Brother Hamm presently serves as Treasurer of Alpha Theta Lambda Chapter, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Illlllllllllll Brother Henry Hammond, Jr., a native of Augusta, Georgia, and a u n d e r g r a d a u t e s t u d e n t at Miles College majoring in Mathematics, has taken full advantage of available minority programs, grants and scholarships. This summer from June to August, he worked on the campus of Alabama A&M University in the Physics D e p a r t m e n t studying the growth of Methyl 1-2 (2,4-dintrophenyl) A m i n o p r o p a n o a t e Single C r y s t a l s u n d e r t h e p r o g r a m of M i n o r i t y R e s e a r c h C e n t e r of Excellence sponsored by NASA in Huntsville, Alabama. Brother H a m m o n d is ambitious. He is working hard in the music industry as a lyrist, and studying h a r d in college to m a i n t a i n h i s scholastic grade point average as well. Besides all that, as First Vice President of the Student Government Association, he spends long hours handling student problems. Along with music, studying and the S.G.A., he still fulfills his obligations within the fraternity as Vice President and Sphinx-Editor. The b r o t h e r s of G a m m a Kappa C h a p t e r w o u l d like to c o m m e n d Brother Hammond for his outstanding p e r f o r m a n c e this s u m m e r at the University of Alabama A&M.
Illlllllllllll Brother Maurice Henderson, a distinguished writer and educator, is a F e l l o w of t h e W o r l d L i t e r a r y Academy in Cambridge, England. Henderson is a graduate of Adelphi University a n d the University of Pennsylvania Publishing Institute and teaches at Temple University's PASCEP and Woodhaven Center in the Northeast. This fellowship will allow h i m t i m e to d o s c h o l a r l y research and lecture on the Arts and Literature (African-American). Brother Henderson has authored several books and is the editor of three anthologies. His syndicated articles have been published in the U n i v e r s i t y City N e w s a n d o t h e r newspapers across the United States. He is listed in Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets and International Authors Who's Who. Maurice Henderson has had his The Sphinx/Spring 1990
plays p r o d u c e d Off-Broadway in New York City, Chicago, Houston, Buffalo, Philadelphia, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Franciso, North Carolina a n d N e w Jersey. He h a s b e e n a Writer-in-Residence in the Theater Center Philadelphia Playwright Workshop, an Artist-in-Residence for the Independent Performing Artist Project at the Community Education Center and an Artist-in-Residence with the South Jersey Theatre Ensemble. Brother Henderson has directed plays at the Frank Silveria Writers Workshop and Quest Drama Company in New York and Bushfire T h e a t e r a n d P l a y w o r k s in Philadelphia. He has also served as Producing Artistic Director of the Adelphia Repertory Touring Company a n d E x e c u t i v e D i r e c t o r of t h e National Author Tour. Henderson has lectured and taught at several Colleges and Universities throughout the United States. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the American Biographical Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina and the Playwright Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Maurice Henderson is also a m e m b e r of Omicron Delta Lambda C h a p t e r in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Illlllllllllll Brother William Hoston, III, a native of Montgomery, Alabama who now resides in Detroit, has been elected by the Tuskegee National Alumni Association to serve as its representative on University Board of Trustees. Brother Hoston, employed with the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, began his three-year term on the t r u s t e e board January 20, 1989. Since his graduation from Tuskegee University in 1969, Hoston was an electrical e n g i n e e r w i t h G e n e r a l Motors Corporation before he joined the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn as a divisional plant engineering designer. He was a project engineer for several years before being named superintendent at Ford Motor World Headquarters in 1986. B r o t h e r H o s t o n is a T u s k e g e e Presidential Associate and a member of the Tuskegee 1,000 Plus Club, both i n d i c a t i n g his g e n e r o u s , a n n u a l giving to the University. Several organizations have cited Hoston for his community and civic leadership,
including the Detroit Public Schools, Jack and Jill of America, Inc. (Detroit chapter), the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Kiwanis Club (Indianapolis, Ind.) and the State of Michigan. More than 30,769 students have graduated from Tuskegee University since the school was founded in 1881. Its N a t i o n a l A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n includes 119 chapters in 29 states, the District of Columbia and the island of Bahamas.
Illlllllllllll Brother Allen W. Knox, president of Knox Dental Center, was sworn in as p r e s i d e n t - e l e c t of C h i c a g o ' s L i n c o l n D e n t a l S o c i e t y at t h e September 30 installation ceremony at the Henry Crown Space Center, M u s e u m of Science and Industry. The 39-year old d e n t i s t and c o m m u n i t y l e a d e r will b e c o m e president of this 150-member, Black dentists' organization for the 1990-91 program year. In June, Dr. Knox was installed as vice president of the Kenwood/Hyde Park branch of the Chicago Dental Society, an affiliate of the Illinois Dental Society and American Dental Association. S u m m a r i z i n g the challenge for Black dentists in their communities, the dentist-educator offered, "The unique mission for African-American dentists is to heighten the awareness of the community's need for proper and regular dental health care. Unfortunately, we still a p p r o a c h dental and medical health care as a 23rd-hour crisis activity. One of the primary goals of the Lincoln Dental Society is to speak to the needs of the African-American community, as w e d e n t i s t s are obligated to the education and application of preventive dentistry in our communities. Knox Dental Center, located in the Jeffery Manor Shopping Center, is a South Side-based, full-service, general dental health care facility that offers such services as endodontics, p e r i o d o n t i c s , operative dentistry, oral examinations and prophylactic treatment, full restorative service, cosmetic dentistry and oral surgery.
Illlllllllllll Brother Lee D . Miller, III, of Alpha Delta Lambda Chapter, received his Master of Science Degree in Telecommunications and Information Page 17