October 30, 2020

Homecoming-ish

September 05, 2020

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September 03, 2020

Please find 25 minutes to watch this powerful award winning documentary produced by Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker, celebrated physician, artist, healer, and loving wife of my classmate, Nate Whitaker. It’s a story about the Black men and women lynched during the Jim Crow era while highlighting the story of one survivor of a lynching attempt. Ashes to Ashes... no need to say more. So grateful for Dr. Whitaker.

September 02, 2020

Thank you to Benita Toler and Norma Hatot, our class leaders, for organizing the meeting and to the over 40 Original Ogres who joined our first Zoom call. 

September 02, 2020

Most business development professionals started their careers doing something other than sales and marketing. They find themselves thrust into the BD (business development) world due to the need of firms to capture new business and to sustain growth. The Billion Dollar Secret focuses on preparing business development professionals to experience successful pursuits and professional victories.

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September 01, 2020

40 Under 40 Alumni Recognition Society and more...

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August 30, 2020

Rosa Parks~Hampton University~Legacy Park

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January 2019 marked the official opening of Legacy Park on the campus of Hampton University. Rosa Parks, civil rights icon can be found among the 11 sculptures of notable history makers included in this newest addition to our HIU.

Class Check-In on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDST 

To receive the meeting ID and password or the link to join, send an email to hiuogres73@gmail.com or by 6:30pm on Tuesday.

If you have any difficulty with the app and require technical assistance prior to September 1st, please reach out to Renee Sharp, Webmaster and the best person on our team for technology questions.  She can be reached at reneesharp@verizon.net.

2nd Monday ~ Nurturing the Original Ogre Spirit ~ September 14, 2020

2nd Monday Prayer Line ~ with Ivy H. Bennett no longer living in the windy city, but straight out of Williamsburg, Virginia.

Please note the following:
1.  Call in at 7:05 PM/EDST ~ 720-740-9629, Access Code 2401869#.  (Note the call-in numbers and date change.)
2.  New segment "As Our Lives Do the Singing" will cite special accomplishments, honors, appointments, etc., as God continues to use us for His glory to make a difference in the lives of others. 
3. Please send your prayer requests to Renee Hill Carter, Inspirational Team Leader (reneehillcarter@gmail.com), by 3:00 PM/EDST on September 14, 2020.  

Classmate News You Need to Know 

Hubert  H. "Bert" Fitts Launches Another New Business

Bert just opened a new business, Integrated Facility Management. As the CEO, Bert published the following information in his company brochure:  Mr. Fitts has been a leader in the environmental services industry for three decades. He has successfully designed custom cleaning/sanitizing programs for major U.S. commercial, government, education, and airport facilities. He is a graduate of Hampton University. Please send Bert a shout-out at bertcsm@aol.com.  We cannot begin to measure the impact that he has made and that he continues to make in Georgia and world-wide.  With this new business, his reach has become increasingly more relevant and needed.

Click here to view his company brochure.
 

Bruce Mabine, MD Delivers Commencement Address

Our classmate, Bruce Mabine delivered the Ogre history with his commencement address for the Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program class of 2020 on Friday, August 28, 2020. It was an extraordinary honor in that the student body requested Bruce (Dr. Mabine to them, of course) to be the speaker. In so doing, he gave an Original Ogre shout out to Hampton. The link for viewing Bruce's address is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9SrxnecgY  Once there, you may wish to skip ahead to 16:50.

Bruce delivered a powerful speech, including the fact that his HBCU, Hampton University provided an Education for Life.  Bruce encouraged the graduates by using the history making analogy of 1968 with 2020 - noting that he and his classmates survived 1968 and the class of 2020 would also survive. He also reminded them of the need to treat their patients as family members and to do the the right thing even when no one is watching, but especially when no one is watching.  Please find a moment to check out the video.  Congratulations Bruce (bmabine1260@comcast.net)

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New Report by Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce:  A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges.

You may be interested in the findings in this report wherein the author offers a critique of Georgetown's methodology of evaluating ROI: 
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-hbcus-fare-poorly-georgetown-ranking-college-roi-donna     

Who Knew? 
Send your news items to include reports on yourself, comments about the current method of communication, ideas for improvement or whatever you think we need to know in a nice way to Norma & Benita at hiuogres73@gmail.com. 

August 28, 2020

Volatile social dissonance in America’s urban landscape is the backdrop as Valerie A. Miles-Tribble examines tensions in ecclesiology and public theology, focusing on theoethical dilemmas that complicate churches’ public justice witness as prophetic change agents. She attributes churches’ reticence to confront unjust disparities to conflicting views, for example, of Black Lives Matter protests as “mere politics,” and disparities in leader and congregant preparation for public justice roles. As a practical theologian with experience in organizational leadership, Miles-Tribble applies adaptive change theory, public justice theory, and a womanist communitarian perspective, engaging Emilie Townes’s construct of cultural evil as she presents a model of social reform activism re-envisioned as public discipleship. She contends that urban churches are urgently needed to embrace active prophetic roles and thus increase public justice witness. “Black Lives Matter times” compel churches to connect faith with public roles as spiritual catalysts of change.

August 28, 2020

Go now to reneehillcarter.com for this timely presentation on holistic self-care for anyone who cares, leads, teaches, serves others especially our faith and spiritual leaders. What About Me? Staying Healthy and Whole While You're Helping Others is the perfect gift for you and for your pastor, your leader, ministry team, your family, your friends.

November 01, 2019

Thank you, Norma Hatot, for submitting an article about the Original Ogres for this month's newsletter. Click the picture to read Norma's original submission. Click Read Newsletter below to read the entire October newsletter.