Greetings Hamptonians!

Let me take this opportunity to greet each and every one of you. As I enter my term as your National President I would like to take this opportunity to ask you to embrace this administrations slogan “Leveraging the Legacy”. The concept of leveraging the legacy is one of improving and enhancing our legacy. As you well know Booker T. Washington was our first National President of our Association. As we embrace his dreams and concepts, it is our responsibility to take on the role of enhancing and improving our legacy.

It is up to us as Hamptonians to continue to build upon the past and dream for the future. Last year we raised 1.7 million dollars for our alma mater. This year NHAA, Inc. is asking that you help us enhance and improve upon what we were able to do last year by raising 2 million dollars. Hampton belongs to all of us and it is “Our Home by the Sea”. There are so many ways that we can give to our institution to help keep it viable. Hampton has embedded in all of us a sense of pride and dignity. Let’s show the world that we know that our institution consist of the best and brightest of graduates and students and that we can and will take care of our precious “God’s Little Acres”.

I encourage those of you who are not members of NHAA, Inc. to join your local chapters and become a part of this great legacy. Our last administration reminded us that while we were students at Hampton we learned the value of serving. With that said, NHAA, Inc will continue to demonstrate our alumni’s commitment to service by participating in a Global Day of Service and by all alumni chapters participating in a recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on or around his birthday in their communities.

I look forward to hearing from you and working with and for you as all of us as alumni start on this journey to leverage the legacy.

Yours in the Hampton Spirit,

Joan McMillan Wickham, '78
NHAA, Inc. President