Vicki Jones Locke, project manager of the Black Belt Action Commission, will address students at Samford University Thursday (NOV. 17) at 10 a.m. in Reid Chapel. Locke is presented as this semester's Omicron Delta Kappa speaker. The public is invited.
She will discuss the Commission's work in Perry County, one of 12 central Alabama counties that suffer from high rates of poverty, illiteracy and infant mortality. She will also highlight ways that Samford has been helpful in the area, which was the site of the school's beginnings. Samford, founded as Howard College in Marion in 1841, moved to Birmingham in 1887.
Samford students and faculty have numerous on-going projects designed to boost Perry County's educational, economic and healthcare resources.
On Saturday, Nov. 19, Samford ODK chapter members will host a program at Marion's Francis Marion High School to mentor the school's Future Business Leaders of America chapter. The college students will facilitate learning experiences related to personality, communication and leadership for the high schoolers.