Meet the Board of Managers

In addition, he received a Ph.D. from Wayne Theological Seminary and Ph.D. from Trinity Hall College and Seminary of Springfield, MA.

He is a member of many organizations such as International Kiwanis, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, The President Task Force of Neighborhood Government and the Council of Churches of New York, Brooklyn Division and numerous other organizations.

Bishop Billings was appointed the Secretary-General of the Churches of God in Christ International in August of 1976 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was later appointed Bishop over the Floridian Diocese of the Churches of God in Christ International and in August 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was appointed Bishop of the Louisiana Diocese. He was the Adjutant General and Treasure of the Fellowship Jurisdiction of the Church in Christ International. Bishop Billings was consecrated a Vicar Bishop in WROCC in Apostolic Succession December 1999. Later he was elevated to Archbishopric in the ICHCOC. Currently, he is the overseer of the Ephesus Church of God in Christ and the National Cathedral of Christ Ministries.

Rev. Dr. Billings is the founder and Chief Apostle of the United Fellowship of Churches International. He is the National Treasurer of the World Bishop Council (WBC) and founding member of the New Life Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York.

However, the story of Bob Beamon did not start at the Olympics. Born in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, Beamon was surrounded by a world of unsavory activity. Beamon became engulfed by the culture of the time. By the age of fourteen, he was rarely at school and involved in gang life, eventually becoming a gang leader.

With the help of positive goals developed through sports, Beamon turned his life around. Athletics were the catalyst that fueled this transition. Bob was a New York state record holder and Junior Olympian. He won the 1965 National High School Triple Jump and High Jump awards. In 1967, he won the Indoor AAU Long Jump Championship as well as the Silver Medal at the Pan American Games Outdoor Long Jump Championships.

Beamon made the shift from hanging out on the corner to attending college. After beginning his NCAA career at North Carolina, A&T, he transferred to the emerging track powerhouse program at the University of Texas El-Paso. While competing at UTEP, Beamon proved to be a man of unparalleled principle. As a college student at the time of the civil rights movement, Beamon and fellow African-Americans boycotted a track and field meet held by a university with insensitive racial practices. His decision had major repercussions, costing him his scholarship and coach mere months before the Olympic Trials.

The year of the 1968 Olympics, Bob had 22 wins in 23 events, which landed him a spot in the Olympics. Nothing less than gold was expected of Beamon in Mexico City and his jump was nothing short of miraculous! Just 22 years old, he landed a jump of 29 ft. 2½ inches, destroying the existing world record by 1.8 feet. His Olympic record still stands today, nearly a half-century later. It is currently the longest standing Olympic record in the history of the modern Olympic Games.

He is also in the National Track & Field Hall of Fame, U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, New York Track & Field Hall of Fame as well as ESPN’s top 100 athletes in history. Beamon has been honored by every single major Olympic organization in the world as part of his many sports accolades.

His story also did not end at the Olympics. Following his uncharted success, he went back to school to complete his degree, graduating from Adelphi University in 1972 with a degree in Sociology. Now, Beamon takes lessons from his own life to positively affect American youth. As the Associate Commissioner of Parks in Miami-Dade County, Bob Beamon, along with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, organized the South Florida Inner-City Games for at-risk kids.

He was Chairman of the Bob Beamon United Way Golf Classic, which benefited youth-related programs for the United Way. In addition, he has gone on to pursue new dreams. He operates his own corporation, Bob Beamon Communications Inc., in Central Florida as well as Las Vegas, Nevada where he now lives with his wife, Rhonda A. Beamon. He collaborates with several organizations to facilitate scholarship fairs in the Central Florida area. More than 35 colleges and Universities award over $10 million in scholarships to qualified high school seniors. He is also an exhibited artist, designing and marketing a successful line of neckties and scarves. He is one of the first athletes ever to receive a license to use the United States Olympic Committee rings and logos on his merchandise. As with the USOC, Beamon has a line of apparel that can be purchased online at the International Olympic Committee website as well. Bob spends much of his time as an inspirational speaker and corporate spokesperson. He has developed his own motivational program, The Champion in You, in which he describes how, “Champions are made by the things you accomplish and by the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.” Beamon is also on the Jessie Owens Foundation Board of Directors and is the newly named Global Ambassador for Special Olympics. Bob remains very active in the Olympic movement and recently received the Jesse Owens Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Smithsonian Museum this year. Bob Beamon is a man with a humanitarian’s heart. All he touches, it seems, turns to gold.

