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MAGAZINE
Winter 2012 www.cau.edu
Sight
Sound
& soul
C A U Sets an
American Perception
Clark Atlanta University
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PRESIDENT’s LETTER
On Creating an American Perception
These alumni and so many others like them cultivated fields of consciousness as
they answered their individual and collective callings. With dignity and honesty,
they informed our individual and communal self-perceptions. With determination
and resolve, each took a piece of our history, wrapped it in their unique genius, and
lifted America’s perceptions of who we are as a people and as Americans. Because
their contributions have been so stellar, the world has had to consider America as a
brilliant mosaic colored magnificently by their contributions.
In The Life of Reason, philosopher and poet George Santayana reminds us that “those who cannot remember
the past are condemned to repeat it.” This issue of Clark Atlanta magazine offers a glimpse of the many ways in
which our university carries forward the work of those who set high the standard for social, cultural and intellectual excellence. In these pages, we offer a very contemporary snapshot of the sight, sound and soul of CAU.
We also look at another stellar group of individuals, who have made and continue to make unquestionably
important contributions to the life and future of this institution, our donors. Without you, our quest to
cultivate the next generation of global leadership would be nearly impossible. The perceptions of leadership
and responsibility cast in your giving speak volumes about what it truly means to be a son or daughter of Clark
Atlanta University, deeply committed and unwaveringly loyal to our mission.
Here’s to continued and even greater excellence.
Carlton E. Brown,
President
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Jay Thomas
Clark Atlanta University claims a long heritage of intellectual and cultural excellence. For generations, our
institution and alumni have consistently woven a brilliant tapestry, textured as much with critical thought as
by passion and curiosity, adding rich hue and warmth to the American panorama. One cannot unfold a nation’s
struggle for freedom, the cultural and intellectual emancipation of our people, the fight for social equality or
the self-consciousness of those who labored for justice without acknowledging the venerable contributions
made by sons and daughters of CAU. The continuous press for liberation by the men and women of CAU —
students, faculty and staff — yielded voluminous intellectual discourse and pristine
cultural expression gifted to us by individuals whose courage and tenacity was
outstripped only by their mental acuity, spiritual fortitude and creative genius. You
know their names: Lucy Craft Laney, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph
David Abernathy, Marva Collins, Kenny Leon and so many more.
MAGAZINE
www.cau.edu
President
Carlton E. Brown
Executive Director of
Strategic Communications
Donna L. Brock
Editor
Joyce Jones
Features
Cover Story: Sight, Sound and Soul
CAU Sets an American Perception
For more than a century, our alumni have shaped and informed American
culture and tradition. These alumni offer a glimpse at how this legacy continues.
NEWS Editor
Jennifer Jiles
Contributors
Jacqueline Conciatore, Dana Harvey,
David Lindsay, Frank McCoy,
Matthew Scott, Chivone Smith
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SIGHT
Andante Higgins – A versatile Newsman
CAU’s NewsBreak
One Woman’s War
Wilmore Takes the Stage at CAU
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SOUND
The Jazz of the City
Cocheta Has Her Say in Hip-Hop
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SOUL
Reclaiming a Legend of Black Thought
CAU Set to Take Up a CAUSE
Photography
Robert M. Bailey III, Jamie Liles,
Curtis McDowell, Jay Thomas
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Leadership Ledger
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These four students are making an impact in their fields of endeavor. Jamael Harris, School of Business Administration
Johnetta McSwain, Whitney M. Young Jr. School of Social Work
David Brown, School of Education
Tempestt McBride, School of Arts & Science
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Departments
University News
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Convocation11
Faculty Forum
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Alumni Forum
Speaking Of…
Sports Update
Honor Roll of Donors
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Front cover: Amarylis Sueing (’12) on saxophone;
Zechariah Johnson (’13) on trumpet. Photo of W. E.
B. Du Bois used with permission from University of
Massachusetts-Amherst Special Collections. Photo
detail courtesy of April Lundy, MFA.
Left: CAU Convocation speaker Milton J. Little
poses with President Carlton E. Brown and Provost
and Vice President for Academic Affairs Joseph
H. Silver, Sr.
Back cover: CAU Global Leadership Academy
staffer André McKinney and senior Theater Arts
Major Terri Abney chat on the promenade with
CAU Police Chief Thomas Y. Trawick, Jr.
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
Smart Technology Enhances
Student Engagement & Learning
As college and university instructors
increasingly integrate technology into
their curriculum, 16 Clark Atlanta University professors spent last summer
boning up on the latest smart technology
and how podcasts, tutorials and response
devices can be maximized in the classroom to enhance student learning.
The 2011 Summer Technology
Enrichment Program (STEP) enabled
faculty to learn how to better integrate
technology in the classroom to increase
student interaction, assess learning and
achieve learning outcomes.
“This is not just about integrating
technology into the classroom: it’s about
integrating it into teaching and learning,”
said Gwen Mitchell, Ph.D., director of the
Center of Excellence for Faculty Development, which created and runs STEP.
“For CAU instructors, technology is now
both a teaching and a learning aid in the
classroom.”
STEP is an intensive, four-day
instructional training program consisting of a series of dynamic workshops to
assist faculty members with enhancing
student engagement and interaction in
the classroom. The workshops focus
on student-centered instruction and
the desired outcome was for faculty to
design a web-enhanced course for the
fall semester.
The value of smart technology in
enhancing learning was actually revealed
when four CAU professors integrated
technology into their classrooms during
Five High School Juniors Complete CAU Classes as Part of a New Partnership
CAU’s early college scholars pose for a photo during the August 2011 freshman
induction ceremony. Left to Right: Antonio Rayton, Angelina Barden, Alexis White,
Jamesia Tucker and Kaia Bailey.
Five high school juniors got a jumpstart on college when they became the
first participants in CAU’s Early College Partnership during the fall 2011
semester. The university’s Community
Educational Network and Outreach
Initiative designed the new program
to support college-bound students.
The outreach initiative’s inaugural
semester involved students from the
Booker T. Washington Early College Academy who will be taking
two courses per semester at Clark
Atlanta while they complete high
school. The partnership is designed
to help prepare deserving young men
and women in their pursuit of higher
education.
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Kaia Bailey, Angelina Barden, Antonio Rayton, Jamesia Tucker and Alexis
White embarked on an experience
that will enable them to accumulate 24
credit hours during their junior and
senior years of high school. The credits
can then be applied to a college program. Their first semester began with a
student-parent orientation, after which
they participated with CAU freshmen in
the university’s annual freshman induction ceremony.
“The students were enrolled in
Culture and Society and Fundamentals of Speech, for a total of six credit
hours, and they are all succeeding
academically,” said Ernita Hemmitt,
CAU’s interim dean of Student Affairs.
“Some of the extracurricular activities included attending Fall Convocation and the Miss CAU Coronation. The students also represented
their school in Clark Atlanta’s 2011
Homecoming Parade.”
Hemmitt added that the university
hopes that the future college freshman
will consider CAU as their first choice.
The college-bound high school
juniors will be the first members of
their families to attend a higher education institution. According to Vanessa Nason, Ph.D., principal of the
Booker T. Washington Early College
Academy, giving high school students
the opportunity to attend a nationallyknown university will have a profound
impact on their futures.
“This is a rare opportunity for
our students to learn the necessary
academic and leadership skills that
will enable them to compete on a
global scale,” she said. “They also will
be introduced to the rich traditions
of Clark Atlanta University that will
instill in them a sense of pride and
self-efficacy.”
Tuition and books are paid for by
the Accel Program, designed for high
school students who attend an accredited public or private high school in
the state of Georgia and are taking
college-level courses.
the 2009-2010 academic year. Rosalind
Arthur, Ph.D., Margaret Counts-Spriggs,
Ph.D., Sandra J. Flowers, Ph.D., and Joyce
Goosby, Ph.D., integrated a WebCT, Student Response System (clickers), podcasting and other instructional technologies into their pedagogy and used them
to facilitate instruction. For example,
they pose questions to students during lectures and the Student Response
System allows students use their smart
phones or laptops to “click” when they
have the answer. The student responses
help professors gauge learning, comprehension and progress.
“Students can take quizzes, surveys
and exams and it gives me and other
instructors an idea of how well they are
doing in real time because we can see
their responses immediately,” said Foster,
an associate professor in the Whitney M.
Young, Jr. School of Social Work.
According to Counts-Spriggs, an
associate professor in the School of Social
Work, the immediacy of the information
helps faculty address problems with
student learning and comprehension
more quickly and effectively.
“I have found that technology often
increases student engagement and that
engagement helps advance their critical thinking and analysis skills,” adds
Arthur, an associate professor of foreign
languages. “You can test knowledge at
different levels and students often participate in class much more.”
All four professors agree that students
are participating more during discussions, lectures and class activities. Moreover, they also believe technology use in
teaching helps faculty to stay tech-savvy
and gain new skills.
Metropolitan Community College
Selects CAU as Its First HBCU
New Transfer Agreement Partner
Missouri’s Metropolitan Community
College (MCC) students who envision
graduating from Clark Atlanta University now have a greater shot at achieving
their dream. MCC and CAU signed an
articulation agreement that will allow
CAU Names Carl Jones Vice President For Enrollment Services
and Student Affairs
CAU has named Carl Jones vice president for Enrollment Services and Student Affairs. Jones is responsible for
the overall direction of a division that
serves the enrollment and campus life
for nearly 4,000 students.
CAU President Carlton E. Brown
said, “We are excited to welcome home
one of our alumni after a rigorous process that gained the interest of several
very qualified professionals. With
more than 20 years of experience in
higher education, his definitive work
both in student affairs and academic
support make him uniquely suited for
addressing the needs defined by the
university’s strategic plan.”
Jones says he’s excited about
establishing collaborative relationships across the campus and beyond
to ensure that the university enrolls
qualified students who will eventually become leaders on the local, state,
national and international levels. He
said, “CAU is a national treasure with
international impact. We must ensure
that our strengths are recognizable
and areas where improvement is warranted are addressed strategically and
progressively.”
Jones received a B.A. in psychology
(with a minor in French) from South
students’ MCC credits to transfer seamlessly to CAU. This is the first agreement
of this type with an historically black
college or university for the Kansas Citybased insititution.
The agreement will increase options
for MCC students who want to earn a
bachelor’s degree at an HBCU. Students
who have completed at least 58 credit
hours of approved courses at MCC and
have maintained a minimum GPA of 2.5
will be provided “equal access to registration, class enrollment and financial aid as
other students attending CAU,” according to the agreement.
“There are a significant number
of students living in the Kansas City
Carolina State University. He obtained
a master’s in educational psychology
and measurement and the doctor of
philosophy degree in counseling and
human development from Atlanta
University, where he was named top
graduate student in the Atlanta University Center by CenterPoint Magazine. He also was named outstanding
student in both the Atlanta University
School of Education and the Department of Counseling and Psychological
Services.
metropolitan area who dream of graduating from Clark Atlanta University,”
said Dr. Joe Seabrooks, president of
Metropolitan Community CollegePenn Valley. “However, the gravity
of the current economic realities for
many has made the dream of attending
Clark Atlanta University for four years
unrealistic. Therefore, the relationship
between our respective institutions is
critical in helping students build successful bridges to make their academic
dreams come true.”
The agreement, which began in the fall
2011 semester, applies to courses offered
at any MCC campus with an equivalent
course at CAU.
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
Bettye M. Clark Named Dean of
Graduate Studies
Clark Atlanta University announced in
August 2011 the appointment of Bettye
M. Clark, Ph.D., as dean of Graduate
Studies. She had served as interim dean
for more than a year, having held faculty
and administrative positions at CAU for
the past 28 years.
President Carlton E. Brown said, “Dr.
Clark has made such significant contributions to the university throughout
her tenure. Her untiring and dedicated
service has resulted in tremendous
progress at CAU, including the opening
of our Graduate Resource Center, the
creation of a separate registration for
graduate students and the improvement
of the dissertation review process. Her
wisdom, strategic thinking and expertise are sure to be key factors in the continued momentum and growth of our
graduate programs.”
“I am honored to accept the position
as dean of Graduate Studies. I am equally
excited that the university’s administration and
its board of trustees have
made graduate education a
top priority,” Clark said. “It
is a great time to be at the
helm of graduate education, since the state of the
economy is forcing college
graduates to retool themselves, in part because of
a shifting and unsteady job market. Also,
with online education becoming a real
option at CAU, we anticipate that our
graduate student population will increase
over time.”
Clark served as coordinator of CAU’s
Undergraduate Program in Mathematics
from 2003 to 2008. She served as associate provost and executive director of Distance Learning from 1995 to 2003, and
director of the Mathematics Resource and
Technology Center from 1989 to 2003.
She also served as professor of mathematics and chair of the Mathematics/
Computer
Science
Department
from
1985 to 1989.
Clark earned the
bachelor’s degree in
mathematics
from
Fort Valley State College in Fort Valley,
Ga., in 1966 and a
master’s degree in
mathematics education from the University of Georgia in
Athens, Ga., in 1971. In 1976, she was
awarded a doctorate in mathematics education from the University of Houston in
Houston, Texas.
She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the AldridgeMcMillan Faculty Overall Achievement
Award; Professor of the Year from the
Department of Mathematical Sciences
(2008) and Leadership Atlanta.
The new dean’s funded research projects add up to more than $9,000,000 in
grants during her tenure at CAU.
CCRTD Signs Agreement With the National Football League Former Players’ Association
Photo courtesy of CCRTD
As the only known university
A. Khan. “This partnercenter one-hundred-percent
ship gives CCRTD another
dedicated to research and
avenue to be involved in
education on prostate cancer
increasing awareness for
in African Americans, CAU’s
prevention, early detection
Center for Cancer Research
and treatment of cancers,
and Therapeutic Development
especially those that dispro(CCRTD) aggressively focuses
portionately affect the Afrigroundbreaking
research,
can-American community.”
community outreach and
The agreement also
closing health disparities in
includes implementing activCAU and CCTRD representatives gather to sign an agreement with
minorities.
ities that prevent, reduce and
In keeping with this focus, the NFL Former Players’ Association (left to right): Dr. Shafiq A.
eliminate prostate cancer,
CCRTD signed a memoran- Khan, director of the CCRTD; Dr. Carlton E. Brown, president of
which supports CCRTD’s
CAU;
Mr.
Solomon
Brannan,
president
of
the
Atlanta
chapter
of
the
dum of understanding in
mission.
October 2011 with the Atlanta NFLFPA; and Dr. Tamica Smith-Jones, director of athletics at CAU.
“This is an outstandchapter of the National
ing opportunity for Clark
Football League Former Players Association (NFLFPA) to Atlanta University, CCRTD and the Department of Athincrease awareness of health disparities and promote commuletics to create awareness of health disparities, build stronnity participation in prostate cancer health education.
ger relationships in the community and reach former ath“African American men are 65 percent more likely to get letes with critical information that can make a difference
prostate cancer and are more than two times as likely to die
in their health outlook,” said Tamica Jones, Ph.D., CAU
from the disease,” said CCRTD executive director Shafiq director of athletics.
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Robert Bailey
Upper left: Charles Richardson,
Ph.D., assistant professor of
marketing, chats with Ne-Yo.
Upper right: Young, Fit & Fly
Co-founders Brandi and Karli
Harvey conducted an image
management workshop.
Lower left: CAU Bookstore
manager Gloria McClain poses
in front of the store’s Carol’s
Daughter display with the
company’s CEO, Lisa Price.
Robert Bailey
With four Grammy Awards under
his belt, the artist Ne-Yo is routinely
sought out by one-name icons like
Whitney, Celine and Beyoncé. The
singer-songwriter, music producer
and actor came to Clark Atlanta in
July searching for America’s next great
class of entrepreneurs.
The internationally renowned artist
brought his Compound Foundation
to the campus July 14-16, 2011, for
his Future CEO Academy. As part of
the elite academy, a select group of 50
students, aged 13 to 18, pre-selected
by the Georgia Department of Human
Services from the state’s foster care
system and group homes, participated
in an intense, three-day entrepreneurship “boot camp” led by a cohort of
celebrities, successful entrepreneurs,
faculty experts and local officials.
Each of the students completed the
program by presenting his or her own
workable business plan.
The Future CEO Academy served
a three-fold purpose. First, the program sought to empower students
who too often are labeled and subjugated as “powerless.” Second, students
had to create, define and execute
their dreams in a real-world context.
Third, they were afforded rare access
to a network of interested business
professionals who shared their wisdom, expertise and tactical advice.
Celebrity business leaders included:
Carol’s Daughter CEO Lisa Price;
Steve Janisse of Porche Cars, America;
author and businesswoman Terrie
Williams, founder of the Stay Strong
Foundation; Brandi and Karli Harvey, co-founders of Young, Fit & Fly;
Atlanta City Councilman Ivory Lee
Young; Seth Bernstein, Empower Software Solutions; and Lucas Riggins and
Magnus Greaves, co-founders of 100
Urban Entrepreneurs.
Robert Bailey
Ne-Yo’s Future CEO Academy Focuses on Future Entrepreneurs
“I can think of nowhere more appropriate and no team more capable than the
faculty at the Clark Atlanta University
School of Business. They have the intellect, the expertise, the experience and the
right access,” said Ne-Yo, who founded
the Compound Foundation in 2007, of
his desire to locate the program at CAU.
Clark Atlanta faculty instructors and
participants included: Raphael Boyd,
M.B.A., J.D.; Marcus Hilliard; Dennis
Kimbro, Ph.D.; Charles Richardson,
Ph.D.; and Lynn Patten, Ph.D. Clark
Atlanta’s provost and vice president for
Academic Affairs Joseph H. Silver, Sr.,
opened the program and CAU President Carlton E. Brown offered closing
remarks. The university’s Student Government Association also participated in
the program.
Following an elevator-pitch competition, each of the 50 students was awarded
a Galaxy Tablet from Samsung Electronics, America. One student walked
away with a winning business plan and
$10,000 to start his own business.
“Programs like The Future CEO
Academy are simply the right approach
to educating youth who will have to
compete in the 21st century global
economy,” said President Brown.
“More important, this program aligns
perfectly with Clark Atlanta’s deep,
overarching commitment and focus
on entrepreneurship.”
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
the Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for
Minority Participation at the University
of Georgia-National Science Foundation
in Athens, Ga., from 2006 to 2007. From
2000 to 2005, he served as director of
Graduate Recruitment and Retention at
the University of Georgia.
In 1992, Byrd received a bachelor’s
degree in psychology from Iowa State
University in Ames, Iowa. He earned the
master’s degree in higher education/professional studies from Iowa State in 1996.
Jamie Liles
Announces Major Financial
Services Literacy Initiative
Kenny Leon’s THE MAN on Broadway
Members of the CAU family pose with the cast of the Broadway sensation “Mountaintop,” directed by CAU alumnus Kenny Leon (CC ’78), during a “talk back” session following a December 2011 staging. Leon concurrently directed “Stick Fly,”
produced by Alicia Keys and Reuben Cannon, which also features a high-powered
ensemble cast, including Dulé Hill, Mekhi Phifer, Condola Rashad, Tracy Thoms and
Reuben Santiago-Hudson. Sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations, this was
the university’s second annual “CAU on Broadway” event.
Standing: Dr. Carlton E. Brown, president; Mrs. T. LaVerne Ricks-Brown, first
lady; Lydia McKinley-Floyd, Ph.D., dean of the School of Business and Joseph
H. Silver, Sr., Ph.D. (AU ’80), provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Seated: actor Samuel L. Jackson, Kenny Leon and actor Angela Bassett.
Curtis Byrd Named
Assistant Dean
Clark Atlanta University in August 2011
named Curtis Byrd assistant dean of
Graduate Studies. In this role, he will
help build and fortify the university’s
graduate programming.
At his appointment, Bettye M. Clark,
Ph.D., dean of Graduate Studies, said,
“Mr. Byrd comes to CAU with a wealth of
knowledge in the recruitment, marketing
and retention of graduate students. For
15 years, he has helped create, implement
and assess undergraduate and graduate
outreach programs, and we are elated to
have him join us to elevate the focus on
Clark Atlanta’s graduate studies.”
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Of his new role, Byrd said, “I am very
excited to be a part of the Clark Atlanta
University family. My efforts will concentrate on increasing graduate enrollment
and assisting Dean Clark in bringing
graduate education to the forefront of
CAU and the Atlanta University Center,
our region and the nation.”
Byrd served as the associate director of the McNair Scholars Program
in the Office of Undergraduate Affairs
at the University of Florida in Gainesville since 2009. From 2007 to 2009, he
served as the director of the Ronald E.
McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement
Program at Georgia State University in
Atlanta. He also was executive director of
Clark Atlanta University President Carlton E. Brown announced in August that
beginning this academic year the university would partner with Operation HOPE
to launch the Initiative for Entrepreneurial Development and Empowerment
through Financial Literacy, a program
that aligns with the goals and purposes of
the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on
Financial Capability and supports President Barack Obama’s goal to achieve primary status worldwide in the production
of college-educated individuals.
“Consumer protection is the government’s job. But consumer empowerment
is the job of free enterprise,” said Operation HOPE founder, chairman and CEO
John Hope Bryant. “We believe that students across all disciplines must become
equipped to develop and operate innovative enterprises and small businesses and
to employ themselves and others. It is
essential to the growth of the American
economy.”
The initiative, which will be supported through funding secured from
public and private sources by Operation
HOPE and the White House Initiative
on HBCUs, comprises two tracks. The
student empowerment track will fully
integrate FDIC financial literacy materials into the university’s curriculum.
In addition, it will assemble and train a
team of students, the CAU/HOPE Corps
for Disaster Preparedness, who will
respond to emergent situations to help
individuals, businesses and communities
recover from the impact of financial and
economic disasters, including opportunities to enhance financial literacy in the
process. In the second track, CAU/HOPE
will offer resources for CAU alumni,
including a free financial crisis hotline
through the Mortgage HOPE Hotline
and HOPE Consumer Credit lines (888388-HOPE). This track also will offer
such resources as the earned income tax
credit to CAU employees.
“Clark Atlanta University’s students,
alumni, employees and local residents
cannot move more fully into the new
economies, or play a larger role in the
advancement of their own education and
fortunes, without an intense and effective
approach to increasing financial literacy,
as well as expanding the available skills
and dispositions toward invention and
entrepreneurship,” President Brown said.
“This initiative, and our partnership with
Operation HOPE and its founder John
Hope Bryant, unfolds the possibility of
this critical change.”
Meritor Inc. CFO Delivers Dean’s
Lecture to School of Business
Jeffrey “Jay” Craig, chief financial officer
of Meritor Inc., delivered on November
9, 2011, a keynote address as part of the
Dean’s Executive Lecture Series in the
School of Business.
“Mr. Craig’s considerable expertise
and market savvy proved an invaluable
teaching tool for our students. We were
honored that he made the time to share
his wealth of knowledge and global experience with our students,” said School of
Business Dean Lydia McKinley-Floyd,
Ph.D. “CAU’s relationship with Meritor is an important one, and we greatly
appreciate the company’s financial gifts,
which provide deserving opportunities
for students.”
As Meritor’s chief financial officer,
Craig is responsible for driving the company’s financial performance and providing financial direction and guidance. He
is responsible for worldwide financial
controls, financial systems, treasury and
New Tom Joyner Scholars Selected for 2011-2012
Clark Atlanta University’s number of
Tom Joyner Scholarship recipients
rose from 34 in 2010 to 46 in the fall
2011 semester, a strong indication
that the eligibility requirements of
academic performance, leadership
and community service are being met
by a growing number of students. The
2011-2012 Tom Joyner scholars are
undergraduate and graduate students
who will receive scholarships ranging
from $500 to $2,500.
In October 2009, Clark Atlanta
University was selected as the Tom
Joyner Foundation School of the
Month, an initiative that raised money
to support outstanding students. The
foundation was established by nationally syndicated radio personality Tom
Joyner in 1998 to help students at historically black colleges and universities continue their educations.
“Our partnership with the Tom
Joyner Foundation is helping CAU
address a serious financial need
among students as they pursue their
educational endeavors,” said Nicole
Blount, executive director of fund
development and annual giving and
coordinator of the scholarships.
The 2011-2012 Tom Joyner Scholars are:
Terri Abney
Paige Crumbie
Vanessa Adams
Myriah Cyphers
Melanie Allen
Dotiana Dawson
Lauren Aqeel
Alexus Devine
Andrea Baptiste
Amber Dyess
Kendall
Barksdale
Brittany Ezell
Elise Barnes
Shakila Forbes
Kevin Booker
J’han Boynes
Leno Bradby
Rosa Fitzhugh
Lashante Grigsby
Brittany Horne
Brittany Brisker
Shakayla
Houston
Ashley Childress
Elmer Jones
William Clark
tax, financial planning and management
reporting, accounting policies, and external reporting and financial support.
Before joining Meritor, Craig served
as president and CEO of General Motors
Acceptance Corp.’s (GMAC) Commercial
Finance organization from 2001 to 2006.
Prior to that, he served as president and
CEO of GMAC’s Business Credit division
from 1999 until 2001.
