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A Snapshot of the NAASC TodayAs the NAASC continues its professed mission to support Spelman College intothe millennium, the following active chapters provide book awards and generalscholarship assistance to students who matriculate at Spelman College.Through recruitment efforts to identify interested students, chapters haveprovided an ongoing stream of prospective students that reflect varied geographicregions . Innovative community service projects and alumnae programsthat reflect the diverse alumnae population are being initiated all overthe United States. In addition, the NAASC contributes $25,000 for annualsupport to Spelman College and in support of the NAASC-Donald M. StewartEndowed Scholarship. The following list of Chapter presidents or contact personsrepresents the NAASC of today and tomorrow, a diverse organization —as measured by geographic locations or by the spread of class years — ofalumnae who are working on behalf of the NAASC and Spelman College. Formore information, contact President Pearline Davis, NORDOM@aol.com, orPresident-elect Dr. Phoebe Bailey, C 66, plbailey@aol.com, or call the NAASCOffice at 404-755-4231.Northeast RegionCoordinator: Deidra Fryer C’84, dfryer@csc.comBoston, MA Chandra Banks-Gooding C’91Baltimore, MD Sandra D. Jennings C’96Columbia, MD Marian Rucker-Shamu C’65Delaware (statewide) Kristen Williams C’86Hampton Roads, VA Dr. Jocelyn Simpson Harrison C’86Metro Richmond, VA Kelli M. Poindexter C’85New York , NY Dawn L. Hankin C’95Northern New Jersey Stephanie L. Muhammed C’91Philadelphia, PA Connie Boswell-Robinson C’77Southern Maryland Felicia R. Lasley C’91Washington, DC Cassandra Morgan C’82South Central RegionCoordinator: Dorothy Myers Stepteau C’63 (acting)Arkansas (statewide)Deitra Austin C’95 (contact person)Baton Rouge, LA Dotty Marie Hampton C’73Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX Vicki D. Weatherspoon C’76Houston, TX Dorothea Hunter Carter C’89Memphis, TN Stephanie Green-Cole C’83Mississippi (statewide) Lillian McKinney Cooley C’55New Orleans, LA Valeria Henson-Fulton C’59Oklahoma (statewide) Brenda L. Primas C’70SoutheastCoordinator: Juanita Law Barnes C’73 jbarnes@unf.eduAlbany, GA Dr. Joyce Allen Clairborne C’70Athens, GA Thelma Hurley C’46Atlanta, GA Stephanie Bush C’68Augusta , GA Demetrice Allen C’80Birmingham, AL Carolyn Bailey Collins C’56Charlotte, NC Sandra Wilson Drakeford C’83Chattanooga, TN Dr. Charlotte Stinson Garth C’54Columbia, SCMary Lynn Diggs C’77 (contact person)Columbus, GA LaNora Emziah C’68Decatur, GA Janice Turner C’85Huntsville, AL Tawnya Plummer C’95Jacksonville, FL Flora Feggins-Peterson C’72Miami-Dade, FL Dr. Karen Moore C’80Middle Georgia Donna Smith Palms C’73Montgomery, AL Lisa Sims Stewart C’75Nashville, TN Darlene Abernathy-Neely C’93(contact person)Orlando, FL Irene Derry Gibson C’74Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC C.T. Woods-Powell C’75Savannah, GA Sharon Ellis Bussey C’86South Florida Kwanza Clay, C’92Tallahassee, Fl Dr. Gloria Price Holmes C’71Tampa, Fl Dorothy Bell C’70Winston-Salem/Greensboro, NC Denise Hartsfield C’76Far West RegionCoordinator: Laura Burton Odem C’68 (acting) lodem@co.la.ca.usDenver, CODorothy L. Peay C’59 (contact person)Hollywood/San Fernando Valley, CA Gia Ramos C’95Las Vegas, NV Kim Bailey C’86Los Angeles, CA Laura Burton Odem C’68Phoenix, AZ V. Letecia Hughes C’85Sacramento, CA Ann Thomas Braxton C’39San Diego, CA Olga Cook Charles C’66(contact person)San Francisco/Oakland, CA Gail M. Atley C’83Seattle, WA Dr. Patricia White Chatard C’62(contact person)Great Lakes RegionCoordinator: Robin Burton-Leverette C’78Chicago, IL Georlette R. Peavy C’86Cincinnati, OH Faith Cargile C’90Cleveland, OH Kathy Watson Carter C’77Columbus, OH Cheryl Wyatt C’94Detroit, MI Sylvia Glenn Simmons C’74Indianapolis, IN Prethenia Kent-Jones C’57Madison, WI Renae Murphy C’94Minneapolis, MN Tara Leigh Buckner C’87(contact person)St. Louis, MO Renee Wilford Gates C’75InternationalBahamasSpencer Dean C’95 (contact person)24S P E L M A N M E S S E N G E R
