HU Basketball

Yesterday the Men's basketball team beat Virginia Commonwealth by a score of 64-55. Their next game is a conference game against Howard tomorrow, Dec 1st.

The Women's basketball team lost today to Air Force in overtime by a score of 85-84. They continue play tomorrow in the Air Force Classic against either Ohio of Utah Valley.

Submitted by,

Harold Bowling

HU Women's and Men's Basketball

The Hampton Men's team won Tuesday, November 27, beating the University of Delaware by a score of 51-50. Their next game is against Virginia Commonwealth on Nov 29th.


The Lady Pirates beat Radford 71-54 to extend their record to 4-1 overall. The next game(s) will be at the Air Force Academy, competing in the Air Force Academy Tournament Friday and Saturday 11/30/2007 - 12/1/2007.

Submitted by:
Harold Bowlling

HU Basketball

The Men's basketball team garnered second place as they lost to #6 Maryland in the O'Rielly Auto Parts CBE Classic. The score was 52 - 41. The next game is against Kent State on Nov 15th.

HU Football

Hallelujah! The Pirates beat Bethune-Cookman yesterday by a score of 31-24. It was touch and go but in the end, we came out victorious. We have two games to go but we play our last conference game next week at Florida A&M.

Pirates Struggling on the Field

Well, sorry to report again. This week the Pirates experienced their fourth loss in a row. This one was to Winston Salem State by a score of 20-19 (We're getting good at one-point losses.). We are now in seventh place in MEAC with a record of 3 - 4.

The overall MEAC standings are (1) Delaware State (7-0, (2) Norfolk State (5-2), (3) Winston Salem (5-2), (4) SC State (4-3), (5 tie) Morgan State (4-3) and Howard (4-3), (7) Hampton (3-4), (8) Bethuine-Cookman (2-5), (9) Florida A&M (1-5) and (10) NC A&T (0-8).

The next game is against Bethune-Cookman next Saturday. We need to send up some vibes.

Submitted by Harold Bowling

Hampton University's Website

Hampton University's Website has been updated and it is ready to meet the needs of the alumni. They have an online community where the alumni can STAY CONNECTED.

Click this link to get to the Alumni Home Page or go to Hampton University's website and look around to see what's knew.

This is another example of alumni dollars at work. You should be proud that you attended HI/HU. I know that I am!

Post your comments here regarding what you think about HU's website.

Click to Donate to HU

Online Payment System
Don't forget Hampton on pay day. The link above provides a quick way for you to send a donation to HU any time you like. Save the link in your favorites. You are credited for the donation as is your graduating class. Also, you will receive through the mail a receipt letter from Hampton University for tax purposes for your donation. This makes it so easy!

If you are not comfortable using your credit card information online, here is another link that provides a printable form so that you can mail your donation. Giving Opportunities

For more information on Ways to Give, use this link.
This is a good thing that you will be proud you did.

Help Find More Classmates

How can we locate more classmates and have them become active within the class? We have a Google Group where only 28 class members have joined. It's not a dating service, just a place where we can re-connect and share ideas. If you know of class members who are not connected, will you send them to our Google Group or share my email address so they can get on board also? Please spread the word that we are looking for that Proud HU 86 Crowd.

Hampton University at the Top of HBCUs

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Hampton University has been named among the best in historically black colleges across the nation.

U.S. News and World Report released the first-ever ranking today.

Hampton came in at Number Three behind Spelman College in Atlanta and Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Other Virginia schools that made the list included Virginia State University, which came in at Number 15.

Norfolk State University tied for Number 34 out of 34 rankings issued with three other colleges in West Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama.

There are a little more than a hundred historically black colleges and universities across the nation. Scattered mostly across the South, they were typically formed during segregation to serve black students who white schools turned away.

The magazine uses factors like graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, financial resources and alumni giving to determine where to place colleges.

(Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Class of 86: Plans for Homecoming 2007

Regarding Homecoming 2007, we were hoping to have a teleconference meeting. However, we were not able to secure the technology needed for the meeting.

Thus, this correspondence will serve to inform the class regarding plans for our class for the meeting.

I am asking that you read below and place your comments by each. I will compile the comments and send them to everyone. Please feel free to make suggestion, give input, volunteer to help, and so forth. Your contribution is VERY important.

Please use a different color to comment.

