EDUCATION :

             •  Rocky Mount City Schools

             •  Shaw University

             •  North Carolina Central University

             •  New York University

             •  Duke University

             •  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

             •  Appalachian State University

SERVICE:

             •  A World War II veteran, serving in the United States and the Asiatic-Pacific   Theater of Operations, 1944, 1947.

EXPERIENCE:

            •  Adkin: High School, Kinston, as assistant principal, science teacher, guidance    director; coordinator of Diversified Occupations; basketball and football coach

             •  Orange Street Elementary School, Oxford, principal

             •  Mary Potter High School, Oxford, principal

             •  Hillside High School, Durham, principal

RECOGNITION:

            •  President, North Carolina Association of Educators, 1974-75

             •  President, Clean Community System of Durham City IDurham County, Inc.,   1984-85

             •         Board of Directors, National Education Association

             •         Board of Directors, North Carolina Association of Educators

             •         Chairman, Durham Human Relations Commission, 1973-75

             •         Father of the Year, 1972

             •         Recipient, Distinguished Service A ward of Durham City Association of

                Educators, 1971-72

             •         Participant, White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1970

             •         Participant, White House Brief Conference on Education, 1975

             •         Chairman, Executive Commission of the Shaw University Board of Trustees

             •         Delegate, World Conference on the Teaching Profession in Africa, Asia,

                Ireland, British Columbia, South America and Europe

             •         Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People

             •         Life member, NAACP

             •         Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Beta Phi Chapter

             •         First Vice Chairman, Board of Deacons, White Rock Baptist Church

             •         Chairman, Recognition Committee, Board of Trustees, White Rock

             •         Member, Moore-Kennedy Bible Class, White Rock

             •         Honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, Shaw University, 1982

             •         Master of Achievement, Shaw University, 1985

             •         Principal Emeritus, Hillside High School, by the Durham City Board of Education, 1986

             •         Honored by the Board of Directors of the National Education Association, 1986

             •         John H. Lucas Day, by administration, faculty, staff, students and parents, December 19, 1985

             •         Honored for human and civil rights efforts, The North Carolina Association of Educators, 1986

             •         Minority spokesman for the American Association of Retired Persons, effective May 2, 1986-May 1, 1987