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AGGIES ON THE MOVE continued
2000s
Styron Curtis Bond III ’00 was a recipient
of the 2012 Modern-Day Technology
Leaders award honored at the annual
Black Engineer of the Year Awards STEM
Global Competitiveness Conference in
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 16-18. Bond is a
senior systems engineer at Lockheed
Martin MS2 in Moorestown, N.J.
The Modern-Day Technology Leaders are
described as “redefining our world every
day. Through curiosity and determination,
they make breakthroughs that enhance
our everyday lives. These engineers and
technologists have not only brought us to
where we are, but they represent where
we are going. These men and women all
serve as role models that illustrate the
success that is possible when intelligence
meets ambition.”
Al-Aakhir A. Grimes Rogers ’03
completed his Ph.D. in electrical
engineering at the University of South
Florida in August 2011. His dissertation
title was Evanescent Wave Coupling
Using Different Period Subwavelength
Gratings for an Optical MEMS
Accelerometer. Rogers received his
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
electrical engineering from N.C. A&T.
Currently, Rogers is a senior member of
the technical staff at Draper Laboratory
in St. Petersburg, Fla., responsible for
developing and integrating new processes
for multi-chip module technology.
Carlton Chiles ’05 was featured in Lockheed
Martin’s aeronautics newsletter, OLDP
Observer (April 2011), as the subject
of the Alumni Spotlight feature. Chiles
graduated from N.C. A&T with a B.S. and
an M.S. degree in industrial engineering.
He has worked at Lockheed Martin since
2006, when he immediately entered the
Operations Leadership Development
Program (OLDP). He graduated from the
program in 2007, and acquired a position
in Marietta Aeronautics as a business unit
integrator. Several promotions later, Chiles
currently works as a C130J production
control associate manager. His team is
responsible for parts for center wing, outer
wing and tank seal.
Amber O. Evans ’05 has earned the Doctor
of Philosophy degree in pharmaceutical
sciences/biopharmaceutics with a
concentration in cosmetic science from
the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. Her
dissertation is titled “Investigation of the
Interaction between Water Hardness
Metals and Human Hair.”
Dr. Evans is the fourth African American to
earn a Ph.D. in the field of cosmetic science.
The Columbia, S.C., native currently resides
in Cincinnati.
Elesia Summers-Thomas ’10 is Miss Black
Guilford County (N.C.) 2012. Summers-
Thomas has a Bachelor of Science degree
in journalism and mass communication
and a Master of Science degree in
agricultural education (professional service).
She was Miss Black Greensboro 2011 and
second runner up in the Miss Black NC
USA competition.
In Memoriam
Alumni (2011)
Alumni (2012)
Bobby Barham, Davidson County, N.C., Aug. 9
Hildred J. Barringer, Thomasville, N.C., Oct. 26
John H. Cobb, Philadelphia, Penn., Jan. 9
Carline Leigh Batts ’03, Rocky Mount, N.C., Oct. 27 Robert R. Faison ’61, Dec. ??
Herman Lee Bridges, Charlotte, N.C., June 13
James Walter Bridges, Greensboro, N.C., Sept. 19
David Lee Brown ’71, Reidsville, N.C., June 10
Employees (2011)
Louis Edward Canady, Greensboro, N.C., May 15
Fereshteh Fatehi, professor, School of Technology,
Albert Carr ’55, Washington, D.C., Dec. 31
July 24
Hazel Southerland Collins ’49, Marietta, Ga., Sept. 5
Alfred Hill Jr., retired biology professor, Aug. 3
Coley Davis Jr., Springfield, Mass., Sept. 2
Iretha “Sunnie” Howard-Wharton, program
Wilbur Eggleston ’48, Asheville, N.C., June 23
administrator/grant coordinator, College of Arts
Joe Anne Hardin ’74, Winston-Salem, N.C., Sept. 28
and Sciences, Aug. 14
Bettye Harris Hayes, Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 10
Lillie Smith King, retired assistant vice chancellor of
Gregory Ray Hill, High Point, May 17
development, May 16
John Henry Hunter ’58, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10 Gregory Lewis, former adjunct instructor, May 17
John Jackson Sr., Greensboro, N.C., June 4
David William Libby, former interim chair,
Ashley Johnson ’08, Lexington, N.C., Dec. 20
Department of Animal Sciences, May 19
Barbara Bell Jones ’47, Jackson, N.C., Dec. 31
Dorothy S. Lightford, retired, Oct. 17
Henry Joyner Jr. ’61, Atlanta, Ga., July 8
Magdeline H. “Polly” Nash, retired, canteen and
Vernestene Joyner ’52, Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 5
Bluford Library, Aug. 21
Emma Boone King, Aug. 22
Sarla Garg Sharma, professor emeritus (psychology),
Merilyn N. Linney, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 14
May 25
Thomas Ervin Moore, High Point, N.C., June 5
Sherman Norman Shelton, former adjunct
Yulonde Clinton Mosley, Greensboro, N.C., June 15
instructor, Sept. 5
Thomas J. Pace ’52, Greensboro, N.C., May 13
H. Alexander “Hal” Sieber, former adjunct
Kenneth Eugene Page ’70, Greensboro, N.C., Nov. 4
instructor, June 6
Amesha Alia Page-Smith, Durham, N.C., June 11 Anna Oleona Atkins Simmons, former professor,
Michele Denise Petteway ’95, Greensboro, N.C., June 26 School of Agriculture and Environmental
Justin Bray Raper, High Point, N.C., April 28
Sciences, Sept. 9
Lawrence Seibles ’63, Piscataway, N.J., Nov. 1
Alene Beatrice Coley Young, former librarian,
June 29
Jimmie D. Sharpe ’59, Wilson, N.C., Sept. 15
Bobby B. Stafford ’61, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8
Bertha Hall Stevenson, Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 2
Alvin Taylor Jr. ’57, Washington, D.C., June 4
Jeffrey Taylor ’82, Bronx, N.Y., Sept. 19
Robert Henry “Bob” Tobin, Thomasville, N.C., Oct. 7
James Allen Toon ’61, Greensboro, N.C., June 4
Billy Curtis Vestal, Greensboro, N.C., Sept. 21
James Alvis Watson, Fredricksburg, Va., June 18
Jing Wei, Winston-Salem, N.C., Dec. 23 (in Aruba)
John Kenneth White Sr. ’69, Greensboro, N.C., June 8
Peggy H. Wilkins, Greensboro, N.C., May 30
Josetta Godette Williams ’70, Greenville, N.C., June 18
Nina May Johnson Williams ’51 (Miss A&T 1950-51),
Aventura, Fla., Nov. 12
Eliza Marguerite Gill B. Wilson, Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 27
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