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2017 – 2018 THE BULLETIN The 100 Beatties Ford Road Charlotte, N.C. 28216 Bulletin

A Magazine From Johnson C. Smith University | 2017 – 2018

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02 President’s Message 03 Cover Story TABLE OF CONTENTS 06 Features 14 University News

24 Academics

38 Student News 48 Athletics 58 Philanthropy

64 Donors

92 Community Engagement 96 Alumni 108 Class Notes

A magazine from Johnson C. Smith University

2017 - 2018

President Clarence D. Armbrister Vice President Institutional Advancement Tami B. Simmons Executive Editor Sherri Belfield Managing Editor Antia Dawkins Editor Emiene Wright Contributing Writers Sherri Belfield | Antia Dawkins | Emiene Wright

Photographers Troy Hull | Jonathan Keitt | Antia Dawkins Joshua Nypaver

Published annually by University Communications and Marketing for alumni and friends of JCSU.

Johnson C. Smith University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate and master’s degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Johnson C. Smith University.

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President’s Message

he execution of the passing of the baton in a closely contested relay race is one of the most exciting and exhilarating moments in sports. This 2017-2018 edition of The Bulletin spans the “passing of the baton” from Dr. Ronald L. Carter to me, which began officially on January 1, 2018. Orchestrated under the able leadership of TBoard Chair Shirley J. Hughes, the transition from one administration to another was executed with the precision of a well-coached relay team.

I had the distinct honor of addressing the campus community on January 3, 2018, as the 14th President of Johnson C. Smith University and shared with the community my initial thoughts on the factors I believe will ensure that JCSU will thrive for another 150 years. In that address, I introduced the “4 R’s”: resources, recruitment, retention and rigor—and my belief that if we can move the needle appreciably in these areas, JCSU will undoubtedly thrive.

As the year progressed, I met with the members of the faculty and staff of every school and college. I met with students. Also, I met individually with members of the board and addressed alumni on various occasions. The experiences I shared in all of those interactions confirmed that which I had anticipated upon being named president: the JCSU community and stakeholders are proud and passionate about the University. In addition, I was presented with multiple examples of the University’s principal tenet: JCSU changes lives!

Every one of us who works here serves an important role in advancing this academic mission. Collectively, we all help to educate new students and create new knowledge—whether we teach rigorous courses, roll up our sleeves as staff, are active alumni ambassadors, or leave an indelible imprint on the culture of the institution as this generation of Golden Bulls.

The year saw transition and triumph, and I humbly invite you to share in the honor of looking back over 2017-18, remembering how far we’ve come as we continue to grow in excellence.

Sincerely,

Clarence D. Armbrister, J.D. President

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The transition began as soon as the selectionThe of the president-elect Oct. was announced 4, 2017, and he 2017. Hiswas a special guest at Homecoming return with other key coincide timed to carefully visits were him allowing meetings, such as trustee campus events, as gain as well people's hopes and fears for a feel get to JCSU works. a sense of how that included a transition team During that period, administrators, members, committee search trustees, information, and students provided alumni, faculty, a As in a wide varietyand encouragement of ways. with an in-depth office entered Armbrister result, and strengths challenges, culture, knowledge of JCSU’s key people with relationships as burgeoning as well the University. advance to and a clear mandate

When Clarence D. Armbrister, J.D., took over the reins over took J.D., Armbrister, D. When Clarence Ronald L. Dr. from of Johnson C. Smith University the Carter in the middle of the 2017-18 academic year, distinct and bold Carter’s change. for institution braced years—a ten almost for style had defined JCSU aftergeneration—and was ending a months-long the Thankfully, a new leader. for national search the 14th 13th to JCSU’s from passing of the baton smooth, and supported was seamless, everypresident of the way. step Smooth transition leads to greater heights greater leads to Smooth transition and the the visionaries of universities, are Presidents effect a profound them can have transition between on an institution—creating a period of either or disruption. success continued Passing the Baton of the Presidency: of the Presidency: the Baton Passing President Clarence D. Armbrister, J.D. Armbrister, D. Clarence President jsu_396105_Text_Layout 1 4/4/19 8:25 AM Page 3 AM Page 8:25 1 4/4/19 jsu_396105_Text_Layout jsu_396105_Text_Layout 1 4/4/19 8:25 AM Page 4

President Clarence D. Armbrister addressed faculty and staff during the annual appreciation luncheon.

Armbrister’s official tenure began on Jan. 1, 2018. On Jan. 3, he Luncheon March 21, 2018, when Golden Bulls came together addressed an audience of 200 faculty and staff in the New to acknowledge women of substance who made JCSU great. Science Center and laid out a strategic agenda focusing on the "Four R's" of resources, recruitment, retention and rigor, which Later that evening, Armbrister had this to say at the welcome he said were “inextricably linked” to the University’s success. reception hosted by the Duke Endowment:

“I am honored and humbled to have been selected as the 14th “I can’t thank you enough for the warm welcome you have president of Johnson C. Smith University, which throughout its extended to Denise and me – not just tonight, but since the 150-year history has improved the lives of its students and day I arrived. We are thrilled to be a part of the Johnson C. contributed to the communities it serves,” Armbrister said. Smith University family and the Charlotte community. After Immediately following his appointment, Armbrister was tonight, we can truly say that this is home.” introduced to members of the campus, the press, and community partners at a series of intimate events. He met While the Armbristers were the most lauded change of 2017- with student leaders, members of The Duke Endowment, 18, the University saw transitions on several other fronts as well. and conducted a number of one-on-one interviews with Charlotte broadcast and print media. He noted JCSU’s past JCSU’s Irwin Belk Complex saw the baton passed – literally – as accomplishments and expressed optimism for the future. the Department of Athletics hosted the 2018 NCAA Division II Track and Field Championship on May 24-26, 2018. It was the As well, Denise McGregor Armbrister was welcomed with third time JCSU hosted the national championships. Around open arms. She is JCSU’s first “First Lady” in 25 years, so her 800 student-athletes from across the United States, Canada and presence was especially welcomed. Mrs. Armbrister, a senior the Caribbean, as well as their coaches, sports information vice president of Wells Fargo Corporation and executive directors, athletic administrators and spectators, flocked to the director of the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, delivered the complex’s Mondo surface track. JCSU is the only HBCU to host keynote speech at the Leading Ladies Women’s History Month in the championship's history.

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Institutional Advancement gained a Department of Business new vice president. Tami B. Simmons Administration and the Department brought experience as a corporate of Health and Human Performance. leader and deep community ties The realignment allowed for the following the departure of Joy Paige development of the School of Social Springs. Springs, who led the Work, which encompasses both division for eight years, was already undergraduate and graduate- professionally acquainted with level studies. Simmons, which helped to ensure the baton wasn’t dropped during It was indeed a year of transition the change in leadership. combined with onward and upward change. The baton has Finally, the School of Professional been passed and the torch remains Studies combined with Metropolitan lit for generations of Golden Bulls College to become Metropolitan to come. College of Professional Studies, which in addition to adult learning courses now includes both the

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Lauren Herring ’20 interviewed Denise McGregor Armbrister during the Leading Ladies Luncheon. First Lady Denise McGregor Armbrister honored at Leading Ladies luncheon

At the Leading Ladies & Co. Women’s History Month “We were not created to be small, but our Luncheon on March 21, 2018, the Golden Bulls family accomplishments are meant to uplift and inspire other came together to acknowledge women of substance women,” Patrick said. who have made Johnson C. Smith University great. They also got to know JCSU’s new First Lady, Denise McGregor Deja Wilkerson ’18, president of JCSU’s chapter of the Armbrister, senior vice president of Wells Fargo National Council of Negro Women, spoke on the Corporation and executive director of the Wells Fargo significance of the luncheon that recognized the Regional Community Development Corporation. contributions of women who break down barriers, raise their voices and fight for what they believe in. Close to 100 students, alumnae, and friends of JCSU filled Grimes Lounge for the event, which was organized “Here at JCSU, we are privileged to be connected to by the Office of Student Leadership and Engagement. ladies who are standing tall as change agents on Shakoya Brown ’20, public relations coordinator for the campus and in the city of Charlotte,” Wilkerson said. “Our Student Government Association, served as the mistress purpose today is to use this space to empower and of ceremony. Miss Johnson C. Smith University Mariah celebrate each other as we continue to smash the mold, Collins ’18 and Takeem Dean, Dean of Students, in spite of discrimination in our fight for immigrant provided the welcome and opening remarks, and SGA rights, education equality, racial justice and other issues Senator-at-Large Brittany Patrick ’19 offered a affecting our communities.” meditation on the theme, ‘Nevertheless, she persisted.’

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Miaamour McCants, Golden Bull Activities Committee chair, fashion,” instead advising students to be fearless in their followed with an introduction of Armbrister. After Shisso pursuits and live a life of purpose. Stories about her great Mbombo ’19 gave a rousing rendition of Christina Aguilera’s Aunt May, an immigrant, union organizer and entrepreneur, “Beautiful,” the first lady took the stage for an interview also gave insight into Armbrister’s worldview as an empowered conducted by Lauren Herring ’20. woman of color.

In the warm and personal interview, Armbrister shared with “I feel like we really got to know her on a personal level,” the audience the guiding principles she lives by. Regarding Brown exclaimed afterward. “She inspired me not to just make the transformative power of education, she counseled the my mark, but to clear a path for others to come after me.” assembled to “search out, seek and accept every opportunity to be a sponge. This goes for book learning, experience or travel.” Special recognition and awards were given to Dr. Kelli Rainey, vice president for Academic and Student Support Services and Armbrister injected a bit of levity when she broke out in Chief Operating Officer for Institutional Effectiveness; and Jamaican patois to dispense her mother’s advice, “Don’t follow students Temitope Ashorobi ’18 and Brenda Montañez ’20.

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Marc Morial, president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, delivered the keynote address to more than 200 graduates. Morial to graduates: Choose excellence over convenience

JCSU’s 2018 Commencement exercises had the audience in tears recounting undergraduate days at University saw a return to Bojangles' Coliseum her triumphs of the year, despite the of Pennsylvania, where they both instead of being held on campus as it heartbreak of her brother’s deportation. pledged Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., has been in recent years. Still, the major Footage of Metropolitan College Morial went on to become mayor of touchpoints of excellence, achievement graduate Angela Silver’s spirit-filled New Orleans and a Louisiana state and jubilation were ever-present on march went viral, with over 100,000 senator. He redefined the Urban League’s Sunday, May 20, 2018. views and 2,000 shares on Facebook. civil rights agenda with a renewed emphasis on closing racially-influenced Flowing stoles, from the Divine Nine “It was a lifetime of rejoicing that economic disparities. to those celebrating Haitian Flag Day, had been pent up,” Silver said. “I am boasted the diverse cultures at JCSU, and the first college graduate in my family. there was no interruption of celebratory The trajectory of my whole family has dances. Three dozen members of the changed, everything has changed for us.” Class of 1968, resplendent in their golden robes, marched onto the floor of the President Clarence D. Armbrister arena, with Helen Simmons Henry ’53 heralded the graduation as a personal clad in white at the head of the column. connection to the University. “I will Close to a thousand relatives, friends forever be linked to the Class of 2018,” he and supporters—among them said, “because I celebrated my first JCSU Congresswoman Alma Adams and Commencement with you. JCSU former Congresswoman Eva Clayton ’55 changes lives.” —filled the seats of the arena, cheering and waving at their favorite graduates. In Marc Morial, president and CEO of the return, the 241 graduates held nothing National Urban League, delivered the back as they collected their reward. keynote address. A close friend of Valedictorian Damara Garcia-Garcia President Armbrister from their

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President Clarence D. Armbrister, J.D. addressed more than 200 graduates during the 2018 Commencement Ceremony.

Morial encouraged the graduates to Garcia took the stage in an impassioned pursue greatness. “Choose excellence speech. She began by recalling Alice over convenience, and say no to Walker’s famous quote. mediocrity,” he said. “And do not forget where you came from. Common sense is “The most common way people give up genius wrapped up in work clothes.” their power is by thinking they don’t have any,” she said. “I have felt powerless He noted the graduates should not many times in my undergraduate years, become embittered by the racism they but at each turn I was able to sustain would invariably face. because someone believed in me.”

“Racism is real, but you are not going to Her voice cracked as she recounted the let racism get you down,” Morial said. times faculty, staff, friends and family power, but power without love is “You are not going to let racism break supported her over the past four years, reckless.” your spirit. You are not going to let and scarcely an eye was dry as she spoke racism make you hostile or angry, of her brother’s deportation to Mexico. Then each of the 241 graduates heard whether it’s at Starbuck’s or Waffle Garcia-Garcia had earned a full-ride their names called and ascended the House, whether it’s with Trayvon Martin James B. Duke Scholarship to attend stage to receive the degrees they worked or Michael Brown or Eric Garner.” JCSU and maintained a 4.0 GPA. She tirelessly to earn. There were 206 graduated with a degree in psychology bachelor degrees and 37 Master of Social Instead, he implored them to build real and a minor in biology. Work degrees conferred. Two assets and grow businesses. undergraduates earned double degrees. “At this time when the nation is so “A fancy car and handbags don’t accrue divided, we must keep the lessons we The “steadfast gleam to lead us o’er life’s value,” he said. “America respects learned at JCSU and remember the most way” shone in every graduate’s face as economic and political power.” powerful tool is love,” she said. “But love the Class of 2018 marched through the allows for accountability. We must doors to new opportunities. Without a The University conferred upon Morial an advocate for those who may not ever get doubt, they are prepared to “hold high honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to walk on a stage, and work day and the Gold and Blue.” degree before valedictorian Garcia- night to make ends meet. Knowledge is

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Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller delivered an inspirational message to the Class of 2018. Baccalaureate speaker encourages seniors to “Walk through the door” The pews of the Jane M. Smith Memorial Church were filled Rev. Waller’s address continued in this vein, encouraging those with members of the Class of 2018, and hearts were just as full gathered to overcome obstacles for the sake of the rewards on at JCSU’s annual Baccalaureate service, held Friday, May 18, the other side. 2018. The Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller delivered an inspired sermon at the traditional service, which rang with “amens,” a spirited choir “Some of you may say ‘JCSU gave me a degree.’ But Johnson C. and a few happy shouts. Smith University is not in the business of giving away degrees,” Waller said, to an uproarious response. “You chose to dedicate President Clarence D. Armbrister called the service to order these four years of your life to study, and you are walking out with words of welcome for graduating seniors, families and with a degree. You were not given anything. You took it, got it, friends before the scripture reading. D’Andre Carter ’18, earned it.” president of the Student Government Association, turned to Genesis 32:22-30 to orate the story of Jacob wrestling the angel Waller congratulated them on their achievements and advised for a blessing. Senior Class President Alana Worth followed up them to keep pushing for more opportunities to grow, with Isaiah 40:29-31, whose most famous passage reads: contrasting the idea of fate with destiny. Fate is predetermined, he said, but destiny is only there for people willing to go after it. But those who wait on the Lord He cautioned against becoming disillusioned by struggle, Shall renew their strength; insisting that nothing worthwhile comes easily. They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, “Do you notice,” he asked, “that in the Bible the land of milk and They shall walk and not faint. honey is always situated next to the land of Hittites and

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Jebusites? In the land of milk and honey one views the world makes all the “The real question is, ‘What do you do are people who don’t want you to have difference. The door of opposition and with your door?’ Now that you have the it, but greater is He that is in you than he the door of opportunity are often one degree and access,” he challenged. that is in the world!” and the same, he said. As well, he “Someone needs you to walk through reminded graduates of their obligation your door, because it leads to their own. Opposition is inevitable, Waller to give back. Walk through the door, children, into the counseled, but the lens through which promised land.”

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More than 200 graduating seniors processed into Jane M. Smith Memorial Church for Founders' Day.

Charlotte City Councilman Justin Harlow brought greetings on Legacy and faith behalf of the city council.

punctuate Founders’ Harlow congratulated JCSU on behalf of Mayor Vi Lyles and the entire city council. “Charlotte would not be what it is today Day Convocation without JCSU’s timeless tradition of excellence,” he remarked. “The institution builds community bonds and shares resources. Guests braved the chilly spring Sunday to honor the roots of JCSU ensures social advancement for all who step on campus.” Johnson C. Smith University at the Founders’ Day Convocation, held April 8, 2018. The Founders’ Day Convocation is a time every year to reflect on the vibrancy of JCSU’s legacy and to honor the progress Among the attendees gathered in the Jane M. Smith fostered by past leaders. It is also a time to recognize the 1867 Memorial Church were Charlotte City Councilman Justin Giving Societies inductees, each of whose donations to the Harlow; Trustee Christy Bryant ’75, president of JCSU National University since the year 2000 tally more than $10,000. Their Alumni Association; and several descendants of Mary Baird Biddle, whose generous donation in 1867 sowed the seeds for campus growth and expansion. One family member, Christine Beebe, recently pledged a $250,000 bequest to JCSU.

Dr. Kendall Mobley, assistant professor of religion and the Spiritual Life coordinator, opened the event with an invocation of the Holy Spirit, asking everyone to remember the courageous visionary founders as well as the stalwart men and women who followed in their footsteps.

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contributions made the progress of many students possible, and they stood to be honored during the ceremony.

“Like the Sankofa bird, there is wisdom in learning from our past,” JCSU Board of Trustees Chair Shirley J. Hughes said. “When you leave, are you ready to carry on the legacy?”

Jesse Cureton, chief consumer officer and executive vice president of Novant Health, delivered a robust keynote speech. Cureton, who grew up on Charlotte’s west side, spoke about the importance of making an impact on the world.

“It may feel like you have decades of time to figure this out,” he told the assembly, “but you are creating a legacy every day with every interaction you make.” President Clarence D. Armbrister and City Councilman Justin Harlowe

He laid out a clear plan to go about doing that: Embrace “There are moments in my life I have struggled for integrity, change, develop passion and have faith. One must be willing to lacked courage, or couldn’t find my passion, and when I am take risks, he emphasized, and be confident in one’s identity. there I connect with a power bigger than myself that informs all But the most important aspect is faith. these things. Faith is key,” Cureton shared.

Marching band shines on ‘Good Morning America’

By Beatriz Guerrero

The International Institution of Sound, JCSU’s high-stepping marching band, took America by storm May 1, 2018, when they appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America broadcast.

The band was energetic and enthused as they stepped into the BB&T Ball Park in Uptown Charlotte at the crack of dawn. Under the direction of Robert L. Edwards, they played long-time favorite “JCSU Groove,” led by drum majors Trajuan Warren ’19 and Bobby Speas ’19.

The band worked with the producers, keeping the tunes going for video teasers and short takes, followed by a learning how things are done before a dancers, who sacrifice long hours, late presentation of products from local show goes live was fun! I’m grateful for nights and early mornings to hone their entrepreneurs. During the segment, GMA the opportunity to represent JCSU.” craft in the sanctuary of the band awarded a local business owner $10,000. program. IIOS put in action their motto Blue Satin dancers Sade Jones ’19 and “The whole experience was surreal. I of “Dedication, Determination, and Drive,” Alysha Cauthen’19, the team captain, can’t believe we had the opportunity to and showed the world how we do as the presented the award. actually be on national television,” said Gold and Blue! band member Mayra Parrilla ’19. “Being on ‘Good Morning America’ was an unforgettable experience,” Cauthen It was a pinch-yourself-moment for the said. “Going behind the scenes and band’s future professional musicians and

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President Armbrister speaks to faculty about the vision for Metropolitan College of Professional Studies. Clarence D. Armbrister Named 14th President of Johnson C. Smith University

On Oct. 4, 2017, the Board of Trustees of Johnson C. Armbrister has extensive experience at all levels of Smith University announced the selection of Clarence D. education, including time in the School District of “Clay” Armbrister, J.D., as the University 14th president. Philadelphia and senior administrative positions at His tenure became effective January 1, 2018. Temple University and Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his background in education, Armbrister Before coming to JCSU, Armbrister served as president has held executive positions in law, government of Girard College, an independent college preparatory and finance. five-day boarding school for academically capable students from economically disadvantaged families Armbrister’s range of experience across several from the Philadelphia region. sectors helped him stand out among highly-qualified candidates, said Shirley J. Hughes, chair of the JCSU Armbrister succeeded Dr. Ronald L. Carter, who stepped Board of Trustees and chair of the Presidential down officially on December 31, 2017, after leading the Search Committee. successful transformation of Johnson C. Smith University for nine years. Carter announced his resignation in “Mr. Armbrister’s diverse career experience provided the August 2016 and committed to leading the University competitive edge in a nine-month search,” said Hughes. until the Board of Trustees could complete a thorough “We believe his varied background in education, finance, national search for the right leader to continue the government and law brings an exceptionally broad lens forward trajectory of the institution.

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to the increasingly complex demands of the changing Armbrister also has higher education teaching experience. He landscape in higher education today.” served as an adjunct faculty member at Temple, developing and teaching a municipal finance curriculum in the Beasley Armbrister enthusiastically began working with the board, School of Law. faculty, staff, students and alumni while collaborating with community leaders to continue propelling JCSU to the fore as In addition to his experience in elementary and secondary an innovative institution providing higher education access to education at Girard College, Armbrister served as managing diverse students. As a first-generation college graduate, he director for the School District of Philadelphia (1996-1998), brought a powerful personal perspective to the importance which at that time was the fourth largest school district in the of education. United States with more than 215,000 students.

“I am honored and humbled to have been selected as the Armbrister has been successful at the highest levels 14th president of Johnson C. Smith University, which of municipal government and has worked with some of throughout its 151-year history has improved the lives of its the most well-known politicians in the recent history of students and contributed to the growth of Charlotte,” Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was Armbrister said. “JCSU is one of the finest institutions of higher city treasurer for the City of Philadelphia (1994-1996) during education in the country that meets not only the needs of its the tenure of former mayor Ed Rendell, who become governor students, but those of the communities it serves—locally, of Pennsylvania. From 2008-2011, Armbrister served as chief of regionally and globally.” staff for former Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter. His work in the finance sector includes being an investment banker at UBS Prior to his leadership of Girard College, Armbrister served PaineWebber, Inc., where he served as head of the Municipal as senior vice president and chief of staff at Johns Hopkins Securities Group education practice, overseeing nationwide University in Baltimore. He honed his experience in higher efforts in underwriting transactions for issuers in the K-12 education during his five years at Temple University in public education market. Philadelphia, where he served as senior vice president for administration before being promoted to executive vice Armbrister began his professional career practicing law president and chief operating officer. and was a partner in the public finance division of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul in Philadelphia. During his tenure as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Temple University, Armbrister A native of Miami, Armbrister received a Bachelor of was responsible for $400 million in capital projects on Arts degree in political science and in economics from the several campuses and the rapid conversion from a University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Juris Doctor degree commuter to a residential campus. He also led Temple’s from the University of Michigan Law School. He and his wife, management, planning and coordination of student affairs, Denise, who is senior vice president of Wells Fargo Corporation facilities management services, campus safety services, and executive director of the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation intercollegiate athletics, computer and information services, and the Wells Fargo Regional Community Development affirmative action, enrollment management services, and Corporation, have five children. management analysis. jsu_396105_Text_Layout 1 4/4/19 8:26 AM Page 16

School of Social Work and Metropolitan College of Professional Studies launch, expand Metropolitan College of Professional Studies

Holding high the legacy of 150 years of undeniable progress, Johnson C. Smith University realigned its academic colleges to better fit a university model, and arrived at the next step: developing a school in the discipline of social work.

A “school” is an organizational structure that offers the following attributes: • Both undergraduate and graduate degrees in a focused area • Research and training opportunities • Is responsible for the degree offered by the university in that area of study

As of July 1, 2017, JCSU’s School of Social Work offered Dr. Helen Caldwell Dr. Laura McLean both Bachelor and Master of Social Work degrees, as well as research and training opportunities in the theory and practice students. Metropolitan College became Metropolitan College of social work. of Professional Studies, with the Department of Business Administration and the Department of Health and Human Dr. Helen Caldwell, former dean of the College of Performance (sport management and community health) Professional Studies, was tapped to head up the School under its umbrella. Housing these programs under one college of Social Work, which includes the Bachelor of Social Work strengthens JCSU’s online business administration and sport program, the Master of Social Work program, and oversees a management majors, while providing greater access to a major partnership with Elon Homes and Schools for Children. combination of on-campus and online classes for students in Research in the School of Social Work is constructed on a the adult degree program as well as traditional students. foundation of cultural competence and focuses on a continuum of child and family services, as well as older Dr. Laura McLean remained its dean, overseeing the adults’ issues. integration of traditional and nontraditional students and improving institutional support. McLean earned a Bachelor of Caldwell earned her MSW degree from Rutgers University Arts degree in education from the University of North Carolina with a concentration in social work administration. She at Chapel Hill, a Master of Education degree in curriculum and pursued a Ph.D. in social work at The Ohio State University supervision from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, over the course of two years of full-time study before and a Doctor of Education degree in curriculum and instruction completing a Ph.D. in urban higher education from from Gardner-Webb University. She joined Johnson C. Smith Jackson State University. University in 2005 as assistant director of student support services, before becoming director of Metropolitan College’s Her combined training in social work education and higher adult degree program in 2010. She was appointed dean education with a focus on leadership theories strongly in 2015. credential her to lead the School, as well as her more than 30 years of experience in higher education as a social work In these ways, and with this visionary leadership, JCSU educator and academic dean. continued to enhance educational pathways for change agents, both now and in the future. The University also realigned the adult degree program along with some traditional professional studies programs to better serve the needs of non-traditional and traditional

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Golden Bulls unite to fight for DACA

Johnson C. Smith University students stood up in defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Sept. 6, 2017. The policy, which gives undocumented students protected stay in the United States, was rescinded Sept. 5. The Golden Bulls community shows support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) students. Dozens of Golden Bulls braved a chilly rain to hear members of Latinos volunteered to be there and help together the Hispanic students and the Aiming For Achievement (LAFA), a in any way they could. Support for JCSU community to educate everyone on student organization focused on undocumented students has always what DACA is, how it impacts our lives, advocating for undocumented students, been strong at JCSU, but now and clear up any misconceptions.” speak passionately on the issue in the they have some concrete ideas for rotunda of the Mary Joyce Taylor Crisp meaningful action.” The results were beyond successful; Student Union. almost 100 Golden Bulls attended in an Montanez was born in San Luis Potosi, overwhelming show of support for “To me, DACA represents opportunities Mexico, but came to Charlotte as a child fellow students impacted by the and opens doors that would otherwise with her parents. She was in high school legislation. Frank Dorsey, assistant be shut,” said Brenda Montanez ’20, when DACA was announced. She heard director of Student Engagement, told the president of LAFA. about JCSU, proudly a historically Black assembled crowd, “If this is an issue for university, extending its mandate to one of us, it is an issue for all of us.” DACA, an American immigration policy educate the underserved by recruiting established by the Obama administration undocumented students and enrolled. “It’s a great feeling to know that in 2012, allowed some individuals who whatever happens, we are not alone,” entered the United States illegally as “DACA allowed me the freedom to Montanez said. “It brings me comfort minors to receive a renewable two-year come out of the shadows and follow to know that JCSU supports DACA period of deferred action from my dreams and aspirations,” Montanez recipients and will stand behind us as deportation and to be eligible for a work said. “DACA gave me a newfound much as possible to ensure we are permit. determination and made my goals comfortable and safe. The fight is not appear more attainable. I was adamant over; rather it is just starting, and I Juan Carlos Contreras ’18 is majoring in to pursue higher education, working believe we must stand united, rather computer engineering with a minor in my way to medical school, and fulfilling than divided.” cyber security. He was glad to be part of my goal of becoming a pediatric the event. Though he has lived in surgeon. Now that DACA is gone, it During Hispanic Heritage Month Charlotte since age 4, Contreras is feels like we are being forced to go back (Sept. 15-Oct. 15), JCSU hosted several undocumented and a DACA recipient. to the shadows.” programs linking the struggles of the He said the event was necessary to undocumented to the Civil Rights legacy. raise awareness. Montanez is a founding member of LAFA, which held the event to raise the student “It’s easier for people to relate when they “Many JCSU students didn’t know what body’s awareness of the stakes of can see something in terms of common DACA was or how it was affecting their losing DACA. issues they have also experienced,” fellow Golden Bulls,” Contreras said. “After Contreras said. the event, several students approached “We felt like it was wrong to just stay me. They had no idea people on campus quiet and watch the events unfold,” *All students consented to the use of were struggling with this, and they Montanez said. “We hoped to bring their names in this article.

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Tami B. Simmons named as new vice president of Institutional Advancement

On Sept. 21, 2017, Tami B. Simmons was appointed vice president of Institutional Advancement. Simmons, a member of JCSU’s Board of Trustees, served as executive director of Susan G. Komen Charlotte having joined the organization in 2012. She assumed her new role at the University on Oct. 18, 2017, leading the areas of fundraising and development, communications and marketing, and alumni relations. Simmons, who served as secretary of the JCSU Board of Trustees, resigned from the Board at the end of September.

“I am thrilled to welcome Mrs. Simmons,” said former President Ronald L. Carter. “Given her demonstrated experience in securing both private and corporate philanthropic support, executing foundation strategies, and designing and implementing comprehensive institutional advancement programs, Tami will ensure that the strategic direction we have set for fundraising, alumni relations, development, and marketing and communication activities will continue without interruption.”

Simmons came to JCSU with a wealth of experience. Previously, she spent five years at Susan G. Komen Charlotte and 19 with Wells Fargo, leaving as senior vice president and director of corporate philanthropy for the Eastern United States.

“I have always been impressed with the work of Johnson C. Smith University and very aware of the University’s importance to Charlotte and the Southeast region,” Simmons said. “JCSU has a history of being at the forefront of innovations in higher education, and it represents the best of intellectual rigor, applied research, arts and culture, and social responsibility. Johnson C. Smith University’s future is bright as it continues to educate students who become leaders in every field of human endeavor. I am honored to add my service to advancing the mission of this great institution. As a proud graduate of two outstanding HBCUs, I bring great respect for the traditions of HBCUs to my work as I collaborate with donors, alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the University.” Tami B. Simmons

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Brandon Lunsford, university archivist and digital manager, stands on the steps of Biddle Hall. JCSU lands grant to preserve West End history

Johnson C. Smith University is helping preserve the history of information that is already archived. The Excelsior Club’s pin, Charlotte’s oldest Black community, using cutting-edge digital for example, features first-person interviews, pictures, links to tools that bring the past to life. In 2017 the project, titled UNCC special collections and information from the Carolina “Mapping the Historic West End: The Digital History of African- Room of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Main Library, as well as American Neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina,” images from vintage West Charlotte High School yearbooks. received a $25,000 Catalyst Fund grant from LYRASIS, one of the nation's largest non-profits serving archives, libraries and “There was a lot of information out there, but it was all in museums, and a $100,000 Digital Humanities Advancement different places,” Lunsford said. “I wanted to bring it all to grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. one spot.”

University archivist and digital manager Brandon Lunsford, Other people Lunsford interviewed for the digital map include who is a project manager for the grants, is using the funding to Civil Rights titans James Ferguson and Julius Chambers, whose create an interactive digital map of Charlotte’s West side. The law offices were bombed during the 1960s, and members of 150-year-old neighborhood is undergoing rapid gentrification. Clinton Chapel AME Church—at 220 years, the oldest African Using History Pen, which is a social media mapping tool, American congregation in Charlotte. The church was originally Lunsford takes a picture of a location and ‘pins’ it on the map, part of the Brooklyn neighborhood, but moved when the city then attaches a wealth of multi-media information sources to demolished the historically Black area. that pin. “The people were pushed out of their side of town but they “The idea is to get people from the neighborhoods around didn’t die out or scatter,” Lunsford said. “They kept their here to tell their own stories and preserve the history of a place congregation together and kept their church alive.” that is rapidly being changed,” Lunsford said. “There are so many who have lived here all their lives, and we want to hear These are stories of survival, no matter what—despite Jim what these streets, these churches, these schools, and all these Crow, destructive urban renewal policy, the rise of crime and places mean to them. The goal is to showcase the history of the drugs in the 1980s, and now gentrification, these area from the perspective of the people who lived here and neighborhoods have stood the test of time. still do.” “Forces have been trying to tear them apart but these Through oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles communities are resilient, and they love their neighbors, their and letters, community residents are participating in a large- homes, their streets and buildings,” Lunsford said. “I just want to scale effort to document and engage with the city’s history. preserve those stories.” Lunsford also conducts first-person interviews and pulls from

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Johnson C. Smith University Recognizes its Employees for service and excellence

The University and the Office of Human Resources thanked faculty and staff for another year of service and excellence at the 2018 Faculty and Staff Appreciation Awards Luncheon, held May 21, 2018, at the Hilton Charlotte Center City.

Golden Bulls were enthusiastic and supportive of each other, nominating honorees for each category and the committee was diligent in choosing the final winners for each award. Johnson C. Smith University congratulates the following individuals for outstanding work in their disciplines.

