Campus News

Fraternity Gives $7,500 to the Spellman Scholarship Fund

(March 4, 2005)

	From left: Chair of the Department of Africana Studies and Professor Leonard A. Slade, Jr.; Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jeryl Mumpower; Michael J. Hurt, sire archon of the Beta Psi chapter of Sigma Pi Phi; and Henry Shadrick, thesauristes for the fraternity

Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity was founded in Philadelphia more than a century ago by black men who were college graduates. The fraternity has more than 100 chapters, or boule�s, in more than 25 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the Bahamas, and its thousands of members are hailed for the contributions they make to their communities.

Beta Psi Boule�, organized in 1984, is active both in the Capital Region and at the University at Albany. In keeping with its mission, the fraternity recently donated $7,500 to the Seth Spellman Memorial Fund, which honors the late distinguished service professor and administrator who chaired UAlbany�s Africana studies department and served as dean of the School of Social Welfare. Spellman also headed the James E. Allen Collegiate Center and was special assistant to the University president.