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A&M Black-Tie Scholarship Ball set for Friday, April 19, at VBC
04/07/02
Alabama A&M University officials and supporters are planning an elegant event to raise money for the school's scholarship fund. The Second Annual Black-Tie Scholarship Ball is set for April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall of the Von Braun Center.
Sponsored by AAMU's Office of Corporate Relations, the evening also will feature a tribute to Boeing as Company of the Year; Bill Gurley and SAIC as Advocates of the Year, and Smithlain Enterprises as Small Business of the Year.
Entertainment will be provided by the Kelly O-Neal Band, a five-member jazz group.
Last year's inaugural ball drew a crowd of about 200 people. This year, the event is expected to draw even more university faculty members, staff, students, alumni and supporters, according to ball co-chairwoman Pat Norton of the AAMU Office of Corporate Relations and co-chairman Roosevelt Conley of Raytheon.
Other members of the organizing committee are Becky Martin, Boeing; Elizabeth Garcia, Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce; LeRoy Daniels, retired from Redstone Arsenal; Robin Philson, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama; Kimberly Ford, New York Life; Elizabeth Sloan-Ragland, AAMU's Telecommunications and Distance Learning Center/WJAB; Dr. Dorothy Huston, AAMU vice president of research and development; Jerome Saintjones, AAMU public relations; Georgia Valrie, AAMU Development and Alumni Affairs; Kat Meeks, Great Southern En gineering Inc., and Margaret Watson, JR Enterprises Inc.
Key sponsors of the fund-raiser include Teledyne Brown/SES, AAMU Research Institute, AmSouth Bank, Redstone Federal Credit Union, Sallie Mae, AAMU Telecommunications and Distance Learning Center/WJAB, Air Conditioning Parts and Tech Masters.
Proceeds from the event will support the Councill Challenge Fund, which has provided up to 15 scholarships for qualifying freshmen each fall semester since 1999.
04/07/02
Alabama A&M University officials and supporters are planning an elegant event to raise money for the school's scholarship fund. The Second Annual Black-Tie Scholarship Ball is set for April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall of the Von Braun Center.
Sponsored by AAMU's Office of Corporate Relations, the evening also will feature a tribute to Boeing as Company of the Year; Bill Gurley and SAIC as Advocates of the Year, and Smithlain Enterprises as Small Business of the Year.
Entertainment will be provided by the Kelly O-Neal Band, a five-member jazz group.
Last year's inaugural ball drew a crowd of about 200 people. This year, the event is expected to draw even more university faculty members, staff, students, alumni and supporters, according to ball co-chairwoman Pat Norton of the AAMU Office of Corporate Relations and co-chairman Roosevelt Conley of Raytheon.
Other members of the organizing committee are Becky Martin, Boeing; Elizabeth Garcia, Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce; LeRoy Daniels, retired from Redstone Arsenal; Robin Philson, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama; Kimberly Ford, New York Life; Elizabeth Sloan-Ragland, AAMU's Telecommunications and Distance Learning Center/WJAB; Dr. Dorothy Huston, AAMU vice president of research and development; Jerome Saintjones, AAMU public relations; Georgia Valrie, AAMU Development and Alumni Affairs; Kat Meeks, Great Southern En gineering Inc., and Margaret Watson, JR Enterprises Inc.
Key sponsors of the fund-raiser include Teledyne Brown/SES, AAMU Research Institute, AmSouth Bank, Redstone Federal Credit Union, Sallie Mae, AAMU Telecommunications and Distance Learning Center/WJAB, Air Conditioning Parts and Tech Masters.
Proceeds from the event will support the Councill Challenge Fund, which has provided up to 15 scholarships for qualifying freshmen each fall semester since 1999.