Cato Par Excellence Teaching Award – Dr. Terza Lima-Neves Par Excellence Teaching Award – Mr. Jemayne King Sit Lux Award – Dr. Ying Bai Moses S. Belton Distinguished Service Award – Mr. Demond Raybon Sara Stewart Distinguished Service Award – Dr. Cathy Jones Lonnie T. Parker Pinnacle Service Award for Caring – Mr. Maurice Raley Lonnie T. Parker Pinnacle Service Award for Enterprise – Ms. Virginia Rose-Anderson Lonnie T. Parker Pinnacle Service Award for Innovation – Ms. Anna Xia Wood

Lonnie T. Parker Pinnacle Service Award for Quality – Dr. Brian M. Jones Dr. Terza Lima Neves Lonnie T. Parker Pinnacle Service Award for Servant Leadership – Ms. Natasha Wilson Trench Worker Award Winners Dr. Lucinda Blue Dr. Matthew DeForrest Mr. Eliu Iraheta Dr. Cindy Kistenberg Ms. Keisha Wilson Mr. Richie Colon Dr. Thomas Fleming Ms. Deborah King Mr. Gregory Preyor Ms. L. Dawn Winfield

Congratulations to our “First Year Stars” who have reached or will celebrate their one-year anniversary this year (based on their full-time hire date):

Dr. Tara Bengle Ms. Kara Gilliard Ms. Tenessa Moore Mr. Marcus Roberson Mr. Terrence Warren Ms. Nancy Boley Ms. Anjelica Grant Ms. Brittne Paramore Mr. Nomar Rodriguez Ms. C. Shanika Mr. Lauriston Bristol Dr. Kareema Gray Ms. Tierra Parsons Mr. Todd Sherwood Washington Ms. Aisha Bryant Ms. Natasha Harris Ms. Tiphane Pate Mr. Steven Shipp Mr. Jason White Ms. Kimberly Cross Mr. Anthony Hooks, Jr. Dr. Keri Petersen Ms. Tami Simmons Ms. Janishia Williams Ms. Antia Dawkins Dr. Maureen Leary Ms. Tara Prince Dr. Felesia Stukes Mr. Serge Zeze Mr. Frank Dorsey, II Ms. Demesha Leathers Ms. Kayla Ratliff Mr. Adrian Stowe Ms. Leslie Brooks Mr. Montaze McCrae Ms. Kendall Ridenhour Ms. Jessica Taylor

Ms. Julie Reed Ms. Katrina Gordon 5 YEARS OF SERVICE Dr. Harold Shoemaker Ms. Prudence Grant Mr. A. Christian Casper Ms. Shelline Warren Mr. Henry Hughie Dr. Erin DiCesare Ms. Natasha Wilson Mr. Joshua Nypaver Mr. Ramon Fernandez, Jr. Dr. Marsha Rhee Ms. Tracey Foster 10 YEARS OF SERVICE Ms. Rebecca Rippy Dr. James Freeman Dr. Nicola Bivens Ms. Carol Scott Dr. David Luciano Ms. Kendra Bradley Dr. Alexa von Dohlen Ms. Jacyln O’Toole Dr. Cheryl Brayboy Dr. Hampton Wright Mr. Steven Pearsall Ms. Tarji Caldwell Mr. Greg Petzke Dr. Carol Davnporte

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15 YEARS OF SERVICE 25 YEARS OF SERVICE 45 YEARS OF SERVICE Dr. Sunil Gupta Dr. Amos Etukudoh Ms. Barbara Carr Ms. Andrea Hylton Dr. Deborah Quick Dr. Dezette Johnson Ms. Marian Jones 30 YEARS OF SERVICE RETIREE Dr. Harriette Richard Dr. Timothy Champion Ms. Cynthia Cole

20 YEARS OF SERVICE 40 YEARS OF SERVICE Congratulations to all of our Ms. Belinda Meads Mr. Stephen Joyner, Sr. award recipients. Ms. Latrelle McAllister Dr. Alfred Smith Mr. Melvin Stephens

The Duke Endowment gives ‘heavenly’ welcome to JCSU president and wife

The Duke Endowment welcomed Armbrister spoke briefly on his Laying out his plan to achieve President Clarence D. Armbrister and his impressions of Charlotte, noting its that goal, he invoked the Four R’s, a wife, Denise McGregor Armbrister, to the gracious culture and tendency to change strategy he determined upon assuming greater Charlotte community March 21, street names without warning, before leadership at the University: resources, 2018, with a show of true Southern moving to the meat of his message—his recruitment, retention and rigor. The hospitality. Over 100 guests came to the early observations of JCSU. University needs more resources, but private event, including such luminaries must also ensure the best use of as former Mayor Harvey Gantt; Chair “JCSU is important to Charlotte and resources it already has, he maintained. Shirley Hughes and members of the JCSU the region,” he said, “because JCSU Those resources will enable JCSU to Board of Trustees; and philanthropists changes lives.” recruit top faculty, staff and students, Herb and Felicia Walton Gray ’92. as well as help retain them with the Referencing a Harvard University study best programs, equipment and Minor Shaw, chair of The Duke that ranked Charlotte last in a list of U.S. amenities. Finally, those factors will Endowment and president of private metropolitan areas for upward mobility, lead to increased rigor in Golden Bull investment company Micco LLC, offered especially among people of color, graduates, igniting the flames of opening remarks and Hughes introduced Armbrister spoke passionately. sustained success. Armbrister, who charmed the crowd with an anecdote about the Three Dog Night “There is no institution better positioned “We need them to solve the problems song, “Never Been to Spain.” to change that trajectory than Johnson C. of the future that we haven’t even Smith University,” he said. “Student anticipated yet. I look forward to “I’ve never been to heaven, but I’ve been success has to be at the core of collaborating with everyone in the room welcomed in Charlotte,” he joked, everything we do.” to make it happen,” Armbrister said. paraphrasing the lyrics. “Thank you for my own piece of heaven.”

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Campus Briefs

Once in a lifetime, black sunshine

Golden Bulls took to The Block to get a look at the first solar eclipse visible across both coasts in nearly a century on Aug. 22, 2017. At approximately 2:35 p.m., Biddle Memorial Hall went dark as the moon passed between the earth and the sun. Some had special sunglasses to view the eclipse, while others used handmade viewers they learned to construct from the Internet. As the sun seemed to go away, The Block was filled with the sounds of insects typically heard at night. Everyone gathered was awe-struck by the natural phenomenon. It was an amazing moment in time for students, faculty and staff to experience together.

King of TEDx: ‘Change is coming’

English instructor Jemayne King delivered a TEDxCharlotte talk Oct. 13, 2017, at Central Piedmont Community College's Halton Theater. Titled “The Revolution will be Subtweeted: The Evolving Face of Pedagogy,” his talk addressed whether the Academy can continue to exist in its current state, as younger scholars require modern methods of engagement.

King, who teaches a course on hip-hop footwear’s pop culture impact and authored the book “Sole Food: Digestible Sneaker Culture,” said traditionalists need to consider the learning styles and career desires of the 21st century scholar. He summarized the take-away from his lecture as the headline “Leader of the new school aims to upset the pedagogical applecart.”

TEDx is an internationally respected program that brands itself on spreading ‘Ideas Worth Sharing.’

Regarding the fate of higher education, King said, curriculum development and methods of pedagogy must be modified.

“Resistance to this change is futile,” King said.

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JCSU tops CIAA schools for ‘U.S. News’ HBCU rankings

On Sept. 11, 2017, U.S. News and World Report ranked Johnson HBCUs represent just 3 percent of the nation's more than 4,000 C. Smith University as the top CIAA institution and No. 18 out of colleges and universities, but are almost twice as productive as 80 Historically Black Colleges and Universities nationwide. non-HBCUs with regards to Black graduates in areas such as STEM. According to the White House Initiative on Historically To qualify for the U.S. News rankings, a school must be Black Colleges and Universities, 24 percent of all African- currently designated by the U.S. Department of Education as a American college students start college at HBCUs, and HBCUs historically black college or university (HBCU), and an award 24 percent of the undergraduate degrees earned by undergraduate baccalaureate-granting institution that enrolls African Americans. primarily first-year, first-time students. The school also must be part of the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings. Upcoming mobile apps help improve campus safety and communication For the 2017-18 school year, JCSU won two sizable grants the app to send alerts to their family, professors or friends in aimed at putting information at the tip of Golden Bulls’ fingers. the event of a crisis. In Fall 2017, Campus Consortium, the largest global education association of schools, colleges and universities, awarded The mobile app grant would streamline or simplify processes Johnson C. Smith University a $22,495 grant toward students can have difficulty navigating by funding applets implementing a campus safety app for students and faculty. for Campus News, Emergency Numbers, Parking, Dining and On February 15, 2018, JCSU won a $252,465 grant to more. In addition, it will also feature applets for academics and implement a mobile app for students and faculty. financial aid.

The safety app would improve security on campus by “A well-thought out mobile app will go a long way in using wi-fi or cellular data to provide location details when attracting and retaining today’s students and employees,” someone makes an emergency call. This gives far more said Latrelle McAlister, vice president of Administrative accurate information and provides first responders with a Services. “Johnson C. Smith University is delighted to receive better idea of where they need to go. Students could also use Campus Consortium’s grants.”

New students learn to become sustain-a-bulls On August 6, 2017, JCSU pre-semester session students came together to beautify the University’s Sustainabilty Village. Students toured the village and gave the garden some much needed TLC by pulling up weeds after a successful harvest season.

The vegetables and fruits in the garden are sold at the farmers market to help promote healthy living and provide access to healthy foods in the community.

Sustainability Village is designed to produce food for thought as students learn while gaining hands-on experience in a fish and plants grow symbiotically. The village helps fill a void in sustainable environment. It includes a greenhouse along with Charlotte’s Northwest Corridor, which is one of the city’s largest an aquaponic system that provides a sustainable food source as food desserts.

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Ronald McNair Scholars JCSU launches its first cohort of the Ronald McNair Scholars Program JCSU chose 17 students to be part of the University’s JCSU began participating in the program in Fall 2017. first cohort of the Ronald McNair Scholars Program, A number of students applied and from that pool, investing in the group through research experiments 17 students were chosen: communication arts major and scholarly activities in order to equip them for Shakoya Brown ’20, psychology major Delaya Davis ’20, successful doctoral studies. chemistry major Miranda Davis ’19, community health major Georgina Diaz ’20, interdisciplinary studies major The induction ceremony took place Friday, Ashley Green ’20, biology and chemistry major Shanice February 9, 2018, in Grimes Lounge. President Clarence Harrison ’19, interdisciplinary studies major Mary D. Armbrister met with students and congratulated Holliman ’19, biology major Christina Jones ’19, sport each individually on their accomplishment. management major Charles Langston ’20, psychology major K’neadee Lester-Jackson ’20, biology major Emoni “It feels good to be part of such a prestigious program, Lewis ’20, biology major Naoko Little-Jackson ’18, and it feels good to be an asset to my school,” said criminal justice major Quenton Mills ’19, biology major communication arts major Mayra Parrilla ’19. Jahvez Mitchell ’19, communication arts major Mayra Parrilla ’19, political science major LaRon Rhone ’20, The Ronald McNair Scholars Program is a Federal TRIO and history major Aria Springfield ’20. program that is funded by the U.S Department of Education with the goal of increasing graduate degrees Since then, the students have enjoyed many for minority students coming from low-income families, opportunities, including Graduate College Day and who are first-generation college graduates. The at Hampton University, where they spoke with program was established in honor of the late Ronald E. representatives from a number of advanced degree McNair, a South Carolina native who died in 1982 during programs; summer research programs; cultural events the launch of the U.S. Challenger space shuttle. and mentorship-building with experts in various fields of study. With the help of Dr. Antonio Henley, dean of University College, and under the directorship of Jonathan Smalls,

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They also attended the 24th annual Undergraduate McNair Adults in the 21st Century." Diaz presented "Economic Mobility: Research Conference, held at the University at Buffalo in Perceptions of Minorities Living in the Northwest Corridor." Niagara Falls, NY July 19-21, 2018. The fellows presented their Holliman researched "The Correlation Between Trauma and research topics to McNair scholars from across the United Delinquency in Teenaged Black Girls." Jones studied "Effects of States, attended a graduate school fair, and engaged in various Colored Lights on Phenotypic Growth in Fruit Fly (Drosophila seminar sessions. virilis)." And Langston presented on "Student Athletes: Predictors of Academic Achievement among Black Males at As a courtesy of attending the conference, the University of an HBCU." Buffalo granted each Golden Bull a ticket to the “Maid of the Mist” boat tour of Niagara Falls. Mills studied "Life Imprisonment: The Effects on Families and Urban Communities." Mitchell covered "The Impact of a To close out the eight-week McNair Summer Fellowship, the Farmer’s Market on Food Security in an Urban Community in fellows showcased their research topics to JCSU peers, faculty Northwest Charlotte, N.C." Parrilla tackled "The Feminist and staff. Each one conducted a presentation, conversing Movement through the Characterization of Women in 20th about their research and receiving feedback. In concert with Century Hollywood." JCSU's Quality Enhancement Plan, fellows presented on an array of topics across academic disciplines. “It’s an overwhelming experience but I am excited for it,” Brown said. “I’m looking forward to realizing the greatness I and my Brown covered "Young Adults & Politics: Understanding How fellows in the cohort have in store.” Social Media Affects the Political Engagement of HBCU Young

Agile partnership yields big returns for STEM program

In August of 2017, a partnership between Southern Fried Agile?” asked Poole. “We programming and Scrum, and gaining Johnson C. Smith University and really wanted to inform the students’ familiarity with lean practices to create nonprofit Southern Fried Agile (SFA) perspective around what Agile is doing in cost-effective and quick code. resulted in a substantial donation to the the industry. It’s part of financial services, STEM program and priceless job retail, software development, “It shows the community the investment experience for computer engineering insurance—all kinds of industries use in our students and helps build up the major Imyer Majors ’18. Agile methodologies. So giving a JCSU minority talent pipeline,” said Chen. “It’s student exposure to the people and so important to nurture leadership skills, Agile, which began around the start of topics is a huge value add.” team building and the know-how to the millennium as a set of software improve processes. The principles behind development practices, rapidly emerged Southern Fried Agile pledged a $2,500 it, of collaboration, transparency and as a global movement to help organizations gift to JCSU’s STEM program and donated stability, are the types of things we want master continuous change. SFA grew out a pro bono Agile session for JCSU faculty to invest and imbed in our students.” of that into an annual conference based and staff. Poole went further, creating a in Charlotte that reaches over 20,000 people. summer internship program just for JCSU SFA reserved five spots for JCSU students at Solutions IQ. Imyer Majors students to volunteer at the Charlotte The partnership with JCSU began as a was overjoyed to be chosen as the conference November 30, 2017, one of small idea to increase engagement with initial intern. the largest regional Agile events in the minority students. Neville Poole is country. The volunteers not only southern regional director for Solutions “It was a meaningful experience that participated on the day of the event, but IQ, an Agile consultant company that closed the gap for both the hard and the were involved in the planning stages, develops leaders and improves processes softer skills that I’ll need in corporate facilitating the logistics for the conference for firms all over the world, and chair of America,” Majors said. “I gained a huge speakers, programming and more. the Southern Fried Agile conference. She amount of experience, networked and reached out to Dr. Hang Chen to discuss was able to show what STEM at JCSU has “The internship helped me gain relevant what the dean of STEM thought would taught me.” knowledge, skills and experience, and bring more JCSU students to the table. helped me establish important For four weeks, Majors’ responsibilities relationships that can beneficial in the “How could we expose more JCSU included working in various departments future. I do not regret it,” Majors said. students to the content and people at of the company, learning Agile extreme

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Black Ink Monks returned to the American Hebrew Academy to teach high school students how to create and perform spoken word poetry. Black Ink Monks spread passion for poetry and cultural exchange at Hebrew Academy

Members of the Black Ink Monks, Johnson C. Smith University’s “The experience at AHA was amazing! Just as the kids say they oldest non-Greek organization, returned to the American learned from us, I learned from them,” said Smith. “From leading Hebrew Academy (AHA) in Greensboro, N.C. during the Martin a workshop, to figuring out how to get the kids excited or Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, Jan. 11-15, 2018, to teach the interested in a subject, to encouraging them to push through high school students how to create and perform spoken word anxiety and pour their hearts out on the stage, each day poetry. This trip marked their third invitation in the last five offered new opportunities to learn.” years to the only secular Jewish boarding school in the United States. Smith, who was JCSU’s first film major, now owns a production company and is shooting a documentary film with Murphy. The four-day experience, entitled “Spoken Words/Words Spoken: Bypassing the Dangers of the Single Story,” explored The weekend also provided an opportunity for the Black Ink the power of stories, both the ones told within families and the Monks and the students at AHA, who represent 35 countries narratives promoted by society. Students Sierra Ellis ’18, Drew and all branches of Judaism, to learn about themselves and Emerson ’18, TJ Evans ’18, Brianna Glymph ’18, Diashanna each other. Logan ’18, Tawanda Nyahasha ’20 and Tyler Williams ’18 made the trip. “AHA taught me invaluable lessons about culture,” said Drew Emerson ’18. “It is great to see the differences, but it’s even In addition to current JCSU students, former Black Ink Monks more amazing to see the similarities. I taught them about members Tyran Green ’13 and Andrew Smith ’14 participated, metaphors, similes, and wordplay, and they taught me how to as well as Frederick Murphy, who served as JCSU’s director of trust my faith, myself, and how to strive through adversity.” counseling from 2010-2015, and Dr. Cindy Kistenberg, who serves as faculty advisor to the Monks.

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Murphy and Kistenberg gave presentations focused on the “A lot of students are going through the same situations that transmission of trauma from generation to generation via oral all people go through,” Evans said, “but they rarely have time history. Through lecture and discussion, they illustrated how for an outlet. The open mic allows AHA students an opportunity the effects of the Holocaust and slavery continue to impact to share what they have written.” behavior, and how family stories can have both positive and negative effects generation after generation. The AHA Ellen Green, assistant director of Institutional Advancement students and Monks shared their own family stories in at AHA, noted that spoken word is also an important outlet for small groups. the Black Ink Monks. Her praise for the Monks and recognition of their talent is why they have been asked to return next year. The group attended the Martin Luther King, Jr. Shabbat service on Friday night at Temple Emanuel, Greensboro’s Reform “The Black Ink Monks express themselves in the most Jewish congregation. Green shared an original poem about passionate and eloquent way,” she said. “I am always impressed the iconic leader to the audience of several hundred, which by their originality, spontaneity, and ability to let us see their included congregation members, local educators, politicians souls through their poetry.” and clergy. Nyahasha, a sophomore psychology major, supported That Saturday night, the Monks conducted a workshop with her point. the students, teaching them how to create their own spoken word pieces and perform them. The Monks spent Sunday “I have been a writer for a couple of years, but I took poetry for afternoon working with individual students in preparation for granted. Teaching these kids how to express themselves made that evening’s open mic night, which traditionally has been the me realize I have a talent most people can only wish for,” highlight of every visit. he said.

ANTSHE conference focuses on nontraditional students, awards JCSU student scholarship

Higher education professionals and nontraditional students Mitchell, assistant dean of Metropolitan College and director from across the nation converged on Johnson C. Smith of Adult Degree Programs, mediated a student panel discussion. University during the Association for Nontraditional Students in Higher Education (ANTSHE) conference from March 15-17, 2018. ANTSHE award winners were also announced during a The theme was “The Fight for Academic Equity: Creating Social ceremony at the conference. JCSU’s own Tracy Sullivan ’19 was Cohesiveness Between the Adult Learner and College.” honored with the President's Scholarship, which recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to Top leaders in academia shared ideas on topics such as create adult learner programs and environments that improving outcomes for at-risk adult students, creating a encourage, motivate, and provide the resources and aide cohesive learning community in an online environment, needed for adult learner success. supporting the reentry of Black women into higher education, and best ways to connect with the veteran population. The “I am truly grateful to receive the ANTSHE President’s ultimate goal of the sessions was to explore best practices for Scholarship,” Sullivan said. “I don’t take my winning for improving engagement and collaboration among nontraditional granted—it was a blessing. This scholarship will help cover students, administration, and faculty. my tuition next semester and get me one step closer to realizing the dream of earning my degree. It is one less The conference opened with remarks from Dr. Laura McLean, loan I will have to take out to pay for my education.” dean of Johnson C. Smith University’s Metropolitan College of Professional Studies. Dr. Lucinda Blue, assistant professor of Sullivan is a business administration major with a concentration business administration, led a breakout session titled “College in management. and Life Success for the Adult Learner,” and Dr. Melita Pope

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Eight JCSU students traveled to Italy for the summer study abroad program.

the norms, behaviors, and assumptions in Italy regarding Golden Bulls go on an the global impact of Hip-Hop culture. Students toured famous football (soccer) museums and stadiums, trained with Italian adventure professional athletes, visited exclusive galleries and traveled to ancient sites such as the Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum. On May 21-June 1, 2018, Dr. Rennae Stowe, assistant professor of Health and Human Performance, and Jemayne “Seeing something that was built nearly 2000 years ago was King, English instructor, accompanied eight JCSU students, amazing,” one student said. “In the U.S., everything we see that mainly majoring in sport management, to Italy for the summer is historical was made in another country or is no older than study abroad program. 200 years.”

Yasmine Parker ’20, Zamiyah Ben Israel ’21, Georgina Diaz ’19, “Nothing could prepare me for the breathtaking and emotional Sheila Davis ’19, Maya Lockett ’19, A’Lexus Hardin ’19, Vantino experience I encountered at Vatican City,” Johnson ’19 and Kennedy Thomas ’21 traveled to Rome, said another. Florence, Milan and Turin. In these major Italian cities, they gained a deeper understanding of Italian culture through sport “The history behind the Colosseum was interesting,” said a and hip hop fashion. third. “Knowing that people actually fought and killed each other in the coliseum while others watched is very different.” “It was impactful because most of the students had never traveled out of the country, and they all were saying how much They called the trip “amazing,” “breathtaking,” and “the most they looked forward to traveling abroad more after we beautiful thing I have seen.” returned from the trip,” Stowe said. “It was very eye-opening for them to see how people live outside of the U.S. and to get to The itinerary was a collage of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. experience another culture.” The group visited FIGEST (Federation of the Italian Traditional Games) and learned ancient sports from crossbow shooting to Major topics of study included sport and recreation in Italy as bocce and the ruzzola (cheese) throw. They also took in soccer forms of social education; examining the social aspects of training at the AC Milan Junior Camp and had exclusive tours sneaker culture in Italy; and developing an understanding of of professional stadiums such as Allianz and San Siro.

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King, who teaches a popular course on sneaker culture, is a “Most Italian foods in America consist of carbs, so I expected to certified football fanatic, so he was as excited as the students to see a high obesity rate due to the lack of nutrition and high walk among the halls of famed teams. amount of carbs in their diet,” she said. “Boy, was I wrong!

“Milan has two big soccer clubs, AC and InterMilan. We worked Americanized Italian food is already very delicious to me but out with AC Milan Juniors’ team trainer, doing real soccer drills authentic Italian food blew my mind.” and conditioning the first half of the day, then went to the San Siro stadium, which hosts both clubs. It was vicious, but fun,” To prepare for the trip, students had a group project he said. contrasting aspects of Italian and American culture. They researched topics and prepared presentations on the cities When the Smithites traveled to Turin to see Juventus, one of they were going to tour. Once there, they kept travel journals, the top soccer clubs in history, play at the brand new Allianz created video blogs of their experiences, and turned in a Stadium, their enthusiasm knew no bounds. Even their driver, final essay. who lived an hour outside of Turin, was starstruck enough to go inside and join them on the tour. Zamiyah Ben-Israel ’21, a biology major from Brooklyn, took the normal steps of preparing for the journey: she bought a Overall, King says, they were treated like dignitaries most places European electrical adapter, converted her cash to euros, and they went, and even presented with small gifts. He counted researched the weather. She also took the time to look up the two factors that made it an invaluable experience. ratio of Black people living in Italy. “It showed our students we are residents in a global neighborhood without borders or boundaries. Also, and as The pro-black young woman said she encountered a few importantly, it showed our students that Africa’s imprint is all instances of prejudiced attitudes, but overall was surprised at over the world. There’s not a place on earth we don’t influence,” the level of warmth she received from Italians. King said. “I didn’t expect my presence to be so welcomed—or for the He cited numerous instances of hip hop styling and culture the gelato to taste so good!” she said. Overall, she recommends the students noticed in Italy, from people wearing their sneakers study abroad experience to all her fellow students. laced over the loop instead of under it—a distinct hip hop style—to the brands they wore. “Studying abroad gives you the opportunity to broaden your horizons. You learn new things, see new people and experience “They dressed more like us than we do,” Vantino Johnson said. their cultures. It challenges your goals,” Ben-Israel said. The student, who already has a reputation for fashion on campus, took advantage of the trip to bring some distinctive Lockett agreed. “I’ve always loved to travel but traveling has items home. “I learned that if you have product to sell, get become something that I think about every day now. Exploring African Americans to popularize it. We make it valid.” different cultures brings a kind of happiness and excitement for me that I’ve never felt before. Study abroad gave me the Maya Lockett ’19, a Los Angeles native majoring in sport opportunity to discover myself while learning different management, was surprised at the level of physical fitness customs, outlooks and activities. I want to make traveling a part in Italy. of my lifestyle now.”

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Charlotte Teachers Institute participants JCSU strikes partnership with Charlotte Teachers Institute

In a move designed to deepen and diversify engagement in semester-long seminars. JCSU will lead seminars for the first professional development for teachers, Johnson C. Smith time in Fall 2018. University and Charlotte Teachers Institute formed a new educational partnership to support classroom teachers in “Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools looks forward to continuing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. the collaborative spirit of our partnership with Charlotte Teachers Institute and UNC Charlotte in the framework of “Our collaboration with Johnson C. Smith University preparing and strengthening the opportunities for teachers,” will add exciting new ideas and expertise to our existing said CMS Superintendent Clayton Wilcox. “The reach stretches partnership with CMS and with the University of North even farther with the addition of Johnson C. Smith University, Carolina at Charlotte,” said CTI Executive Director Scott Gartlan. providing another level of access to quality preparation for “We will be able to welcome CMS teachers and UNC Charlotte our educators.” professors to JCSU’s historic West End campus, building on our strong foundation of transforming teachers and students from CTI was founded on four pillars of strong professional pre-kindergarten through college by focusing on content development: content knowledge, creativity, leadership, and knowledge, creativity, collaboration and leadership.” collaboration. The new partnership will broaden the institute’s capacity within each of the areas of emphasis. Through CTI seminars led by UNC Charlotte and JCSU faculty, CMS teachers learn new content, work collaboratively "We are very pleased to welcome Johnson C. Smith University with other teachers, and develop new curricula for their to this dynamic partnership with UNC Charlotte and CMS to students. Teachers serve as leaders in the institute, working support the Charlotte Teachers Institute," said UNC Charlotte collaboratively with university faculty. More than 450 CMS Chancellor Philip Dubois. "CTI has served an important role in teachers have participated in 68 CTI seminars, producing strengthening Charlotte's public education system by more than 700 original curriculum units and enriching over providing teachers with high quality professional development 103,000 students. opportunities."

“We join this partnership with enthusiasm and with an Gartlan said CTI’s focus on building social capital among eagerness to learn and to share our strengths,” President teachers, faculty and graduate students addresses the Clarence D. Armbrister said. “As a historic urban university community-based Leading on Opportunity initiative’s priorities located in the heart of Charlotte, we are uniquely situated to to tackle the community’s upward mobility. work with the other partners to better the lives of CMS teachers and students and to contribute to the transformation of “Our work aims at strengthening Charlotte's education system public education.” through early education and college and career readiness,” Gartlan said. “Adding JCSU as a collaborator brings important CTI and its partners center activities on learning and leadership relationships and knowledge that can help move us forward in opportunities for teachers through intensive, a strategic way.”

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Golden Bulls win top spots in CIBER business competition

Four Golden Bulls traveled to Georgia State University testament to the importance of a global mindset March 8-9, 2018, to attend the Center for International Business and reinforces the department’s commitment to international Education & Research (CIBER) International Case Competition, business education.” and brought home first and second place prizes. It was JCSU’s third year competing in the event. “JCSU students stood out in every respect!” Leary concurred. “They were enthusiastic and well-liked. Their presentation skills Anthony Jefferson ’19, a marketing major; accounting were outstanding and they represented JCSU very well.” majors Caleb Letele ’18 and Bedrick Yobo ’18; and finance major Basir Wright ’19 were accompanied to Atlanta Leary and Hall met with the students several times to prepare by Yvette Hall, interim chair of the Department of Business them for the competition, providing instruction as the students Administration and Economics, and Dr. Maureen Leary, practiced working with case studies. Alumnus Ken Mabry ’17, assistant professor of accounting. who was part of last year’s winning team, took a break from his master’s studies at North Carolina A&T to share his experience The CIBER competition pits students from HBCUs and with the would-be participants. Minority Serving Institutions against a real-world business problem. The students are assigned to teams of four, with “It was a great opportunity for our students to connect with members from different universities and majoring in a distinct peers from other universities and work through multiple cross- field area. This year’s challenge was how Netflix could best cultural obstacles,” Mabry said. “It all plays into the strengths of move forward in the Indian market after a less-than-stellar working on a diverse, global team.” performance since entering the market in January 2016. Jefferson's team took first place for their solution, while second place went to Wright's team.

“I enjoyed the opportunity to get exposed to different students and their diversity of ideas and ways to approach the case,” Jefferson said.

The first day, students participated in a variety of events designed to foster a sense of unity, including a participatory drumming and percussion session. Then the teams were provided the case study. They had to do outside research in order to perform thorough SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analyses, and supported their recommendations with data incorporated into a PowerPoint presentation—by midnight. The next day, the teams presented their ideas to convince a panel of judges that their recommendations were feasible.

“We found that we had a lot in common and we had been through a number of common experiences,” Wright said. “The only issue was there were so many ideas, it was a challenge to hone them down to formulate our recommendations. We just didn’t have a lot of time.”

Yobo agreed. “I learned how to take a massive amount of information, research it, and formulate it into a presentation with a limited amount of time — about eight hours,” he said.

“Our students brought a certain charisma and enthusiasm to the event,” said Hall. “Even advisors from other institutions remarked on their professional presence! This competition is a JCSU students at CIBER competition in Atlanta

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Members of the JCSU Concert Choir performed in Opera Carolina’s “I DREAM.” JCSU Choir members pinch themselves in “I Dream”

Members of the JCSU Concert ’19, Anna Shisso ’19, Taequan Times as well as local outlets for their rich Choir performed in Opera Carolina’s Owens ’19, Jessica Lanier ’21, Mercury range and talent. production of the rhythm and Carver ’21, Meshac Casmir ’18, Nathaniel blues opera “I DREAM” by Douglas Cunningham ’21 and Laura Salinas ’20. “That experience was amazing, but Tappin in Charlotte’s Knight Theater They performed a number of solos as being in ‘I Dream,’ which focuses on the May 18-25, 2018. well as group songs. last 36 hours of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, was more relatable,” I Dream focuses on the final hours “My experience in Douglas Tappin’s ‘I Abrams said. “I felt it personally, from the of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, with Dream’ was nothing less than amazing,” music and the lyrics of each song to the daydreams of his childhood and said Abrams. “To have a small part in police brutality, which our people still flashbacks to the beginnings of the Civil something so huge meant everything encounter today. A chill went over my Rights Movement. The story of courage to me.” shoulders at each performance, from the and leadership in the face of a higher March on Selma to The Gala scenes.” calling examines the ways Dr. King This was not Abrams’ or the rest of the confronted the injustices of society choir’s first professional experience. To prepare for the show, choir through love and humanity. The JCSU Concert Choir joined the Opera members received special training Carolina chorus for the Andrea Bocelli from Dr. Frank Williams, their customary Tappin, the composer, and Maestro World Tour Concert Friday, February 9, accompanist, and Dr. Shawn Allyce- James Meena, the conductor, auditioned 2018, at the Spectrum Center. They also White, the choir director, on each song choir members to perform solo lines. performed “Porgy and Bess” on the stage for about three weeks. Nine students were selected: of the world-wide Spoleto Festival in Deomunique Abrams ’19, Audria Brooks 2016, and were lauded by the New York

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They also had several extended An especially memorable scene of the members’ faces matched those of the rehearsals with Maestro Meena and the show was the re-enactment of the first cast’s, shining with tears. rest of the Opera Carolina chorus. As the march on Selma. Spring 2018 semester closed, the “This entire opera was a heartfelt one,” schedule ramped up, with the choir It featured the song “Selma (No More!)” Abrams said. “It came to Charlotte and to running through the entire production and started with a broken hum, as our lives at the right moment. I feel very complete with principals and Tappin characters had been brutally beaten by blessed to have been a part of it; it was present at each one. police and were picking each other up. one of the best moments of my life.”

“Mr. Tappin is one of the most talented Principal performer Darnell Ishmael persons ever,” Abrams said. “The lyrics began to sing “No one’s gonna keep us were pure genius. His swagger and soul down no more, no one’s going to keep encouraged each person to feel more us down no more,” and many audience comfortable performing.”