Markias
Littlejohn
Teresa Smith
Terrell McQueen
Marcelena
Stephens
Michael Milford
Stevency Telfort
Melvin Miller
Imani Testamark
Travis Morgan
Clement
Washington
Shantrell Moss
Reginald
Muhammad
Natalie Parker
Jocelyn Perry
Lugenia Purnell
Avery Wilkerson
Kathryn
Williams
Annessa Young
Travis Young
Madison
Robertson
Jasmine Sims
With headquarters in Troy, Mich.,
Meritor Inc. is a global supplier of a
broad portfolio of axle, brake and suspension solutions to original equipment
manufacturers and the aftermarket for
the transportation and industrial sectors.
The company serves commercial truck,
trailer, bus and coach and off-highway
machinery manufacturers, in addition to
defense contractors.
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
The Hank Aaron Chasing The Dream Foundation Establishes Endowed Scholarship
at Clark Atlanta University
The retail kiosk offers customers a
hands-on experience with the latest and
most innovative wireless products and
services. The new site is open for business
Monday through Friday, noon to 8 p.m.,
and offers a premier line of digital wireless phones and tablets in all price ranges,
data services and accessories.
“This collaboration with such a prestigious university as Clark Atlanta gives
us a wonderful opportunity to help
train the businessmen and women of
tomorrow who will soon be entering
the corporate workforce. In addition,
the new retail location offers students
the convenience of on-campus shopping
for their wireless needs and allows us
to reach a very dynamic audience,” said
Leroy Williams, vice president of marketing for Verizon Wireless, South Area.
“Through our continued expansion of
retail locations such as this one, Verizon
Wireless exemplifies its commitment to
providing our customers throughout
Georgia with a unique and engaging
shopping experience.”
In honor of the partnership, Verizon Wireless also announced a $10,000
HopeLineSM grant to CAU’s “Call to
True Beauty” campaign, the university’s
annual advocacy, education and prevention campaign against dating and
domestic violence. “We are very excited
that Verizon Wireless will now have a
daily, on-campus presence at our school,”
said President Brown. “By committing
to employ Clark Atlanta students, our
young people get real business experience with a Fortune 10 company while
completing their education. This, of
course, will translate to better job opportunities later.”
Robert Bailey, Jr.
“The generosity of Major League Hall
of Famer Hank Aaron and his wife, Billye, speaks volumes about their commitment to charitable giving and to the
future of our youth. We are grateful to
have such friends of the university,” said
CAU President Carlton E. Brown.
The scholarship supports, in perpetuity, one student per year at Clark Atlanta
until more students can be supported
through additional contributions or
growth of the fund.
The first recipient of the Hank
Aaron Chasing the Dream Scholarship
is Elise Barnes, a senior early childhood
education major from Naperville, Ill.,
who received a $4,000 award earlier in
the academic year. Barnes holds a 3.47
grade point average and is working
on her practicum at the neighboring
Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary
School. After graduation in May, she
plans to work for the Atlanta Public
School System as an elementary school
teacher for at least a year before pursuing graduate studies. Barnes had an opportunity to
thank the Aarons personally when
she and President Brown attended a
“4 for 4 Scholars” event last September at Turner Field, during the Atlanta
Braves versus the New York Mets
game.
Clark Atlanta University’s first Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Scholar, Elise Barnes
Clark Atlanta University this fall
announced the establishment of
a $100,000 endowed scholarship
from the Hank Aaron Chasing the
Dream Foundation. The scholarship
will support CAU students pursuing
careers in public service, education,
social work, humanities, science and
medicine. Verizon Wireless Partners
with CAU to Provide Students
Telecommunications Work
Experience
Verizon Wireless in October 2011
launched a new retail venture on the
CAU campus, located in the main lobby
of the Cornelius L. Henderson Student
Center. This strategic partnership, operated by Advantage Communications Inc.
(ACI), employs CAU students, offering
them valuable business experience in
the telecommunications industry, while
simultaneously elevating Atlanta’s base
of experienced knowledge-industry
employees. Representatives from Verizon Wireless, ACI Telecom, CAU and the
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
cut the ribbon on the new location Oct.
25, 2011.
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The Call to True Beauty Lifts Veil of Shame
Clark Atlanta Continues Crusade Against Dating and Domestic Violence
Clark Atlanta University participated in
National Domestic Violence Awareness
Month in October by kicking off “The
Call to True Beauty 2011,” the university’s annual advocacy, education and
prevention campaign against dating and
domestic violence. The week-long series
of events and activities, sponsored by
Avon Products, Inc., and Verizon Wireless, took place Oct. 16-21.
The increased involvement of the
university community, corporations and
victims’ advocacy organizations demonstrated “The Call to True Beauty’s” growing prominence and recognition by city
officials as a metro-area resource for dating and domestic violence awareness and
prevention. Atlanta City Councilman
C. T. Martin re-designated Clark Atlanta
University as a community resource zone
in the crusade during a university-sponsored press conference on Oct. 21, and
the Atlanta City Council proclaimed it
“The Call to True Beauty Day” in Atlanta.
The campaign began on Oct. 16 with
a chapel service on the CAU campus and
continued in earnest during a rally and
memorial balloon lift the next day at
Atlanta City Hall. During the rally and
live remote broadcast by CAU’s The Jazz
of the City — 91.9 FM WCLK, attendees
released eco-friendly balloons to support
victims and remember those who have
been slain during dating and domestic violence incidents. The campaign
included several dating violence awareness events.
“I am more convinced than ever that
we have to do this, especially after “The
[inaugural] Call to True Beauty” helped
shine a light on the problem and convinced several of our young women
to remove the veil of shame and seek
help,” said Donna Brock, executive
director of CAU’s Office of Strategic
Communications.
The offices of the Provost and Strategic
Communications and 91.9 FM WCLK
joined forces to launch “The Call to
True Beauty” in 2010, using contributions from Avon Products Company
and Verizon Wireless, two nationally
recognized corporate leaders
in the crusade against dating
and domestic violence. The
two offices also pioneered
the creation of a university
committee composed of representatives from a number
of divisions and departments.
The committee’s work is
spearheaded by the Provost’s
Office and supported by the
Office of Strategic Communications, Georgia Coalition
Against Domestic Violence, Partnership
Against Domestic Violence, Avon, Verizon Wireless and the City of Atlanta.
“Dating violence awareness is and
will continue to be a priority outreach
effort on the CAU campus,” said Joseph
H. Silver, Sr., provost and vice president
for Academic Affairs. “Although our
campus is not overrun with incidences of
dating and domestic violence, even one
case is too many. We are also very concerned that Georgia now ranks sixth in
the nation for violent crimes committed
by men against women.”
During “The Call to True Beauty
Week,” the university presented two
honorees with awards. WCLK radio
personality Fonda Kay Smith received
the “Survivor of the Year” award and
retired Avon Products, Inc., executive
Harold Watkins received the “Advocate
of the Year” award. Watkins was the driving force behind the development and
establishment of the Avon Scholars and
Ambassadors Program, CAU’s dating
and domestic violence peer education
and prevention program.
In April 2011, the Avon Scholars and
Ambassadors Program was launched
with a $20,000 contribution from Avon.
Nine students were selected in a competitive process and received an annual
$2,000 gap scholarship to participate in
an intensive training program that began
in September.
To date, university efforts are making
notable progress in building a climate on
campus committed to addressing and
eradicating abusive relationships.
Top: Atlanta city officials and local advocates join CAU President Carlton E. Brown
at the City Hall launch of “The Call to True
Beauty.” L-R: Dexter Chambers, Atlanta
City Council Director of Communications;
Kathy Spraetz, CEO of the Partnership
Against Domestic Violence; Coco Dunston, Chairwoman, Atlanta Commission
on Women; Atlanta City Councilman C.
T. Martin; Atlanta Chief of Police George
N. Turner; President Brown; Atlanta City
Councilman Kwanza Hall; and Nicole
Lesser, Executive Director of the Georgia
Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Bottom: Harold Watkins and Fonda Kay
Smith.
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Clark Atlanta University Presents “The Life Tour” insecurity, courage and resurrection; and
the authentic incidents of boys becoming
men. The cast includes poets Rainmaker,
Kilusan Bautista, Carlos Iro Burgos and
Mokgethi Mega Thinane. The stories
are honest, intelligent, hard-hitting and,
most of all, real. The production, was directed by Leslie “Buttaflysoul” Taylor, a poet, spokenword artist, vocalist, actor, producer and
director. The Life Tour” also has graced
the stages of Yale, Princeton, the University of Georgia and University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The cast and crew of “The Life Tour” pose following their Oct. 5 performance in Davage
Auditorium (from left to right): Jennifer (J. F.) Seary, Tahani Salah, Helenda D. Lewis, Suzen
Baraka, QBR/Harlem Book Fair CEO Max Rodriquez, Seaton (Rain Maker), Mokegethi
Thinane (Mega), Carlos M. Burgos, Jr. (Iro) and Jeremy (Kilusan) Bautista. Kneeling:
Urbintel Inc. CEO Kayo Charles.
Not many would consider going to a
midweek poetry slam in the middle of
the afternoon, even if it is homecoming
week. Nonetheless, Clark Atlanta University welcomed eight of Harlem, New
York’s, hottest, spoken-word artists for
“The Life Tour” on Oct. 5, in the university’s Davage Auditorium.
Barely a seat was left by the first artist’s
recitation. Even more amazing, barely
a seat — including two in the front row
occupied by the university’s president
and provost — had been vacated at the
artists’ last bow.
“The Life Tour,” an Urbintel production presented in association with
the Harlem Book Fair, addresses reallife issues in two one-act presentations.
“HerStory” is a single account of love,
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pain, struggle and triumph, spoken over
melody and song, tears and laughter.
Unlike traditional stories of fainthearted
and muted women, the four characters —
played by poets Suzen Baraka, Helena D.
Lewis, Tahani Salah and Jennifer Seary
— testify to true accounts of their existence, from subordination to dominance
and discord to sisterhood, all against a
pulsing background of spirituals and
meringue, hip-hop and jazz.
In “The Male Ego,” barbershop owner
Rainmaker guides us through the lives of
male customers as they bare their souls
about the obstacles men face, including
struggles with the legal system, fatherhood and the search for one’s identity and
a soul mate. They share their testimonies
of self-love and self-hate, denial and
Imagine the surprise! You walk up to a
Coca-Cola machine planning to purchase
your favorite soft drink and a magic hand
gives you a free prize. That’s what happened to scores of students during the
Sept. 8 “Open Happiness” tour stop at Clark
Atlanta. Nestled in a corner of the university’s Crogman Dining Hall, the machine
dispensed refreshing Coke products in
addition to an array of free prizes, from
two-liter sodas to book bags. Here, CAU
student Sean Perry receives a free cupholder after purchasing a Sprite ®.
Clark Atlanta University Celebrates
Core Values At Opening Convocation
Clark Atlanta University held its Opening Convocation Sept.
29, 2011, in the Leonidas S. Epps Gymnasium with Milton J.
Little, Jr., president of United Way of Atlanta, as convocation
orator. This year’s program, “Living the Core Values,” focused
on each of the university’s six cultural guideposts: studentcenteredness, pursuit of excellence, innovation and discovery,
integrity, social responsibility and respect. Little’s address
highlighted the core value of social responsibility.
“To hear from such a distinguished alumnus of an historically black college, who has made his mark in service on the
local and national level, puts our own focus on social responsibility in the appropriate context,” said President Carlton E.
Brown. In fact, ‘Culture for Service’ is one of our university’s
dual mottos, and we feel Mr. Little shares an important perspective based on his tremendous body of experience and
proven record of service.” In July 2007, Little assumed the role of president of United
Way of Metropolitan Atlanta after serving as president and
chief executive officer of United Way of Massachusetts Bay
and Merrimack Valley. A national and community leader, he
has devoted many of his 20 years in the public and private sectors to creating workforce and education programs. Prior to
joining the United Way system, he served as interim president
and CEO of the National Urban League in New York. In this
position, he launched innovative partnerships with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Labor and
Commerce departments, as well as corporations such as Verizon, Enterprise Rent-a-Car and Prudential. Little came to the
Robert Bailey
League from Lucent Technologies, which he joined while it was
still part of AT&T. The philanthropic strategies he developed at
Lucent and AT&T became the forerunners of many programs
that today are reducing disparities in employment, income, education and health in communities nationwide.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Little graduated magna cum
laude from Morehouse College with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He earned a master’s degree in urban sociology and social
policy from Columbia University and pursued additional postgraduate studies in public administration at New York University. He is a member of the Georgia State University Nonprofit
Studies Advisory Board, 100 Black Men of Atlanta and the
Rotary Club of Atlanta.
In a departure from previous convocations, the university’s
Inspirational Choir, under the direction of Mr. Phillip Golden
provided the music for the ceremony. In a rousing performance,
the choir of only 50 — with just an electric piano to accompany
them — had the 1000-plus audience members on their feet as
they sang contemporary gospel. The Clark Atlanta University
Band also provided its usual excellent accompaniment.
“I think what we’ve seen here today is not only the intellect
and the compassion of Alma Mater, but we’ve opened up the
soul of the university so others can share in that, as well,” University Chaplain Rev. Dr. Valerie Tate Everett noted.
During the program, the university also recognized members of the 2011 SIAC Championship Men’s Basketball Team,
many of whom are consistently included on deans’ lists, along
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J. Robert Adams, DMA, associate professor, Department of Music, will be
touring in a production of “Porgy and
Bess” with the New York Harlem Theatre in Naples, Italy, Jan. 10-15, 2012, at
the Teatro di San Carlo. He is the only
cast member from the world renowned
Atlanta Opera Porgy and Bess Chorus
chosen to participate in the production.
Mark Boozer, M.M., faculty pianist
and associate professor, Department
of Music, performed a full-length solo
piano recital October 16 devoted exclusively to two of the most important
works by classical composer Franz Liszt,
followed by a command performance on
October 24, 2011. Both performances
were in the Park Street Music and Art
Complex Sanctuary at Clark Atlanta
University. Boozer’s recital, titled A
Bicentennial Celebration of the Music of
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), was the university’s contribution to Liszt bicentennial celebrations staged throughout the
world during most of 2011. The 90-minute program was anchored by Liszt’s
Sonata in B Minor, a 30-minute composition widely praised as one of the most
significant piano works of all time and
one of the “twin peaks” of the Romantic repertoire. Liszt is often cited as the
greatest pianist in history and one of the
most influential composers of the 19th
century. The two selections performed
by Boozer are considered among the
most challenging for pianists.
On October 3, a radio broadcast of
“The Atlanta Music Scene,” produced by
WABE FM 90.1, featured performances
by Boozer from recitals he gave in 2008
and 2010. The highlight of this hour–
long broadcast was his performance of
the other “twin peak” of the Romantic
repertoire, Robert Schumann’s Fantasy in
C Major.
Raphael O. Boyd, J.D., MBA, associate professor and chair of the Management and Marketing Departments in
the School of Business, co-authored four
journal article publications. “Pre-Dispute
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Mandatory Arbitration Agreements and
Employment Contracts: Examining the
Implications for Statutory Discrimination Claims,” with Allen J. Rubenfield,
Mercer University, was accepted for
publication in the Southern Law Journal,
a publication of the Southern Academy
of Legal Studies in Business. The article
received the “2011 Best Paper Award”
for the publication. “Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility with a Risk
Management Methodology: A Strategic
Approach,” with Lila L. Carden, University of Houston-Main, appeared in the
Southern Journal of Business and Ethics, a
publication of the Southern Academy of
Legal Studies in Business. “Private Eyes
Are Watching You: They See Your Every
Move,” with Lila L. Carden, University of
Houston-Main, was accepted for publication in the South East Case Research Journal, a publication of the Southeast Case
Research Association.
Boyd earlier was selected as a “2011
SECRA Fellow,” of the Southeast Case
Research Association. His last article,
“Workplace Bullying: Project Strategy,”
with Lila L. Carden, University of Houston-Main, was accepted for publication
in the Journal of Business and Educational
Leadership, a publication of the American Society of Business and Behavioral
Sciences.
Hadley Breckenridge, M.F.A., adjunct
professor, Department of Art, was one of
12 artists chosen from the Fulton County
Public Artist Registry for the juried show
The Painted Photograph (September
2011) and participated with the Cultural
Competitiveness Team associated with
CAU’s Global Leadership Academy in
fall 2011.
Her mural was featured in Atlanta’s Art on the Beltline in fall 2011
(http://www.beltline.org)
As advisor for CAU Art Club-Club
Exposure, Breckenridge featured a student show in April 2011titled “When the
World is Black and White: Photograms
and Pinhole Photography” in the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and featured
student work in the Atlanta Celebrates
Photography pin-up show in October.
She will lead the effort to transition
the art department’s darkroom into
a digital light studio in spring 2012.
Sidmel K. Estes, adjunct professor,
Department of Mass Media Arts, was
honored at the 35th anniversary celebration of the Atlanta Association of Black
Journalists on the occasion of her 20-year
anniversary as the National Association
of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) first female
president. She also was a speaker at the
2011 University of Georgia NABJ Induction Ceremony. Estes has been asked to
help strengthen the Atlanta Association
of Black Journalists Student Consortium
whose members include students from
the Atlanta University Center, Georgia
State University and other area colleges
and universities.
Stephanie Y. Evans, Ph.D., chair,
Department of History and joint associate professor of History and African
American & Africana Women’s Studies,
made a professional development presentation titled “The Publishing World”
at the Southern Regional Education
Board - Compact for Faculty Diversity
Junior Faculty Professional Development
Conference, Institute on Teaching and
Mentoring in Atlanta.
Evans also served as conference panel
chair of “Descendants of the Struggle:
Discussions with the Descendants of
W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Madam
C.J. Walker, and Dr. Charles Drew”
and “Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher:
Research from the Jim Haskins Papers at
the University of Florida,” for the Association for the Study of African American
Life and History in Richmond, Virginia.
Evans was invited to attendee Harvard
University Graduate School of Education’s Think Tank on Global Education
and an invited conference panelist for
“’My Passport Made Me Persona Non
Grata: Insubordination, Quest and Voice
in Black Women’s Study Abroad Memoirs” at Columbia University’s Toward
an Intellectual History of Black Women
Conference.
She recently secured a book contract
with SUNY Press (State University Press
of New York) for the manuscript Swag
Diplomacy: Africana Memoirs as Guides
to Youth Empowerment.
Evans is also organizer of the Department of History’s W.E.B. Du Bois 2012
Major Works Seminar Series, and she and
CAU President Carlton E. Brown will be
serving as the 2013 conference co-chairs.
Seminar reading list and conference call
for papers can be accessed online at http://
www.cau.edu/Academics_History_Main.
aspx. Additional information also can be
found at www.professorevans.net.
Sandra Jean Foster, Ph.D., associate professor, Whitney M. Young,
Jr., School of Social Work, mentored
graduate student Sheva Cureton during the development of Cureton’s published article “Environmental victims:
environmental injustice issues that
threaten the health of children living in
poverty,” in Reviews on Environmental
Health. Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 141–
147, ISSN (Online) 2191-0308, ISSN
(Print) 0048-7554, DOI: 10.1515/
REVEH.2011.021, September 2011.
Christopher Hickey, M.F.A., professor, Department of Art, exhibited works
in the following exhibitions: 30 Small
Works, Gallery UP, Rock Hill, South
Carolina (June 15-July 29, 2011) and
Juror Barbara Schreiber selected 30
works from 152 entries from around
the nation; Pressing Matters II, Atlanta
Printmakers Studio Members Juried
Exhibit, Hudgens Center for the Arts,
Duluth, Georgia. (June 9-Sept. 3, 2011);
and Atlanta Print Biennial International
Exhibition, (Nov. 5- Dec. 3, 2011) at
Barbara Archer Gallery in Atlanta. The
inaugural Atlanta Print Biennial, organized by the Atlanta Printmakers Studio, is an international juried exhibit of
hand-pulled prints and works on paper
produced by renowned artists from
around the world. The 70 selected prints
were chosen from more than 750 entries
from the United States, Canada, Europe,
and Japan.
Cimona V. Hinton, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences
and Center for Cancer Research and
Therapeutic Development (CCRTD),
published a manuscript titled “ROS
enhances CXCR4-mediated functions
through inactivation of PTEN in prostate
cancer cells” in the journal Biochemical
and Biophysical Research Communications. The manuscript was co-authored
by Mahandranauth A. Chetram, a
fourth-year Ph.D. student, and Ayesha
S. Don-Salu-Hewage, a third-year Ph.D.
student in the Department of Biological
Sciences and the CCRTD.
Siriyama Kanthi Herath, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Accounting and Finance, has two forthcoming
papers in refereed journals. “A Review
of Advanced Pricing Agreement Recommendations,” co-authored by John
H. Young, will appear in the International Journal of Critical Accounting.
“Corporate Governance: A Research
Analysis,”co-authored by Solai Freeman (CAU ’11), will be published in the
African Journal of Accounting, Auditing
and Finance. Herath, Renee McCoy,
Shaniece M. Lucas and Ethel Men-
sah (CAU ’11 2011) are co-authors of
“Understanding International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRS): A Review
and Evaluation of IFRS Research” in
International Journal of Managerial
and Financial Accounting, Vol. 3, No. 3,
pp.304-322.
Veda Jairrels, J.D., Ph.D., professor
of Exceptional Education in the Curriculum Department, wrote a review of
the book Why Race and Culture Matter
in Schools: Changing the Achievement
Gap in America’s Classrooms by Tyrone
C. Howard, which was published in the
Education Review in May 2011. The Education Review is a project of the National
Education Policy Center.
Glenn S. Johnson, Ph.D., associate
professor, Department of Sociology
and Criminal Justice, had two articles
published in 2011. The first was “Black
Women’s Involvement in the Environmental Justice Movement: An Analysis of
Three Communities in Atlanta, Georgia”
in Race, Gender, & Class, Vol. 18, No.
1-2, (June): 189-214. It was co-authored
by Antoinette M. Gomez, M.A., M.S.W.,
bilingual child and family therapist for
Project PAVE in Denver, Colorado, and
Fatemeh Shafiei, Ph.D., Spelman College Department of Political Science in
Atlanta.
Johnson also published “Environmental Justice and Transportation: An Analysis of Public Involvement at Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation” in Race,
Gender & Class, Vol. 18, No. 3-4, pp.
(September): 347-371, co-authored by
Kimberly L. Stephenson Triplett, Ph.D.,
Tennessee State University, Urban Studies Program.
Phyllis Lawhorn, M.A., assistant professor, Department of English, has revised
the composition-reader Ideas in African
American Thought: Reading and Writing
about Self and the World, which was used
at CAU for the courses College Composition and Advanced Composition. New
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ing strategy of “Taking It Further,” which
involves students reading selections with
the understanding that the text is the
product of a human voice, a writer who
is part of a larger conversation. Through
writing assignments that examine the
political and social contexts of a topic,
students reconstruct the larger conversation and in the process join the conversation as full participants. Lawhorn led a
75-minute interactive conference session
at the 18th HBCU Faculty Development
Network in October at the Atlanta Hilton.
Ronald E. Mickens, Ph.D., Distinguished Fuller E. Callaway Professor,
Department of Physics, attended nine
conferences and workshops, and made
10 presentations on his research and
scholarly activities. Three presentations
of particular significance were: the seventh International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Vancouver, Canada, July 20, 2011), where he
delivered an invited talk on “The Role
of Dynamic Consistency in the Construction of Disease Models”; the 1073rd
Meeting of the American Mathematical
Society (Wake Forest University, September 24) where he gave an invited presentation on “Influence of Birth/Death
Rate Functional Forms on Predator-Prey
Dynamics”; and the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s
Southeastern Section at Virginia Tech
(October 20), where he presented a technical paper on “An Approximation to
the Periodic Solutions of a Differential
Equation of Abel.” He was also was the
event’s banquet speaker and delivered
remarks on “The Genesis of the Edward
A. Bouchet Book.”
Mickens also published six abstracts
that summarized the contents of scientific presentations given at various conferences on the topics of nonlinear oscillations, mathematical epidemiology, and
general methodologies relating to modeling of physical systems. Five manuscripts were either published or accepted
for publication in peer reviewed scientific/mathematics journals.
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He is completing a third edition of
his book: R. E. Mickens, Difference Equations: Theory and Applications (Chapman
and Hall, New York and London, 1990,
2nd edition) ISBN 0-442-00136-3.
Mickens’ others activities include
reviewing scientific- and mathematicsbased manuscripts for 15 peer-reviewed
journals; serving on the editorial boards of
Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, International Journal of Evolution
Equations, and Computing in Science and
Engineering; councilor to the Section on
Philosophy and History of Science for the
Georgia Academy of Science; and serving
as a member of the American Institute of
Physics, Advisory Committee on History
and Physics.
He is profiled on the American Physical Society website http://www.aps.org/
careers/physicists/profiles/mickens:
“Ronald E. Mickens - Theoretical Physics” and is included in the 66th edition of
Who’s Who in America 2012.
Bansari Mitra, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of English, published
an article titled, “Indian Adaptations
of Gothic and Swashbuckling Films
Rebecca and the Prisoner of Zendam,”
Asian Cinema (vol. 22:1) in June 2011. Noran L. Moffett, Ed.D., associate dean
and director of Field Services in the
School of Education, has been elected
president of the Georgia Education
Research Association (GERA). He will
begin his peer-elected term in October
2012. GERA is the official local affiliate of
the American Education Research Association. As president-elect, he is now a
member of GERA’s board of directors.
Moffett and his graduate research
assistant Melanie Frizzell co-wrote the
article “ATTENTION! All Schools Need
Highly Qualified and Highly Effective
Teachers NOW,” which was published in
the fall 2011 edition of Teachers of Color
magazine.
