Category: Features

Standing 6 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 300 pounds, he had the voice of a tiger. Charles P. Adams was a force of nature who sometimes scared some faculty and students. As the first Grambling State University president, he contributed life, love, and history to the campus and Louisiana.  Born July 12, 1873 in […]

Grambling State University President Frank G. Pogue and Grambling Mayor Edward R. Jones signed an official proclamation recognizing university founder Charles P. Adams at a bust of Adams adjacent to Lee Hall.   “After 112 years, the opportunity to pause and show respect to our founder is extremely important,” said Pogue, dressed in his signature black […]

Grambling Mayor Edward Jones thinks he’s attended nearly all of the Grambling State University Founder’s Week community breakfasts. Jasmine Hill attended her first.  The annual Founder’s Week Fellowship Breakfast was held in the Black and Gold Room at the Favrot Student Union on Monday morning.  “I’ve been here practically every year,” said Jones, a former […]

The woman who would later be highly esteemed left Grambling in the same place she started.  Ruby Weekly Billups, who is from Vidalia, attended Grambling College in 1947 and graduated with an elementary education degree in 1951.  Billups was a student worker for the registrar’s office for four years. After graduating in 1951, because of […]

  H e stood his ground. However … Oscar Epps and others who knew him called it stubbornness.  “His stubbornness is what was unique about him,” said Epps, an Omega Psi Phi fraternity brother and close friend. “In terms of discussions we would have, we both would say we were right and after discussion, he still […]

  “We start to die, the moment we are born, so why wait to the last minute to do something? ” coach Terry Lilly said. One could sit and name every accomplishment that Lilly has achieved in life, but the picture in your head is one of a man with many trophies. Coach Terry is […]

  Startled, the Grambling alumna takes off her black headphones and throws her hands in the air as if she had seen a ghost.  tanding at 5’5 as stern as they come, wearing vintage gold earrings and her signature scarf tied around her neck, “The Voice” of Grambling State University smiled. It was time for […]

As we celebrate Black History Month, we reflect on those who made a difference on the campus of Grambling State University and in the city of Grambling.  Ruby Weekly Billups served as the registrar for 22 years before retiring in 1986, and she had previously served as assistant registrar for 13 years, and student assistant […]