Omega Chapter - Bro. Jeffrey Matthews, Jr.

When We Wear the Gloves

Manhood.......laid low

Brother Jeffrey Allen Matthews, Jr - Omega Chapter

When we say our last goodbye...He walks on Streets of Pearls

Easter Blessings from the Love BDD Foundation

Share this day's blessings of hope and love. Happy Easter from the  Love BDD Foundation, Inc.

D.C. teacher incorporates learning with movement

D.C. teacher incorporates learning with movement
By Robin Gould, Leon Harris | Wednesday, January 20, 2016

WASHINGTON (ABC7) -- At the William E. Dior Junior Public Charter School for the Performing Arts, students in Demetrius Lancaster's fourth grade Language Arts class are practicing spelling. But to an observer outside the classroom, it might be hard to tell as students can be seen jumping up and down.

In every lesson, Lancaster incorporates movement, from jumping jacks while spelling the word "peers," to jabs as they shout the letters for the word "habit."

Lancaster discovered the power of movement when he first taught younger students.

"If students are engaged the entire time, they're completely focused on the task at hand," and that increases retention, Lancaster says.

Students say it also makes them excited to learn.

"It like gets my arms moving and stuff so I can write," explains Jesiah Cook.

Fellow student Treasure Jenkins says, "He makes reading fun."

Jamar Israel-Sinclair adds, "I usually don't laugh in school but he makes us laugh, and when I laugh I'm happy at school and I feel better about doing my work."

Lancaster also sets high goals for his students with going to college at the top of that list.

"I believe that when we set high expectations for our students and give them rigorous opportunities to learn, they rise to the occasion every single time," he states.

Principal Demetria Gartrell sees the positive impact that Lancaster's teaching practices are having and calls it a model for other teachers to follow.

"Because he's so intentional, we know that we're getting closer to our goal."

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

As the New Year approaches us with hopes anew, here is to wishing you and your family a wonderful year ahead. Happy New Year!  Raise a glass with friends and family, to old times and good times, and to more adventures ahead.

With gratitude for this year, we wish you Happy New Year!

NAACP Chief Urges Action

posted: October 26, 2015

By RYAN CORNELL

HARRISONBURG — The racial disparities of the past haven’t disappeared, Claudia Withers says.

The chief operating officer of the national NAACP told a crowd gathered at Capital Ale House on Saturday that people must remain vigilant in the fight for equality.

“We have an African-American president, but we have situations that are very reminiscent of post-Civil War reconstruction,” said Withers, 62, of Washington, D.C. “We had disenfranchisement. We had lynchings. We had discrimination. We had exclusion — the same things are happening now as was the case when the NAACP was founded in 1909.”

Withers, who’s also the sister of James Madison University football coach Everett Withers, spoke to about 70 people at Saturday’s forum, hosted by the NAACP Harrisonburg branch and JMU’s Beta Delta Delta chapter of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

City Mayor Chris Jones, president of the local NAACP branch, said the purpose of the event was to connect representatives from the national organization with community members and leaders.

“This was about the community, Omega Psi Phi and the NAACP partnering together,” he said.

Withers encouraged those attending to vote in the upcoming presidential election and to get involved in organizations, such as the local NAACP chapter.

“We’re at a time when people of color and progressive folks are doing really great things,” she said, “but we’ve had to have people remind us that black lives matter.”

Recent controversial incidents involving the deaths of black men at the hands of white police officers have sparked a nationwide debate on police use of force and race relations.

Activist movements, such as Black Lives Matter, have blossomed from the debate and campaigned against police brutality against blacks.

Activism goes beyond social media, said Gabriel Driver, citing the movement’s #blacklivesmatter tag on Twitter.

“It doesn’t stop with a hashtag, and it started before a hashtag,” Driver, 24, a JMU junior and member of Omega Psi Phi, said after the forum. “Action needs to continue to happen.”

Contact Ryan Cornell at 574-6286 or rcornell@dnronline.com

Tentative Calendar of Events - Homecoming 2015

Friday, October 23
Center for Multicultural Student Services 30th Anniversary Reception
3:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Madison Union Ballroom
Help CMSS celebrate their 30th anniversary with special guests and campus VIPs.

Love BDD Foundation and Wells Fargo presents the "Get Smart About Credit" seminar
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. | Wells Fargo (Downtown)
141 East Market Street

Beta Delta Delta Chapter and Love BDD Foundation - Meet & Greet
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Residence Inn

1911 Alumni Fish Fry Social
8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. | Residence Inn
The Love BDD Foundation presents The 1911 Fish Fry honoring the 30^th Anniversary of the Beta Delta Delta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and the Nu Lambda Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Saturday, October 24
NAACP Forum 
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Capital Ale House 
41 Court Square
The Love BDD Foundation and Harrisonburg NAACP Chapter will hold a forum with special guest Claudia Withers, Chief Operating Officer of NAACP.

Willie Lanier's Alumni Tailgate Celebration
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Godwin Hall Lawn/Terrace Area
For a memorable alumni tailgate celebration honoring the JMU Duke Club, Class of 1990 and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity join Willie Lanier and enjoy the soul food cuisine prepared by Mama J’s Kitchen.

1^st Annual Love BDD Foundation Music Festival | Alumni Day Party
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Festival Conference and Student Center Ballroom

Not planning on going to the game? Looking for a pre-game event? Stop by the Festival Ballroom and enjoy great music featuring the Lawrence Olds Band, food and cash bar will be available.  Pre-registration required.


Richmond Spiders versus JMU football game
3:30 p.m., Bridgeforth Stadium
Make sure to reserve your football game tickets to cheer on the Dukes v. the Richmond Spiders. A block of football tickets has been reserved for Omega Psi Phi.   To purchase game tickets, please call the Athletics Ticket office at 540.568.3853 and mention the code JMUOPP.

Annual Homecoming Step Show
8:00 p.m. show; 7:00 p.m. doors open | Wilson Hall Auditorium

1911 Alumni Party - Celebrating the greatest year in Greekdom - "1911"
10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. | Festival Conference and Student Center Grand Ballroom
Dance the night away with your brothers and their guests in celebration of the 30th anniversary for the Beta Delta Delta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and the Nu Lambda Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Registration Process

To register for the Love BDD Foundation events for Homecoming 2015, please visit the following link: http://www.alumni.jmu.edu/s/1591/gid3-Alumni/index.aspx?sid=1591&gid=3&pgid=2140

Step 1: Select the "REGISTER today" button.

Step 2: Select the "Register for Homecoming Events Here" button.

Step 3: Complete your "Personal and Contact Information" sections.

Step 4: Select "Omega Psi Phi" under group affiliations.

**Current Price Structure for Love BDD Foundation Saturday Events**

- Love BDD Foundation Jazz Festival - $25.00

- 1911 Alumni Party - $20.00

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day from the Love BDD Foundation

The True Gentleman

by

John Walter Wayland 

(Virginia, 1899)

"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."