Murdell McFarlin, Ed.S., CAU-TV
station manager and Mass Media
Arts instructor, was selected as a 2011
National Faculty Fellow by the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. McFarlin is one of 20 faculty
members selected from colleges and
universities from across the nation who
competed for the honor. For 24 years,
the National Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences has sponsored the highly
competitive process in which 20 college
television faculty are selected to participate in its Television Arts & Sciences
Foundation National Faculty Seminar. The NATAS National Faculty Seminar
exposes fellows to Emmy-award winning
producers and directors of the nation’s
highest-rated television programs for
one week at its Los Angeles headquarters. The 2011 NATAS Faculty Seminar took
place Nov. 8-12.
Chuma Okere, Ph.D., assistant professor,
Department of Biological Sciences, presented a temporal profile of phospho-ERK
1/2 immunoreactivity in a discrete mesolimbocortical stress-responsive circuit
following acute restraint in male rats, and
presented a spatio-temporal activation of
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase system within distinct
subregions of the rat dorsal raphe nucleus
by acute restraint stress during the 41st
Annual Society for Neuroscience Abstract
in November. Okere’s graduate students,
Inez Smith and India Nichols, served as
co-authors of both presentations.
Jamie Pleasant, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Marketing, published
a peer-reviewed article titled “Brand
Mistakes and Their Negative Impact on
African American Consumers” in the
Journal of Business and Economic Issues,
October 2011. He also published another
peer-reviewed article, co-authored by
CAU professors Charles Moses, Ph.D.,
and Donald Vest and Charles Moore
titled “Adapting the E.P.R.G Paradigm to
Internationalizing Business Schools: A
Conceptual Framework,” in the International Journal of Business and Social Science, October 2011.
Charles W. Richardson, Jr., Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Marketing, has published the following book
chapters: “Complementary Advertising”
(2011) in the Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, Vol.1, pp258259; “Marketing Partner” (2011) in the
Encyclopedia of Sports Management and
Marketing, Vol. 2, pp 858-859; “Marketing Structures” (2011) in Encyclopedia of
Sports Management and Marketing, Vol.
2, pp 845-847; and “Motivation” (2011) in
Encyclopedia of Sports Management and
Marketing, Vol. 2, pp 925-928.
He also has had the following papers
accepted for conference presentations:
“Establishment of HBCU Centers of
Excellence – An Experiential Basis for a
Future Educational Paradigm,” accepted
by the American Association of Blacks
in Higher Education Annual Conference in Atlanta; “Success Factors of
Career Planning and Placement Centers:
Provider/Supporter/Recipient Perspectives,” accepted at the World Business
and Social Science Research Conference
in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2011;
and “A Cross Cultural Analysis of Consumer Identity Construct Prioritization,”
(with Lydia McKinley-Floyd, Ph.D., dean
School of Business Administration at
Clark Atlanta University), accepted at the
Allied Academies International Conference in Las Vegas in October 2011.
Sandra Rucker, Ph.D., associate professor
and interim chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, delivered the research
presentation “A Detailed Analysis of the
Duffing Harmonic Oscillator Equation”
at the Sixth International Conference on
Dynamic Systems and Applications, in
Atlanta at Morehouse College, May 2011.
Rucker also was elected secretary of the
Science Education Section of the Georgia
Academy of Science for 2011-2013, a position she previously held from 2006-2007.
Rucker served as a panelist or reviewer
for the National Science Foundation in
June 2011 and was a reviewer for the
National Science Foundation program in
Arlington, Virginia, in June 2011. n
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S
ince the inception of Clark
Atlanta University’s two
parent institutions, Atlanta
University (1865) and Clark
College (1869), the school and its
alumni have maintained an important dual role: creating and safeguarding the intricate, complex framework
through which America sees African
Americans — “Coloreds,” “Negroes,”
and ”Blacks” in previous generations
— and, more important, the development of our own selfawareness. In essence, Clark Atlanta University is a window
through which others can clearly see the struggle and progress of a people — today depicted with an increasingly broad
stroke of cultural diversity — and a mirror through which we
African Americans see ourselves. History also bears out that
because of the many contributions of our alumni, CAU is
responsible, at least in part, for how the world views America.
In the 1890s, alumnus James Weldon Johnson exhorted
us to honor our past and stay the path toward freedom. In
the 1920s, alumnus Fletcher Henderson gave America its
swing. In the 1930s, during a second tour of duty at CAU,
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W.E.B. Du Bois informed the psyche
of African Americans and the
understanding of a nation with seminal works authored on these very
grounds. In the 1960s, our students
made history in their organized
insistence upon equality, sparking the Atlanta Student Movement
from the university’s Quadrangle
and, subsequently, locating the Student Nonviolence Coordinating
Committee’s headquarters not a mile away. In the 1970s,
alumna Marva Collins proved to a nation that inner-city
students previously tagged “learning disabled” had simply
been “teacher disabled.” In the 1980s, alumna Pernessa C. Seele
spread a balm of compassion underneath the global fight to
end HIV/AIDS. In the 1990s, alumnus Bryan Barber proved
that, even as “Outkasts,” we can enjoy cinematic success.
This tradition continues today.
We invite you now to open the window and stand before
the mirror for a glimpse at how Clark Atlanta University
continues to set this dual perception. We invite you to
experience the sight, sound and soul of CAU.
Andante
Higgins:
A Versatile Newsman
Digital journalist Andante Higgins has an impressive résumé and a commitment
to helping the African-American community through his work.
By Jacqueline Conciatore
S
ometimes a journalist has to be resourceful. As in, finding a way to film hundreds
of people sans pants, riding the New York subway. Film crews, of course, aren’t
supposed to board trains to film the annual “No Pants Subway Ride.” That would
tip off unsuspecting commuters and ruin the joke. Digital journalist Andante Higgins (CAU ’02), covering the flash mob for NYPost.com, solved that problem by filming
with his Blackberry.
“In this business you have to know when to play by the rules,” he says, laughing.
The San Francisco-born Higgins has been in the business since he was an undergraduate
at Clark Atlanta, interning at CNN. His résumé includes stints traveling with Arizona Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign and with Katie Couric at CBS. His portfolio is
wide-ranging — hence the subway ride story — but it also evidences a strong commitment
to supporting the African-American community through journalism.
Higgins already had his eye on a TV news career when he transferred to Clark Atlanta
from the City College of San Francisco in 1998. He’d taken a class in critical television viewing and it sparked a new dream. At the time he was working for the Breakthrough Foundation, which served youth at risk. He’d been appointed by the city to its Delinquency Prevention Commission, serving as the commission’s youngest president. But then he thought
that journalism, with its ability to reach large audiences, might be the way he could make a
difference. Higgins applied to and was accepted at Clark Atlanta, and declared mass communication as his major, with a focus on radio and TV production.
Today some of his strongest memories of undergraduate life are of sitting on the steps of
the university’s news center wearing a shirt and tie, but jeans and Timberland boots, below
camera level.
“I definitely had the TV news bug,” he says. “I was hanging out in the mass communications department. I learned how to edit, how to use cameras, how to write programs.”
His CNN internship led to his first broadcast story about the untimely death of R&B artist and actress Aaliyah. The piece featured “man-on-the-street” interviews, movie and other
footage, plus Higgins’ stand-up narration. Was he nervous? Not so much, he says. He was
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focused—and aware the segment was
taped — so mistakes wouldn’t make
it to air.
The CNN internship taught Higgins the ABCs of television news
making — reporting, writing, editing and production. The studentproduced cable news program aired
at 4 a.m., and “we had the run of the
place,” he says. He followed this positive experience with another at The
Weather Channel, working primarily
as a camera operator.
Upon
graduation,
Higgins
returned to California to attend the
University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
There, he put into drive his desire to
make a difference, and began covering stories with social justice angles.
Straight Talk
Sitting outside in bright sunshine,
a young AIDS activist briefly gazes
down in thought, looks up and tells
Higgins, “I’m going to tell you what’s
going on.” She gestures to the view in
front of her. “Let’s say I walk down
the street right now, into a group of
10 youngsters.” She presses her finger
to her temple. “Their whole mindset
is, ‘That doesn’t apply to me. All the
women that I mess with? Oh, she’s
too fine, she’s too cute, she smells
good. That doesn’t apply to me.’ That’s
their whole thing.”
She’s sharing her frank opinion
about why, compared to other groups,
young African Americans are more
likely to contract HIV/AIDS. Because
she is so confident and animated, it’s
the kind of video moment that really
strengthens a story.
“This piece was great,” says Higgins, “because I traveled from the
East coast to the West coast and spoke
with people in the field who gave me
the talk straight up. I went to Morehouse and spoke with students who
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were dealing with educating themselves. I spoke to people who were
addressing women and HIV. I spoke
to clergy and got why the church
won’t address it. It was a great piece
for its time — and it still stands out
when I watch it today.”
Higgins generally isn’t generous in
estimating his work. He says he doesn’t
enjoy watching himself on tape.
“Most of the pieces that I’ve done?
I’ve only given myself an ‘8.’ I’ve
never given myself a ‘10’ and said
‘I really hit that one out of the park.’
But sometimes years later I look and
think, ‘That was pretty good.’”
While at Berkeley, Higgins also
produced a documentary series
about the hot topic of gentrification,
Bay View Hunter’s Point: San Francisco’s Last Black Neighborhood. This
work and an internship with the CBS
national news desk would eventually lead to a more permanent gig —
which he holds to this day — as a CBS
producer.
He worked for CBS Evening News
with Katie Couric, producing daily
newsbreaks, cutting voice-overs,
coordinating tape and writing headlines, as well as teasers for the broadcast. He also was embedded for nine
months with Senator McCain on
the campaign trail. Higgins’ duties
ranged from reporting to producing,
working the camera, doing interviews
from the field for CBS radio and writing daily blog updates.
“I was on the road for a year, traveling from state to state to state to state,
following every move John McCain
made. I could recite his speeches in
my sleep,” Higgins says.
He remembers the excitement
of calling his news bosses from the
road to say the up-‘til-then struggling
campaign had taken a turn, suddenly
the “house was packed” and things
had clicked for McCain.
Today Higgins lives in a renovated brownstone in Harlem near the
Apollo Theater. He juggles freelance
assignments for CBS and other clients, often working 7-day weeks. He
does some producing of corporate
videos, and he joined BET News,
where he helped launch the news
show Weekly with Ed Gordon (currently on hiatus). One of his recent
projects was a BET Christmas special,
for which he served as floor producer.
“We do more than that,
don’t we?”
In all of his network news assignments, Higgins says, he tries to advocate for accurate, representative coverage of the black community.
“It’s one of the reasons I got into
the business. Back home in San Francisco, I knew when I watched the television news at night, whenever I saw
black men, we were being dragged
away in handcuffs. And we do more
than that, don’t we?”
So despite warnings from some
that for black men in network TV
news there is a glass ceiling, Higgins
pursued his goals.
“I felt they needed a black man in
that newsroom to say, ‘Maybe we can
do it another way’,” he says.
Black television journalists have to
pick their battles, he adds, and offers
one example. When comic and television actor Bernie Mac died, he and
some of his colleagues had to lobby for
a network’s airtime. The powers-thatbe weren’t very familiar with Mac’s
work, he says. The pro-Mac group
had to point out that the late actor had
starred in a network TV show and was
in Charlie’s Angels and Ocean’s Eleven.
But by the time the network OK’d it,
it was too late.
“It’s unfortunate that we weren’t
able to get an obituary package on the
air for him,” Higgins laments.
On the Road with Kevin Tarr
By Dana Harvey
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the
door.” Translation: There are many
opportunities in life that are missed
because people aren’t persistent in their
efforts to secure them. CAU senior
Kevin Tarr, however, has done just the
opposite in pursuit of life after college.
Tarr’s mother is from the West
African country Liberia, but he was
born and raised in Willingboro, N.J.,
and attended high school at the Burlington County Institute of Technology. He is one of three children and
he and a sister are the only members
of their family to pursue a post-secondary degree. Tarr’s love for creativity and film steered his ambition to
become a full-length film director
and editor, and his desire to gain
knowledge from a prestigious mass
media program and to be around
other African Americans who were
doing something positive led to his
decision to attend Clark Atlanta.
Through this journey, Tarr, like
many other college students, has had
to endure bumps along the way. He
has made significant detours in his
life that have cultivated his road to
success with the help of his mentor,
Julian Dube, as the back seat driver.
Those bumps have been the source
of many life lessons that Tarr says he
is “most grateful for because they’ve
taught me how to be responsible for
my actions, among other things.”
“Kevin has grown into a wellrounded student and a self-motivated
young man who has what it takes to be
productive in this society,” said Dube.
For his efforts, Tarr recently landed
a semester-long internship with the
most prominent sports media outlet,
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known
as ESPN, as a highlight editor, which
will begin this spring. Approximately
500,000 students sought the opportunity and he was one of four who was
offered the esteemed internship.
“I feel amazingly blessed and humbled by this opportunity and I want
to uphold CAU’s prestigious reputation at ESPN,” said Tarr. “I thank God
for all that He is in my life and the
purpose He birthed in me.”
Like so many students who grace
CAU’s campus, Tarr is very talented in
his craft. As a radio/television/film
major, he is involved with various
organizations and projects that fuel
his creativity. He is a cinematographer for CAU-TV, the executive editor
of the Morehouse Filmmakers Association, and he has developed and
directed his first music video titled
NYAM for the music artist A.J. Coles.
Along with his dreams of becoming a director and editor, Tarr would
like to one day open a hospital in his
native country that would help cure
sickle cell, HIV/AIDS and other diseases that are widespread among the
people in Liberia and name it after
his grandmother.
“That would
bring me the
greatest joy,”
Tarr said.
Have things evolved since he
started in network TV 10 years ago?
“I don’t know that it’s evolved,”
Higgins says. “I still am angered
when black people are not portrayed
in the best light. I’m still angered
when they’re missing from the news.”
Like so many successful people,
Higgins is good at developing relationships. “I grab a mentor anywhere
I can find one,” he says.
At Clark Atlanta, communications
professor Reggie Mitchell “was just
perfect in every way. He taught us
everything,” he says.
History professor Vickie Crawford
was also a mentor, as well as production manager Bryan Jenkins.
For young people considering TV
news careers, Higgins has two pieces
of advice. The first is: “Get your writing skills together. If you can write,
you can do almost anything.”
In addition, he says, think, “mul-
timedia.” Learn to shoot video and
to edit. “This business is shrinking
day by day,” he says. “Being versatile allows you to maintain employment and move yourself forward.” If
you’re a one-person production shop,
you’re more likely to get the enviable
assignments.
He would know. n
Jacqueline Conciatore is an editor at the
National Science Foundation in Arlington,
Virginia.
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Jay Thomas
CAU’s NewsBreak
C
lassroom discussions about current
events and news programming are
essential, but as any student who hopes
to make a living in the news business
knows, actual broadcast studio experience is
invaluable. At Clark Atlanta University, the students who serve as reporters and crew members
for the daily television program NewsBreak are
not only getting hands-on experience in what
it truly means to gather and produce news, but
also providing an irreplaceable service to the
Atlanta community.
NewsBreak, which began in June 2008, currently airs weekdays at 4pm on CAU-TV, making
its way into the homes of 1.2 million Atlanta viewers daily. Students who wish to be part of the team
must have at least a 3.0 GPA and must submit a
letter of recommendation from a faculty member.
Applications are considered each semester.
CAU-TV Station Manager Murdell McFarlin is
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the driving force behind the broadcast, alongside
coordinator Chaloea Hale, who helps train the
student journalists and crew. McFarlin says that
NewsBreak’s mission is “to give students real-life,
hands-on, experience in electronic newsgathering
for television and to equip our students to be competitive with any other professional news crew.”
The process of selecting what gets reported
isn’t too difficult for the show’s producers. At
NewsBreak, it’s more a matter of researching
news that doesn’t get as much mainstream attention. McFarlin noted that they focus on stories
that depict important campus activities, as well
as happenings in Atlanta’s communities of color,
especially stories that have regional and national
impact and appeal.
NewsBreak also opens up a lot of doors for
students when the opportunities afforded them
are utilized properly. “Several students have
found employment as a result of their work at
By Chivone Smith and Donna Brock
CAU-TV, which routinely gets published on
YouTube,” McFarlin said. She added that the
show has proved to be a springboard to Mass
Media Arts majors honing their skills for positions in news writing and producing.
Junior Mass Media Arts major Lauren Fluker
suggests that NewsBreak actually should be offered
as a class. She also noted how beneficial the experience has been to her. “It’s a wonderful addition to
my résumé,” Fluker said. “I got the opportunity to
visit CNN and see how they run the studios, and
some of the same fundamental skills we gained [at
NewsBreak] were ones they used at CNN.”
While sharpening her craft and her leadership skills, Fluker also was the first student
producer on NewsBreak, where her sports segment beat out 30 other college entries and won
a national award from the Association of Higher
Education Campus Television Administrators.
It received the 2011 News/Sports Honorable
Mention Award, beating out NYU, Notre Dame
and UCLA.
The show also teaches how best to manage
real-life situations. There are many times, for
example, when viewers call into NewsBreak to
complain because they don’t like what’s being
reported. McFarlin recalled “one viewer was
very upset about a program [that spotlighted a
certain actor] and called us and really told me
off about having him on the channel because
she didn’t care for him.” On a lighter note, viewers sometimes will compliment a show on its
production, which usually includes a request to
have DVDs sent to them.
Currently, NewsBreak is in the process of producing a documentary on the Tuskegee Airmen
and, of course, they’re planning for future CAU
event coverage. The irony of being a part of
the NewsBreak team is that, like the news, they
rarely take one. n
Producer Shatondra Caldwell and
anchor AnnaKay
Tomlinson go over
the day’s news as
cameraman Dwight
S. Williams, Jr.,
prepares to shoot
the broadcast.
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One
Woman’s
War
on Negative
Imagery of Black
Women in the
Media
By Matthew Scott
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Jay Thomas
W
riter, director, producer
and Clark Atlanta University instructor April
Lundy believes there’s a
war going on every time people go to
the movies or turn on the TV or a computer screen, and many are unaware of
the devastation that is being brought
down upon them as they watch. It’s
a war of images — negative images
of black female sexuality and black
people in general that she speaks so
passionately against.
“[Black female sexuality] has
been utilized throughout history to
maintain, in my opinion, a political
caste system that keeps us kind of
oppressed,” says Lundy. “I think that
carries into the way we are portrayed
in media today — specifically in the
way our sexuality is portrayed.”
Lundy feels black women today are
either portrayed as over-sexed, as in
music videos, or asexual, where characters are never allowed to explore
true love relationships. This mirrors
past stereotypes where black women
either played hookers, jezebels, cooks,
maids and mammies. There also is
what Lundy calls the newer stereotype
of “the angry black woman.”
“There is this new thing in reality
shows where black women are portrayed as gold diggers and then they
end up fighting each other over nothing,” Lundy says, noting that the trend
took off following the appearance of
the villainous Omarosa ManigaultStallworth on NBC’s The Apprentice.
Lundy fears that black women with
bad attitudes have become a television
staple — and more women are using
bad behavior to attract attention and
celebrity. “They have become bullies
and that is their claim to fame,” she
laments.
Lundy, who is best known for her
work as director of the reality TV
series Being Bobby Brown and Keith
Sweat’s Platinum House, has committed herself to teaching the next
generation of black filmmakers how
to combat these stereotypes and deal
with some of the harsh realities of
working in the television and film
industries. She challenges students
to critically analyze how blacks are
portrayed in her African American
Images in the Media course. In her
Media Seminar course, she gives
students the opportunity to create
their own TV show or film and then
teaches them how to package, pitch,
mostly relegated to roles as “video
chicks” and not many had broken
through to land director and producer roles — prime positions behind
the scenes. Even though Lundy had
done well partnering with others
to start two video and film production companies during the 1990s,
the industry’s culture of disregard
and disrespect toward women stifled
her development. Instead of getting
opportunities to direct and produce,
she kept getting offers to be a video
chick and shake her own caboose.
“I turned down a lot of offers to be
in music videos,” she recalls. “I was a
producer and owner of a company,
market their ideas and create a business plan to get their projects picked
up by a studio. In essence, Lundy is
trying to create an army of writers,
directors and producers who will
collectively produce enough positive
content to offset negative stereotypes
and upgrade the image of African
Americans overall.
During the 1990s, Lundy experienced first-hand the byproduct of
much of the negative imagery she
fights to eliminate today. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in communications from Georgia State University, she followed in the footsteps
of filmmakers before her, producing
and directing music videos to practice her craft and gain notoriety. But
Lundy found that black women were
and for people to overlook that and
try to coax me to be in a music video
was insulting to me.”
Through the two companies she
co-founded, the Film Noir Group and
Strange Fruit Films, Lundy produced a
number of video and film projects that
she felt were more positive in nature
but, she admits, “didn’t go over well
with the audience. That’s why I moved
totally away from music videos.”
Lundy also found that the maledominated film business often assumes
that women lack business acumen.
However, her diligent work ethic and
experience, gained from working with
clients such as Black Entertainment
Television, Laface Records, MTV Networks and Burrell Advertising, helped
her get past that issue.
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“I had to empower myself by
learning every aspect of the production cycle and learning a lot of technical things about every department
that works on a production,” Lundy
says. “Knowledge became power. I
learned the difference between what’s
needed for a project and what’s not
needed because they would try to
take advantage.”
Lundy’s early success as a local
video director caught the eye of
noted CAU professor Herbert Eichelberger, who taught Academy Awardwinning director and producer Spike
Lee, and in 1995, he invited her to
speak to his students. Lundy says she
“caught the teaching bug” because of
that experience and promised herself
that she would teach film studies at
some point in the future.
In 2000, Lundy started a company
she operates by herself called Sunsum, a Yoruba term she says means
“soul.” Instead of taking on multiple
production projects for fees, she
began “creating content that I own
[totally] or own a piece of, as opposed
to providing a production service.”
Soon after, she returned to Georgia
State University, earned a Master of
Fine Arts in digital filmmaking and
art in 2005 and began teaching at
Clark Atlanta University. She chose
CAU largely due to the positive influence of Eichelberger, with whom she
enjoys working, and the fact that her
mother is a Clark Atlanta alumna.
This past year, Lundy taught a
course studying the films of Spike
Lee, and she has taught classes on
screenwriting, the history of film and
directing reality television shows as
well. She also is the Film Concentration Coordinator and Director
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nication Arts department, giving
her great input into the career paths
of the students in the film program.
She regularly invites visual arts professionals to visit the school as guest
lecturers to enhance the messages she
delivers in the classroom.
“There are some young black
women who are doing some great
things, and I try to connect with them
and bring them to CAU to speak so
the students can see an example of
the possibilities,” Lundy says.
Some of the young producers and
directors Lundy connects with who
are coming up the ranks include
Crystle ‘Clear’ Roberson, who is in
final production of her first independent film, Echo at 11 Oak Drive;
Sequoia Blodgett, who is producing
music videos for the hottest pop talent, including Justin Bieber, Bobby
Valentino, Jacob Latimore and Kandi
Burrus; and CAU alum Jihad ‘JZ’
Ziyad, who has worked behind the
scenes on the Monique Show and The
Game and is now is a set production
assistant on the new BET sitcom Reed
Between the Lines.
Lundy has four points of advice for
black women aspiring to break into
the film or television business:
Believe — Lundy stresses that you
have to be willing to blaze a trail with
few people to help you, so believing
that what you want to achieve is possible is paramount to your success.
“When I started there was only Julie
Dash, and a lot of people didn’t know
about her,” she says, noting that black
women producers and directors were
not the industry norm. “I had to have
a vision and believe it was possible —
believe what I didn’t see.”
Think business at all times —
Lundy says black women who want
to direct, write and be creative in the
industry must realize that everything
is business. Protecting your interests
requires a tough, bottom-line attitude. Lose sight of that and you will
lose the respect of your peers and
quite possibly the rights to your creative projects.
Be versatile — Now that the film
and television industries are more
interconnected than ever, Lundy says,
“You have to know both industries
and both formats and understand the
business differences in both of those
industries…you have to be versatile
to access as many opportunities as
possible.”
Diversify your contacts — Lundy
says black female filmmakers should
avoid limiting their business and
social circles to only black people.
“Reach out and make connections
across cultures and be diverse when
it comes to resources,” she says.
This last point is extremely
important for Lundy, because she
says she rarely received return correspondence when she reached out
to other black women in the industry in the 1990s. “I try to be different when it comes to the younger
black female filmmakers that I know
about. I connect with them on Facebook, I create a relationship with
them. I don’t want to repeat what
happened to me.”
It is those connections, combined
with the skills to create that she
believes will be the key to winning
the war on negative imagery. “I think
there are a lot more [well-known]
black females working in filmmaking
behind the scenes, but I don’t think
we unify,” Lundy says. “We are yet to
be a force to be reckoned with but I
think we need to unify to do that.” n
A
Wilmore
Takes the Stage
at CAU
sk anyone in the entertainment industry about his or
her quest for professional
success and celebrity, and
they’ll likely recount each rejection
with a level of detail screenwriters envy. Ask an African American
in the entertainment industry the
same question, and the conversation
will take a bit longer. Beyond the
typical rejections and thankless side
jobs, the black experience in front
of and behind the camera is generally fraught with subtle inequalities,
exclusionary politics, inside baseball,
shameless stereotyping and, oh yes,
good old-fashioned racism, not to
mention the dearth of roles for African-American artists.
