Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being - in body, mind, and spirit. ~Greg Anderson~
HBD anniversary my BFF! The moon phase for today is known as the Waning Gibbous phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon where the illumination of the moon decreases each day until it reaches 50% (the Last Quarter phase). You're the remaining "Full Snow Moon of February", thereby the illumination for celebrations is fading. The Waning Gibbous Moon signifies strong themes of gratitude, enthusiasm, and sharing. This phase is opening one's self to feelings of love and abundance as you see the outcomes of your previously set goals and intentions. Individuals born on a Waning Gibbous moon are highly self-aware, giving them a unique potential for growth. They make great communicators, but sometimes need to remind themselves when it's time to listen. For a few moments, I'm asking you to do the listening.
"Best Friends Forever", has been our epithet for a few centuries now. A few have transitioned from our circle, but we've been blessed to remain steadfast. Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging (Maya Angelou). From our teenage days of hanging out with friends at the bridge on Valley Blvd, to your decision to relocate here in North Carolina. From breaking out with anxiety upon hearing school day news that "Jackie was in a car wreck", to being reassured that it wasn't the Jackie I had envisioned. We've simply aged and "Age is a high price to pay for maturity" (Tom Stoppard). Although The Waning Gibbous Moon sees the moon decreasing in illumination, our friendship hasn't waned and I remain grateful. As one birth anniversary draws to a close with the new one so newer, the world is better because you are here, just getting started on your 70th year. As you and Mr. C. celebrate today or not, may the themes of gratitude, enthusiasm, and sharing remain strong. May you each reflect upon your Waning Gibbous Moon phase, as you're opening yourselves to shared feelings of love and its abundance which illuminates the outcomes of your previously set goals and intentions. I wish you an Andre Delano type of day. Now that the phases of the moon have traveled "Full Circle", may you graciously prepare for embarkation upon the "Mystic Journey" that awaits you while getting started on your 70th year....enjoy your day and stay safe my friend....
The theme for 2022 focuses on Black health and wellness. This year’s theme is also meant to address “the history of healthcare in the African American community” and is also a “historical examination of the financial and economic health and wellness of Africans Americans.”
MARSHA RHEA WILLIAMS (1948- )
In 1982, Dr. Marsha Rhea Williams became the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Computer
Science. A successful educator and researcher in academia, Williams has also held positions in private industry
and the public sector. Her scholarship examines a variety of topics, ranging from the improvement of search
functions in computer databases to the existence of information technology resources in developing countries.
She has devoted significant energy and expertise to the issue of expanding access to the fields of science,
engineering, and technology for underrepresented communities. Born on August 4, 1948, in Memphis,
Tennessee, Williams is the daughter of James Edward and Velma Lee (Jenkins) Williams. In 1969, she earned a
B.S. in Physics from Beloit College in Wisconsin, followed by an M.S. in Physics from the University of
Michigan in 1971. She held instructional positions at Memphis State College and Fisk University before
beginning her doctoral studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 1976, Williams earned an M.S. in
Systems and Information Science, followed, in 1982, by a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her dissertation, “The
Design of the Computer Assisted Query Language (CAQL) System,” examined the emerging field of user
experience in querying large databases.
After receiving her doctorate, Williams taught at both Tennessee State University and the University of
Mississippi in Oxford. At the latter, she was among the first African Americans to hold a position in
Engineering or Computer Science. In 1990, she became a full tenured professor at Tennessee State in the
Computer Science Department, directing Project MISET (Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology).
She has published articles and given talks on database function as well as network and human-computer
interfacing for increasing the participation of communities of color in science, engineering, and technology,
among other subjects. In addition to her career in higher education, Williams has also worked at IBM and been
a fellow at National Science Foundation. She is a certified data processor and a member of the Association for
Computing Machinery, the Association for Information Technology Professionals, Data Processing
Management Association (board member), and the Tennessee Academy of Science. She advised the National
Society of of Black Engineering Students and founded the Association for Excellence in Computer Science,
How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching
television, I get all of the calories and none of the pleasure. Instead, if I eat mindfully,
paying attention and savoring what I'm eating, smaller portions of food can be
exquisitely satisfying. It costs less to eat and live more healthfully. Walking, loving,
meditating, and quitting smoking are free and require no special equipment.