1. We are hoping to conduct a 50/50 raffle Saturday. We will sell tickets for a set amount, and the class will keep half, and the winner will receive half. We need to exchange ideas about how to most effectively use the proceeds from the raffle. (i.e., donate it to the university in the name of the Class of 1986, use it to do a mass mailing to our class, etc.)

2. We will share a booth with Dana Hubbard and have membership forms for classmates to complete. We need members to take shifts staffing the booth.

3. It would be great if we could meet Friday evening over cocktails or dinner so that we could discuss fund-raising efforts for the university and the role that we, as a class, play, especially as it pertains to the year 2011, our 25th reunion.

Thank you for your input.

Please share this page with other classmates and have them return it to nancymcline@yahoo.com

HU's New Cafeteria

As each of you may be aware, HU is building a new cafeteria on campus. It will be a $25 million dollar dining and gathering facility.

I am asking that you each of you visit this site:
http://www.hamptonu.edu/newcaf/
to learn more about this wonderful endeavor.

If you have not yet given, please take a minute to do so.
Click on this site https://bosebill.salliemae.com/NetPay/Products/HAMPTON/HMTU/Gift-Donation/115/Gateway.aspx to make a donation to this effort. Your donation is private and secure from this site.

Thank you in advance for giving to HU where our future of excellence is developing!

HU Undefeated, Sept. 29th is Alumni Day

The Hampton Pirates are undefeated so far this season with a victory over Morgan State 24-17 in overtime!!! They are now (3-0).

The next game will be Sept. 29th starting at 1:00 pm ET against Delaware State.

For those of you alumni who can get there, it will be Alumni Day, so come out and support the team and look for familiar faces.

Click here for scheduling information: http://www.hamptonpirates.com/schedules.asp?path=football

Go Pirates!!

Submitted by John Hairston, Class of 1986

Homecoming 2007 Raffle

We would like to see each of you at Homecoming this year. We will be sharing a booth with Dana Hubbard where you will find him selling and singing his book and other merchandise. The class of 1986 will conduct a 50/50 raffle (winner receives half the pot). We need your help selling the tickets. ALL the proceeds will go to Hampton University in the name of the Class of 1986.

Contact me at nancymcline@yahoo.com if you are willing to assist or have any suggestions.

Dana Hubbard: Featured Talent at Urban Street Lit Media

Check out Dana as he is featured on this website as author of his first novel, "Every Dog Has His Day." If you have not secured your copy yet, you can purchase it through their website. But if you want Dana to sign a copy for you, meet him with the rest of us at Homecoming 2007!

Follow this link Urban Street Lit Media and scroll down to read this feature on Dana.

BLACK ATHLETE SPORTS NETWORK (BASN)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 18, 2007

CONTACT:
Donal Ware, DWCommunications, LLC (dware1@boxtorow.com)
Tony McClean, Black Athlete Sports Network (teemack@blackathlete.com)


DWCOMMUNICATIONS, LLC & BLACK ATHLETE SPORTS NETWORK (BASN)
ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION ON WEEKLY HBCU TOP 10 FOOTBALL POLL


NEW YORK -- Two major African-American sports entities, DWCommunications, LLC and The Black Athlete Sports Network (BASN) have formally announced a joint partnership between the two parties. This past Tuesday, September 11th, the two organizations debuted the " BoxToRow.com/BASN HBCU Top 10 Football Poll." This inaugural poll is the first of what both organizations feel could be a long sustaining partnership within the African-American sports community. The voters on the weekly poll are comprised of some of America's best writers who cover black college football.

"We are thrilled to partner with such a well respected entity as BASN to create this new poll," said Donal Ware, founder and CEO of DWCommunications, LLC, parent company of boxtorow.com. "Black college football is an industry and with that we feel we have created a poll that in time will be one of the most respected college football polls in the nation which will further help to promote the industry. We have recruited some of America's best writers who cover Black college football as pollsters. With this poll we feel we have just begun to scratch the surface in furthering the promotion of HBCU sports."

The poll is scheduled to be released every Monday on www.boxtorow.com with an accompanying story on www.blackathlete.com on Tuesdays. "Over the past few years, we have looked to improve and expand our overall coverage of black college sports," said Tony McClean, BASN's Editor In Chief. "This alliance with DWCommunications, LLC and Boxtorow.com will give our readers and fans of HBCU sports another opportunity to see it on a grander scale. We feel this is going to be a beneficial to followers of black college sports as well as both organizations."

