Brother Norvell J. Simpson
Brother Maceo A. Sloan
Brother G. Frederick Stanton
Brother NORVELL J. SIMPSON was recently elected to serve a six-year term as a Director for the School District 11 School Board in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is the first Black to serve on this five man board (its members are elected city-wide) which handles a $50 million budget and coordinates a system with more than 35,000 students. After graduating from Madison High School in his hometown of Rochester, New York, in 1949, Brother Simpson joined the Air Force. While still in the service, he received his Bachelor of Arts d e g r e e in E c o n o m i c s and Business Administration from Park College, Parkville, Missouri in 1970. Following 22 years of continuous Air Force service, he retired to make Colorado Springs his home in September, 1971 and began civilian life as a Production Coordinator for TRW. He was selected as the first Black Executive Director of the Pikes Peak Community Action Program in April of 1972 and appointed the Director of the Community Service Department of El Paso County in June, 1974. Brother Simpson has been very active in fraternal and community affairs throughout the United States. Some of his social and civic activities in Colorado Springs are: Pikes Peak Consistory No. 81 - 32nd Degree Mason; Kadesia Shrine Temple No. 135 - Past Potentate; NAACP; and, the Urban League. He is also affiliated with the James Monroe PTA; Colorado Youth Association; Non-Commissioned Officers Association; Community School Advisory Council; Human Relations Commission; and, the District At-
torney's Advisory Committee of El Paso County, to name only a few. The current Vice President of lota Omicron Lambda Chapter in Colorado Springs, Brother Simpson was also selected for inclusion in Who's Who in Black America.
leaders for his calm approach and keen insight into the issues. During his long years of service he was associated with hundreds of alumni, faculty members and students. When the Howard University administration under President James N. Nabrit r e s t r u c t u r e d the alumni program, it was Brother Stanton who was chosen for the job. The Alumni Federation was established in 1964 as a result of his carefully researched recommendations to the Board of Trustees. Brother Stanton also assumed a major leadership role in bettering personnel relations as Chairman of the University's Committee on Labor Negotiations. He attended public schools in St. Louis and received both the Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Finance and the Master of Arts in Economics from Howard University in 1935 and 1942 respectively. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University in 1951. Brother Stanton was a charter member and long-time President of the Board of Directors of the Howard University Employees Federal Credit Union. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Churches. Presently, he is a member of the National Capital Area Council and the National Council of United Service Organizations and a member of the Washington Urban League. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Council for Equal Business Opportunity; Minority Investments, Inc.; and the Greater Washington Business Center. He is on
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Brother MACEO A. SLOAN, CLU, Senior Vice President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, has been named to a three-year term as a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia. Brother Sloan is a member of the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina, and a trustee for the National Assembly of Social Policy and Development. Recently, he served as Executive-inResidence at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
4R Brother G. FREDERICK STANTON, of Washington, D.C., was the recipient of Howard University's Alumni Achievement Award In University and Community Service, bestowed at the school's 1976 Charter Day Dinner. Brother Stanton, who retired in 1971 as Howard's Vice President and Secretary of the University, and Secretary of the Board of Trustees, was one of the school's most respected and efficient administrators. He served the university in key roles for 38 years. During the student protests of the Sixties, Brother Stanton won the respect and admiration of campus
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