EII Executive Board Members
Keeper of Finance
Ruel R. Dixon was born in Kingston Jamaica on December 26th 1982. He attended Ardenne High School and migrated to USA in 2001. He graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a Bachelors Degree in Marketing in May of 2006 and became a member of the Epsilon Iota Iota Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated on April 14th 2007. Currently he serves as Keeper of Finance of EII with aspirations of moving up the chain of command on a chapter and district level. He is currently enrolled in Albertus Magnus College seeking his MBA. He has two younger siblings - a younger brother and sister who he loves dearly. He is the first in his family to ever join a fraternity and wishes to carry on that tradition with the next generation. Ruel states “I love the fraternity and especially my two line brothers Anthony Grant and Dwight Bailey. Long live Omega and the Epsilon Iota Iota Chapter.”
Chaplain
Samuel Ross-Lee was Born in Clearwater, Florida, Rev. Ross-Lee spent his formative growing up in Saint Petersburg and Hardee County, Florida, where he was the son of a Church of Christ Minister. He graduated High School in Bartow, Florida, after which he spent two years at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Rev. Ross-Lee was enlisted in the United States Army for 3 years, serving mostly at Fort Hood, Texas as a Legal Clerk. Upon Honorable Discharge from the military, Rev. Ross-Lee enrolled in Morehouse College, where he completed an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, where he received a full academic scholarship and graduated with honors (cum laude). He also received two academic fellowships at Morehouse: The Martin L. King, Jr. Fellowship and the Fort Foundation Teaching Fellowship. Rev. Ross-Lee served for two years as President of the Chapel Assistants, under the direction of Brother Rev. Dr. Lawrence E. Carter, Sr., Dean of the MLK International Chapel. He served one year as Vice-President of the NAACP, and one year as a Justice on the Student Court. He also served as a Resident Assistant and a Summer School Tutor in English for Pre-Freshman enrollees. After working for one year at his alma mater as an Admissions Counselor, Rev. Ross-Lee enrolled in the Harvard University School of Divinity, where he completed his divinity school education and received his Masters Degree. At Harvard Rev. Ross-Lee was awarded the John Williams Entrance Fellowship and received the Benjamin E. Mays Fellowship for Ministry from the Fund for Theological Education. He served as Secretary of Harambee – The African-American Student Organization and as the student representative on the Professorial Search Committee. While a Student at Harvard he served as an intern at the Historic Concord Baptist Church in Boston under the Pastorate of the Rev. Conley Hughes, and the Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, under the Pastorate of Brother Rev. Dr. Charles G. Adams. Upon leaving Boston, Rev. Ross-Lee spent an additional year in Detroit at Hartford Memorial as an Assistant to the Pastor for General Ministry. In September 1993 he was called to the Pastorate of the Gill Creek Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, where he served for 7 years and 9 months.
Rev. Ross-Lee accepted the call to the Pastorate of the Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church on March 29, 2001. He assumed the duty on July 8, 2001. Rev. Ross-Lee presently serves on the Ethics Board for the City of New Haven as Vice-Chairman. He has served as a member of the City of New Haven’s Charter Revision Committee, and as the President of Interfaith Cooperative Ministry, He is a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (Boulé) Beta Tau Chapter. Rev. Ross-Lee is the father of one daughter, Naomi: She is a student at St. Thomas’s Day School in New Haven. He was initiated into the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, Epsilon Iota Iota Chapter in 2008.
