BROWN UNIVERSITY’S

INMAN PAGE BLACK ALUMNI COUNCIL

BLACK ALUMNI REUNION

October 18 - 20, 2013

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Thank You to Our Sponsors

Annenberg Institute for School Reform

Richard Gray ’85

Director, Community Organizing and Engagement

The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Joelle Murchison ’95

Vice President, Enterprise Diversity & Inclusion

One United Bank

Teri Williams Cohee ’79

President

O’s Place Jazz Newsletter

D. Oscar Groomes ’82, P’15

Founder

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IPC Annual Fund Community Challenge

IPC set a record participation rate with 898 black donors!

Thank you to the four alumni who collectively pledged

$100,000 to fund a new IPC endowed scholarship:

Lynette Allison Carr ’79

Derek Medina ’88

Roosevelt Robinson ’78

Wes Thompson ’76

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Africana Studies Endowed Fund

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$5,000

$10,000

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$25,000

$30,000

$35,000

$40,000

$45,000

$50,000

The Ruth J. Simmons Africana

Studies Endowed Fund

$50,000 [Goal]

$32,400 [Status]

George Lima ’48, Tuskegee Airman

George Lima helped found the University’s chapter of Omega Psi Phi, a black fraternity, and he studied sociology partly “to get my head straight about this business about segregation and discrimination,” he says.

Mr. Lima founded the Black Air Foundation, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to empowering youth through education. His remarkable experiences as a “Tuskegee Airman” came to the attention of the public in the documentary “Black Men Can Fly”.

The Inman Page Black Alumni Council honored George Lima during the 2010 Black Alumni Reunion for his outstanding contributions to the Black community at Brown University and beyond.

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Thomas Brown ’50, Trustee Emeritus

A native of Fall River, Thomas Brown is most remembered for the lifelong battle he fought in Boston to achieve diversity in employment.

A member of the class of 1950 at Brown University, he immediately took a more venturous professional turn for that era. As an associate at the Marvin and Leonard Advertising Agency he became the first African-American to be employed at a management level in that industry.

He was a member of the Brown University Board of Trustees.

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Danielle Dunlap ’10, Peace Corps Activist

Danielle Alexis Dunlap graduated in 2010 from Brown University with a degree in Neuroscience.

She was one of 69 Americans sworn in as Peace Corps volunteers on Aug. 30, 2011 at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Peace Corps in Ghana. Throughout her service, she carried out activities aimed at improving the quality of life for her community in the areas of nutrition, HIV/AIDS and malaria awareness, and sanitation.

While in Ghana, Danielle raised money to build a clinic in her community. That community chose to remember her by naming the clinic after the name they had given her, "Mama Grace."

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Tribute to Roland Laird, Jr. ’82

Laird Jr. Memorial Summer

Program Scholarship (SPS) Fund

Summer@Brown Pre-College Programs

Partner Scholarships

Since 2006, IPC has partnered with Brown to send high-performing, low-income, African-American students to Brown pre-college summer programs they would not otherwise be able to afford.

One of Brown University’s first African-

American female Computer Science

graduates.

“… She was executive director of technology for

the Pontiac, Mich., school system, where she

increased the number of computers in the

classrooms and trained teachers and students to

use them. She was previously a computer

consulting manager at Coopers & Lybrand, a

public school teacher in Detroit, and a computer

programmer at CSC in Baltimore...”

Inspired by a strong desire to honor the legacy of alumna Marie Moses Irons ’82 after her tragic death in late 2002, ten ‘82 alumni started a grant fund administrated by IPC-NY to send 2 middle school students to Brown’s SPARK Program.

That fund – The Ethel Tremaine Robinson Foundation – was housed external to Brown.

Original “Marie Moses Grant” named for

Marie Moses Irons ’82

Leon Johnson

Roland Laird, Jr.*

Steve Robertson

Donna Woodall

Louise Quick

Richard Jones II

Michelle Ifill

Karona Mason

Ramona Wilcox

Atiba Mbiwan

Committee of Brown alumni who established

the “Marie Moses Grant”

“He focused on the big picture, but never lost the details...did the student have the right shoes, enough socks, enough spending money, a rain coat?

He put so many miles on his car, driving students back and forth to Providence...sometimes with the student's family in the car or a single mom who was worried about where the heck her child was going.”

Robin Rose Senior Associate

Dean of

Continuing

Education

February 2013

Roland Laird’s Dedication to SPS

Roland later expanded the IPC-

NY scholarship effort to send

high school students to the

Brown Leadership Institute.

Eventually, he became a source

for identifying African American

high school applicants for NSF

Summer Fellowships.

IPC-ATL joined this effort in

2012, with Roland’s help.

Partner Scholarship Program: 2013 NSF Fellowships

For Rhode Island Students and those identified by the Inman Page Black Alumni Council

Microbiology | Neuroscience | Bioinformatics & Computer Science

“I never saw anyone work any harder to

make such dreams possible for young people.

He was always scrambling to identify good

students, raise the necessary funds, or even

help us track down forms.”

Roland Laird’s Dedication to SPS

Robin Rose Senior Associate

Dean of

Continuing

Education

February 2013

2013 Methany Eltigani PA

2013 Ava Brignol MA

2013 Jocelyn Black-Paul PA

2013 Ahmed Elhassan PA

2013 Amanda Watts GA

2012 Konadu Amoakuh GA

2012 Rachelle Jacques GA

2012 Selah Kamau NJ

2012 Tafari James NJ

2012 Kaya Thomas NY

2011 Dominick Robinson NJ

2011 Michael Whittington NJ

2011 Hassan Abdullah NJ

2011 Melissa Barclay NJ

2011 Jamir Holt NJ

2010 Jamir Holt NJ

2010 Ty'Jahnae Stoddard NY or NJ

2010 Kirsten Beverly NY or NJ

2010 Aleah Floyd NY or NJ

2009 Sojourner Ahebee NY or NJ

2009 Jasmine Chaney NY or NJ

2009 Jessica Debrah NY or NJ

2009 Naomi Nelson NY or NJ

2009 Jamir Holt NJ

2008 Abiah Floyd NY or NJ

2008 Torrie Garvin NY or NJ

2008 Shantell Missouri NY or NJ

2008 Miles Richardson NY or NJ

2006 Nadee Lewis NJ

2006 Derek Dunlap, Jr. NJ

IPC Partner SUMMER@BROWN

Student Participants

“He never stopped believing in these young

people or the power of education to transform

lives. He inspired all of us and the students he

brought to Brown.”

“Roland's passion for kids and for Brown came

together in beautiful and inspiring ways with

Summer Programs. It was our honor to work

with him.”

Robin Rose Senior Associate

Dean

Continuing

Education

Feb. 2013

Roland Laird’s Dedication to SPS

Brown

Nat’l Society of

Black Engineers Circa 1982

To donate, go to www.gifts.development.brown.edu/Brown/ChooseGifts.aspx,

Check the box for "Other" under "Other Current-Use Priorities," and enter LAIRD JR.

MEMORIAL SPS FUND.

ROLAND O. LAIRD JR. MEMORIAL SUMMER PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Let’s keep it going!

BROWN UNIVERSITY’S

INMAN PAGE BLACK ALUMNI COUNCIL

BLACK ALUMNI REUNION

October 18 - 20, 2013

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JOIN US AT THE AFTERPARTY

FETE MUSIC (CO-OWNED BY DON KING ‘93)

103 DIKE STREET, PROVIDENCE

Shuttle service will run to Fete until 2:00am

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