Affairs. This move helped to bridge an emerging nonprofitorganization with a College under new leadership.The Association leadership knew that the Associationmust position itself to reduce its dependence on the Collegeyet increase its financial strength and clout by puttingitself in the position to obtain independent funding. Theresult was the incorporation of the National AlumnaeAssociation of Spelman College in 1976 as a 501(c)(3)nonprofit organization as orchestrated by Henrietta Turnquest,C’68, who was the attorney of record for the incorporation.The NAASC was to be a separate corporate entitywhose defined role was to support Spelman College yetwhich would be self-governing. This led to a shift in theimage of the Association. It was clear that this step was achange in the relationship between NAASC and the College.A new NAASC logo was designed and a new imagewas launched. However, the future nature of the newalumnae association was yet to be revealed.The separation was not intented to put the NAASC atodds with the Institution. According to the constitution, theDirector of Alumnae Affairs, an employee of the College,was to be the vice-president of the NAASC. Therefore, theCollege would always be aware of the NAASC plans. TheNAASC could present annual reports to the Board ofTrustees. Annual meetings, as required by the articles ofincorporation, would be held on campus in May. PresidentStewart initiated a fundraising campaign that included theNAASC. All of these efforts were carefully planned to answerthe question whether the NAASC was still true to its organizationaland collegiate roots and promises. The differencewas that the NAASC was laying a foundation for the nextmillennium — to clarify roles and identify and communicateneeds — and it was orchestrating a plan of action utilizingcollaborative leadership to meet those needs.Programmatic Initiatives —The SASE ProgramThe College faced pressing challenges in the seventies —lowered applications (which threatened the student population),financial pressures and the need for diverse studentexperiences to help students to move beyond the traditionalsocial work, teaching and business careers. TheCollege launched an outright effort to attract students inthe sciences for the purpose of producing more scientists,doctors and researchers. The Association responded by collaboratingwith the Admissions Office to recruit studentsfor Spelman. In 1976, armed with a manual for alumnae,the Admissions Office held recruitment training sessions totrain alumnae on the latest methods in recruiting students.The NAASC worked with the Office of Career Planning,and the Spelman Alumnae-Student Externship(SASE) was started. This program paired alumnae withstudents for a career exploration experience during springbreak. Two separate corporate entities — Spelman Collegeand the NAASC — were collaborating to meet the needs ofthe students and the Institution.NAASC Scholarships and AwardsThe eighties were the years of visibility and image buildingfor the newly incorporated association. Alumnae wereawarded the first NAASC Hall of Fame Awards and MeritAwards. The College recognized several long-term activeAlumnae Association members by naming lounges in theDonald and Isabel Stewart Living Learning Center. TheNAASC established the Donald M. Stewart Endowed Scholarshipwhich provided annual scholarships to students.The National Emergency Student Loan Fund was establishedwith contributions from the Baltimore, Columbia,Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles Chapters. To date, morethan thirty students have borrowed from the EmergencyLoan Fund. The Glee Club had been touring nationally fordecades, the newly organized Spelman College JazzEnsemble (1987) began touring nationally with the assistanceof the anchor chapters — the Detroit and theNorthern New Jersey Chapters. The NAASC, in conjunctionwith the New York Chapter, created its first national raffle,which netted $35,000 for the College. In 1981, the NAASCcreated a Landscape Planning Committee that workedwith the School of Environmental Design at the Universityof Georgia to develop a campus beautification campaignfor Spelman.Dorothy Pleasant (right),NAASC President ,1982-1986New Jersey Club in the 80’sPhoto: Jo Moore StweartNAASC Meeting, 1980Photo: Jo Moore StweartPhoto: Spelman ArchivesW I N T E R / S P R I N G25
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