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The Bookshelf

A number of faculty such as Artificial Intelligence, au- This supernatural time, as seen in The tonomous vehicles, personal robots, 3-D Words Upon the Window-Pane and Pur- members at JCSU published printing, the Internet of Things, nan- gatory, is more fluid than the one we nor- otechnology, genome research, bitcoin, mally inhabit. scholarly papers, and quantum computing. These tech- nologies will require radical change in DeForrest.“‘The bundle of accident and articles and books during the operation of community colleges. incoherence that sits down to breakfast’: This book describes the new technolo- Symbolic Time Underpinning the System the 2017-18 academic year. gies, discusses the impact on the com- in the Vision Papers.” The 26th Anniver- munity college environment, and sary of The Yeats Society of Korea Inter- Below is a list of some of their provides recommendations for modify- national Conference on W. B. Yeats and ing college operations. Movements in Literature, Art, and Society works in print and 2017. Ed. Young Suck Rhee. Seoul, South Dr. Matthew DeForrest.“The Atemporal Korea: Hanbit Publishing 2017. 89-99. digital media. Presence of the Discarnate States of A Vi- sion in Words Upon the Window-Pane An examination of how Yeats’ view of Dr. Ying Bai, professor of computer sci- and Purgatory.” The Yeats Journal of symbolic time appears in the Vision ence, and Dali Wang. “Calibrate Parallel Korea: An International Journal of Yeats Papers and how it is projected into after- Machine Tools by Using Interval Type-2 and Modern Literature. Sejong City and life described in A Vision — a place Fuzzy Interpolation Method,” The Interna- Seoul, South Korea: The Yeats Society of where one normally does not expect to tional Journal of Advanced Manufactur- Korea 2017 54: 157-175. find time. ing Technology, Vol. 91, Issue. 5-8, 2017, Springer Advanced Manufacturing Tech- Yeats’s works exist within a recovered DeForrest. The iPad Experiment. Blog, nology, pp. 553-560. Dec. 2017. and reinvented space in time — one that https://artsandlettersatjcsu.org/blog/. he created for himself by reimagining the Various posts on (primary) the intersec- Takeem L. Dean; Barner, S.; McCormick, bardic role within a modern era. With the tion of technology and education. C. “3D Printing,” Facing an Exponential Fu- completion of the 1937 edition of A Vi- ture: Technology and the Community sion, his art began to project an under- Dr. Eduardo Haynes - Adjunct Assistant College, p. 33-42. Lanham, Maryland: standing of time that incorporated an Professor Metropolitan College of Profes- Rowman & Littlefield 2018. orthodox conception of the eternal — all sional Studies. “The Complete Manual.” of time conceived as a single instance — CreateSpace, 2017. This book brings awareness to commu- but also of a supernatural time that in- nity college administrators and faculty to habited a space between the mundane This book is a how-to guide for a gentle- the recent technological developments, and the eternal. man to change their image through

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clothing. The book outlines the basic This work will take a decidedly practical diate host.” Journal of Parasitology, 103: items that a budding professional needs approach to articulating the role of aca- 768-777. to have in their closet or what a seasoned demic librarians in the development and professional needs to own in order to implementation of Open Educational Re- Here, we report a new species of Sarco- reinvent themselves. sources (OER) on college and university cystis with red-tailed hawk (RTH, Buteo campuses. It will begin with the funda- jamaicensis) as the natural definitive host Jemayne King, English instructor. “Sole mentals of what OER are, what and IFN-γ gene knockout (KO) mice as an Food: Digestible Sneaker Culture,” 10th problem(s) they are meant to solve, the experimental intermediate host in which anniversary edition. Warren Publishing, new pedagogical approaches they en- sarcocysts form in muscle. Two RTHs sub- Inc; March 22, 2018. able, and their potential to positively im- mitted to the Carolina Raptor Center, pact student success. Huntersville, North Carolina, were eutha- The contemporary athletic shoe has ex- nized because they could not be rehabili- perienced an evolution comparable to Next, the book will pivot to a series of tated and released. Fully sporulated 12.5 man. What began as necessity matricu- case studies on the practical aspects of × 9.9-μm sized sporocysts were found in lated to style, then morphed into a cul- advocating for OER adoption to both stu- intestinal scrapings of both hawks. ture with its own multicultural identity. dents and faculty; finding and evaluating “Sole Food,” through the vehicle of existing OER; partnering with other cam- Sporocysts were orally fed to laboratory- sneaker culture, addresses societal ills, pus units to develop, license, and publish reared outbred Swiss Webster mice (SW, life and identity within that culture, and them; and assessing their adoption and Mus musculus) and also to KO mice. The explores the overall impact and phenom- implementation. The work will conclude sporocysts were infective for KO mice but enon of sneakers on a global level. with a vision of the role of library-based not for SW mice. All SW mice remained Whether an aficionado of sneaker culture publishing in the OER space. asymptomatic, and neither schizonts nor or a contentious observer, “Sole Food” sarcocysts were found in any SW mice takes the reader on a fantastic voyage Impact: We hope to assist librarians euthanized on days 54, 77, 103 (n = 2) or with nary a pit stop or layover. at other institutions of higher learning 137 post-inoculation (PI). with developing similar collaborative Julie Reed, instructional electronic re- programs supporting Open Access The KO mice developed neurological sources librarian; Geneen Clinkscales, sys- and OERs. signs and were necropsied between 52 tems librarian. “Open Educational to 68 days PI. Schizonts/merozoites were Resources: A Field Guide for Academic Li- Dr. Alexa Rosypal von Dohlen, profes- found in all KO mice euthanized on days brarians,” chapter titled ‘Interinstitutional sor of biology, Verma, S.K., J.D. Mowery, 52, 55 (n = 3), 59, 61 (n = 2), 66, and 68 PI Collaborations to Forge Intracampus D. Scott, B.M. Rosenthal, J.P. Dubey, and and they were confined to the brain. The Connections: A Case Study from the D.S. Lindsay. 2017. “Sarcocystis jamaicen- predominant lesion was meningoen- Duke Endowment Libraries.’ Pacific Uni- sis, n. sp. from red-tailed hawks (Buteo ja- cephalitis characterized by perivascular versity Press, Spring 2018. maicensis) definitive host and IFN-γ gene cuffs, granulomas, and necrosis of the knockout mice as experimental interme- neural tissue.

Dr. Ying Bai presents disaster evacuation models in Rio

Dr. Ying Bai, Contraflow Model for Natural some natural disasters, such Professor in Disasters by Using Fuzzy Inference as hurricanes and wildfires, the Dept of System” in the Proceedings of 2018 IEEE make damages by using fuzzy Computer International Conference on Fuzzy inference system. Science and System. The conference is held in July Engineering, 8-13, 2018 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This research was supported by a just published funding provided by the US Dept of another paper The paper is about designing and Homeland Security, and Dr. Hang titled: “Build building of a highway contralflow Chen is the co-author for this paper. a Practical model to help decision makers to Evacuation effectively evacuate people prior to

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The schizonts/merozoites were located in in all 5 KO mice euthanized on day 32, 59, used to obtain DNA for molecular classifi- neural tissue and were apparently ex- 120, 154, and 206 post-inoculation (PI), cation and identification. PCR amplifica- travascular. Brain homogenates from in- not in KO mice euthanized on day 4, 8, tion and sequencing were done at three fected KO mice were infective to KO mice and 14 PI. Sarcocysts were not found in nuclear ribosomal DNA loci; 18S rRNA, by subcutaneous inoculation and when any SW mice euthanized on day 72, 120, 28S rRNA, and ITS-1, and the mitochon- seeded on to CV-1 cells. Microscopic 206, and 210 PI. Sarcocysts were micro- drial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 sarcocysts were found in skeletal muscles scopic, up to 70 μm wide. By light mi- (cox1) locus. of 5 of 8 KO mice euthanized between croscopy, the sarcocyst wall < 2 μm thick 55-61 days PI. Only a few sarcocysts had undulating, flat to conical, protru- Examination of clonal isolates of the par- were detected. sions of varying dimensions. Numerous asite indicated a single species related to sarcocysts were seen in the histological S. columbae (termed Sarcocystis sp. ex Sarcocysts were microscopic, up to 3.5 sections of tongue and skeletal muscles Accipiter cooperii) was present in the mm long. When viewed with light mi- from the abdomen, limbs, and eye but Cooper's hawk. Our results document for croscopy, the sarcocyst wall appeared not in the heart. By transmission electron the first time Sarcocystis sp. ex A. thin (<1 μm thick) and smooth. By trans- microscopy, the sarcocyst wall was cooperii occurs naturally in an unknown mission electron microscopy, the sarco- "type 1j." intermediate host in North America and cyst wall classified as "type 1j" (new that Cooper's hawks (A. cooperii) are a designation). Molecular characterization The ground substance layer (gs) was ho- natural definitive host. using 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, ITS-1, and mogenous, up to 2 μm thick, with very cox1 genes revealed a close relationship fine granules, and a few vesicles concen- with Sarcocystis microti and Sarcocystis trated toward the villar projections. No glareoli; both species infect birds as de- microtubules were seen in the gs. Longi- finitive hosts. tudinally cut bradyzoites at 206 days PI The parasite in the present study was bi- were 7.8 × 2.2 μm. Based on molecular ologically and molecularly different from characterization using 18S rRNA, 28S species so far described in RTHs and we rRNA, and cox1 genes and morphology therefore propose a new species name, of sarcocysts, the parasite in the present Sarcocystis jamaicensis n. sp. study was biologically and structurally different from species so far described, A. Rosypal von Dohlen, Verma, S. K., J. and we therefore propose a new species D. Mowery, D. Scott, C. K. Cerqueira- name, Sarcocystis strixi n. sp. Cézar, J. P. Dubey, and D. S. Lindsay. 2017. “Sarcocystis strixi, n. sp. from barred owls A. Rosypal von Dohlen, Lindsay, D.S., (Strix varia) definitive hosts and gamma S.K. Verma, D. Scott, J.P. Dubey. 2017. “Iso- interferon gene knockout mice as experi- lation, molecular characterization, and mental intermediate hosts.” Journal of schizogonic development of Sarcocystis Parasitology, 103: 555-564. columbae from a Cooper’s hawk (Accip- iter cooperi).” Parasitology International, Abstract: Here we report a new species 66: 106-111. of Sarcocystis with a barred owl ( Strix varia) as the natural definitive host and Abstract: Raptors serve as the definitive interferon gamma gene knockout (KO) host for several Sarcocystis species. The mice as an experimental intermediate complete life cycles of only a few of these host. A barred owl submitted to the Car- Sarcocystis species that use birds of prey olina Raptor Center, Huntersville, North as definitive hosts have been described. Carolina, was euthanized because of In the present study, Sarcocystis species paralysis. Fully sporulated 12.5 × 9.9 μm sporocysts were obtained from the intes- sporocysts were found in intestinal tine of a Cooper's hawk (Accipiter scrapings from the owl. cooperii) and were used to infect cell cul- tures of African green monkey kidney Sporocysts from the barred owl were cells to isolate a continuous culture and orally fed to 4 laboratory-reared outbred describe asexual stages of the parasite. Swiss Webster (SW) ( Mus musculus) and 8 KO mice. All mice remained asympto- Two clones of the parasite were obtained matic. Microscopic sarcocysts were found by limiting dilution. Asexual stages were

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Dr. Eduardo Haynes Haynes helps young men dress for success Dr. Eduardo Haynes is an adjunct professor in the Metropolitan “Making a first impression is everything; I want men to be able College for Professional Studies. Since 2015, he has taught to mark clothing off the list as a barrier,” he said. business research and case analysis and the senior paper course for business majors. Haynes has more than 20 years in When asked which clothing necessities men should have, financial services and 15 years in higher education. Haynes was ecstatic to lend his expertise.

The Charlotte native enjoys writing books that uplift and “The main necessities that a man should have are a navy empower the next generation of leaders. tailored sport jacket, dark slim jeans, tailored white dress shirt, tailored white French cuff dress shirt, navy and gray tailored In 2017, he wrote a systematic guide that teaches young men trousers, brown loafers, brown oxfords, suede Chelsea boots, how to dress for success in the world around them. The book is navy tailored two button suit, and neckwear of choice. entitled “The Complete Manual: Redefining your Brand through Clothing.” Haynes received a Bachelor of Science degree from N.C. State University, Master of Business Administration degree from “The Complete Manual” was a labor of love for me,” Haynes said. Gardner-Webb University, and a Doctor of Business I wanted to create a quick read for young men to pick up and Administration degree from The University of Phoenix School quickly apply. I wrote the book like an instruction manual with of Advanced Studies. departments because most men (including me) do not like to read instructions,” he said. To purchase the “The Complete Manual,” visit Amazon.com.

He feels that branding yourself though clothing is important for everyone, especially men.

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Mary Holiman ‘19 Student represents JCSU in Alpha Kappa Alpha’s national leadership program Mary Holiman ‘19 was selected to be one of Alpha the learning requirements, while community Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.’s Spring 2018 Leadership volunteering and a cultural project gave them valuable Fellows. She’s the first AKA from the Mid-Atlantic Region experience as servant leaders. As a new dimension to to participate in the competitive annual program, which this program, participants are receiving year-long since 1979 has chosen 30 young women nationwide in coaching from mentors who are top professionals in which to invest resources, education and mentorship their fields. to prepare them to be leaders. The AKA Mid-Atlantic Region includes Virginia and North Carolina. Holiman, who grew up in Hardeeville, S.C., a small town with a high crime rate, says the leaders of her Holiman is vice president of JCSU’s National Council community kept her on the right path. of Negro Women chapter; president of the Chi Alpha Epsilon Honor Society; a peer mentor and tutor in “My family, preachers and teachers all really embodied Student Support Services; a member of the Golden the mentality that it takes a village to raise a child,” Bulls Activities Committee; a member of the JCSU choir; Holiman said. “I knew if someone saw me doing and a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. She was ecstatic about anything unbecoming, they would correct the behavior.” the opportunity. She had special praise for a high school chorus teacher “As the first regional AKA to be a fellow, I just want to who happened to be a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha make my sisters and mentors proud,” she said. “The point Sorority, Inc. of Alpha Kappa Alpha is to be of service to all mankind, and I know this training will help me toward that goal.” “Dr. Prescott-Hodges Wright helped me find my voice, not only in chorus, but also outside of the classroom,” The Leadership Fellows Program was designed to Holiman said. “She helped me to focus on living my best provide training and development, student internships, life as an individual.” and job placement assistance. This year, fellows benefitted from a weeklong conference held May 15-19, Holiman is ready to take on new horizons after she 2018, in Chicago where they engaged in meaningful graduates from JCSU. “I can’t wait. Being a voice for workshops in order to advance their personal, others and helping them can change the world.” professional, and sorority goals. Seminars, a career fair and networking meetings with graduate schools filled

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Miss JCSU appears in EBONY magazine’s HBCU Campus Queens Edition

Mariah Collins, Miss Johnson C. Smith University 2017-2018, appeared as one of the Top 10 Historically Black College and University’s (HBCU) campus queens in Ebony magazine’s September 2018 back-to-school issue.

The Louisville, Ken,. native competed against 62 young women representing HBCU’s across the nation. Mariah took third place in the online voting competition.

Collins, a member of Gamma Delta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., was excited to exemplify the excellence of Johnson C. Smith University in the national publication.

“I am thrilled to represent my wonderful HBCU in EBONY magazine. As a young girl, I would admire all of the powerful African American women and men that appeared in the magazine. It makes me proud to know that I will be a part of history,” she said.

Collins, a sport management major with a minor in biology, was active on campus as an ambassador for the Health and Human Performance Department, a member of the Psychology Club, peer mentor and a member of the JCSU Pre-Alumni Council.

In addition, she is the game operations manager at MC3 Sports & Entertainment, LLC. She hopes to become a sport and entertainment attorney.

Mariah Collins ’18

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JCSU student chosen as White House HBCU All-Star

Miami native Tasja E. Estiverne ’18 was can inform my fellow students and we Initiative as a networking resource. selected as a 2017 student ambassador can all be knowledgeable of the Estiverne also shared via social media by the White House Initiative on connection between HBCUs and the proven practices that support Historically Black Colleges and White House.” opportunities for all young people Universities. to realize their educational and 2016 All-Star Tremell Parker mentored career potential. Additionally, he The sport management major was an Estiverne, sharing his impressions of the strengthened relationships with active member of Rho Chapter of Omega program and ushering him through the community-based organizations, Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., Mr. Senior, JCSU application process. participated in regional and national women’s basketball manager, a campus events, and attended web chats with NAACP member and Official Student “He showed me everything I needed to Initiative staff and other professionals Leader (captain). He was a recipient of do to become an All-Star,” Estiverne said. from a wide range of disciplines that the Presidential Volunteer Award. support a spirit of student engagement His appointment period lasted and career development. “I am excited to be a part of this great approximately one year, and during this program that connects the White House time Estiverne served as a representative “This opportunity is just a stepping stone with HBCUs,” Estiverne said. “I am by providing outreach opportunities and for my goals of becoming a great HBCU learning all I can from former All-Stars communications to his fellow students advocate,” Estiverne said. and our state and local lawmakers so I about the value of education and the

Tasja E. Estiverne ’18

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Kioda Wilson ’20 Kioda Wilson earns MetLife STEM scholarship

Kioda Wilson ’20 of Axton, Va., received a $2,000 MetLife Wilson is a part of the National Council of Negro Women; STEM Scholarship from the Independent College Fund of Delta Mu Delta, the international honor society for business North Carolina (ICFNC) on May 3, 2018. Wilson is majoring in administration programs; Alpha Lambda Delta Honors international business administration. Fraternity, which recognizes academic excellence in first-year students; and the Helping Hands and Healing Hearts The criteria for this scholarship is strict. Recipients must have mentorship program. She made the Dean’s List for Fall 2017 financial need; meet or exceed a 3.2 grade point average; and and Spring 2018, and in 2016 she was honored as the JCSU demonstrate campus involvement, work experience or freshman with the most community service hours. community service experience. Preference is given to computer, engineering or math majors, and students from As the second-oldest of four and the only one attending underrepresented populations in those majors. college in this generation of her family, Wilson actively encouraged her siblings to take school seriously and continue Wilson dreams of leading marketing or project management their education. campaigns overseas. She studied Spanish to prepare for a study abroad experience she hopes to participate in during her “I tell them they’ve got to stay focused, because at some point, senior year. the future is right there,” she said. “Start preparing early.”

“My family doesn’t go a lot of places, so I always thought how MetLife has contributed $76,000 over the past four years for wonderful it would be to explore the world,” Wilson said. scholarships to independent college students in North Carolina.

“Different places have different benefits to offer. That’s why I The Independent College Fund of North Carolina is a division of chose JCSU, because I come from a small town. There’s no North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities (NCICU), Walmart and not many traffic lights, even. But I’m very into the sector of higher education that represents North Carolina’s culture, and at JCSU, the culture is so rich,” she expressed. 36 private, non-profit colleges and universities.

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Tuned In: JCSU’s only graduating music major made sweet sounds her senior year and beyond

Da’Shawn “Brown Sugar” Covington ’18 was the sole Golden Bull to graduate in May 2018 with a degree in music. She may have been the only, but she was hardly lonely.

Covington, who hails from Washington D.C., performed in several Soul Junction music events on campus alongside professional musicians such as the Grammy Award-winning Hamiltones. She was an active member of the University Communications and Marketing Department’s student photography team, and an ambitious entrepreneur who vended her own clothing line at JCSU’s inaugural Pop-Up Shop event during Founders’ Week 2018.

With all those activities, Covington did not slack on academics—she made the Dean’s List two years in a row and received an award at the 2018 Senior Luncheon.

All that hard work served her well. Two days after graduating, she landed a job at Power Studio in Maryland as an assistant producer.

“I’ve always loved music. My biggest influencer is my dad,” Covington said. “Ever since I was a kid, I traveled to the studio with him all the time. Even so young, I deeply felt in my heart that it was a special place where I belonged.”

Covington was grateful for the mentorship of her professors and the many opportunities JCSU afforded to grow both personally and professionally.

“Now,” she says, “I am extremely confident in myabilities and I have JCSU to thank for it. No one can take that away from me.”

Da’Shawn Covington ’18

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Alexus Duncan ’17 (second left) Alexus Duncan: Internship aids lawyer in the making Alexus Duncan ’17, a psychology major Duncan honed legal writing and worked as the co-chair of publicity for from Raleigh, N.C., with a concentration analysis skills while gaining a better the Golden Bulls Activities Committee in development and minoring in pre-law, understanding of family and criminal and held a position as secretary for the held an internship at Hegedus Law Firm defense law, which is her area of interest. Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. during Fall 2017. She drafted legal documents, conducted research, and Upon graduation in December 2017, “Students should be engaged in attended court with a main focus on the Duncan planned to continue working at internships, not only to build their firm’s divorce caseload. Hegedus Law Firm before entering Wake resumes but also to network and obtain Forest University School of Law in Fall field experience in the profession they Alexus heard about this internship 2018. Alexus is a member of the Gamma aspire to be in,” Duncan said. “Internships through her former teacher Attorney Delta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha benefit a student through hands-on Hailey Hawkins and Dr. Latonya Williams, Sorority, Inc., the former captain of the experience and potential job one of her advisors at JCSU. JCSU Women’s Bowling Team, has opportunities. They are priceless.”

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Kaitlin Santos ’19 (left)

Softball player Kaitlin Santos studies stem cells in prestigious research internship program

Kaitlin Santos, a rising senior on the JCSU softball team, is Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR/Cas-9) dealing with mouse stem currently on the fast track in helping unravel some of modern cells,” said Santos. “We were trying to ‘knock out’ the Pif-1 gene medicine’s most difficult mysteries while helping provide in cells as they seem to be associated with DNA damage repair.” valuable headway in the creation of ground breaking biological startup companies and other businesses that support research. During the program, participants were in traditional research settings, weekly meetings to discuss findings in their research, Santos, from Honolulu, Hawai’i, participated in the rigorous 10- and attended workshops on research ethics. Students also week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): Biology attended seminars on applying to graduate school and career and Biotechnology. Hosted by the UNC Charlotte Department opportunities. of Biological Sciences, the program focuses on research in biology and biotechnology in a traditional research experience Admission to the program is extremely competitive and while conveying how basic biotechnology research leads to requires an extensive application and interview process. The business creation and industrial development. program culminated with a presentation at the Department of Biological Sciences Summer Symposium. “I worked with Dr. Christine Richardson and my research focused on the Clustered Regulatory Interspaced Short

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Bush finds inner strength second time around at nation's No. 2 children's hospital

Taneva Bush ’19 is steadily progressing on her goal to Initially, Bush suffered from anxiety over the complicated become a doctor. She took an intensive 10-week internship research. As the only African American woman in the program, in summer 2018, as part of the Undergraduate Research she feared showing her full potential. Fellowship program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. “When I found out everything I was going to be doing, I was afraid to touch anything in the lab because it was going to be It was the second time around for Bush, who completed an on me if I messed up. But then I realized it's research, and that's initial fellowship last year in the Department of Anesthesia at what happens in research. Sometimes you mess up, sometimes the hospital’s Research Clinic. She was of such benefit, the things do not go the way you want them to go, and sometimes hospital invited her to return. things are perfect. It’s a matter of learning to accept that," Bush said. “I love the people I work with and how open I can be,” Bush said. “Asking questions is my favorite part by far.” She took encouragement from one of her mentors, anesthesiologist Ali Kandil, who reminded her, “It’s fear Bush performed the duties of RNA isolation, to confirm Slc10a6 that sits in the way of what we can do. Once you drive RNA expression in muscle afferents by femoral neurotracer out fear, you can do anything.” injection, but not in cutaneous afferents by saphenous afferent. “The scope of what I learned changed tremendously, with “The goal for our research is to find a new way of effective the help of the team I worked with,” Bush said. “I’m grateful and safely managed treatment for children who experience they saw my potential, and the ambition to do great made me neuropathic myalgia, rather than continuing treating them diligent. I can’t believe I did a fellowship at the No. 2 pediatric with opioids or other anti-inflammatory therapies,” she hospital in the nation!” explains. “I also performed mice injections, perfusions, dissections, cryostat tissue cutting, and molecular techniques such as cell counting and microscopic analysis.”

Taneva Bush ’19

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D’Andre J. Carter ’18

D’Andre appearances at remotes and events, member of the Alpha Omicron Chapter engaging with the station's listeners of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., as well while promoting the station and client as holding various other leadership roles Hearts Media! brands, executing contests on-site, on campus. After graduation, he planned managing/distributing station prizes, to move to Washington, D.C., to pursue a D' Andre J. Carter '18, a Las Vegas and product sampling for clients. master’s degree in political native, is a political science major with a communications at American University. minor in communication arts. Carter was He impressed management so much, hired by iHeartMedia Charlotte as a they hired him into his current position, “I encourage younger students to promotions, marketing, and digital overseeing the planning, development, actively seek and engage in internships,” media assistant, a job he landed while and acquisition of online content and Carter said. “It’s the best way to working as an intern for the major generating campaigns that drive traffic experience working in your chosen field.” media outlet. to iHeartMedia’s websites.

As an iHeartMedia Charlotte intern, Carter served as the president of the Carter executed and managed station Student Government Association and a

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(L to R) Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), Tony Watlington, Jr ’19, Jameia Booker ’19 and Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-N.C.) on Capitol Hill. Booker meets idols, makes mark on Capitol Hill

Jameia Booker ’19, a criminology major with a pre-law “I was leaving the Capitol returning to the office, when minor, was chosen to participate in the HBCU Bi-Partisan I accidentally got on the same elevator as John Lewis,” Congressional Internship program June 4-July 27, 2018. Booker said, smiling at the memory. “That was the best day.” Rep. Lewis congratulated her and even checked with Adams Rep. Alma Adams spearheaded the program in 2016 to on her progress. address the lack of diversity among congressional staff. African Americans make up less than 1 percent of top Senate staffers, Booker is an active Golden Bull, as the incoming president despite representing 13 percent of the U.S. population. of the Student Government Association; member of the Gamma Lambda Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Interns in the program spend four weeks in the offices on the National Council of Negro Women; vice president of of both a Republican and a Democrat—in Booker’s case, the Criminal Justice Association; member of Alpha Phi Sigma, Congresswoman Adams’ office for four weeks and the office the national criminal justice honor society; Student Support of Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) for four weeks. Upon arriving at Services; Official Student Leader; Golden Bulls Activities Capitol Hill, a few aspects of the internship surprised her. Committee and the Food Service Committee.

“When I entered the office, I noticed most of the staff were She credits her involvement at JCSU for preparing her for the young and that surprised me,” Booker said. “I’d always thought congressional internship, as well as the mentorship of Dr. Nicola it was hard to get a job on the Hill, and that you had to know Bivens, Dr. Anita Bledsoe-Gardner, Dr. Deborah Quick and Dr. someone. It really opened my eyes to more possibilities.” Terza Lima-Neves.

Before starting the internship, Booker created a list of “The best advice I can give a Smithite is to take advantage goals she hoped to accomplish, which included items from of the learning experience JCSU offers, get out of your comfort answering her first phone call to meeting civil rights icon Rep. zone, have faith and trust in God,” Booker said. “As an African John Lewis. She worked toward those goals daily, drafting American woman interning on the Hill I had to bring my A letters, answering telephones, running errands and providing game every day—not for anyone else but for myself, because support on special projects. She also made the acquaintance of I knew I wanted to leave my mark on the Hill.” key players on Capitol Hill, including members of Congress, and spoke with them at hearings for the Small Business Committee, After graduating in 2019, Booker plans to enroll in law school at the Senate Agriculture Committee, FBI Oversight Committee Georgia State University. and the Department of Justice’s 2016 Election hearing. Her most treasured encounter, though, was much more informal.

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Charlotte skyline served as backdrop to the 2018 NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships Golden Bulls host and compete in NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Johnson C. Smith University proudly hosted the 2018 Thursday saw the first day of competition, NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships May 24- when preliminary trials took place. Large crowds filled 26, 2018. Around 800 student-athletes from across the the stands as family and friends showed up to support. United States, Canada and the Caribbean flocked to the track of the Irwin Belk Complex. They were joined by Lamont Johnson, head track and field coach, was coaches, sports information directors, athletic enthusiastic about the event. “Having three JCSU administrators and spectators. JCSU is the only HBCU to athletes compete in the championships speaks volumes host in the championships’ history, and has done so to the character and quality of our student-athletes. three times, the last time being in 2010. The University As well, I must say we really excelled as an entire hosted the championships for the first time in 2007. department,” Johnson said. “It was a complete team effort in order to make this championship a success. Athletes began arriving as early as Tuesday, May 22, The entire athletic department deserves the credit.” holding practices on the track. A 1,200-seat banquet took place Wednesday night at The Park Expo. WBTV JCSU showcased hometown hospitality by decking out sports director and news anchor Delano Little emceed a Refresh Room in Brayboy Gymnasium. Athletes relaxed the event and held a live broadcast on site, as athletes in to music, shot baskets or enjoyed friendly competition the division received their U.S. Track and Field Cross on oversized tabletop games such as giant Connect Four Country Coaches Association Regional Awards. President and Jenga. It was very well-received. Clarence D. Armbrister and CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams were in attendance and delivered “Hosting the NCAA Division II Championships allowed welcoming remarks to the assembled crowd. JCSU to provide a signature track athletics event and placed our university in a leadership position, working “It was my absolute pleasure to welcome guests to with groups such as the Charlotte Regional Visitors Charlotte and to Johnson C. Smith University,” said Authority and local media,” said Stephen Joyner Sr., Armbrister. “This year marks JCSU’s third time hosting director of Athletics. “It allows our student-athletes the the event, and I like to think it is due to our own tradition opportunity to compete in their venue at the of excellence, having sent four track and field athletes to highest level.” compete in the Olympic Games.” 48 jsu_396105_Text_Layout 1 4/4/19 8:49 AM Page 49

Barrett places third in 400m hurdles at national track and field championship

able to compete and represent my school in the NCAA Championships on my home track.”

Senior Landon Huslig from Oklahoma Christian University won the event with a 49.67, while American International University’s Chad Miller claimed second place with a 49.72.

In the preliminaries on day one, Barrett Freshman Timor Barrett ’21 earned He maintained third place coming led most of the race and wound up with All-American honors at the 2018 NCAA into the final stretch and cleared the a time of 51.55, finishing second in his Division II Outdoor Track and Field remaining four hurdles cleanly, taking heat. Heading into the final day of Championships on a humid afternoon third place with a 50.85 time. competition, he held the fifth-fastest May 26, 2018. He finished third in the time of the meet. 400m hurdles at home in the Irwin “Being able to compete against the best Belk Complex. in the NCAA Division II and finishing third On the women’s side, Kianje Pollard ’19 as a freshman is a great achievement that also competed in the 400m hurdles Barrett, from St. Catherine, Jamaica, drew I will always cherish,” said Barrett, who preliminaries, posting a time of 1:01.16, lane seven for the championship race hails from Jamaica. His stateside ‘mom’ finishing fifth in the last collegiate race and bolted out to an early lead and after was in the crowd cheering him on. “It was of her storied JCSU career. the 200m mark dropped to third place. also a great feeling to know that I was

Stevens makes JCSU track and field history in record-setting year

Sah-Jay Stevens ’21 made history as the first JCSU woman student-athlete to participate in the javelin throw at the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Stevens, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, rewrote the Golden Bulls record book in her first season when she set a school record at the Aggie Invitational on April 14 with a throw of 41.88 meters, earning her a provisional mark into the NCAA Championships.

The record was short-lived, as she threw for a distance of 45.24 meters the following week at the USC Open in Columbia, S.C., further cementing her spot in the national finals.

At the CIAA Championships in Bowie, Md., she earned a third- place finish with a 36.76 mark.

She made her NCAA Championship debut at her home facility in the Irwin Belk Complex but failed to post a mark in the finals. Despite this disappointment, she made JCSU history and won a place in Golden Bulls hearts in a very successful first season.

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JCSU men’s basketball and women’s tennis make strides in 2018; athletes earn All-CIAA Awards

The Johnson C. Smith University men’s basketball and women’s For his performances over the course of the season, Davis was tennis teams both stood out during the 2017-2018 athletics honored as a First Team All-CIAA member and became just the season with both teams having players receive All-CIAA honors third Golden Bull to win the CIAA Player of the Year Award. and two student-athletes earning major CIAA Awards in their Kirchman started in every game for JCSU this year at guard, respective sports. scoring in double-figures in all but four contests and also earning a First Team All-CIAA designation. The men’s basketball team rebounded from a disappointing campaign in 2017 and advanced to the 2018 CIAA Ross, a junior, completed his first season with the Gold and Championship game, finishing with a 20-11 overall record. Blue, ending the regular season with an average of 14.3 points per game. All-told, he recorded double-digit scoring outputs in Led by a group of seniors in guards Robert Davis ’18 and 23 of the 27 games in which he saw action, earning First Team Christian Kirchman ’18, alongside junior Roddric Ross ’19, the All-CIAA honors. Golden Bulls took down Southern Division rival Fayetteville State in the first round and then knocked off Bowie State to In addition to the success of the JCSU men’s basketball team, advance to the CIAA Championship game. the JCSU women’s tennis team also had a breakout year, finishing with a 16-10 record and a 10-2 mark in CIAA matches, In the finals, the Golden Bulls ran into a red-hot Virginia Union also advancing to the CIAA Championship match. team, falling to the Panthers in the title game. Freshman Halle Parker ’21 finished the regular season Davis completed the regular season as the league’s scoring undefeated at No. 1 singles, earning the CIAA Rookie of the leader with 21.9 points per game. He also finished first in free Year Award and was an All-CIAA selection. throw percentage. His best outing of the year came when he scored 23 points against Lincoln, and he also torched Virginia State for 23 points on Jan. 10. JCSU victorious in the Commemorative Classic, marking 125 years of Black college football

On Dec. 27, 1892, Biddle Institute football game at a cool and Xavier Longerbeam and returning it (Johnson C. Smith University) traveled overcast Alumni Memorial Stadium in 30 yards for a touchdown. to Livingstone College’s Old Delta Grove Salisbury, N.C. on Nov. 4, 2017. campus in Salisbury, N.C., and played The victory gave JCSU an 8-1 lead in the the first ever football game between Safety Carlo Thomas ’18 tied the JCSU Commemorative Classic series. Black colleges. The battle in the snow school record for career interceptions, ended with a 5-0 Biddle Institute victory. picking off Livingstone quarterback

Since 2009, JCSU and Livingstone College have battled in the annual Commemorative Classic to commemorate that historic first game that started Black college football.