Navigating a career under the bright
lights, whether on the big screen or the
tube, is more than a notion. The game
is different in show business, and it
takes more than paying your dues and
a big break…or two…or three…to
learn the rules. The learning curve is
steep and those who have mastered it
understand that show business more
often than not means you’d better
show up ready to do business so that
no one “gives you the business.”
Hollywood heavyweight Larry
Wilmore knows this all too well.
“If you want to know how strong a
person you truly are,” Wilmore says,
“move to Hollywood and tell people
you want to be in the entertainment
industry. If you can survive the initial
put-downs, the ego-crushing guffaws,
and the grueling run of side jobs to
stave off starvation before you’re ‘discovered,’ you might have a shot.”
The acclaimed actor, writer and
producer started his career as a stand-
up comic after a cameo as a theater
student at California Polytechnic University in Pomona. Along his learning
curve, he played a policeman on The
Facts of Life; wrote for comedy series
Sister, Sister and In Living Color; and
co-created and produced The PJs with
Eddie Murphy and The Bernie Mac
Show. For his work on The Bernie Mac
Show, he won an Emmy Award for
writing the pilot episode, as well as a
Peabody Award and a 2003 Humanitas Prize. From 2005 to 2007, he was
consulting producer for The Office,
recurring as the diversity consultant,
Mr. Brown. He was supervising producer of The Jamie Foxx Show and
co-produced 24 episodes of The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air.
Since 2006, he’s appeared as the
“senior black correspondent” on The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart, sharing observations on the black experience in America with humor
and timing for which less
experienced
comedians
would sell their souls. He
also made appearances as a
minister in the 2009 movie
I Love You Man and the
malevolent executive
“Williams” in the
2010 hit Dinner
for Schmucks. In
2009, he authored
I’d Rather We Got
Casinos and Other
Black Thoughts, a
book Barnes and
Noble called “uproarious” and “sometimes
disturbingly wise.” African-American
readers might be more inclined to surmise that Wilmore is just “keeping it
real.”
His next appearance brings him
to a markedly different stage, the
campus of Clark Atlanta University,
where this semester he’ll share his
expertise and insight on “making it”
with a select group of 25 theater and
mass media arts students. The working name of the course is appropriately titled, “Larry Wilmore’s Learning Curve.” Although his relentless
bicoastal schedule persists, he’ll conduct monthly classroom seminars
and dole out assignments just like
died-in-the-wool professors of the
Ivory Tower ilk.
“I want to share all of the things I
wish I’d had someone tell me when I
started out in the industry,” Wilmore
says. “This is really exciting for me.
It’s new ground because I’ve never
taught in a formal classroom setting
before, but I’m also expecting to learn
a lot from the students. We’ll spend
quality time talking about how
to master the craft…and life.” n
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The
a
J
“Morris in the Morning” Baxter wakes Atlanta up at 6am
weekdays with a positive outlook and hot jazz.
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z
z
of the City
Clark Atlanta University’s WCLK is more
than a radio station; it’s a community.
By Donna Brock
A
Jay Thomas
s groups like the Delphonics and the
Chi-lites dotted the 1970s R&B landscape with harmonies syncopated
to allow for precision choreography,
music lovers on Clark Atlanta University’s campus (then Clark College) were singing another
tune. In 1974, Jazz 91.9 WCLK became the first
federally licensed African-American educational FM station in Georgia with just 54 watts,
and from its inception, the music format was as
American as you can get — jazz.
“The vision from day one was to leverage the
art form, not just in response to a void in the
local market, but more as keepers of a precious
cultural icon,” says the station’s general manager
Wendy Williams, who joined WCLK in 1994
when it boasted just 2,500 watts.
Today, the 6,000-watt station continues to offer
classic and contemporary jazz, as well as gospel,
Latin, reggae and blues music. As an affiliate of
both National Public Radio and Public Radio
International, the station also provides a broad
platform of unbiased news and talk programming,
from campus happenings to national perspectives,
and includes respected journalists like John Hockenberry, Michel Martin and Tavis Smiley.
“We were always the town crier,” Williams
recalls. “I remember a time when people would
just show up with typewritten press releases and
ask, ‘Can you run this on the air for us?’ And
we would. It’s really cool that all these years later
we’re still providing pretty much the same level
of community access, although our scope now is
definitely global.”
The Jazz of the City also serves as a learning
laboratory for students in the university’s Mass
Media Arts department. Under WCLK’s care,
98.1 WSTU-FM provides hands-on training for
students aspiring to careers in radio, as well as
those who simply want to fill the airwaves with
their hip-hop and R&B playlists.
“We have a pretty loyal following throughout
the AU Center,” says sophomore Bianca Chavez,
part of the student station’s PR team.
Altogether, the station offers a veritable
feast of music, public affairs and community
information for its 123,000 weekly listeners, 75
percent of them male.
“Where else in one day could you join in
morning meditations over a funky jazz groove,
hear Nancy Wilson’s take on what’s hot in the
industry, get health-care tips for the men in
your life, and then dance the night away to the
sounds of Big Band jazz? And that’s just on
Wednesdays,” laughs on-air personality, Morris Baxter, whose daily weekday morning show,
Morris in the Morning, faithfully reminds listeners to “stay positive!”
In addition to catering to its members,
the station also offers artists an invaluable
platform. To ensure the perpetuation of this
music genre, WCLK affords local artists one
of the only outlets in the area to showcase
their music on the air. The station introduced
vocalists Lizz Wright, Donnie, and Grammy
award-winning songstress India Arie to the
Atlanta market long before their first CDs
were released. Arie credited Jazz 91.9 FM
WCLK and its on-air personalities on her first
CD. But the station has long enjoyed relationships with a diverse spectrum of artists, from
Abbey Lincoln and Roy Ayers to Joshua Redman
and Rachelle Ferrell.
“Jazz artists know that when they’re in
Atlanta or simply on the radar, our doorway
and our ears are open,” Williams says.
“I believe it’s exactly this openness that
accounts for our success,” says Lisa K. Mosley,
vice chair of the station’s board of directors.
“Our strength is in our ability to hear what our
members are saying to us. WCLK isn’t just about
music or programming, we’re really a community — an informed, harmonious community.
And with the continued and increased support
of current and new members, our community
will continue to grow and groove.”
For more on Jazz 91.9 FM programming and
membership, visit www.wclk.com. n
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I
t’s a cold Thursday night and
students spill into Woodruff Library’s
Exhibition Hall bantering back and forth about
the day’s events, class assignments and weekend plans.
In the front of the room sits a diminutive woman whose
pronounced calm speaks volumes. As the student public
relations forum comes to order, she sits quietly awaiting
her turn to speak. As she recounts her career journey, her
pedigree is evident. With each word, it becomes easier
to understand why Dee Dee Cocheta is a sought-after
publicist, the founder of her own PR firm and an awardwinning brand strategist.
Cocheta’s ABC Publicity is a public relations and marketing firm based in Atlanta and New York. The agency’s
services include lifestyle, entertainment and multicultural
marketing, with a special focus on clients who don’t consistently get the attention they deserve. But don’t be fooled
by the firm’s altruistic aims. Its client files are impressive.
Cocheta’s contact list could be mistaken for a who’s who
among who’s hot at any given moment, from the Democratic National Committee to John Casablanca Agency
Fashion Shows, to the Showtime Network’s The NEXT
series and CAU’s own author célèbre Daniel Black.
But the grandmother — yes, grandmother — of three’s
mark in the world of PR and marketing is outstripped
only by her mark in another, the world of hip-hop.
As she talks to students — each now spellbound and
hanging onto her every word — about professional PR
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standards and the
ethics of management,
names like KRS One and Killer
Mike effortlessly dot her presentation. Students’ hands begin to rise as if choreographed, and
the conversation takes a decided, albeit brief, turn to the
latest news in rap. No one seems to mind. By now, Cocheta’s
warmth, humor, passion and sincerity have won over the
entire room, panel included.
“As a Native American growing up in Portland, Ore., I
had a definite sense of who I was, “ Cocheta says. “Music
had always been a part of my family’s experience, from
the drums at pow wows, to my father’s country music, my
grandfather’s swing jazz and my mother’s diverse tastes in
Elvis and Led Zepplin. My mother also wanted me to be
universal in my thinking,” she recalls. “She had me read
all types of books, attend events, and listen to all types
of music. By the time I first encountered rap in the early
1970s, as it was being birthed, it made sense to me as an
amalgamation of all those types of music.”
Her roots in the genre are organic. She began break
dancing and steeping herself in the fashion and style of
hip-hop as it was forming in the 1980s.
“By the time I was in high school, I’d become known
as a ‘Hip-Hoppa,’ promoting concerts and assisting artists
with their marketing. Hip-hop became, as they say, ‘my
first love’.”
Married for 23 years and the mother of seven,
Cocheta’s life has been filled with lots of loves since
then. As a student at Portland Community College,
she also fell in love with Clark Atlanta University.
“The recruiters made strong, lasting impressions
when they would visit our school. They made me feel like
a part of the university before I arrived on the campus.
It never mattered that I wasn’t African American. I felt
a deep connection to the university, a sense of being at
home with family. I still do,” she says. “My professors and
counselors always took the time to make sure I was on
track and they educated us beyond what was in the books
by providing real-world business insight. They also gave
us a push when we needed it, like family.”
Cocheta graduated with a B.A. in marketing in 1996, a
milestone in which she takes great pride.
“Growing up, even though my family was labeled ‘poor,’
I learned to take what was considered negative or weak
and turn it into a strength. CAU’s motto inspired me to
embrace that and use it as a career tool. The university
motto, ‘I’ll find a way or make one,’ is pretty much my outlook on life,” she says, and her career path.
After years as a producer and marketing executive in the
radio industry, Cocheta took a leap of faith and decided to
go it alone. When she opened ABC in the late 1990s, it
was the South’s first boutique agency focusing on music
and entertainment, but her relationships and reputation
among artists gave her credibility. Over the past decade,
she’s worked with CHUCK D and his label Slam Jamz,
KRS One, Professor Griff, Almight Kay Gee, DJ Benny D,
Kangol and Killer Mike.
“It is a man’s world in the entertainment industry and
when I started, there were not many women role models or
mentors,” she recalls. “Still, I always treated everyone the
same, regardless of gender, because business is business.”
But Cocheta never allowed her gender to become a
stumbling block. Today, she applies that same wisdom to
her latest clients, Arrested Development and Isaac Hayes
III, son of the late music icon Isaac Hayes. Having been
a part of the hip-hop movement from the ground up,
Cocheta says that the past decade has changed the landscape considerably, for better and for worse.
“From a business standpoint, ‘selling out’ was something we would never do in the beginning. Now, many
new artists give in to the commercialized appeal of rap
and dumb down their unique voices. Even worse, some
sign their lives or companies away to make the quick buck,
not considering the repercussions. On a positive note,
however, the enduring culture and its broadening scope
have allowed older and younger generations to connect,
whether it’s through the music, the clothing, or dance,” she
says. In addition, Cocheta adds, “Hip-hop today is universal. You can go to any country and connect with people
through it, even if you can’t speak the native language.”
If time has impacted the genre, Cocheta says, technology has, too. Harkening back to its earliest days when
people gathered on streets with boom boxes and rhymes,
she says that the Internet and new media have become the
virtual street, making the connections instant and global.
Of course the “downside to this,” she adds, “ is that all of
the negative aspects of hip-hop can be spread with the
same scope and speed.”
Today, you can see three generations
come together living the hip-hop life
because it’s been a part of each generation’s
experiences.
“It bothers me, “ Cocheta admits, “that some people
think hip-hop is all about thugs and living a criminal life.
That’s not at all what the culture represents. It’s borne from
giving voice to ideas and perspectives with homage to the
real-world experiences that precipitate them. Just because
artists choose to speak a certain way or wear certain clothing doesn’t make them any less of a person, nor does it
make their ideas any less valuable than someone’s who
wears a three-piece suit to work.”
Cocheta counsels artists that their’s is an industry that
demands time, effort and excellence. She’s a testament that
hard work pays off.
“No one is just handing out careers in PR or in the music
industry, especially not in this economy,” she reminds the
room full of young, budding PR executives, all now fully
intrigued by Cocheta’s swagger and her smarts.
“You have to be committed to find a way…or make
one,” she counsels.
Class dismissed. n
Editor’s Note: Dee Dee Cocheta is currently working on her memoirs in
Portland, Oregon. Her web site is www. ABC Publicity.com
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W
C l ark Atlanta
Uncompromised:
Reclaiming
a Legend
of Black Thought
By David Lindsay
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Byon
David
Lindsay
hen experts converge
the Clark
Atlanta
University campus in 2013 for a conference
commemorating W.E.B. Du Bois, Ph.D.,
they will not only advance the academic
understanding of one of the world’s great scholars, they
also will help CAU capture the often overlooked legacy he
left there.
“People do not associate Du Bois with Clark Atlanta
University. We hear about his alma maters, Fisk and Harvard, and the NAACP, where he worked many years,” says
Stephanie Evans, Ph.D., chair of CAU’s history department.
“CAU is one of the hidden facts of his history.”
That happened despite Du Bois having spent 23 years —
the bulk of his teaching career — on the faculty of what was
then Atlanta University, from 1897 to 1910, and again from
1933 to 1943.
The commemoration is more than a conference. It is part
of one of the more ambitious series of academic events ever
held on campus. Leading up to 2013, Evans has organized
a year-long series of monthly seminars on Du Bois’s major
works. It began January 20, 2012, with Arthur McFarlane,
Du Bois’s great-grandson, participating in a discussion
titled “Descendants of the Struggle.” The activities culminate in February 2013, the 50th anniversary of Du Bois’s
death, with “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wings of Atlanta,” an
event that promises to be one of the best conferences yet
devoted to his scholarship.
The mission to reclaim Du Bois’s legacy as CAU’s own was
clear — pre-destined even — as soon as Evans assumed the
history department chairmanship in 2011. She had access to
a treasure trove of information available to her in her undergraduate career at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
where Du Bois’s papers are archived. Her academic research,
including the book Black Women in the Ivory Tower, focuses
on some of the accomplished, African-American women
scholars who traveled in Du Bois’s intellectual circle.
A year of reflection and appreciation
After recognizing that 2013 would be the 50th anniversary
of Du Bois’s death, “I kind of panicked, but I had to get
involved,” she says. Evans’ first order of business was to
enlist CAU President Carlton E. Brown as conference
co-chair. He gladly agreed. “You have to seriously steep
yourself and study. Everything I have done up to this point
has prepared me for this.”
The conference is no less important to one of its chief
sponsors on campus, Joseph Silver, Ph.D., CAU’s provost.
“We have an obligation,” says Silver, “to make sure we not
only own Du Bois’s legacy, but celebrate it and become the
custodian of that legacy.”
The seminar series and conference will have more faculty participation than any single conference in recent
memory — a testament to the enduring themes Du Bois
addressed, as well as to the interdisciplinary nature of his
work. Several alumni who teach at other institutions are
participating as well.
Kurt Young. (M.A., ’94; Ph.D., ’02), an associate professor of political science at the University of Central Florida,
argues that Du Bois’s broad scope of work demands as
much time as possible.
“It’s difficult to limit yourself to one aspect of Du Bois’s
career in serious academic study,” he says. “He spoke to
the black experience and connected it to the broader
experiences of all humanity. There’s no quick fix to understanding that it’s a process.”
The Soul of Black Scholarship
When Du Bois arrived at Atlanta University, it was the
start of a productive period for the young scholar, during
which he published The Souls of Black Folk, the seminal
book on the black middle class that brought concepts such
as “double-consciousness” and “the Talented Tenth” into
the vernacular of the African-American struggle.
While at the university Du Bois famously quarreled with
the other preeminent black educator of the day, Booker
T. Washington, deriding the slow-progress approach to
equality that Washington had championed in his famous
Atlanta speech, “The Atlanta Compromise.”
Du Bois left the university in 1910 to launch and edit the
country’s most enduring civil rights magazine, The Crisis,
for the NAACP, which he co-founded. After his return in
1933, Du Bois launched Phylon, an Atlanta University Press
journal of race and culture that published the top black
scholars, poets and artists of the day. He also published his
finest piece of historical scholarship, Black Reconstruction,
a work that challenged conventional thinking on the successes and failures of the post Civil War era in the South.
Graduate education and research, parts of what make
today’s Clark Atlanta University a key contributor to the
Atlanta University Center (AUC), thrived with Du Bois
on the faculty. Nurturing a community of professors and
degree-seeking African-American graduate students was
no small feat in the Deep South. But it created a tradition of
scholarship that alumni have spread throughout academia.
“Even today, if you look at a lot of the historically black
institutions in terms of faculty in the Southeast, a lot of the
faculty have come through Atlanta University,” explains
Silver. “And for the long time when society was not as
open as it is today, Atlanta University was just about the
only game in town.”
Du Bois founded the university’s School of Social Work
while conducting research that would synthesize all angles
of African-American life in the South.
“Du Bois made us the center of critical thought around
politics, economics and sociology,” Silver adds.
Graduate Education and Research: the Past
as Prelude
Du Bois established the level of scholarship that made
CAU a natural choice to be the graduate school for the
AUC. Reclaiming Du Bois and re-emphasizing graduate
education in many ways go hand in hand.
“Clark Atlanta has to take its rightful place in the
AUC as well as its status as a research institution,” Silver
says. “One of the ways we can start doing that is by fully
embracing our legacy.”
For Shirley Williams-Kirksey, Ph.D., dean of the CAU
School of Arts and Sciences, reclaiming Du Bois’s legacy
and giving more visibility to his work will in some small
way start to bring back the sense of African-American
scholarship that once existed not only at the collegiate
level, but throughout the community.
When she was a schoolgirl, prior to integration, many
African-American grade school teachers made sure students knew about the country’s leading black intellectuals.
“I understood the importance of these people because I
grew up under segregation,” says Williams-Kirksey.
Decades later, as a professor who became dean in 2003,
Williams-Kirksey not only had a chance to learn more, but
to preserve: She was charged with keeping the university’s
Phylon back catalog. The first three cherished volumes in
her archive are editions edited by Du Bois himself, and
they show how he made Phylon an outlet for his fellow
faculty members to participate in the highest-level discussions of race and identity.
Now, Williams-Kirksey, along with Evans, Silver and
many other CAU faculty, are looking at how Phylon, which
ceased publication for financial reasons in 2001, can be resurrected, possibly as a byproduct of the 2013 conference.
Another great development to come out of the conference is that Du Bois will become a tangible presence
at the institution he helped make great. Evans has organized an alumni class challenge which will enable the
university to commission a bust of Du Bois that will be
displayed on campus.
“This is the graduate school of the AUC, and Du Bois
championed education,” she says. “Can’t you just envision
a bust of him on campus? Something every doctoral student would visit immediately before going in to defend his
or her dissertation?” n
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Clark Atlanta
University’s
New CAUSE
Teaching sports and entertainment professionals to
be both ethical and successful
By Frank McCoy
M
etro Atlanta exudes so much African-American entertainment and athletic energy that its
atmosphere crackles with potential. Thanks
to Clark Atlanta University President Carlton
E. Brown and School of Business Administration Dean
Lydia McKinley Floyd, CAU is now harnessing that energy
to illuminate new economic opportunities for students.
Brown and Floyd have launched the Clark Atlanta University Sports and Entertainment program (CAUSE) in the
School of Business. This exciting new initiative has a twofold mission. The first is to provide an academic on-ramp
for future generations of agents, managers, financial advisors and lawyers to learn how to exploit marketing opportunities for their talented sports and entertainment clients.
The second, and according to Brown, most important
part of the curriculum, will be to embed in each CAUSE
student an understanding of and appreciation for ethics
and integrity as well as business acumen. The program’s
alumni “will guide their clients to realize that they don’t
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have to go after every fast dollar, and will know how to
create a process to maximize economic opportunities and
build personal and community wealth,” said Brown.
Initial Courses
CAUSE is a multidisciplinary initiative that will award a
certificate. While based in the business school, the program is open to all CAU students. In 2012, juniors and
seniors can take the program’s initial courses as electives
during the winter/spring semester.
The key class is Entrepreneurial Thinking, which
focuses on developing a business plan, evaluating venture
proposals, initiating projects and obtaining early financing. Students also will analyze how to acquire a management and equity position in a new or existing business.
The companion course, Sports and Entertainment Marketing, was designed to teach students how to apply marketing principles to sports and entertainment, and other events
and activities. Emphasis is on branding, licensing, and nam-
ing rights; business foundations; concessions and on-site
merchandising; economic foundations; promotion; safety
and security and human relations. Over time, another half
dozen CAUSE undergraduate and graduate courses in areas
including management and law will be added.
A Competitive Advantage
Tee Foxx is representative of the critical mass of local
experts who will serve as guest lecturers or adjunct professors. She is the CEO and founder of the Atlanta-based
Foxx Entertainment Group, a 12-year-old branding,
production and management agency that specializes in
sports, entertainment and cause marketing.
Foxx, whose clients include every black quarterback
in the National Football League, select NBA players
and NFL stars such as the New Orleans Saints’ Mark
Ingram, said students must learn to live by her watch
words: integrity, loyalty and dependability. The objective, she said, is to help athletes and entertainers create
and market their personal brand, and then protect it
and themselves.
“Trust is the basis of my relationship with clients. So
many get taken advantage of, but mine know that I will
get them involved in the right type of promotion, deal or
venture,” she said.
Atlanta, with its established professional sports and
entertainment networks, is the right place for students
to gain expertise during CAUSE-related internships and
events. Last November, The New York Times reported
in “Stars Flock to Atlanta, Reshaping a Center of Black
Culture” that a lower cost of living has attracted nearly
250,000 African Americans to relocate in the metro area
since 2005. Their ranks include many athletes and stage,
screen and musical luminaries who live, work or invest in
the bustling city.
Atlanta’s entertainment celebs include Cee Lo Green,
Gladys Knight, Ludacris, OutKast, Usher and Jermaine
Dupri. Turner Broadcasting and serial television show
and filmmaker Tyler Perry’s headquarters and production facilities are located in what some call the Black
Hollywood.
Genesis
When Brown became CAU president in 2008, he was
ready to establish a sports and entertainment program. “It
was obvious that we had connections in those areas, and
I knew that there would be a positive response from students and our alumni,” he said.
There also was an understanding that when Atlanta’s
pro athletes and entertainers met socially that the conversation inevitably turned to how they could create, maximize, multiply and sustain income streams beyond their
years of greatest popularity.
Brown shared his ideas with CAU alumnus Chaka
Zulu, who is Ludacris’s manager, hip-hopreneur Russell
Simmons, Hank Aaron, ex-Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young
and others. But his vision gained form when Floyd became
dean of the business school in 2010. The duo agreed that
CAUSE would advance scholarship of popular culture as
it impacts sports and entertainment, attract professionals and spur discussion on how those sectors could affect
Atlanta’s economy.
Clark Atlanta also will draw upon its stellar current and
former athlete and entertainer alumni ranks to tell and
show students how the sports and entertainment industries really operate.
Currently, CAU’s most prominent entertainment
alumnus is director Kenny Leon, who recently had two
acclaimed plays, Mountaintop, and Stick Fly on New York’s
Broadway simultaneously. He also is the artistic director
of Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre Company. Leon, who
applauds the CAUSE program, suggested that its students
“attend our shows and see professionals at work, and audition for our pre-professional show to get unparalleled onthe-job training.”
In sports, the CEO and founder of All Pro Sports &
Entertainment, C. Lamont Smith, has been selected twice
by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the Top 100 Most
Influential Minorities in Sports. He also was chairman of
the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association,
an organization with which CAUSE intends to establish a
relationship.
Other alumni include Jody Mayfield, music composer;
C. LeFoy Grant, television editor and producer and
founder of HBCU Unit Network and Bryan Barber, director of Idlewild.
Optimism grounded in reality buoys Dean Floyd. She
believes that CAU’s academic excellence and connection
to the community; burgeoning student interest in sports
and entertainment management and the competitive
advantage of Atlanta’s cornucopia of local professionals is
unbeatable.
“People in those fields are chomping at the bit to come
and help CAUSE, and they will show [and teach]] students how to succeed both inside and outside the classroom,” Floyd said. n
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Leadership Ledger
By Joyce Jones
These four students are making an impact in their fields of endeavor. Leverage
An MBA student applies what he learns to make an impact in the
supply chain management industry
Tens of thousands of young men and
women will graduate from undergraduate and graduate programs in May, saddled with debt and no job prospects. It’s
a pretty safe bet that Jamael Harris won’t
be one of them. Jamael, who will earn
an MBA, is not only a pioneer in Clark
Atlanta University’s new graduate-level
supply chain management program,
he’s also getting hands-on experience at
Home Depot, one the nation’s largest and
most profitable corporations.
Jamael has been able to take part this
extraordinary experience in part because
of CAU’s tradition of linking its students to top executives at Atlanta’s top
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corporations, through seminars, lectures,
mock interviews and other partnerships,
but what those students do with those
opportunities is what matters most.
During the first year of his MBA program, Jamael met Chuck Kinnebrew,
Home Depot’s senior director of indirect procurement, and a member of the
program’s board of directors made up of
industry executives.
