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  • About Our Fellowship
    • Meet Our Founders
    • Past Presidents
    • History
  • International Office
    • Meet the Executive Board
    • Meet the Directorate & Staff
    • Meet Our Regional Directors
  • Partners
    • The Groove Fund
    • The Groove Community Foundation
    • Swing Phi Swing Social Fellowship Incorporated
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Meet Our Founders

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Our foundation – On October 12, 1962, 14 men with a purpose and vision for a better world started Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship Incorporated on the campus of Morgan University (formerly Morgan State College).  Today, our Social Fellowship has active chapters operating in the United States and Ghana. We continue to look toward our founders to provide us guidance and leadership especially in more challenging efforts.

Barry H. Hampton

Barry H. Hampton

Founder, Sixth International President & Executive Board Member

Founder Barry H. Hampton currently serves as an Executive Board member and is the Board representative for Founders.  He also served as our sixth National past president. …

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Woodrow Anderson Williams

Woodrow Anderson Williams

Founder

Woodrow Anderson Williams, Jr. (“Woody”) was born on June 20, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was raised by his grandparents, Edward and Estelle Woodland, in Glassboro, New…

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Robert E. Simpson

Robert E. Simpson

Founder

Robert E. (Bob) Simpson (“Tennessee”) was born on July 3, 1943 in Earle, Arkansas, and was raised in Memphis, Tennessee.  He completed his primary and secondary education…

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Barry Simms

Barry Simms

Founder

Barry Simms (“Dep”) was born on January 24, 1941 and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.  He attended Lincoln Academy in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, for his middle school…

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Harry Payne

Harry Payne

Founder

Harry Payne was born on October 26, 1940 in Lakeland, New Jersey.  He attended Lakewood High School, where he played football, threw the javelin, and was a…

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Nathaniel Parham Sr.

Nathaniel Parham Sr.

Founder

Nathaniel Parham, Sr. (“Spider”) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 17, 1942.  He graduated from Catonsville High School in 1960 and then went to Morgan State…

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David Nesbitt

David Nesbitt

Founder

David Nesbitt (“Cha Cha”) was born in New York City on August 18, 1941.  He graduated from Flushing High School in Flushing, New York, and then attended…

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Nathaniel Monroe

Nathaniel Monroe

Founder

Nathaniel Monroe (“Money”) was born on August 12, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland.  A product of the Baltimore City school system, he graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High…

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Charlie Johnson

Charlie Johnson

Founder

Charlie Johnson was born on September 10, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland.  Attending Dunbar Senior High School in Baltimore, he studied business and was a member of both…

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James L. Hill

James L. Hill

Founder

James L. Hill (“Hilly”) was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on August 6, 1941.  As a youth, Hill lived in several different places, including Richmond, Virginia,…

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Edwin Goodwin

Edwin Goodwin

Founder

Walter Goodwin was born in 1941 at Harlem Hospital in New York City.  He later moved to New Jersey and graduated from high school in Plainfield in…

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John Edward Conquest

John Edward Conquest

Founder

John Edward Conquest (“Johnnie C”), the youngest of nine children, was born on January 5, 1940 on Gallo’s Duck Farm in East Patchogue, New York.  He attended…

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Raymond Clark

Raymond Clark

Founder

Raymond Clark, an influential figure and visionary leader, is best known as the one of the 14 founders of Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship, Inc. Born with…

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Glen Brown

Glen Brown

Founder

Glenn Brown was born on March 9, 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland.  He completed his primary and secondary education in Washington, D.C., graduating from Spingarn High School in…

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