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JCSU football earns three postseason All-CIAA awards

Three JCSU football student-athletes earned All-CIAA honors for their performances over the 2017 season.

Safety Carlo Thomas ‘18 was named to the All-CIAA First Team as a defensive back. Over the course of the season he managed 64 tackles 41 of which were solo. He also posted 8.5 tackles for loss (37 yards) and had two sacks (12 yards).

On Nov. 4, he became the JCSU career leader in interceptions when he picked off two passes at rival Livingstone. In that game he returned his first interception 30 yards for a score, putting JCSU up 13-0. His second interception of the day, which set a new JCSU record, came in the fourth quarter to thwart a Livingstone drive, sealing the 27-14 win. (L to R) Carlo Thomas ’18, Desmond Dozier ’20, Sa’Von Williams ’21

Thomas finished his JCSU career with 188 tackles, 15 tackles for Fayetteville State on Oct. 14. He currently has three kickoff loss, two sacks and 22 interceptions, four of which he returned returns for touchdowns. for touchdowns. Rounding out the list of JCSU award winners is Sa’Von Williams Desmond Dozier ‘20 earned All-CIAA Honorable Mention as a ’21. Williams,a defensive lineman, was named to the CIAA All- kick returner. Dozier returned 16 kicks for an average of 30.6 Rookie Team after a stellar year with the Gold and Blue. He yards per return. At Winston-Salem State, he set a new JCSU notched 33 tackles with 22 of those being solo stops. He also mark for the longest kickoff return when he raced 97 yards for a had nine tackles for loss (39 yards), four sacks (30 yards) and touchdown in the second quarter. The previous mark was 93 had two pass breakups. His season-high came in a seven-tackle yards, set in 1994. He went on to add a 92-yard return against effort at Winston-Salem State.

Johnson takes the helm of Golden Bulls Track and Field

JCSU hired Lamont Johnson to lead the relay team to the NCAA's. Additionally, he Golden Bulls cross country and track and also coached four other student-athletes to field programs. Johnson joined the All-CIAA honors. Athletics staff after serving as assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin- Johnson also had a stint as an assistant Parkside. coach at the Academy of Art where the Urban Knights won the NCAA Division II In his first season with UWP, the Rangers National Championship in both the indoor saw four athletes named All-Great Lakes and outdoor seasons in 2012-13. There, he Valley Conference. Johnson helped his coached seven student-athletes who athletes break multiple school records, earned a total of 28 All-American honors. including both the men's and women's 4x100 relays. He also brings Division I experience to JCSU, having coached at Eastern Michigan, Troy, No stranger to the CIAA, Johnson spent two Alabama, New Mexico and Iowa State. seasons at Virginia State University. During his time at VSU, he coached Justin Williams to a berth in the NCAA Championships in the 110 hurdles and the Trojan men's 4x100

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Three with JCSU ties Coach Kermit Blount Current JCSU head football coach inducted into CIAA Kermit Blount was inducted after serving as a standout quarterback at John B. McLendon Winston-Salem State University, returning to his alma mater as the Hall of Fame head football coach in 1993.

Three individuals with ties to Johnson C. Smith University were During his tenure, Blount led the inducted into the CIAA John B. McLendon Hall of Fame as part Rams to two CIAA Championship titles of the 2018 CIAA Tournament. in 1999 and 2000 in three post-season appearances. Under his leadership, the Rams competed in the Pioneer Bowl both seasons, winning in 1999. He was honored Dorothy Cowser Yancy, Ph.D. ’64 as CIAA Coach of the Year, Washington D.C. Pigskin Coach of the Year and 100 percent Wrong Club Coach of the Year in both Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy served as 1999 and 2000. the 12th president of Johnson C. Smith University from 1994-2008 and the In 12 years, Blount marked a 76-53-3 CIAA career record before 14th and 16th President of Shaw the WSSU's transition to NCAA Division I FCS (formerly I-AA). He University from 2009-2010 and 2011- continued as head coach throughout the three-year transition, 2013. She was the first female earning a 91-87-3 coaching record making him the winningest President in the CIAA, she holds the coach in WSSU history. title of President Emerita at both institutions and is known for her Blount assisted several former Rams football players such institutional management and as Richard Huntley, Oronde Gadsden, Tory Woodbury fundraising efforts for academic and athletic deliverance. and William Hayes reach the NFL as either late round draft picks or free agents. Yancy marked her 14-and-a-half year tenure at JCSU by raising over $145 million through two significant capital campaigns In 2011, he took control of the Delaware State University and increasing the University’s endowment by nearly $50 football program where he spent four seasons. Blount was million. Under her leadership, JCSU was the first Historically named head football coach at Johnson C. Smith University Black College or University to receive the Genius Grant in 1996 where he marked his third season in 2017. and became an IBM “Thinkpad” University, as the first HBCU to provide every student a laptop to use while they were students. Blount earned his Bachelor of Science degree in health and Additionally, a new technology center, library and the Irwin physical education from Winston-Salem State University in Belk Complex were constructed under her watch. 1980. While at WSSU, he earned four letters and guided WSSU to the 1977 and 1978 CIAA championship. In 1978, he was In her tenure at Shaw, Yancy stabilized the financial state of named a Black College All-American. Shaw, restructured debt, balanced the budget and recruited one of the largest freshman classes in the history of the school. She retired in 2010 but returned the next year after the campus Raymond McDougal ’58 was struck by a tornado. Within the next year Yancy lead the restoration of functionality to campus and brought all Raymond McDougal joined the buildings back into use. In her final tenure, she led the Fayetteville State University Broncos in university through five program accreditation reviews. 1970 as the head football coach and head coach of the newly formed men's Yancy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and social golf program. science from Johnson C. Smith University, a Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Massachusetts – After his first year with the university, Amherst, and a Ph.D. in political science from Atlanta he turned the golf program over to Dr. University. Yancy’s legacy is marked at both JCSU and Shaw Moses Walker and focused on 11 with buildings named in her honor. seasons with the football team and one season at the helm of the men's basketball program as interim head coach.

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Upon returning to lead the men's golf team in 1993, McDougal He has also earned 12 CIAA Coach of the Year awards and began making his mark as a CIAA legend. Within two decades at retired from Fayetteville State in June of 2014. FSU, McDougal led the Broncos to 16 CIAA golf titles and six PGA National Minority Division II golf titles in 15 appearances. McDougal is a 1958 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University where he was a four-year scholarship athlete in both football McDougal and the Broncos participated in seven NCAA Division and golf. As a student-athlete, he earned individual winner II Super Regionals, finishing as high as third in 2007 and second awards in four golf tournaments and played halfback and in 2009. FSU's second place finish at the 2009 regional quarterback for the Golden Bulls football team. tournament earned the team its first NCAA Tournament berth, becoming the first HBCU to make the championship in 35 years. Prior to his career at Fayetteville State, he was the head basketball coach and backfield assistant football coach at McDougal coached five CIAA MVPs and All-Americans, eight Bethune-Cookman University. CIAA Tournament medalists and 44 All-CIAA student-athletes.

Former NFL player Terrence Warren joins Athletics staff to increase sponsorships and engagement

Terrence Warren joined the provided leadership for all aspects of the DSU ticket operations, Department of Athletics in the including developing procedures and best practices for a newly created position of Division I athletic ticket office. assistant athletics director for external affairs. Warren is a A dual student-athlete at Hampton, he was a 13-time NCAA former NFL player, NCAA All- All-American in track and field, 12-time CIAA champion and two- American and CIAA champion time NCAA DII national champion in the 200 meters. He was a who came to JCSU after serving gold medalist at both the World Junior Track and Field as the director of operations Championships and Olympic Festival. and wellness at the Orange County Sportsplex in Warren, the first Hampton player to be drafted, was selected by Hillsborough, N.C. There he the Seattle Seahawks in the 1993 NFL draft, where he played managed the budget and daily from 1993-95. He also played for the San Francisco 49ers in 1995, operations of the 6,000- the Jacksonville Jaguars from 1995 to 1996 and completed his member facility. He also career with the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts from 1998-1999. supervised a 37-person staff and established partnerships with local and state agencies to secure grants, private donations and For his accomplishments at Hampton, he was inducted into the government funds. CIAA John B. McLendon Hall of Fame in 2015. He was also inducted into the Hampton University Hall of Fame 2011. He He previously served as associate athletics director for graduated from Hampton in 1992 with a degree in recreation marketing, promotions and ticketing at Delaware State management and later earned an MBA in marketing from University. At DSU, he marketed and planned a ticketing Averett University in 2005. campaign to increase revenues for the Hornets football, men’s and women’s basketball and other varsity teams. He also

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JCSU fans and 14th President Clarence D. Armbrister and board chair Shirley J. Hughes affirm the importance of HBCUs during “For the Culture” Game. JCSU basketball games become a celebration of culture and social consciousness

Social consciousness is a core value of Johnson C. Smith justice, raise funds for cancer research, and strengthen the University and it’s woven into the very fabric of campus life, close-knit Golden Bulls family. extending from the political science department to campus protests and even to athletic events. JCSU held its fourth annual Black Out game on January 31, 2018. A highlight of the basketball season, it acknowledges During basketball season, students, faculty, staff, alumni and support for the concepts behind the Black Lives Matter fans gather in Brayboy Gymnasium to cheer on the Golden movement. Coaches, students, alumni and fans show their Bulls women’s and men’s teams with a fervor that is known support by wearing all-black attire. Spoken word performances, throughout the CIAA as “Brayboy Madness.” music, Black history facts and signs with slogans such as “Black Girl Magic,” “Black Excellence” and “Melanated and Educated” But there’s method to the madness. Every January and combine to make the game a meaningful and thought- February, the JCSU Athletics department, the University provoking experience. Communications and Marketing department and athletics sponsors partner to create exciting game experiences, turning The Black Out game culminates with a moment of silence for games into platforms to highlight Black history, promote social attendees to reflect on how they can be change agents to

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make our world a better place. It’s powerful to see fans relevance of HBCUs, the accomplishments of HBCU graduates standing together, holding signs proudly as the PA announcer and the contributions of HBCU athletes to intercollegiate and reads a stirring social justice statement. professional sports.

On Feb. 21, 2018, JCSU held its second “For the Culture” game Students also used a time out to bring attention to gun to affirm the importance of Historically Black Colleges and violence in America. The PA announcer read a statement Universities. Fans wore dashikis to show pride in black culture denouncing gun violence followed by a moment of silence for and celebrate its role in college sports. The Luv-A-Bulls the victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The cheerleaders wore custom-made cheering uniforms that cheerleaders and dance team held signs supporting a ban on featured gold and blue African print fabric. Students and fans assault weapons. waved signs with slogans such as “HBCUs Matter,” “I Love JCSU” and “Knowledge is Power.” JCSU even provided signs for the The enthusiastic participation in these games illustrates that visiting team to show pride in their alma mater. athletic events can be important venues for reinforcing institutional values. It’s another example of how JCSU supports Fans from JCSU and rival Winston-Salem State University stood students as they learn to be change agents, activists and together in a moment of unity holding their signs and cheering advocates for causes in which they believe. loudly as the PA announcer read a statement touting the

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JCSU Celebrates the 2018 Athletic Season with a presentation of Smitty's Golden Awards

The Johnson C. Smith University Department of Athletics For her performance, she was named to the All-CIAA presented the yearly athletic awards at the annual Smitty team and was tabbed as the CIAA Rookie of the Year and Golden Awards in Grimes Lounge. helped the JCSU Women's tennis team advance to the CIAA Championship match. Each sport gave four awards to deserving Golden Bull student-athletes. Those awards include team MVP, Most Senior men's basketball player Robert Davis (West Friendship, Improved, Top Newcomer and Coaches Awards. Md.) was tabbed as the Pettis Norman Male Athlete of the Year after completing his four-year career with the Golden Bulls with In addition to the individual awards, team awards included 1,606 points while shooting 42.5 percent for his career (516- highest team grade point average and male and female team 1215), 34.2 percent from long range (150-438) and 82.3 percent of the year. from the free throw line (424-515).

The event concluded with the awarding of the Pettis Norman This past season, he earned First-Team All-CIAA honors and was Male and Female Athlete of the Year Awards. The Pettis named the CIAA Player of the Year, becoming just the third Norman Award is given to the student-athlete judged to have Golden Bull to achieve this honor. had the best overall season. Davis was named to the NABC All-Region team and received Halle Parker '21 of Magnolia, Delaware earned the Pettis the most votes in earning a First Team selection by the North Norman Female Athlete of the Year after she recently Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association completed her first year wearing the Gold and Blue. This past while helping the JCSU men's basketball team advance to the season, she returned a perfect 10-0 mark in CIAA matches. CIAA Championship game. Playing at No. 1 singles, she dropped just one set in league matches and also returned an impressive 9-2 mark in doubles action alongside teammate Jada Strickland '21.

Overall, she completed the season with a 16-8 singles mark while in doubles matches she finished with a 15-11 overall record.

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Culler named CIAA Sports Information Director of the Year Johnson C. Smith University Sports Directors Association Vice President Culler is a past member of the CIAA Golf Information Director K.C. Culler was after previously serving as secretary. Committee and currently serves on the named the John Holley CIAA Sports CIAA Softball Committee. He also served Information Director of the Year at the In addition to his association leadership, as the host media coordinator for the annual awards luncheon at the CIAA Culler is regarded for his consistent 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and spring meetings in Charlotte, N.C. coverage of the Golden Bulls athletics Field Championships. programs through previews, recaps, In his third year at JCSU, Culler was game notes and media guides. appointed CIAA Sports Information

K.C. Culler receives Sports Information Director of the Year Award from Dr. James Anderson, president of the CIAA Board of Directors, and CIAA Commissioner Jacquie McWilliams

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The Division of Institutional Advancement culminated the Tomorrow is What WE Make It Comprehensive Campaign. JCSU's 7-year comprehensive campaign exceeds $150 million milestone On Dec. 14, 2017, Johnson C. Smith University proudly $135 million at the end of fiscal year 2016. $7,446,035.26 announced that the Tomorrow is What WE Make It was raised specifically for the President’s Gap comprehensive campaign—launched in 2010 by the Scholarship Fund to cover the shortfall some students JCSU Board of Trustees, with a $150 million goal—had encounter between financial aid received and the cost of secured gifts and commitments totaling $159.4 million tuition. as of Dec. 6, 2017. This is one of the largest sums ever raised by JCSU. The campaign concluded at the close of “It’s exciting to see the combination of support from JCSU’s 150th anniversary, with over $1 million dollars alumni, local community members and national pledged for each year that the University has been in foundations on this record-breaking comprehensive existence. campaign,” said Kristin Hills Bradberry, campaign consultant. “It’s also impressive to note how much of the JCSU experienced broad-based support from Trustees, support in this campaign has already been given, not alumni, corporations, foundations, faculty/staff and just pledged, and is making an impact now on the lives friends in the philanthropic community. Alumni of students at JCSU.” contributed $5,987,867 and Trustees raised $2,855,970 of the $159,479,683 total. Also included is a $1 million “We knew that $150 million was an ambitious goal when bequest from the Larry A. Griffin Family Trust and the we launched our comprehensive campaign, but we were Michael L. Griffin Family Trust. The Duke Endowment confident that JCSU’s stakeholders and the community contributed the campaign’s $35 million lead gift. would partner with us to reach it,” said Shirley J. Hughes, chair of the JCSU Board of Trustees. “Thank you to the In prior updates Institutional Advancement disclosed entire JCSU community, friends and supporters. Your reaching $38 million by the end of Fiscal Year 2011, $79 contributions have made this the most successful million at the end of 2012, $94 million at the close of campaign in the University’s 150-year history. 2013, $107 million at 2014, $115 million at 2015, and Most importantly, your gifts enable and encourage

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young women and men to pursue their dream of completing the change agents developed, encouraged and inspired within a college education. We are grateful for your confidence in our gates.” JCSU’s ability to deliver a high-quality education to our students and for your confirmation of the University’s Honorary co-chairs of the campaign were Congresswoman Eva importance to the city of Charlotte.” Clayton ’55 and Sally Robinson, Charlotte philanthropist. The campaign co-chairs were Kendall Alley, regional president The funds raised will support scholarships, academic resources, (Charlotte) at Wells Fargo; Trustee Kevin Henry, executive vice capital projects, and the JCSU Fund. president and chief human resources officer at Extended Stay America; and Thomas Baldwin ’71, former executive at BB&T. “I am deeply grateful to everyone who has participated in this outstanding effort,” said then President Ronald L. Carter. “The success of this campaign speaks to larger hopes for a better university and a better tomorrow—a tomorrow transformed by

$1.8 Million in grants funds Access to Innovation initiative

Johnson C. Smith University announced college-readiness, technology skills and weeks in Google’s Faculty-In-Residence the receipt of $1,100,000 from Kenan entrepreneurial mindset. program, building classroom projects. Charitable Trust and $738,000 from the Department of Education for its Access Teachers from the schools will also be “This initiative is about co-creation, to Innovation Initiative Nov. 16, 2017. provided support for implementing impact, and scalability,” said Terik Tidwell, computer science education into West director of STEM Innovation. “Over the This K-16 initiative will increase students’ Charlotte’s NAF Tech Academy and last year, we have been listening and interest and preparation in computer Ranson Middle School’s IB program. working with industry partners, parents, science and entrepreneurship and their community leaders, teachers, school overall STEM skills. West Charlotte High JCSU students will be exposed leaders, and universities to develop a School and Ranson International to tech-entrepreneurship through blueprint to increase the density of Baccalaureate Middle School have been a pre-college summer program, access and propensity towards identified as pilot schools for the first innovation and market-driven courses innovation for students in and around three years. and programs, experiential learning the university.” and capstone projects. Students from West Charlotte “JCSU's faculty and staff are ready to High and Ranson Middle will have During Summer 2017, JCSU partnered accelerate our impact for creating a opportunities to participate in programs with Google to launch a pilot at the strong STEM workforce in the innovation covering after-school enrichment, dual- University with 20 incoming students. economy,” said Dr. Hang Chen, dean of enrollment, mentorship and summer Additionally, Professors Suryadip the College of STEM. “With this additional sessions from JCSU. These programs will Chakraborty and Awatif Amin spent six support, we will be able to continue on aide in the strengthening of students’ the university’s radical trajectory.”

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President Clarence D. Armbrister and Denise McGregor Armbrister Arch of Triumph Gala celebrates landmark ten years and welcomes the Armbristers to Charlotte

The Arch of Triumph gala, which took McGregor Armbrister to the Golden Class; Shakoya Brown ’20, Student place on April 7, 2018, held even more Bulls family. Government Association public relations than the usual pomp and circumstance. coordinator; D’Andre Carter ’18, Student The new, larger location in the Charlotte “I can’t thank you enough for the warm Government Association president; Convention Center Crown Ballroom welcome you have extended to Denise Trustee Sheila Brown '77; Trustee Monroe reflected the growth of the event over and me – not just tonight, but since the Miller and Board of Trustees Chair Shirley the past decade, and signified the day I arrived,” Armbrister said. “We are J. Hughes all lent their voices to present heights which are to come. thrilled to be a part of the Johnson C. the Arch of Triumph Award honorees. Smith University Family and the Alumna honoree Dr. Octavia Cannon ’88 The festivities are always a time for Charlotte community. After tonight, is a board-certified physician and co- Charlotte’s best and brightest to come we can truly say that this is home.” owner of Arboretum Obstetrics and together and support the JCSU Fund. Tonya Rivens of WCCB News served as Gynecology, LLC, the sole private This year had the added attraction of the mistress of ceremonies, officiating practice in Charlotte staffed entirely welcoming President Clarence D. the evening with poise and grace. Tymier with women physicians. She is also Armbrister and First Lady Denise Farrar ’21, vice president of the Freshman president elect of the American College

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of Osteopathic Obstetricians and A video presentation, introduced by ‘Education is the most powerful weapon Gynecologists and will be the first Miss JCSU Mariah Collins ’18, presented which you can use to change the world.’ African-American to lead the the voices of several students, business At the core of Clay’s being is the belief 84-year-old organization. leaders and community partners that education is the door to opportunity welcoming the Armbristers to Charlotte. and success,” she said. The Griffin Family, of Griffin Brothers Students Daryl Napper ’18 and Kaylin Tire Service, were honored as JCSU’s Roman ’18; alumni Craig Bell ’87 and The night was also an occasion to long-time community partners. The Dorothy Counts Scoggins ’64; former announce Marc Morial, current president Honorable Vi Alexander Lyles, the first Mayor Harvey Gantt and Councilman of the National Urban League and former African American woman and the first Justin Harlow; Moira Quinn of Center City mayor of New Orleans, as JCSU’s 2018 former city administrator to serve as Partners; and Trustees Tom Barnhardt Commencement speaker. mayor of Charlotte, received the and Damien Johnson ’95 extended the national award. hand of fellowship to the new president Over 690 JCSU alumni, business and his family. representatives and members of the The evening was punctuated philanthropic community attended the by the sounds of the Johnson C. Smith Denise Armbrister proudly introduced first Arch of Triumph Gala on April 18, University Jazz Band and musical her husband, sharing both professional 2009, at the Westin Charlotte. selections from the University and personal insights into his Concert Choir. character. “Nelson Mandela once said,

Dr. Octavia Cannon ’88, Board of Trustees Chair Shirley J. Hughes, President Clarence D. Armbrister, Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, Larry Griffin, Sr. and the Griffin family

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The initial event grossed $128,000 to University trustees, administrators, evidence that we have students, faculty, benefit the JCSU Fund, which raises alumni and friends attended the black-tie staff and alumni who ignite a fire in money for scholarships, teaching, event. Wells Fargo, Atrium Health, The themselves every day to ensure learning initiatives and programs Duke Endowment, Bank of America and sustained excellence at the University. vital to providing a quality educational Fifth/Third Bank were among the I look forward to taking this fantastic experience to JCSU students. Since its top sponsors. voyage with all of you.” inception, the annual gala has raised close to $2.4 million. Armbrister closed the evening with these words: This year, 750 of Charlotte’s most prominent corporate, philanthropic “Excellence doesn’t happen by and community leaders, along with spontaneous combustion. This gala is

JCSU Library Services Director Monika Rhue ’91 (second right) stands with Biddle family descendants.

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Big Hitters show big love

The annual Big Hitters reception to recognize some of JCSU’s dearest donors was held under a tent decked out in gold and blue during the Homecoming football game Oct. 21, 2017. The Division of Institutional Advancement sponsors the event each year to thank those who gave $2,000 or more to the University in the past year, as well as members of the 1867 Giving Society.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C. awards $325,000 grant to combat food disparities

Johnson C. Smith University’s Sustainability Village This grant will be used to purchase and install three new received a $325,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of commercial-scale greenhouses on campus, together North Carolina to fund its Sustainability Village with their technological support systems. Two buildings Expansion Project II. will house hydroponic gardens and one will be an aquaponics garden. JCSU’s Sustainability Village is an innovative learning prototype for students, including academic coursework, Mike Restaino serves as a member of the JCSU Board of hands-on experience and study abroad opportunities, Visitors and is an advocate for the only historically Black that focuses on food disparities in socio-economically college in Charlotte. He is also the community relations challenged communities, such as Charlotte’s Northwest district manager for Blue Cross Blue Shield, and was Corridor, which comprises 34 historic neighborhoods instrumental in securing the grant. and is where JCSU is located. In 2010, Blue Cross Blue Shield collaborated with The Dr. Philip Otienoburu, assistant professor of Biology and Duke Endowment, an organization designed to help director of the Center for Renewable Energy and people and strengthen communities in North Carolina, Sustainability, is ecstatic about the grant and how it will to fund the original Sustainability Village. combat food disparities that affect those outside the gates of JCSU. This grant will expand JCSU’s growing footprint for food production within the Northwest Corridor and help the “We hope to continue our mission of addressing food University address food insecurity in the area through insecurity in the community, building our academic the Rosa Parks Farmers Market, which was established in programs on campus and building stronger community partnership with the Mecklenburg County Health partnerships aimed at addressing the unbearable social Department in 2016. Additional vegetables and produce and economic inequalities that residents in our from the expansion will be available to local farmers community face daily by virtue of their zip codes,” markets at affordable prices. Otienoburu stated.

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This grant will also provide students with community Students who major in the College of Science, Technology, outreach experiences in these neighborhoods and assist Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) or students who are neighborhoods in developing their own neighborhood interested can earn an opportunity for community outreach community gardens. and learn business acumen.

It is pivotal that students continue to engage in “Students can help create models that address these issues opportunities that will enhance professional development across America and the globe. They will also help foster and and entrepreneurial spirit. inspire the next generation of leaders to impact necessary changes in the community,” stated Restaino. “This opportunity will provide our students with a sophisticated, technology platform to learn about JCSU will have the largest greenhouse area in the city of sustainable agriculture and be a part of a rapidly expanding Charlotte when construction is complete. entrepreneurial environment on campus,” said Otienoburu.

2018 | 1867 GIVING SOCIETIES INDUCTEES

GOLDEN BULL SOCIETY in honor of the University's SANDERS SOCIETY in honor of Dr. Daniel J. Sanders, golden bull mascot - the embodiment of pride, spirit and the first African - American President of JCSU. association with JCSU. Cumulative gifts ranging from $10,000 - $24,999 Cumulative gifts ranging from $100,000 - $499,999 Dr. Venton Lee Bell '66 Mr. James Ely III '88 Mrs. Alice Jo Blyther '62 Mrs. Mattie Solice Grigsby '48 Colonel Morris L. Bodrick '89 Jimmie W. Patton Trust Ms. Emily Burt Mr. Aaron L. Reynolds '67 Mrs. Elizabeth A. Carrothers '55 Mr. Craig D. Stauffer Mr. Hubert I. Davis '69 Mr. Matthew Evans '55 DUKE SOCIETY in honor of James B. Duke, who included Ms. Jo Ella Cooper Ferrell '69 JCSU in the Duke Endowment in 1924. Dr. John E. Floyd '70 Mrs. Juanita D. Floyd '70 Cumulative gifts ranging from $50,000 - $99,999 Mrs. Beatrice Mayfield Flythe '67 Dr. Lucinda Bowen Blue '74 Dr. William C. Flythe '65 Mr. James A. Gaither '66 Ms. Shelia D. Harvey '76 Mrs. Lucille Garrick Gaither '66 Mrs. Gerald E. Hatcher '72 Mrs. Viola B. Myers-Williams '68 Mr. Benjamin C. Heatley '92 Mrs. Cindy Gantt Mr. Ronald T. Johnson '67 Mr. Harvey Gantt Mrs. Saundra Ross Johnson '69 Ms. Lucille Joyner '59 MYERS SOCIETY in honor of Col. William R. Myers' gift Dr. Shirley Wilson Logan '64 of eight acres of land to establish a permanent site for the Ms. Ivy A. Metz '71 then Biddle Memorial Institute. Mrs. Melba D. Mobley '67 Ms. Patricia N. Robinson '72 Cumulative gifts ranging from $25,000 - $49,999 Ms. Bevelyn Sherrill Mrs. Mary L. Faulkner '63 Mr. Lawrence Yizar Mr. Paul D. Faulkner '64 Mrs. Tasse A. Little Mrs. Gwendolyn R. Smith '72 Ms. Cynthia A. Williams

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The Honorable Richard C. Erwin '47* The 1867 Society Estate of Mr. Gaines H. Price Estate of Dr. Clarence D. Turner '37 The 1867 Society recognizes donors whose cumulative giving since Estate of Evelyn Stinchcomb '50 January 2000 to Johnson C. Smith University totals $10,000 or more. This Estate of Mr. Edward P. Newlin, Jr. '43 distinguished society is comprised of six societal giving levels, named in honor of Estate of Mr. Jacob Thompson images and transformational leaders and donors of the University. The 1867 Society Estate of mr. John Edward Kennedy members are inducted into the society at one of the societal levels and recognized for Estate of mr. Lucille J. Gregg each new level attained at an annual luncheon held during Founders’ Day weekend. Estate of Mr. Roy Arnold All1867 Society inductees are also invited to join the student processional for Estate of Mrs. Alberta Lewis Greenlee '47 Convocation, which is also held during Founders’ Day weekend. Estate of Mrs. Doris Griffin Estate of Mrs. Dorothy Stinson '38 Estate of Mrs. Floretta D. Gunn '39 1867 SOCIETY MEMBERS Mr. Luther Carter, Jr. '75 Estate of Mrs. Gloria Smith '60 Mr. Albert Tim Catlett '77 Estate of Ms. Elizabeth Ross Dargan Reverend State W. Alexander '41*A2 Charles H. Stone Trust Estate of Ms. Vietta Neal Reverend James L. Allen '60* Mrs. Dorothy B. Cherry '60* Mr. Ernest Thomas Evans '55 Mr. Kendall Alley Dr. Baldeo K. Chopra Mr. Matthew Evans '55 Dr. Shirley Aluko The Honorable Eva McPherson Clayton '55 Mr. Talmadge W. Fair '61 Dr. Yele Aluko Mr. Theaoseus T. Clayton '55 Mr. Earnest Fair, Sr. '54* Mr. Jack S. Bailey III Mr. Freddie Sinclair Clinton '64 Mr. William P. Farthing, Jr. Mr. Thomas E. Baldwin '71 Mrs. Johnnie M. Collins '53 Mrs. Mary L. Faulkner '63 Mr. Calvin Banks '69 Ms. Willie Beatrice Colson '64 Mr. Paul D. Faulkner '64 Dr. Boisey O. Barnes '64 Mrs. Jessie Cook FDY, Inc. Trustee Thomas L. Barnhardt Dr. Ladda B. Cook '57* Mrs. Bernice S. Ferguson '59 Dr. Pat Barr-Harrison '64 Dr. Noble P. Cooper '50* Ms. Georgia Ferrell Mrs. Madelon Baulknight* Mrs. Jean Blue Corey '57 Ms. Jo Ella Cooper Ferrell '69 Dr. Venton Lee Bell '66* Dr. James H. Costen '53* Dr. Winona L. Fletcher '47 Mr. Alston Bellamy '55* Trustee Melva W. Costen '53 Mrs. Ellen Polk Fligel Mrs. Sarah E. Bellamy '67 Mrs. Kathryn P. Covington '45* Mr. Juan J. Flowers '94 Dr. Leonard L. Bethel '64 Dr. Valencia P. Covington '78 Dr. John E. Floyd '70 Mrs. Veronica Bynum Bethel '64 Reverend James R. Covington, Jr. '76 Mrs. Juanita D. Floyd '70 Mrs. Evelyn J. Blackwell '55 Mr. Michael W. Crowell '72 Mrs. Beatrice Mayfield Flythe '67 Dr. Lucinda Bowen Blue '74 Mr. Edward Crutchfield* Dr. William C. Flythe '65 Mrs. Jo Alice Blyther '62 Mrs. Peggy B. Culbertson Mrs. Ann Ford Colonel Morris L. Bodrick '89 Mr. John P. Cureton '60 Mr. Bernard Ford Dr. Henry Joseph Bowers '66 Dr. Charles Lorenza Curry '55 Mrs. Patricia C. Foster '72 Mrs. Earldene Boyd '79 Mr. Haywood Curry '64 Dr. Telezee Littlejohn Foster '55 Trustee Steven L. Boyd '79 Mr. Wendell A. Daniel '55 Trustee Parran L. Foster III '72 Dr. Curtis W. Branch '71 Mr. Charlie S. Dannelly '62 Mr. Junius B. Francis '49 Mrs. Jeanne Brayboy Trustee Horace A. Davenport '42* Mrs. Mary P. Francis Ms. Joyce M. Brayboy Mr. Clarence Davis Ms. Mary Liz Francis* Mrs. Leora Ernestine Broady '51 Mr. Hubert I. Davis '69 Mrs. Dorothy G. Franklin '69 Mr. Paul L. Broady '51 Dr. Bobby G. Dawkins '72 Mr. Frank Franklin '68* Trustee Sheila Renee Brown '77 Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins '75 Mrs. Rebecca James Fulton '64 Mr. Stephen K. Brown '74 Mr. Norman L. Deas '58 Dr. William W. Funderburk '52 Mr. Bunyan Bryant Mr. Brumit B. DeLaine '60* Mr. James A. Gaither '66 Trustee Christy Shelton Bryant '75 Ms. Edith Strickland DeLaine '60 Mrs. Lucille Garrick Gaither '66 Mr. Gregory Bryant '89 Mr. Samuel Dillard Trustee Sarah Belk Gambrell Mrs. Jeannie Frasier Bryant '67 Mrs. Eva G. Donaldson '48 Mr. Harvey and Mrs. Cindy Gantt Ms. Emily Burt Mrs. Jeannette Dozier '62 George A. Gaston Trust Mrs. Velma Butler-Brown '72 Dr. Richard F. Dozier '64 George A. Kostakes Trust Dr. Octavia M. Cannon '88 Mr. J. Porter Durham, Jr. Mr. Sidney Glee '63 Mrs. Elizabeth A. Carrothers '55 Mr. James Ely III '88 Mrs. Idell W. Glenn '64 Dr. Ronald L Carter Mrs. Demerice W. Erwin Reverend Dr. Lawrence T. Glenn '51