~Dean Ornish~
JANE COOKE WRIGHT (1919-2013)
Dr. Jane Cooke Wright was a physician and cancer researcher who dedicated her professional career to the advancement of chemotherapy techniques. Wright was born in New York City, New York on November 20, 1919. She was the older of two daughters to parents Louis Tompkins Wright and Corinne (Cooke) Wright. Her familial background included her father, Louis Tompkins Wright, who was one of the first African Americans to earn an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, her grandfather, Dr. Ceah Ketcham Wright, born enslaved but who later earned his medical degree from Meharry Medical College, and her step-grandfather, Dr. William Fletcher Penn, who was the first African American to graduate from Yale Medical College. Jane Wright attended private schools in New York City and in 1942 graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Three years later Wright graduated from New York Medical College receiving an M.D. degree in 1945.
After internship and residency at Bellevue Hospital, New York between 1945 and 1946, Wright married David D. Jones, Jr., an attorney in 1947. The couple had two daughters, Jane and Allison. Wright’s father, Louis Tompkins Wright, established the Cancer Research Center at Harlem Hospital in New York City in 1947. In 1949 Wright joined her father at the Center and three years later upon his death, succeeded him as the director of what was now the Cancer Research Foundation at Harlem Hospital. In 1949 Wright began the cancer research that would make her one of the leading names in the field. Working initially with her father, she made numerous improvements to chemotherapy treatment including using nitrogen mustard agents to treat sarcoma, leukemia, and lymphoma. She pioneered in the use of patient tumor biopsies for drug testing against various tumors, and she developed a non-surgical procedure using a catheter to deliver chemotherapy drugs to previously inaccessible tumors in the kidneys and spleen.
In 1955 Wright was named director of cancer chemotherapy research at the New York University Medical Center. She was also an instructor of research surgery in the Medical Center’s Department of Surgery. In 1964 she was the only woman and the only African American among the seven founders of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Later that year President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her to the President’s Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke. Wright served on the National Cancer Center Advisory Board from 1966 to 1970 and in July 1967, Dr. Wright became a professor of surgery at New York Medical College. At the time she was the highest ranking African American woman in a United States medical institution. Four years later in 1971 she became the firs woman to serve as president of the New York Cancer Society.
Jane Cooke Wright received numerous citations and awards. Among them, the Merit Award from Mademoiselle magazine in 1952, the Spirit of Achievement Award of the Women’s Division of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1961, and the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award in 1967. The following year her alma mater, Smith College, presented her with the Smith Medal, its highest award. In 1987, after a 44 year career, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright retired as an emerita professor at New York Medical College. She died on February 19, 2013 in Guttenberg, New Jersey at the age of 94. Her contributions to the research of cancer chemotherapy have helped to change the face of medicine and continue to be used to this day.
I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with. The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed. ~Joyce Meyer~
An internationally-recognized chemical physicist, Dr. Joseph Salvadore Francisco, Jr. played an important role in explaining the chemical reactions driving ozone depletion in the earth’s atmosphere. At a time when diminution of the ozone layer threatened to increase humans’ exposure to ultraviolet radiation, Francisco’s research revealed new and significant insights into interactions between the different molecules active in depletion as well as the role played by sunlight in driving this complex process. More recently, Francisco has investigated the atmosphere’s ability to break down pollutants contributing to acid rain. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana to Lucinda Baker Francisco and Joseph Salvadore Francisco, Sr., Francisco grew up in Beaumont, Texas with his grandparents, Merlin and Sarah Walker. Though neither of his grandparents had an advanced education, they strongly encouraged him to follow his interest in science. Early mentors also included a local pharmacist and a nearby university professor, both of whom supported Francisco’s decision to pursue a college degree.
