March 22, 2010
The brothers of the Omicron Zeta Sigma Alumni Chapter present the Blue & White Sigma Ball on Saturday May 15, 2010 at the Fort Belvoir Officers Club between the hours of 6:00pm and 11:00pm. At a rate of $45.00 you will be treated to a cocktail hour featuring live jazz music followed a Buffet Dinner. Tickets are availabe to be purchased on the chapter website. http://www.ozs1914.org/bluewhiteball.html
Founder Morse’s WWI Draft Card 1917
Until recently, I had no idea that Founder Morse worked in Portsmouth, Virginia before going further south. As a related point of interest, this document puts Founder Morse in the same city as Bro. T.H. Reid (1st Eastern Regional “Director” or VP) after he finished his JD (HU ‘17) and started practicing at his father’s, Atty. W.M. Reid, well-established firm. The Corey Memorial Institute was founded by area Baptists in 1906. After some financial difficulty, it merged with another private school for African Americans in the area – the Smallwood Industrial Institute. Marcus Garvey’s UNIA purchased the Smallwood-Corey school’s 66 acres and several buildings for $5,000 and the assumption of it’s $55,000 debt in 1925. Renamed Liberty University, the operation was eventually closed in 1929. The last class to graduate from the Corey Memorial Institute in Portsmouth was 1918. Maybe that’s why Morse relocated to Alabama? Read More →
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