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Phi Beta Sigma Founders Day

January 9, 2010 by · Comments Off on Phi Beta Sigma Founders Day 

phi beta sigma founders dayPhi Beta Sigma Founders Day,The Annual Joint Founder’s Day Observance of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (Gamma Sigma Chapter) and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc (Alpha Xi Zeta Chapter) has been scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 at 2 p.m. in the Star-Mindingall Auditorium, located at 3240 Franklin Road in Tuskegee. This year’s theme is “Celebrating 90 Years of Helping Other People Excel.”

Dr. Wendy R. Coleman, a dynamic Ambassador of the Gospel, will be the principal speaker. The founding visionary of Remnant Ministries of Albany, Ga. and a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., she is fully equipped to motivate and inspire members of the fraternity and sorority, as well citizens of the larger community.

In 1996, Coleman founded and opened This Blessed Place: For Women Only, a ministry aimed at discovering, discussing, and healing the special hurts of women.

Another of her initiatives, New Anointing Performance Troupe, toured Florida, Alabama and Mississippi with its first production, James Baldwin’s, “The Amen Corner,” during the summer of 1996. These two ministerial initiatives are now under the auspices of Remnant Ministries.

A 1993 graduate of Alabama State University, Dr. Coleman returned to her alma mater and worked from 1996-1999 as an Instructor of theatre and served as advisor to the Tribe of Judah Choir.

Currently, she serves as Director of Theatre and Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre at Albany State University in Albany, Ga., and as Advisor to The Anointed Gospel Choir of the university.

Coleman also serves as president of The National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts, Inc. (NADSA), a 73-year-old theatre organization, the oldest in the United States. She is also a graduate of Florida State University where she completed doctoral studies in Theatre and Dramaturgy.

The public is invited to hear Coleman as she speaks and incorporates her special gift of singing. A fellowship hour with refreshments will conclude the observance.

Arthur D. Caffey and Senora Moore serve as Graduate Chapter Presidents. Program participants will also include members of the local and area undergraduate chapters

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