“They’re responsible for providing strategic direction and guidance to
ensure that students get opportunities in
terms internships and networking, and
making sure the program is relevant in
the marketplace,” Jamael explains.
After participating in a mock interview, Kinnebrew invited Jamael to
keep in touch, which he did by sharing
updates about his coursework and GPA
and information about outside activities and bouncing ideas off of this valuable contact. He ultimately was invited
to spend a week shadowing strategic
sourcing managers, which he describes
as an informal interview. When he was
offered an internship, Jamael proactively
explained the kinds of experiences that
he hoped to have.
“The project they put me on gave
me those types of intangibles — project
management, leadership, and strategic
and analytical thinking,” Jamael says. “I
demonstrated that I had the aptitude and
asked for an opportunity to do a co-op.”
His wish was granted, and Jamael
works part-time during the semester and
full time during breaks.
“I didn’t know what to expect at CAU,
but the professors are markedly different,
well-respected in the field, and actually
care. The class size is such that it encourages and reinforces relationships with the
professors. For me, it’s an ideal environment,” Jamael says.
He recalls that the first-year coursework was very challenging, forcing students to think outside of the box and
also form strong bonds with each other.
They’re in the “trenches together,” he said.
“I’m applying what I’m learning and
it’s helping me succeed at Home Depot,”
Jamael adds. “And I leveraged what
I learned in year one into an internship and then the co-op. That speaks
to the level of the program’s rigor and
the confidence instilled in CAU MBA
graduates.” n
Failure is Not an Option
Johnnetta McSwain turns a hard-knocks life into a success story.
In many ways, Johnnetta McSwain is one
of life’s miracles. She and her sister grew
up in an extraordinarily dysfunctional
home that was mired in emotional, sexual and physical abuse. It was so horrific
that they would sometimes hide under
their house to escape their tormenters. As a coping mechanism, Johnnetta
would sometimes don a white sheet
marked “WW” for Wonder Woman, spin
around and fantasize about fending off
their tormentors.
“I believed even at that young age that
I only had two choices. Either I was going
to ruin my life and die or I was going to
fight back and survive as a victor,” recalls
Johnnetta.
It’s that remarkable sense of hope and
tenacity that enabled Johnnetta, who
dropped out of high school and became
a single mother, to repeatedly take the
GED exam until she passed it at age 20,
and then at 30, enroll in Kennesaw State
University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in three years. She then
went on to earn a master’s degree in social
work with honors from Clark Atlanta,
where she is now pursuing a Ph.D.
And even more remarkably, Johnnetta
says she feels no resentment or bitterness
for her abusers.
“I just believe that from the time I was
conceived, that this was my life and my
destiny to become who I am today,” she
says. “Clark Atlanta, and the School of
Social Work in particular, has opened a
lot of doors for me that I couldn’t have
opened on my own.”
In addition to being the published
author of Rising Above the Stars
(SCARS), that is going to be produced
on stage and perhaps on film, she is the
subject of a powerful, Emmy-award
documentary titled The Road Beyond
Abuse, and the founder of an organization called Breaking the Cycle, Beating the Odds, which works to enable
women to find their way out of abusive
and destructive situations. She also is
a motivational speaker who has traveled all around the United States to
empower other women and families
through workshops and speeches.
Johnnetta says that the most important message that she tries to impart to
women is that failure is not an option,
education gives you options and pride
and sets you apart.
“I love what I do. And anytime I can
help a young girl or woman, save one life,
or encourage one person, then I’ve done
my job,” she says. “Everywhere I go is an
opportunity to touch somebody’s life and
I try to do that every day.” n
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Reach One, Teach One
David Brown says the way to students’ minds is sometimes through
their hearts.
In African-American communities
across the United States, students, males
in particular, are dropping out of high
school at alarming rates. In addition to
being a key contributing factor in the
disproportionately high black unemployment rate, it also puts at risk the nation’s
ability to be globally competitive in the
science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics fields.
David Brown, an Atlanta native who
will earn an undergraduate degree from
Clark Atlanta’s School of Education this
spring, is hoping to reverse that unfortunate trajectory. David applied to CAU
with an eye toward teaching middle
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school students. But after spending a
summer with working five- and six-yearolds in 2009, a whole new world opened
up to him.
“I initially thought I wouldn’t like it.
Everyone says they’re much harder to
deal with because they don’t listen very
well,” says David, who found himself having as much fun as the children when he
took them to the playground, basketball
court or swimming pool.
He believes that the key to student
success is engaging them in the learning
process as early as possible. In addition,
there is a deep-seated need for more black
male teachers and role models, which is a
void he hopes to help fill. Equally important, he adds, is that teachers make kids
feel like they truly care.
David’s vision for a modern education system includes providing programs, activities, and other opportunities
through which teacher and students can
interact on a more personal level so that
the children feel at home in school, and
as a result, feel more open to and engaged
in the learning process.
“I’d like to implement a before or after
school program where kids can come
to talk freely to talk and that creates an
environment in which we can learn more
about who the kids really are,” David
said. “Once you gain their trust it’s a lot
easier for them to open up and learn.”
CAU’s education curriculum requires
students to log in many hours in classrooms at Atlanta public schools. “The
school prepares you for the classroom
and wherever we end up, we’ll be just as
prepared as anyone else,” David says.
He’s also already seeing his caring
approach in action.
“I’m currently interning in a science
lab class where one student was not
very interested in science and didn’t
put in much effort,” David says. “After
spending time encouraging him, he
now tries [to master the subject.] That’s
so much of what you try to accomplish
as a teacher.”
After graduation, David plans to
spend a few years on the professional
basketball circuit overseas. He came very
close to signing with an agent last spring.
“It was tough to hold off going pro,
but definitely worth it,” he says. His education — and that of his future students
— was far more important. n
Living the Dream
Tempestt McBride turns passion into opportunity.
Tempestt McBride is a bundle of enthusiasm and energy, who embodied Clark
Atlanta’s theme of “making a way” long
before she first stepped on campus. Tempestt began her undergraduate career at
Tuskegee University, which had offered
her a full scholarship, but was almost
immediately dissatisfied because it didn’t
offer many opportunities for her to participate in the artistic endeavors she loves
so much.
“I realized that I wanted an institution that would allow me to do what I
loved most, so I did some research and
found out that Clark Atlanta had one
of the nation’s best mass media arts
programs,” says Tempestt, who graduated with a mass media arts degree in
December.
Since coming to CAU, Tempestt has
become the voice of the campus radio
station, WSTU. As she recalls, one of
her professors noted her energetic personality and encouraged her to join the
station. It was a natural fit.
“My first day on air I realized how
easy it was and it just felt like I was
talking to a lot of people, which is
what I like to do,” she says, adding that
other students responded positively to
her program, calling in to discuss the
music she played.
She’s also worked as an intern at Jazz
91.9 FM, CAU’s public radio station,
which she’s enjoyed because it offers a
greater variety, including the opportunity to talk about the topics of the day.
But it wasn’t Tempestt’s first experience on the radio. After graduating from high school, she interned
at a local station in her hometown of
Augusta, Ga., where she did some
editing, conducted research for the
on-air personalities and created street
teams and community outreach promotions. She also was given the opportunity to co-host some shows, which
was unprecedented. Tempestt credits
her clear passion for the news, music
and community interaction for helping her win opportunities that others
didn’t. That passion has extended to
spreading the word about the value of
a CAU education on recruitment trips
with President Carlton Brown and the
director of admissions.
Last summer Tempestt won a Tavis
Smiley Group’s Sheryl Flowers scholarship and internship, which she
describes as “an internship like no
other” that enabled her to “do absolutely
everything,” including editing, booking
and scheduling, production, promotion. She also worked on the Poverty
Tour that Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West conducted last summer to highlight the nation’s economic
inequality.
Her hard work was rewarded. In
February Tempestt is scheduled to
travel to Los Angeles to spend a week
working for the Smiley Group.
“I’ll be assisting in every possible
aspect,” she says “They’ll have me doing
the things I learned here at WCLK.
In an ideal world, she will be taken
on full-time or secure a job at BET.
Tempestt says she also wants to continue her work recruiting students to
CAU. n
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By Donna Brock
Forward Thinking
It All Adds Up for Giget Johnson.
What you notice first is her infectious
smile. The gentle lilt in her voice follows,
cementing her Southern pedigree. But
Giget Johnson is no wilting daisy. She’s a
Panther in every respect.
Thanks to exhortations from her
mother and high school counselor,
Rita Hector, the Covington, Ga., native
applied for and received an Office of
Naval Research Prism D scholarship,
which made her dream of attending
Clark Atlanta easier to realize. She graduated in 1995 with bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in math.
“Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz, then chairman of the math department, inscribed
on my brain that I could do anything
with a degree in math. He was right,”
Johnson says.
But her experience was based on
much more than embracing all things
numerical, and Johnson recalls her college years with swelling pride.
“The opportunity to be among young,
exceptionally bright students of color —
all of us with unique aspirations to be our
best — wasn’t something my classmates
and I took lightly. That became our rallying cry. Today, I’m unapologetically
proud to be a product of an HBCU and,
to this day, the rewards from the relationships I made at Clark Atlanta are
immeasurable.”
Johnson isn’t caught in a web of her
own memories, though. Since 2010, she’s
been an active “Stand Up for CAU!” volunteer, serving as vice chair of the campaign committee. “It’s important to me to
pass on what I got at CAU to others. I’m
not as concerned about giving back as I
am about giving forward.”
Those who’ve known Johnson aren’t
at all surprised by that kind of forward
thinking. As a teenager, she sat for three
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Giget Johnson, Esq., vice chair of the “Stand
Up for CAU!” Campaign Team
months observing her father’s strength
while he endured a federal trial in the
city’s Richard B. Russell Building. By the
time her father prevailed in his case, she
realized that her calling was to the law.
After graduating from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law in
December 2001, Johnson assumed the
law practice of her father’s former attorney, Victoria D. Little, establishing the
Law Offices of Giget C. Johnson, LLC, a
boutique firm in downtown Decatur, Ga.
Today, she handles her own criminal and
civil cases before the bench in the Richard B. Russell Building.
“I’m concretely rooted in the idea
that every client should leave my presence better off than they were when they
arrived,” Johnson says.
She is well equipped to support her
professional convictions. Admitted to
the State Bar of Georgia, she practices
in state and federal courts, at both trial
and appellate levels. She is admitted to
practice before the Court of Appeals of
the State of Georgia, the Supreme Court
of the State of Georgia, the U.S. District
Court in the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, as well as the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh
and Sixth Circuits.
“Whatever it takes to solve a client’s
equation, that’s what we’re going to do,”
Johnson says.
Her passion for the community, especially children, is no less committed.
“Recently, God opened the door
for me to serve as guardian ad litem
in juvenile court,” she explained. Now
she devotes countless hours to representing deprived children, advocating
for their best interests. In a system in
which the Department of Family and
Child Services is strapped for cash, and
caseworkers are overworked and underpaid, willing professionals are needed
to fill critical voids. Giget unselfishly
goes beyond the call of duty, often going
against the grain to ensure a child’s
needs are met and that the necessary
services are in place, ideally to safely
reunite and reconcile families.
“I do this because of how much I
care about my own son, Jaison Taylor,”
she says. “I advocate for and treat the
children who are placed in my care as
if they were my own. The community
owes this to these children and we are the
community.”
People like Giget Johnson don’t spend
time calculating their own lots. “I do all
of this because it all adds up to a better
future,” she says. n
Alumni FORUM
By Donna Brock
What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
A Son of CAU Takes a Bow…Again.
Randy Gunter was all set to attend Atlanta
University’s School of Social Work in
1973, until he found that there were no
university funds available to defray his
expenses. He’d earned the B.A. is sociology from Central College in Pella, Iowa,
and wanted to follow in the footsteps of
giants like W. E. B. Du Bois and Whitney
M. Young Jr.. So, he instead accepted a
full scholarship and graduate assistantship from the University of Georgia,
where he earned a master’s in social work
degree in 1977.
“Needless to say I was crushed
because it was my dream to be a part of
Atlanta University’s legacy and its tradition of preparing social change agents,”
he remembers. “For me, it was a dream
deferred. But, if at first you don’t succeed…,” he chuckles underneath his
trademark smile.
Life has a circuitous way of creating
humor that’s only funny long, long after
the fact.
After a successful 17-year career at
Georgia Southern College (now University), Gunter still hadn’t let go of his
dream of attending CAU and decided to
apply for the doctoral program in 1994.
He was accepted again and, this time,
received funding. Using loans and savings, he completed the program in 1999.
“This was important to me, personally
and professionally,” Gunter said. “When
I finished I felt equipped, ready for a
mission of some sort.” In 2003, Gunter
continued his career, serving as vice
president for student affairs at Savannah
State University until December 2008
when he retired. But the mission hadn’t
even begun.
“I was two months into retirement
when I got the call,” his smile grows.
“I was settling into retirement and the
voice at the other end of the phone was
a jolt I wasn’t expecting.” That voice
belonged to then newly appointed CAU
President Carlton E. Brown who was
calling his colleague out of retirement
to serve as interim vice president for
the Division of Enrollment Services and
Student Affairs. And so Gunter returned
to CAU in February 2009, going about
his duties for the next seven months as if
he’d never retired.
“Sure it was hard to come out of retirement, but I really enjoyed being back on
campus,” Gunter admitted. “Because of
my history with the university, I had a
vantage point that allowed me to see lots
of positive changes.” As a doctoral student, Gunter said he didn’t have time to
mingle among the university community
outside of the School of Social Work.
He spent most of his day in Woodruff
Library or in meetings with doctoral
advisors and cohorts. He says he did,
however, enjoy the occasional guest lecture and cultural events.
“Today, I feel that there is a greater
sense of community at the university, a
greater desire for people to work together
beyond departmental lines and across
disciplines,” he mused. “In my viewpoint,
Clark Atlanta is a young institution with
an historical narrative buoyed by fine
examples of alumni achievement, faculty
scholars and so many legendary figures.
Still, I think that the university’s best days
are ahead.”
Gunter didn’t realize that, while
enjoying a second turn at retirement in
September 2010, his were, too.
“I got that call again,” he laughs out
loud now. “I didn’t even have to ask. I
knew who it was on the line.” As a former
vice president moved to another opportunity, Gunter was called back to CAU in
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October 2010 to take up the interim role
he had held the year before.
“If you watch Randy Gunter with students you know that there is a standard in
place you can trust. There are high expectations and a depth of compassion that’s
woven into a persona that simply draws
students. He connects with our young
men and women in a way that helps them
grow, personally, academically and spiritually,” Brown said of Gunter.
When Gunter returned for a second
turn as interim vice president for Enrollment Services and Student Affairs, he
brought his trademarks along with him:
his red-stringed key card, his baseball
caps and that smile. Often, he could be
heard telling students and staff alike,
“I appreciate you.” And there has been
much to appreciate.
“I believe that we promoted a style
of leadership within the division that is
consistent with the university’s overall
strategic direction. Student leaders and
staff members unselfishly went above and
beyond the call of duty in reaching out to
each other and the greater Atlanta community. It was a humbling experience for
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me to take an active role in the transformation of the university in terms of process improvements, resource and professional development, training and facility
upgrades,” he added. “It was especially
significant given the increasing demands
by external agencies, and governmental
entities for universities to become more
accountable, innovative, and responsive to
student needs. In addition, the uncertainties that many of our students and their
families face in their efforts to fund their
education were, and continue to be, seriously impacted by the economic downturn
and politically charged climate facing us.”
For all of the smiles and laughter,
Gunter’s commitment to students and
his high expectations of them are no joke.
In September 2011, he created a $5,000
book scholarship in the name of his former doctoral professor, Associate Dean
Richard Lyle, for students in the School
of Social Work. Recipients must have a
cumulative GPA of 4.0.
“I encourage students to live life to the
fullest and to not settle for mediocrity,”
he exhorts. The challenges that our graduates face as they prepare for the global
stage of employment, development and
engagement will be many. However, I am
confident that the university can prepare
them to succeed in their endeavors.”
Of his days at CAU, Gunter said, “I am
hopeful that my enthusiasm, positive attitude, and commitment to serving others
found residence in the hearts and minds
of the students with whom I worked.
I hope, too, that students embrace the
wisdom of the phrase first spoken by the
late Honorable Shirley Chisholm, former
congresswoman from New York: ‘service
is the price we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.’”
Gunter, who returned to retirement
Dec. 9, 2011, says he plans to catch up
on his reading and hopes to teach at
the graduate level in his hometown,
Statesboro, Ga. He and his wife, Anne,
also hope to get back on track with their
original retirement plans, traveling the
world.
“I’m pretty sure this portion of the
mission is complete now…really complete,” he says.
We appreciate you, too, Dr. Gunter. So
long…until we meet again. n
SPEAKING OF...
By Cory A. Wynn
Bridge Builders or
Stranded Travelers?
I failed my first software programming
class and miserably so. In fact, I swore I’d
never, ever engage in the discipline again.
Ever. Set on becoming an electrical engineer, I had followed in the footsteps of
my uncle, Clark College alumnus Alvin J.
Frazier (’72) and in 1995 began my freshman year in CAU’s now-defunct School
of Engineering. Why on earth would I
need software programming?
So that I could embark on what has
been an extremely fulfilling career as, you
guessed it, a successful software engineer.
Following a stint in 1999 as an engineering cooperative education student
with BellSouth Telecom, I began a career
track that has enabled me to work at
some of the nation’s hottest companies,
from Sony Online Entertainment and
Broadcom to my present employer, Disney Interactive Media Group.
AT CAU, I learned that HBCUs offer
a richly unique cultural learning experience in an academically challenging,
highly competitive environment. However, in the 21st century, CAU can ill
afford to rely simply on legacy and tradition, operating solely as a consumer of
technology. This is a modern-day path to
obsolescence.
From the dawning of time until the
present, information has been withheld
from certain populations as a means to
elevate the history and social agendas
of others. Too often, for example, one
group’s story becomes buried under the
revisionist spin of another’s, which is
why so few know Jan Matzeliger or Otis
Boykin. As HBCUs struggle to maintain
and globalize our missions, documenting
and actively telling our stories is more
important now than ever. We must keep
and set the pace by strategically applying
technologies to tell our own stories, share
our own discoveries and elevate our own
discourse, rather than depending on others to do it for us.
The advent of open source technology
provides a level playing field that empowers us to do this. In the simplest terms,
“open source,” which typically applies to
the software licensing arena, suggests two
ideas, end-user collaboration and free,
unrestricted distribution. Digital content
is developed and used by people who
could have no connection to one another,
except for their interests in a particular
project or body of work.
Technologically speaking, it is the
“great equalizer” that puts HBCUs like
CAU on a level playing field with titans
like Sony, Broadcom, Disney, Google,
Facebook, MIT and so many others. The
key is access.
Now, as a lead senior software build
engineer, my own contemplations of
open source technology always bring me
back to the Promenade. What if CAU
amassed its content, knowledge, discoveries and stories and customized them
into applications for students, alumni,
faculty colleagues, prospective students,
parents, businesses, foundation, research
partners and friends around the globe?
Imagine the new ideas, the new conversations, the new relationships, the outreach, the intake! Imagine the cost savings to the university!
Our ability to effectively compete
in this new global economy will hinge
squarely upon our ability to leverage
these technologies to help sustain the
vitality of our storied institution. Disparities in our application, access to
and consumption of this technology is
a microcosm of what exists globally in
the ever widening gap for education
and opportunity among minorities. We
consume, yet rarely apply it. There is a
distinction.
One of my favorite CAU professors,
Dr. Musa Danjaji, always challenged us,
saying, “Math is no different at CAU than
it is at Georgia Tech. The difference exists
only in your motivation and ability to
apply it.” It was his belief in a naïve freshman trying to ‘find a way or make one,’
that propelled me onto my career path.
I now believe that by adopting an open
source framework, CAU can propel itself
to new heights.
Depending on the perspective and
how it is applied, technology can be an
equalizer and a divider. The question
we have to collectively ask ourselves
is: Which are we going to be, bridge
builders or stranded travelers? The time
to reinvest in our student and alumni
resource network in order to introduce
Clark Atlanta University into the global
classroom is now. Never has the notion of
“believing can achieve” rung truer than it
does today.
Let’s do our part as a university community to help write our own story,
before history writes it for us. It’s an
“open source” of opportunity for CAU.
Cory A Wynn is the president of the Los Angeles
Chapter of the Clark Atlanta University Alumni
Association.
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UNIVERSITY SPORTS
By Dana Harvey
FALL 2011 RECAP
WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY
CHAMPIONS
The start of the 2011-2012 athletic season
began like the 2010-2011 season ended,
with another Clark Atlanta University
championship as the Lady Panthers
cross-country team blew past the competition to capture its second conference
title in three years.
The Lady Panthers ran a total time
of 1:46:00.48 and an average time of
21:12.10 at the conference championship which was just enough to hold off
defending champion Albany State University, who finished second with a time
of 1:46:20.96. Clark Atlanta had four of
the top 10 finishers in the meet.
For the regular season, Clark Atlanta
swept the East Division honors with the
runner of the year in Brittany Robinson,
Team of the Year and Head Coach Pamela
Page receiving Coach of the Year honors.
“We worked hard all season and ran
each race as if it was our last, and I did
not want this one to be our last,” added
Robinson.
The Lady Panthers also finished 15th,
at the NCAA Division II South Regional
Meet held in Tampa, Florida.
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FOOTBALL
SPRING PREVIEW
After winning their first two conference
games, the Panthers reeled off seven consecutive losses to finish the season 2-8.
CAU’s defense garnered the NCAA Division II No. 2 ranking in tackles for losses
and No. 12 in scoring defense.
A women’s tennis back-to-back tennis championship is on the radar for
the Lady Panthers who lost one player
from last year’s team led by seniors Keva
Palmer and Munashe Makuni. The duo
had an impressive 21-1 record last season
and Makuni won 22 consecutive matches
in singles play.
With the return of Kelvin Tanner, the
2011 SIAC Freshman of the Year, along
with other notable players like Robert
Brown and Manuel Gasper, third-year
Head Baseball Coach Derwin McNealy
is looking to rebound after a four-game
win season.
The Lady Panthers softball team,
that set a single-season record last year
with 32 wins, has its eye on the prize
going into this year’s play. The squad is
returning all but two players including
All-Conference pitcher Ashley Brooks
and has added a few new additions at key
positions.
As they revamp for the upcoming
season, the men’s and women’s track and
field teams will look to improve on their
seventh and fifth place finishes, respectively in the conference championships.
VOLLEYBALL
In conference tournament play, CAU
gave a valiant effort, but came up short
in its quest to win a championship. The
Lady Panthers finished the season 14-18
overall and 9-7 in the conference.
WINTER OUTLOOK
After a championship season in 2010, the
Panthers are poised for another run at
the conference title and their third consecutive trip to the region tournament
under the direction of first-year head
coach Dale Brown.
With seven returners including the
2011 All-Region honoree and SIAC
Freshman of the Year, Conisha Hicks, the
women’s basketball team was off to an
exciting start to its season with a 1-1 conference record before the semester break.
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CC’50
Fred D. Fosters, CC’66;
AU’73 and Zeline B.
Fosters, CC’61
Fulton-DeKalb Hospital
Authority
General Board of
Global Ministries of
the UMC
Georgia Independent
College Assoc. Inc.
(Formerly GFIC)
Marjorie Hobson
Gerard, CC’68
Gist, Kennedy &
Associates, Inc.
Richard Goodjoin
Laura D. Grant, CC’68
and James E. Grant
JoAnn Grayson, CC’71
Lillie G. Hayes, CAU’96
Eve M. Hemmans,
CC’66 and J. Maxie
Hemmans
Alexa Benson Henderson, AU’66
Horace C. Henry, CC’71
Bertha Hightower
HightowerSmith, CC’76
Ermina V. Hill, CC’83
R. W. Ide, III
Vaughn Irby
Barbaria Jacobs
Anthony R. James
Isabella T. Jenkins,
CC’53
Calvin H. Johnson,
CC’49
Johnson & Johnson
Lula McLaughlin
Johnson, AU’59
Cheryl R. Jones, CAU’95
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Mildred A. Kennedy,
CC’63
Raymon A. King, CC’61
Edward Krugman
Horace C. Laster, CC’58
and Janice D. Laster,
CC’59
Taryn L. Lawrence,
AU’84
Lucy C. LIncoln
Emma Johnson Loud,
CC’51
Bennie O Lowe, CC’52;
AU’67 and Belle Lowe
Rubie S. Malone, CC’61
Patraca Marsden
Barbara Washington
Mason, AU’71
Lucille H. Mauge and
Errol R. Mauge
Lydia A.
McKinley-Floyd
Kimberly McLurkinHarris, CC’82
Daniel Meachum
Wesley Memeger, Jr.,
AU’61 and Harriet B.
Memeger, AU’62
Metropolitan Atlanta
Cardiology Consultants, PC
Bessie Marchman
Monroe, CC’51; AU’68
Jonathan Q. Morgan,
CAU’95
Emma J. Morris, CC’75
Emily D. Morrow, CC’54
Carlton H. Morse,
AU’51 and Evelyn C.
