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IN MEMORIAM
William A. Marsh
“Tommy” Bullock,
civil rights attorney,
Bar-B-Cue, died
Nov. 19, 2018. A
at Hock Family
Central University
of 79. Bullock’s
School of Law,
by Tommy’s dad
black chairman
started running the
County Board
Born in Durham, he
served as a counsel
of Durham High
businesses such
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Community College. The scholarship was
Lowell Thomas
Jr., a Durham-born
owner of Bullock’s
died Monday,
passed away last year.
on Christmas Eve
graduate of N.C.
The Commission on English Language Program
Pavilion at the age
and N.C. Central’s
Durham Tech’s English for Academic Purposes
was first opened
he was the first
in 1952. Tommy
of the Durham
In December, alumnus and PrecisionLender
business in 1965.
of Elections. He
donated $2 million
was a 1957 graduate
to many local
School and served
as the Mechanics
Guard. Tommy’s
Bank, Mutual
“loved to cook and
Savings Bank and
in the National
and Farmers
family says he
Community
especially loved
seeing customers
enjoying a good meal.”
PHOTO BY BRIANA BROUGH
UDI Community Development
Corporation, but was best known for his civil rights work. He represented the “Royal Ice
Ervin Lee Hester Sr., a former WTVD
Cream Seven,” seven civil rights activists who
the first African-American anchor in the
cream shop, and was a lawyer in the 1959 U.S.
at the age of 81. Ervin was a Durham
Education, in which some 200 black families were
broadcaster who in the early 1970s became
were denied service on the “white side” of an ice
Southeast, died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018,
District Court case McKissick v. Durham Board of
native who grew up in Granville County
denied reassignment to white schools.
he graduated from Hillside High School.
NEW RELEASES
weekend anchor and hosted the community
full-time student at N.C. Central University, will
before moving back to Durham, where
In April, Jo Gore, a Durham-based musician and
affairs program “Reel Perspectives” and
release a 20-track album titled “I Am Worthy.”
Ervin was the first African-American to be
SCHOOL WORK
Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
$100,000 to the Phail Wynn SunTrust
inducted in the North Carolina Association of
Durham Tech president and Duke official who
Accreditation in August granted accreditation to program. Durham Tech is the only community
college in North Carolina with the accreditation.
CEO Carl Ryden
to North Carolina
School of Science
and Mathematics’ foundation – the
largest gift in the school’s history. The donation will fund The
Ryden Program for Innovation
and Leadership in Artificial
Intelligence (AI), which will teach students how
to use AI creatively and ethically. Pictured above
is Carl Ryden with Olivia Fugikawa (‘20) and Niall Mulane (‘19), members of “The Zebracorns,” an
NCSSM-sponsored Robotics Competition Team.
WHAT AN HONOR
He worked at WTVD as a reporter and
the magazine show “Primetime.” In 1996,
established in part by Dr. Wynn, the former
In October, the City of Durham won the Bloomberg Philanthropies U.S. Mayors
Challenge, a yearlong competition among
city leaders to find solutions to the toughest
problems cities face. Durham is among nine cities to receive $1 million to implement
The SunTrust Foundation recently contributed
potentially breakthrough solutions to issues
Foundation Scholarship at Durham Technical
change and economic opportunity.
such as homelessness, the opioid crisis, climate
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