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King Bach
Andrew 'Loki' Bachelor is a Fall 2008 Initiate of the Mighty Mu Epsilon Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
Bachelor was born to Jamaican parents, both of whom are accountants. He was raised in Florida where he attended Coral Springs Charter School for both middle and high school. After graduating Bachelor enrolled at Florida State University, where he was a track and field star athlete. He graduated from Florida State in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management. Afterwards he enrolled in a graduate program at New York Film Academy, but dropped out in his last semester, and moved to Los Angeles.
Though he has 6.7 million followers on Vine, Bachelor is also known for his YouTube account, BachelorsPadTv. The channel and its videos have been covered by several online publications, including FSU News. Bachelor has stated that he turns down most requests to upload sponsored Vines. Bachelor's Vine stardom led to him signing with UTA, and landing a recurring role in House of Lies. Bachelor has also become a main cast member on the sixth season of Wild 'N Out on MTV2.
Keep up with Brother Bachelor by visiting his website at www.andrewbachelor.com and by following him on all social media outlets @KingBach
Dr. Samuel Jean
Samuel Jean is a Spring 1994 Initiate of the Mighty Mu Epsilon Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
Brother Dr. Samuel Jean MD, MPH, is originally from Haiti. He is a U.S. Army veteran. He completed his undergraduate degree at Florida State University and received his medical degree from Kansas University Medical School. Dr. Jean went on to complete his internal medicine training at University of South Alabama hospital. Since graduation, he has been serving the Orlando area population. He was the medical director of the PCU unit at Florida Hospital Altamonte, where he also served on many committees, including the patient safety committee, top admitters committee and the HCAHPS advisory board. Dr. Jean brings not only his medical skills, but also his connections with the local practitioners and hospital staff to help patients navigate the sometimes-complex health care delivery model. Brother Jean has been in practice for over 10 years is one of 28 doctors at Orlando Regional South Seminole Hospital who specialize in Internal Medicine.
Walter Dix
Walter 'Bi-Polar' Dix is a Fall 2006 Initiate of the Mighty Mu Epsilon Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
Brother Dix was a highly successful amateur athlete, setting a state record in the 100 m and trying out for the US Olympic Team at the age of eighteen. He enrolled at Florida State University and in his first year he broke the 100 m American junior record and w
on at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. After a fourth place finish at the 2005 US Championships, Dix continued with his collegiate success, setting an NCAA record of 19.69 seconds in the 200 m and coming within one hundredth of the 100 m record. He completed a 100 m, 200 m, and 4×100 meter relay sweep at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships, the first to do so since John Carlos in 1969. He closed his amateur career in 2008: another NCAA 200 m title made him the third most decorated track athlete in NCAA history, and he won gold and silver at the 2008 US Olympic Trials.
Dix turned professional in mid-2008, signing a multi-million dollar contract with Nike. He reached the Olympic finals in the 100 and 200 m, and won two bronze medals; the only American track athlete to win two individual medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He suffered an injury at the 2009 US Championships, thus missing out on the World Championships, and a contract dispute with his agent resulted in only a handful of appearances that season. In 2011 he was both the 100 and 200 m American champion and won silver medals in the events at the 2011 World Championships. An injury at the 2012 Olympic trials meant he missed a second Olympic appearance.
More recently Brother Dix anchored the U.S. to victory by .01 of a second over Jamaica in the 4x100m relay at the Penn Relays this past Spring 2014.
Wilnic Gedeon
Wilnic 'Blussant LeovΣrturΣ' Gedeon is a Spring 2007 Initiate of the Mighty Mu Epsilon Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
Brother Gedeon is a dean of students at Boca Raton Community High School in Boca Raton, Florida. Gideon received his secondary mathematics degree from Florida State University and earned his masters degree in Educational Leadership from Lynn University this past May. In addition to his leadership roles at BRCHS, Gedeon also serves as a board member for the Take Stock in Children’s Foundation and works to initiate positive community outreach programs for his hometown of Rivera Beach. Gedeon will continue his education this upcoming August earning a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership and will continue to dedicate his life to effecting trans-formative change in higher education.
Bradley Cooper
Bradley 'Sasquatch' Cooper is a Fall 1980 Initiate of the Mighty Mu Epsilon Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
When Brother Cooper left Florida State he was considered the finest field event performer to date. In 1978, his junior year, he won All-America honors when he finished fourth in the NCAA discus with a throw of 189'. The mark was an FSU school record and a Bahamian national record. The next year he won the NCAA championship in the discus with an NCAA record throw of 212'6" making him FSU's first NCAA record holder in track and field. Cooper was also FSU's second best all-time shot putter with a toss of 60'2". Co-captain of the 1979 squad, he coached the throwers at FSU before serving as Minister of Recreation for the Bahamas and remained a world class discus thrower and a Bahamian Olympian.He is part of the 1984 Hall of Fame Class for Track and Field.
Famous Sigmas in History
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph was one of the most influential African American leaders of the twentieth century. From 1917 until his death on May 16, 1979, Randolph worked as a labor organizer, a journalist, and a civil rights leader. He was born on April 15, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida, and spent his early years in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1907 he graduated as valedictorian from Cookman Institute. He relocated to Harlem in 1911 and worked as an elevator operator while taking courses at the City College of New York and New York University.
With Chandler Owen, A. Philip Randolph founded and became co-editor of The Messenger, an African American socialist magazine, in 1917. In 1925, Randolph established the first predominantly black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, to improve working conditions for the nearly 10,000 black railroad employees. The Brotherhood would enjoy longstanding prominence in the labor and civil rights movements.