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Mrs. Vernilla Glenn '44* Mr. Sam Johnson Mrs. Dorothy Gordon Mitchell '64* Reverend Ernest W. Glenn, Jr. '62* Mrs. Saundra Ross Johnson '69 Mrs. Melba D. Mobley '67 Mrs. Bernice Glover '36* Reverend William E. Johnson '59 Mr. Cornell L. Moore Mrs. Meg Goldstein Mr. Samuel Johnson, Jr. '63* Mrs. Gretta Moorhead '67 Ms. Louise Page Gordon '57 Mr. Edward F. Johnston Reverend Lloyd B. Morris '59 Ms. Annette P. Graham '66 Mrs. Albertha B. Jones '62* Mrs. Nancy Springs Morris '62 Mrs. Daphne Jones Graves-Smith '69 Mrs. Carolyn Jones Trustee Patricia Roderick Morton Mr. Andrew J. Gray '73 Trustee Michael A. Jones Mr. Charles E. Motley '53 Mr. Charles H. Gray '53* Ms. Lucille Joyner '59 Mrs. Henrietta M. Motley '54 Mrs. Joyce Gray '73 Dr. William H. Joyner '62 Mr. Alton P. Myers '75 Dr. Ronald K. Gray '67 Mr. Stephen W. Joyner, Sr. '73 Ms. Viola B. Myers-Williams '68 Mr. Claude Green '75 Reverend Curtis A. Kearns, Jr. '66 Dr. Paula Newsome Dr. Edward and Mrs. Gail Green Dr. Charlie L. Kennedy '59 Mr. Nolan L. Nolley '71 Mrs. Jacqueline C. Green '77 Mr. Rhyn H. Kim, PhD Mrs. Patricia Norman Mr. James Lee Greene '67 Mrs. Wilhelmina Page Kimpson '56 Mr. Pettis B. Norman '62 Ms. Marguerite D. Greene '66 Mrs. Dorothy Baldwin Latimer '74 Trustee Gregory W. Norwood Mrs. Shirley Means Greene '69 Mr. Thomas Latimer '72 Mr. Thomas Norwood Mrs. Mildred S. Grier '45 Mr. Scott C. Lea* Trustee Richard J. Osborne Mrs. Mattie Solice Grigsby '48 Ms. Mary L. Lesesne '66 Mr. Obie Patterson '65 Mr. Johnny Hall '82 Reverend Calvin Lewers '68 Mr. David and Mrs. Santina Pfleeger Ms. Martha Gamble Hall '64* Mrs. Vera W. Lewers '69 Mrs. Magnolia M. Pickens '48 Dr. Stanette Hall '81 Mr. Clarence Ellie Little '64 Dr. Warner L. Pinchback '71 Mr. Charles W. Hargrave '49 Mrs. Mae White Little '64 Dr. Melvin T. Pinn, Jr. '70 Mr. Cameron M. Harris Mr. Norman T. Little '66 Dr. Cassius M. Plair '37* Mr. Malloy T. Harris, Jr. '72 Mrs. Tasse A. Little Mr. Larry and Mrs. Audrey Polk Mrs. Ocie P. Harrison '79* Dr. Shirley Wilson Logan '64 Mrs. Corrinna Ann Posey '46* Mrs. Thelma M. Harrison '44* Mrs. Johnsie Anthony Lowe '48* Mr. David L. Pugh, Sr. '53 Mr. J. Frank Harrison III Dr. George A. Lowe* Ms. Nellie R. Purefoy '59 Ms. Shelia D. Harvey '76 The Honorable Johnny M. Lunsford '58 Ms. Glenda L. Pyant '74 Mrs. Gerald E. Hatcher '72 Dr. Donald N. Mager Mr. Delano R. Rackard '70 Mr. J. C. Haynes '64 Trustee Stephen G. Magowan The Honorable Carl T. Ratliff '51 Mr. Benjamin C. Heatley '92 Dr. N. Horace Mann, Jr. '51* Mrs. Carolyn C. Ray '66 Mr. Cornelius R. Henderson II '00 Mrs. Joan Martin Mr. James Ray '66 Mrs. Carole Coles Henley '67 Mr. Willie C. Martin '71 Dr. Carroll J. Redfern '58 Trustee Kevin A. Henry Trustee Joseph Martin* Mrs. Alleane S. Reeves Ms. Joni Mills Hicks '77 Mr. Roosevelt Maske Mr. Richard Blackout Reeves '65 Dr. Inja Hong Mrs. Viella Hollaway Mason '63 Ms. Ida B. Reid '66 Mr. William Broadus Howell '42* Mr. Marion Herman Massey '66 Mr. Samuel H. Reid '66 Trustee Shirley J. Hughes Mrs. Marian G. Mathes '64 Mr. Aaron L. Reynolds '67 Dr. David L. Hunter '55 Mr. Ron L. Matthews '78 Dr. George G. Reynolds '65 Mr. James Hynes Mrs. Minnie G. Maxwell Dr. Condoleezza Rice Mrs. Veronica M. Isaac '71 Ms. Latrelle McAllister Mr. Clayton M. Richardson '52 Mr. Charles N. Jackson '71 Mr. Leon McClinton '65 Mr. Jerome J. Richardson Mr. James Robert Jackson '77 Dr. Catherine McKee McCottry '41* Mr. William Lee Roberts '82 Mrs. Gretel Thomas James '62 Mrs. Gail McFadden-Roberts '82 Mr. Marion B. Robinson '73 Mrs. Jacquelyn M. Jenkins '71 Dr. Ronald E. McFarland '77 Ms. Patricia N. Robinson '72 Mr. Johnny J. Jenkins '68 Mr. Bernard V. McGraw '71 Mr. Russell Robinson Dr. James Phillip Jeter '71 Mrs. Yolanda B. McGraw '73 Mrs. Sally Robinson Jimmie W. Patton Trust Mr. Donald L. McIntosh '60 Dr. Henry Russell Dr. Argie Knox Johnson '60 Mrs. Vera B. McIntosh '61 Mrs. Brenda Long Sanders '64 Ms. Dorothy I. Johnson '45* Captain Thomas H. McPhatter '48* Mrs. Mildred W. Sanders '45* Mr. George K. Johnson '61 Mr. Joseph D. McPhatter, Sr. Reverend Wilburn M. Sanders '49* Mrs. Joetter Joyner Johnson '61* Mr. James I. Melvin '69 The Honorable Jawn A. Sandifer '35* Mr. Raymond Johnson '69 Ms. Ivy A. Metz '71 Mr. Stephen J. Schley '68 Mr. Ronald T. Johnson '67 Trustee Monroe Miller Ms. Wanda Herndon Scott '74

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Mr. Robert G. Seabrooks '69 Mr. Steve Thomas Dr. Kenneth Whitted '65 Mr. Stoney Sellars Dr. Joseph E. Thompson '45* Mrs. Willetta A. Whitted '68* Mrs. Joyce M. Sheppard Mrs. Peggy S. Tin Ms. Cynthia A. Williams Ms. Bevelyn G. Sherrill Ms. Faya Ora Rose Toure' '66 Mrs. Pearlie Ann Williams '65 Ms. Curtina P. Simmons The Honorable Sandra Townes '66* Dr. Shirley Mae Williams-Thompson '63 Reverend James E. Simmons '71 Mrs. Cecilia Richardson Trottie '40* Mrs. Doris M. Wilson '65 Mrs. Tami Simmons Ms. Charlotte Troup Reverend George Murray Wilson '59 Ms. Lois A. Simms '41 Dr. Clarence W. R. Wade '48 Ms. Esther Knuckles Witherspoon '45* Mr. Mickel Singleton '73 Mrs. Frances T. Wade '53 Mrs. Frances Wofford-Schley '67 Mrs. Anna Clark Smith Mrs. Phyllis P. Wade '71 Dr. David H. Woodbury, Jr. '51 Mr. Grover Smith '70* Dr. Mary Wallace Reid '45* Mrs. Bertha B. Woods '64 Mrs. Gwendolyn Smith '72 Mr. Fred Warren Mr. Rudolph C. Worsley '55 Mrs. Rachel B. Smith '65 Ms. Martha Tate Warren '65 Mrs. Amanda H. Wright '60 Mr. Willie T. Smith '82 Dr. Alicia Nicki Washington '00 Mrs. Philipa I. Wright Mr. Craig Stauffer Mrs. DeLois Walker Washington '73 Dr. Thomas Wright, Jr. '62 Trustee John B. Stedman, Jr. Ms. Judith E. Washington '62 Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy '64 Ms. Sarah B. Stevenson Trustee McKinley Washington '60 Mr. Lawrence Yizar Mr. James and Mrs. Annie Stewart Mr. Reginald James Washington '69* Dr. Imogene Yongue* Mrs. Daisy S. Stroud* Mr. William S. P. Watkins '99 Mrs. Barbara Y. Young '64 Dr. Darius L. Swann '45 Mrs. Loretta Jean Webber Mr. Russell Young '61 Mrs. Vera P. Swann '51 Dr. Spurgeon Webber, Jr.* Dr. George W. Young, Jr. '35* Mrs. Mattie Carter Sydnor '50* Ms. Pearl V. Welch '65* Mrs. Joan Zimmerman Mr. Ivory W. Tate Jr. '69 Dr. Harold R. White '42 Mr. Robert Zimmerman* Mrs. Anita Thomas Mrs. Olivia White Mrs. Margaret H. Thomas '54 Mrs. Zeddie Williams Whitehead '48*

Mrs. Magnolia M. Pickens Alumni Giving Honor Roll Dr. Clarence W. R. Wade Alumni financial support is the critical difference in the life and legacy of the Mrs. Darwin McBeth Walton University. During Fiscal Year 2017-2018, alumni giving totaled more than $714,406.43 and the alumni giving participation rate was 15 percent. CLASS OF 1949 - $4,100 Class Agents - Mr. Charles W. Hargrave Mrs. Odelle Steele Searles CLASS OF 1938 - $300 CLASS OF 1947 - $175 Mrs. Helen Reese Epps Class Agent - Office of Alumni Affairs Class Agent - Mrs. Gloria P. Munoz-Martin Mrs. Anita T. Garner Dr. Clarence F. Stephens, Jr. Ms. Susan Knights Mrs. Maggie Lloyd Gilliam Mr. Charles W. Hargrave CLASS OF 1940 - $1,000 CLASS OF 1948 - $22,150 Class Agent - Office of Alumni Affairs Class Agents - Mrs. Mattie Solice Grigsby CLASS OF 1950 - $50 Ms. Ireta Taylor Dawson Dr. Clarence W. R. Wade Class Agent - Mrs. Ruth S. Cathey Dr. Georgetta Merritt Campbell Mr. O'Dell Robinson CLASS OF 1942 - $150 Ms. Mary B. Chasten Class Agent - Office of Alumni Affairs Mrs. Katherine Davis CLASS OF 1951 - $11,525 Mrs. Daisy B. Chapman Mrs. Eva G. Donaldson Class Agents - Mr. Harry L. Jackson Ms. Fatina P. Gaston Dr. Maggie Lynch Mallory CLASS OF 1945 - $200 Mrs. Mattie Solice Grigsby Mrs. Leora Ernestine Broady Class Agents - Mrs. Mildred S. Grier Mrs. Gertrude Mitchell Reverend Dr. Lawrence T. Glenn Dr. Darius L. Swann Mrs. Zaidee Reasoner Morris Mr. Vincent G. Mallory Mrs. Mildred S. Grier Dr. Maggie Lynch Mallory 68 jsu_396105_Text_Layout 1 4/4/19 8:30 AM Page 69

CLASS OF 1952 - $750 CLASS OF 1957 - $3,330 Ms. Anna M. Vernon Class Agent - Mrs. Mary L. Massey-Jones Class Agent - Mr. Rufus D. Spears Dr. Ernest M. Wade Mr. Melton Ellerby Mr. Charles F. Davis Mr. Russell Young Mrs. Rosa L. Poston Mrs. Ora M. Galloway Mr. Arthur C. Redding Dr. Ophelia DeLaine Gona CLASS OF 1962 - $3,375 Ms. Louise Page Gordon Class Agents - Mrs. Jeannette Dozier CLASS OF 1953 - $10,075 Mrs. Mildred L. Johnson Mr. James Walker Class Agent - Mrs. Deloris G. Evans Mrs. Lucille Reynolds Morris Mrs. Mary Roberts Bailey Mrs. Mary J. Bowden Mr. Charlie S. Dannelly Mrs. Johnnie M. Collins CLASS OF 1958 - $2,476 Mrs. Queen A. Davis Mrs. Lotess Priestley Cright Class Agent - Mrs. Sarah Young Gist Mrs. Lucy A. Hamilton Mrs. Deloris G. Evans Mrs. Katie Barnhill Reverend Carnell Hampton Mrs. Helen V. Henry Mr. Norman L. Deas Mrs. Eva B. Irby Mrs. LaVerne R. Parker Mr. Lemuel H. Froneberger Mr. Theodore Collins Johnson Mr. David L. Pugh, Sr. Ms. Theon Hardy Mr. Willie L. Little Reverend Benjamin F. Thompson Mr. William Hunter Harris Mrs. Hannah A. Miller Mrs. Frances T. Wade Mrs. Doretha L. Leak Mrs. Nancy Springs Morris The Honorable Johnny M. Lunsford Ms. Judith E. Washington CLASS OF 1954 - $1,850 Dr. William Bruce McMillan, Jr. Class Agent - Mrs. Johnsie M. Grier CLASS OF 1963 - $13,320 Mr. Robert L. Babbs CLASS OF 1959 - $6,810 Class Agents - Mrs. Jean W. Graham Mrs. Janie Clinkscales Chavis-Lucas Class Agent - Reverend Lloyd B. Morris Mrs. Queen Esther Whaley Mrs. Henrietta M. Motley Mrs. Geraldine Helton Clyburn Ms. Barbara B. Clarkson Mrs. Margaret H. Thomas Mr. James Edwards Estate of Samuel Johnson, Jr. Mr. James E. Farmer, Jr. Mr. John N. Faxio CLASS OF 1955 - $10,044 Mrs. Bernice S. Ferguson Mr. Sidney Glee Class Agent - Dr. Telezee Littlejohn Foster Ms. Lucille Joyner Mrs. Jean W. Graham Mr. Cecil L. Adderley, Jr. Reverend Lloyd B. Morris Mrs. Laura Green Granville Mrs. Evelyn J. Blackwell Ms. Evelyn Robinson Mrs. Shannon Belk Hilton Mrs. Elizabeth A. Carrothers Mr. Joe L. Simmons Mrs. Flora Sampson Johnson Mr. Bruce C. Chandler Mrs. Neutrice Quick Towens Mr. Luther C. Jones Mr. Wendell A. Daniel Reverend George Murray Wilson Ms. Barbara Ferguson Kamara Estate of Artie C. Phillips Mr. Harold B. Winston Mr. Fred Lewis Mr. Matthew Evans Mr. Douglas C.E. Loftin Dr. Telezee Littlejohn Foster CLASS OF 1960 - $6,450 Mrs. Viella Hollaway Mason Mrs. Janetta T. Gadsden Class Agents - Mr. Lamonte F. Mitchell Ms. Carolyn Robinson-Nix Mr. Simeon Humes Mrs. Beatrice A. Redfern Mrs. Joann Mcllwain Standifer Dr. David L. Hunter Mrs. Bernice Corbett Smith Mr. Cornelious W. Williams Mrs. Rosa Johnson Jones Mr. John T. Crawford Ms. Maxine Dunn Woods Mrs. Betty Allen McGill Mr. John P. Cureton Mr. Roosevelt D. Odom, Jr. Ms. Edith Strickland DeLaine CLASS OF 1964 - $19,300 Dr. Louis W. Pointer Ms. Verona Davis Gibson Class Agent - Mrs. Dorothy Mr. Thad Rhodes, Jr. Dr. Argie Knox Johnson Counts-Scoggins Mr. Rudolph C. Worsley Mr. Johnny H. Johnson Dr. Boisey O. Barnes Mr. Lorenzo Steele, Sr. Mrs. Veronica Bynum Bethel CLASS OF 1956 - $5,850 Trustee McKinley Washington Dr. Leonard L. Bethel Class Agent - Mrs. Muriel D. Wiggins Mrs. Amanda H. Wright Mrs. Bettye Garrick Byrd Mrs. Bessie B. Graham Mr. Freddie Sinclair Clinton Mrs. Wilhelmina Page Kimpson CLASS OF 1961 - $6,000 Ms. Willie Beatrice Colson Mrs. Pecola Abraham Maxwell Class Agent - Mr. Talmadge W. Fair Mrs. Ellen L. Doiley Mrs. Evelyn W. McIntosh Mrs. Garnell D. Bailey Mr. Palmer T. Doiley Mrs. Muriel D. Wiggins Mr. Frank Edney Gadsden* Mr. Paul D. Faulkner Mr. George K. Johnson Mr. Timothy Freeman, Jr. Mrs. Janice Tate Gresham Mr. George T. Hall

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Ms. Ellaree Hampton Ms. Ida B. Reid Ms. Gladys James Mrs. Vivian Jones Honor Mr. Samuel H. Reid Mr. Johnny J. Jenkins Dr. Lonnie Keith The Honorable Sandra Townes* Ms. Deidre G. Johnson Mrs. Mae White Little Mr. Chester R. Trower, Jr. Mrs. Rosemary Lunn Lawrence Dr. Shirley Wilson Logan Mrs. Brenda E. Twiggs Mrs. Lucy Dupree Lee Mr. Ezell A. Long Reverend Calvin Lewers Ms. Vertelle D. Middleton CLASS OF 1967 - $21,473 Mrs. Fran Lewis-Steiner Mrs. Brenda Long Sanders Class Agent - Mr. James Lee Greene Reverend Tyler C. Millner Mrs. Mamie B. Thomas Mrs. Sarah E. Bellamy Ms. Viola B. Myers-Williams Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy Mrs. Jeannie Frasier Bryant Mr. Thomas Nizer Mrs. Barbara Y. Young Mrs. Gayle B. Crawford Mr. Stewart T. Oatman Ms. Florence J. Day Ms. Irvelle Celeste Penn Cowan CLASS OF 1965 - $15,838 Dr. Ronald K. Gray Ms. Gloria A. Pickett-McNeill Class Agents - Mrs. Shirley M. Hunter Mr. Matthew J. Green Mrs. Betty Rivers Mrs. Doris M. Wilson Mr. James Lee Greene Mr. Stephen J. Schley Mrs. Ida Kearns Adams Mrs. Carole Coles Henley Mrs. Carolyn Y. Shortt Mrs. Margaret Love Brandon Mr. Larry G. Hunt Mrs. Queen Elizabeth Thompson Reverend Franklin D. Colclough Mrs. Melba D. Mobley Ms. Marilyn Gaither Thompson Dr. William C. Flythe Mrs. Gretta Moorhead Mrs. Vernie Lee White Mrs. Carrie E. Hampton Mrs. Carrie Smith Newman Mrs. Willitta A. Whitted* Mrs. Shirley M. Hunter Mr. Troy C. Newman Ms. Patricia D. Williams Mrs. Rosa Kearns-Smith Ms. Claudia Nichols Mr. Jackie L. Wilson Mrs. Ossie H. Martin Mrs. Virginia W. Peterkin Mr. Leon McClinton Mrs. Trudelle G. Stroman CLASS OF 1969 - $23,884 Mrs. Johnnie Steward McCray Ms. Vivian Reed Terry Class Agents - Mr. Calvin Banks Ms. Alice F. Mitchell Mr. Michael Walker, DDS Mrs. Shirley Means Greene Ms. Kathleen J. Pressley Ms. Margo Judge Watts Dr. Stephen Kwasi Agyekum Mr. Richard Blackout Reeves Ms. Betty Jones White Mr. Calvin Banks Dr. Horace R. Rice Ms. Betty Wilcox Mr. Hubert I. Davis Dr. Robert E. Shortt Ms. S. Marie Williams Ms. Jo Ella Cooper Ferrell Representative Evelyn A. Terry Mrs. Frances Wofford-Schley Mrs. Veronica Seabrook Fountain Ms. Martha Tate Warren Mrs. Dorothy G. Franklin Mrs. Barbara M. Watkins-Sohan CLASS OF 1968 - $90,455 Ms. C. Dianne Freeman Dr. Kenneth Whitted Class Agent - Reverend Calvin Lewers Mrs. Daphne Jones Graves-Smith Mrs. Pearlie Ann Williams Mrs. Ann Austin Mrs. Shirley Means Greene Mrs. Doris M. Wilson Mr. Guy Barnes Mr. James F. Harris Mr. Horace Donald Black Mrs. Bertha Harris CLASS OF 1966 - $29,496 Mrs. Carolyn Bridges-Graves Mrs. Denise McDaniel Henderson Class Agents - Mr. James A. Gaither Mr. Joel N. Brockman* Mr. James Truman Humbert Mr. Samuel H. Reid Ms. Rebecca Dortch Brown Mrs. Carolyn Blount Johnson Ms. Emma M. Barnes Mrs. Candace Bynum Currence Mr. Raymond Johnson Dr. Venton Lee Bell Mr. Rhenn T. Darensburg Mrs. Saundra Ross Johnson Mr. Johnny R. Bowen Dr. Barbara Dawson Dilligard Mrs. Sallie Bouler Johnson Mr. James W. Brandon Mrs. Gayle M. Dixon Mrs. Vivian Wallace Mathewson Dr. Samuel L. Cunningham Ms. Yolanda Ford Ms. Portia E. McCollum Ms. Barbara J. Foster Mr. Frank Franklin* Mr. James I. Melvin Mr. James A. Gaither Mrs. Evelyn Gentry-Howie Mr. William Earl Minor Mrs. Lucille Garrick Gaither Mr. William Geter Ms. Daisy Oatman Ms. Annette P. Graham Mr. Jesse B. Goode, Jr. Mrs. Patricia Patterson Owens Ms. Marguerite D. Greene Mr. Edward T. Holloway Mrs. Carolyn Y. Reese Mr. Norman T. Little Mrs. Barbara M. Howell Mr. Derrick B. Reese, Sr. Mr. Marion Herman Massey Ms. Michele Evon Hutchinson Ms. Helen Beatrice Reynolds Ms. Shirley Mills-Harris Ms. Judy Dowell Ingram Mr. Robert G. Seabrooks Mr. James Ray Mr. Johnny C. James, Sr. Mr. Fred L. Tatum Mrs. Carolyn C. Ray Ms. Vivian V. James Dr. Julie Brown Williams

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Ms. Yvonne Glymph Williams Mr. Daniel Bouldrick CLASS OF 1973 - $19,170 Mrs. Sandrea T. B. Williamson Dr. Curtis W. Branch Class Agents - Mrs. Cassandra Mr. Otto Wingate Mr. Frento M. Burton, Jr. Reynolds Jordan Mr. John W. Costner Ms. Dorothy A. Prioleau CLASS OF 1970 - $18,805 Dr. Harold S. Dawkins Ms. Beverly Mitchell Atkinson Class Agent - Ms. Gloria Jean Tiller Ms. Betty L. Dawson Mrs. Willa Martin Bailey Captain Parks G. Adams Mrs. Anita Garcia Mr. Donald Beamer Dr. Theodore Allen Mrs. Priscilla Green-Davis Mr. James Bishop Mrs. Deborah Marioneaux Allen Mr. Charles Harvey Mr. Ozzie L. Black Mrs. Carole A. Bell Mrs. Elease Jackson Holmes Mrs. Joyce Pressley Blakeney Mrs. Florence Bennett-Jiles Mr. Charles Howard Mrs. Debora S. Blakney Reverend Dr. Arthur William Canada Mr. Lewis J. Isaac Ms. Claudean Cooper Mr. Mack Daniel Canady, Jr. Mr. Charles N. Jackson Mr. Charles J. Cutler Mr. William Dusenbery Mrs. Jacquelyn M. Jenkins Ms. Daisy L. Davis Dr. James Benjamin Ewers, Jr. Mr. Willie C. Martin Ms. Charlotte Edwards Mrs. Juanita D. Floyd Mrs. Emma Y. Martin-Goodman Mrs. Margaret A. Faust Dr. John E. Floyd Ms. Ivy A. Metz Reverend Patricia Coley Ford Ms. Clara McMillan Foster Mr. Nolan L. Nolley Ms. Wanda B. Foy-Burroughs Mrs. Anna Martina Froneberger Dr. Warner L. Pinchback Ms. Sharon Gilbert Reverend Dr. Lloyd Green, Jr. Ms. Julia Rose Shepherd Mr. Solomon Hilliard, Jr. Mrs. Bessie Meeks Green Reverend James E. Simmons Mrs. Metter C. Hodges Mrs. Barbara Guess Mrs. Kaffie H. Sledge Ms. Ophelia Howard Mrs. Jacquelyn C. Hammond Ms. Lolita Sherard Turner Ms. Angelia M. Jenkins Mr. Gregory Jenkins Mrs. Phyllis P. Wade The Honorable Philemina M. Jones Ms. Comatha Boyette Johnson Mrs. Alberta Wilson-Anthony Mr. Edward Richard Jordan, Jr. Mrs. Juanita Reid Jordan Mrs. Cassandra Reynolds Jordan Mr. Albert L. Jordan CLASS OF 1972 - $24,867 Mr. Stephen W. Joyner, Sr. Mrs. Nellie Dunn Kennedy Class Agents - Mr. William H. Gunn Ms. Gayle Smith Logan Ms. Verta Witherspoon Looper Mr. Matthew H. Holland Mrs. Jennifer Simmons McDowell Ms. Ollie Mae Mack Dr. John J. Brown Ms. Genova McFadden Mrs. Tommye M McMillian Ms. Iris B. Brownlee Mrs. Yolanda B. McGraw Reverend Mack L. McRae Mr. William Coles Ms. Linda M. Newkirk Mrs. Carrie R. Murray Ms. Gloria Alston Davis Mrs. Jeanette McLean Praylor Reverend Dr. Lonnie Jones Oliver Dr. Bobby G. Dawkins Ms. Dorothy A. Prioleau Dr. Melvin T. Pinn, Jr. Trustee Parran L. Foster III Mr. Clayton S. Reid Mr. Johnny C. Pridgen, Jr. Mrs. Patricia C. Foster Reverend Mark R. Royster, Sr. Mr. Delano R. Rackard Mr. William H. Gunn Mr. Mickel Singleton Mr. Charles Thomas Robinson Mr. Malloy T. Harris, Jr. Mr. Ozie Smith Mrs. Sandra Simmons Mrs. Gerald E. Hatcher Mr. Todd Smith Mrs. Cheryl Oglesby Sullivan Mr. Matthew H. Holland Ms. Janet L. Springs Ms. Gloria Jean Tiller Mrs. Carlenia G. Ivory Mr. Roddy P. Starr Mrs. Jo Ann Townsend Mr. Peter S. Jones III Mrs. Brenda Shepard Tyrance Ms. Forestine D. Vaughn Dr. Edward L. Jones Mrs. Lovieree L. Warren Ms. Janice Carolyn Vaughn-Johnson Mr. Thomas Latimer Mrs. DeLois Walker Washington Mr. Elijah Washington Dr. Michael L. Lindsey Ms. Vicki Gilchrist Weathers Mr. Edward G. West Mr. Robert N. Logan, Jr. Ms. Sidonie Raglin Webber Mr. Thomas Williams Mr. Jeffrey Marshall Ms. Faye Wright Mrs. Theodoshia C. Williams Mrs. Lillian Everson McRae Ms. Harriet W. Wyatt Ms. Juanita Yates Mr. Ronald L. Nelson Ms. Patricia N. Robinson CLASS OF 1974 - $13,855 CLASS OF 1971 - $25,220 Mrs. Gwendolyn Smith Class Agents - Dr. Lucinda Bowen Blue Class Agents - Mr. Thomas E. Baldwin Mrs. Kutricia Hubbard Spann Dr. Rhonda O. Covington Dr. James Phillip Jeter Ms. Georgia E. Thomas Dr. Lucinda Bowen Blue Mr. Thomas E. Baldwin Ms. Gwendolyn Olivia Whitsell Dr. Rhonda O. Covington Mr. Timothy C. Beamer Ms. Darlene Earle

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Mr. Kenny H. Faulkner CLASS OF 1977 - $32,626 Mr. Gerald Leon Jackson Reverend Charles Douglas Keeling Class Agent - Mr. Johnny L. Headen Ms. Melinda L. Johnson Mrs. Dorothy Baldwin Latimer Mr. Marvin E. Adams Mr. Tyree Johnson Ms. Constance Lesesne Mrs. Sadie Mae Allen-Haney Mr. Gerald L. Johnson Ms. Glenda L. Pyant Mr. Hyde Anderson Mr. Warren D. Jones Ms. Blenda D. Younger Mrs. Donna Atkinson-Travis Mrs. Juanita Jones-Hall Mr. Wayne V. Banks Ms. Amanda Kealon CLASS OF 1975 - $20,243 Mr. Frederick Van Douglas Barnes Mrs. Emma H. Kurtz Class Agents - Trustee Christy Dr. Priscilla L. Batten Mrs. Deborah W. Lanier Shelton Bryant Mrs. Vivian B. Beamer Mrs. Catherine Laster-Cook Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins Dr. Angela B. Bell Reverend Warren J. Lesane, Jr. Ms. Geraldine Dawson Ms. Maxine T. Benjamin Ms. Latrecia D. Lester Ms. Brenda K. Allison Mr. Ronald Benjamin Mr. Clarence E. Lewers Ms. Brenda P. Ballard Mrs. Carlise Joyner Blakey Mr. Alphonso Lide Mrs. Pamela Fuller Brown Mr. Gerald M. Blakey Mr. Wallace E. Loggins Trustee Christy Shelton Bryant Mr. Leonard E. Bodrick Mr. Larry V. Mackins Ms. Kathy Carter* Ms. Fontella Boone Dr. Vincent D. Mallory Mr. Luther Carter, Jr. Ms. Shermane Bowden Ms. Antonia Martin Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins Reverend Phillip C. Brickle, Jr. Mr. Larry F. Matkins Ms. Geraldine Dawson Trustee Sheila Renee Brown Ms. Marie Worsley Matthews Ms. Carolyn McClain Ellis Mrs. Cheryl L. Bursh Mrs. Catherine McCoy Mr. Mallory D. Felder Mrs. Dawn Carter Mr. Timothy McCoy Mrs. Barbara McFarlan Gillespie Ms. Marie Carter-Calvin Mrs. Jeannie L. McLucas-McCree Mr. Claude Green Mr. Albert Tim Catlett Ms. Theresa Y. Morris-Brown Mrs. Mildred G. Hudson Mr. Earl A. Clipper Mrs. Cheryl Legette Myrick Mrs. Cheryl Keno Muhammad Ms. Deltha J. Cousar-Jeffries Mr. Bill Parrott III Mr. Alton P. Myers Mrs. Sharon Tucker Daniel Mrs. Germaine Patterson-Smith Ms. Billie D. Nichols Mrs. Deotis J. Bragg Davis Mrs. Treva G. Pettis Mr. Ronald Thomas Reverend Frederick A. Davis Ms. Essie Wallace Pierce Mr. Anthony K. Tolbert Ms. Loretta E. Dawkins Ms. Brenda Pridgen Mr. Gregory L. Woods Mr. James Lawrence Drake, Jr. Progressive Business Solutions Mr. Bill Drake Ms. Phyllis Watkins Ratliffe CLASS OF 1976 - $4,740 Mrs. Jacqueline Denise Duke Mr. Edward Earl Richardson Class Agents - Ms. Jacqueline Glover Mr. Leslie J. Egleston Mr. Phil Richardson Ms. Shelia D. Harvey Ms. Constance G. Fisher-Mallory Dr. Leon Rodgers, Jr. Ms. Joyce Ryals Bynum Ms. LaFrieda Flack Ms. Mamie Rogers Mr. Jerry Clark Mr. Drucilla Fogle Mr. Andrew Rogers III Reverend James R. Covington, Jr. Mr. Lewis Frederick Ms. Verida Arnell Sarratt Ms. Donnell Crowder Ms. Mary N. Funderburk Mrs. Vonshier V. Simpson Mr. Wallace H Davis Mr. Lloyd Beaver Gibson Ms. Brenda Henderson Spraggins Ms. Barbara Jean Fuller Mrs. Jacqueline C. Green Mrs. Pansy P. Steele Mrs. Ann Gupton-Jones Mrs. Sandra Nance Grier Mr. John K. Stokes Reverend James W. Hallums Mr. George Griffin Ms. Pinkey Ann Sullivan-Vernon Ms. Gisele V. Hamilton Mrs. Sadie Haney-Morgan Ms. T. Diane Phillips Surgeon Ms. Shelia D. Harvey Mr. Timothy Harkness Mrs. Blanche E. Talley Ms. Angela R. Jacobs Ms. Carolyn Hawkins Mrs. Gwendolyn P. Thigpen Mr. Barry T. Johnson Mr. Johnny L. Headen Ms. Peggy Timberlake Mr. Steffen C. Knight Mrs. Gwendolyn A. Henderson Gethers Mr. Michael A. Travis Mrs. Diane Wilson Proctor Dr. Delores Hicklin-Lee Mrs. Marilyn M. Watkins Mr. Harold Talley Ms. Joni Mills Hicks Ms. Muriel Weatherspoon Ms. Robbie J. Thompson Ms. Helen Hinton Ms. Gayle Williams Mrs. Gail W. Tolbert Mr. Stevenson Hogan Ms. Edith Worsham Ms. Deborah A. Wadsworth Mrs. Geraldine B. Hogan Reverend Johnnie Lee Wright Ms. Agnes Whittle Mrs. Bernice Lewers Irby Ms. Darlene Wright Mr. James Robert Jackson

