Upcoming Events

March 13 WVSU Choir Concert – 7:30pm 15 WVSU Founder’s Day Convocation and 121st Birthday Reception – 11:00 am P.A. Williams Auditorium/Ferrell Hall Lobby

17 WVSU Black & Gold Gala and Motown Concert Featuring TOUCH– 7:30pm P.A. Williams Auditorium 27 Junior Recital: James Hodges,

saxophone – 7:30pm Davis Fine Arts Theater 30 WVSU Yellow Jacket Alumni

All Star Jam – 7:30pm Davis Fine Arts Theater, Admission $10 (Proceeds go to the Alumni Book Fund).

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WVSU Yellow Jacket Alumni All Star Jam on March 30

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March 30 - 7:30 PM, Davis Fine Arts Theater

“Old school” players get back to State for an evening of music and

memories.

Line up at this time: Jonathan Wesley - Drums Jackie Heath - Lead Guitar

Mike Pleasant - Bass Dugan Carter - Saxophone

Dick Stockton - Trumpet Bill Hambleton - Trombone

Tim Courts - Piano Cindy Moss - vocals Lisa Mosley - vocals

WVSU STUDENTS admitted FREE.

GENERAL ADMISSION: $10.00 at door. PROCEEDS GO TO THE WVSU ALUMNI BOOK FUND

For information: Dick Wolfe at 304-766-3188

WVSU Headlines News and updates about alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends.

West Virginia State University Office of Alumni Relations 200 Erickson Alumni Center P.O. Box 1000 Institute, WV 25112 Phone: 304.766.3322 Fax: 304.766.4107 Questions? Comments? Email Us

WVSU National Alumni Association Chapter Listing For contact information for each

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February 25, 2012 - 2011-2012 Basketball Reception The W Club partnered with the Offices of Institutional Advancement & Alumni Relations on February 25, 2012 at Erickson Alumni Center with a reception to honor the 2011-2012 men's and women's basketball teams. Student athletes, coaches, alumni, faculty, staff, WVSU retirees and friends enjoyed a special evening with celebrating and saluting these talented fine young men and women!

Peter Lewis, Class of 1964 Apple Ridge Farm, an organization dedicated to providing outdoor and educational experiences for under-served youth in Roanoke, VA, has been selected to be a participant in The Greenbrier Charity Weekend March 16th & 17th at Greenbrier Resort in WV. Alumnus Peter Lewis, Class of 1964 is the organization’s President. For more information about Apple Ridge Farm, click here: http://www.appleridge.org/news/

Hughie Mills, Class of 1949 Alumnus Hughie Mills, ’49, has once again been honored by the Columbia Business School (CBS). The Black Business Student Association (BBSA) Community Service team at Columbia Business School has partnered with the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, to create a small business outreach program for local Harlem businesses. Named the Hughie Mills Business Academy (HMBA), the program teaches business plan preparation and conceptualization.

Rev. Donald Robinson, Class of 1974 Beacon House, a non-profit, community based organization that provides tutoring, mentoring, cultural, athletic, recreational and nutritional programs to at-risk children, ages 5-18, who reside in and around the Edgewood Terrace community in Ward 5 of Washington, D.C., was recently featured on WUSA’s Hero Central. The organization, founded by WVSU alumnus Rev. Donald Robinson, Class of 1974, assists at-risk youth to identify and pursue educational objectives that culminate in college or vocational training, and, more generally, to prepare them for productive involvement in their community and society. The organization has also been named one of the best small charities in the Washington DC region. For more information, please visit http://www.beaconhousedc.org

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In Memoriam

February 2012

Serena Strother Wilson ‘56

Willie “Newt/Fly” Austin ‘57

For more information, please

visit our In Memoriam page at: wvstateu.edu/alumni/memoriam

WVSU National Alumni Association News

21st National Alumni Conference May 3-6, 2012

WVSU National Alumni Association – 21st National Alumni Conference The 21st National Alumni Conference will be held in Philadelphia, PA May 3-6, 2012. WVSUNAA National Conferences are designed to provide opportunities for Alumni to dialogue with University administrators, staff, students, friends and each other around strategies to support our University (i.e. student recruitment, membership development, and fundraising). Highlights include presentations by the University, recognition of Distinguished Alumni, and 110% Chapter Awards. Full registration is $150 (includes all conference activities). Philadelphia Airport Marriott is the Conference hotel

Click HERE to view the Registration Form for the Conference

(Deadline to register is April 15th, 2012)

Click HERE to view the Souvenir Journal Contract/Ad Application for the Conference

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