FEBRUARY/ MARCH 2015 NONPROFIT ORG. Black History Month at HU U.S. POSTAGE By Leha Byrd Hampton University P.O. Box 6446 PAID Hampton University’s Black History Month theme was HAMPTON, VA Hampton, Virginia 23668 “The Hillman Project: A Different World.” The month’s PERMIT NO. 73 events included a viewing of the movie “The Book of Negros,” which ended with an address by Aunjanue Ellis, the ‘State of the Black’ panel series and an address by Civil Rights Activist Sheyane Webb. HU Student Government Association (SGA) President Lawrence Rigby and Black History Month Committee Member Justin Shaifer appeared on the Cox 11 program “Hot Ticket” and HU’s WHOV to talk about various events that are scheduled throughout the month. “We were pleased with the variety of events and the exposure they received during Black History Month Scripps Howard School partners with CNBC to drive diversity efforts at the University,” Rigby said. “The month’s success by Gianina Thompson is encouragement for next year, to continue the Set to launch this summer, the fellowship is designed to the premium, integrated desktop/mobile service, and its tradition of celebrating black history in ways that are focus on diverse or underrepresented students and give suite of mobile products including the CNBC Universal informational and exciting for the campus community them the opportunity to explore business news journalism App for the iPhone/iPad. and the Hampton community.” and the fundamental skills of news production, as well as provide the unique experience to work in a live newsroom “Upon my arrival here a few years ago, we set out to begin with the highest caliber journalists in the field. preparing Scripps Howard students for the expanding world of business and financial news. We have been “Fostering a diverse and inclusive environment that working hard to achieve that goal, and this new CNBC attracts and retains top talent is a key priority for CNBC,” Fellowship is a testament to our early success,” said said Tyler Benjamin, Global HR Leader, CNBC. “We Brett Pulley, Dean of the HU Scripps Howard School are proud to align with these exceptional schools to offer of Journalism and Communications. “These student their students the opportunity to learn about creating and fellows will gain invaluable real-life experience inside the In Loving Memory of HU Photographer Mr. Reuben V. Burrell distributing business news across all platforms from the newsroom of one of the world’s most powerful business best financial journalists in the world.” news outlets. With this wonderful fellowship and other The Hampton University community mourns his lens for more than 65 years,” said Hampton Hampton Institute in September 1938, and he was one Scripps Howard journalism students related initiatives, the Scripps Howard School is playing the loss of Mr. Reuben V. Burrell, University President Dr. William R. Harvey. “His of the first members of the new camera club that sprang The CNBC Summer Fellowship Program will offer a pivotal role in cultivating a new generation of diverse beloved Hampton University campus photographs and his stories were an inspiration. up among students at Hampton Institute during the CNBC recently announced the introduction of the participating students the opportunity to work on many business news professionals.” photographer since 1949, who passed He touched the lives of many Hampton University early 1940s. Completing his course requirements in auto CNBC Summer Fellowship Program in partnership of CNBC’s signature Business Day programs like Squawk away on Feb. 3. Mr. Burrell, 95, administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni, mechanics in 1940, Mr. Burrell was sent by Hampton to with Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Box and Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer. In addition, they NBCUniversal will also offer Fellows access to worked everyday at HU up until friends and visitors. I can personally attest to his Hemphill Diesel School in New York. He returned to Journalism & Communications as well as the Missouri will learn from the CNBC Digital team about how the professional development events designed to enhance the day before his death. He took artistic mastery of the camera lens because for 37 Hampton and taught, as a civilian, in a naval program on School of Journalism and New York University. global business news organization delivers real-time key skills and provide structured feedback, as well as pictures of University events for years he took pictures of the Harvey family including campus until he was drafted into the Navy. In the service, financial market news and information to its vast portfolio networking events to bring students and employees across many years and in the later years my wife, children, grandchildren, mother, sister he learned aviation metalsmithing, an “all white” trade of digital products including CNBC.com, CNBC PRO, the NBCUniversal family together. he worked in the University and other family members. Although Mr. Burrell he was not allowed to practice when he was stationed in Museum chronicling his collection didn’t have any children of his own, he was a mentor, Norfolk, Va. Instead, he worked as a stevedore. of negatives. father and grandfather figure to many generations of Hamptonians. He will be missed.” Upon his discharge, Mr. Burrell resumed his studies at School of Pharmacy Accreditation continued for Eight Years “Mr. Reuben Burrell Hampton Institute, earning a B.S. in industrial arts in by Leha Byrd was a true Hampton Burrell had been Hampton University’s official 1947. After earning an M.A. in industrial arts education University legend. photographer for more than 65 years. A treasured from New York University in 1949, Mr. Burrell returned He captured campus fixture for several decades, he captured on film the to Hampton to teach and found that the Diesel Engines the Hampton spirit of HU—the essence of its students, faculty, alumni course and some of the other Trade School courses had The Hampton University School of Pharmacy (SOP) that we produce the best pharmacists possible.” University and staff, and the heart of the campus, which he loved. been dissolved. He was then hired in the part-time recently had its Accreditation Council for Pharmacy spirit position of photographer at Hampton Institute. To make Education (ACPE) accreditation continued for eight The SOP is also this year’s host for the 37th Annual As Hampton’s Griot, there was hardly a face that he did through it financially, he worked as a self-employed photographer years. ACPE is the national agency for the accreditation Conference on the Black Family at HU. This year’s theme not recognize. From alumni from the 1970s and 80s to taking photographs in schools and communities in of professional degree programs in pharmacy and is “Controlling Diabetes: A Call to Action for Minority faculty in the 2000s, “Mr. B,” as he was affectionately Hampton and Newport News. Mr. Burrell became providers of continuing pharmacy education. Families.” Officials have said the conference, March 18- known, knew their names—and often the names of their Hampton Institute’s full-time photographer in the 1960s 20, is designed to be a public health intervention aimed at parents or siblings who also may have attended Hampton. SOP Dean, Dr. Wayne Harris, said this decision by the helping the community, particularly African-Americans, A modest, humble and generous man, Mr. Burrell, was Referring to himself as a “self-taught” photographer, Mr. ACPE Board of Directors is a testament to the hard work control and prevent the disease. known to photograph alumni weddings, mentor aspiring Burrell experimented, read and practiced, becoming a of his faculty, staff and students, and their commitment to photography students and profess the power of black and master known for his sensitivity of the lens and quality the School’s success and longevity. For more information about the SOP call (757) 727-5071 white photography. of his prints. Beyond their formal documentation, his and for more information on the Conference on the Black images have an artistic dimension. His special skills also “Our team works diligently to ensure that we comply with Family visit http://events.hamptonu.edu/cbf/. Born in Washington, DC, on February 27, 1919, Mr. went into restoring old, fragile photographs from the all accreditation standards, and that our graduates are Burrell was “a child of the depression,” and the son of University’s archives. thoroughly prepared to provide the highest quality patient Reuben S. Burrell and Bernice Burrell. He and his two care in a changing health care environment,” he said. “I sisters were raised by his father because his mother died In Mr. Burrell’s memory, donations may be made to the am extremely pleased with this accreditation decision, and when he was young. Mr. Burrell attended Armstrong Reuben V. Burrell Endowment for Students, Office of we will continue to work to strengthen our program so Technical High School in Washington, D.C., where he External Relations, Hampton, Va. 23668. became interested in photography. 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