Alabama A&M University News February 2013 AAMU, Hugine Will Launch Presidential Tour of State The President of Alabama A&M University and a league of dedicate staff members will traverse the state of Alabama on a five-day bus tour of select metropolitan and rural areas February 25-March 1. AAMU President Andrew Hugine, Jr., will be accompanied by student leaders, as well as staff from Admissions and Alumni Affairs, on the first "Community Engagement Presidential Bus Tour." The extensive bus tour will depart Huntsville for central Alabama, proceed for two days through the east central and Black Belt region of the state, continue down to the Gulf Coast region, and then conclude on March 1 in west Alabama. "The tour provides a great opportunity for our alumni to involve themselves in efforts that further and positively expose our wonderful university throughout Alabama," commented Sandra S. Stubbs, director of alumni affairs at AAMU. "It also opens doors for continuing engagement with community leaders." Day 1 - Metro Birmingham Hugine, students, staffers and area alumni volunteers take on an aggressive itinerary. On February 25 (Day 1), the team will pull into George Washington Carver High School in Birmingham, Ala., at 8:30 a.m. Similar greetings and scholarship presentations will also be made at Bessemer City High School at 10:50 a.m. and Fairfield High School at 1:15 p.m. While in the Birmingham vicinity, the bus tour will visit the Jefferson County Cooperative Extension Office at 3 p.m. and join an alumni reception hosted by the Greater Birmingham Area Alumni Association at 6:30 p.m. at the Birmingham Sheraton Hotel. Day 2 - East Central Alabama On Tuesday, February 26, the bus tour group will arrive at Carver High School in Montgomery, Ala., at 10 a.m. Scholarship presentations will be made at Carver, as well as at Jefferson Davis High School at 11:45 a.m. From Montgomery, the bus tour will proceed into the Black Belt region, where similar scholarship presentations will be made Bullock County High School in Union Springs, Ala., the birthplace of noted historian and pan-Africanist John Henrik Clarke. From Union Springs, the bus will return to Montgomery to visit the Montgomery County Cooperative Extension Office at 3 p.m. and to attend a 6 p.m. alumni reception hosted by Montgomery and Tuskegee alumni. Day 3 - Black Belt Region The bus entourage will arrive at 9:30 a.m. at South Side High School in Selma, Ala., on Wednesday, February 27, where it will be greeted by 1978 alumnus and principal Clarence Jackson. At 11 a.m. the bus tour will arrive at Selma High School, where 1976 AAMU alumna Wanda McCall serves as principal. Scholarship presentations will be made at both venues. The presentation at Demopolis High School in Demopolis, Ala., at 1:20 p.m. will conclude the tour's travel through the Black Belt counties as it proceeds en route to the port city of Mobile. Day 4 - Gulf Coast Region The itinerary for the Mobile vicinity begins Thursday, February, at 8:15 a.m. with an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc./Alumni Chapter Breakfast at the AKA Sorority House. The bus tour will leave for a 10:30 a.m. scholarship presentation at Blount High School in Eight Mile, Ala. Additional scholarships will be presented at Vigor High School in Prichard, Ala., at 11:45 a.m. and John LeFlore High School in Mobile, Ala. The group will visit the Mobile County Extension Office at 2:30 p.m. and will participate in a reception for honor students and counselors at Bishop State Community College at 6 p.m. Day 5 - West Alabama The final leg of the tour will take place in Tuscaloosa ("T-Town"), home AAMU alumnus and Pro Football Hall of Famer John Stallworth. Hugine is slated to bring greetings and make scholarship presentations at Central High School (merger of former Tuscaloosa High and Druid High) at 9 a.m. The bus will then arrive at Bryant High School in nearby Cottondale, Ala., for similar presentations at 10:30 a.m. before departing an hour later for Huntsville. For more information, about A&M's Alabama tour, contact Venita Clisby King at (256) 372-5250 or visit www.aamu.edu/tour<http://www.aamu.edu/aboutaamu/office-of-the-president/Pages/Presidential-Bus-Tour.aspx> SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-520-0593 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.