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Guide Right's Necktie
Club
Awarded Community Foundation Grant
Community Foundation Trustee Denise Hall Brown
with Necktie Club members Nicholas Forbes of Governor Thomas
Johnson High School, Corlin Blakey of Frederick High School,
Xavier Lyles of Tuscarora High School, and Earl Robbins,
Chairman of Frederick’s Guide Right Program.
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March 22, 2007: The Frederick Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity, Inc. was recently awarded a $1,600 grant from the
Community Foundation’s Margaret S. Stauffer Fund to support the
Necktie Club, sponsored by the Fraternity’s Guide Right Program. The
Necktie Club seeks to place the training and experience of successful
alumni and businessmen at the disposal of young men, teaching
leadership skills and the appropriateness of dressing for success to
participating students from Frederick, Tuscarora and Governor Thomas
Johnson High Schools. The Club also facilitates skills building to
strengthen public speaking and provides a platform for the discussion
of issues affecting students’ personal and educational growth.
The grant will enable the Neck Tie Club to purchase materials and
arrange programming for meetings. Fifty neckties and tie chains will
be purchased as well as bus rental for a day trip to Hampton
University. Each student will also receive the required book, Roberts
Rule of Order, used as a procedural tool during meetings.
Earl Robbins, Chairman of Frederick’s Guide Right Program, is
committed to the personal and professional development of successful
young men. He says that something as simple as learning to tie a
necktie and dressing appropriately for the business world gives young
men better self-esteem, leading to a brighter future.
“The Community Foundation’s Stauffer Fund grant will help young men
who participate in the Necktie Club to become better students and
confident speakers, with aspirations of higher education and future
career goals,” says Robbins. “The result will be the development of
successful citizens who give back to the community.”
To learn more about The Necktie Club, contact Earl Robbins, Guide
Right Program, c/o Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., P. O. Box 1273,
Frederick, MD 21702.
Since 1986, the Community Foundation has been weaving the fabric of a
better community by transforming the unique charitable dreams of
individuals, families and organizations into the reality of charitable
funds supporting a range of worthy causes in the community.
Contributions to The Margaret S. Stauffer Fund are accepted at any
time in any amount. Checks may be made payable to The Community
Foundation of Frederick County, at 312 East Church Street, Frederick,
MD 21701, with The Margaret S. Stauffer Fund inserted in the check’s
memo line. To donate online,
click here. All checks or online contributions are
tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
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