Co-Pastor Nina Cooper
Albuquerque
Joyce Pollard
Selmus Price
Clovis
Clovis
Wanda Perry
Albuquerque
Recipients
not pictured
Rev. Deborah Hill
Albuquerque
Wanda Bell
Hobbs
Bernidda Smith-Payne
Artesia
Helen Houston
accepting for
Will Hawkins Hobbs
Congratulations “Rites of Passage 2017”
From Joycelyn Pegues Jackson
BSU Program Director
The “Rites of Passage Ceremony” began in the
Black Student Unions and became District -Wide in
Albuquerque Public Schools in 2002, and has continued
to the present year 2017. The ceremony is a way of
recognizing those graduates that are leaving adolescents
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and moving on to adulthood. This year there
were 35 graduates that met all the required
guidelines.
Our graduates over the years have
attended and graduated from UNM, NMSU,
ENMU, Arizona State, Morehouse University,
Georgetown University, and many more.
It has been a blessing that our past school
superintendents, and the current (Raquel
Reedy), and many high school principals
have continued to support the BSU’s over
the years. BSU’s are active in 8 APS high schools in
the district. (Albuquerque High, Del Norte, Sandia,
Highland, Manzano, Volcano Vista, Atrisco Heritage
Academy and CNM College & Career High School).
A huge thank you to the BSU sponsors.
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