Love BDD Foundation, Inc

Friday, April 17, 2015

Dedication For Love Historic Marker On Tap

Dedication For Love Historic Marker On Tap

by Ryan Cornell

HARRISONBURG - A notable civil rights activist and Methodist bishop will get a permanent mark in the city this weekend.

A dedication ceremony for a new state historical marker for Edgar Amos Love will be held at the John Wesley United Methodist Church at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Love, born in Harrisonburg in 1891, was a co-founder of Omega Psi Phi at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Omega Psi Phi is the first international fraternity at a historically black college, according to its website.

After graduating from Howard, Love was ordained a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church and served overseas as a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I. He became a bishop in 1952 and worked to desegregate the church, advocating for nonviolent protest against discrimination.

Love died in Baltimore in 1974.

Dawnn Wallace serves as the executive director of the Love BDD Foundation, a nonprofit formed by James Madison University's Beta Delta Delta chapter of the fraternity.

Wallace said a representative from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources will speak at the dedication, the national president of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity will offer his remarks and Love's son, Jon, will also be at the ceremony.

She lauded Edgar Love's social activism for equality and desegregation.

"He didn't just advocate for African-Americans," she said. "He advocated for equality for all people."

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

Friday, April 3, 2015

Happy Easter

On behalf of the Love BDD Foundation, Inc. and the Beta Delta Delta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi, Fraternity, Inc., we wish you and your families a very blessed and happy Easter!

Lord, the resurrection of Your Son

has given us new life and renewed hope.

Help us to live as new people

in pursuit of the Christian ideal.

Grant us wisdom to know what we must do,

the will to want to do it,

the courage to undertake it,

the perseverance to continue to do it,

and the strength to complete it.