Faithful Fathers Panel Service

Sunday, January 18, 2004 | 6:07 p.m.

Faithful Fathers Panel Service

Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 6:07 p.m. the first of three Faithful Fathers Panel Service discussions will take place at the Lawton Street Community Center, 1225 Lawton Street, Akron off South Hawkins Avenue.  The theme for this discussion will be “A Commitment to Fatherhood.”  The moderator for this first discussion will be Professor Richard Bennett from the University of Akron supported by the following community members and professional panelists:

Pastor Marshall Brandon     Associate Pastor, Hudson Community Chapel

Ronald Brown, Ph.D.          Director of the Brother to Brother Project

Mr. Vince Curry                  Youth Program Coordinator, Arlington Church of God

Bro. Samuel DeShazior       Economic Development Director., Greater Akron Chamber

Pastor Robert Lee              Pastor, New Covenant Sanctuary of Praise

Mr. William Marshall           Morgue Assistant, Steward & Calhoun

Directions

Lawton Street Community Center is located at 1225 Lawton Street, Akron off South Hawkins Avenue in Akron.  South Hawkins is off of Copley Rd.

Information

For information on these programs, please call (330) 375-2374 or (330) 762-1386; or email to: [email protected].

Faithful Fathers Panel Service

Weathervane Community Playhouse will host speaker Charles Dutton on April 3, 2004 at the Weathervane Community Playhouse, 1301 Weathervane Lane, Akron, OH 44313 (330) 836-2323. Mr. Dutton will be speaking on the subject of Faithful Fathers. He will address many issues that each father may or should experience. This event is being co-sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha, Weathervane Community Playhouse, and the Akron Community Foundation.

The men of Alpha were first approached in October by Weathervane Playhouse Board Member Dr. Robert Sturkey. They were asked to co-sponsor the featured speaker on April 3, 2004.  After learning of Weathervane Playhouse’s desire to diversify their programs, Alpha Phi Alpha requested to facilitate several community panel discussions directly related to the theme of faithful fathers.

The panel discussion will be approximately 1½ hours in duration.  The first 45 minutes will be panelists providing their opinions based upon questions from the moderator(s).  The remaining time will be open for discussion, questions and comments by those in attendance.  Transcripts will be generated for all events for reproduction and distribution.

"Goodwill is the monarch of this house.  Men unacquainted, enter, shake hands, exchange greetings, and depart friends. Cordiality exists among all that abide within".

- Brother Sydney Brown

"House of Alpha"

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not".

- Francis Bacon. (1561–1626).  Essays ("Of Studies"), Civil and Moral

The Harvard Classics.  1909–14