholarship Breakfast, honoring four high school
seniors with scholarships and announcing its annual Drum
Major Award to Wanda Jean Butts, founder of the Josh
Project.
The
breakfast, which has grown tremendously over the years in
attendance, drew in excess of 400 participants to this
year’s event at The Pinnacle.
Clyde
Kynard offered the welcome and the invocation. Monika Culp
led the audience in the rendition of “Lift Every Voice and
Sing.”
Chapter
President Jose Rosales and Planning Committee Member Lance
Price presented the scholarships to this year’s recipients:
Ivan Dye, Jr. a senior at St. John’s Jesuit High School;
Charlvan Gaston, a senior at Scott High School; Aaron
Thompson, a senior at St. John’s and Oran Williams, Jr. a
senior at Maumee Valley Country Day School.
Butts, this
year’s Drum Major honoree, founded The Josh Project in 2007
after the drowning death pf her son Josh. She and her
organization have helped thousands of children in the
community by teaching them how to swim. She was named one of
the top 10 CNN Heroes in 2012 for her accomplishments.
The Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, was founded on December 4, 1906
at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and was the first
intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for
African Americans. |