Morse, AU’51
Dara Murphy
Elizabeth Rushing
Murray, CC’71
Annie W. Neely, CC’61;
AU’76; AU’88
Jane C. Nelson, AU’81
Norfolk Southern
Foundation
Nana Opare
Rita Campbell Owens,
CC’78
Maurice Fitts Page,
CC’56
Lola E. Parks, CC’53
Martha Ward Plowden,
CC’69’ AU’75
Russell Randolph
Joe E. Ransom, CC’72
and Mae M. Ransom,
CC’68
Carey L. Redrick, CC’43
Norman B. Robbins
Lakesha Robinson,
CAU’98
William T. Robinson,
III, CC’61
Sapphire Solutions,
Inc.
Security Capital
Brokerage, Inc.
Sheryl Sellaway
Angelean V. Smith,
AU’70
Standard Landscape,
Inc.
State Farm Companies
George R. Stinson,
AU’68
Walter W. Sullivan,
CC’53
The CocaCola
Foundation
The College Fund/
UNCF
Roosevelt Thedford,
CC’59 and Truette
Thedford, CC’61
Estate Of Nida Edwards
Thomas, AU’44
TJX Companies, Inc.
Tom Joyner Foundation
Norris Leroy (Tommy)
Tomlinson, Jr., CC’61
and Rosa J. Tomlinson,
CC’61
Aaron Trezvant
Maudette H. Twyman,
CC’61; AU’84
United Church of Christ
United Supreme
Council, A.A.S.R., S.J.
Charitable Foundation
Ruth Vaughn, AU’55
Verizon Foundation
Verizon Wireless
Ruth Seals Waddell,
CC’55; AU’71
Leonard Walker
Garth Warner
Harold Watkins and
Mary Watkins
Melvin R. Webb, AU’68
and Brenda D. Webb,
AU’85
Gladys J. Weekes, CC’43
Martha A. Welters,
CC’74
Charles Williams, III,
CC’68
Mary F. Williams, Esq.,
CC’71
Linda Taylor Wilson,
AU’76
Marjorie J. Wilson,
CC’75
Roy J. Wolfe, CC’51;
AU’67 and Elise P.
Wolfe, CC’52; AU’67
WINTER 2012
43
Shirley Wooten Works,
AU’57
Mable Wheeler Worthy,
CC’58
Xerox Corporation
Troy Young
Zion Hill Baptist Church
Loyalty Club
$999-$500
Joyce Abrams
Tramell Ridgell Alexander,
AU’88 and Michael B.
Alexander
Jayan Sweet Allen, CC’78
Andrews Chapel United
Methodist Church
Anonymous Anonymous
Annelen Archbold
AT&T Services, Inc.
Joyce Rankin Bacote, CC’60
Fannie P. Bakon, CC’58
Annie Shaw Barnes, AU’55
Norma Bell Barnes, CC’65
Joyce E. Bostic, CC’61; AU’69
Veronica B. Brown, CC’71
Brown & Moore Associates
Benjamin D. Burks, Jr.,
CC’56
Pauline Fields Butts, CC’53
Julia N. Bynum
Rudy Cadney
Arnold R. Cadogan
Jane E. Campbell
Elaine L. Carlisle
David Carnegie, Jr., CC’83;
AU’85
CAUAADetroit Chapter
John Chandler
Jerome M. Clark, CC’98
Clarke-Franklin & Associates, Inc.
James R. Cleveland, AU’57
and Anne D. Cleveland,
AU’56
Linda S. Coley
Willie McMullen Conway,
CC’50
Bruce Cosby, CAU’95
Jeremy S. Crawford, CAU’00
Chris Crenshaw
James David Crute, CC’53
and Mary A. Crute, CC’55
Walley Dalton
Eric Dewitt
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Stephanie N. Dingle,
CAU’07
Huley B. Dodson, Sr., CC’50;
AU’58 and Alyce S. Smith
Dodson, AU’70
Pearlie Craft Dove, CC’41’ AU
Kevin J. Dunn
Dynamic Function Consulting Group
Juanita Marshall Eber, CC’52
Mike Eckert
Edventure Partners
Belinda C. Eleby
Brenda Fannin
Deborah Smith Fouch,
AU’55
Rolanda Fowler, CC’88
Shirley C. Franklin
Lubo Fund Inc.
M. S. Gardner
Georgia Pacific
Bonnie B. Gissendanner,
CAU’98
Ernestine McCoy Glass,
AU’75
Hubert D. Glover, AU’80
Good Works International
Juedienne Gordon
Shirley Kimbrough Gordon,
CC’56
Doris M. Gosier, AU’71
Randolph S. Gunter, CAU’00
Wimbley Hale, Jr., CC’66
and Mae Williams Hale,
CC’73
Shai Hall
Hallmark Cards,
Incorporated
Sonya M. Halpern
Betty Hanacek
John Handy
Grace Hawthorne
Matthew R. Henry, AU’66
Angela Dawson Hood,
CC’80
Cathy B. Hope, CAU’02
Houston Independent
School District
Jay Huang
Delores Harris Hudson,
CC’62
Kristal R. Hudson Randall
Ivy N. Huff
Richard A. Jackson, CC’67
Audrey M. Johnson
WINTER 2012
Schniqquia L. Johnson,
CAU’01
Cynthia Troup Jones, CC’73
Warren H. Jones, Jr., AU’85
and Teresa Ann Gaines,
AU’85
Linda J. Jordan, CC’85
Kittredge Magnet School
For High Achievers
Kraft General Foods Inc.
Laz Parking/Georgia, Inc.
Clarence Lewis, Sr., CC’53;
AU’58 and Virginia T. Lewis,
CC’53; AU’69
Harold B. Little, CC’85
Kaneta Lott
Gary C. Lovett
Evelyn G. Lowery, CC’46
Lawrence H. Mamiya
Marriott Hotels & Resorts Atlanta, GA (14th Street)
Magalene Mathis, CC’51
Charles R. Matthews, AU’81
Carolyn Y. McIntosh, CC’64
Miranda M. McKenzie
Elridge W. McMillan, CC’54
Beverlye F. McNair, AU’73
Ronald E. Mickens
Microsoft Giving Campaign
Joyce A. Moore, CC’70
Rogers J. Newman, AU’49
Ira A. Oliver
Pamela J. Page
Rose M. Palmer
Thomas J. Palmer, AU’67
and Barbara H. Palmer,
AU’67
Laura R. Peoples, CC’74
Daniel Pfeifer
Jeffrey J. Phillips
Greselda Powell
Katie Baughman Poythress,
AU’49
Derek Randall
Ella E. Ravnell
Gloria J. Reaves, CC’74
Beatrice Pena Reid, CC’59
Juanita Richey
RicheyThompson, CC’61
Kathy Robie RobieSuh,
CC’71
Benny Rosser, CC’66
Rebecca F. Rouse
Marsha L. Samuel, CC’87
Rita Samuels
Bobbie K. Sanford, CC’63
Tennille D. Scott, CAU’07
SDB Art Creations
Renee N. Shackelford,
CC’71; AU’82; CAU’92
Geraldine Ellis Sharpe,
CC’60
Leo Shingles, CC’66
Maurice Simpson, Jr.,
CAU’11
Regine Smith, CAU’01;
CAU’04
Sodexho
Justin T. Spradley, CAU’00
Michelle Jones StaplesHorne, CC’76
Leah Stephens, CC’99
Frances McGuire Warley,
CC’52
Thomas-Nicholson
Tiffany and Company
Douglas M. Vason, CC’71
and Carolyn B. Vason
Alma D. Vinyard, CC’64
VWR International, Inc.
Naomi T. Ward, AU’56
Frances McGuire Warley,
CC’52
Sean S. Warner
Marc Weinburg
Tiffany N. White, CC’93
Gloria J. Wicker, CC’70
Robert L. Wilkerson, CC’59
and Rosa Wilkerson, CC’76
Cynthia D. Williams
Robert C. Williams, CC’63
Margeret Williamson
Mack Willis
Louise K. Wyche, AU’75
Supporting Club
$499-$100
Deborah Abdul-Ali
Amirah N. Abdullah,
CAU’06; CAU’07
Cheryl A. Abernathy,
CAU’03
Tenisha N. Abernathy,
CAU’99
James R. Adams
Louise Bennett Adams,
CC’59
Wylene Campbell Adams,
AU’72
John Adamski
Jakini Adisa
Janell Agyeman
Donald Aikens
Patricia M. Alamutu
Alanta Center for Social
Therapy Inc.
Gail J. Albergottie, CC’71
Carl Alcindor
Harold R. Aldrich, CC’49
Irene Ware-Odom Alexander, CC’56
Cheryl L. Allen, CC’81;
AU’83
Kasim L. Alli
Calvin M. Allsop, AU’82
Adria Alston
Richard Alterman
Sumil Amin
Bernadette Anderson,
CAU’92
Dwight Andrews
Linda Starks Andrews,
CC’83
Janice Anochie
Baayan Ansari
Deborah Anthony
Applecreek Management
Company, Inc.
Fred Applewhite
William L. Appling, CC’63
and Juanita G. Appling,
CC’65
Kudiratu A. Aranmolate,
CAU’02
Darryl D. Armstrong
Lydia Tucker Arnold, CC’61
Mary Allen Arnold, CC’66;
AU’71
Marilyn Jones Arrington,
CC’66
Steve Arthur
Janice Ashley
Mary C. Ashong
David Askins
Tracy Aufleger
Tyrone J. Austin
Sue Avery
Falih Baaith
Joseph B. Bacote, CC’63 and
Andrea L. Bacote, CC’65
Badiworld, LLC
Raquel Bagley
Lee Bailey
Lugene Bailey, AU’70
Dion Baker
Everlyn Poitier Baker, CC’61
Michael E. Banks, Jr.
Yvonne E. Bankston, CC’54
and Henry H. Bankston
Deborah F. Barber
Ethelyn Barksdale
Gregory Barr
John Barrett
Sylvia Bates
Dorothy A. Batey
Kerry Beach
Robert Beane
Michael G. Beatie, CAU’04
Toi J. Beavers, CAU’94
Richard H. Beck
Thomasine M. Beck, CC’75
Shelia BeckumHead, CC’71
Rosalyn Becton Pope, CC’86
Lynda Beene
Vickie E. Beene, CAU’95
Danielle E. Bell
Genniver C. Bell, AU’82;
CAU’90
Benefitfocus.com, Inc.
Ellis Bentley
Matthew Bernstein
Olan Berry
Kathleen Bertrand
Angela W. Biggs, CC’74
Roy Bigham
Marjorie M. Bigsby, CC’57
Merryl E. Billingsley, CC’85
Robert Billups
Valerie Bingham
George Birdsong
Ozzie L. Black, Jr., CC’77
Mary E. Blanding, CC’87
Dionne Blasingame
Ron Blissett
Linda Blount
Donald Blum
Frank Bocage
Veronica Body
Micheal Boger
Wiley S. Bolden
Robert L. Bolling
Carolyn Smith Bolton, CC’47
Roy L. Bolton, AU’54
Victor Boney
Eva M. Booker, CC’66
Johnnie B. Booker, AU’69
James Bornes
Reuben Bostic
Herman F. Bostick, AU’51
Carrie Bowden
Mary Jaudon Bowden,
AU’62
Miriam Richardson Bowens,
CC’66
Steve Bowser
Natasha S. Boyce, CAU’00
Mary M. Boyd, AU’84
Samuel Boyte
Susan Brachman
Josephine Bradley
Kevin T. Brady
John Brailsford
Alice Braswell
Kimberly D. Bratton, CAU’06
Bert Brewer
Enisha J. Brewster, CAU’02
Costella F. Brickhouse, CC’71
Brenda Myatt Bridges,
CC’69
Jacqueline G. BridgesMcIver, CC’81
Carolyn R. Brindle
Mattie Harper Briscoe,
CC’35; AU’57 (deceased)
Mitchell Brogdon
Artis Brokenbrough
Sandra Brooks
Sondra G. Brooks, CC’81;
AU’85
Aaron Brown
Jack Broxton
Maria Brunt
Deron Bryant
Joan Marr Brown, AU’87
Cynthia Buck
George W. Buggs, Jr.
Tirzah L. Buie, CAU’92
Kent Buis
Alec Bullard
Anthony C. Bullock
Bernadette Burden, CAU’89
Sophie Burnett
Charley Burney
Anita L. Burns, AU’85
Mel Burrow
Jeffery Burton
B. L. Butler, AU’72
Larry E. Calhoun
Jennifer Rita Callender,
CAU’94
Victoria Cambrice
Palmyra Jones Cameron,
AU’52
Deborah P. Campbell, CC’77;
AU’83
Lottie B. Cantey
Francise E. Cantrell, CC’57
Elise Cardell
James Carmichael
Carol’s Daughter
Leonard E. Carpenter,
CAU’96
Elizabeth NavarroCarr,
AU’66
Phillip Carroll
Dwight Carter
Joseph C. Carter, CAU’89
Ora Williams Carter, CC’47
Floris Barnett Cash, AU’64
Gary Cassis
Moanica Caston
Dan T. Cathy
CAUAA Philadelphia
Chapter
Thelanna Celestaine
Tracy Chamblee, CAU’03
Gene L. Chandler, AU’61
Cassandra Charlton
Darryl Chatman and
Kimberly Springer
Diane Chauffe
Omega T. Cheek, CC’72
Melissa D. Chestnut, CAU’98
Chevron Corporation
Chick-Fil-A, Inc.
Sekai Chideya
Kamau Chinyelu
Chinwei H. Chow
Midway Church
City of Atlanta - Office of
Cultural Affairs
Betty Watkins Clark, CC’67
George W. Clark, Jr., AU’69
Gwendolyn Ferguson
Clarke, CC’49
Myrna Clayton, AU’87
Cynthia Auzenne Clem,
CAU’94
Jambey Clinkscales
Edward Coachman
Kamara A. Coaxum, CAU’97
Tim Cobb
Learnold L. Cobbins, CC’53
Anne Cochran
Aubrey Cockety
Chris Colbert
Freddy Cole
Brian Coleman
Al Coles
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Kyle S. Collick
Darryl J. Collins, CAU’92
Henry J. Collins, Jr., CC’53
Nacion Colly
Tamara M. Comer
Samuel D. Cook
Anne Brown Cooper, AU’59
Leslie L Cooper, CC’80 and
Woodrow Cooper
William Cope
Ida Swanson Corbett, AU’56
Corporate Business MGRS
Information, LTD
Gwendolyn Chatmon
Corrin, CC’65
Ralph Cospen
Harold L. Cost, CC’54
James H. Costen, Jr.
Andrei Cotton
Country Inn & Suites - ATL
Airport South
Margaret S. Counts-Spriggs,
AU’86
Gail Cowie
Sandra Cox
Theodus Crane
Benjamin F. Crawford
Shelby Jones Crawford,
AU’80
James E. Crayton, AU’68
Sandia Criddell
John Crisp
Kim R. Croley
RA Crooms
Dee Cross
Brian Crouch
Laura C. Crounse
Tanjanica L. Crowder,
CAU’98
Legrant Culver
Jacquelyn CulverSimpson,
CC’66
Craig Cunningham
Mary L. Cutter
Cornell Cypress, Jr.
Ann Dahlgren
Karen Daley
Eric Dallas
Gary Daniel
Sammie T Daniel, CC’70’
AU’79 and Joyce Daniel,
CC’70
Dexter Daniels
Ted Darrell
Mary Daudelin
Roger Daugherty
Charlotte Hamilton
Davidson, AU’87
Arnitta Davis
Dorothy Clemmons Davis,
CC’60
Raymond Davis, AU’69
Sharon R. Dean
Jacquelyn A. Debose,
CAU’93
Elorine Deforneau
Jeantou Degrammont
Deborah Dejoie
Antoinette Dempsey
Christy Dennis
Tomika M. DePriest, CAU’93
Dons Derby
Luca Dieci
Gregory Digel
John D. Dixie, CAU’06
Clinton H. Dixon, AU’61
Nedra Dodds
Stephen W. Douglas
Adrian C. Douglass
Tosha D. Downey, CAU’94
Linda Dozier-Jones
John H. Drake
Camellia Dukes
Charles Duncan
Ruth Miller Duncan, AU’47
Kay M. Dunlap
Elbert L. Dunn, CC’76,
AU’78
Johnathan Durant
David Duval
Clinton E. Dye, Jr., CC’69
Dwayne K. Dye, CAU’97
Robert Eady
Deana Usher Easley, CC’66
Linda Tyson Eason, CC’86;
CAU’08
ECHO of Northrop
Grumman
Diane Echols
Rosalind L. Edochie
Clifton D. Edwards, AU’76
Nneka A. Egwuatu, CAU’03
Herbert L. Eichelberger
Gloria C. Elliott, CAU’96
Ernest Ellis, CC’53 and
Sylvia B. Ellis, CC’74
Thomas J. Embry
Deborah English
Craig Epps
Darryl Erkins
Erwin T. Koch Charitable
Trust
Larry J. Estesen, AU’73
Timothy D Etson, CC’87;
CAU’99 and Angela Etson
Betty Evans
Curtis I. Evans, CAU’93 and
Celena L. Evans
Kenneth I. Evans II
Ronald Everett
Evergreen Marriott (Stn
Mountain)
Jim Ewing
Raquel Fagan
Michele Falco
Edith Farley
Katrina Faust
Phil Fauver
Korey T. Felder, CAU’07
Dawn Ferguson
Larry Ferrell
Nancy Figatner
Isabella N. Finkelstein
Norman Finley
Keith F Fishe, CC’81 and
Dana Powers, CC’81
Dameon Fisher
Rosemary Flecther
Priscilla Boston Florence,
CC’61
Sandra H. Flowers
Tracy D. Flowers, CAU’92
Joseph Floyd
Delois M. Ford, CC’72
Larma J. Ford-Whelchel,
CAU’97
Jeremy Foreman
Terrell Foster
Cheryl V. Foster-Smith,
CC’79
Alyce Ringer Fowlks, CC’63
Fox Theater
Michael O. Francis, AU’80
Charlie J. Franklin, CC’54
W. Merle Allen Franklin,
AU’74
Gina Freeland
Frederick A. Fresh
Carlton Fridd
Rick Frierson
Michael Fuller
Tom Gable
Harriet A. Gaines, CC’75
Christine Galavotti
Gregory Gamble
Nedra Gambrell Ware,
CC’78; CAU’89
Tammy A. GambrellLaPread
Robert Gardner
Grindl Garrett
Evangeline GarrettWalls,
AU’76
Brain Gash
Clara Gates
April Gay
General Mills Foundation
Rhonda Germany
Randee Gilluim
Rufus Gilmore, III, AU’74
Teresa D. Givens, AU’87
Leon Glaster
Mike Glenn
Deirdra Glover
Leila Perry Glover, AU’75
David Godfrey
Susan Gold
Gary Goldman
Sheryl L. Good, CAU’92
Bill Goodhew
Melvin Goodwin, AU’62
Joyce M. Goosby, CC’72
Antonia Goralink
Jamie Gordon
Barbara West Gore, CC’63;
AU’69
Juanita E. Goss, CC’74
Barbara Graham
Ernesto J. Graham, AU’88
Revonna Graham-Mitchell,
CC’76
David Grant
Linda A. Grant, CC’76
Sarah Nell Gray, CAU’91
Barrah Grays
Carlton J. Green, CAU’97
Robert L. Greene
Jayron L. Gresham
Bobby Grier
Curtis Grier, CAU’93
Albert Griffin
WINTER 2012
45
Barry Griffith
Yolanda Griffith-Bivins
Arthur Griffiths
Derrick Gross
Gay Gunter
Obra V. Hackett, AU’67
Carmen Hagen
Tracy Haines
Antonio Hairston
Barbara B. Hall, AU’70
William Hallmon
Charles Halsay
William Hamblin
Andrita Hammond
Wynette Hammons
Carla Hamrick
Gayle Hansbrough, CC’81
Art Hansen
Altalisha Haralson
Jace Harnage
June A. Harold, AU’78
Bevelyn Harper
Judy A. Harpp Broughton,
AU’83
Robert Harrell, Jr.
Darylene Harris
Nikita Y. Harris, CAU’93
Raymond J. Harris, AU’57
and Willibelle L. Harris,
AU’59
Joann McCloud Harrison,
CC’71; AU’78
Diane Harriston
Cecelia J. Harsch, AU’60
Deirdre L. Hart, CAU’90
Barbara Hartsfield
Criss Hartzell
Marian Farris Hatch, AU’69
Clemmie Barnes Hatchett,
AU’58
Tamanika Haven
Charles Hawk, Jr., CAU’92
Betty Blake Hayes, CC’53
Lisa P. Haygood, CAU’90’
CAU’95
Louella Fortson Haynes,
CC’49
Albert W Hayward, CC’56;
AU’66 and Alma Hayward,
AU’66
Starryn D. Haywood,
CAU’89
Tina M. Head
Lisa E. Heard, CAU’04
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Regina Heath
Faith Neal Hemphill, AU’62
Anna P. Henderson
Brian Hendricks
Kirk Henny
Charles B. Henry, Jr.
Muriel D. Hepburn
Adolphus Herndon
Vern Herr
Kanata A. Herring, CAU’93
Perry L. Herrington
Alvin Hicks
Richard J. Higgins
Anthony D. Hill, AU’85
Dorothy F. Hill, CC’66
Marilyn Brooks HillJones,
CC’54
Otis Hillsman
Michael W. Hines, CAU’91,
CAU’96, CAU’08
Carole Hinton
Kim Hixon
Kim Hodgson
Mamie T. Hoefer, CC’57
Dan G. Hogan
Joseph Holden
Holiday Inn Atlanta, GA
(Capital Ave)
Reginald Hollingshed
Anita Hollis
David Hollis, CAU’96
Charnelle Holloway
John G. Holly, CC’78
Elizabeth Smalls Holman,
AU’84
Bishop Holmes
Collette M. Hopkins, CC’75
Cynthia Houston
John Howard
Charles E. Howell, CAU’98
Lucila Hower
Calvin Howse
Charles Hoyle
Wendell S. Huang, AU’68
Lawthaniel Hudley, Jr.
Nancy Hudson
Michelle Huggins
Mary Hughes
Marcia Woods Hunter, CC’66
Mary L. Huntley
Alice Wyche Hurley, AU’64
Kim Hurst
Najah S. Husser, CAU’97
WINTER 2012
Wayne Hyatt
Hyatt Regency - Atlanta, GA
(Peachtree Ctr)
Asheya Ibim
Judith Ingram
Raymond R. Ingram, CC’86
William Inman
Thelma Carroll Ivery, AU’67
Anthony L. Jackson, CC’72
Darrion T. Jacobs, CAU’97
Eugene James
Gay-linn Gatewood Jasho,
CC’81; CAU’94
Wilma Simpson Jeff, AU’62
King B. Jeffcoat, AU’62
Frederick Jefferson
Ammon P. Jenkins, AU’71
Kerrisha S. Jenkins, CAU’99
Tresa M. Jennings, CAU’95
Garry Jeoffroy and Robyn
Jeoffroy
Lynn John
Anthony W. Johnson, CC’81
Cecelia B. Johnson, AU’75
Anika Jones
Jahmilah A. Jones, CAU’05
Berri Jordan
Cassandra Andry Joseph,
AU’82
Mollie M. Keaton, AU’80
Temesgen Kebede
Atiba Kee
Carol Keel
Thomas Keene
Dannie Hornsby Keepler,
CC’66
Claudette Keith, CC’61
Vickey Kelley
Jay Kellum
Djeris Kelly
Barbara Kelsey
Gloria Kemp
Irvin O. Kemp, CC’49
Randolph C. Kendall, Jr.,
CC’54; AU’58
Martha Griffin Kendrick,
CC’65
Eleanore Kennedy
Sheree Kernizan
Shafiq A. Khan
Letetia J. Kimpson, CAU’95
Barbara Lewis King, AU’57
Daniel Kingloff
Washington Kingsby
Julius Kinsey
Noel Kirby
Kazuaki Kirino
Douglas A. Kirk, CC’68
Edgar Kirkglass
Naomi KirkmanBey
Chandra Klilkes
Faith M. Knight
Genevieve M. Knight, AU’63
Tira Knocket
Alfred L. Knox, Sr., CC’53
KO Tax & Financial Services
Inc.