Francisco earned a B.S. in chemistry with a math minor from the University of Texas, Austin in 1977. Even at the undergraduate level, he was designing complex experiments, including a research project on X-ray crystallography. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which proved a difficult transition, as Francisco was the only African American in the chemistry program. He nonetheless excelled, earning a Ph.D. in chemical physics in 1983. His research at MIT examined the effects of laser light on chemical reactions at the molecular level. This work would prove critical in aiding his later understanding of how energy from the sun interacts with both ozone and ozone depleting substances. After completing his doctorate, Francisco spent two years (1983–1985) as a Cambridge University research fellow, followed by another postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. Francisco then became an assistant professor of chemistry at Wayne State University in Detroit where he remained for several years. While there he founded the first student chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOPABCCE). After Guggenheim Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, Francisco accepted a position as a full professor at Purdue University. He remained there for nearly two decades, becoming the William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry in 2005.
Francisco is now the Elmer H. and Ruby M. Cordes Chair in Chemistry and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to his positions in the United States, Francisco has held appointments abroad, including serving as a senior visiting fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna and as a Professeur Invité at the Université de Paris. Throughout his career, Francisco has been a prolific researcher and writer with well over 400 peer-reviewed publications. In 1989, Francisco co-authored a well-regarded textbook, Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics, and served as editor of the atmospheric and ocean science section of Pure and Applied Geophysics. He is the past president (2005-2007) of NOPABCCE and has served on the Board of the Council for Chemical Research and the American Chemical Society. In 2009 he became the second African American to serve as that organization’s president. Purdue University recognized Francisco with its McCoy Award, the highest research award given to a faculty member for significant research contributions. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Francisco a member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science for the term 2010-2012.
My delayed response is not a representation of my gratitude. It’s been more than fifteen years and I still cry every-time I think about my Mom. Thank you so much!! for mentioning her in your
B T W comments. I feel honored to know my mother left a positive memory on one of my friends. I agree and welcome a ZOOM call. There are so many of us unfortunately are unable to participate.
T H O U G H T F O R C O N S I D E R A T I O N I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap. You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. ~Ani DiFranco~
The theme for 2022 focuses on Black health and wellness. This year’s theme is also meant to address “the history of healthcare in the African American community” and is also a “historical examination of the financial and economic health and wellness of Africans Americans.”
Black women I know are resilient but society pathologizes them as mentally ill, anyway.
Opinion by Dr. Gail Parker USA TODAY
I regard Black women as being among the most mentally and emotionally healthy people I know. It’s not that we don’t feel sad and sometimes depressed, become anxious and sometimes terrified, get angry or become outraged. It’s not that we don’t need therapy, sometimes we do to regain emotional balance. But we’re also capable of laughing and feeling unimaginable joy even in the most dismal times. We’re strong and resilient. The ability to feel the full range of emotion that every single human being is capable of feeling, the ability to find joy inside your tears, to be courageous when you’re scared, and compassionate when you’re angry are signs of mental and emotional health. The Black women I know exhibit that ability. But here’s the thing, you’re bound to feel mad, sad, and sacred when you live in a racialized culture that for centuries has denigrated your value, intelligence, capabilities, and physical appearance, while at the same time sexualizing, demonizing, and criminalizing you. This is a culture that attacks and sometimes kills your loved ones, (accidentally or on purpose), that removes your children from your custody, and calls you crazy when you stand up for yourself. When you’re able to bounce back from all of that and still work, be active in community organizations, and take care of your family, that kind of resilience is impressive.
Adaptation is not mental illness.
But living in a culture that ignores or is indifferent to the stresses and trauma unique to the experiences of Black women, and one that pathologizes your responses to the emotional harm, teaches you to hide your feelings. When Black women openly express your pain, fears, heartbreak, exhaustion, vulnerability, and rage, they are accused of overreacting, being intimidating, or making things up. So, we learn to hide behind a mask of invulnerability as a form of self-protection. That's an adaptive response, not a mental illness. Sometimes it just seems wiser, easier and safer to hide your pain than to show it. Black women are stressed, traumatized, tired, and hurt, but that doesn’t make us mentally ill. We don’t always seek professional help even when we should, because the chance of being seen by a professional who has not had your lived experience, or who cannot understand it, or who is racially biased, is real and not worth the risk. This is disempowering and can lead to feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and despair, and, within this context, is not a sign of mental illness.
