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Atlanta lands Black exective confab
The Black Executive Exchange
Program (BEEP) will celebrate
more than a quarter century of
service with its 28th annual confer
ence, Honoring Our
Past Celebrating Our
Present Designing Our Future. The
Conference will take place Wednes
day, June 25 through Friday, June
27 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta at
265 Peachtree Street, Ne.
BEEP, a project of the National
Urban League, is dedicated to pre
paring students at historically and
predominantly black colleges and
universities for their careers.
Nadine Owens, director of BEEP,
said the conference is important on
several levels, “We felt now more
thaneverthatit wascritical that we
take a moment to appreciate what
we’veaccomplished, celebrate what
we’re doing now and lay out the
strategy for the critical work that
needs to be done in the future.”
Highlights of the conference will
include nationally recognized speak
ers, career workshops, and an awards
banquet. At Wednesday night’sopen
ing ceremony, Susan L. Taylor, Edi
tor-in-Chief, Essence Communica
tions, will deliver the keynote ad
dress, and Atlanta Mayor William
Campbell and Lyndon Wade, presi
dent of the Atlanta Urban League,
will welcome participants. Howard
Dodson, director, theSchomberg Cen
ter for Research in Black Culture, will
speakat Thursday afterncon’s power
luncheon. Dennis P. Kimbro, Ph.D.,
dircctor of the Center for Entrepre
neurship at Clark Atlanta Univer
sity, willbethekeynote speakerat the
awardsbanqueton Thursdayevening,
followed by a reception and perfor
mance by the Dallas Black Dance
Theatre. Terrie M. Williams, presi
dent, the Terrie Williams Agency,
will speak at the motivational break
fast on Friday morning.
During the conference, existing
program offerings will be evaluated
for their effectiveness, new ideas
will be incorporated into plans for
the upcoming academic year, and
current practices and trends in the
business world will be discussed.
BEEP was formed in 1969 to pre
pare black college students, who
had very little practical work expe
rience, for recruitment by corpora
tions. Through BEEP, black execu
tives are loaned to participating
schools as visiting professors to lec
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Hancock Central High School students served as pages for Representative Sistie Hudson in
the 1997 Session of the Georgia General Assembly. Pictured from left to right are Represen
tative Sistie Hudson, Aisha Bly, Tiffany Leslie, Kamau Chatman, and Speaker of the House
Tom Murphy. Students were accompanied by Mrs. Jacquelyn Bolden, director of guidance
and counseling at Hancock Central High School in Sparta.
You've spent years dreaming
of owning a home.
Now spend a day
learning how to buy one.
At our free Homebuyer Fair, you'll
learn everything you'll need to make
confident, informed decisions about
buying a house. You'll also find out
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ture in credit-bearing courses and
seminars. Sinceitsinception, BEEP
professors have taught at nearly
every historically black college in
the country, providing practical in
formation to more than 600,000
students.
“Other organizations may hold a
career day, or a workshop, but
BEEP’s program is more in depth.
The students can spend an entire
semester learning from profession
als who are working in the field.
The ‘hands on’ learning they gain
in our seminars goes beyond what
they’velearnedin their textbooks,”
Free
Homebuyer
Fair
Saturday
June 21,
10AM - 2PM
Augusta
Civic Center
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that buying a home could be easier
and more affordable than you
thought. The Homebuyer Fair. The
lessons you learn could last a lifetime.
said Wade.
Peggy Anson, BEEP Conference
Chair and Vice President, Human
Resources, Pitney Bowes Financial
Services, said that it is important
for executives to become involved,
“As an African-American corpo
rate executive, I can see the value of
having black role models in corpo
rate America to help studentsshape
their career choices. Our work sup
ports the business goals of our orga
nizatior and makes a real differ
ence in the lives of African-Ameri
can students.”
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