Health In Your Hands Issue #7 Spring 2014 | Page 5

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H E A L T H

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W E L L N E S S

C E N T E R

From Campus To Community!
Creating Connections Between Campus and Community Through Partnerships
and Collaboration
Let’s Move Walton!

Omega men move too

Before their fraternity issued a clarion
call of support for Omega men across
the country and abroad to join
President Barack Obama in taking a
stand of fatherhood and mentoring, the
Omega Men of the Tougaloo College
family were already in action.
Undergraduate and Alumni members
of the Rho Epsilon Chapter of Omega
Psi Fraternity, Inc., (Michael Spann,
David Hoover and Jarrell Carter) in
addition to Fitness Center graduate
student intern, Mark Carroll (Upsilon
Epsilon Chapter), led the Walton
Elementary School students in a variety
of fitness and exercise activities. The
Omega men performed a few fraternity
steps too! Jarrell Carter stated “It is the
aim for every level of our fraternity to
play an active role in support,
partnership and promotion of the
Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative set
forth by President Obama.”

The Owens Health & Wellness Center has been told more times than we can count, “Tougaloo has great students
and they make great volunteers. Send me some more!” Through a partnership with the Tougaloo College Division
of Education, Supervision, and Instruction and the Tougaloo College Athletic Department we were able to send
more students out into the community. The TC Squared Wellness Initiative provided student coaches to assist
Walton Elementary School teachers with the integration of fitness and exercise into daily classroom activities. The
pictures above show student athletes Joshua Sword and Joshua Thomas of Tougaloo College Baseball program with
their instructor Coach Yolanda Brown Cartlidge, Walton Elementary School students, teachers and administrators.
Walton Elementary Assistant Principal, Ms. Roshanda Clark stated “The Joshes were awesome! They connected
with the students and really engaged them.” At Tougaloo, we prepare our students to produce the "next new idea"
and to become the servant-leaders that will effect order and change in a global society. Josh and Josh are on course
to do just that!
Health In Your Hands

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