Graduates make due on their pledge to WSSU
The Line Sisters of Sankofa 7 of Swing Phi Swing Social Fellowship Inc. are pictured left to right: Antoinette Ball, Rose Lockhart, Victoria Graves-Cade, Elise Rodney, Vanessa Diggs, Phyllis Jeter Nunn, and Candace Stowe.
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Seven women, all graduates of Winston-Salem State University, made a pledge a year ago to donate $10,000 to their Alma Mater on behalf of Swing Phi Swing Social Fellowship Inc. and its philanthropic and humanitarian arm, The SHE Foundation, in recognition of their upcoming 10th anniversary as members of Swing.
The Line Sisters of Sankofa 7, who are members of the Rukiya Busara Piedmont Graduate Chapter here in Winston-Salem, had the honor and privilege to make due on that pledge and presented a check in the amount of $10,000 to WSSU at Homecoming on Oct. 15.
Swing Phi Swing was founded on the campus of WSSU on April 4, 1969. Eight of its 12 founding members are still active and recognized within the organization, three of whom who still reside in the Triad area. Members of the Line Sisters of Sankofa 7 are Antoinette Ball, Vanessa Diggs, Victoria Graves-Cade, Phyllis Jeter Nunn, Rose Lockhart, Elise Rodney and Candace Stowe.
