Report from Denver: The 49th Grand Boulé in Words and Pictures

The Cover Story is all about the events held during the 49th Grand Boulé including full text of the Memorial and Opening Addresses, photos from the Boulé Foundation Gala and the Dinner/Dance.

Career Symposium Launched In Denver

More than seventy young adult sons and daughters of the Boulé converged on Denver on Thursday evening, June 26, for the Inaugural Young Adult Career Symposium (YACS). The brainchild of Immediate Past Grand Sire Archon Cornell Leverette Moore, this program was the Fraternity’s first effort to reach out to the next generation of leaders in the Boulé family through a professional-development program designed to help them achieve their career goals. November 12, 2008 | Full Article

YACS: The Road Ahead

Not long after relocating to Edison, New Jersey, Geoff Ratliff boarded a plane to Denver, hoping that a few days in the Mile High City would give him new perspective on his career. He was at a critical juncture, grappling with whether to accept a high-paying corporate position or to pursue his interest in urban revitalization. The inaugural Young Adult Career Symposium (YACS), June 27 through June 29, which coincided with Sigma Pi Phi’s 49th Biennial Grand Boulé, gave the St. Louis native the confidence to move in a new direction. November 12, 2008 | Full Article

Archon Arna Bontemps (Chi Boulé)

Bontemps, according to the April, 1955, issue of the Tennessee Librarian, is a writer from 7 until 10 in the morning and a librarian the rest of the day. Director of the Fisk University Library since 1943, Bontemps is a graduate of the Library School of the University of Chicago and says that he entered this field because of his own love for books.

At the dawn of the twentieth century black men of distinction had long functioned in various leadership posts, especially in the churches and benevolent association movement. Some, notably Frederick Douglass among them, had even served in high government posts. But by and large they lived lives separate from those of the black masses and the white professionals. In 1904 a small group in Philadelphia set out to create an organization that would provide a vehicle for men of standing and like tastes to come together to know the best of one another.

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