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Challenges and Survival Strategies: Local and National Perspectives by Bro. Campbell Johnson
There should be ample parking nearby: street spaces should be available after 5:30pm, and free street parking will be available after 6:30pm. If you should have any questions, please call Brother Campbell Johnson at (202) 232*1127.
On Thursday, November 7, 1996,
the Mu Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. will host an exciting and informative public policy forum for
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brothers from chapters in the Washington The theme for Metropolitan area. this event is “Challenges and Survival
by Bro. Larry V. Norton
Strategies:
Local
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National
Perspectives,” and the forum will be held in the main auditorium of One Judiciary Square 441--4th Street, NW, Washington, DC. The evening begins with areception
from 6pm to 7pm, and the forum will start at 7pm and end around 9:30pm. Mu Lambda’s Public Policy Committee is working to make this town
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5, 1996, to reason together and begin the implementation and development ol plans and objectives for the 1996-97 fraternal year. Collingwood-On-Thc-Potomac rests on about nine acres fronting on both
The public policy challenges
of the activities for Mu Lambda and
facing African Americans and disadvantaged persons are local, regional, and national. Hence, our response must be targeted to address the challenge in all its manifestations--locaI, regional, and national. As apeople, we face an atmosphere often ranging from
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smoldering indifference to open hostility. As Alpha men, we share aleadership responsibility to identify and assess the
wonderful air of camaraderie and bonding in agreat setting, and on agreat day.
that the success of our activities will
be determined by how the attendees follow-up on the issues discussed at the Retreat.
All attendees \vill agree that the Retreat w'as asubstantive activity whth a
V'arious committee meetings were held in the many rooms of Collingwood,
including Budget and Finance, Public Policy, Programs, Sergeant-At-Arms,
This town meeting is intended to provide the tools and analysis needed to
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time together will be limited, die focus of the forum will be on the status of priority
Brother Andre Wells, and the
can advance them. Attendees will receive
supporting information relating to the
details of i.^sue analysis and merit in a “Strategic Action Plan; Working Papers” packet that will be provided for you upon arrival.
and full sessions on Fund Raising and the Refreshments were provided by Brotherhood enjoyed delicious snacks, a luncheon, and dinncr--while disciv.sing the issues of the day and gazing across aglen shaded by spreading elm trees to the Potomac sparkling in rfre midday sun. Look for asynopsis of the issues discussed and the solutions proposed in each sessirn
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At CoUing'A'ood, on ahill over looking the Potomac River, fty brothers of Mu Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. gathered on October
the Potomac River and the George
with political strategists to help identify
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Great Setting, Great Day, Great Start
Washington Memorial Parkway in A l e x a n d r i a , VA . This property was p’'*'c.hased by Georg" ^Vr«hingtcn n 1 7 6 0 and made apart of his river farm, the largest of the ve working farms that were apart of the Mount Vernon estate. “The Retreat was only the beginning,” says Brother Lamar Arnold, coordinator of the event, in an interview \vith the Torch. “The best is yet to come
Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Committee is working
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