Sareta Spratt-Delgado has served as Secretary/Treasurer for Revitalizing Our Community (R.O.C.) since 2012, bringing a deep commitment to service, leadership, and community engagement. She has been employed at Howard Payne University since 2014 and previously worked in the Academic Affairs Office as an administrative assistant in 1983.

A 1980 graduate of Brownwood High School, Sareta served as Senior Class Secretary and was Captain of the 1979–1980 Lionettes. After high school, she attended Cisco Jr. College where she was also Captain of the Wrangler Belles drill team.  She graduated with her associates in 1983.  She moved to California in 1991 while maintaining strong ties to her hometown.  She received her degree from Rock Bible College in San Bernardino, California, in 2010. She also was a member and worked for The Rock Church and World Outreach Center, a 10,000-member church, where she served on staff for ten years, supporting ministry and community outreach efforts.

In 2012, Sareta returned to Brownwood and married Ernie Delgado, a fellow 1980 Brownwood High School graduate and United States Navy veteran. Since returning home, she has remained actively involved in strengthening the Brownwood community. She is a member of Awaken Church in Brownwood and currently serves on its board.

Sareta is the daughter of O.L. and Carol Spratt. She is the proud mom of one son and has one beautiful granddaughter, both of whom reside in California.

Sareta leans into her faith in all she does.  She often says, “Respond don’t React”, because your words have power take great care in how you use them!

ROC is proud to spotlight one of our own for all she does in the community, Sareta truly exhibited the mantra of selflessness and putting others before herself.

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

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This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month and Revitalizing Our Community (ROC) will be spotlighting amazing African Americans, who have made contributions to the community of Brownwood and Brown County.  Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) announced the second week of February to be “Negro History Week”. This week was chosen because it coincided with the birthday of Abraham Lincoln on February 12 and that of Frederick Douglass on February 14, both of which Black communities had celebrated since the late 19th century

Black educators and Black United Students at Kent State University first proposed Black History Month in February 1969. The first celebration of Black History Month took place at Kent State a year later, from January 2 to February 28, 1970.

Six years later, Black History Month was being celebrated all across the country in educational institutions, when President Gerald Ford recognized Black History Month in 1976, during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial. He urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”