United Negro College Fund Gears Up for 31st Annual UNCF Golf Classic

Contact Tim Roseborough
United Negro College Fund
713-942-8623

HOUSTON (April 2, 2002) -- The United Negro College Fund is hosting its 31st Annual UNCF Golf Classic to help deserving students survive and succeed in a world where a higher education opens the door of opportunity.

The UNCF's Houston office is spearheading the fund-raiser set for May 20 at the Sweetwater Country Club, located at 4400 Palm Royale Blvd. in Sugar Land. The event will be held in a scramble format, with trophies awarded in four flights and prizes awarded for the longest drive and closest to the pin. A 19th hole dinner and awards presentation will cap the event.

Sponsor packages include the $10,000 Platinum Tee Package, $5,000 Gold Tee Package, $2,500 Silver Tee Package, $1,600 Bronze Tee Package and $500 Advertiser. Special advertiser packages -- which offer a company's name and logo prominently displayed on items and/or golf equipment as well as four 19th hole guest passes -- include $2,000 Golf Cart Sponsor (company sign on each golf cart -- one sponsor per course), $1,000 19th Hole Sponsor (signage display, 19th hole reception), $800 Foursome (before May 1) and $200 Individual (before May 1).

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the event starts at 10:30 a.m. Entry fees per person are $200 early "birdie" by May 1 and $250 late "bogey" after May 1.

Alfred Jackson of Davis Hamilton Jackson & Associates is the honorary chair. Serving as the media chair is D'Artagnan Bebel of KRIV Fox 26/UPN 20. Borris Miles of Miles Insurance Agency and Jonathan Smith of Pepsi Cola, will serve again as golf committee chair and co-chair respectively. The 31st Annual UNCF Golf Classic is sponsored by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors.

The UNCF, founded in 1944, is a fundraising consortium of 39 private, fully accredited, four-year historically black colleges and universities attended by students of various ethnic backgrounds. The organization provides financial assistance to deserving students, raises operating funds for member colleges and universities, and increases access to technology for students and faculty at historically black colleges and universities.

Trailblazers and super achievers who once sat in the classrooms and studied in the libraries of UNCF schools include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., opera diva Leontyne Price, actor Samuel Jackson, Dr. Deborah Hyde (one of only four African-American neurosurgeons in the country), Chappie James (the first black four-star general in the U.S. Air Force), poet Nikki Giovanni and many others.