The cost of prioritizing self-care for Black women
Recently two premiere athletes, both young Black women, Simone Biles, African American, and Naomi Osaka, Black and Japanese, withdrew from important competitions to take care of their mental health. Unlike women of previous generations who sometimes adapted by going along to get along, capitulating to whatever was expected or requested of them, these two young women found their voices, expressed themselves, and did what they thought was in their own best interest. The overwhelming response from the larger community was positive. Prioritizing self-care is essential to health and well-being, but it cannot and does not replace caring community. To be balanced we need both. Human beings are hardwired for connection. In addition to caring for ourselves we also need to care for and be cared for by others. Maame Biney revealed that when she made history in 2018 as the first Black and youngest woman ever to make the U.S. Olympic short track speed skating team, she struggled with being in the limelight and felt the overwhelming weight of representing the United States. She was only 18 years old. With her smile, she masked the pressure and anxiety she felt. She almost walked away from the sport but said it was knowing that she had a community of support that wanted her to do well, and that would still be there for her even if she didn’t, that motivated her to continue. She is now competing in the 2022 Olympic games. Now is the time for us to expand our vision of care to include support for, and caring from, our communities. It's time to recognize that self-care is community care and community care is self-care. Both are essential to our health and well-being. It takes a village.
Gail Parker, Ph.D., CIAYT, is an author, psychologist, educator, certified yoga therapist and President of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Board of Directors. She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma, and Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress With Yoga.
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Kenneth as a 1970 Alumi, I would like to participate. I am willing to contribute $20.00 to maintain this excellent form of communication.
Please email the particulars most comfortable for receiving my funds. I am so proud of you ...our new administrator!!
phi·lan·thro·py /fəˈlanTHrəpē/
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
~Margaret Mead~
Funding to extend our "Premium" level website subscription will be required in fifty-four days. We're currently paid up through April 16, 2022. As a class, we have the opportunity to extend our subscription, irregardless of the IRS or COVID-19. Now labeled as tax paying senior citizens (yes, we are they now), the filing deadline to submit 2021 tax returns or an extension to file and pay tax owed is Monday, April 18, 2022, for most taxpayers. The 2020 and 2021 federal income tax calendars were really messed up by the COVID-19 pandemic. The IRS extended various tax filing due dates and payment deadlines during both years to give taxpayers more time to take care of their tax obligations. While the IRS is so far sticking with the "normal" tax due dates for 2022, it's still possible that some new COVID-19 variant will eventually wreak havoc on the 2022 tax calendar, too (https://www.irs.gov/newsroom).
Back in the day, when we had an active Alumni & Class Reunion Committee, subsequent to the reunion, we'd take up a collection following Sunday church services and dinner. Funds collected were either used to extend the website subscription or designated for the "Class Benovelence Fund". Whereas time generated the need for additional fund-raisers, classmates responded by pledging specific dollar amounts and challenging others to meet or exceed their pledge. Should you choose to support this project, the method choosen is left entirely to each individual. The relevant subscription rates are indicated below, as listed within the subscription section of the website "Admin Functions". My simple goal, is to receive sufficient funding and renew the subscription, based upon the funds donated. Acceptable methods for donations should be limited to money orders, cashiers checks or personal checks. Contributions will be listed by name (unless a disclaimer is requested), minus the amount donated, weekly. A bar chart will be published highlighting the "Premium and Platinum" dollar level increments, comparable to total amounts received. Should you be interested in supporting this endeavor, drop a line on the message forum, message center or send an email or text message to me. Emails may be sent to sbrown027@nc.rr.com and text messages to (901) 337-1259. I do not answer unrecognizable numbers. Should I not answer, leave a message and I'll return your call. I'll forward the payable and mail to addresses to everyone interested. Receipts will also be available.
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Many thanks to everyone who has continued to support the website. I look forward to receiving an amplified number of responses.
Kudos 👏 to KD I will be more than happy to contribute to the renewal of the website.UR thoughts for consideration takes me through the day and really make me think about life.U do an excellent job
Felippa
Fantastic! I will also contribute to the renewal of the website. Kenneth, quite simply, your dedication in keeping the class uplifted and informed is truly appreciated.
