Salute Chapter President
Brother Sadler Honored in Georgia
BETA IOTA LAMBDA
Brother Charles Wesley Harvard Speaker
Brother A. G. Sadler
Brother James J. Prestage
Dr. James J. Prestage, Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Southern University, has been named Dean of Academic Affairs on the Baton Rouge campus. Brother Prestage is a native of Alexandria, La., and was formerly professor of Biology prior to becoming chairman of the Computer Science Department. He has been a member of the Southern University faculty for 15 years and recently took a year's leave to serve as Associate Director of Louisiana's Coordinating Council of Education. Brother Prestage was named to the post by the Louisiana State Board of Education upon the recommendation of Southern University President G. Leon Netterville. He is presently serving as President of Beta Iota Lambda Chapter in Baton Rouge. A graduate of Southern University with a B.S. degree in Biology, Brother Prestage earned the masters and Ph.D. degree at the State University of Iowa. He is married to Dr. Jewell L. Prestage, Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Southern University.
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Brother A. G. Sadler, recently received a 30 years outstanding service award from the Georgia Association of Vocational Agriculture Teachers. Sadler, was born and reared in Wilkinson County, Gordon, Georgia where he had his grammar school training, High School training at Hudson High and Ballard Normal, Macon, Georgia, B.S.A. degree agricultural & Technical College of Greensboro, N.C. Master's degree in four major fields of concentration from Tuskegee Institute, Alabama further additional training at Cornell Univ. Ithaca, N.Y., Abraham Balwin and the University of Georgia. Special training skills 1. Acetylene and arc welding, 2. Electricity, 3. Concrete masonry & Brick masonry, 4. Tractor operation & maintenance. He is certified in four fields and holds two certificates D-P-5 & D-T-5. During his twenty-seven years of service in Worth County, twenty-two of the years as teacher of agriculture and five as supervising teacher of the Veteran Farm Training Program in seventy-five counties of Georgia with headquarter's at Sylvester, Georgia. Some of his accomplishments in Sylvester are as follows — Constructed two Voc. Ag. Bldgs., two canning plants, served as chairman of the Black Fund Raising committee for construction funds in the construction of Worth County Hospital, first Black member of Draft Board, Stock holder at the Bank of Worth, served on the Title program for
Dr. Charles Wesley
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Brother Charles H. Wesley, retired executive director and former president of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History spoke on "DuBois and Africa" at Harvard University on Tuesday night, March 20. Brother Wesley's talk was sponsored by Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, headed by Professor Ewart Guinier. The Department is currently trying to get Harvard to establish a W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research for graduate and undergraduate students. public Beautification in the county, notary for twenty-one years, serving as Co-ordinator of Worthmor Enterprises in the development of Highland Park 175 lot subdivision for the Black citizenry of Worth County. He is a member of Brown's chapel C.M.E. church, life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Georgia Teachers Assn. Ga. Voc. Teachers Assn. American Vocational Association, Worth County Teachers, Assn. Y.M.C.A. and Honory member of Georgia Sheriff Association. Brother Sadler is a charter member of Gamma Omicron Lambda Chapter in Albany, Georgia.
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