In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Maxine Herring Parker, 1944-2013

Before she was elected to the Birmingham City Council in Alabama in 2005, Parker had a 41-year career as an administrator at Talladega College in Alabama.

In Memoriam: Mitchell Wright Spellman, 1919-2013

Dr. Spellman served on the faculty at the medical schools of Howard University, Charles R. Drew University, the University of Southern California, UCLA, and from 1978 to 2004 at Harvard Medical School.

In Memoriam: Jidlaph Gitau Kamoche, 1940-2013

In 1977, Jidlaph Kamoche became the first director of the American American studies program at the University of Oklahoma. A native of Kenya, he came to the United States to study history at Amherst College.

In Memoriam: Major Robert Odell Owens, 1936-2013

The former 12-term Congressman from New York was a major supporter of African American higher education and after leaving Washington, taught at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.

In Memoriam: Leslie Woodard, 1960-2013

Leslie Woodard was a lecturer in English and creative writing and dean of Calhoun College at Yale University. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she was the director of undergraduate creative writing at Columbia University in New York City.

In Memoriam: Devenia Victoria Pinder Wallace, 1919-2013

Devenia Wallace joined the faculty at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the late 1950s. She served as chair of the home economics department, now known as the department of human ecology.

In Memoriam: Lee Thornton, 1942-2013

Dr. Thornton was the first African American woman to serve as a White House correspondent for a major news network. She taught at Howard University for 14 years and was interim dean of the Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

In Memoriam: Elbert Bernard White, 1945-2013

Before his retirement in 2011, Dr. White was an associate professor and the former associate dean for undergraduate studies in the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

In Memoriam: Kofi Awoonor, 1935-2013

The Ghanaian poet, who studied and taught in the United States, was killed in the terrorist attack at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

In Memoriam: Arnold Tooson Bell, 1951-2013

Dr. Bell taught at Florida A&M University for 31 years. He was the first African American to be named a certified clinical specialist by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties.

In Memoriam: George L. Howell Jr., 1933-2013

Howell served as an administrator at Tuskegee University from 1975 to 2005. He held various posts including vice president for business and fiscal affairs. After retiring, he continued to serve the university as a special assistant to the president of the university.

In Memoriam: Albert Lee Murray, 1916-2013

Albert Murray, the African American novelist, educator, and essayist, has died at his home in Harlem. He was 97 years old.

In Memoriam: Julius LeVonne Chambers, 1936-2013

Julius Chambers, a major figure in civil rights law, was the former chancellor of North Carolina Central University and the former director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

In Memoriam: G. Earl Peace Jr., 1945-2013

Dr. Peace served as a faculty member and administrator at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, for 21 years. He also held posts at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and for the University of Wisconsin system.

In Memoriam: Njoku Ekpe Awa, 1938-2013

Professor Awa was born as the son of a tribal chieftain in Nigeria. He earned bachelor's and master's degree at Michigan State University and a Ph.D. at Cornell University. He joined the faculty at Cornell University in 1974 and taught there for 21 years.

In Memoriam: George Ebow Bonney, 1948-2013

Dr. Bonney, a native of Ghana, was a professor of community health and family medicine at Howard University and also served as director of the Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Unit at the National Human Genome Center.

In Memoriam: Cecil L. Patterson, 1917-2013

Holding master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Cecil Patterson joined the faculty at what is now North Carolina Central University in 1950 as an assistant professor of English. He taught there for 36 years.

In Memoriam: John Louis Dotson Jr., 1937-2013

Dotson was the publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal when it won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on race. In 1977, Dotson was one of nine journalists who founded what is now the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California.

In Memoriam: Jeffrey R. Thomas

Jeffrey R. Thomas, an assistant professor of religion at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, died earlier this month. He also served as the pastor of the Trinity Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Augusta.

In Memoriam: Carl G. Harris Jr., 1935-2013

He served as a professor of music and university organist at Hampton University in Virginia. He was the first African American to earn a doctorate in music from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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