Hi classmates. I will make a donation becasuse this is our virtual connection to each other. Kenneth, your music selections take me back to places and times that I had forgotten. Your words of encouragement push me forward. This is where we can continue to share the good timeswe had together and our class losses. Thank you Kenneth for all that you do. Let's keep this site alive!
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~Og Mandino~
ISIAH WARNER (1946- )
Professor Isiah M. Warner is the Boyd Professor of Chemistry and Philip W. West Professor Analytical & Environmental Chemistry at Louisiana State University (LSU). He is an analytical/ materials chemist with more than 350 refereed publications and nine acquired patents between 1985 and 2017. Isiah M. Warner was born in DeQuincy, Louisiana, on July 20, 1946 to parents Humphrey and Erma Warner. He attended the public schools in DeQuincy and while there developed an interest in science and mathematics early on and conducted his first experiment by drinking kerosene to see why it created light. Warner graduated as valedictorian of his class from Carver High School in Bunkie, Louisiana in 1964. Later that year he enrolled in Southern University in Baton Rouge. Warner decided to attend Southern because he had participated in a summer chemistry program at Southern while he was still in high school. In 1968 Warner earned his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1968 from Southern and then went to work as a technician for Battelle Northwest, a private research and development company in the state of Washington that did contract work with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). While working at Battelle, Warner enrolled in the University of Washington, Seattle and earned a Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry there in 1977.
After completing his doctorate, Warner returned to the South and from 1977 to 1982, he served as assistant professor of chemistry at Texas A&M University. He was the first African American on the chemistry faculty there. After five years, he achieved tenure and was promoted to associate professor. While at Texas A&M, he researched fluorescent spectroscopy, an area of specialization that he has focused on now for over four decades. In 1982 Warner joined the faculty at Emory University where he was promoted to full professor in 1986. He served as the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of chemistry from 1987 until 1992. During the 1988-89 academic year, Warner went on leave to the National Science Foundation where he served as program officer for analytical and surface chemistry. In 1992, Warner joined the faculty at Louisiana State University as the Philip W. West Professor of analytical and environmental chemistry and was promoted to chair of the chemistry department and later in 2000 the Boyd Professor of Chemistry, the highest rank for an LSU faculty member. Eventually he served as vice-chancellor for strategic initiatives at Louisiana State University. Over the past 20 years Warner has researched areas of organized media, separation science, and more recently the area of ionic liquid chemistry particularly as applied to solid phase materials for applications in materials science and analytical chemistry. In addition to his research focus, however, Warner has been very active in mentoring students and has guided (directly or indirectly) hundreds of graduate and undergraduate student to successful careers in STEM fields.
In 1984 Warner received one of the first Presidential Young Investigator Awards from President Ronald Reagan. In 1997 he received a Presidential Mentoring Award from President Bill Clinton. Three years later in 2000, he received the Lifetime Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2016 Warner was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the following year he was named a Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow and a National Academy of Inventors Fellow. Warner is a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. Dr. Warner is married to Della Blount Warner and the couple have three children Isiah Jr, Edward, and Chideha. They currently live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Some of our finest work comes through service to others. The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. ~Gordon B. Hinckley~
Good Afternoon Warrior Nation !
We're off to a great start with our fundraiser to renew the website subscription. Graciously Alberdeen Clayborn, Felippa Fields, Joycelyn Lacy, Patricia White and Robbin Houston have acknowledeged their support on the website. Margie McRae, Alice Holman, Bonnie Pippin, James Stone, Curtis Farmer and Willie Taylor have sent a text message indicating theirs. Additional representation from the men of our class is highly desirous and anticipated. I know for a fact, that many of you gentleman are readers on a daily basis. I've been informed that some of the information appears blurred, so here's a better image of the subscription increments for each level:
Monthly 1 Year 3 Years 5 years 10 years
Premium $16 $165 $385 $495 $825
Platinum $21 $220 $495 $660 $1099
The total amount donated will determine which level our subscription will be renewed. It's left entirely to us.Here's the first challenge of this fundraiser. I pledge $25 and I'm extending this challenge to every former member of the "Esquires" and "Lords" Social Clubs during our high school days. Let's see who steps forward to meet, exceed and extend another challenge. Many thanks to everyone who has commited thus far.
“Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.” ~Neil Simon~
PS: Robbin, there's a reply to your question in the website Message Center.
Kenny I congratulate you on being the new web administrator, I appreciate all the great content that you have encouraged the class with and the different monthly content especially the acknowledge ment of all the birthday wishes and the great music that is also included, I will gladly send a donation to keep the website going.The daily messages are very inspirational to me also. Thank you.
I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.
~Gordon B. Hinckley~
JOHN W. MACKLIN (1939- )
John Macklin is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle, since his retirement in 2005. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas on December 11, 1939. He moved to Seattle in the mid-1940s and was raised there by parents Albert B. Macklin, a worker at Bethlehem Steel and Vera L. Burrus Macklin, a domestic worker. In his youth, he had a reputation for curiosity in wanting to know how things were made and how they worked. He bought chemistry sets as a pre-teen and subscribed to Popular Science and Popular Mechanics for project plans and inspiration. Macklin graduated from Garfield High School in Seattle in 1958, and then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Chemistry in 1962 from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. He also minored in music, sang in the choir, and played varsity football during his time at the college. Macklin attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York for his graduate studies. He was a teaching assistant for three years and a research fellow for two. He also spent an intervening year studying at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. In 1968, Macklin received his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Cornell. He then began teaching at the University of Washington in the Autumn of 1968. Dr. Macklin became the first African American to join the UW chemistry faculty. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses including general chemistry, inorganic chemistry and special topics in inorganic chemistry and spectrometry. Dr. Macklin’s research activities involved spectrometric measurements to obtain structural characteristics of condensed phase materials and solutions, primarily employing Raman spectrometry. In Raman spectrometry, a focused laser beam is scattered by a material of interest to obtain an energy distribution of atomic vibrations. This data is then analyzed mathematically to determine the spatial arrangement of the constituent atoms.
In 1977 Dr. Macklin took a leave from the University to carry out research at IBM in San Jose, California, on nonmetallic materials that conduct electricity. His work there included preparation and spectroscopic measurements to characterize the operation of a sulfur-nitrogen polymer that becomes an electrical conductor upon exposure to bromine. In the 1980s, Dr. Macklin collaborated with NASA scientists to analyze meteorites and cosmic dust particles looking for complex carbon-based molecules to elucidate the evolution of Earth’s carbon-based life. He also had a Stanford-NASA Summer Research Fellowship from 1981 to 1982. His more recent studies involve photo-active dyes adsorbed on various metal or salt surfaces and in solution. Over the years he has published his research findings in refereed journals and presented research results at local and national scientific meetings and symposiums. He also organized and administered local activities for university programs, for example, the National Medical Association’s Project 75 and the American Chemical Society’s Project Catalyst, and presented as an invited speaker at numerous educational meetings and workshops. In addition, he served on science education advisory committees for The College Board and on several Educational Testing Service chemistry examination preparation committees, including Chemistry Achievement and Advanced Placement. Additionally, Dr. Macklin has been a Certified Alpine Ski Instructor for fifty years in the Seattle, Washington region. He retired in 2005, after serving 37 years in the University of Washington Chemistry Department.
I applaud the work that has been done over the years by these three fine individuals to keep the lines of communication open to our class. It had to have been a labour of love, with a lot of labour! As a classmate who routinely sends her money and shows up for the class reunions, I appreciate all of our classmates who have worked so hard over the years to make our reunions a reality!
I am pleddging $100.00 to the continuing of our website:
$25.00 - In Honor of our first administrator Marilyn
$25.00 - In Honor of our second administrator Cheryln
$25.00 - In Honor of our upcoming administrator and main contributor Kenneth
$25.00 - In Honor of all of our hardworking classmates who have worked to make the BTW Class of 1970 a
Welcome Pastor C B Jackson to our beloved website. In the words of Oliver Wendell Homes Sr, "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise". Please reach out to others on the Message Forum, Message Center or contact me, should you require any assistance with the website. For now, there's a lot of reading to catch up on. Do enjoy! Thank you for the information concerning the transition of Willie Washington. He shall be added to the "In Memory" listing. Thank you William Arnold for your assistance as well.
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.
