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Jan. 8, 2003
CONTACT: Gordon Ovenshine (724)
738-4854; e-mail: gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
DEVELOPING LEADERS
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FOUR SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS QUALIFY FOR NATIONAL BLACK STUDENT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
IN RICHMOND, VA.
SLIPPERY
ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University helps students build
leadership skills through a variety of programs, campus activities
and conferences. Among the university’s high achievers
are four students chosen to attend a national leadership conference
featuring prominent African-American speakers and workshops on
“meeting the challenge of leadership in uncertain
times.”
High
academics and demonstrated leadership ability qualified the four
for the Carroll F.S. Hardy National Black Student Leadership
Development Conference which runs Thursday through Sunday [Jan.
9-12] in Richmond, Va. Up to 1,000 students are expected. The
Rock’s participants are:
• Tamara
Whiting (Schenley High School) of Homestead. She is a senior
communication/public relations major and president of SRU’s
Black Action Society and the University Program Board;
• Justin
Fuller (Imani Christian Academy) of Pittsburgh. Fuller is a
freshman communication major (after time in the armed services). He
is a senator with the Student Government Association and member of
the Student Union for Minority Affairs, WRSK campus radio and Black
Action Society;
• Terrell
Milliner (Hopewell Senior High School) of Aliquippa. He is a
freshman communication/public relations major, member of the Black
Action Society, Student Union for Minority Affairs and helped
organize a Bible study for students; and
• Barbara
Metropolous (Aliquippa Senior High School) of Aliquippa. She is a
senior business management/-human resources major, and treasurer of
the Black Action Society.
Sample
workshops include Leadership and Faith, the Nine Signs of Effective
Leadership, Creating Your Vision, Global Leadership and National
Security and Black and Blue: Understanding Depression in African
Americans. There will also be a graduate and corporate career
fair.
The
theme for the conference is "Vision, Commitment, Determination and
Faith: Told to Meet the Challenge of Leadership in Uncertain
Times." Keynote speakers include Donna Brazile, senior leadership
fellow and national chair of the Voting Rights Institute; Dr. Belle
S. Wheelan, secretary of education for Virginia; and Michael
Lee-Chin, chairman, chief executive officer and chief investment
officer of AIC Limited.
The
Rock’s Office of Minority Student Affairs and Cultural
Diversity is the primary sponsor of the four students.
New Pittsburgh
Courier,
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