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CLASS OF 1978 - $12,286 Mr. Michael Peoples Mr. William T. Harper Class Agents - Mrs. Shelia Bethune Petty Mrs. Shelia Bethune Petty Mr. Anthony C. Hayes Mrs. Annette Graddick Wright Mr. Dwight Pinson Ms. Carol D. Jones Mr. Armenous Adams Ms. Gail Deavers Reed Mr. Tony E. Legette Mr. James Allen Mr. Orrin K. Reeder Mrs. Maxie C McRae Ms. Michelle Andrews Ms. Carolyn Robinson Mr. Alfred Owens Ms. Carolyn D. Austin Mr. Terry N. Robinson Mr. Donald Quarles Mr. Johnny L. Bailey, Jr. Mr. Mickel L. Roseborough Ms. Michelle R. Thompson Ms. Betty Wilson Baker Mr. Kelvin L. Rumph Ms. Karen E. Watson Mrs. Delores Ferrell Brown Mr. Addison Shepard Mrs. Cynthia Zorn-Pettigrew Mr. Tommy Brown Mrs. Nedra Burns Snow Mr. Marconi Buchanan Lieutenant Colonel Reginald E. Spivey CLASS OF 1981 - $3,190 Ms. Pamela Burton-Steele Ms. Julia M. Spraggins Class Agent - Mr. Dennis K. Branch Dr. Denton Carter, Sr. Mrs. Nora Ramseur Steed Mr. Dennis K. Branch Mr. Marquis Cauthen Ms. Charlene L. Strong Ms. Andrea Clayton Mrs. Miriam Butts Choice Mr. Robert Terry Mr. Jeffery Coan, Sr. Mrs. Sharron McKnight Clipper Mr. James Vanderhall Mrs. Blessyng Mychele Conway Dr. Valencia P. Covington Ms. Lynne Walker Ms. Lisa L. Durmo Ms. Runita Daviston-James Mrs. Yvonne Edwards Washington Ms. Sylbria Brown Graves Mr. John E. Dixon, Jr. Ms. Margaret E. Watkins Reverend Kevin C. Ingram Mr. Charles Dupree Mr. Kenneth Whitmire Mrs. Barbara Jean Massey-Arnold Mrs. Georgette M. Edgerton Mr. Alvin B. Wideman Mr. Garry Leonard McFadden Ms. Adrienne C. France Mr. Lee Mac Williams Mr. Dwight S. Miller Ms. Barbara Randolph Frederick Mrs. Annette Graddick Wright Mr. Robert A. Owens Mr. Micheal W. Giles Ms. Janice Squirewell Paige Mr. Duane L. Griffith CLASS OF 1979 - $6,685 Ms. Anderia Denise Sowell Mr. Chet Lee Grimsley Class Agent - Mrs. Peggy McCloud Lide Ms. Fernanda G. Tate-Owens Mr. Wyatt E. Grove Trustee Steven L. Boyd Ms. Linda Tucker Mrs. Chrislyn P. Hallums Mrs. Siclinda Canty-Elliott Mr. Keva and Mrs. Juanita Walton Mr. Curtis Hallums Mr. Erwin Blair Costner Mrs. Betty Montgomery Williams Mrs. Catherine Harrington Ms. Shallary F. Simmons Duncan Mr. William Hart III Mr. Tommi Garris CLASS OF 1982 - $5,335 Mr. Reginald S. Hayes Mrs. Joyce Gottlieb Class Agent - Ms. Stephanie M. McLeod Ms. Leola Hill Ms. Anita Barber Ingram Mr. William Greg Bowen Mr. Lonnie W. Hutchinson Mr. Larry Darnell Kelly Mrs. Jewel Y. Coan Mr. Wallace B. Hyman Mrs. Peggy McCloud Lide Ms. Katherine J. Curtis-Fleming Ms. Gloria M. James Mr. Jason Lowe Ms. Joanne Marie Donaldson Mr. Randy Lee Ms. Debra E. Massey Mr. Theol A. Fleming Mrs. Gloria B. Locke Ms. Rose M. Memminger Mrs. Cheryl Tripp Gill Mrs. Sandra Lutz Ms. Rita Ann Mickey Mr. Johnnie C. Goodlett Mrs. Joan F. Manns Mr. Kenneth Myers Mr. Johnny Hall Mr. Ron L. Matthews Ms. Cynthia Peters Ms. Brenda J. Hammond Ms. Dorothy A. Mayo Ms. Heather F. Philpott Reverend Richard C. Harkness Ms. Jacqueline McCall Mr. Roy J. Rivers Dr. James H. Harris Mr. Michael A. McClinton Mrs. Helen Turner Ms. Andrea Rochelle Johnson Dr. DeLores McGhee-Jones Ms. Valerie R. Wade Ms. Teresa A. Kale Mr. Willie McMahand, Jr. Mr. Nathan R. Walker Mrs. Iantha Maness Mrs. Rita Wray Miller Mrs. Gail McFadden-Roberts Ms. Kathy L. Mitchell CLASS OF 1980 - $1,051 Ms. Stephanie M. McLeod Mrs. Sharon Thompson Moorer Class Agents - Mrs. Maxie C .McRae Ms. Bleu Oliver Ms. Debbie Morant Mrs. Cynthia McAfee Smith Mr. Reginald Pincham Mrs. Cathy Murray Ms. Karen E. Watson Mr. William Lee Roberts Mr. Kevin Michael Paige, Sr. Mr. Ronnie J. Armstrong Mrs. Yvette H. Smith Mrs. Susie H. Parrott Mr. David Gottlieb Mrs. Carolyn Burns Speller Mr. Kimmie Patterson Dr. Phillip Michael Green Mrs. Natalie Stockton Johnson

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Mrs. Phyllis T. Thibodeaux Ms. Kim Celeste Peterson CLASS OF 1989 - $1,997 Mrs. Kathy Thomas McFadden Ms. Gina L. Sammons Class Agent - Mr. Gregg P. Hankins Ms. Pamela Tinson Mr. Clyde Ashley Sherman Colonel Morris L. Bodrick Ms. Phyllis Throckmorton Mrs. Robbie King Boyd CLASS OF 1983 - $5,748 Mr. Ricky G. Wade Mr. Martin L. Cox Class Agents - Mrs. Leanna M. Rogers Mr. Herbert L. White, Jr. Mrs. Lynnette Helene Harris-Scott Mrs. Deborah Byrd White Mrs. Gwenarda Medley Isley Ms. Winifred Battle-Cozart CLASS OF 1985 - $3,810 Mrs. Jamela Middleton Wintons Mr. Kwame N. Bing Class Agents - Ms. Deborah A. Hayes Ms. Veverly Blassingame Mrs. Felicia C. Morgan CLASS OF 1990 - $2,295 Mr. Darryl A. Broome Mrs. Kimberley Dawson Munn Class Agents - Ms. Velda G. Fludd Ms. Pamela Y. Brown Mr. Anthony M. Bright Mrs. Wanda Holloway Jones Mr. William Davis Butts Mr. Walter A. McAllister Ms. Iris G. Blackshire Dr. Linda Callahan Ms. Unithia Banks McGruder Ms. Felice Hightower Britt Ms. Cathy Carter Mrs. Felicia C. Morgan Mr. Tracy Chamblee Mr. Dwayne K. Chambers Mrs. Cynthia A. Murray Mr. Sebastian Nigel Farmer Mrs. Tracey Childs-Motley Mrs. Sherri Jackson Paysour Mr. Hugh D. Scott Mrs. Patricia C. Dean Mr. James Erwin Saunders II Dr. Jimmie H. Smith, Jr. Ms. Juanzia Sabrina Dewalt Mr. Darrel J. Wesley Ms. Ordella Dunn Ms. Veronica Williams-Mosley CLASS OF 1991 - $2,291 Ms. Lisa B. Fewell Class Agents - Mrs. Malacy Mrs. Sherry Ford-Ellis CLASS OF 1986 - $905 Taylor-Williams Mrs. Valencia Jones High Class Agent - Ms. Deedra O. Wright Ms. Patricia Wilson Dr. John D. Jones Ms. Ella Mae Hairston Mr. Marvin M. Maynor Mr. Raymond Knox, Jr. Mrs. Dellene Williams Maybin Mr. John M. Norris, Jr. Mrs. Charylene Anita Laster Ms. Deedra O. Wright Ms. Monika Rhue Mrs. Anita McAfee Lee Ms. Thelma K. Thompson Ms. Helen D. Lindsey CLASS OF 1987 - $1,405 Mr. David K. Washington Mrs. Deidre Lyles-Williams Class Agent - Mr. Craig A. Bell Ms. Patricia Wilson Ms. Nancy E. Mark Mr. Billy M. Banks Mrs. Brenda L. McMurray Dr. Walter J. Hill CLASS OF 1992 - $12,804 Mrs. Rosalyn Merriweather Mrs. Miriam T. Jordan Class Agents - Reverend Adrian Harper Mr. Charles E. Merriweather Ms. LaShun Lawson Ms. Nina La Dawn Newton Mr. Cary C. Mitchell Ms. Kathryn McKenzie-Zeigler Mrs. Demetria Michele Mr. Carl E. Muldrow Ms. Selita Cross Weathers Alexander-Grissett Mr. Francis L. Pendergrass Dr. Joy M. Barnes-Johnson Mrs. Phyllis A. Pope Mr. Edwin O. Benjamin Mrs. Leanna M. Rogers CLASS OF 1988 - $54,094 Ms. Latrena Bynum Ms. Robin Lyn Simmons Blackwell Class Agent - Mr. Kenneth Griffin Ms. Kathryn L. Goins Mrs. Marilyn Wallace Mrs. Demetrice Andrews Griffin Reverend Adrian Harper Ms. Phyllis Anita Washington Mrs. Deborah Easterling Baldwin Mr. Charlton J. Harris Mrs. Deborah Byrd White Dr. Octavia M. Cannon Mr. Benjamin C. Heatley Mr. Reginald M. Wilson Ms. Tiffany Eastman Mr. Shedrick D. Kirkpatrick Ms. Lillie King Wyman Mr. James Ely III Ms. Chrystal Kyler Mrs. Kim McLean Graham Ms. Tonya Wllis Lockhart CLASS OF 1984 - $2,063 Mr. Kenneth Griffin Ms. Angel Manago Class Agents - Ms. Elizabeth Anthony Mr. Irvin W. Jackson Ms. Janea D. Matchett Mrs. Jane E. Wallace-Black Ms. Rosanna Bernice Johnson Ms. Severa McCollum Mr. Timothy L. Alston, Jr. Mr. Douglas G. Jones Ms. Nina La Dawn Newton Ms. Elizabeth Anthony Ms. Bridget Lightner Mr. Randy Lamont Noel Dr. Detra Henry Brooks Mr. David Moncree Mr. Mwami Pecou Mr. Stephone Darby Mr. Ned Sergew Ms. Jeannette Robinson Mrs. Cheryl McCullough Davis Mrs. Cynthia B. Wilson Mr. Michael Maxwell Mr. James Everett Morrison, Jr.

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CLASS OF 1993 - $5,010 CLASS OF 1996 - $2,389 Mr. Glenston Thom Class Agents - Ms. Latissa Brown Class Agent - Ms. Tonya L. Johnson Mr. William S. P. Watkins Ms. Kia Hilton Dr. Funmilayo Aranmolate Ms. Tamika Yeadon Mrs. Jeri M. Thompson Mrs. Ashanti Yasmin Baxter Mrs. Rhonda Able-Foster Mr. James A. Brown III CLASS OF 2000 - $475 Mrs. Darlene Simmons Boles Mrs. Deena Davenport-Beasley Class Agents - Mr. Derrick Dillard Mr. James Brantley Ms. Terricia Y. Gaines Mr. Herman Brian Gloster Mrs. Hope Brown Ms. Lisa Greene Ms. Steftia Antoine Ms. Latissa Simmons Brown Ms. Benjenus Elizabeth Jenkins Mr. Derrick Dillard Mr. Aaron Cheeks Ms. LaTanya Rene Johnson Mr. Antonio Henry Ms. Sonja Greene Chicot Pastor Toure C. Marshall Dr. Kristene Brathwaite Kelly Mrs. Adrienne Chisolm-Cox Ms. Natalie Nesbit Ms. Lauakia Richburg Mr. Carl H. Christian Ms. Santausha Tyson Ms. Shamika Scott Morris Mr. Julian Coaxum Mr. Christopher Wardlaw Ms. Sonia C. Glover Mr. Milton Ray Wiggins CLASS OF 2001 - $2,785 Mrs. Barbara D. Grant-Kelly Ms. Michelle Hunter Wilkins Class Agents - Mr. Andrew Lovett, Jr. Ms. Stephanie R. Hills Mrs. Felicia Carol Stokes Ms. Kia Hilton CLASS OF 1997 - $706 Ms. Rashanda Clark Mrs. Kimberly F. Ifill Class Agents - Mrs. Shemeka Mr. James Curry Ms. Raquel S. Jackson Barnes Johnson Ms. Anitra Goshea Ms. Juana Renee Jordan Mrs. Keisha Ramey Wilson Mr. Omari Greene Ms. Angela Theresa Kinloch Ms. Okeatta Brown Mr. Stephen W. Joyner, Jr. Mrs. Vereatta A. Lowe Mrs. Brenda N. Edwards-Headen Ms. Lisa Renee Miller Ms. Stacey M. Henderson CLASS OF 2002 - $1,275 Mr. LaMonte Richardson Mrs. Shemeka Barnes Johnson Class Agents - Mrs. Unique N. Morris Mrs. Tara Foster Robinson Mrs. Krista Faye Terrell Mrs. Shayla Jackson Ward Dr. Pamela L. Taylor Ms. Khuanduen Shideise Toatley Ms. Christie J. Blackmon Mrs. Eraina Briggs Tinnin Mrs. Keisha Ramey Wilson Captain Karl Butler, Sr. Ms. Jennifer Snow Webster Mr. Eric B. Jackson Ms. Nannie Priscilla Willingham CLASS OF 1998 - $1,714 Ms. Talathia S. Joyner Class Agent - Ms. Petrina M. Smith Ms. Kimberley A. Knight CLASS OF 1994 - $3,433 Ms. Jennifer Bell Mrs. Unique N. Morris Class Agent - Ms. Tifferney Michelle White Mr. Dion Butcher Ms. Markeshia N. Ricks Mrs. Tonya Mack Aiken Dr. Johvonne Claybourne Mrs. Shayla Jackson Ward Mr. Ernest Aiken II Dr. Davida Loren Haywood Mrs. Kimberly Watkins Baker Ms. Nedra Morant CLASS OF 2003 - $1,500 Mr. William Bullock Ms. Shanikwa Peterkin Class Agent - Ms. Kristin E. Hicks Ms. Catherine Council Mrs. Jasmine C. Smith Ms. Angela Beverly-Kibler Ms. Spamvetta Edwards Mr. Queron U. Smith Ms. Michele D. Clark Ms. Jennifer Robinson Ms. Gwendolyn Eaton Mr. Keenan J. Smith CLASS OF 1999 - $5,505 Ms. Kristin E. Hicks Class Agent - Ms. Rashida Lawrence Ms. Cayce Ivey CLASS OF 1995 - $2,202 Ms. Tina Lynn Armour Ms. Voneisa McBride Class Agents - Ms. Jeannine Mr. Omar Bakri Ms. Sharifa McKerson Morris Frances Hunter Mr. Lorenzo Bradshaw Ms. Lauren Marion Scott Dr. Brian L. Johnson Dr. Anwar Y. Dunbar Ms. Rasheda L. McMullin Mrs. Leandra Hayes-Thomas CLASS OF 2004 - $328 Ms. Jeannine Frances Hunter Mr. Conyus R Johnson, Jr. Class Agents - Ms. LeAnn Harley Mr. Robert Johnson Ms. Ieshia Kreshunda Jones Mr. Robin Mack Phillips Mr. Chad Dion Lassiter Ms. Rashida Lawrence Ms. Lynette R. Collier Trustee Damian Johnson Ms. Malaika Lesesne Mrs. Jessica Gay Mrs. Cynthia D. Richardson Mr. Robert Ridley IV Mr. Larry Holmes Ms. Regina Smith Mr. Travis Smith Ms. Chalita Nicole Jackson Ms. Kerri C.L. McCullough

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Ms. Shayla Donnita Peterkin CLASS OF 2008 - $622 CLASS OF 2010 - $460 Ms. Ivori A. Smith Class Agents - Ms. Zena E. Conway Class Agents - Ms. Octoria Ms. Jessica Nichelle Williams Mr. Tony Antwaun White Bonet Ridenhour Mr. Quincy Youmans Mr. Aljamon Davis Alexander Ms. Ariel Danyette Watts Mr. Efrem Jerome Baker Ms. Ashlynn S. Boler CLASS OF 2005 - $1,414 Mr. Curtis Clifford Cain Mr. Justin Louis Burch Class Agent - Mr. Alexis Bibbs Mrs. Asisa Chanel Chiles-Dickerson Mr. Darius M. Burgess Mr. Alexis Bibbs Ms. Shana Johnell Collins Ms. Valeria Passion Carmichael Mr. Christopher Blackshear Ms. Zena E Conway Ms. Rashonda L. Davis Mr. Steven Copelin Mr. Ibn G. Dinkins Ms. Marian Callinia Drayton Mr. Terrence Daniels Mr. Michael McClelland Dodson Ms. Jaikia Rachelle Fair Ms. Indya Davis Mr. Gregory Armond Gatewood Ms. Danielle Maxine Ferguson Mr. Frederick Engram Ms. Shakara Nikita Hinds Ms. Ahdiya Naajah Hart Ms. Sheralyn Fields Ms. Stefanie LaTrice Holloway Ms. Dominique Armeda Jones Ms. Carol M. Gerald Ms. Allona Jo'van Hutchinson Mr. Antonio Martin Kenyatto Lawrence Ms. Tiffany Gill Mrs. Brittney Nicole Martin Ms. Alyssa Michelle Leonard Ms. Necolia L. Grant Mr. Darren Jerome Ramsey Ms. China Shadae McRae Ms. Barbara J. Hamilton Ms. Saeedah Daisy Kimberly Reed Ms. Anjelecia Danillie Meadows Ms. Farah Lauture Mr. Jallah Jarmin Rouse Mr. Allen Adam Owens, Jr. Ms. Danielle Newsome Ms. Venessa Louise Roy Ms. Asia Pleasants-Shannon Ms. Donna Marie Paul Ms. Tygerian Lace Talbott Mr. Julien Donald Polk Mr. Anthony D. Tindall Ms. Crystal M. Thompson Ms. Ranndi R. Reed Ms. Shalonda Y. Wilson Ms. Nicole Villarreal Ms. Octoria Bonet Ridenhour Ms. Alicia S. Wellman Mr. Matthew Alexander Robertson CLASS OF 2006 - $1,224 Ms. Stephanie Alise White Ms. Alexandria Marie Sullivan Class Agents - Ms. Ebonee Mayo-Mitchell Mr. Tony Antwaun White Ms. Avis Jayne' Thompson Mr. William Utley Mr. John Andre' Tolbert Ms. Krystal C. Cherry CLASS OF 2009 - $416 Mr. Kenneth Tyrell Washington Mr. LeVar Terrell Crooms Class Agents - Mr. Durrell Edward Brown Ms. Morrgan J. Williams Mr. Kory Davis Ms. Ashley Nichole Hughes Ross Mrs. Rhonda Lynn Dorsey-Prude Ms. Ivory Lottie Barber CLASS OF 2011 - $84 Ms. Dakeela M. Dunlap Mr. Brandon Christopher Benjamin Class Agents - Ms. Gernae Adele Chase Ms. Jimmia Hart Ms. Sarah Helen Caldwell Ms. Erica N. Hilton Mr. John Holmes III Ms. Angelica Denise Clark Ms. Holisha Alexander Mr. Antoine Jackson Mr. Reginald Vance Cooper Ms. Zubida Omer Bakheit Ms. Tiffany R. Minter Ms. Trenita Craig Ms. Gernae Adele Chase Mr. William Utley Mrs. Erin Marika Davis-Sherman Mr. Ryan Spencer Cotterell Ms. Teresa Fatemah Fennell Miss Jasmine Bianca Davis CLASS OF 2007 - $363 Ms. Alisha Yolanda Gaines Ms. Beverly Elam Class Agents - Dr. Daryl D. Jackson Mr. Mark A. Gibson Ms. Cassie Grice Ms. Aisha Nicole Lide Ms. Rhashanda Donetta Haywood Ms. Maya Jamelia Hicks Mr. Floyd Bates Ms. Tanoia La'Quae Hill Ms. Jasamine Nicole Hill Mr. Matthew Becoate Ms. Laurie Jenene Kemp Ms. Erica N Hilton Mr. Travis Burgin Ms. Kelly Malloy Ms. Christina Roselia Hyppolite Mr. Jarrett Clipper Ms. Michella Marie Palmer Ms. Nicole Elaine Jenkins Mr. Tariq Evans Ms. Ashley Nichole Hughes Ross Ms. Sapphira Emmanuelle Martin Ms. Aisha Nicole Lide Mr. Michael Brandon Sainte Mr. Andrew S. Milden Ms. Shammara Martin Ms. Ashley Patrice Smith Ms. Jon-Alicia Rafaella Palazzo Ms. Melissa McClairen Ms. Ashley Nicole Taylor Ms. Elisha L Phillips Ms. Sheena Lynn McFadden Mr. Christian Donvall Wallace Ms. Joiy Danielle Reid-Davis Mr. David Eugene Neal Ms. Brittany Nicole Wiggins Ms. Jillian Ryan Ms. Erica Rambus Mr. Jonathan Clifford Young Ms. Cynthia LaRae Short Mr. Brian Reed Ms. Lakira Brown Santos Ms. Mariah Janette Smith

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Ms. Davika J. Simmons CLASS OF 2014 - $509 Ms. Jasmine Victoria Riddick Mr. Ernest Eugene Simms III Class Agents - Ms. Pamela Bailey Ms. Alexys Brionna Scott Ms. Ellecia Nicole Sims Ms. Kanetra LaChelle Jamison Mr. Isreal Devon Spencer Ms. Quadasia Nefertiti Walker-Moss Ms. Pamela Bailey Ms. Kiana Desiree Thomas Ms. Raisa Louise White Mr. Michael D. Bailey Mr. Christopher Lamont Waller, Jr. Mr. Robin Dion Williamson Ms. Alexus Renee Brockington Ms. Kamauri Daijah Whitmore Ms. Lauren Bianca Carodine CLASS OF 2012 - $1,116 Mr. Joshua Chasse CLASS OF 2017 - $160 Class Agents - Ms. Sabrina Davis Ms. Janaye Rebbecca Cofield Class Agent - Office of Alumni Affairs Ms. Christina O. Onunu Ms. Kneisha Renae Gabriel Mr. Edward James Black, Jr. Ms. Trajana C. Wright Ms. Seiko Chanel Havis Ms. Amanda W Boyd Ms. Jockuela J Ballard Ms. Kanetra LaChelle Jamison Ms. Shaquese A. Bradley Ms. Lynette Bradford Mr. Quintin Jernigan II Miss Laurice Bryant Ms. Brittany Renee Bratcher Mr. Jonathan Lamar Kelly Ms. Antonet Marie Davis Ms. Sharika A. Comfort Ms. Karitsa N. Kerns Ms. Djaris Santita James Ms. Shanice Crawford Mr. Christopher Deion Kohn Ms. Norsharra Isanea James Ms. Sabrina Renee' Davis Ms. Keiana Y. Love Ms. Domenique Patrice Julius-Williams Ms. Jasmine R. Davis Ms. Shaun Nicole Miller Mr. Kenneth E Mabry Ms. Risa M Eadie Ms. Jenne Ashyia Norris Ms. Dulce Rocio Martinez Ms. Jasmine Fergerson Ms. Bowanna T Pharr Ms. Tinyiko Vallerie Nicole Maswanganye Ms. Natasha Fredericks Mr. Aristides C. Ramos Ms. Lesa McIver Ms. Angela Hames Mr. Barry Charston Smith Ms. Brooklyn Danyell Miller Ms. Yasmine Jenkins Mr. Justin Daniel Smith Ms. Gail Raven Mills Ms. Alexis M Leonard Ms. Shakya Monet Taylor Miss Ayanna Perry Ms. Saishea L. McNeill-Cook Miss Angelique Simonne Willis Mr. Derrick Xavier Robinson Ms. Alicia Marie Reed Ms. DeVondia Regina Roseborough Ms. Kaylona N. Scott CLASS OF 2015 - $593 Ms. Keyatta Aishea Smalls Mr. Cardell K. Smith Class Agent - Ms. Nora L.Williams Bittle Mr. DaRon W Spence Ms. Dymond Spain Mr. Andrew Alexander Mr. Johnta Tyrone Wilson Ms. Jennifer M. Williams Ms. Ashlea Nicole Blair Ms. Sequoia J. Young Ms. Wantese Laveina Bratcher CLASS OF 2018 - $1,075 Ms. Jamaris Janette Burns Class Agent - Office of Alumni Affairs CLASS OF 2013 - $366 Ms. Jahyra Caprise Catala Miss Tiffany Baker Class Agents - Ms. Janelle M. Clarke Ms. Charlene Montas Mr. Tasean David Amir Baldwin Ms. Nikefa Karima Salter Ms. Serena Lynn Morris Ms. Keyanna K Barnes Ms. Chantal Aponte Mr. Darrell Sawyer, Sr. Ms. Katherine Angelica Bartholomew Mr. Clement Ray Bowman II Ms. Jasmine Valencia Shaw Mr. Antonio Lavi Bell, Jr. Ms. Kianna Culver Ms. Orianna Paige Thomas Ms. Shayla Monique Blanding Ms. Kristin A. Edwards Ms. Stephanie Michelle White Ms. Whitney Janea Brown Ms. Desiree S Forbes Ms. Angeline Marie Woods Ms. Areshanae Nicole Burch Ms. Regjinique F. Harris Mrs. Dana Dorlene Burch Ms. Alicia F Hokett CLASS OF 2016 - $1,173 Mr. D'Andre Jarele Carter Ms. Erica Camille Logan Class Agent - Office of Alumni Affairs Ms. Sasha M Chavis Ms. Crystal Mansel Ms. Jasmine Nicole Clemmons Ms. Oniqua Dwanna Chisolm Ms. Janelle S Martin Ms. Sherri Lynn Davis Mr. Michael William Coleman Ms. Janae McCants Ms. Nashawn Latressa Davis Mr. Earlee Wesley Corbin, Jr. Ms. Tazekqua Manquavia McIntyre Ms. Olivia S. Dickey Miss Da'Shawn Vernice Covington Mr. Malcolm Passley Ms. Vanessa J. Fanis Ms. Whitney Renee Covington Ms. Jasmine S Pruden Ms. Ariana Kamilah Foster Mrs. Shirley Marie Curry Ms. Candiance Elaine Riddick Mrs. Natasha Renee Grant Dean Ms. Alexis Leona Dixon Ms. Portia S Rouse Mr. Austin Michael Jacques Ms. Shaquana Douglas Mr. Ishmial Ibn Samad Mr. Jason James Ms. Alexus Duncan Ms. Faith Angeleik Shore Mr. Kelvin L. Jamison Ms. Queosha LaShay Edwards Ms. Brionna Spells Mrs. Theresa Wilhelmena Mr. Drew Donte Marcel Emerson Ms. Chassidy Alize` White McCormick-Dunlap Ms. Djerhkea LaQueria Epps Dukes

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Mr. Deanthony Daquan Floyd Mr. Kevin S. Keith Ms. Kaylin Janee' Roman Ms. Harmony Eunetta Franklin Ms. Quanetta Erica King Ms. Jordan Alexander Shaw Ms. Justice Chanterra Futrell Mr. Edward Donta Land Ms. Angela Robertson Silver Ms. Damara Elizabeth Garcia-Garcia Ms. Sandra Ann Laney Ms. Latonya Stackhouse Mr. Gary Antonio George Ms. Racquel Alize Linton Ms. Acquantina Michelle Vargas Ms. Justina Naomi Geter Ms. Nichelle Marie Martin Ms. Tatiana Carolina Villacorta Ms. Sabrina Nicole Giles Ms. Savannah Elyse Martin Ms. Tatianna Sadia Watts Ms. Syrena Hale Ms. Danya' Jasmine Mayo Ms. Ajeenah Nicole White Ms. Shaniya Makel Hamilton Ms. Tiasia Requal McDonald Ms. Arthelia Brucetta White Ms. Ivory Brena' Hardy Ms. Randolyn McKinstry Ms. Deja Raeshaun Wilkerson Ms. Stevette Marie Harris Ms. Azha Mazha McNeil Ms. Kayla Elizabeth Williams Ms. Angela Maria Henard Ms. Kameron De'shaun Miller Ms. Christa Ann Williams Ms. Jillian Louise Highsmith Mr. Lorenzo Alphonso Moore Ms. Justina Geneva Williams Ms. Venita Ann Hood Ms. Tiffani Renae Moore Ms. Kaviana Morgan Wise Miss Rasheeda Brenna Howie Mr. Daryl Raymon Napper Ms. Alana Nichelle Adele Worth Ms. Stephanie Annette Jazmin Ms. Brielle Renay Newton Ms. Hope Wright Miss Tesheena Teresia Johnson Ms. Fenecia Rae Patton Ms. Tiffany Latoya Youmans Mr. Darius L Johnson Ms. Dorian R Pringle Ms. Jazz Lauren Jones Mr. Terrance De'shea Reddick Ms. Asha Briana Jordan Ms. Dariana Lanette Reid Mr. Gary J Kasey Ms. Katrina Antoinette Robinson

MEMORIAL Ms. Kathryn P. Hall Ms. Eleanor S. Meyers Mr. Cameron M. Harris Ms. Elizabeth N. Mills Ms. Maeozia W. Harris Ms. Patricia Petty Morse GIFTS Ms. Mary Haynes-Smith Mr. Norman and Mrs. Jane Pearlstine Mr. Ivan Hinrichs Mrs. Alleane S. Reeves DONORS Hiott Forestry Consultants, Inc. Dr. Condoleezza Rice Dr. and Mrs. Merritt J. Hougen Ms. Rosalyn K. Robinson Mr. David Abernathy Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Heidi Hough Ms. Lucy K. Roddey Mr. Weston Andress E.P. Jacobs Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Jan Rooks Mrs. Sarah E. Bellamy Jarrett Bay Boatworks Ms. Rick and Caroline Sanders Mr. Leonard E. Bodrick JCSU Columbia Alumni Chapter Ms. Eva D. Smith Mr. Brien and Mrs. Amy Boswell JCSU National Alumni Association Ms. Ranie G. Smith Mr. Ronald D. Bruckmann Mr. George K. Johnson Mr. Bruce and Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlin Ms. Teresa M. Carmack Mr. Theodore and Mrs. Flora Johnson Ms. Carolyn Varner Ms. Karen W. Carter Mr. Rip and Mrs. Margaret Johnston Ms. Veronica Wallace Ms. Andrea Clayton Ms. Lucille Joyner Dr. Kenneth Whitted Mrs. Evelyn Cortez-Davis Mrs. Wilhelmina Page Kimpson Nancy and Richard Williams Ms. Laurie Degroat Ms. Barbara Lake Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co. Mr. Kenny H. Faulkner Ms. Carrie Spence Ledbetter Dr. Dolores Finger Wright Ms. Florence K. Flowers Mr. Marc A. Lee Mrs. Annette Wright Ms. Rhoda Glasco Foderingham Reverend Calvin Lewers Mr. Drucilla Fogle Mr. Wiley and Mrs. Donna Lewis Mr. Roger G. Fortune Carol and James Lister Mrs. Janetta T. Gadsden Mr. Julian and Mrs. Elsie Mason Ms. Sonia C. Glover Mr. Timothy and Mrs. Catherine McCoy Ms. Rebecca Goodman Mr. Douglas McElveen

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GIVING BY ALUMNI ORGANIZATIONS Alumni organizations serve as the catalyst for alumni engagement around the nation. We applaud all alumni chapters and organizations for continuously holding high the Gold and Blue.

