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President's Letter |
 Among the organizations highlighted in Leading Shadows, Alpha Phi Alpha, Ferris' first Black Greek organization, will hold a reunion in 2006 to mark its 40 years on campus. Pictured in 1969 are members (standing): Joe McGinnis, Ronald Snead, James Waller, Randolph Ward, Sam Kirkland, Jams Williamson and John Matock. Seated: Thomas Chulski (advisor), Grand McArn, Kenneth Lamb, Frederick Weston and Eric Dennard. Leading Shadows, a book authored by Raymond Gant, director of the Office of Minority Student Affairs and special assistant to the president, chronicles the African-American experience at Ferris State University from Gideon Smith, the first Black student to enroll at Ferris in 1910, to the formation of the South East Michigan Black Alumni Association. Gant has gathered archival photos from every decade of the 20th century and into the 21st. Among the most fascinating aspects of Black life on campus is the section on "Civil Disobedience and Social Unrest," which looks at the turbulent 1960s and the 1989 student sit-in. There also are many vintage photographs of Greek life and Homecoming Kings and Queens and their courts. Proceeds from Leading Shadows help fund scholarship endowments for Ferris students. Copies are available for $25 in Big Rapids at the James L. Lundberg Bookstore, Great Lakes Book and Supply or through the Office of Minority Students Affairs at 231-591-2617. |
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