BASN serves as the official sports outlet for the National Newspaper Publishers Association which services over 200 daily and weekly African-American newspapers in the U.S. Including its internet readership, BASN reaches over 1 million readers monthly covering college and pro sports.

For more information about the BoxToRow.com/BASN HBCU Top 10 Football Poll, contact Donal Ware of DWCommunications, LLC ( dware1@boxtorow.com) at 919-604-4829 or Tony McClean of Black Athlete Sports Network (teemack@blackathlete.com ) at 203-495-1070

Homecoming 2007 - Be There

Save the Date!
Homecoming 2007
October 20, 2007
Hampton University hosts South Carolina State University

Freebies on the Internet

There are free resources on the internet waiting for you. Everything from tutorial services, to that lost manual for the DVD player you purchased 2 months ago. Many of the resources are not used because people are not aware that they are there. If you have a few minutes to do a search, what you need you may find for free on the internet. However, you have to be careful because some software come with spyware that will phish for your personal information. If you are not sure, do not download it, but you are safe with the more reptuable companies like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

Here are a few of my favorites.

Skype
http://www.skype.com
You want to use Skype if you want to communicate via computer with live conversation and a video cam. This is how you stay connected for free with your family serving overseas, with grandchildren, and friends from college who sit at their computers a great deal of the day. It's free to download and free to use with others who have skype. So just send an email and tell them to download skype also. Of course there are upgrades for a cost, but the basic free download is all you really need unless you are doing conference calls with large numbers of people. Once you create your skype account, give me a call at "nancyjohnsoncline" see you there!

Free Games
http://www.mostfun.com/
Safe, simple, downloads of all types of fun games.

Microsoft Office Online
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx
If you have clipart needs but just cannot find what you want in your gallery, Microsoft Online has more, you just have to download it. It's free and you can use it on any of your projects, even your websites.

Wildvoice
http://www.wildvoice.com/
Forget about the tape recorder and follow the rest of us into the 21st Century. On wildvoice you can record using your computer so that you create a digital audio file. You need a mic and speakers so that you can record and hear what you playback. Wildvoice does the rest. It's free and easy to use. You have to create a free account and then you begin recording, AND you can edit. This is great if you want to add some voice-over to your website or if you want to create a podcast.

Free Website Hosting - (On all of these you can create and host the website.) Here are a few websites:
www.bravenet.com/
www.freewebsites.com/
www.thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/
www.blockstar.com/
Give these a try and let me know how they work out for you.

Free Blogs - This list seems to go on forever, but here are a few:
https://www.blogger.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/
http://www.blogs4me.com/
http://wordpress.com/
http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/journal/
This website is a blog created using blogger.com.

Children's Websites
Starfall.com - For beginner readers. It is wonderful and my favorite you PreK-2nd grade http://www.starfall.com/

http://www.funbrain.com/ lots of educational games; older children like this one

http://www.rif.org/ great for learning to read to building older children’s reading and writing skills

http://www.iknowthat.com/com?COOK= learning skills for children of all ages

http://www.magickeys.com/books/ Books for children and adults; some young children’s books are read aloud on the computer

There is so much more. !

Email me at nancymcline@yahoo.com if there is something you need that you would like help finding or if you need help using any of these suggestions.

HBCU Connection

HBCU - Historically Black Colleges & Universities. Reunited!!!!

Thought that many of you would enjoy reconnecting with alumni located all over the country and in other countries. HBCU CONNECT.COM is the website you have been waiting for. It's free to use and easy to navigate. Take a few minutes to sign-up, create a profile, and get started finding those you have been missing for years.

The website has awesome features: you can upload photographs to create your own photo gallery; you can place a picture of yourself on your profile; you can make members your "friends" so that when each of you update your page, they receive a message; you can list your claim to fame or your special moment or someone from undergrad. Many will enjoy the career features that allow you to post your resume and interact with companies who are looking for those with your skills and talents. It's resourceful, fun, and a great way to keep up and share with others.

There are additional services for computer enthusiasts like a blog and live chat room. As well, you can find a career center and a scholarship center to use at your convenience. There is so much more. You will have to visit the site to experience all it has to offer.

Click here to check it out: Get Connected!

