DEAN'S ACADEMY SPEAKS AT DELTA SIGMA THETA ACADEMY'S GRADUATION

ON MAY 8, 2007, STUDENTS FROM THE DEAN'S ACADEMY WERE INVITED BY MRS. BARRI McMILLON-SMITH TO THEIR GRADUATING CLASS OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY ACADEMY...THEIR ACADEMY FOCUSES ON EMPOWERING YOUNG WOMEN IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS THROUGH LIFE SKILLS WITH A SPECIAL EMPHESIS ON EDUCATION... A COUPLE OF THE SAME INGREDIENTS WE USE HERE AT DEAN'S ACADEMY ON OUR YOUNG MEN. FOR THIS SPECIAL EVENING IVORY McFARLAND DID HIS VERSION OF "STILL I RISE" AND SHAMAL ATKINSON TURNED IT OUT WITH "PHENOMENAL WOMAN", BOTH POEMS BY DR. MAYA ANGELOU. THE SPECIAL EVENT OF THE EVENING WAS CHRIS LASPRILLA WHO INSTEAD OF READING ANOTHER POEM BY MS. ANGELOU, ELECTED TO READ A POEM THAT HE WROTE EARLIER IN THE DAY. HIS SELF PENNED "FOR THE LOVE OF OUR WOMEN" RECIEVED A THUNDEROUS STANDING OVATION BY ALL IN ATTENDANCE. ALL THREE YOUNG MEN BROUGHT THEIR OWN FLAVOR AND ZEST TO THIS VERY SPECIAL EVENT. THE DEAN'S ACADEMY IS EXTREMELY PROUD OF OUR YOUNG MEN FOR ONCE AGAIN, THEY STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE, AND KNOCKED THE BALL WAAAAAY OUT OF THE PARK!!!