Kiwanis Club of Downtown Knoxville, TN: President, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Youth Foundation Trustee and Delegate to International Convention. Was the official voting delegate to the 1996 Kiwanis International Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah and to the Kentucky-Tennessee District Convention in Chattanooga, TN. Since 1990 have served as: Chairman of International Affairs, Builders Club and Fund-raising committees; Vice President(s) for Service and Administration, President-Elect and; Chairman of the Board of Directors and member of the Kiwanis Youth Foundation Trustees.

Youth Career Development Activities: Community Based

Presented numerous Career Awareness Workshops to American and International youth groups in Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., sponsored by such organizations as: the Presbyterian Church, the Baptist Church, Jack and Jill of America, The Links Incorporated, the Cooperative Extension Service, Rotary International, the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Ron McNair Program, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Mentor - Protégée Service in Organizationally Sponsored Arrangements

Devoted and contributed countless hours of volunteer service as a Youth Mentor over the recent 15 years for middle school, high school, undergraduate and university graduate students. Mentor-Protégée arrangements were sponsored by and with the Black Achievers’ Program, the College of Agriculture, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Rotary International, Kiwanis International, Optimist International, Boy Scouts of America, the University of Tennessee Minority Scholars program, the University Honors College, the Key Club, the Builders Club, and Minorities in Agricultural, Natural Resources and Related Sciences, the Education Advancement Program, the US Department of Agriculture, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.

Senior Citizens Service

Contributed countless hours as a volunteer in service to senior citizens through participation in the delivery of Meals on Wheels, walkathons sponsored to cure Altzhimers, visitations at Retirement Homes and individualized attention to neighborhood seniors.

Kiwanis International Sponsored Youth Service Activities

Fresh Air Camp Reading
Fund-raising
Builders Club Visitation/Advisor
The Youth Foundation
Youth at Meetings & recognitions

Public Speaking for Free

Knoxville Mens’ Club
Rotary International, Knoxville Tennessee
The Knoxville Science Club
Golden Grads of the UT Agricultural Alumni Association
Ronald B. McNair Program
Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity

Contributions and Involvement in Local Service Organization

• Charter Member and President, Sigma Pi Phi Service Fraternity Inc., the Beta Nu Boule` of Knoxville, TN.;
• Board Member of the Virginia Business Development Center;
• Legislative Liaison Activities Volunteer Community Representative, Visual Resources Review Board, City of Farragut, TN.

Community, City and Regional Focused Service in Organizations

• City of Farragut, Tennessee: Served for two consecutive years as a volunteer member of the City’s Visual resources Review Board
• Guild Member, the Metropolitan Knoxville Opera Company, Knoxville, TN.;
• National Associate, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Member, The Metropolitan Nashville Committee for Food Relief in Somalia, Nashville, TN.
• Member and Committee Chairperson, The Optimist Club of Columbia, MO.;
• Member, The Graduate Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Metropolitan Nashville, TN.
• Board of Directors & Committee Chair, The University of Missouri Chapter, Columbia, MO.
• President, Program Director and Committee Chairperson with the Graduate Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Tuskegee, AL.
• Charter Member and Committee Chairperson, The Optimist Club of Tuskegee, AL. Was initiator for building this new club of more than 100 civic leaders with the parent club from Montgomery, AL.
  

Religious Affiliation Activities

Missouri United Methodist Church
United Methodist Foundation
Church Adult Choir
Commission on Race & Religion
Finance Committee(s)
Pastor Parish Relations Committee(s)
United Methodist Men
Ushers