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Bro. Reginald Walston owns an independent financial company in Dallas specializing in financial systems implementations, along with audit and portfolio analysis for business. He also runs a personal financial analysis business and is in the process of opening a barber shop and clothing store in the Dallas area.
Bro. Walston is the current Texas state secretary for Phi Beta Sigma. He was the emcee of the 13th annual Calvin Littlejohn Men of Distinction Bigger & Better Business Banquet in Fort Worth, which was sponsored by Alpha Theta Sigma Chapter back in March.
He lives in Corinth, Texas (minutes outside of Dallas), has been
instrumental in the reactivation of Omicron Sigma Chapter, one of the
nation’s oldest graduate chapters.
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He previously served as the director of collegiate affairs for Alpha Theta Sigma Chapter.
Bro. Walston can be congratulated at rr_walston@yahoo.com.
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Sigma initiation date: July 12, 1996
Birth chapter: Epsilon Omicron Sigma (Gainesville, Fla.)
Current chapter: Omicron Sigma (North Dallas)
Education: BS in Accounting from North Carolina A&T
How did you become interested in Sigma?: “When I was at A&T, my best friend told me that he was going to attend an interest meeting, and he wanted me to go with him. At that time, I told him I was not interested in being Greek. I was use to observing that once people went over, they would normally separate themselves from their “former” friends. What I noticed is that he didn’t change how he interacted with people or me. In fact, it was almost as if his line brothers accepted me as if I was a part of them as well. I didn’t pledge during undergrad because just as I was about to begin the process in the spring (A&T only had spring intake), I caught pneumonia and was in the hospital for two weeks during my senior year. I graduated and began working but kept the desire to join the Blue & White family. It wasn’t until my travel schedule on the job moved me to Florida, and I began graduate school at the University of Florida that I had the time to pledge.”
Advice to younger Brothers: 1) THINK. 2) Be on time for something (other than a party). 3) If common sense were common, everyone would have it. 4) Help someone not related to you. 5) There is a difference between a brother and a member of your Fraternity. 6) Your education on being a man did not end once you became a member of the Frat. It’s a never-ending process (the 12 Inch Rule is more than words you had to learn. Implement it in your daily life). 7) No one ever got wealthy following the crowd.
Advice to older Brothers: 1) Technology is your friend. 2) Be on time for something (other than church). 3) Take a collegiate to lunch, dinner or another cultural event just to talk. Many collegiates don’t feel a relation with any graduates outside of their advisers. Therefore they don't immediately get active once they graduate. 4) Never be afraid of trying something new. Remember a large group of professionals built the Titanic, and a lone individual built the Ark. 5) Constructive criticism constructs; it does not tear down. 6) Younger Brothers cannot step up to the table if you don’t give them a place setting. 7) Age does not deem wisdom (relearn the 12 Inch Rule).
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