~Henri Nouwen~
Extending gratitude to Ruby, Margie, Linda Brown and William Arnold for your pledges!!!!!!!!!
As is the norm, recognition of accomplishments is usually given to people who seek to be in the limelight. This goes without saying, for unless you are in the limelight at some point, how can one be recognized when it is not know what one does. Unbeknownst to most of us, we do have classmates who quietly work without much hoopla, performing acts of kindness giving honor and supporting fellow classmates. Trying to keep the class whole by means of class activities and interacting with and financially supporting The BTW Alumni Association. The class of 1970 has been represented in many endeavors. When the difficult decision to postpone our 50th reunion that was scheduled for October 2020. Much work had already been done by the planning committee. To assure that everyone be made whole that had paid, the committee took a loss. There has been many opportunities for class participation that was met with silence. For every deceasd classmate that's known a resolution of respect is either read and presented at the service or mailed to the family. There is a small force of classmates that love and support by doing. So thank You Margie for your support, honor and appreciation of all our classmates who have worked so hard over the years to make our reunions,support this website and other class endeavors a reality!
I was introduced to our website through Edward Johnson a neighbor and close friend. The articles and the opportunities to reconnect with classmates provided comfort as I recovered. Although not an active member the newsletter gives me information and helps me keep me in touch. I'm sending a donation to help with the maintaining of our site. Bravo Zulu! Curtis Farmer Jr.
Marjorie Lee Browne was a prominent mathematician and educator who, in 1949, became only the third African-American woman to earn a doctorate in her field. Browne was born on September 9, 1914, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mary Taylor Lee and Lawrence Johnson Lee. Her father, a railway postal clerk remarried shortly after his wife’s death, when Browne was almost two years old. He and his second wife, Lottie, a school teacher, encouraged their daughter to take her studies seriously as she was a gifted student. Browne attended LeMoyne High School, a private Methodist school that was started after the Civil War. During her schooling, she won the Memphis City Women’s Tennis Singles Championship in 1929 and two years later graduated from LeMoyne High School. From there, Browne put together enough funds to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C. She received her Bachelor’s in Mathematics, graduating Cum Laude in 1935. Browne taught for a while at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana before attending graduate school at the University of Michigan where she received her master’s degree in 1939. Browne taught full time during the school year at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, while attending the University of Michigan during her summer breaks. She completed her dissertation and received her doctorate in 1949.
Later that same year, Browne joined the faculty at North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University) where she remained for the next thirty years. For the first twenty-five years of her career, she was the only person in the mathematics department with a Ph.D. in mathematics. While she taught, Browne also worked as a principal investigator, coordinator of the mathematics section, and lecturer for the Summer Institute for Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teachers. During her time at North Carolina Central University, Browne taught both undergraduate and graduate courses, wrote proposals for equipment, and obtained grants for scholarships from Shell, IBM, and other major corporations. In the early 1950s, the Ford Foundation awarded her a fellowship to study combination topology (a modern version of geometry that became her specialty) at Cambridge University in the UK, and from 1958 to 1959, Browne was a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow studying numerical analysis at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1960 she received a $60,000 grant from IBM to set up an electronic digital computer center at North Carolina College, one of the first of its kind at a predominantly black college.
Before her retirement in 1974, Browne was the first recipient of the W.W. Rankin Memorial Award for Excellence in Mathematics Education from the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics. After retirement, she used her own money to provide financial aid to many gifted young people so they could pursue their educations. Notable students included Joseph Battle, William Fletcher, Asamoah Nkwanta, and Nathan Simms. She established summer institutes to provide continuing education in mathematics for high school teachers. Over the course of her lifetime, Marjorie Browne served as a member of numerous organizations, including the Women’s Research Society, the American Mathematical Society, and the Mathematical Association of America. In addition, Browne was one of the first African American women to serve as a member of the advisory council to the National Science Foundation. Marjorie Lee Browne died of a heart attack in Durham, North Carolina, on October 19, 1979, the same year she retired. After her death, four of her students established the Marjorie Lee Brown Trust Fund at North Carolina Central University which sponsors the Marjorie Lee Browne Scholarship and the Marjorie Lee Browne Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series.
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