Randolph continued to be an outspoken advocate for equality, and took a leading role in efforts to redress discrimination in employment and the armed forces. In 1941 he led a 10,000-person march on Washington to demonstrate against unfair working conditions and discrimination in the defense industries. Randolph's leadership was critical to the end of segregation in the armed forces.
With Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Randolph was one of the principal organizers of the historic 1963 March on Washington, which brought over 200,000 people to Washington to protest segregation and disenfranchisement. He was awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom for his lifelong work for universal civil rights.
Brother Randolph pledged at the Iota Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. in Richmond, Virginia
With Chandler Owen, A. Philip Randolph founded and became co-editor of The Messenger, an African American socialist magazine, in 1917. In 1925, Randolph established the first predominantly black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, to improve working conditions for the nearly 10,000 black railroad employees. The Brotherhood would enjoy longstanding prominence in the labor and civil rights movements.
Randolph continued to be an outspoken advocate for equality, and took a leading role in efforts to redress discrimination in employment and the armed forces. In 1941 he led a 10,000-person march on Washington to demonstrate against unfair working conditions and discrimination in the defense industries. Randolph's leadership was critical to the end of segregation in the armed forces.
With Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Randolph was one of the principal organizers of the historic 1963 March on Washington, which brought over 200,000 people to Washington to protest segregation and disenfranchisement. He was awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom for his lifelong work for universal civil rights.
Brother Randolph pledged at the Iota Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. in Richmond, Virginia
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nnamdi Azikiwe was born on Nov. 16, 1904, of Ibo parents in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria, where his father worked as a clerk in the Nigerian Regiment. His parents gave him the name Benjamin, but he later changed it to Nnamdi. He attended school in Onitsha, Lagos, and Calabar. In 1921, when he discontinued his secondary school education, he was fluent in the languages of the three major ethnic groups of Nigeria--the Hausas, the Ibos, and the Yorubas--a major asset for the future Nigerian nationalist. Between 1921 and 1924 he worked as a clerk in the Nigerian treasury in Lagos.
In 1925 Azikiwe went to the United States to study. He attended Storer College and then Howard and Lincoln universities. He received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Lincoln in 1931 and advanced degrees from Lincoln in 1932 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1933. As a black penurious student (nicknamed Zik), Azikiwe worked at a wide range of mostly lowly jobs and was frequently a victim of racial discrimination. His American experience was certainly a source of his pan-African patriotism.
In 1934 he went to the Gold Coast (now Ghana), where he founded a newspaper and was a mentor to Kwame Nkrumah (first president of Ghana) before returning to Nigeria in 1937. There he founded and edited newspapers and also became directly involved in politics, first with the Nigerian Youth Movement and later (1944) as a founder of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), which became increasingly identified with the Igbo people of southern Nigeria after 1951. In 1948, with the backing of the NCNC, Azikiwe was elected to the Nigerian Legislative Council, and he later served as premier of the Eastern region (1954–59). Brother Azikiwe led the NCNC into the important 1959 federal elections, which preceded Nigerian independence. It was during this time Brother Azikiwe became the first President of Nigeria.
Brother Azikiwe pledged at the Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. at Lincoln University
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served from 1993 to 2001 as the 42nd President of the United States. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president from the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance. Before becoming president, he was the Governor of Arkansas for five two-year terms, serving from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1992. He was also the state's Attorney General from 1977 to 1979.
Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II. Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. Clinton created the William J. Clinton Foundation to address international causes such as the prevention of AIDS and global warming. In 2004, he published his autobiography My Life. He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably for his wife's campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Since leaving office, Clinton has been rated highly in public opinion polls of U.S. presidents.
Brother Clinton was given honorary status in September 2011
Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II. Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. Clinton created the William J. Clinton Foundation to address international causes such as the prevention of AIDS and global warming. In 2004, he published his autobiography My Life. He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably for his wife's campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Since leaving office, Clinton has been rated highly in public opinion polls of U.S. presidents.
Brother Clinton was given honorary status in September 2011
Emmitt Smith
Brother Smith is a retired American football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for fifteen seasons during the 1990s and 2000s. Considered one of the greatest and the single most complete running back in NFL history, Smith played college football for the University of Florida, where he was an All-American. A first-round pick in the 1990 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals of the NFL.
During his long professional career, he became the NFL's all-time rushing leader, breaking the record formerly held by Walter Payton, and played for three Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys teams. Smith is the only running back to ever win a Super Bowl championship, the NFL Most Valuable Player award, the NFL rushing crown, and the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award all in the same season (1993). He is also one of only four running backs to lead the NFL in rushing three or more consecutive seasons, joining Steve Van Buren, Jim Brown and Earl Campbell. Smith led the league in rushing and won the Super Bowl in the same year three times (1992, 1993, and 1995) when to that point it had never been done. Smith is also one of only two non-kickers in NFL history to score more than 1,000 career points (the other being Jerry Rice). Smith was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010, and is the first player from the 1990 NFL Draft to be inducted.
Brother Smith pledged at the Zeta Kappa Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. in Gainesville, Florida
During his long professional career, he became the NFL's all-time rushing leader, breaking the record formerly held by Walter Payton, and played for three Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys teams. Smith is the only running back to ever win a Super Bowl championship, the NFL Most Valuable Player award, the NFL rushing crown, and the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award all in the same season (1993). He is also one of only four running backs to lead the NFL in rushing three or more consecutive seasons, joining Steve Van Buren, Jim Brown and Earl Campbell. Smith led the league in rushing and won the Super Bowl in the same year three times (1992, 1993, and 1995) when to that point it had never been done. Smith is also one of only two non-kickers in NFL history to score more than 1,000 career points (the other being Jerry Rice). Smith was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010, and is the first player from the 1990 NFL Draft to be inducted.
Brother Smith pledged at the Zeta Kappa Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. in Gainesville, Florida