
Our Youth
our Future

Booker T. Washington High School
Friends and Alumni Foundation, Inc.
Norfolk, Virginia

Help to prepare our Youth for
"Life's success"
President
Ashley Avery


ABOUT US
Our organization aims to make substantial contributions to help enhance, supplement and undergird all departmental programs, activities and capital projects of “our” school. We are profoundly grateful to those corporations, businesses, foundations, our Foundation’s members and friends, who have provided financial, material, and inkind support through pledges and other forms of planned giving. We salute, too, the very often, over-taxed faculty, administrators and staff for their abiding commitment to ensuring that every student who enters the hallowed halls of Booker T. Washington has a real opportunity to learn, grow and transition to other schools or work with the skills and emotional maturity for success.
The Foundation recognizes that, because of the historical imbalances of opportunity for many of our school’s families, many, too many of our students face extraordinary financial challenges.
Thanks to generous contributions of many of you over the past years, and with the superb council of BTW administrators, faculty and staff, the Foundation has provided significant funding and helped defray costs of special testing, music programs, field trips, boys and girls sports equipment and uniforms, books, arts equipment and other required materials, as well as having created opportunities for students to participate in community service.Our foundation is a sanctioned 501(c)(3) organization which qualifies all contributions as tax deductible.
Along with our Foundation’s Board of Directors and Membership, we ask that you continue and strengthen your efforts to support our programs, be they financial or by volunteering, or both.
Therefore, the Foundation works to help defray the cost of testing fees, equipment, supplies and other basic materials that are fundamental to the success of Booker T Washington High School students.
Board Members





Ashley Averly
President &
Co-Director for
Marketing/Promotions
Inez Blount-Mason
Vice President
& Co-Director for Events Planning
Malcolm Avery
Director for Public Relations
& Co-Director for Event Planning
Willie Lee III
Treasurer

Cynthia Watson
Secretary & Scholarship Director

Carlton Stokes
Sergeant of Arms &
Co-Director for Membership

Percy Johnson
Assistant Website Director

Ben Hyman
Photographer & Website Developer

James Rivers
Assistant Secretary &
Co-Director for
Marketing/Promotions


Melvin Brown
Director/Assistant Treasurer
Karlis Brown
Co-Director for membership

Samuel Roundtree
Project Director

Joseph Staton
Director Emeritus

Board of Directors
The above picture does not reflect the total Board Membership below
President & Co-Director for Marketing/Promotions Ashley Avery
Vice President & Co-Director for Event Planning Inez Blount-Mason
Director for Public Relations & Co-Director for Events Planning Malcolm Avery
Treasurer & Web Assistant Willie Lee III
Scholarship Director Cynthia Watson
Website Assistant Percy Johnson
Photographer & Website Developer Ben Hyman
Sergeant of Arms & Co-Director for Membership Carlton Stokes
Director/Assistant Treasurer Melvin Brown
Co-Director for Membership Karlis Brown
Assistant Secretary & Co-Director for Marketing/Promotions James Rivers
Secretary Director Deborah Mapp
Director Sharon Davidson-Cook
Projects Director Samuel Roundtree
Director Emeritus Joseph Staton Director Emeritus Lillian P Brothers