Celebrating a membership that has expanded from Homewood to East Baltimore and the Applied Physics Laboratory, members and friends of the Black Faculty and Staff Association gathered recently in Homewood's Glass Pavilion for a fifth anniversary banquet.

Among the 170 guests on hand were Alison Pullins, BFSA's first president; Rose Varner-Gaskins, Vernon Savage and Toni Moore-Duggin, three of the group's seven founders; outgoing president Martha Edgerton; incoming president Lori Hackett; and jazz musician Dontae Winslow, a Peabody Conservatory graduate, who provided the evening's entertainment.

Joseph Colon and Clarybel Peguero

Incoming officers Martha Edgerton, Lori Hackett, Celestine Turner, Veronica Black, Vera Edmonds, Wendy Young, Lisa Lassiter, Maria Joiner, Sharon Stenhouse and Anderson Lyles

Ray Gillian, Steven Knapp and Jerry Schnydman

Martha Edgerton, outgoing president, and President William R. Brody

Lori Hackett, incoming president

Alison Pullins, first BFSA president

Rose Varner-Gaskins, Vernon Savage and Toni Moore-Duggan, three of the seven BFSA founders