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Imperial Potentate Roswell A. Taylor Thanks USA and Overseas Firms for Their Support 

ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- Roswell A. Taylor, Sr., of this city, the Imperial Potentate of Prince Hall Shriners, worldwide, recently commended several nationally known agencies and firms in the USA and overseas for outstanding financial support during the week-long meeting of Prince Hall Shriners and Daughters of Isis members held in Denver, Colo.

Taylor heaped words of praise and commendation on the agencies and firms for supporting the financial and education scholarship award program of the Imperial Council and Imperial Court and the souvenir program booklet.

In addition to taking out ads and having a display and exhibit booth at the convention, several companies also made financial donations and grants,, and have also indicated that they will return next year to St. Louis, Mo. and support the same program of events when the Imperial convention convenes in August of 1983.

The agencies, companies, organizations and units cited by Taylor included the followings:

American Cancer Society; American Lung Association; American Tobacco Company; A and M Distributors; Anheuser-Busch Inc.; Randy Beverly and Sons; Julius S. Black and Company; Graphic Arts Camera; Cincinnati Regalia Company; Centuries and Companies, Inc.; Champion Spark Plugs Co.; Coca Cola Bottling Company, USA; J.C.'s Fine Arts; Manuel Davenport; Denver Hilton Hotel; Drew's Sales; Eastern Airlines; 3-J Enterprises; Fish Bowl Football Classic; Florine, Inc.; Fund Distributors; Fund Where's Distributing Co.; Gillette Co.; William Lehmberg and Sons; Lories Jewelry; Mr. "A" Lounge, downtown; and Madison St. Sounds, Shirts, and Jeans. 

ALSO: Masonic Supply Co.; Marion's Lounge; Wholesale Merchandising, Inc.; Miller Brewing Co.; Anthony Nizzardini; Personal Valet Clothier; Pierre's Supper Club, Inc.; Pookie Fashions; Ready Room Bar and Lounge; Seagram Distillers, Co.; Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Limited; Sherman's Tee Shirts; The Sign Man; Morton Smilers; Terry Johnson, and Co.; Top Ten Premium; D. Turin and Co.; Tuskegee Institute School of Vet. Medicine; Vic's Yankee Dollar Restaurant; Blitz-Weinberg Brewing Co.; Wholesale Merchandising of Dallas, Inc. and William Lehmberg and Sons, Inc.

Miss Parson Selected Miss National PH Shrine Queen for 1982-83
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Miss Selentia Q. Parson of Valley Avenue, Southeast, Washington, D. C., A 19-year-old beauty, dramatized SoJourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman," to the satisfaction of five judges and some 5,000 persons, to win Miss National PH Shrine Queen for 1982-83the first place education scholarship award of $2,500 and the new title. "Miss National Prince Hall Shrine Queen for 1982-83," at the Booker T. Alexander National Talent and Scholarship Pageant, held recently at the Imperial Council/Imperial Court sessions in Denver, Colorado.

Tall, Tan Terrific and Talented. Selentia, a last minute entry for someone else, is a dramatist from Howard University, was most outstanding in her on-stage presentation.

A June 1981 graduate of Woodson High School in Washington, D.C., Selentia will major in advertising and commercial art and take a minor in theater.
 
Prior to winning the PH Shrine title, she holds many outstanding achievement certificates and awards won over the past several years, including the James W. Curry Incentive Award; the first place local and regional Omega Psi Phi high school talent  hunt; is a member of the National Honor Society and served as president of her 1981 high school class.

She was sponsored by Mecca Temple 10 and Mecca Court 2 in Washington, D.C.

Runner-up winners were Paula Dione Ingram, St. Louis, Mo.; Shell Marie Benjamin, Laurelton, N.Y.: Nathalie Rilette Gregg, Marion, S.C.; Daphne Deanne Harden, Dayton, Ohio, and Francine Thomas, Lauderhill, Fla., "Miss Congeniality. 1982-83.

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[[caption]] Noble Gray (left); Dr. David T. Shannon (right). [/caption]]

RICHMOND - Virginia Union University received a check for $3,000 for student aid from the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine Prince Hall Affiliation of North and South America and its Jurisdiction, Inc.

The check was from the Student Aid Fund, and presented by Noble Earl H. Gray, Imperial Chief Rabban, to Dr. David T. Shannon, president of Virginia Union. Noble Gray, is the director of Student Aid Fund. The check was given during the Council's 89th Annual Convention.

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