Chapter POC collects the VSA10 and $10.00 from each brother.
Chapter POC will collect cash or instruct the brother to write a check for $10.00 payable to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
Chapter POCs ensure that brothers receive a receipt.
Money is immediately deposited in the chapter account.
On designated turn-in dates, chapter POCs forward all chapter spreadsheets, VSA10s and one check (payable to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity) to the State POCs (Bro. Glover and Bro. Davenport).
Bro. Davenport will forward his Chapter spreadsheets, VSA 10s and one check, payable to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., to Bro Glover.
All VSA 10s and Chapter spreadsheets are maintained by Bro. Glover.
Funds are maintained in a designated Zeta Delta Sigma License Plate savings account until $3,500 or more is collected. Bro. Glover and the Zeta Delta Sigma Treasurer are the caretakers of the funds.
Once all funds and VSA 10s are in place a single certified check CHAPTER & STATE TURN-IN PROCEDURES
for the$3,500 or more is written to the VA DMV. That check, accompanied by the350+ VSA10s is presented to the VA DMV to start the design process.
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....
