UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 7, Page 7                                
October 15, 1992                                               
Student nets national honor                                    
                                                               
     Working as a volunteer with underprivileged children for several
summers helped Charles L. Clemons, a graduate student in the College 
of Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation, earn the title of the        
first Mr. Collegiate African American last spring.                   
     Held at Prairie View A & M University in Texas, the competition 
drew nominations from historically black colleges and universities   
from around the country, with the goal of recognizing the achievements        
of African-American men college students.                            
     Clemons, a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity and representing  
Lincoln University where he was a senior,  won a scholarship, a trip 
to the Miss Collegiate African American competition in California and
other awards.                                                        
     Clemons has received other recognition for his volunteer work   
with children. In 1988, he won the Sen. Bill Bradley Young Citizens  
Award in his home state of New Jersey.                               
     A major in recreational therapy, Clemons interned at Red Bank      
Riverview Hospital while in college, working with older patients in  
the geriatric unit.                                                  
     At Delaware, he is working on his master's degree in cardiac    
rehabilitation in the physical education program.