Edward W. Koger, Jr.,
CAU’92
Susan N. Kossak
Gunter Kurrle and Sharon
Kurrle
Keith Lacey
Lenard Lacour
Shirley Ross Lacy, CC’72
Elmer Laird
Scott Lampert
Betty Landrum
Sandra D. Lane, CC’66
Darrell Langston
Jodie Laster
Bernard Latimore
Debra Lattimore
Ramon A. Lawrence,
CAU’00
Layshell Layton
Wilbur T. Leaphart, CAU’91
Tni M. LeBlanc, CAU’95
Sonji Lee
Diane Lesley
Rita Lester
Erica Lewis
Anita Lightfoot
Joe N. Lindsey, CC’81
Kenneth Linning
Adiel Cantrell Lisbon, CC’52
Allan Little
Maria A. Lloyd, CAU’08
Frank Loadholt
James D. Lockett, CC’84
Alfred D. Lockhart
Verdree Lockhart, AU’57
Spurgeon V. Lofton
Etienne Logan
Michael Lomax
Betty Londergan
Ernest Long, Jr, CC’65 and
Reba Long
Juanita Mitchell Long,
AU’55
William Longdon
Joanne Lottie, CC’66; AU’69
Vernita Love
Gary Lovelace
Lewis M. Lowe, AU’54
Letrice A. Lucear, CAU’91
Darcey Lund
Donovan H. Lundy, CAU’05
Charles Lunny
Richard Lyle, AU’64 and
Lauretta S. Lyle, CAU’90
Kevin Lyman
Benjamin Lynch
John W. Mack, AU’69
Peter Macleish
Mechelle Maddox
Malcolm Cunningham Ford
James Mallory
Eric Malone
Claudine B. Manning, CC’56
Julian Mapp
Marriott - Atlanta, GA
(Marquis - Peachtree)
Tamara T. Marsh
Velma C. Marshall, CC’68
Clara Howell Martin, CC’51;
AU’70
Walter E Massey and
Shirley Massey
Donna Matheson
Hewitt W. Matthews, CC’66
and Marlene Matthews,
CC’69
Bruce Mayfield
Gwendolyn Mahone
Mayfield, CC’64; AU’71
Zadi Maynard
Virginia Maynor
L. Maza
Atiba Mbiwan
Eric McCaine
Brenda McCamden
David McCarthy
Timothy McClain
William B. McClain, Sr.,
CC’60
Tim McClean
Charles McCleary
Audrey Thomas McCluskey,
CC’67
Ellen McCoy
Juliette K. McCrary, CC’54
and Amos McCrary
Wilson McCreary
Paula McCullum
Rashad McDade
Lori McDaniel
Claudette McDonald
Christal McDowell
Lula A. McGarity, AU’82
Patrick McGeehan
Lula Mcghee Larkin, CC’67
Rose-Marie Williams
McGuire, CC’58
Claude McIntosh
Clauzell Mcintyre, II, CAU’98
Delores Y. McKinley, CC’76
Sue McLennan
Marvin A. McMickle
Fabayann McQueen
Bradford L. McWhorter, II
Elbert C. McWilliams
O’Livia Brown Meeks, CC’69
Quintin Meminger, II
Curt Mencer
Gregory Menchan
Harold Menefee, Jr., AU’62
Merck Partnership for
Giving
Patsy Merkson
Cynthia Merritt
Lesia T. Mescudi
John M. Michael, CC’84
Maria Kelker Mickens,
AU’82
Shenita K. Mickens, CAU’08
Karen Middlebrooks
Ernest J. Middleton
Kim D. Miles
Joyce Jones Miller, AU’74
Justin A. Miller, CAU’99
Yvonne MillerBrogley, CC’61
Joyce W. Mills
Dearick Milton
Michele Mindlin-Wallace
Anita Minniefield
Alvin Minnifield, CAU’95
Ceasar C. Mitchell
Tosha Mobley
Noran L. Moffett, CAU’90
Sara Moffly
Jonathan Montague
Edward Montgomery, CC’84
Patricia Moody
Ernest Moore, Jr., CC’66
Gwendolyn Morgan
Lisa K. Morgan Mosley
Phenecia C. Morris,
CC’50’ AU’56
Terrence Morrow
Denise Vivian Whitsett
Morse, CC’76; AU’78
Bruce Morton
Charles T. Moses
Melvin Mosley
Eleanor J. Motley,
AU’74
Patty Mouton
Deena Muhammad
Carlton J. Muldrow,
CC’85
Margaret H. Mullen,
AU’74
Betty Sutton Mullins,
CC’54; AU’66
Janice R. Murphy,
AU’83
Janice M. Murray,
CC’72
Johnetta E. Myers,
CAU’05
Narayanaswamy H.
Nadig
National Black Arts
Festival
National Synergy
Center, Inc.
Nat’s Athletic Training
Subrat Nayak
Mary L. Neal
Harry D. Nelson, CC’59
Mary Neumeister
New Era Cap Co., Inc.
Njeri Nginyo
Gwendolyn Smith
Nicholas, AU’74
Michael L. Nichols
Josephine I. Njoku,
CAU’98
Tammy L. Nobles
Nalerie Nolan
Joan McWilliams Norman, CC’53; AU’55
Theordis L. Norton,
CC’64
Monte E. Norwood
Nat Nwizu
Loretta
O’Brien-Parham
Valerie J. Odom Cobbin, CAU’91
Robin Ogletree
Chukwuemenka
Okafor
Sarah O’Leary
Pearl Carter Oliphant,
CC’57
Lonnie J. Oliver, AU’74
Lutalo Olutosin
Eugene O’Mard
Afemo Omilani
Chakayah Omwaso
Miata Oneil
Mark C. O’Riley, AU’80
Carl Osborne
Rhonda Oshetoye
Viktor O. Osinubi
Barbara Owens
Pacific Gas and Electric
Corporation
Willetta C. Page
Maisha Paggett
Hal Paisant
Paula Palk
Barbara Piper
Paramore, CC’64
Cass. D. Parker
Delores A. Parker,
CC’68
Leonard Parsons
Willie Partridge
Doris Patillio
Edward H. Patrick
Harry Patterson
Lois Gartrell Patterson,
CC’62; AU’71
Dara Paul
Janet P. Payne
Peachtree Edition
Pearl River Resort
Debra B. Pearson,
CC’75
Bill Peden
Mary Pemberton
Carmen Perez
Hariette Perkins
Eleanor M. Perry
David L. Petersen
Pfizer Inc.
Marion Phillips, CC’66
and Mary J. Phillips,
CC’65
Kasey Phillips Brown,
CAU’94
Earl Pickard
Arnold Pierce
Charles B. Pierre
Vimala Pillari
Tiffany N. Pinager,
CAU’96
Vacqueline Pinkney
Frances Wilson
Pinkston, CC’58; AU’68
Vernon Pitts
Breanna D. Pleasant,
CAU’10
Jamie T Pleasant,
CAU’91 and Kimberly
Pleasant, CAU’91
Francine I. Poller,
AU’62
Loran Powell
Ahart Powers
Sheila Stenson Prather,
CC’81
Kiplyn N. Primus,
CAU’03
Sammie Pringle,
CAU’93
Eleanor Brayboy
Proctor, CC’62
Marvin Pryor
David Putnam
LeTari D. Quainter
Melanie Quintana
Christine Rackley
Hinton, CC’76
PrInc.e Rahm
Jamesa M. RaineyEuler, CAU’93
Earl Randolph
George R. Randolph,
CAU’92
Carol Rasheed
Antonio Raven
Jennie Raymond
Jean Wilson Redding,
CC’59
Robin Reese Golden,
CAU’92
Erica H. Reid, CAU’95
Ernette Fulcher Reid,
AU’48
Roland Render
Darkeyah Reuven.
CAU’99
Edward Reynolds
Janet M. Rhoden,
CC’46
Joanne V. Rhone,
AU’66
Gilbert Rich
Carol Richards
Arthur Richardson and
Jay Richardson
Melvin B. Richardson,
CC’78
Lanie Richberger
Philip Ricks
Bobby Ringfield
Lillie M. Robbins,
AU’71
William Roberson
Barbara A. Roberts
Patricia D. Roberts,
AU’81
Calvin Robinson
Inga Robinson Smith,
CAU’94
Lisa R. Robinson,
CAU’90
Bradford Rogers
Jeanette Evans Rogers,
AU’59
Pierre E. Rollin
Thomas E. Roque,
CAU’04
Peggy W. Ross, CC’66
Cheryl Royal
Georgetta Royals
Johnetta M. Royster,
CAU’92
Charles Rucker
Tammar RuckerHatney,
CC’85
Jinelle Rudder
George Rumley
Jason L. Russell,
CAU’00
James Ruth
Sondra Saleem
Paul Salmon
Sam’s Town Casino
Ariana M. Sanders
Irma Smith Sanders,
CC’54
Sanford Realty Co., Inc.
Mirian M. Sanson
Javier Santana
Neff Santiago
William Schenck
Jason Schultz
Janet N. Scott
Katrina B. Scott,
CAU’92
Wynetta
ScottSimmons
Darrell Scruggs
Anthony Seaborn
Maletha Searcy
John Sears
Pernessa C. Seele,
CC’76; AU’78
Glenn Seeley
Christopher Seely
Lee Sewell
Daaim A. Shabazz,
CAU’91
Stanley F. Shaheed
Tina R. Shannon
Rhoda K. Sharp, MD
Wayne C. Sharpe
Brock Shelton
Shawn E. Shepard,
CAU’92
Charles Sheppard
William H. Shepperson, AU’53
Brian S. Sherman
Alex K. Sherrill, AU’87
Ken Shiffman
Ruby D. Shinhoster,
CC’71
Carol O. Shockley,
AU’71
Doris Taylor Shockley,
CC’44
Liz S. SiasShannon,
CC’71
Jabari O. Simama,
CC’75
Brian Simmons,
CAU’01
Angela A. Simpson,
AU’84
Jeraldine Smallwood
Sims, CC’61
Georganna Sinkfield
Teloca Sistrunk
Walter Slaton
Kelvin Slatter
Janet Slaughter
Diana Smedler
Cheryl P. Smith
Constance Fields
Smith, CC’52
Hazel M. Smith, AU’48
Deborah D. SmithPorter, AU’79
Magnoria E. Smothers
Avis L. Snearl, AU’95
David Sockel
Charlotte L. Solomon
Joey Sommerville
Ade T. Soudan, AU’96
Cynthia Hunter Spann,
AU’77
Cynthia Spence
Kimberly Springer
Rene St. Cyr
St. John Boutique
Kim Y. St. Bernard,
AU’77
Michelle Staffieri
Ella Derricotte Stanley,
CC’52; AU’71
Helen O. Starks, AU’76
Anthony Stennis
Debra L. Stephens
Robert Stevenson
Cheryl E. Stewart
Charles S. Stinson,
CC’55 and Emily D.
Stinson, CAU’89
Kimberly A. Stokes,
CAU’00
Alma Q. Stone
Marlynn Stovall, AU’83
Larry Strawn
Jeffery Streator
John Stremlau
Bruce E. Strickland,
AU’86 and Katrina
Strickland, AU’87
Sam Stuckey
Louis Stukes
Marini T. Sturns,
CAU’93
Corine G. Sullivan,
AU’68
Harold Summers
Ferrall N. Sumrell, Jr.
Gwen Swain
Michele Swann
Maury D. Swift
Charles Sykes
Julie Briscoe Tabor,
CC’73
James E. Taggart, Jr.,
CAU’90
William Tanks
Loretta Tassin, AU’69
Travis Tatum
Carole R. Taylor, CC’58
Roosevelt Taylor, CC’59
Sandra E. Taylor, AU’78
Carole Taylor-Carter,
AU’58
Roderick Teachey
Curtis Tearte
Cynthia Carter
Teddleton, CC’76
Teari Tennon
The Pecan
Gregory S. Thomas,
CAU’93
Molee McKinnon
Thomas, CC’66
James Thompson
Perry Thornton, Jr.,
CC’85 and Jacquelyn B.
Thornton, CC’88
Annette Pinkston
Thorpe, CC’43
James F. Thrasher
Timbuktu
Gary A. Timmons
William Tippin
Mary F. Toliver, AU’86
Mary Tolleson
Brenda J. Tolliver,
CC’72; AU’74
Barbara Towers
Gena D. Townsend
Michael Townser
Denise Traicoff
Ella H. Trammel, CC’43
Arthur Trammell
Adewale Troutman
Turner Truitt
Clyde Tucker
William L. Tucker, CC’78
Althea L. Turk, CC’73
Bertha Williams Turner,
CC’64
Tony Turpin
Aurelia O. Tutt, CAU’91
James Tyler
Union Pacific Fund for
Effective Government
US Road Sports &
Entertainment of
Georgia
April Vance
Annette Vandevere
John Venables
Jonathan Vester
Leonetta B. Vidal,
CC’73
Valerie Vinson
Calvin F. Vismale, Jr.
WINTER 2012
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Wachovia Wells Fargo
Foundation
Vovada Waddy
Delsey WadleyNewman, CC’78
David Waison
Annie W. Walker
John Wallace
Hattie R. Walker,
CAU’97
Melvia L. Wallace,
AU’87
Kathryn A. Walker,
CC’73
Julia Wallace-Hall,
CC’80
Robert Walls, Jr., CC’79
Kevin Walsh
Daron A. Walters,
CAU’03
Locie Johnson
Walthall, CC’64
Harriett Junior Walton,
CC’52; AU’89
Audrey Parks Ward,
CC’49
Latonja P. Ware,
CAU’94
Lawrence Waring
Art Washington
Elethia S. Washington,
CAU’05
Henry L. Waszkowski
Cynthia Waters
Clifford E. Watkins
Vicki A. Watkins,
CAU’91
Stephanie M. Watt,
CAU’96
Andre R. Watts
James Way
Robert W. Waymer,
AU’68
Daniel Wearring, AU’50
Joseph Webb, III
Donald G. Webster,
AU’58
John Wegner
Charles Weir
Weldon & Associates,
LLC
Carol C. Wesley, CC’77
Belle S. Wheelan
Love H. Whelchel
Lena Whitaker
Betty L. White
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Patricia White, CC’70
David A. Whitfield,
CAU’97
Delores J.
Whitman-Marshall
Douglas Wideman
Robert Wilensky
Amy C. Williams
Avery W. Williams,
AU’51
Shirley A.
Williams-Kirksey
Samuel C. Williamson,
CAU’95
Betty WilliamsSweat,
CC’61
Reginald Willingham
Bobby Willis
Carolyn Wilson
Mary V. Wilson, AU’77
Bobbie Thompson
Wing, CC’70; AU’92
Judith F. Winograd
Brown Winton
William A. Wise, CC’67
Tim Wolfe
Vinton Wolfe, CAU’07
Gail Wood
Hugh Woodall
Derryl Woodberry
Robert H. Woodrum
Alison Woods
Lillian A. Woods, AU’74
Molly Woodson
Erica M. Woody,
CAU’95
Margaret Sellers
Wooten, CC’57
Tahirah W. Works,
CAU’94
Worldsongs
Leroy Wright
Michael J. Wright,
CC’74
Lily Wu
Vicky Wujcik
Alfred D. Wyatt, Sr,
CC’50
Ridge Wyde
Barbara Wyne
DeAnna Yarbrough
Larry J. Yeoman, AU’84
Emma L. York, AU’75
Bobbie Young
WINTER 2012
Shaunda O. Young,
CAU’00
Walter Zackery
Amir Zaid
Red, Black
& Grey Club
$99-$1
Lynn Abass
Maryam Abdullah
Pat Able
Nancy Abudu
Linda V. Adams
Zina Age-Moore,
CAU’96
Ronald Aiken
Chisulo Ajanaku
Hameef AlGhani
Domonic Ali
Alton D. Allen, Jr.
Charles C. Allen, AU’68
Stephen Allerton
Millie Allie
Lisa Alston
Zafir Al-Uqdah
Imani Am’at
Sarah Ambrose
Kristin W. Anchors
August Anderson
Dorothy B. Anderson,
CC’71; AU’80
Haidee M.
Anderson-Fuller
Wendy Angelety
Argo Group
Ronald Arhman
Tracy M. Armstead
Sholanda Armstrong
Sibyl D. Arnold
Joseph Arrington, II,
CAU’93
Anthony O. Ashley
AT&T Foundation
Atlanta History Center
Atlanta Q Ettes
Charles Aubert
Bob August
April Vanderford
Austin, CC’82
Veronica Avery
Richardson Avior
Athena A. Ayers,
CAU’00
Cynthia Baaith, CC’79
Lisa Babb
Curtis O. Bailey
Brian Baker
Sylvia Carroll Baker,
AU’67
Robert Banash
Eunice C. Banks
Katy Barahona
Jim Baran
Dana Barbee and Kim
Barbee
CJ Barber
Neil A. Barclay
Willie L. Barker, AU’69
Eric Barkley
Anthony E. Barnes,
CC’69
Jaden Bass
Annie J. Bates
Denise M. Batiste,
CAU’90
Mike Batson
Raymond H. Bazmore
Robert Bear
John Beard
Steven Beaudoin
Ty Belcher
Cassandra Belin
Lauralyn Bellamy
Cheryl Belle
Richard Belmonte
Jamela M. Benjamin
Christopher Bennett
Coletta Benson
Daniel Berger
Jason Berk
Jason Berry
Dina Berthen
Quy’yuim Bey
Mesfin Bezuneh
Karole L. Birch
Lillian Birchette
James H. Bird
Rick Bizot
Carrie Black
Black Collegiate
Enterprise
Percy Blackshear
Cheryl R. Blandon,
CC’75
Dan Blumenthal
Patricia Blythers
Aaron Bobick
Bilamandi
Bofotola-Akemba
Alisha T. Bolden,
CAU’95
Bill Bolling
Felecia Bongo
Deloris B. Booker
Patricia Cheatham
Bowens, CC’70; AU’74
Judith Stokes
Bradberry, CC’74
Marissa L. Brady,
CAU’05; CAU’07
Guy M. Bragg
Carolyn R. Branch,
CAU’94
June Brazil
Johnetta Brazzeff
Henry Brent
Tom Brieske
Bonnie J. Brim
Candace Brisbane
Donna L. Brock
Sharon Brockman
Cynthia B. Brooks
Catherine Broussand
Clarence L. Brown,
CC’56
Danielle S. Brown,
CAU’05
Malcolm M. Brown,
AU’74
Jai Bruce
Joseph Bryan
Jacqueline Waldon
Bryant, CC’61
Lenora Bryant, AU’73
E. Michelle BryantJohnson, CC’82
Buckhead Life
Restaurant Group
James Buehler
John Bugge
Carolyn Burgher
Randall K. Burkett
Leslie Burl McLemore,
AU’65
Melanie W. Burns
Milton J. Burns, CC’88;
AU’93
Lynette Burton
Cynthia M. Buskey
Majul Bussey
Rodrick C. Bussey,
CC’85
Donna Butler
Jacob E. Butler, AU’78
Tim Byrd
Connie L. Byrom,
CAU’07
Earle Cadwell
Thomas A. Caiazzo,
CAU’96
Valerie
Caldwell-Mosley
Martha Callaway
James L. Camp
Finley C. Campbell,
AU’58
Iris Canady, AU’74
Sujit Canagaretna
Judy Candler
Judy M. Canedo
David S. Cannon
Henry W. Cantrell, II,
CC’60
Kyshia L. Carey, CAU’03
David Carico
Carithers Flower Shop
Karen Caro
Lucas Carpenter
Catherine Y. Carr
Stan Carson
Bruce Carter
Melvin Cash
Stephen Cason
David Cato
John T. Champion
Earl Chapital
Constance A. Chapman
Edward Chase
Linda E. Chastang
Ellen Chenault
Jacqueline Chester
Naeemah Chike
Jane Childers
Nicola Chin
Carlton L. Clark
Clark Atlanta University Bookstore
Lowell Clarke
Janet M. Clayton,
CAU’08
Anita ClementsTimmons, CC’81
Larry R. Clemmons,
CC’62
Lowell Clerk
Anita E. Coats, AU’81
Saundra Cobb
Emmie J. Cochran
Thomas A. Coffin
Christina Cole
Keith Coleman
Tracey B. Coleman,
CAU’09
Toni Colley-Lee
Catherine Collier, CC’57
Burgandi Collins
Linda Colon
Computershare Inc.
H. E. Connell, AU’45
Auc Consortium
Jessica Cook
Martin Cooper
Alford Cornelius
Damon M. Cosby, CC’84
Kennith L. Costilow, Jr.
Victor Cotten
Sylvia Cotton
Betty Council
Ruth Kimball Council,
CC’57
Robert Cowan
Dorothy Cox
Laura Coyle
Tara Coyt
Susan Cozzens
Glenda H. Craig, CC’81
Lewis Y. Craine
Lee Crawford
Brigitte D. Cray, CAU’97
Ramon Creeft
Ramon Creese
Deloris Cross
Kevin Cruse
Barbara Culmer
Jason Culver
Rebecca Turner Cureau,
AU’87
Joe Curry
Bryan Curtis
Ricky Custard
Brenda Dale
Sheryl Dallas
Alton Daniel
Ruby Daniels, CC’74
Kahlil O. Dansby
Dante’s Down the
Hatch
Les Dargon
Nadja Dausch
Carolyn L. Davenport,
AU’72
Annie Davis
Lenora D. Davis, CC’78
Sheri Davis-Faulkner
Sandra Day
Kevin Dear
Alice Debate
Nia Dejoie
Frank Delorise
Kevin DemcUo
David Demumbirum
Denise C Pope
Enterprise, LLC
Barbara S. Dennis,
CC’66
Kenya Devalia
Dorothy L. DeVillars,
AU’63
Kerri Devine
Nicolina Devito
Atiya Devone
Claudette Black
Deyamport, AU’80
Jill Diamond
Patrice Dickey
Don Diego
Michael Dierickx
Dimensions Consulting
Group LLC
Freidia J. Dinkins,
AU’71
Stephen Dix
Russell S. Dixon
Mary E. Dockett, CC’76
Milton Dodson
John Doile
Rick Doner
Beth Dorsey
Anne Dossopowell
Christian E. Douglas,
CAU’05
Ingrid B. Dove, CC’71
Ronald Dover
Tomick Doward
Benjamin Downs,
CAU’95
David Drake
Alton Drew
Erika Ducloux
Jackie Dugger
Peggy Duhart
Rick Dulin
Aalyah Duncan
Steven Dunn
DJ Dynamic
Kenneth Eaton
Bertez Edwards
Carla J. Elder, CAU’00
Margaret Ellingson
Aleska Elliott
Leatrice Ellzy-Mcnair
Mark Embry
Darian Emory
Brenda F. Ernest,
CAU’94
Christopher E. Ervin
Elizabeth Etoll
Doug Evans
Roxane D. Evans,
CAU’10
Pamela Everett
Rosalind Evers
Ronald Fagan
Tony Fannin
Angela C. Ferguson
Stan Fineman
Edith Fink
Rahmana Finney
First Promotions
Mary Flanagan
Lynn Flanders
Hannah Flesheo
Paul Flexner
Carla Ford
Derek Forest and Jill
Forest
Donald Foster
David J. Frackenpohl
and Jane Ann
Frackenpohl
Teri Frances
Renee N. Franco
Marcel Franklin,
CAU’03
Kevin Franks and
Nicole Franks
Shiece FraserStokes
Kenneth Frazier
Margaret Freedman
Allie Howell Freeman,
AU’55
Steve Frenkel
Roshelle Friedman
Carla Friend
Gloria R. Frisch
Shirley Frye
Bill Fulbright
Maryam Fullins,
CAU’92
Carrie A. Fullwood,
CAU’09
Wanda W. Funches,
CC’75
Gudrun Gabriel
Severne Gainer
Lynne Galaton
Margaret Gallagher
Amanda Galloway
Paul Gann
Alfred L. Garner
Bill Garrett
Miguel Garrido
Gwendolyn Combre
Gary, AU’52
Bermira Gates, CAU’96;
CAU’05
Ghostbear
Jennifer Gibbs
Sheila Gibson
JoLynn Gilliam
Laura Gilmore
Lamar Gilstrap
Dora Gist
Margaret J. Glass
Rhonda Glaze
Gabrielle Gross Glenn,
CC’79; CAU’05
John Godbolt
Mary Duncan Godfrey,
CC’59
Kenneth Goethe
Mark H. Goldman
Nancy E. Goler
Ceacer Gooding
James Goodjoint
Darryl Gordon
Edith G. Gould
Cheryl Gowes
Celeste Grant
Claudette A. GrantJoseph, CC’84
Thyrsa M. Gravely,
CAU’93
Teresa Grear, CAU’06
Callei Green
Daniel Greene
Clarence Griffin, CC’78
Steve Grilli
Crystal L. Grimes,
CAU’01
Darren Gross
Barbara Guillory
Linda W. Gulley
Aaron Gunter
Dale Gustafson
John C. Guyton
Rita Hackett
Sharyn M. Hailey
Carol H. Hakim
Edward Hales
Dernice Hall
Aprell N. Hamilton,
CAU’93
Dana L. Hamilton,
CAU’92
Teresa Hammett
Tom Hansen
Franklin Hardeman
Ellen Harden
Jan Harding
Evelyn L. Hardy, CC’75
Lillian Dent Harley,
AU’57
Dorothy Harmon
Gordon Harper
Arkiem E. Harris,
CAU’96
Debra F. Harris, AU’88
Yolanda M. Harrison
Bernadette Hartfield
David Hartwell
Abdurrahim Hassan
Tonyalea Haven
Fred W. Hawkins,
CAU’08
Carolyn R. Hawthorne
Hawthorne Graphics &
Production, LLC
Claudia Hayden
Dajuan Hayes
Mike Hayward
Velma Head
Deborah J. Heard,
CC’71
Donald L. Heath, CC’74
Olivia Hedgepeth
Francine Henderson,
AU’70
Harold Henry
Diane Henson
Patricia P. Hepburn
Sarah Herbert
Paul Herd
Melanie Herring
Sidney Hieronymus
High Museum of Art
Jawanza W. Hilaire
Albert Hill
Charles A. Hill, CAU’97
Helen HillFields, CC’72
Carolyn G. HillJones
Dave Hinderletter
Sabrina Hocker
Nancy Hoddinott
G. McGhee Hodges,
CC’72
F. M. Holland
Nolan Holloway
Corey W. Holmes,
CAU’03
Josh Holte
Casey Hood
David Hooker
Rod Hoover
Mary A. Hopper
Jennifer Hornbuckle
Preston D. Howard
Wanda Howell
Roshelle D. Hudson
Jarrod D. Huey
Oliver Huff
Kevin Hughes
Trish Huguley
Santrice D. Hull
Chris Hume
Sheila Humphries
Eleanor L. Hunter
Laurence Hurling
Matthew Hutcherson
Alexis D. Hutchinson,
AU’96
Wanda Hyatt
Kenneth D. Hymes
Nathaniel Ingram,
AU’66
Janaye M. Ingram,
CAU’00
Karen M. Inniss,
CAU’00
Guy K. Ishimoto
Island Flowers & Gifts
Wayne S. Jack, CAU’97
Jack and Jill of America
Assoc.
