My Brothers:

Each and everyone of you please give your Chapter's representative to the our most recent Grand Chapter Meeting in Cleveland Ohio a standing ovation - 100% of our chapters were registered and voted - Thank you very much for your continue support. While I will leave the highlights from our Grand Chapter meeting to your representatives to share with you - let me introduce you to your newly & re-elected Grand Chapter Officers:

Province Eastern Northern Southern Middle Eastern Northern East Central South Western North Central South Eastern Middle Western South Western South Central Southern

Position Grand Polemarch Senior Grand Vice Polemarch Junior Grand Vice Polemarch Grand Keeper of Records & Exchequer Grand Board Alumni Grand Board Alumni Grand Board Alumni Grand Board Undergraduate Grand Board Undergraduate Grand Board Undergraduate Grand Strategus Grand Lt. Strategus Nominating Committee Chairman

Name Howard L. Tutman Samuel C. Hamilton Steven Pritchett Al White Kenneth Glass Eric Morris Dwayne Murray Dwight Gualdin -Gamma Travis Boyce - Gamma Nu Phillip Santoli - Alpha Mu Samuel Emengini - Iota Upsilon Kasimu Harris - Eta Gamma L. M. Bell

Over the next few weeks our undergraduate chapters will be returning to their universities throughout our province, some have expressed the proper interest in conducting informational meetings in order to participate in this fall's Intake. While I know many of them will concentrate on this particular effort, let us all be mindful of several important facts - 1. Undergraduate Elections & Officers Reports, 2. Grand Chapter Insurance Payments, and 3. Re-certification. While Intake is important, successfully completing items 1-3 is a must if you plan to participate in the fall cluster.

If you peek at the calendars on our web page you would have noticed that our province has provided for your review; planned events for this year, be mindful of the following:

September 28 - 29, 2001

C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference

November 3, 2001

Chapter Advisors Workshop (Colorado Springs) NOTE: Mandatory attendance for all Advisors & Advisors Committee members

February 1-2, 2002

C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference and Undergraduate Summit (Beta Nu - St. Louis University)

April 18 - 21, 2002

Province Council Meeting (Kansas City)

Yours in the Bond,
    
Adolphus M. Pruitt, II
Province Polemarch
Middle Western Province

Submitted by Berry H. Pitts, III - Province Historian

Middle Western Province member, the Honorable Wellington E. Webb, was selected to receive the Laurel Wreath at the 76th Grand Chapter Meeting to be held in 2003 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Honorable Brother Webb is the current Mayor of Denver, Colorado, and an active member of the Denver Alumni Chapter.

The 22nd annual Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame will honor a select group of aviation enthusiasts: an around-the-world flight record-setter, two inventors, a safety expert, a flight instructor and a U.S. Senator and former U.S. Representative who served on the Subcommittee on Aviation round out the list of honorees. In all, six individuals and one organization will be inducted into the hall of fame. In addition, one person will receive the Clarence E. Page Memorial Trophy. The dinner and induction ceremony will be held the evening of September 22 in Oklahoma's premier aerospace museum, the Air Space Museum at Omniplex.

Six honorees will be inducted during the awards presentation. Among them, our Brother Nathan Sams.

Brother Nathan Sams of Muskogee, Oklahoma received his flight training as part of the Civilian Flight Training Program before the U.S. entered World War II. In 1942, Sams served as a flight instructor in Alabama and taught Tuskegee airmen to fly. In 1952, he became the first African American in the country to manage a municipal airport, Hatbox Field in Muskogee. A dealer for Beech and Cessna aircraft, Sams was also an FAA-designated examiner and accident prevention specialist and logged 22,000 flying hours.

The other five inductees will be U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe, Harding Lawrence, Robert Ragozzino, Robert Morris Stanley, and Dean E. Wooldridge.

Following the ceremonies, photos and biographies of the new honorees will be added to the array of over 150 aviation experts whose faces grace the walls of the Hall of Fame exhibit in the Air and Space Museum at Omniplex. In addition to the inductees, the Clarence E. Page Memorial Trophy is given to an individual who has shown dedication to the promotion and/or progress of the aerospace industry in Oklahoma.

For more information, or to request an invitation to the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame event, please call (405) 602-3673 or e-mail bspeaks@omniplex.org .

PLAN NOW to attend the next C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference of the Middle Western Province to be hosted by the Alpha Psi Chapter at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas on September 28th and 29th. Chapters should include this conference in your budget for the coming year. Your chapter is responsible for sending at least the following officers: Polemarch, Vice Polemarch, Keeper of Records, Keeper of Exchequer, and Membership Intake Chairman.

Arrangements have been made for hotel accommodations at $55 per night plus tax for double-occupancy, and suites will be available for $60 per night plus tax at the Comfort Inn and Suites located on Highway 69 in North Pittsburg. Reservations may be made by calling 316-231-8800.