Thank you for your attention. This is a blog of The Continentals of Omega Boys and Girls Club (Keystone Leadership group) We are on our 2009 College tour to the east coast. We are from Vallejo CA. This program is a part of the club geared to helping our young people get into college.
This club was started in 1966 by Philmore Graham, an engineer from North Carolina in Vallejo California. Since then we have graduated hundreds of people from college. Some of which Gregory Howard writer of "Remember the Titans" and "Ali", C.C. Sabathia pitcher for the New York Yankees, and Judge Robert Rigsby Superior Court judge of the District of Columbia Washington D.C.
We are now on a tour starting March 20th and ending March 27th. Please view our blog and make comments in the comment areas. Also do not start at the top and work your way down. Go all the way down and keep hitting older post until you get to the beginning and start there and work your way up to get the full effect. Again thank you and I hope after you view this blog it will inspire you.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Good Bye
Well this is our last entry. This picture is a picture taken with some of our members and the founder of the Continentals of Omega Boys and Girls Club Philmore Graham. I hope this college tour has inspired you if you are a youth. Education is important to the advancement of our society. We do take this program very serious. Our goal is to empower our young people's future. The success of our people getting into college and suceeding in high school is dropping.
As long as we have the Continentals of Omega Boys ad Girls Club, we will fight the statistics. As you see we are successful. Our students are getting into college, or trade school. They are getting the tools for Adult success as well.
But we need help to continue. The club is feeling the affects of this economy. Please log in to tinyurl/65jusm or visit our website The Continentals of Omega Boys and Girls Club, or send a check to 1 Positive Place Blv. Vallejo California, 94589.
Again thank you for viewing this blog and we do hope this has been inspirational to you.
JaCeeka Williams
JaCeeka has been excepted to several colleges. She has chosen to Bowie State or ONe of the colleges in Southern California.
Cameron Cash and Tiara McKnight Daniels
Cameron has been excepted in several colleges. He is looking at Bowie State University, however he still wants to contiue basketball, so he is weighing scholarship opportunities.
Tiara has also been excepted in several colleges. She has chosen Howard University. This is great, because it will give her an opportunity to get to know her uncle and his wife whom she just met on the tour.
Rico Thompson
Rico plans to attend a junior college. He will study Fashion Design and Marketing. After junior college he plans to contiue his education at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.
Jordan Pope
Jordan said that he will be attending a Junior College. He will be taking courses that would aide in his continue work on his clothing line.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Back home
We are now heading to the airport to go home and give these students back to their parents. We made it back home safely. Another successful tour finished.
Mr. Spivey
Mr. Spivey has been driving us for as long as I been going on the tour. He has been a big part of our tours. He is very knowledgeable of the areas we tour and the history, and any other relevant information. He can drive that bus like no other. He has grown from our bus driver to a good friend. Our students, passed and current, respect and love him. Thank you Mr. Spivey we love you.
Robert Rigsby
Our last day was spent with Judge Robert Rigsby. Brother Rigsby is a former member of the Omega Boys and Girls Club. He actually worked in the same bulding our students work in now. He eventually graduated, went to law school and now in WAshington D.C. as a superior court judge. We were able to sit in the court room and watch him in action. After that he spoke with our students and took us to his chambers. He even walked us back to the Metro. All it cost me was a coat and hat.
Finding ancestors
Listed next to the statue are names of soldiers. The students went to look for soldiers with their last name hoping to find an old relative. You see here my little cousin Susanna. She is pointing to some soldiers with our family name.
Soldiers fighting for freedom " Are we winning?"
After leaving Howard University, we went to tour Washington D.C. We are now visiting tribute to the African-American soldiers who fought in the Civil War. Eventhough the Emancipation Proclamation opened the doors for African-American Soldiers to enlist it was still hard. fighting Federal laws, predjudice, and other hardships. The end of the war started the end of slavery, but the culture of freedom is still being fought even to this day.
Omega's Monument
Pictured you will see myself Mr. David and our male students next to the Omega Psi Phi Monument.
Birth of Delta Sigma Theta
Howard University is also the birth place of other greek organizations. One being the Sority Delta Sigma Theta Inc. The others we will not talk about. You see Mrs. Davis with our female students next to Delta's Monument.
Howard University
We are now at Howard University touring the college. Here is one of the student ambassadors showing us around the campus. Next to Tiara is her Uncle from Washington she just met. He met us at the college. If you know her mother you would say her uncle looks just like her.
Group meetings
At the end of the day we usually meet to discuss thge events of the day. We check the completion of booklets, journals, and other materials. Students who have not finished their materials have to finish them that night or be fined for lunch the following day. We also take the time to discuss the colleges visited and get some input from the students as well.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Keystone's Picture
I get choked up when I think of this young lady. If I were to take this program and give it a picture it would look like her. Tranisha is the longest, most active Keystone member. She is very serious about our expectations of the members. She prides herself for not missing a meeting in years. She is very active at the Boys and Girls Club. Whatever we tell the members to do, she does. When she first joined the Boys and Girls Club she was shy and afraid to speak out publicly. Now, not only will she speak publicly, but she represents the youth on the Boys and Girls Club board.
Tranesha plans to major in radiology, and after graduation from college, she plans to give back to the Boys and Girls Club. She is another story that if you knew it you would be as choked up as I am. This young lady is truely a survivor and an example of not complaining about what you do not have. Tranesha, I am so proud of you. You are an inspiration to me.
From a long way
This is a young man who is very special to me. This young man and his family have been around myself and my family for years. David Adams has come a long way. If you knew this man's story you would want to write a book on him. I am very proud of David who has traveled from being in trouble to being a high achiever. He is very active at his school, running track, playing football, and baseball. He is active in his church and in the Keystone Leadership Program. David keep it up.
Oh! I forgot
I forgot to mention that Cameron was allowed to play basketball with the Bowie State Boys Basketball team against the Russian team.
Help from the family
My family blessed us by opening up their home and cooking dinner for us. My cousins Demetrius and Regina and their husbands really took care of us. Thank you cousins. I love you.
The African-American Wax Museum
The experience of this place was filled with mixed emotions. There were pictures that were very graphic. Some of our students had to step out, because it was too much for them. The students, however, need to see how people have suffered, and how they suffered so that we could have the freedoms that we take for granted. This was eye opening for myself and the students.
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