CIAA Tournament is ‘homecoming during wintertime’ for Johnson C. Smith alums
By David Steele Johnson C. Smith University alumnus Fred Tatum, class of 1969, spent much of the three weeks following his 77th birthday in early February helping arrange a charter bus from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Baltimore for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s annual basketball tournament. He expects the bus – carrying about 42 passengers at $195 a head – to be nearly sold out for its third straight trip to the tournament’s still-new home in Baltimore. “We call it The HBCU Bus because we’ve got people from different schools riding our bus,” Tatum said. “So, it doesn’t matter to us The post CIAA Tournament is ‘homecoming during wintertime’ for Johnson C. Smith alums appeared first on HBCU News.
By David Steele Johnson C. Smith University alumnus Fred Tatum, class of 1969, spent much of the three weeks following his 77th birthday in early February helping arrange a charter bus from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Baltimore for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s annual basketball tournament. He expects the bus – carrying about 42 passengers at $195 a head – to be nearly sold out for its third straight trip to the tournament’s still-new home in Baltimore. “We call it The HBCU Bus because we’ve got people from different schools riding our bus,” Tatum said. “So, it doesn’t matter to us
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