Cheree D. Jackson,
CAU’05
Elesha R. JacksonWilliams, CAU’96; CAU’98
Dieter Jaeger
Tkeban Jahannes
Anya N. James, CAU’96
Romando James,
CAU’94
Thomas D. Jarrett
Chanelle Jefferson
Shirron T. Jeffries,
CAU’91
Lynne Jenkins
Joseph Jennings
Louis Jerry
Robert Jiggetts
Jennifer D. Jiles
Amy Johnson
Mary E. Johnson, CC’71
Nancy Johnson-Bishop,
CC’66
Carl Johnston
Jessica Jolly
Angela Jones
Cedrella C. JonesTaylor
Emerson C. Jones,
AU’88
Joshua R. Jones,
CAU’06
Debra Jordan
Elizabeth Tanksley
Jordan, AU’70
Vanika V. Jordan,
CAU’95
Barbara Julyan
Monifa Jumanne
Ken Kadish
Henry Kahn
Beryl G. Kalisa
Aiyetoro Kamale
Rita Kebil
Jeralyn Keel
Etta Kelly
Michael Kemp
Othe Kendrick
Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company
Soheila Kiantour
Nicholas Kiley
Lisa P. Kinard, CC’87
Emory King
Angela T. Kinnel
Ardine Kirchhofer
Rodney Kirkwood
Kimberly C. Kisner,
CAU’95
Catrina R. Knight,
CAU’01
Gilda A. Knowles,
CC’77
James R. Koger
Xerxes Kooles
Shannon Kraiger
Luke Krizenesky
Gabriel KupermInc.
Lois Lacey
Chante Lagon
Carolyn Lake
Lambda Epsilon
Omega Foundation Inc.
Lewis H. Lancaster
Jacoba Langerak
Jason W. Lary, CC’85
Bobby Latimore
Joanna T. Lavery
Phyllis F. Lawhorn,
AU’68
Tracy Lawrence, CC’80
Winston Lawson
Michael League
Marie B. Lee, CAU’91
Tori L. Lee, CAU’92
Toni R. Legrande, CC’83
Judy A. Lehrfeld,
CAU’11
David Leonard
Leatha O. Leonard,
AU’65
Thelma B. Lester
Elizabeth P. Levine
Dolphus G. Lewis,
AU’69
Renel L. Lewis Jenkins,
CAU’93
Rustin M. Lewis,
CAU’92
Sherwin LewisNelson
Liang Liao
Susan Liebeskind
Akilah A. Light
Shana Lightfoot
Patricia Ligon
Kamisha A. Lindsay,
CAU’01
Druenell Linton
Gladys G. LippInc.ott
Lewis Litson
Henry Little
William R. Little, CC’74
Sedrick Livingston
Shawl Lobree
Carol Loftin
WINTER 2012
49
Rodrick T. Logan
Djuan Long
Lester Longley
Cecelia A. Love
Ernestine W. Lovell,
AU’71
Janyce Lovello
Warren Lovingood
Hadley Lowy
Douglas Lucas, CAU’93
Charlise Lyles
Harriet J. Macklin
Sherman Maddux
Matthew M. Malok
Tonya J. Malone
Robert Manley
Denise D. Mapp, AU’83
Jennifer C. Mapp,
CAU’01
David J. Marcus
Angela Margarum
Joseph Marks
Russell S. Marshall
Fred Marsteller
Andy Martin
Sara Maryoffly
Cassandra Mason
Sam Massell
Gregory Masterson
Johnson Matchett, Jr.,
CAU’05
Alice R. Matthews
Portia MattoxNoble,
AU’87
John Maupin
Monica M. Maxwell
Shelia L. Maxwell,
CAU’09Tracy L. May
Christine Mayfield,
CC’74
Cheryl L. McAfee
David McAlister
Carolyn McCants, CC’72
Genevieve McCarthy
Danielle M. McClain,
CAU’05
Carlton W. Mcclendon
Michael F. McCormick
Melvin McCoy
Annie McCrimmon
Akua M. Mcdaniel
Betty J. McDonald,
AU’77
Kathleen McEnerney
50
Jean McGee
Gabriella McGheeKelly
Jacqueline McGill
Camlin N. McGowan,
CAU’04
Agnes Mcgregor,
CAU’91
Virgil O. McIver, CAU’09
Clifton McKinney
Chanda McKnight
Cheryl Wright
Mclaurin, CAU’91 and
Wilbert E. Mclaurin
Michael McQueen
Earline McWilliams
Murray McWorther
Ted Mebane
Deborah Meley
Sandra MenesAshe
Mark Meredith
Charles Meriwether
Alfred Merrill
Ted Merritt
Metrotainment Cafes,
Inc.
Robert F. Metz
Cora Miller
Caroline Mack Mills,
CC’67
Vanessa I. Milton,
AU’82
Gloria J. Mims, AU’76
Annemarie Mingo
Darryl A. Minor
Eric A. Mintz
Cynthia J. Mitchell
Gregory L. Mitchell,
CC’83
David Moffly
Mohammad M.
Momtahan, AU’81
Mercedes F.
Montgomery
Judith Montier
Mat Monyane
Adriana Moore
Kenya N. Moore,
CAU’01
Jason G. Morgan
Pamela C. Morneau
Byron Morris
Kiana Morris, CAU’09
Brigitte Morrison
Caroline D. Morrow,
CC’62
WINTER 2012
Joann Morrow, AU’71
Geneva G. Mosby,
AU’68
Katheryne J. Mosley
Stefanie Moss, CAU’92
Jessica Muhammad
Abdul Muhummad
Thelma Mumford
Denise A. Mummert
Robert Murff
Gena Murphy
Joann R. Murphy, CC’55
Yohance Murray
Bashirah Muttalib
NAACP
Jana Nance
Terri Neal
Craig Neddle
John F. Nelson
Lynn Newell
Louis Newman
Robert M. Newsome
Charles Newsum
Nick Nicholson
Willie D. Nix
Ralph Nixon
Shaunte M. Norris,
CAU’96
Lorenzo Norton
Jonathan Novick
Cecilia Nowlin
Marilyn J. Nue
Bennie H. Nunnally,
Jr., CC’73
Reba Nyen
Zaven O’Bryant
Donna E. Oldham
Belinda A. Oliver,
CAU’96
Julie B. Olmstead
Bob Olsen
Dolapo A. Olumoko,
CAU’03; CAU’05
Robert Oneil
Daniel Orrock
Harison Osuorji
Kathleen M. O’Toole
John C. Owens
Priscilla Padron
Sarah Pallas
Renee M. Palmer,
CAU’97
Kye E. Pannell, CAU’05
Jena A. Parham
Larazus Parker
Richard Parks
Morteza Parvin,
CAU’94
Manuel Patino
Shuwanda A. Patterson, CAU’01
Alycia Patum
Nimata Paul
Sharon A. Pauli
John G. Payne
Mark Paynter
Stephanie Payton
Richard Peabody
Angela M. Pearson
Irving Penso
Al Perry
Nettie Johnson Perry,
AU’74
Dennis Pete
John Petrella
Stephanie Pettaway
Keshonda Petty
Frank Phair
Felicia Phillips
Marvin Pickett
Jay Pierce
Tonya C. Pillow, CC’89
Lisa Pirkle
Palmer Pittman
Paul M. Plotsky
Free Pocazzo
Steve Polemitis
Dennis Polite, AU’66
Leslie Snell Pollard,
AU’81
Agnes Maxey Ponder,
CC’60
Pamela Poole
Kalee D. Porter
Marvin O. Pough,
CAU’94
Alan E. Powe
Brenda J. Powell
Patricia Powell, CAU’91
Monique M. Prather
Joseph Prescott
Kayla Pressley
Michael S. Prim
Penelope Prime
Angela G.
PrimmBethea, CAU’02
Tiffany N. Pringle,
CAU’11
Elsie B. Pugh, CC’51
Bruce Pulver
Dereck Purnell
Bob Putman
Lurma M. Rackley,
CC’70
Abdul Rahman
Hannette Raine
Gilberto Ramos, Jr.
Courtney E. Ramsey
Karen E. Randolph
Cheryl Ransaw
Allen Rasheed
Jerome Ratchford
Elise Ray
Jacqueline Redd, CC’83
Michael Reddick
Walter Reed
Jeremy Reeme
Tom Regeski
Richard Reid
Rainey Rembert
Davanna Renee
Othello Renfroe, Jr.
Ola Reynolds
Valisa Rias, AU’88
Frank Richards, Jr.
Lolita L. RichardsBaker,
CAU’96; AU’05
Azizi R. Richardson,
CAU’00
Wayne RichardsonHarp
Sarah Rick
Tversa P. Ricks, CAU’05
Kenneth Riggins
Marcia Riley
Terry T Rimmer, AU’88
and Thaddeus Rimmer,
AU’88
Keith P. Rivers
Melvin Robb
Eddie J. Roberson,
CAU’98
Debra Roberts
Jeanette Roberts Ross,
CC’81
Marvel M. Robertson
Quintin L. Robertson,
CAU’91
Amani Robinson
Jane W. Robinson,
AU’48
David Roby
Harry Rock
Ronald Rockmon
James L. Rogers
Alvaro Roldan
Bobby Rosemond
Edward Z. Rosenzweig
Gloria Ross
Mitzi Rothman
Stephen Routt
Wanda Rozier
Roslyn Stewart Ruben,
CC’63
Kenneth Rucker
Fenee L. Russ, CAU’91
James A. Russell
Patricia
Russell-McCloud
Chanel N. Ryan
Nathaniel J. Ryan,
CAU’01
Pierre Sackey
Major Sadler
Richard Saizan
James Salery
Brooke A. Sams
Mark Sanders
Ronita M. Sanders,
CAU’85
Mary A. Satchell,
CC’61; AU’71
John Saunders
Jane O. Sayles-Ratcliff
Don Schanche
Art Schletty
Homer Scott
Portia Scott, AU’72
Tonita R. Scott
Washington, CAU’01
Robin Selmon
Nzinga Senghor
Patricia Setzer
Shirley M. Sewell
Lawrence Seybold
S. L. Shannon
Shirlee Shatter
Louise E. Shaw
Phil Shearer, III
Bettye Holloway Shelling, CC’59; AU’67
Doug Shipman
Addie Shopshire-Rolle,
CC’66; AU’70
Daniel Shorr
Susan Siegal
Paul Siegel
Kathleen J. Sierra
Betty Siller
Belinda Mitchell
Simmons, CC’73
Simmons, HauserSimmons Services, LLC
Ivonne Simms
Jay Simon
Simon Sign Systems
Gwendolyn Carrington
Simpson, AU’45
Gregory J. Sims,
CAU’93
Kelly Singer
Daljit Singh
Valerie Singleton
Sharonda E. Singleton
Brown, CAU’00
Frank Slover
Pat Small
Cathy Smith
Green L. Smith, Jr.,
CC’87; AU’93
Suzanne Smith-Wigfall
W. Scott Smoot
David Snyder
Peter Sparrow
Linda Spears, CC’74
Kenneth Spencer
Lillie B. Spires
Anja Squire
Shirley I. St. Hilaire
Kevin M. Stacia, AU’82
Bryan Staffieri
Michelle Stamps
Kibwe A. Stanfield,
CAU’00
Bob Stanton
Nelson Steenland
Alice E. Stephen
Dora Stephens
Lucy Stevens Stephens,
CC’63; AU’71
Dancy L. Stergel
April Stevens
Catherine Stewart
Consuela M. Stewart,
CAU’96
Gregory Stokes, AU’85
Ned Stone
Stone Mountain Park
Jennifer Stovall
Jordan Stover, CAU’04
John Stromnes
Wesley Stubbs
Carolyn Chambers
Studgeon, AU’72
Herman Stukes
Scott Sudweeks
Carolyn Sullivan
Thomas F. Sumlin
Kim Summers-Nwajide
Joan L. Sweeney,
AU’68
T. M. A. Docents
Chip Tabor
Marshall Joe Taggart,
Jr., CAU’92, CAU’97
and Sherri L. Taggart,
CAU’92
Ted Taliaferro
Gary Tassis
Bernice M. Tate
Alycia Tatum
April Taylor
Karen D. Taylor-Moody
Kimberly R. Taylor,
CAU’96
Thomas H. Teepen
Hiram Terrell
Renee R. Terrell,
CAU’05
Carl Texter
Nancy Thacher
Elaine Thagard
The Cooks Warehouse
The Rehab Gang At
Scepter Health &
Rehab
Tim Theall
Jasmin Thigpen
Clifford Thomas, AU’59
Donna Thompson
Darren L. Thornton,
CAU’97
Stephanie Alford Thrift,
CC’85
Jay Tildon
Joel Tolliver
Eric K. Toomer
Stuart Toporoff
Linda F. Torrence
Debora Townes
Vickie Trellis
Dean Trevelino
Truist
Johnny Tucker
Chrislyn D. Turner,
CAU’97
Aaron M. Turpeau
Angelique Tyler
Arthur Usher
Ali Valin
Zane J. Van Dawson
Lisa Vandevender
Harry L. Vernon, CC’69
Lynn Vogler
Rose M. Wade
Christa Walander
Antiwan D. Walker
Marian Sutton Walker,
AU’53
David Walson
Anthony A. Walton,
CC’84
Michael A. Ward
Lydia Wares
Edward Warner
Rae M. Warner, CAU’98
Clara Walker Washington, AU’48
Kenneth L. Washington, CAU’94
Patricia Watkins
Jennifer Watts
Clifford Waugh
Angeline C. Wead
Donald Weber
Adrienne Welch
Warren Westerberg
Wayne Whipple
Brittney White
Devin P. White, CAU’95;
CAU’00 and Joy L.
White, CAU’93
Otis Wideman
Linda J. Wiggins
William B. Wilcox
Iris D. Wilkerson
William Willeford
Alton C. Williams,
CC’60
Juanita Aldrich Williams, AU’67
Patrick Williamson
Doris Dalton Willingham, CC’40; AU’61
Dan Willis
Aulbon Wilson
Chaye Wise
Al Witcher
Theresa Wolf
Donna Wolff
Betty Wood
Fannie Ballard
Woodard, CC’80
Richard Woods
Kimberly Woodson
Lillian Woolf
Christine Word
Johanna Workman
Alfred E. Worley
Al Wright
Phyllis Wyatt
Stephanie D. Wyatt,
CAU’09
James Wynn
Alberteen Young,
CAU’91
S Zahir
Mark Zion
Mary Zonakis
James Zwald
Honorary
Degree
Recipient
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Corporations
755 Restaurant CorporationAbbott Fund
American Express
Foundation
American Honda Motor
Company, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
Applecreek Management Company, Inc.
ARK IDEAS
Arvin Meritor
AT&T Foundation
Avon Products
Foundation
Bank of America
Benefitfocus.com, Inc.
Brown & Moore
Associates
Chevron Corporation
Chevron Products
Company
Chick-Fil-A, Inc.
Clarke-Franklin &
Associates, Inc.
CMB Wireless Group,
LLC
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Computershare Inc.
Corning, Inc.
Foundation
Corporate Business
MGRS Information, LTD
Cox Enterprises, Inc.
Delta Air Lines
Foundation
Dynamic Function
Consulting Group
ECHO of Northrop
Grumman
Edventure Partners
ENCAP Technologies
ExxonMobil
Corporation
Follett
General Mills
Foundation
Georgia Pacific
Georgia Power
Company
Gist, Kennedy &
Associates, Inc.
Hallmark Cards,
Incorporated
Hawthorne Graphics &
Production, LLC
IBM Corporation
IBM International
Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
Kraft General Foods
Inc.
Laz Parking/Georgia,
Inc.
Lockheed
Martin-Marietta
Malcolm Cunningham
Ford
MeadWestvaco
Foundation
Metropolitan Atlanta
Cardiology Consultants, PC
Microsoft Giving
Campaign
National Synergy
Center, Inc.
Norfolk Southern
Foundation
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Pacific Gas and Electric
Corporation
Principal Life Insurance
Co.
Sanford Realty Co., Inc.
Sapphire Solutions,
Inc.
Security Capital
Brokerage, Inc.
Simon Sign Systems
Sodexo, Inc. & Affiliates
Standard Landscape,
Inc.
State Farm Companies
The CocaCola Company
The CocaCola
Foundation
TJX Companies, Inc.
Turner Broadcasting
System
UNICCO Service
Company
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Fund for
Effective Government
UPS Foundation, Inc.
US Road Sports &
Entertainment of
Georgia
Verizon Foundation
Verizon Wireless
VWR International, Inc.
Wachovia Wells Fargo
Foundation
Wade Ford
Wells Fargo
Xerox Corporation
Foundations
Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
Andrew Young
Foundation
Campus Community
Partnership
Clark and Ruby Baker
Foundation
Erwin T. Koch
Charitable Trust
Frances Wood Wilson
Foundation
Fuller E. Callaway
Professorial Trust
Georgia Independent
College Assoc. Inc.
(Formerly GFIC)
Irene H. Hills Estate
Trust
Lettie Pate Whitehead
Foundation
National Philanthropic
Trust
Tom Joyner Foundation
Faculty and
Staff
Patricia M. Alamutu
Kasim L. Alli
Rosalind E. ArthurAndoh, CAU’03
Mary C. Ashong
Dorothy A. Batey
Natalie J. Beebe,
CAU’99
Jamela M. Benjamin
Mesfin Bezuneh
Nicole J. Blount
Josephine Bradley
Tonicia S. Brandon,
CAU’09
Donna L. Brock
Carlton E. Brown
Cynthia M. Buskey
Larry E. Calhoun
Charlie Carter
Constance A. Chapman
Betty W. Clark, CC’67
Margaret S. CountsSpriggs, CC’86; CAU’89
Marcia J. Cross, CC’80
Jacquelynn K. Davis
Jacquelyn A. Debose,
CAU’93
Tina Dunkley, AU’80
Herbert L. Eichelberger
Janth B. English,
CAU’96
Sandra H. Flowers
Anne F. Ford, AU’57
Frederick A. Fresh
Jevon M. Gibson,
CAU’07
Joyce M. Goosby, CC’72
Edith G. Gould
Joyce A. Graham
Vance Gray, CAU’98
Art Hansen
Terry L. Harrington,
CC’75; AU’87
Deborah J. Heard,
CC’71
Alexa B. Henderson,
AU’66
Perry L. Herrington
Reginald F. Hicks
Etta J. Hill
M. G. Hood, M.D., CC’59
Shedred J. Jackson
Gay-linn E. Jasho,
CC’81; CAU’94
Isabella T. Jenkins,
CC’53
Linda M. Jennings
Gwendolyn L. Johnson,
AU’68
William T. Jordan
Temesgen Kebede
Shafiq A. Khan
Claudette R. King
Susan N. Kossak
Michael Lacour
Lonzy Lewis
Liang Liao
Richard Lyle, AUC’64
and Lauretta S. Lyle,
CAU’90
David J. Marcus
Lucille H. Mauge and
Errol R. Mauge
Rashad McDade
Lydia A.
McKinley-Floyd
Ronald E. Mickens
Eric A. Mintz
Noran L. Moffett, Ed.D,
CAU’90; CAU’05
Ernest Moore, Jr., CC’66
Gwendolyn D. Morgan,
CC’77
Charles T. Moses
William B. Neal
Tammy L. Nobles
Viktor O. Osinubi
Wanda L. Owens,
CC’85; CAU’03
Pamela J. Page
Cass. D. Parker
Edward H. Patrick
Jeffrey J. Phillips
Charles B. Pierre
Vimala Pillari
Newburn Reynolds,
CC’81; CAU’91
Joanne V. Rhone,
AU’66
Earl D. Robinson
Lorri L. Saddler Rice,
CAU’92
WINTER 2012
51
O’Leary L. Sanders,
CC’78 and Sherrie N.
Sanders
Stacy Sauls, CAU’07
Janet N. Scott
Gail W. Shields, CC’78
Joseph Howard Silver,
Sr., AU’80 and Rosalyn
S. Silver
Alice E. Stephen
Carolyn Taylor
Phyllis Thakis, CAU’00
Ruby L. Thompson
Trevor A. Turner, Ph.D.
Valerie Vinson
Alma D. Vinyard, CC’64
Sean S. Warner
Gayle K. Watts
Robert W. Waymer,
AU’68; CAU’95
Betty L. White
Cynthia D. Williams
Shirley A.
Williams-Kirksey
Sharon J. Willis, CC’72
Alfred E. Worley
Brenda J. Wright
Tanya D. Young, AU’88
Parents
Orlando Dunn
Lori Lewis
Frank Loadholt
Debra Roberts
Lena Whitaker
Molly Woodson
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Other
Organizations
Alanta Center for Social
Therapy Inc.
Argo Group
AT&T Services, Inc.
Atlanta Q Ettes
Black Collegiate
Enterprise
CAU Athletic Boosters
Clark Atlanta University Guild
Council of Independent
Colleges (The)
Denise C Pope
Enterprise, LLC
Dimensions Consulting
Group LLC
Energy Systems Group,
LLC
First Promotions
Fulton-DeKalb Hospital
Authority
Ghostbear
Hank Aaron Chasing
the Dream Foundation
(The)
Houston Independent
School District
Jack and Jill of America
Assoc.
Kittredge Magnet
School For High
Achievers
WINTER 2012
KO Tax & Financial
Services Inc.
Lambda Epsilon
Omega Foundation Inc.
Merck Partnership for
Giving
NAACP
National Black Arts
Festival
National Collegiate
Athletic Association
Nat’s Athletic Training
New Era Cap Co, Inc.
Peachtree Edition
Pfizer Inc.
Simmons, HauserSimmons Services, LLC
Southern Company
Services Educational
Matching Gift Program
T. M. A. Docents
The College Fund/
UNCF
The Rehab Gang At
Scepter Health &
Rehab
Truist
United Negro College
Fund (The)
United Supreme
Council, A.A.S.R., S.J.
Charitable Foundation
Weldon & Associates,
LLC
Worldsongs
Year End Recon
Religious
Organizations
Andrews Chapel
United Methodist
Church
Ben Hill United
Methodist Church
General Board of
Global Ministries of
the UMC
General Board of
Higher Education &
Ministry of the UMC
UMCGeorgia Commission Higher Education
UMCWomen’s Division
United Church of Christ
Zion Hill Baptist Church
Trustees
Charles S. Ackerman
Delores P. AldridgeEssuon, CC’63
Juanita Baranco and
Gregory Baranco
Lisa M. Borders
Carlton E. Brown
John W. Daniels, Jr.
R. W. Ide, III
Ingrid S. Jones
Gwendolyn Mayfield
Gregory B. Morrison
and Debra Morrison
William E. Shack, Jr.,
CC’65
Isaac J. Snype, Jr.,
CC’76
Leonard Walker
Brenda W. Walker,
CC’75
Carl Ware, CC’65 and
Mary Ware, CC’71
Devin P. White, CAU’95;
CAU’00 and Joy L.
White, CAU’93
Carolyn M. Young,
CC’66 and Andrew J.
Young
Students
Kalimah M. Abdullah
Tamara M. Comer
Jayron L. Gresham
Jawanza W. Hilaire
Darryl A. Minor
Maurice Simpson, Jr.,
CAU’11
Maury D. Swift
Kallisicia M. White
Chante’ V. Wilson
Alumni
Organizations
CAU Alumni
Association
CAU National Alumni
Association
CAUAA Dekalb County
Chapter
CAUAA New York
Chapter
CAUAA Philadelphia
Chapter
CAUAA Atlanta Chapter
CAUAA Detroit Chapter
CAUAA Houston
Chapter
CAUAA South Florida
Chapter
Class of 1978
Class of 1980
Class of 1981
Estate Gifts
Estate of Ida M. Jordan
Estate of Linda M.
White
Marvin Riley Estate
Gifts In-kind
Atlanta History Center
Badiworld, LLC
Buckhead Life
Restaurant Group
Carithers Flower Shop
Carol’s Daughter
City of Atlanta - Office
of Cultural Affairs
Clark Atlanta University Bookstore
Cole
Country Inn & SuitesATL Airport South
Dante’s Down the
Hatch
Delta Airlines, Inc.
Evergreen Marriott
(Stn Mountain)
Ferguson
Fox Theater
Gardner
Good Works
International
High Museum of Art
Holiday Inn - Atlanta,
GA (Capital Ave)
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, GA (Peachtree
Ctr.)
Island Flowers & Gifts
Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company
Marriott - Atlanta, GA
(Marquis - Peachtree)
Marriott Hotels &
Resorts - Atlanta, GA
(14th Street)
Metrotainment Cafes,
Inc.
Pearl River Resort
Sam’s Town Casino
SDB Art Creations
St John Boutique
Stone Mountain Park
The Cooks Warehouse
The Pecan
Tiffany and Company
Timbuktu
Turner
CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY
Office of Alumni Relations
Box 743
223 James P. Brawley Drive, S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30314
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