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SU professors, alumni to be honored as 2012 Louisiana Role Models, December 8
- 12/8/2012 -
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The Baton Rouge Chapter of The Links, Incorporated will honor eight
Louisiana Role Models, including two SU professors and five SU alumni,
at the Seventh Annual "New Orleans Style Jazz Brunch," Saturday,
December 8, 2012, 10:30 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Executive Center Hotel,
Baton Rouge.
The theme for the event, "Celebrating the
Successes of Louisiana Role Models," highlights the accomplishments of
Louisiana natives who have had a positive and insightful impact on
communities at the local, state and national level. The SU honorees
include Southern University graduates Tonya G. Robertson, Audrey Nabors
Jackson, Alma Charles Stewart, Everrett Gordon Parker, and Edward Pratt,
(SU media relations); and faculty members Wanda Raby Spurlock (School
of Nursing) and Diola Bagayko (physics). The other honoree is Willie S.
King Jr.
Each honoree exemplifies the thrust of The Links' service to the community through the work of its committees: services to youth, national trends and services, international trends and services, health and human services, and the arts.
The Links, Incorporated, founded in 1946, is an international, women's non-profit, social welfare and service organization.
Chartered on November 28, 1964, the Baton Rouge Chapter of The Links, Incorporated is committed to implementing programs that provide opportunities for community development in partnership with local, regional, and national agencies. The Jazz Brunch is a key initiative in the organization's efforts to
raise funds for the continuation of substantive, multi-faceted
programming in the Baton Rouge community. The funds generated by the
Jazz Brunch over the past six years support programs such as the Rose
Bud Club, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Linkages to Life, the
Links'Boot Camp for youth, the Debose National Piano Competition, and
the International Foreign Affairs & Business Empowerment for
youth-LIFE Institute. The Jazz Brunch also helped fund the renovation of
a space in the ExxonMobil YMCA for children; which is now called the
Baton Rouge Chapter of the Links Incorporated "Kids Zone." For close to
fifty years Links' programs have touched the lives of all Baton Rouge
community members; regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or
socio-economic level.
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