Lambda Sigma Newsletter
By way of Bro. Garry Gordon comes the May 2008 issue of the Lambda Sigma Newsletter.
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Central Michigan University Graduates
Please join the collegiate and alumni Brothers of Lambda Gamma Chapter Central Michigan University in congratulating our newest alumni graduates Bros. Travis Foster & Detrone Turner. Since 1979, our chapter has had a 90% college graduation rate for our brothers! Also during this period of time Central Michigan University has always had Sigmas and Zetas on campus ever year, due to our academic success as students and the quality of our members.
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Ashley Peppers Assumes Headquarters Command
This post comes from Bro. Occasio L. Gee, Eastern Regional Webmaster. His line brother Cpt. Ashley Peppers (Spring 1998, Omicron Iota Chapter, Old Dominion University) recently assumed command over Headquarters Command, 1-63, Second Brigade, 1st ID in Iraq.
Headquarters Company, 1-63 CAB Changes Command
Story by: FSO Johnothan Boyle
1-63 CAB MAHMUDIYAH, IRAQ – Captain Ashley Peppers of Petersburg, VA, officially assumed command of Headquarters Company, 1-63 CAB, Second Brigade, 1st ID, on February 18th in a ceremony held on Forward Operating Base Mahmudiyah.
Captain Peppers assumed command from Captain Mike Blankenship of Knoxville, TN. While serving in command, Blankenship saw a very active time in his unit’s history. When he assumed command in March of 2007, there were approximately 50 people in the battalion, all of whom fell under the responsibility of the headquarters commander. The unit, then HHC, 2-70 Armor, was in the process of transitioning from executing the Fort Riley Military Transition Team Training Program to standing up a heavy brigade combat team. Blankenship was charged with establishing the initial stages of training necessary for Soldiers to safely and successfully deploy. Over the two years of his command, Blankenship and HHC in-processed nearly 800 Soldiers into the battalion, executed several tank and Bradley gunneries, a combat life saver training program, a National Training Center Rotation, movement to Kuwait, and four months of base defense operations in Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
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U.S. Navy Rear Admiral: Larry L. Poe
Bro. Larry L. Poe of Issue, Md., is a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and president of Poe Consulting Group Inc. He is a board member of the University of North Carolina Black Pioneers. At UNC, Poe was a student government representative, intramural sports official, resident hall floor manager, member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and recipient of a National Science Foundation scholarship.
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1988 Sigma Fraternity House Burned Down
Do brothers remember when the Sigmas (Eta Beta Chapter) were the first Black fraternity on Fraternity Row at the University of Mississippi and then their fraternity house was burned down! I believe it was set on fire a second time before the permanent house was completed. See the Jet articles:
Phi Beta Sigma 1st Blacks on U. of Miss. Frat Row
Officials Probe Fire At Miss. Black Frat House
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