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L.A.M.P. Launches 2023-2024 Program Year with Record Enrollment

The Gamma Zeta Boule Foundation’s L.A.M.P. Mentor Program began its 2023-2024 Program Year with an Orientation and Etiquette Workshop on August 26, 2023. The Program experienced exponential growth from last year and increased in enrollment from 36 African American high school male students to 60 and resultant challenges in terms of resources. The Orientation included the Mentees and approximately 95 parents and 12 Mentors and members of the Gamma Zeta Boule Foundation board of directors. Speakers included Archon Earle Charles, L.A.M.P. Program Director, Archon Ramsey Jay, Jr., Foundation President and Archon Gilbert Holmes, L.A.M.P. Director of Curriculum and Development. As part of the Orientation, the Mentors met each new Mentee and [...]

L.A.M.P. Launches 2023-2024 Program Year with Record Enrollment2023-09-26T22:18:00-08:00

Ramsey Yellow Pad

Fall Greetings to You & Yours, On behalf of the Gamma Zeta Boulé Foundation (GZBF) Board of Directors, in this month’s edition of The Brotherhood, I am honored to share three matters of significance. Washington D.C. - Experiential Excursion The L.A.M.P. Mentorship Program concluded its program-year in June 2023 with a remarkable capstone Experiential Excursion to Washington D.C. Notable highlights included a historic visit with the Ambassador of Guyana, the Honorable Samuel Hinds at the Guyana Embassy, and a prearranged tour of the White House. As tremendous as this capstone was for our eleven rising seniors and six mentors, it was merely an enticing precursor of what was to come a [...]

Ramsey Yellow Pad2023-09-26T22:12:37-08:00

Ten Outstanding High School Seniors Graduate from Gamma Zeta Boulé Foundation

There was magic in the air inspiring an afternoon of Black excellence as the Gamma Zeta Boulé Foundation (GZBF) hosted its 18th annual L.A.M.P Mentor Program Scholarship Celebration: Igniting the Torch of Empowerment at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel on May 20, 2023, in Pasadena, CA. The luncheon honors graduating seniors and rewarding them with scholarship support for college. The L.A.M.P. Mentor Program is open to African American men, grades 9-12, who desire to attend and graduate from the college or university of their choice. The luncheon was the culmination of a ten-month Program that included thirty-six students (10 Seniors, 11 Juniors, 8 Sophomores, and 7 Freshmen) who met at least one [...]

Ten Outstanding High School Seniors Graduate from Gamma Zeta Boulé Foundation2023-06-25T22:16:19-08:00

Ramsey’s Yellow Pad

On behalf of the Gamma Zeta Boulé Foundation (GZBF) Board of Directors we bid you a most congenial New Year’s greeting as we welcome the 23rd year, of the 21st century, of the 3rd millennium. GZBF continues to advance a very prescriptive dual agenda to (1) fortify our internal institutional infrastructure and (2) dynamically innovate our external matrix of operating programs. We are making considerable progress on both items and for further insight, below is a two-point update on the latter (an update on the former will be provided in February). STEAMposium 2023 Innovation On March 18, 2023 GZBF is honored to once again co-sponsor the 2023 STEAMposium, themed STEAM to [...]

Ramsey’s Yellow Pad2023-01-18T09:13:11-08:00

L.A.M.P. Mentor Program The Year in Review

What a year it has been, and we are only halfway through. The 2022-23 L.A.M.P. Program year has been nothing but spectacular and there are five months to go before the highly acclaimed L.A.M.P. Scholarship Celebration where the High School Seniors matriculate from being L.A.M.P. Mentees to L.A.M.P. Alumni who are on their way to a College or University. In this edition of The Brotherhood! we will recount the various Events, Workshops, and Activities that made the first half of the 2022-23 program year so very special and meaningful to the L.A.M.P. Mentees month by month. The acronym L.A.M.P. which stands for Leadership – Achievement – Management – Professionalism now has [...]

L.A.M.P. Mentor Program The Year in Review2023-01-18T08:42:32-08:00

Orientation

The August L.A.M.P. Workshop is usually the first session of the Program year, and this year was no different. In the 2022-23 program year, we enrolled thirty-six (36) Mentees of which approximately 50 percent were from the Pasadena area and the other 50 percent were from surrounding communities such as the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley, and Los Angeles. This cohort of students is grade-level stratified as follows – Freshmen (7); Sophomores (8); Juniors (11), and Seniors (10). The speakers at the August Workshop were three professionals (Mr. Everad Williams; Mr. Mark Page, and Mr. Kevin Bathune) from the Art Center College of Design (https://www.artcenter.edu ) in Pasadena, California. [...]

Orientation2023-01-18T08:42:39-08:00

Public Speaking With Professor Ian Lising

For the September Workshop, the L.A.M.P. Mentor Program invited Professor Ian Lising to talk about and provide pointers and assistance on Public Speaking. Professor Lising teaches Speech and Communication at the University of La Verne. This workshop met at the Pasadena Rosebud Academy. Shawn Brumfield, the Director of the Academy, has graciously allowed the L.A.M.P. Mentor Program to meet at the Academy for the once-a-month workshops, and we thank her for her continued support of the Program. As is the custom at the L.A.M.P. Mentor Program, after registration and breakfast, the workshop began with an Ice Breaker led by Mentor Ramsey Jay, Jr. As part of the Ice Breaker, Mentor Jay [...]

Public Speaking With Professor Ian Lising2023-01-18T08:42:46-08:00
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