Pastor Benton’s gifts extend beyond the classroom and the sanctuary. He is a gifted percussionist and served as Chaplain of the A&T State University Band. As an undergraduate student, Pastor Benton instructed an urban charter middle school drum line at the Imani Institute in North Carolina. While an Associate Pastor at Berean Baptist Church in Brooklyn, NY, Pastor Benton founded the Berean Community Drumline (BCD) through the Berean Community and Family Life Center. The award winning drum line has performed at various venues and events.

Beamon made the shift from hanging out on the corner to attending college. After beginning his NCAA career at North Carolina, A&T, he transferred to the emerging track powerhouse program at the University of Texas El-Paso. While competing at UTEP, Beamon proved to be a man of unparalleled principle. As a college student at the time of the civil rights movement, Beamon and fellow African-Americans boycotted a track and field meet held by a university with insensitive racial practices. His decision had major repercussions, costing him his scholarship and coach mere months before the Olympic Trials.

The year of the 1968 Olympics, Bob had 22 wins in 23 events, which landed him a spot in the Olympics. Nothing less than gold was expected of Beamon in Mexico City and his jump was nothing short of miraculous! Just 22 years old, he landed a jump of 29 ft. 2½ inches, destroying the existing world record by 1.8 feet. His Olympic record still stands today, nearly a half-century later. It is currently the longest standing Olympic record in the history of the modern Olympic Games.

He is also in the National Track & Field Hall of Fame, U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, New York Track & Field Hall of Fame as well as ESPN’s top 100 athletes in history. Beamon has been honored by every single major Olympic organization in the world as part of his many sports accolades.

His story also did not end at the Olympics. Following his uncharted success, he went back to school to complete his degree, graduating from Adelphi University in 1972 with a degree in Sociology. Now, Beamon takes lessons from his own life to positively affect American youth. As the Associate Commissioner of Parks in Miami-Dade County, Bob Beamon, along with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, organized the South Florida Inner-City Games for at-risk kids.

He was Chairman of the Bob Beamon United Way Golf Classic, which benefited youth-related programs for the United Way. In addition, he has gone on to pursue new dreams. He operates his own corporation, Bob Beamon Communications Inc., in Central Florida as well as Las Vegas, Nevada where he now lives with his wife, Rhonda A. Beamon. He collaborates with several organizations to facilitate scholarship fairs in the Central Florida area. More than 35 colleges and Universities award over $10 million in scholarships to qualified high school seniors. He is also an exhibited artist, designing and marketing a successful line of neckties and scarves. He is one of the first athletes ever to receive a license to use the United States Olympic Committee rings and logos on his merchandise. As with the USOC, Beamon has a line of apparel that can be purchased online at the International Olympic Committee website as well. Bob spends much of his time as an inspirational speaker and corporate spokesperson. He has developed his own motivational program, The Champion in You, in which he describes how, “Champions are made by the things you accomplish and by the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.” Beamon is also on the Jessie Owens Foundation Board of Directors and is the newly named Global Ambassador for Special Olympics. Bob remains very active in the Olympic movement and recently received the Jesse Owens Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Smithsonian Museum this year. Bob Beamon is a man with a humanitarian’s heart. All he touches, it seems, turns to gold.

Mrs. Frye started her professional career in Greensboro, NC, as a public school teacher. She taught second grade and exceptional children. She taught briefly at Bennett College and later returned to Bennett as a special assistant to the president and director of planned giving.

She has worked at NCA&T in three different capacities including assistant vice chancellor for development and university relations and most recently, a special assignment as executive assistant to the chancellor. One of the most exciting and rewarding jobs to Mrs. Frye was vice president of community relations for the Greensboro CBS affiliate, WFMY-TV.

Mrs. Frye has been involved in over 100 former and present associations and affiliations. She has been a member of Providence Baptist Church for over 50 years. She has served on boards not only in the Greensboro area but state and national levels, as well. She is a member of, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., The Links, Inc., 100 Black Women, Women Administrators in Higher Education, and a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Beamon made the shift from hanging out on the corner to attending college. After beginning his NCAA career at North Carolina, A&T, he transferred to the emerging track powerhouse program at the University of Texas El-Paso. While competing at UTEP, Beamon proved to be a man of unparalleled principle. As a college student at the time of the civil rights movement, Beamon and fellow African-Americans boycotted a track and field meet held by a university with insensitive racial practices. His decision had major repercussions, costing him his scholarship and coach mere months before the Olympic Trials.

