January 2019


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Signs with Hampton U Softball Baseball World Series and the sixth to get a hit in World Series history, is a three-sport star at


Hill


Springside Chestnut Academy and team


captain in soccer, basketball and softball. She also has played baseball for the Anderson Monarchs since she was seven years old.


For her efforts leading


her team to the Little League World Series, Davis was named 2014 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year.


According


University head coach Angela Nicholson,


the


to Hampton Scripps


Howard School of Journalism, and in particular, Dean B. DaVida Plummer, played a key factor in the signing of Davis as she is looking to major in that field.


opportunity Mo’ne Davis COURTESY OF HAMPTON UNIVERSITY


HAMPTON, Va. - A record-setter from the 2014 Little League World Series for Taney Little League, Mo’ne Davis has signed her National Letter of Intent (NLI) to play softball for Hampton University starting in the fall of 2019.


“It’s my pleasure to welcome


Mo’ne Davis to our Home by The Sea,” said Hampton University President Dr. William R. Harvey. “Her presence and athletic


ability will be a welcomed addition to our softball program.”


Davis, who became the first girl to throw a shutout in the Little League


with


Mo’ne and her parents on Homecoming weekend, it became increasingly


good fit for her career as well as her athletic


celebration aspirations,” said Plummer.


“I am pleased that she is going to be a ‘Scrippa’ and news of her coming has been met with


all


throughout the Scripps Howard family.” Her soon-to-be coach was very


pleased to announce the signing. “She is an outstanding athlete who just loves to compete no matter what sport it is,” said Nicholson. “Davis is great at everything and her hands up the middle are second to none. She is very dynamic in her movements, has a smooth transfer and just a strong knack for the game,” she added.


Norfolk Kappas evolved


FROM PAGE 2 under former Polemarch


Anthony O. Walters, Sr. at the Y on Granby Street, Azalea Garden Middle School and currently at Booker T. Washington High School. It was led by John J. P. Paige, and the Kappa League was coordinated by Hughes Valmond.


Executive


In 2018, Dr. Juan M. Alexander, Director


of


Norfolk State appointed


the University


Admission was


Chapter’s Right


Director, and Mr. Hughes Valmond continued as the Kappa Instructional Leadership League coordinator.


The Chapter Polemarch, Mr.


Keith Chapman, has increased the Chapter’s commitment to Guide Right with increased finances and manpower to provide a comprehensive approach to mentoring the 23 young men currently in the Kappa Instructional leadership


League. Instructional The Kappa focuses on discipline,


“Having had the awareness, appearance, to meet


clear


as we toured our school that Hampton University was a


Eighteen on


Leadership League assurances, academics,


career choice/advancement, religion, the arts, physical fitness, and leadership development.


initiated into the Kappa Instructional Leadership


December 1, 2018, at the Murray Center


Brambleton Avenue


Saturday in


young men were League


Norfolk. They were Darnell Pelzer, James White, Corey Chapman, Alden Logan, Nevin Good, Jordan Council, Vctor Goode, Eric Brazell, Giovanni Harris, Chris Atkins, Juan Alexander, Jr.,


Council, Tre Harper, Alprentice Dunn, Roderick


Anthony Walters, Jr., Jamaris Clark,


Cuffee, and Deshawn Cobb. Active Kappa Leaguers Dion Gaston, Sinsear Brooks, Ashard Vincent, Deshawn Bulcher, and Ronnie


Tremaune Whitehurst


assisted in the induction of the 18 new Kappa Leaguers.


The Chapter Polemarch, Mr. Keith


Chapman, welcomed parents, teachers, and relatives to the induction ceremony. He also provided an overview of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity’s Guide Right Program and congratulated the inductees. Mr. Hughes Valmond, coordinator of the Kappa Instructional Leadership


League introduced each


inductee and the four existing Kappa Leaguers assisted by presenting each inductee with certificate of membership and crimson blazer with the embodied Kappa League symbol.


After the presentation of the


membership certificates and blazers, Mr. John J. P. Paige, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Eastern Province Region Five Guide Right


Director,


commented on the success of the Guide Right Program under the leadership of Dr. Juan Alexander, citing the good things that these young men have accomplished


that go unnoticed so


often by the media and community. One of the parents, Mr. Victor Goode, who was a Kappa Leaguer from 1991-1994, noted the importance of the program in guiding him, and noted the two of his sons, Victor Goode, Jr. and Nevin were inducted today into the Kappa league.


A reception was held for the parents, teachers,


following the induction Other


in attendance


members of the included:


Kevin


Edwards, II, Jerry Abbey, Chapter Reporter,


Anthony Smith, Omar


McDonald, Rashaun Chambers, Tony Wright, Frederick Clottery, Dominic Corprew, Sterling White, Ray Love, Dr. George F. Reed, Keith Chapman, Jr. and Kamron Blue. Davida Chapman, president, Norfolk (VA)


Alumni


Chapter Silhouette Corp, and former Silhouette president Tosha Walters also attended the ceremony.


and relatives ceremony. Chapter G.


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