Ronald Brandon (AC) Appointed by Minnesota Governor

GOVERNOR PAWLENTY APPOINTS SEVEN TO COUNCIL ON BLACK MINNESOTANS -- May 29, 2007

Governor Tim Pawlenty today announced the appointment of Don Bellfield, Ronald Brandon, Martha Holton-Dimick, Lissa Jones, Gloria Lamphear, Charity McCoy, and George Ogbonna to the Council on Black Minnesotans.
Bellfield, of Minneapolis, is a staffing specialist for the Metropolitan Council. He provides technical support on human resources issues to managers and staff. Bellfield assists in developing recommendations for policy and procedures. Bellfield is active in his community and is a patron of the arts, particularly the Penumbra Theater Company. He is a participant in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Public Policy Program. Bellfield is appointed as an to a four year term that expires January 3, 2011. He replaces Felicia Brown on the council.
Brandon, of Golden Valley, is the coordinator of complaint investigations for the Department of Civil Rights in Minneapolis. He is an attorney, trained mediator, and is certified in mediation training and conflict resolution by the U.S. Department of Justice. Brandon received his bachelor of arts degree in history from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, and his juris doctorate degree from Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston. Brandon is appointed to a four year term that expires January 3, 2011. He replaces Jeanette Taylor-Jones on the council.
Holton-Dimick, of Shorewood, is an assistant county attorney for Hennepin County in the adult prosecution division. As chief trial counsel, her duties include presenting cases to the grand jury for indictment and preparing and taking felony cases to trial. Holton-Dimick is an adjunct professor at William Mitchell College of Law. She has been a volunteer attorney for the Chrysalis Law Clinics and the Volunteer Lawyers Network. She is a member of the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers and Minnesota Women Lawyers Board of Directors. She is the former chair of the Minnesota Board on Judicial Standards. Holton-Dimick received her juris doctorate from Marquette University School of Law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is admitted to practice in both Minnesota and Wisconsin. Holton-Dimick is appointed to a four year term that expires January 3, 2011. She replaces Melanie Allen on the council.
Jones, of Minneapolis, is the chief executive officer and executive director of African American Family Services. The mission of African American Family Services is to help the African American individual, family and community reach a greater state of well-being through the delivery of community-based, culturally specific chemical health, mental health, and family preservation services. Jones is also a the former owner of the Center for Organizational Development. Jones earned her bachelor of science degree in international business from Minnesota State University in Mankato and is a certified facilitator in business and leadership. Jones is appointed to a four year term that expires January 3, 2011. She replaces Robert Jones on the council.
amphear, of St. Paul, is an employee and volunteer for Ramsey County Community Corrections. Currently, as community corrections worker in the county detention center, she supervises juvenile offenders in the detention work program. Lamphear's volunteer experience includes serving as a guardian ad litem, assistant family court officer and secretary for the Volunteers in Corrections (VIC) advisory board. In addition to her job with Ramsey County Lamphear is a cultural family liaison for the Storefront Group. The Storefront Group is a multi-faceted human service and mental health provider focused on promoting the positive growth and development of school-aged children and their families in the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs. Lamphear has a masters degree in public administration from Hamline University, and earned her bachelor of arts degree on organizational studies from Bethel College in St. Paul. Lamphear is appointed to complete a four year term that ends January 4, 2010. She replaces Jackie Johnson on the council.
McCoy, of St. Paul, is a service coordinator for DYMAX Services, Inc. in St. Paul. McCoy is a committee member on the University of St. Thomas African American Alumni Initiative and a former member of the board of directors of Minority Interchange-Minneapolis. She received her bachelor of arts degree in marketing management from Concordia University in St. Paul. McCoy is appointed to complete a four year term that ends January 4, 2010. She replaces Reginald Edwards on the council.
Ogbonna, of Andover, works for the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. In his position as assistant to the division head, he is responsible for assessing the human resources needs of the division and matching staff to faculty support needs. He is experienced in human resources policies and best practices and effective problem solving. He was a 2006 policy fellow at the Herbert H. Humphrey Institute and a member of the Committee on Immigration & Higher Education in Minnesota. Ogbonna earned his masters of business administration and management information systems from Metro State University , his masters degree in public policy administration from the Humphrey Institute, and his bachelor of arts degree in finance from Augsburg College . Ogbonna is appointed to complete a four-year term that expires January 7, 2008. He replaces Debra Jacoway on the council. The Council on Black Minnesotans advises the Governor and legislature on issues of particular importance to black Minnesotans.
The Council is made up of 17 members, including 13 appointed by the Governor.

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