Organizations Giving Total JCSU 100 Club 25,250 JCSU Alumni Chapter of Groove Phi Groove 600 JCSU Charlotte Alumni Chapter 8,783 JCSU Columbia Alumni Chapter 3,600 JCSU Detroit Alumni Chapter 1,000 JCSU Durham Alumni Chapter 324 JCSU Eastern NC Alumni Chapter 250 JCSU National Alumni Association 18,994 JCSU Philadelphia Alumni Chapter 3,500 JCSU Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter 5,567 JCSU Raleigh Durham Chapter 3,000 JCSU Sumter Regional Alumni Chapter 1,050 JCSU Washington Metropolitan Chapter 1,277 JCSU Winston-Salem Alumni Chapter 300

Grand Total $73,495

GIVING IN MEMORY OF

Mrs. Glady Knox Abernathy '55 Rev. Dr. James H. Hargett '52 Ms. Mary Craig Douglass Stauffer Mr. Kevin B. Glover '93 Mrs. Beatrice Taylor Johnson '56 Mrs. JoAnn Campbell Stewart Ms. Earnestine Baylor Mrs. Joetter Joyner Johnson '61 Mr. Oscar Trice '55 Mr. Alston Bellamy '55 Ms. Artonia Faulkner Joyner '66 Mrs. Willetta A. Whitted '68 Mr. Samuel Blackwell '78 Trustee Emeritus Scott C. Lea Mr. Arcelia Wicker, Sr. '67 Thurman and Magnolia Clayton Mr. and Mrs. James L. McCoy Trustee Emeritus Horace A. Davenport '42 Mr. Clyde Walker McGriff '63 Mr. Brumit B. DeLaine '60 Mr. Don Milton '78 Dr. Gwendoline Young Fortune '48 Ivan and Juanita Reeves Mr. Frank Theodore Gaither, Sr. '56 Mr. Thomas A. Reeves Mr. Wayne T. Glasco '48 Dr. John W. Rice Mrs. Vernilla Turnage Glenn '44 Mrs. Lillian Smith-Peters Mrs. Martha Gamble Hall '64 Ms. Sandra McDuffie Smith '77

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PNC Bank Honor Roll of Donors Mr. David L. Pugh, Sr. The Honor Roll of Donors reflects all gifts from trustees, faculty and staff, alumni, Mr. Delano R. Rackard friends, corporations and foundations received from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 Mrs. Queen Elizabeth Thompson fiscal year. The University thanks all who invest in JCSU to meet the immediate needs VentureWell of students. Vivature, Inc. Dr. Clarence W. R. Wade Platinum Circle Plus Ms. Viola B. Myers-Williams WFF Facility Services ($100,000 or more) Trustee Gregory W. Norwood Senta and Angus Wilson Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Nsoro Educational Foundation,Inc. Central Intercollegiate Athletic Orthocarolina Blue and Gold Circle Association Mr. Russell and Mrs. Sally Robinson ($2,500 to $4,999) The Duke Endowment Ms. Bevelyn G. Sherrill Alwinell Foundation Mr. Ralph H. Groce III Thurgood Marshall College Fund Blumenthal Performing Arts Center The Leon Levine Foundation The Honorable Sandra Townes* Mr. Johnny R. Bowen Single Stop - Southern Region Women Executives For Community Ms. Rebecca Dortch Brown United Negro College Fund, Inc. Services Inc. Mr. Albert Tim Catlett William R. Kenan Jr. CharitableTrust Ms. Willie Beatrice Colson William T. Morris Foundation,Inc. President's Circle Ms. Catherine Council ($5,000 to $9,999) Crown Jewels Chapter of the Links, Inc. Platinum Circle President Clarence D Armbrister Mr. Rhenn T. Darensburg ($50,000 to $99,999) Mr. Thomas E. Baldwin Mr. Hubert I. Davis BB&T Dr. Lucinda Bowen Blue Drs. Bobby and Phyllis Dawkins John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Trustee Steven L. Boyd Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. National Collegiate Athletic Association Trustee Sheila Renee Brown Mr. Henry J.B. Dick Mr. Jerome J. Richardson Trustee Christy Shelton Bryant Extended Stay America Trustee Astrid Chirinos Management, LLC Prestigious Five Star Circle Mr. Roger and Mrs. Julie Corman ExxonMobil Foundation ($25,000 to $49,999) DCI Group, LLC Trustee Parran L. Foster III American Schlafhorst Foundation Inc. Duke Energy Mr. James and Mrs. Lucille Gaither Atrium Health Estate of Samuel Johnson, Jr. Mr. Jesse B. Goode, Jr. Coca-Cola Bottling Company Mrs. Carmen Fair Mr. Claude and Mrs. Jacqueline Green Consolidated Food Lion, Inc. Mr. Charles W. Hargrave Mr. J. Porter Durham, Jr. Foundation for the Carolinas Mr. Malloy T. Harris, Jr. Mr. James Ely III Mr. William Geter Mr. Charlton J. Harris Mr. Frank* and Mrs. Dorothy Franklin Mr. James and Mrs. Shirley Greene Ms. Joni Mills Hicks Google, Inc. Mrs. Mattie Solice Grigsby Mr. Aubrey Hilliard JCSU 100 Club Mr. Benjamin C. Heatley Ms. Michele Evon Hutchinson Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies IBM International Foundation Mr. Charles N. Jackson The Prudential Insurance JCSU Charlotte Alumni Chapter JCSU Columbia Alumni Chapter Company of America JCSU Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter JCSU Philadelphia Alumni Chapter Wells Fargo Mr. Johnny and Mrs. Jacquelyn Jenkins JCSU Raleigh Durham Chapter Trustee Michael A. Jones Mr. George K. Johnson Founder's Circle Mrs. Wilhelmina Page Kimpson Mr. Stephen W. Joyner, Sr. ($10,000 to $24,999) Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Dorothy Latimer Reverend Calvin Lewers Bank of America Mrs. Tasse A. Little Mrs. Fran Lewis-Steiner Trustee Thomas L. Barnhardt Mr. Leon and Mrs. Irine McClinton Dr. Shirley Wilson Logan Fifth Third Bank Microsoft Corporation Ms. Unithia Banks McGruder Mr. Harvey and Mrs. Cindy Gantt Trustee Monroe Miller Mr. James I. Melvin Reverend Dr. Lawrence T. Glenn Nationwide Life Insurance Co. Ms. Jennifer Middleton Jack and Jill of America, Inc. - North Carolina Independent Colleges Mrs. Melba D. Mobley Charlotte Chapter & Univers North Carolina Department of JCSU National Alumni Association Mr. Joel Orelove Transportation Trustee Stephen G. Magowan Trustee Richard J. Osborne Novant Healthcare Trustee Patricia Roderick Morton Ms. Gwendolyn S. Parker Mr. Stewart T. Oatman

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Mr. Richard Blackout Reeves The Dickson Foundation Inc. Mr. Johnny C. James, Sr. Mr. Samuel and Mrs. Ida Reid Dr. Barbara Dawson Dilligard Dr. Melissa and Mr. Jason James Mrs. Betty Rivers DirectAthletics, Inc. JCSU Detroit Alumni Chapter Dr. Jay Selle Ms. Peggie A. Dixon JCSU Sumter Regional Alumni Chapter Mr. Mark and Mrs. Tami Simmons Mr. John E. Dixon, Jr. JCSU Washington Metropolitan Chapter Smartbird Travel & Cruises LLC Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP Mrs. Saundra Ross Johnson Mrs. Gwendolyn Smith Mr. Clarence O. Ellis Dr. Argie Knox Johnson South Atlantic Conference Mrs. Helen Reese Epps Ms. Deidre G. Johnson Mr. James and Annie Stewart Mr. Joseph Wharton Esherick Mr. Raymond Johnson Mr. William S. P. Watkins The Lisa Esherick Fund Mr. Gerald L. Johnson Wendy's Mrs. Tiffany Eubanks-Saunders Mr. Jerome Johnson WSOC/WAXN-64 Mr. Matthew Evans Mr. Peter S. Jones III Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy Mr. Paul D. Faulkner Mr. Stephen W. Joyner, Jr. Mr. Kenny H. Faulkner Ms. Lucille Joyner Tower Circle Mrs. Bernice S. Ferguson Latin American Economic ($1,000 to $2,499) Ms. Jo Ella Cooper Ferrell Development Corp. Aldersgate Ms. Sheralyn Fields Mr. Fred Lewis The Allstate Foundation Dr. John and Mrs. Juanita Floyd Mr. Willie L. Little Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. - Follett Higher Education Group The Honorable Viola Lyles Mid Atlantic Region Ms. Yolanda Ford Mr. Vincent G. Mallory American Honda Motor Company,Inc. Mr. Roger G. Fortune Ms. Deborah R. Marshall American Water Charitable Mrs. Patricia C. Foster Ms. Christine Biddle Marshall Ms. Barbara M. Amos Dr. Telezee Littlejohn Foster Mr. Marion Herman Massey AT&T Corporation Mr. Timothy Freeman, Jr. Ms. Marie Worsley Matthews Mrs. Donna Atkinson-Travis Mrs. Janetta T. Gadsden Mr. Timothy and Mrs. Catherine McCoy Mrs. Ann Austin Ms. Fatina P. Gaston Mr. Walter A. McCullough Mr. Jack S. Bailey III Mr. Casper Glenn Mrs. Yolanda B. McGraw Mr. Calvin Banks Ms. Sonia C. Glover Mr. Willie McMahand, Jr. Dr. Boisey O. Barnes Goodwill Industries of the Mr. Thomas McPherson, Jr. Mr. Gordon Barnes Southern Piedmont The Mead Family Mrs. Christine Biddle Beebe Ms. Louise Page Gordon Mecklenburg County Sheriff Department Ms. Mary L. Beebe Ms. Annette P. Graham Ms. Ivy A. Metz Dr. Venton Lee Bell Grand Chapter Order of the Reverend Tyler C. Millner The Benevity Community Impact Fund Eastern Star P H A Mr. Cary C. Mitchell Dr. Leonard and Mrs. Veronica Bethel Dr. Ronald K. Gray Mrs. Gertrude Mitchell Ms. Iris G. Blackshire Mr. Matthew J. Green Reverend Lloyd and Mrs. Nancy Morris Colonel Morris L. Bodrick Ms. Marguerite D. Greene Mr. Norman and Mrs. Jane Pearlstine Mrs. Mary J. Bowden Mr. Johnny Hall Neighboring Concepts PLLC Dr. Curtis W. Branch Mr. Morris G. Hall New York Life Foundation Ms. Joyce M. Brayboy Ms. Shelia D. Harvey No Grease Barber Shop Mrs. Carolyn Bridges-Graves Mrs. Gerald E. Hatcher Mr. Nolan L. Nolley Mrs. Pamela Fuller Brown Mrs. Carole Coles Henley Opera Carolina Mrs. Jeannie Frasier Bryant Mrs. Valencia Jones High Parker Poe Dr. Octavia M. Cannon Mrs. Metter C. Hodges Mr. Mwami Pecou Mr. Luther Carter, Jr. Homecare For The Carolinas Perkins + Will Dr. Ronald L Carter Mr. Charles Howard Mrs. Virginia W. Peterkin Mr. Bruce C. Chandler Trustee Shirley J. Hughes Mr. Greg Petzke Charlotte Housing Authority Mrs. Shirley M. Hunter Mrs. Magnolia M. Pickens City of Charlotte Dr. David L. Hunter Piedmont Natural Gas Company Inc Mr. Freddie Sinclair Clinton Mr. James Hynes Dr. Warner L. Pinchback Dr. Rhonda O. Covington Mrs. Kimberly F. Ifill Pride Communications Mr. LeVar Terrell Crooms Mr. James Robert Jackson Mr. Johnny C. Pridgen, Jr. Ms. Ireta Taylor Dawson Ms. Annette G. Jackson Ms. Glenda L. Pyant Dr. Matthew DeForrest Mr. David and Mrs. Rosalyn Jacobs The Raven Fund Ms. Edith Strickland DeLaine Ms. Angela R. Jacobs Mr. James and Mrs. Carolyn Ray

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Mrs. Alleane S. Reeves Dr. Carolyn Anderson Mrs. Helen V. Henry Drs. Clyda and George Rent Ms. Elizabeth Anthony Mrs. Vivian Jones Honor Dr. Condoleezza Rice Ms. Beverly Mitchell Atkinson Ms. Ophelia Howard Mr. William and Mrs. Gail Roberts Ms. Carolyn D. Austin Mrs. Barbara M. Howell Ms. Patricia N. Robinson Mrs. Mary Roberts Bailey Mr. James Truman Humbert Ms. Joli Robinson Mr. Guy Barnes Ms. Cayce Ivey Mr. Mickel L. Roseborough Mrs. Ashanti Yasmin Baxter Mrs. Carlenia G. Ivory Dr. Henry Russell Drs. Elijah and Victoria Beaty JCSU Alumni Chapter of Mrs. Brenda Long Sanders Dr. Angela B. Bell GroovePhi Groove Sargent Memorial Presbyterian Church Mrs. Carole A. Bell JCSU Class of 1955 Ms. Verida Arnell Sarratt Mrs. Sarah E. Bellamy Ms. Angelia M. Jenkins Mr. Stephen and Mrs. Frances Schley Mr. James and Mrs. Margaret Brandon John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. Ms. Julia Rose Shepherd Mrs. Leora Ernestine Broady Ms. Melinda L. Johnson Mrs. Sandra Simmons Dr. Detra Henry Brooks Dr. Brian M. Jones Reverend James E. Simmons Mrs. Bettye Garrick Byrd Mr. Luther C. Jones Mr. Stuart and Mrs. Teresa Singer Dr. Georgetta Merritt Campbell Jones Lang Lasalle Americas Mr. Mickel Singleton Mr. Leonard Carpenter Mrs. Juanita Reid Jordan Mr. Queron and Mrs. Jasmine Smith Mrs. Elizabeth A. Carrothers Mr. Larry Darnell Kelly Dr. Jean Spaulding Ms. Cassandra M. Chandler Mr. Eric W. Law Mrs. Joy Paige Springs Ms. Yvette S. Clayton Levine Museum of the New South Ms. Vivian Reed Terry Mrs. Geraldine Helton Clyburn Mrs. Phyllis Lomax Mrs. Margaret H. Thomas C.N. Jenkins Presbyterian Church The Honorable Johnny M. Lunsford Ms. Thelma K. Thompson Mrs. Johnnie M. Collins Ms. Ollie Mae Mack The Tom Joyner Foundation, Inc. Ms. Claudean Cooper Ms. Lydia Marshall Mrs. Brenda E. Twiggs Mr. John W. Costner Mr. Jeffrey Marshall University Volvo Mr. John and Mrs. Gayle Crawford Mr. Willie C. Martin Verizon Foundation Mr. John P. Cureton Mrs. Dellene Williams Maybin Mrs. Phyllis P. Wade Mr. Wendell A. Daniel Ms. Susan McConnell Mrs. Frances T. Wade Ms. Sabrina Renee' Davis Mr. Ronnie L. McCray Mr. Keva and Mrs. Juanita Walton Reverend Frederick A. Davis Mrs. Betty Allen McGill Ms. Nanella Warren Mr. Charles F. Davis McKesson Foundation c/o JK Group, Inc. Mrs. Lovieree L. Warren Ms. Geraldine Dawson Reverend Mack and Mrs. Lillian McRae Mrs. DeLois Walker Washington Mr. Norman L. Deas Mr. Charles and Mrs. Rosalyn Ms. Margo Judge Watts Mr. Charles Dupree Merriweather Mrs. Vernie Lee White Mr. Melton Ellerby Mrs. Zaidee Reasoner Morris Ms. Gwendolyn Olivia Whitsell Estate of Artie C. Phillips Mrs. Henrietta M. Motley Dr. Kenneth and Mrs. Willetta* Whitted Mr. Sebastian Nigel Farmer Mount Carmel Baptist Church Mrs. Pearlie Ann Williams Mrs. Margaret A. Faust Mr. Alton P. Myers Reverend George Murray Wilson Floyd Corp Security Network for Good Mrs. Doris M. Wilson Mrs. Sherry Ford-Ellis Ms. Billie D. Nichols Ms. Mardi Wood Ms. Wanda B. Foy-Burroughs Ms. Claudia Nichols Mr. Rudolph C. Worsley Ms. Terricia Y. Gaines Ms. Katherine Norman Reverend Johnnie and Mrs. Anita Garcia Mrs. Jeanette McLean Praylor Mrs. Annette Wright Mr. Dennis Geasan Priscilla Literary and Art Club Mrs. Amanda H. Wright Mr. Sidney Glee Ms. Phyllis Watkins Ratliffe Mrs. Philipa I. Wright Ms. Kathryn L. Goins Ms. Gail Deavers Reed Mr. Lawrence Yizar Dr. Ophelia DeLaine Gona Mr. Robert Ridley IV Mrs. Daphne Jones Graves-Smith Ms. Christine Roberts Golden Bull Reverend Dr. Lloyd and Mrs. Bessie Green Ms. Jennifer Robinson ($500 to $999) Ms. Bridget-Anne Hampden Mr. Charles Thomas Robinson Adams Outdoor Advertising Reverend Carnell and Mrs. Carrie Rodgers Builders of Charlotte, Ltd. Hampton Ms. Mary Ann Rosemond Ms. Maudre R. Addison Reverend Adrian Harper Ms. Minor Shaw Mr. Andrew Alexander Mr. William Hunter Harris Dr. Robert and Mrs. Carolyn Shortt Dr. Theodore and Mrs. Carolyn Allen Harvard University Dr. Sharon Simmons

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Mr. Joe L. Simmons Dr. Funmilayo Aranmolate Mr. William Bullock Mrs. Nedra Burns Snow Mr. Alvin Austin Bum Brands Mr. Lorenzo Steele, Sr. Mr. Robert L. Babbs Mr. Travis Burgin Mrs. Trudelle G. Stroman Mrs. Willa Martin Bailey Ms. Kai Burkins Dr. Marilyn Sutton-Haywood Mrs. Garnell D. Bailey Burlington Northern Santa Fe Mr. Fred L. Tatum Ms. Pamela Bailey Foundation Dr. Pamela L. Taylor Ms. Brenda P. Ballard Mrs. Cheryl L. Bursh Mr. Robert and Mrs. Pamela Terry Mr. Wayne V. Banks Ms. Deborah Butler Representative Evelyn A. Terry Dr. Kenneth Banks Dr. Helen T. Caldwell Reverend Benjamin F. Thompson Ms. Emma M. Barnes Reverend Dr. Arthur William Canada Mrs. Neutrice Quick Towens Dr. Joy M. Barnes-Johnson Ms. Teresa M. Carmack Mr. Michael A. Travis Mr. Thyrone Barrett Ms. Cathy Carter United Tennis Association Ms. Winifred Battle-Cozart Mrs. Dawn Carter Van Wagner Sports & Entertainment, LLC Mr. Donald and Mrs. Vivian Beamer Dr. Denton Carter, Sr. Ms. Forestine D. Vaughn Mr. Spencer and Mrs. Jane Beebe Ms. Karen W. Carter Ms. Anna M. Vernon Ms. Sherri D Belfield Ms. Marie Carter-Calvin Ms. Deborah A. Wadsworth Mr. Ronald and Mrs. Maxine Benjamin Cedar Grove United Presbyterian Church Ms. Martha Tate Warren Mr. Edwin O. Benjamin Mr. Dwayne K. Chambers Ms. Judith E. Washington Mrs. Florence Bennett-Jiles Mr. Tracy Chamblee Mr. David K. Washington Ms. Angela Beverly-Kibler Mrs. Daisy B. Chapman Trustee McKinley Washington Mr. Vory Billups Ms. Mary B. Chasten Ms. Selita Cross Weathers Mr. Kwame N. Bing Mrs. Tracey Childs-Motley Mr. Kevin and Mrs. Leisa Weir Mr. Ozzie L. Black Ms. Lauretta Chisolm West Virginia State University Mr. Horace Donald Black Mr. Jerry Clark Mr. Dylan Whitehead Ms. Christie J. Blackmon Ms. Ruth B. Clarke Mr. Alvin B. Wideman Mr. Christopher Blackshear Ms. Barbara B. Clarkson Mr. Thomas Williams Mrs. Joyce Pressley Blakeney Dr. Johvonne Claybourne Mr. Cornelious W. Williams Mrs. Debora S. Blakney Ms. Andrea Clayton Nancy and Richard Williams Ms. Veverly Blassingame Ms. Joanne Clayton Ms. Patricia D. Williams Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Mr. Reuben Clayton Mr. Otto Wingate Mr. Leonard E. Bodrick C.N. Parrish Enterprise, Inc. Ms. Edith Worsham Bolden Ltd. LLC Reverend Franklin D. Colclough Ms. Juanita Yates Bomray Medical Clinic, Inc. Kinneil Coltman Mr. Russell and Mrs. Barbara Young Ms. Josephine Boone Mrs. Blessyng Mychele Conway Ms. Blenda D. Younger Mr. Daniel Bouldrick Mr. Roy Cooper Ms. Shermane Bowden Mrs. Evelyn Cortez-Davis Century Dr. O. Diane Bowles Cotton Memorial Presbyterian Church ($100 to $499) Mr. Clement Ray Bowman II (U.S.A.) Mr. David Abernathy Mr. Lorenzo Bradshaw Reverend James and Dr. Covington Mr. Armenous Adams Mr. Dennis K. Branch Ms. Nancy Creamer The Honorable Alma Adams Mr. James Brantley Dr. Samuel L. Cunningham Mrs. Ida Kearns Adams Mr. Christopher T. Braswell Mrs. Candace Bynum Currence Mr. Cecil L. Adderley, Jr. Mrs. Jeanne Brayboy Mr. James Curry Advanced Graphic Products, Inc. Mrs. Cheryl Butler Brayboy Mrs. Sharon Tucker Daniel Aetna Foundation, Inc. Mr. Anthony M. Bright Mr. Charlie S. Dannelly Ms. Hazeline P. Alexander Mr. Joel N. Brockman* Ms. Alice B. Davies Mrs. Deborah Marioneaux Allen Mr. Darryl A. Broome Ms. Rashonda L. Davis Mr. James Allen Ms. Okeatta Brown Mrs. Katherine Davis Mrs. Sadie Mae Allen-Haney Mr. Calvin and Mrs. Genevieve Brown Mrs. Deotis J. Bragg Davis Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. - Ms. Latissa Simmons Brown Mrs. Queen A. Davis Charlotte Chapter Ms. Dorothy J. Brown-Jackson Ms. Daisy L. Davis Anderson University Ms. Iris B. Brownlee Dr. Edna L. Davis Mr. Weston Andress Mr. Ronald D. Bruckmann Ms. Gloria Alston Davis Ms. Michelle Andrews Mr. Marconi Buchanan Mrs. Cheryl McCullough Davis Ms. Steftia Antoine Ms. Linda D. Buckley Mrs. Melissa H Davis

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Tare L. Davis Mrs. Anita T. Garner Dr. Melvin Herring Ms. Florence J. Day Ms. Melissa J Gary Ms. Tamara Hicks Mrs. Patricia C. Dean Mrs. Evelyn Gentry-Howie Dr. Walter J. Hill Ms. Laurie Degroat Mr. Lloyd Beaver Gibson Ms. Jannie Hill Ms. Juanzia Sabrina Dewalt Ms. Sharon Gilbert Mr. Solomon Hilliard, Jr. Ms. Roslyn E Dixon Mrs. Barbara McFarlan Gillespie Mrs. Shannon Belk Hilton Mrs. Gayle M. Dixon Mrs. Maggie Lloyd Gilliam Mr. Ivan Hinrichs Ms. Sandra Carol Dixon Ms. Kara Gilliard Ms. Helen Hinton Mr. Palmer and Mrs. Ellen Doiley Mr. Stephen Gilmore Mr. Stevenson and Mrs. Geraldine Hogan Ms. Pamela Tonya Doiley Mrs. Karla Goins-Welfare Mr. Matthew H. Holland Mr. Michael and Mrs. Ann Dombkowski Ms. Rebecca Goodman Mr. Edward T. Holloway Mrs. Eva G. Donaldson Mrs. Kim McLean Graham Ms. Valita Holmes Mrs. Rhonda Lynn Dorsey-Prude Mrs. Bessie B. Graham Mr. Donnie Hoover Mr. James Lawrence Drake, Jr. Mrs. Jean W. Graham Dr. and Mrs. Merritt J. Hougen Ms. Shallary F. Simmons Duncan Mrs. Laura Green Granville Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Heidi Hough Ms. Ordella Dunn Ms. Sylbria Brown Graves Mrs. Mildred G. Hudson Ms. Gwendolyn Eaton Ms. Kareema Jamilya Gray Mr. Simeon Humes Mrs. Georgette M. Edgerton Greater Galilee Baptist Church Ms. Jeannine Frances Hunter Ms. Spamvetta Edwards Ms. Leslie Green Ms. Judy Dowell Ingram Ms. Charlotte Edwards Dr. Edward and Mrs. Gail Green Reverend Kevin C. Ingram Mr. James Edwards Mr. Jeffrey L. Green Mrs. Bernice Lewers Irby Mr. Leslie J. Egleston Mrs. Priscilla Green-Davis Mr. Lewis J. Isaac Elams Chapel United Church ofChrist Ms. Shirley Cherry Greene Mr. Eric B. Jackson Ms. Thereasea Elder Ms. Lisa Greene Ms. Chalita Nicole Jackson Elon Homes and Schools for Children Mrs. Janice Tate Gresham Mr. Sylvester Jackson Mr. Thomas Ely Mrs. Mildred S. Grier Mr. Irvin W. Jackson Ms. Annie Evans Mrs. Sandra Nance Grier Jacob Road Pine Hill Community Club Mrs. Deloris G. Evans Mr. Kenneth and Mrs. Demetrice Griffin Ms. Maggie Jacobs Eventbrite, Inc. Grillz on Wheelz Ms. Vivian V. James Dr. James Benjamin Ewers, Jr. Mr. Wyatt E. Grove Ms. Gladys James Mr. James E. Farmer, Jr. Dr. Gary Guffey Jarrett Bay Boatworks Mr. John N. Faxio Mr. William H. Gunn JCSU Class of 1978 Mr. Willie R Fennell Mrs. Ann Gupton-Jones JCSU Durham Alumni Chapter Ms. Lisa B. Fewell Ms. Ella Mae Hairston JCSU Eastern NC Alumni Chapter First Presbyterian Church Ms. Janet S. Hall JCSU Winston-Salem Alumni Chapter Dr. Ada M. Fisher Mr. George T. Hall Mr. Gregory Jenkins Ms. Lucia A. Fitzgerald Dr. Yvette Irene Hall Mr. Antonio L. Jennings Dr. William C. Flythe Mr. Curtis Hallums Sukhwant Jhaj Ms. Rhoda Glasco Foderingham Ms. Ellaree Hampton Mr. Theodore and Mrs. Flora Johnson Mr. Drucilla Fogle Ms. Theon Hardy Mrs. Carolyn Blount Johnson Ms. Brenda Foote Reverend Richard C. Harkness Ms. Andrea Rochelle Johnson Reverend Patricia Coley Ford Mr. Timothy Harkness Mrs. Mildred L. Johnson Ms. Barbara J. Foster Mr. William T. Harper Mr. Tyree Johnson Ms. Clara McMillan Foster Dr. James H. Harris Mr. Conyus R Johnson, Jr. Mrs. Veronica Seabrook Fountain Mr. James F. Harris Mrs. Sallie Bouler Johnson Ms. Marian P. Franklin Mrs. Bertha Harris Mr. Rip and Mrs. Margaret Johnston Ms. Jennie Franklin Ms. Sandra Harris The Honorable Philemina M. Jones Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Barbara Frederick Ms. Kenya Harvey Mr. Douglas G. Jones Ms. C. Dianne Freeman Mr. Anthony C. Hayes Mr. Warren D. Jones Ms. Toni L. Freeman Mrs. Leandra Hayes-Thomas Dr. Edward L. Jones Mr. Lemuel H. Froneberger Mr. Johnny L. Headen Ms. Ieshia Kreshunda Jones Ms. Mary N. Funderburk Mr. Russell Heath Dr. Cathy W. Jones Mr. Clark Gaither Mrs. Denise McDaniel Henderson Mrs. Rosa Johnson Jones Gaither Real Estate Group Mr. Willie Henderson Mr. Kennard Jones Mrs. Ora M. Galloway Mr. Antonio Henry Mr. Mannal Jones

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Mr. Trent Jones Ms. Verta Witherspoon Looper Mrs. Sharon Thompson Moorer Mrs. Juanita Jones-Hall LPL Foundation Mrs. Gretta Moorhead Mr. Edward and Mrs. Cassandra Jordan Dr. David Luciano Ms. Debbie Morant Ms. Juana Renee Jordan Mrs. Deidre Lyles-Williams Mrs. Felicia C. Morgan Mr. Albert L. Jordan Ms. Barbara Jane Macon Ms. Lisa Morgan Esq. Mrs. Miriam T. Jordan Dr. Vincent and Mrs. Constance Mallory Ms. Theresa Y. Morris-Brown Ms. Talathia S. Joyner Mr. Brian Malloy Mr. James Everett Morrison, Jr. Ms. Barbara Ferguson Kamara Ms. Alisha Malloy Ms. Patricia Petty Morse Kamitic Life Center Mrs. Krista Manns Mr. Carl E. Muldrow Mr. John V. Kaprielian Ms. Nancy E. Mark Mrs. Carrie R. Murray Mrs. Rosa Kearns-Smith Ms. Elizabeth Marshall Mrs. Cheryl Legette Myrick Reverend Charles Douglas Keeling Mrs. Brittney Nicole Martin Ms. Natalie Nesbit Mr. Robert and Mrs. Linda Keene Ms. Norma M. Martin Mr. Ulysses Lee Nesmith Dr. Lonnie Keith Mrs. Emma Y. Martin-Goodman Ms. Linda M. Newkirk Mrs. Nellie Dunn Kennedy Mr. Julian D. Mason Mr. Troy and Mrs. Carrie Newman Dr. Brendan Eli Kern Mrs. Viella Hollaway Mason Mr. John M. Norris, Jr. Ms. Karitsa N. Kerns Mrs. Barbara Jean Massey-Arnold Mr. Hiawatha Northington II Mr. Shedrick D. Kirkpatrick Ms. Janea D. Matchett Mr. Roosevelt D. Odom, Jr. Mr. Steffen C. Knight Mr. Larry F. Matkins Reverend Dr. Lonnie Jones Oliver Ms. Susan Knights Mrs. Pecola Abraham Maxwell Original Chicken & Ribs Mr. Raymond Knox, Jr. Mrs. Mary Butler Maxwell Dr. Philip Otienoburu Ms. Kathryn Kuppers Ms. Lawana Mayfield Mr. Alfred and Mrs. Fernanda Owens Mrs. Emma H. Kurtz MBO of North Carolina, Inc. Mr. Robert A. Owens Mrs. Deborah W. Lanier Mr. Walter A. McAllister Ms. Ellen D. Owens Ms. Brittany D. Latimer Ms. Latrelle McAllister Mrs. LaVerne R. Parker Mrs. Rosemary Lunn Lawrence Ms. Portia E. McCollum Mr. Bill and Mrs. Susie Parrott Mr. Antonio Martin Kenyatto Lawrence Mrs. Johnnie Steward McCray Ms. Shawnette Pate Ms. LaShun Lawson Mrs. Jennifer Simmons McDowell Mr. Freddie Patterson Dr. BerNadette Lawson-Williams Mr. Douglas McElveen Mrs. Germaine Patterson-Smith Mrs. Doretha L. Leak Mr. Garry Leonard McFadden Ms. Donna Marie Paul Mr. Gary D. Leake Ms. Genova McFadden Mr. Francis L. Pendergrass Ms. Maureen Leary Dr. DeLores McGhee-Jones Ms. Irvelle Celeste Penn Cowan Ms. Carrie Spence Ledbetter Mrs. Evelyn W. McIntosh Ms. Geraldine E. Perry Mrs. Lucy Dupree Lee Dr. Laura Colson McLean Ms. Cynthia Peters Mrs. Anita McAfee Lee Mr. Joseph Mcmahand Ms. Keri Petersen Mr. Randy Lee Dr. William Bruce McMillan, Jr. Mrs. Shelia Bethune Petty Mr. Marc A. Lee Ms. Gladys Vanessa McNeill Mr. David and Mrs. Santina Pfleeger Dr. Takeda L. Legrand Ms. Brenda McNeill Ms. Heather F. Philpott Reverend Warren J. Lesane, Jr. Ms. Rachel A. McPherson Ms. Gloria A. Pickett-McNeill Ms. Malaika Lesesne Mr. Richard McPherson Ms. Essie Wallace Pierce Ms. Constance Lesesne Ms. Mary A. McPherson Dr. Melvin T. Pinn, Jr. Ms. Daisy R. Lewers Mrs. Maxie C McRae Mr. Bernard Poindexter Mr. Alphonso and Mrs. Peggy Lide Dr. Antonia Mead Mrs. Phyllis A. Pope Ms. Bridget Lightner Atty. Spencer B. Merriweather III The Presbytery of New Hope Mrs. Valia D. Lindsay Ms. Eleanor S. Meyers Ms. Kathleen J. Pressley Ms. Helen D. Lindsey Ms. Earline Middleton Mr. Gregory Preyor Dr. Michael L. Lindsey Mr. Dwight S. Miller Mr. Eugene E. Price Mrs. Carolyn Lipscomb-White Mrs. Hannah A. Miller Ms. Dorothy A. Prioleau Carol and James Lister Ms. Shirley Mills-Harris Mrs. Diane Wilson Proctor Mr. Norman and Mrs. Mae Little Mr. William Earl Minor Mr. Donald Quarles Mrs. Gloria B. Locke Dr. Melita Marie Mitchell Dr. Kelli Rainey Mr. Robert N. Logan, Jr. Mrs. Kelley A. Mitchell Mr. Darren Jerome Ramsey Mr. Wallace E. Loggins Mr. David Moncree Mr. Arthur C. Redding Mr. Lenwood V. Long, Sr. Mr. Lawrence and Mrs. Robbie Moore Mr. Clayton S. Reid Mr. Ezell A. Long Ms. Tenessa Tennette Moore Mrs. Wilhelmenia I. Rembert

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Community champions featured in the book “Ten Men” gathered for the book launch Ten Men celebrates life on Charlotte’s West Side

“When we look at our strengths, we Darrel Williams; Trustee and “There have been some increase. When we know our entrepreneur Damian Johnson ’95; phenomenal men over the decades weaknesses, they decrease,” dedicated civil servant Alvin who focused attention on the President Ronald L. Carter told the Austin; and grassroots organizer Northwest Corridor,” said Austin, crowd gathered at Johnson C. Smith Colin Pinkney. former director of Development at University Sept. 19, 2017, at a book JCSU and now the HBCU Outreach launch for a stirring new volume The book focuses squarely on director for the North Carolina showing Black men in the Northwest Charlotte’s West Side and is a literary Department of Transportation. “I’m Corridor in a strong, positive light. antidote to the sobering statistics happy to be among the number to plaguing Black men in America. embrace the fact that we need to “Ten Men” is an insightful oral do something.” history told from the perspective of Edited by award-winning ten of Charlotte’s most dynamic journalist and author Ron Stodghill, The second volume in a series change-agents working to the work blends glimpses of the inviting readers into a new era of strengthen Charlotte’s oldest community's storied past with civic engagement, “Ten Men” follows African-American community. discussions of present-day dramatic 2014’s “Let There Be Light” and takes shifts: gentrifying neighborhoods, readers on a journey with some of Included, among others, are the an imminent Gold Line streetcar, the city's most exceptional leaders voices of civil rights champion and new business and who have leveraged the power of Charles Jones ’58; visionary architect commercial construction. community groups, book clubs,

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churches, athletic teams, and “After Charlotte’s riots [following the narrative to view the factors shaping barbershops to build a Charlotte police killing of Keith Lamont Scott in their lives. where all citizens have a voice and a 2016], I realized I wouldn’t be worth a chance at a prosperous future. grain of salt if I didn’t come back and “So often, I hear deficit perspectives of help my own people," he said. the area—what we cannot do. We have “I’m from Charlotte. I grew up in this to change the narrative of the Northwest community and when I went off to Developed under the auspices of the Corridor,” Carter said. “This is our school to get my doctorate what Smith Institute for Applied Research, narrative, built on competencies that go motivated me was this community,” said “Ten Men” leads from a perspective of back years. We want to tell those stories.” Dr. Jonathon Livingston, who wrote the strengths when discussing Black men book’s foreword. The North Carolina in Charlotte and beyond. “Ten Men” provides a platform for Central University professor and senior celebrating Charlotte’s Black male research fellow at JCSU now lives in It articulates Carter’s vision of providing leadership. The book is available on Raleigh, N.C. records so future generations have an Amazon.com and in the JCSU bookstore, alternate lens from the traditional as well as digitally in Kindle, Nook, and iPad formats.

