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MEACFANS' WRITERS' BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES |
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I
know a lot of you have wondered from time to time how did I arrive at the screen
name Skegee/FAMU/FVSU. During my
senior year of HS, I attracted interest from several of our more prominent
HBCU’s, with Tuskegee and FAMU being among the group. I was accepted by seven,
or eight schools, but because of family ties and tradition, it finally came down
to making a choice between Skegee and FAMU.
I actually chose FAMU over TI (yes, it was still Institute back in that
day), but I attended an all expenses paid pre-engineering program at Skegee the
summer before my freshman year and ended up staying at TI because of the full
scholarship offer they presented. That
was one of the toughest decisions I had made up until that point in my young
life. I really liked FAMU, the
academic reputation, the overall atmosphere, and the athletic and band
traditions. I was even to the point
of sharing a dorm room with a first cousin of mine who had just received a
scholarship to march in “The 100”. It
finally came down to the fact that TI had the better overall scholarship offer,
so I had to go with the money. I
did return to FAMU several years later for a Masters program, so I did get in on
the FAMU educational experience after all.
I will be forever grateful, first and foremost to God for allowing me to
be associated with these two most outstanding institutions, and for these
institutions in preparing me for the success that I have had in my life.
The FVSU portion of the name is in honor of the fact that my mom and all
of her sisters and brothers attended FVSU (Then FVSC). That’s also where she met my now deceased father. Additional
FAMU/Skegee/HBCU ties:
In
addition to his ownership interests in one of the most prominent Greek wear and
HBCU apparel companies, Skegee/FAMU also presently serves as the CFO/Controller
of an African-American owned Construction/Infrastructure company based in the
Metro Atlanta area. Prior to that,
he had over twenty years of professional experience in the Transportation
Industry. Skegee/FAMU
also holds memberships in many organizations.
Graduated from 'Skegee when it was Institute - 1974
with social work degree and English minor. Currently works in newspaper admin and
am trying to figure out how I can retire even as I type.
WSSUgr8ness97
is currently a senior accounting major and chemistry minor attending
Winston-Salem State university (hence the name). He is a 21 year old male,
who as grown to embrace the HBCU and African American Culture. Both parents have HBCU backgrounds, with his father attending FAMU and mother attending Fayetteville State University. His sister also attends an HBCU, and is a NC A&T sophomore. Both of his parents died when he was 10 years of age, and he was raised by his grandmother in Eastern North Carolina until he graduated from high school- 6th in his class. As
a full scholarship student at WSSU, he has been involved in several programs
including the WSSU honors college (Mr. Honors Program 2004-2005), and Honda
Campus All-Star while keeping a 3.09 GPA. This summer he participated in
the NC Department of Transportation Internship program and continues to work
with NCDOT and Winston-Salem DOT part time as a part of a survey project. In his spare time, he likes to play XBOX 360, read, travel, play sports, and continue to better himself (hence the name gr8ness, that’s what he, is striving to be) Current Post-graduation plans include applying to a management program through Wachovia, BB&T or Bank of America, or as a second option, return to school and get a second degree and go into the medical profession.
DOOMSDAY,
the alpha and omega, the four seasons, the field nicka in your corn liquor, the
seed in your weed, the soul glo in yo mama's afro, the crispy coating on your
fried chicken, girl I make it so good it's finger lickin', slam dunk on yo @ss
like Shaq-Fu-Shnicken...
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