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Commencement May 2005
Commencement
Saturday, May 13, 2006
8:30 a.m.
Greensboro Coliseum
Annual Alumni Weekend
Classes
ending in 1’s & 6’s will reunite
The Class of 1956 will celebrate 50 years
May 12-14, 2006
Partnering
Hotels
Events
Show your Aggie Pride
What better way to show your Aggie
spirit wherever you drive than with a state-issued
Aggie license plate.
Order yours today!
Virginia Aggies!
There are approximately 1500 Aggies living in Virginia
and just 350 of you to submit prepaid applications
with Virginia DMV to get the Aggie license plate
put in production. Send in your completed application,
with check or credit card payment, by July 1, 2006.
Each vehicle counts as a separate
application, so get one for all of your vehicles!
The cost is $25 annually or $35 annually
for a personalized plate.
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The Loop is electronically disseminated by the North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Office of Alumni Affairs.
For Alumni-About Alumni
Send information to:
Alumni Affairs
Alumni-Foundation Event Center
200 North Benbow Road
Greensboro, NC 27411
Phone: (336) 433-5570
Toll Free Number: 1-877-2AT-ALUM
Fax: (336) 334-7165
Email: alumni@ncat.edu
Chancellor
James C. Renick
Provost and Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs
Carolyn W. Meyers
Vice Chancellor/Development and
University Relations
David Hoard
Editor
Harriet Frink Davis '75, '89
Director of Alumni Affairs
Photographer
Charles Watkins
E-Design
Margaret Vap
Alumni
Affairs
Calling
All A&T Alumni:
Help us communicate with alumni
across the country and around the world! Following
each edition of In The Loop, we receive e-mails
from Aggies wanting to be added to our database.
Please send the following information to strengthen
our Aggie database: complete name, address,
phone number, email address, class year, school/college,
major, and employer. If your spouse is
an Aggie alum, please provide his/her information.
Please forward to devinfo@ncat.edu
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be receiving In The Loop or other A&T
publications like the A&T Today or
the Chancellor’s Annual Report.
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Aggie Owned Company
Lands Products On Major Retail Shelves
Cultural
Hangups, an Aggie owned company founded by Cynthia
Parker Ham (’90), John F. Ham (’89) and
Steven V. Jones (’90), introduced its exclusive
collection of culturally inspired wall borders in
Lowe’s Home Improvement Stores in 2004. Lowe’s
recognized Cultural Hangups in 2005 as one of its
suppliers with exceptional products who consistently
exceeds fulfillment requirements. Cultural Hangups
is currently on tour with Lowe’s teaching “how
to” classes at select stores throughout the
Southeast.
Cultural Hangups has recently launched
its Cultural Accents collection, which includes culturally
inspired bedding, bath and home accessories. Cultural
Accents will debut in Kohl’s stores in August
2006 and Wal-Mart stores in February 2007. According
to John F. Ham, “we are very excited about the
opportunity of working with our retail partners, but
we are most excited about the fact that people of
color can now purchase home décor products
that celebrate their heritage and lifestyle from national
stores. This is a true representation of inclusion
at the retail level,” added John.
Steven Jones, John Ham,
and Cynthia Ham
Dr. Lloyd V. Hackley
Interim Chancellor Named
Dr. Lloyd "Vic" Hackley
has been named interim deputy chancellor of
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State
University. The appointment, effective immediately,
was announced May 1 by UNC President Erskine
B. Bowles. Following the June 1 departure of
Chancellor James C. Renick, who is stepping
down to take a senior leadership position with
the American Council on Education, Hackley will
serve as interim chancellor of A&T until
a permanent campus leader is elected by the
UNC Board of Governors.
Dr. Hackley has a wide range of
experience in the field of higher education.
He is past president of the North Carolina Community
College System, former chancellor and tenured
professor of both Fayetteville State University
and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff,
and associate professor of
Political Science, as well as coach of track
and cross-country at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
He was chair of the North Carolina Child Advocacy
Institute, chair of the Arkansas Civil Rights
Commission, and chair of the President’s
Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges
and Universities. Dr. Hackley was also a faculty
member in the Government Executive Institute
at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Business, and
Vice President in the University of North Carolina
system.
While serving as Chancellor
of Fayetteville State University from 1988 to
1995, Dr. Hackley expanded program offerings
and improved the campus environment in response
to the needs and interests of students and the
community. Both FSU’s baccalaureate and
graduate degrees expanded to include more areas
and the university added its first doctoral
program. FSU conducted its first public capital
campaign during Dr. Hackley’s tenure,
a successful project that allowed the university
to boost the number of privately-funded scholarships
it provided students.
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NAFEO Awards
Top row, l-r Hugene Fields, Marva Tidwell
Bottom row, l-r Donna Ford, Dr. Goldie Byrd
National
Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education (NAFEO) held its 31st
Annual Conference on Blacks In Higher Education
"Saving Our Schools, Revitalizing
Our Communities, Meeting Our International Needs”
was held at the Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans
in March.
Distinguished alumni from
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs) are recognized for their outstanding
contributions to their communities and instituitions.
The recipients of the NAFEO Distinguished Alumni
Awards and their areas of expertise are as follows:
Goldie
Byrd, Ph.D. '78
Chair of the Department of Biology
Mr. Hugene Fields '79
Project Manager with the U.S. States
Department of Agriculture
Mrs. Donna Ford '86
Vice President of Business Development
of Johnson Controls, Inc.
Mrs. Marva L. (Whitley)
Tidwell '62
Retired Certified Social Worker of Passaic County
Board of Social Services
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