(Left) Dr. Ur Aua Hehimetu Ra EnKamit Black History Month celebration looks at Ghana’s kingship model as roadmap to success

Johnson C. Smith University kicked off compiling the work, which studies the other items, drumming, dancing, and Black History Month with an exciting and ways in which the traditional model of jazz music by A Sign of the Times. engaging program Feb. 9, 2018, at the Asante kingship in Ghana offers a James B. Duke Memorial Library. sustainable blueprint to improve the Proceeds from the donation-based quality of leadership for disenfranchised event went toward building JCSU’s Guests were treated to a discussion on communities worldwide. It was a MakerSpace, an interactive lab where the groundbreaking book, “Divine powerful presentation on how our patrons can access cutting-edge Kingship of Asante: A Model for history can provide a pathway to a technology such as 3-D printers and Sustainable Development of Self and greater future. Additionally, guests CAD design to bring their ideas to life. Community,” by Dr. Ur Aua Hehimetu Ra enjoyed food, an African-style EnKamit. The author spent years marketplace for cultural jewelry and

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Maker Conference helps bridge digital divide

The James B. Duke Memorial Library partnered with Discovery about, but also talk to some of the instructors. I got one of their Place Education Studio, Makerspace Charlotte and Apple to business cards so I can apply at Discovery Place this summer host a full-day Maker Conference April 13, 2018. The event gave after I complete my research program,” he said. Charlotte and particularly African-American entrepreneurs the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge Jones has a few business ideas but didn’t know how to go digital equipment and concepts. Guests heard expert panel about realizing them, so he was happy to learn about the discussions with designers, makers, and hackers. They also took entrepreneurship hub, a recently debuted resource that works coding classes and saw demonstrations of 3D printers, laser in tandem with JCSU’s Makerspace. Students come to the hub cutters and milling devices. with business ideas and find the guidance to develop them-- several students’ businesses have even secured micro-grant Discovery Place instructors provided individualized 15-20 funding through the hub. minute “speed-sessions” so attendees could collaborate on designing and producing their own items to take home—these Dani Brockington, a Charlotte-based graphic designer and could be used as tchotchkes or as prototypes to aid in visual arts entrepreneur, said the day was a boon for the entire fundraising. Dr. Chantell McDowell, JCSU’s collection community. development librarian and instructional tech coordinator, was the conference’s principle organizer. “I definitely see how I can apply this in my art,” Brockington told Spectrum News, which was onsite covering the event. “I’ve “If you know technology, you can build anything,” she said. always been into tinkering and putting things together, so this “Charlotte is among the highly technological cities in our is a cool way to learn about these things.” country and we want to make sure our students have the edge to be competitive.” In addition to being a learning space, the Maker Conference also offered a valuable opportunity for guests to grow and Michael Gathers ’21, a computer science major, took Apple’s build connections. Swift Coding workshop for students before coming to the maker area, intrigued by a laser-cut 3-D cardboard T-Rex “It gives us a community of other makers to bounce ideas off on display. and learn from,” Brockington said. “It helps when you push forward with other people.” “In the coding workshop, they told us about the 3-D printers down here and said we could come and create some stuff, so I This was a day of priceless learning, networking opportunities came to check it out,” he said. “I don’t have anything particular and enrichment for educators, students, alumni and in mind but the possibilities are fascinating.” community members. Everyone got caught up in the joy of making! Kenan Jones ’19, also a computer science major, came to learn as well as network. “I wanted to see what the 3D printers were

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‘Chairman Jones’ film connects educational struggle, past and present, across the South

On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 6 pm, JCSU’s New Science Center auditorium was filled to near capacity for a free screening of “Chairman Jones—An Improbable Leader,” which tells the story of James Henry Jones, a self-educated farmer who emerged as a trailblazer during the 1969 school desegregation crisis sparked when Northampton County, North Carolina refused to implement the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision to fully integrate the public schools.

After freeing himself from Jim Crow sharecropping in the 1950s, Jones launched a personal campaign to free black children from Jim Crow education, placing his own children on the front lines of the desegregation fight. Jones brought Blacks and whites together for dialogue and, as North Carolina’s first Black school board chairman, transformed the educational landscape for everyone.

Guests were amazed by this story of not-too- distant history, captured in archival footage as well as anecdotes and first-hand accounts from those who struggled alongside Jones.

WBTV reporter Steve Crump moderated a post-show dialogue, where panelists including director Anna Jones and Dorothy Counts- Scoggins ’64 took questions and comments from the audience.

"We wanted to bring people together to share the experience of watching this beautiful, inspiring film of the life and leadership of James Henry Jones and then to engage in conversation around the themes of leadership and education that the film brings up in today's context, particularly here in Charlotte,” said Minda Brooks of Wild Acres Leadership Initiative, which sponsored the program. “We are tremendously grateful to Johnson C. Smith University for hosting us on their campus at the New Science Center. Their In researching the film, “I discovered there was a movement commitment to civic engagement and cultural outreach is a of a people fighting to go from segregation to cooperation great asset to the Charlotte community. And, the New Science around education for the children of Northampton County,” Center provided the perfect, high-tech venue." she said. “Today, together, we can reflect on how this story of citizen leadership, education inequality, and race relations Director Anna Jones, who is also the granddaughter of during the Jim Crow and School Desegregation eras can James Jones, shared her thoughts on the relevance, now, of a help us see the present more clearly and move us into a film like this. new tomorrow.”

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Garry McFadden ‘82 Alumnus Garry McFadden keeps CIAA Tournament safe for participants and fans

Garry McFadden ‘82, a retired Charlotte-Mecklenburg Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton come homicide detective and star of the TV show to the city. “I Am Homicide,” is one of the most decorated law enforcement officers in the history of the Charlotte- In his 34 years with CMPD, McFadden investigated Mecklenburg Police Department. What many do not more than 800 homicides and racked up an know is that McFadden is also responsible for keeping astounding solve rate of 90 percent. He retired in millions of Charlotteans and visitors safe at one of the 2011 and was re-hired by the City of Charlotte to work biggest events of the year: The CIAA Tournament. in the Office of the Chief, where he worked in the Community Relations Unit, the Dignitary Protection McFadden is the CMPD liaison for the CIAA’s local Unit, and the Intelligence Unit for the 2012 Democratic organizing committee. He works with both entities to National Convention. enact proper safety measures and ensure traffic patterns were not overwhelming. He was pleased that In addition to his many contributions, McFadden there were no instances of violence associated with is also a community advocate and mentor to youth. tournament week festivities in 2018, and offered a few When not running his firm, he travels from city to city, tips on public safety. creating a platform for communities of color and law enforcement to have more conversations instead of “People can make my job easier by staying within confrontations. He says there is a crisis in America with guidelines of venues and the law,” McFadden said. Black males being killed in officer-involved shootings. “Generally be mindful of your surroundings, alcohol intake and the venues you go to. Check out the “Definitely. But become educated before getting websites and look at who is going to attend parties.” emotional,” he cautioned. “Look, I get emotional too. But in these cases the facts remain, and that’s where The death of iconic evangelist Billy Graham, just days you get involved. Learn to analyze the entire situation before the 2018 CIAA opening ceremonies, could have and see the breakdowns in protocol. We’ll not get choked Charlotte’s streets, but McFadden was unfazed. justice by focusing on black and white, racism, or profiling. That’s why I’m so passionate about people “My team looked at the gaps in planning and made getting their rights and getting justice.” contingencies for potential crises,” McFadden said. “We discussed the routes, touched base with the hotels, McFadden is currently working in the community with and confirmed so nothing would interfere with or I Speak Now, Cops and Barbers, Council of Elders and disrupt the CIAA. We wanted no surprises this year.” was honored with the “Always Believe” community McFadden is also a lead on CMPD’s Dignitary service award by NBA legends Muggsy Bogues and Protection Unit, so he does much of the planning Larry Johnson. After the 2018 CIAA Tournament, he ran when notable public figures such as former President a successful campaign for Mecklenburg County sheriff.

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Lumber Company Tailgating Crew feeds Golden Bulls Pride

Around JCSU, people talk about the CIAA Tournament. When they couldn’t, Sherrill met with the crew and invited the Lumber Company—but until recently it they contributed monetarily to Lumber Company to JCSU’s basketball had little to do with hardwood. The fundraisers and events year-round. alumni reunion during the game against Lumber Company Tailgating Crew, a St. Augustine’s, on Jan. 20, 2018. The group of gridiron alumni, are famed for The tailgating tradition started simply: a initial goal was to feed about 100 people, supporting JCSU football and providing few hamburgers and hotdogs. Some but the Lumber Company ended up some of the best tailgating to be found members brought grills, then a tent. feeding 150 basketball players, at the University’s Homecoming Tailgating with the Lumber Company cheerleaders, alumni and their families. celebrations. Now, they’ve expanded became a huge hit, one of the main their philanthropy to JCSU basketball draws outside of the Homecoming game “The players were happy to have a and the entire athletics department. itself, because they turned no one away. home-cooked meal, but we just wanted Their tent became so popular, they to say thank you,” Copeland said. “We Morton Copeland ’89, a former began holding tailgates every year, even love our school and each other and take linebacker, spoke candidly about at regular season games. Since JCSU a great sense of pride in our university. the group’s past and their plans for began holding the MasterBull Griller We want the new generations to have the future. contests during Homecoming in 2013, the same love, support and experience the Lumber Company has taken the top we did.” “As teammates, we formed a unique spot in the ribs or burgers category every bond that has carried over to this day,” year. The crew’s ribs were so good that Luckily it happened to be a recruitment Copeland said. they won the inaugural “MasterBull weekend for JCSU Football, so those Griller Champion” title. coaches and their recruits ate as well. The Lumber Company name was given to the group in the mid-to-late 1980s The crew has decided to lend their “They saw a bunch of old football players because of their hard-hitting defense. grilling skills to support events during tailgating for the basketball team,” the seasons of other JCSU sports. Copeland said proudly. “For student- “We laid the wood to people,” Copeland athletes considering our school, seeing said with a laugh. “We worked hard on “Eventually, we all recognized that we that kind of family unity does make the field and when we left, we retained a needed to do more to give back to our a difference.” bond of brotherhood.” school and support other sports besides football,” Copeland said. “A few members The Lumber Company Tailgating Crew is After graduating, the men regularly came also played basketball, so we decided to now under the umbrella of the JCSU 100 together. The biggest base live here in support that program.” Club. Donations to the 100 Club can be Charlotte but members in Florida, South made in the Lumber Company’s name, Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and other Head Basketball Coach Stephen Joyner and 100 percent of those gifts support states returned for Homecoming and the Sr. and Assistant Basketball Coach Mark JCSU Athletics. jsu_396105_Text_Layout 1 4/4/19 8:32 AM Page 98

JCSU Alumni teach at medical training program in Nigeria

U.S. podiatrists, emergency room physicians and certified nurse Dr. William Harris IV is the president of the South Carolina anesthetists participated as instructors in the fourth annual Podiatric Medical Association and is a Johnson C. Smith Podiatry Initiative of Nigeria in Lagos, Nigeria. This five-day University graduate along with Dr. James Fullwood '04 who is workshop and training program, opening Aug. 21, 2017 was a the chief of staff at Sebasticook Valley Health and vice president collaboration of the World Diabetes Foundation, The Podiatry of the Maine Podiatric Medical Association. He is also a member Institute, and Rainbow Specialist Medical Center to train of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Dr. Rhan Ravenell is a graduate Nigerian medical professionals on diabetic foot care and of Florida A&M University and board member of the South amputation prevention. Carolina Podiatric Medical board and trustee member of the Podiatry Institute of America. He is a member of Alpha Phi During this conference, strides were made to establish Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Dr. Abiola Oki is a graduate of Howard podiatric medicine/surgery as a much needed medical University and resident podiatrist in Miami, Fla., with a focus in specialty in Nigeria in sight of the alarming rates of limb salvage and foot and ankle reconstruction, who has complications associated with diabetic foot ulcers. traveled to many countries on medical missions.

Dr. Kevin Adeleke is an emergency room physician at Queens Hospital and is a graduate of Morgan State University;

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Invest in Tomorrow by giving today.

Giving to JCSU is renewable on an annual basis in three easy ways:

Mail Checks are payable to “JCSU” and may be sent to: The Division of Institutional Advancement, ATTN: Development, 100 Beatties Ford Road, Charlotte, NC 28216. Online www.jcsu.edu/giving Telephone (704) 378-3577 or (704) 330-1424

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Golden Class presents $157,000 to university during 2018 Alumni Reunion Banquet

On May 19-21, 2018, Johnson C. Smith impress for the annual Alumni Banquet year-to-date total was $223,640.18. University alumni from the classes of at the Sheraton Airport Hotel. Each class Since 2013, the classes that were in 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, gathered at tables with their peers to reunion have donated $857,093.04 to the 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, and fellowship with one another. University. Of that amount, the Class of 2013 returned to Beatties Ford Road to 1948 gave $114,852.81, the Golden Class celebrate the joyous occasion of Wanda Foy-Burroughs ’73, director of of 1968 gave $157,185.62, and the Silver Reunion Weekend. Alumni Relations, presided over the Class of 1993 gave $13,063.72. event, and Commencement speaker Golden Bulls gathered on “The Block” in Mark Morial made a guest appearance Lauren Scott, Miss JCSU 2002, spoke front of the historic Biddle Memorial Hall ahead of Sunday’s exercises. warm words in remembrance of to recount experiences and milestones Smithites who have passed away. DJ Tut gained at the University. After dinner, David Julian, executive provided musical melodies and Smithites director of development, gave a short danced the night away, full of Golden The class of 1968 held high the Gold video presentation. Class agents Bulls pride. and Blue, celebrating their Golden presented their five-year giving totals to Anniversary and the class of 1993 President Clarence D. Armbrister and celebrated their Silver Anniversary. Board of Trustees Chair Shirley J. Hughes. Later that evening, alumni dressed to As of that evening, the Reunion Class

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Members of the Golden Class of 1968 Classes of 1968 and 1948 share breakfast and memories during Alumni Reunion Weekend

The Class of 1968 returned to JCSU in force on May 19, 2018, for Americans, so I was able to affect some people’s lives that way. I the traditional Golden Breakfast. Fifty years of ambition, feel good about that,” she said. achievements and nostalgia brightened the top floor of the New Science Center, filling the room with stories of times past. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. was a visceral Educators, early tech pioneers, fashion buyers and more moment in many of the Golden Class’ minds. It changed the opened up about pivotal moments in their lives at Johnson C. course of America and left an indelible mark on their senior Smith University. year. Most could recall exactly what they were doing April 4, 1968, when they heard the news. Rosemary Lawrence, who made history as the City of Charlotte’s first revenue manager, was resplendent in the pink and green “They sent us home,” recalled Yolanda Ford, who had marched of her sisterhood, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Though she that year with the Poor People’s Campaign. “Oh yes, they closed had majored in history with a minor in English, she learned Smith down. It was a Friday and they knew there was going to quickly that she wasn’t suited for the classroom. So she be turmoil.” switched tracks completely, working in banking for 15 years before spending 25 years as Charlotte’s first revenue manager, a Guy Barnes, a French and history major, was cruising around Black woman. with friends when the announcement came over the radio.

“It was the right choice, because I loved numbers,” Lawrence “We were riding in a car on the wrong side of town, in an said. “Also, I thought I would be more impactful in that field economically depressed area,” he said. “And I realized where we because I had the chance to hire a number of African were and what had happened and I told my friend, ‘We’ve got

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to get out of here.’ It was the wrong place for us to be. I always remember where I was and what I was doing. It was that devastating.”

Stewart ‘Big Bob’ Oatman had a similar story. The former JCSU quarterback who majored in “economics, clowning and funning” said he was working a shift at the Charlotte Country Club at the time.

“Somebody overheard someone in the club make a statement about King, saying he was glad that they’d got him, and we all left,” Oatman said. “They had to scramble for staff to clear the dishes, find someone to serve and all that. You gotta put yourself in the mindset of being 19 or 20 years old and to have that happen. We were young and we were angry. It gave you a new perspective on how things really are in this country.”

Of course, not all of the memories were so painful. In fact Chair Hughes presented Wade with an award and announced Johnny James of Columbia, S.C., remembered many good times the start of a Chair Emeritus Committee, made up of past on the football team before graduating to work at Sears, leaders of the Board of Trustees. Roebuck and Company. Wade was shocked at the surprise honor, but recovered his “I played football with a lot of these guys, and had a lot of gravitas immediately. roommates in this room, probably because people couldn’t get along with me,” he joked. “What’s emblematic of the Class of “JCSU has a strong faculty and staff, and the University is on an ’68? Love. For some reason, we always did and still do love each upward trajectory,” he said. “That’s why I’m back here today.” other and for me over the years that’s been a big deal.” Mary Chastain ’48 of Mt. Olive, N.C., summed up the emotion At the same time on the other side of campus, a very special on campus that day. As she maneuvered her electric scooter 70th reunion was taking place in the Mary Joyce Taylor Crisp across The Block, she beamed the brightest smile at everyone Student Union. Members of the class of ’48 gathered to talk, she passed. meet with President Clarence D. Armbrister and staff of Institutional Advancement, as well as Board of Trustees Chair “I am ecstatic to be here,” she said. “I have really been blessed Shirley J. Hughes—and secretly honor former Board of Trustees and although I’m not walking anymore, I’m just glad to be back Chair Clarence W.R. Wade ’48. on the yard again.”

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HOMECOMING IS WHERE THE HEART IS

Bright smiles and excitement filled the air as Johnson C. Smith University celebrated Homecoming 2017. Each and every Golden Bull who returned, as well as those who wished they could, were in our hearts as we feted our long and storied tradition of excellence.

JCSU family and friends shared hours of fun and fellowship on the unseasonably warm late-October day, cheering the Golden Bulls on to victory, reminiscing at the Greek plots and dancing the night away. Alumni leaders renewed their commitment to supporting and strengthening the University’s legacy, and community members saw first-hand the undeniable progress of JCSU. To all of our fabulous students, faculty, staff, alumni and donors, as well as those generations to come One of the highlights of the day was meeting Clarence D. Armbrister, who will build on our rich legacy, JCSU thanks and the new president-elect, and his wife, Denise McGregor Armbrister. It salutes you. was great to see the man who will become our 14th president start getting to know the Golden Bulls family.

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2017/2018 105 jsu_396105_Text_Layout 1 4/4/19 8:33 AM Page 106 2018 REUNION WEEKEND Classes ending in 8 and 3 came together in celebration for Reunion Weekend 2018, held May 18-20. The years fell away as friends reconnected at the alumni banquet and members of the Golden Anniversary Class of 1968 were resplendent in gold robes for Sunday’s Commencement Exercises.

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Sadye Beatryce Curry ’63 Elaine achievements in 40’s is the first African- Lane ’68 representing the goals and American woman was a ideals of Toastmasters to become a recipient International. CLASS NOTES Class of 1944 gastroenterologist in the of the Phi United States, and the first Beta 90’s African American to Kappa pursue postgraduate National Sorority Award studies at Duke University of Excellence. Class of 1998 Medical Center. Dr. Davida Loren Class of 1964 70’s Haywood ’98 has been selected Mrs. Catherine R. Former as a Hawkins ’44 visited President, Class of 1973 member campus on April 14, 2018. Dr. of the Mrs. Hawkins was the Dorothy James inaugural proud wife of Cowser Stephens, cohort Dr. Reginald Hawkins Yancy ’64 executive for the ’44, a civil rights activist was director of Minority Serving in Charlotte, N.C. inducted into the 2018 South Institutions (MSI) Mr. Hawkins fought to CIAA John B. McLendon Carolina Aspiring Leaders desegregate Charlotte Hall of Fame at the annual program sponsored schools and businesses CIAA Hall of Fame Aeronautics Commission, by the Pennsylvania and was the first African Breakfast on presented a $16,700 grant Center for Minority American to run for March 2, 2018. to Willa Martin Bailey Serving Institutions. governor of North ’73, president of the Carolina. Mrs. Hawkins’ trip Class of 1968 Challenger Learning Class of 1999 back to campus was one Center Foundation. The to remember and she was Sergeant grant will provide the Leandra greeted by Mrs. Wanda Major center with flight Hayes- Foy-Burroughs, director of Jackie L. simulator upgrades and Burgess Alumni Relations. Wilson aid in the creation of a ’99 has '68 drone program. been received selected as 60’s the Class of 1977 the vice Humanitarian Award from president of Institutional Jimi Holloway Production E. Tyree Advancement for Benedict Class of 1963 Inc. for his commitment to Johnson College in Columbia, S.C. community service on Jr. ’77 was Hayes-Burgess has a The Wilmington Journal February 3, 2018. Along selected proven record of reported on a school in with the award, Wilson to receive accomplishment as a Liberia named for Barbara received citations from the the successful fundraiser and Ferguson Kamara ’63, borough president, state, advancement professional who became a consultant assemblywoman, and a Presidential Citation from for a number of higher in early childhood proclamation from the Toastmasters International education institutions. education to the nation’s congressman of his during the organization’s government. New York district. 86th International To learn more, visit Convention in Vancouver, The Tallahassee Democrat http://wilmingtonjournal.c Canada, on August 24, (part of the USA Today om/school-named-for- 2017. The award, which is network) reported that williston-class-of-59- one of Toastmasters’ veteran reporter Rory pioneer/ highest honors, was Sharrock ’99 has joined presented in recognition the paper’s sports team of his outstanding and will provide coverage

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on Florida A&M University, Class of 2011 Class of 2013 Class of 2015 Florida State University and Tallahassee Community Darril Alexa Alliecia Butler ’15 graduated College athletics across digital Marshall ’11 Brown ’13 from Purdue University with a and print platforms. To read was awarded graduated Master of Science degree in the full story, visit the 2016- from the strategic communications in https://www.tallahassee.com/ 2017 “Rookie Education May 2017. story/sports/2018/06/04/sharr Teacher of Policy ock-joins-democrat- the Year Fellowship Lindsey Laster ’15 graduated sportsteam/668854002/ Award.” Marshall teaches program in association with from North Carolina State eighth grade English at Georgia Partnership for University with a Master of Martin Luther King Middle Excellence in Education. Arts in Teaching in 2017. School in Charlotte, NC. 2000’s Tierra Sanders ’13 Class of 2016 Tirrell Anderson ’11 received graduated from Keller Class of 2007 his master’s degree in Social Graduate School with a Craig Cannon ’16 graduated Work with a concentration in master’s degree in Human from American University Aisha Lide ’07 has just Leadership from Fordham Resources Management. with a master’s degree in launched a new business, Ear University in May 2017. Journalism and Public Affairs Fetish. Ear Fetish is Alicia (Reed) Hill '12 and with a concentration in an online earring and Class of 2012 Eric Hill '13, college broadcast in May 2017. accessories boutique. sweethearts, were married in See more at Kadeisha West ’12 earned a Boston, Mass. on April 28, Elaine Cadichon ’16 www.myearfetish.com/ juris doctorate from Emory 2018. Among the invited graduated from Johnson C. University School of Law in guests were their families, Smith University with a Class of 2009 May 2017. loved ones, and a host of Master of Social Work degree other JCSU alumni. on Sunday, May 21, 2017. Ashley Alicia (Reed) Nicole Hill '12 and Class of 2014 Nashawn Davis ’16 Hughes ’09 Eric Hill '13, graduated from Johnson was married college Levi Williams Jr. ’14 & Wales University with a to Justin sweethearts, graduated from Full Sail Master of Business Lamar Ross were married University with a Master Administration degree in on Friday, in Boston, of Science degree in May 2017. April 28, 2017. Angelica Clark Mass. on April 28, 2018. Entertainment Business and ’09, Michella (Waters) Palmer Among the invited guests Sport Management in 2017. ’09, Ashley Taylor ’09, Ashley were their families, loved Bellony ’09, Demetria Bell ’10, ones, and a host of other JCSU Yasmine Gray ’14 Christina Hypolite ’10, Jamil alumni. graduated from New York Harmon ’09, Kendreous University School of Adams-Johnson ’09, and Sharika Comfort ’12 Professional Studies with a Kevin Ransom attended the had a private screening and master’s degree in print and wedding in Paris, France. Each panel discussion of “Quarter digital media publishing. of the named guests met at Life Consciousness,” a mini- JCSU and have been documentary about her life Louisa Taylor ’14 placed third close friends. journey to 25 through art on at the Sing Out Loud talent February 15, 2017. The mini- competition presented by documentary was produced RollingOut magazine during by Yamani Smith-Murrell ’11 the 2017 CIAA Tournament and managed by Marietou Fan Fest Live. Agne ’12.

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Stephen Joyner Sr. inducted into Mecklenburg County Sports Wall of Fame

On May 17, 2018, Stephen Joyner Sr. ’73. was inducted into the Joyner’s plaque on the Sports Wall of Fame denotes the Mecklenburg County Sports Wall of Fame in the following accomplishments: Coach/Manager category for his accomplishments as a coach and sports administrator at Johnson C. Smith University. The • 2005 – Present: JCSU Director of Athletics award was presented to Joyner by Mary Foxx Johnson ’77. • 2018 Winningest Men’s Basketball Coach in JCSU History and CIAA Winningest Active Coach, 10 CIAA Division Titles, Joyner, who serves as JCSU’s head men’s basketball coach and JCSU Record 540-346 (Men) & 622-418 (Men and Women) director of athletics, was one of six local sports fgures inducted as of February 27, 2018 as the Class of 2018. He is the winningest basketball coach in • 2015 Joined Mike Kryzyzewski, Roy Williams and Larry JCSU history and the winningest active coach in the CIAA. Hunter as only coaches in NC with 500 or more career wins • 2014 John B. McLendon Jr. CIAA Hall of Fame Inductee The Sports Wall of Fame, located at Revolution Park Sports • 2009, 2008, 2001: Coached JCSU to CIAA Academy, serves to honor outstanding Mecklenburg County Tournament Championships athletes, coaches, and teams who have contributed • 2001, 1997, 1992: CIAA Coach of the Year signifcantly either to the development of athletes or to the • 2001 Coached JCSU to NCAA Elite Eight Tournament excellence of sports programs in our area or brought national Finish and 10 Ranking. and/or international recognition to Mecklenburg County. The • 2001 NCAA Division II South Atlantic Region Coach Sports Wall of Fame is a project of the Mecklenburg County of the Year Park and Recreation Department.

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‘American South’ film uncovers unsung heroes of Civil Rights

Award-winning film “The American South as We Know It” The men replied, “We don’t and she doesn’t either.” One of them screens August 28, 2018 from 6-8 p.m. at the Harvey B. Gantt looked like he had a gun in his pocket. The woman dropped her Center for African-American Arts and Culture. The documentary was written, directed and shot by Frederick Murphy, a former head immediately. Retelling the story still makes Murphy angry. JCSU staffer, and Andrew Smith ’15, JCSU’s first graduate to major in film. The feature-length film paints a picture of the “This was probably how it had always been; she had no voice. African-American experience from slavery to the 1960s through Inside the store she had all the agency and gumption in the the eyes of people who lived it—everyday American heroes. world, but the second she stepped outside I saw her hesitation. They shrunk her,” he said. “That’s why I’m telling these stories. I Murphy graduated from Tennessee State University and owe these individuals, to amplify their voices. I’m trying to Bethune Cookman College before working at JCSU from spread the message for our ancestors.” 2010-2015 as director of Counseling Services and assistant dean of Health and Wellness. He describes himself as “HBCU Smith edited the documentary and handled the bulk to the bone.” of the filming. It was one of the first major projects by his company, Nova Initia Productions. Coming from Largo, Md., “I was always drawn to researching black history,” Murphy said. in Prince George’s County, this was the first time he’d ever “I knew there had to be more to my history than Martin Luther traveled through the Deep South. He found the journey King and Rosa Parks.” eye-opening.

Murphy and Smith charted their route based on tips from “During the process of filming this documentary, I learned that history buffs, elders and scholars, researching well-known many blacks who grew up in the Jim Crow era did not people in the towns and building an organic network of necessarily have it ‘bad,’ based on the area in which they lived. sources via word of mouth. JCSU graduate Edith Strickland Many lived pretty comfortable lives,” Smith said. “This spoke to DeLaine ’60 was one such resource. She sent the pair to me because all too often, blacks are seen to have only Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-black town founded by suffered in America and never prospered. The other thing I got freedmen that had been enslaved by Jefferson Davis’ brother. from that is even the blacks who didn’t face the blatant racism that many others did were still aware of what was going on in In all, the two traveled 12,000 miles through small towns in their country. They were still activists, striving to fight to make Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia America great for all disenfranchised groups. It just goes to and Alabama. It took a year and a half to film the documentary. show that even if your struggle isn’t the same as your brother’s Although Smith and Murphy had the opportunity to interview or sister’s, the ability to empathize and mobilize was still strong some well-known people, their real focus was uncovering the across the South among blacks. We have always stories of unsung civil rights heroes. had a fighting spirit and will continue the fight.”

“We sought stories of local activists,” Murphy said. “We didn’t Learn more about the project at www.americansouthfilm.com. want big-names, but people who were fierce in their own community. Every town had their own little MLK.” But sometimes, the stories didn’t have happy endings.

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Johnson C. Smith University Alumni Attend and Receive Awards at Night of Impact

aheem Roberts ’10 and Israel Spencer ’16 were among other male educators of color who were recognized at Profound Gentlemen’s Night of Impact on Saturday, March 11, 2018 at Sedgefeld Middle School in Charlotte, N.C. Profound Gentlemen, a Rnational non-proft, works to build a community of male educators of color.

At the Night of Impact, Roberts took home the most prestigious award of the evening: the Black Apple Award, which is awarded to four educators, out of the 300-member organization, who have had a signifcant impact on their students and community. Roberts has been a elementary school teacher in Charlotte since he graduated and a part of the founding staf at the Movement School.

Spencer is a frst-year high school math teacher at Charlotte Israel Spencer Raheem Roberts Learning Academy. At the Night of Impact, Spencer won New Educator of the Year for his commitment to learning and developing into the best teacher he can be. School, Stephen Graddick ’16, environmental educator, and Douglas Jones ’88, Executive Director of Strategic Planning at Other JCSU alumni in attendance were Darril Marshall ’11, Project L.I.F.T, and Sabrina Davis ’12, Alumni Relations Program middle grade English teacher at Martin Luther King Middle Ofcer and Profound Gentlemen Board Member.

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