In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Lazette Golden Hale-Wilson, 1920-2015

According to the Ph.D. Project, she was the first African American women to be licensed as a certified public accountant and also hold a Ph.D. in accounting. She was a professor emerita at Utah State University.

In Memoriam: Reuben V. Burrell, 1919-2015

Burrell started taking photographs at the 1949 commencement ceremonies at Hampton University. At the time of his death he was 95 years old and went to work up to the day before he died.

In Memoriam: Dorothy James Orr, 1920-2015

Dorothy James Orr taught at Fordham University in The Bronx, New York and was vice chair of the African American Leadership Forum for Education Policy at Pace University in New York.

In Memoriam: Burrell A. Brown, 1947-2015

Burrell Brown was a professor and chair of the department of business administration and economics at California University of Pennsylvania. He served for 20 years as legal counsel for the Pennsylvania chapter of the NAACP.

In Memoriam: Otis Davis Simmons, 1924-2015

Dr. Simmons joined the faculty at Alabama State University in 1966 as chair of the department of music. He was named the university's first dean of the School of Music in 1972.

In Memoriam: James Dennis Singleton Jr., 1945-2015

James "Jeigh" Singleton was professor emeritus of fashion design at Washington University in St. Louis. He led the fashion design program at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts for 25 years.

In Memorian: Wilbert Augustus Cheatham, 1942-2014

Gus Cheatham was the longest-serving vice president in the history of Loma Linda University in California. He also served as deputy assistant secretary and deputy director of the Office for Civil Rights in what was then the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

In Memoriam: Nelson Townsend, 1941-2015

Nelson Townsend was named interim athletics director at Florida A&M University in December. He had served as athletics director at the university from 1986 to 1987 and again from 2005 to 2007.

In Memoriam: Quinton Bernard Wilkes, 1941-2015

A graduate of Morgan State University, Quinton Bernard Wilkes was the first African American man to earn a Ph.D. in psychology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. He also was a founding member of the the African American studies department at Fordham.

In Memoriam: Abbie Simmons Grayson, 1904-2014

At the time of her death, Abbie Simmons Grayson was not only the oldest alumna of Tuskegee University, but she was the oldest person in the state of Alabama.

In Memoriam: Aaron Shirley, 1933-2014

Dr. Shirley was the first African American resident at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He served as a clinical instructor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Mississippi for more than 40 years.

In Memoriam: Annie Frances Lee, 1935-2014

Annie Lee was an internationally acclaimed artist who was a major supporter of the Tom Joyner Foundation's effort to raise money for historically Black colleges and universities.

In Memoriam: Jonathan Raymond Reed, 1933-2014

Jonathan Raymond Reed was a long-time obstetrician and gynecologist and an assistant clinical professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

In Memorian: Haskell S. Bingham, 1930-2014

Dr. Bingham, the former provost at Virginia State University, traced his roots to a Virginia slave in 1703. He also was a descendant of the slave Gabriel, who was executed in 1800 for planning a slave rebellion in Richmond.

In Memoriam: Clement Alexander Price, 1945-2014

Clement Alexander Price was the Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor and the founding director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University-Newark.

In Memoriam: Norward Roussell, 1934-2014

After working in the New Orleans public schools, in 1987 Dr. Roussell was appointed the first Black school superintendent in Selma, Alabama. Later he was an administrator at his alma mater, Dillard University in New Orleans.

In Memoriam: Ali Alamin Mazrui, 1933-2014

A native of Kenya, Dr. Mazrui was considered a giant among African scholars and one of the world's great public intellectuals. At the time of his death, he was the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at Binghamton University in New York.

In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Smith, 1970-2014

Dr. Smith, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania, had been at his new job for only three weeks before his death. Previously, he was a vice president at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In Memoriam: Paul L. Epps, 1916-2014

In 1935, Paul Epps was the first student to register at what is now Norfolk State University, the historically Black educational institution in Virginia. He later was elected the first student body president at what was then a junior college.

In Memoriam: Elton C. Harrison, 1917-2014

Dr. Harrison taught mathematics at Fort Valley State University in Georgia and then had a long career as an administrator at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Dillard University in New Orleans.
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