African-American Student Union has busy agenda
Published or Revised November 10, 2011
Helping facilitate the full slate of African-American Student Union activities are the club’s 2011-12 officers, from the left: Treasurer Cindy Blanton, Secretary Ashley Reed, President Chris Palmore, Activity Coordinator Jamie Williams, and Vice President Porsha Gunishaw.
The African-American Student Union at Paris Junior College is having a busy year. The club has already volunteered at the Downtown Food Pantry stocking the shelves, and they will return on another Friday to do so again.
Club members will also deliver approximately 50 Meals on Wheels the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and volunteer to ring bells for the Salvation Army's annual fundraiser the first two Fridays in December.
The club raises funds to help pay for such events as attending the Texas A&M University – College Station Southwestern Black Student Leadership conference in January. This is one of the largest black leadership conferences in the nation, with 1,000 attendees from around the nation from two- and four-year schools.
AASU will also have a float in the PJC Homecoming parade. Reading to the Future is another activity the club will pursue after Homecoming.
According to Student Life Director and AASU sponsor Kenneth Webb, "The club is focusing this year on more community service so they can give back, so they understand the meaning of doing so."
In January AASU is sponsoring a program on Martin Luther King and a Black History Month program in February.
In addition to Webb, English instructors Marian Ellis and Joan Mathis are also AASU sponsors.
