MISSION DIRECTIVE

MISSION DIRECTIVE: TO CULTIVATE CULTURE:

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-  Utilization of “The Evolving of Reid High School” from, first being called the “Colored School of Belmont” to an excellent school of higher learning; thus, enriching the lives of many African-Americans for many generations.  And, still, the “culture” of Reid High speaks to us today thru active alumni associations and the Junior  Reid RAMS (JR2).

-   Utilization of the “Belmont Mass Choir”, now solely sponsored by the Foundation, to bring forth a diversity of music that includes, in part:  Negro Spirituals, Hymns, Old School, Contemporary Gospel, Jazz;  along with a wide repertoire of at-large music.

-  Utilization of the “Reid Ancestral Home”, built by Professor Charles Jesse Bynum Reid & Mrs. Maude Herndon Reid in 1920, serving as a “cultural center of note”.  This home includes; memorabilia of Reid High (pictures of Reid School Principals, Teachers and Staff). Also, the second floor (3) bedrooms are named in memory of: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; with memorabilia and pictures.

-  Utilization of various creative artists for added cultural enlightenment:  Mr. Lacy/Poet; Mrs. Noel/Charlotte Black History Tours, and others we come to know.

-  Utilization of all races of people and ethnicities.