PEOPLE OF INTEREST
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BRADY L. TALLEY
Age: 45
Occupation: Career Pathways
Student Coordinator
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Education: Bachelor of Science
in exercise and sport science,
Texas State University; master’s
degree in college student affairs,
Nova Southeastern University
Hometown: Port St. Lucie
Family: Sons David, 18, and Joshua, 12
Hobbies: Walking his two dogs, a fox terrier
named Gurlie and a Chihuahua named Olive.
What Inspires Me: “To have a personal stake in
a young man’s success story.”
Something Most People Don’t Know About Me: “I was
a strength and conditioning coach for the Los Angeles
Dodgers organization.”
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John Cesar, right, a Sigma Beta Club alumnus, stopped by a club meeting
to visit Pops (Talley, center) and talk to club member Clifton Wilson Jr.. The
club, which is for young males ages 8-18, provides positive black male role
models through the members of the Phi Beta Sigma Alumni Chapter.
up to be a good young man.” He wants to be a sportscaster
and added that the discipline learned through the club will
help him in the future.
Talley calls himself an Army brat and was born in San
Antonio, Texas, where his father was stationed at Fort Sam
Houston. He enlisted in the Army after high school. He
served eight years including a stint in the Middle East for Operation
Desert Storm, where he and his father, who was then
in the Air Force Reserves and flying injured soldiers from
Saudi Arabia to England, met at an air base.
Talley joined the collegiate chapter of Phi Beta Sigma, a
historically black fraternity that was started in 1914 at Howard
University in Washington, D.C., during his days at Texas
State University and is glad that he did. As a first vice director
of the Florida alumni chapters, he travels a lot to keep the
organization’s message strong throughout the state.
The chapters are working to make an investment in the
leaders of tomorrow. In 2015, Phi Beta Sigma adopted a new
message: I am my brother’s keeper. Their work with the
younger generation includes leading the youth on community
service projects such as assisting the elderly, working with
children with disabilities and cleaning up neighborhoods.
As life comes full circle, Abelard joined the alumni chapter
after his college graduation and is mentoring teens in the Sigma
Beta Club. He knows how to do it; he learned from the best.
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