The year of the 1968 Olympics, Bob had 22 wins in 23 events, which landed him a spot in the Olympics. Nothing less than gold was expected of Beamon in Mexico City and his jump was nothing short of miraculous! Just 22 years old, he landed a jump of 29 ft. 2½ inches, destroying the existing world record by 1.8 feet. His Olympic record still stands today, nearly a half-century later. It is currently the longest standing Olympic record in the history of the modern Olympic Games.

He is also in the National Track & Field Hall of Fame, U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, New York Track & Field Hall of Fame as well as ESPN’s top 100 athletes in history. Beamon has been honored by every single major Olympic organization in the world as part of his many sports accolades.

His story also did not end at the Olympics. Following his uncharted success, he went back to school to complete his degree, graduating from Adelphi University in 1972 with a degree in Sociology. Now, Beamon takes lessons from his own life to positively affect American youth. As the Associate Commissioner of Parks in Miami-Dade County, Bob Beamon, along with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, organized the South Florida Inner-City Games for at-risk kids.

He was Chairman of the Bob Beamon United Way Golf Classic, which benefited youth-related programs for the United Way. In addition, he has gone on to pursue new dreams. He operates his own corporation, Bob Beamon Communications Inc., in Central Florida as well as Las Vegas, Nevada where he now lives with his wife, Rhonda A. Beamon. He collaborates with several organizations to facilitate scholarship fairs in the Central Florida area. More than 35 colleges and Universities award over $10 million in scholarships to qualified high school seniors. He is also an exhibited artist, designing and marketing a successful line of neckties and scarves. He is one of the first athletes ever to receive a license to use the United States Olympic Committee rings and logos on his merchandise. As with the USOC, Beamon has a line of apparel that can be purchased online at the International Olympic Committee website as well. Bob spends much of his time as an inspirational speaker and corporate spokesperson. He has developed his own motivational program, The Champion in You, in which he describes how, “Champions are made by the things you accomplish and by the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.” Beamon is also on the Jessie Owens Foundation Board of Directors and is the newly named Global Ambassador for Special Olympics. Bob remains very active in the Olympic movement and recently received the Jesse Owens Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Smithsonian Museum this year. Bob Beamon is a man with a humanitarian’s heart. All he touches, it seems, turns to gold.

Prior to founding CIG, Gerry held high-level positions at the New Jersey Department of Treasury, serving under as Assistant State Treasurer and Director of the Legislative Affairs Unit which assists and oversees the annual budget process. Working with Republicans and Democrats alike, the legislative unit also handled legislator’s constituent requests. While at Treasury, he helped implement the State Alternative Investment Program which invested a portion of the State’s $70 billion pension portfolio to outside money managers and oversaw the Division of Public Finance, Pensions and Investments.

Gerry was a presidential appointee in the Clinton Administration from 1996-2000. He has also has extensive political campaign experience serving as senior adviser to many legislative and gubernatorial candidates and national advance staff member for President William J. Clinton’s re-election campaign.

Originally recruited as a quarterback in Urban Meyer’s spread offense, he played several positions for the Gators, including wide receiver, tight end, fullback and quarterback. As a freshman in 2010, he broke Tim Tebow’s team record for touchdowns in a single game with six. In 50 career games with Florida, he had 720 rushing yards, 976 receiving yards, and 20 total touchdowns.

He received an invitation to the NFL combine and attended as one of 22 collegiate tight ends. His multiple positions through college made it difficult for scouts and analysts to determine what position he would play professionally. Standing at 6’2″, he tied Tennessee State’s A. C. Leonard as the shortest tight ends at the combine and was the lightest by 11 lbs. Burton finished with the fastest 40-yard dash time, tied for second in the three-cone drill, and fourth in the short shuttle among his position group at the combine. On March 17, 2014, Burton opted to participate at Florida’s pro day, along with Dominique Easley, Solomon Patton, Loucheiz Purifoy, Marcus Roberson, Jon Halapio, Jonotthan Harrison, Ronald Powell, Jaylen Watkins, and two other teammates. He performed the vertical jump (33″), broad jump (9’5″), short shuttle (4.31), three-cone drill (7.01), and running back drills for the representatives and scouts from 32 NFL teams. Burton lowered his time in the short shuttle and three-cone drill, while also increasing his broad and vertical jumps from the combine.