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Thirty-One African-Americans Students Graduate From IlT

CHICAGO Defender, Saturday, January 16, 1990


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1990 African-Americans Grads, IIT

Thirty-One African-American students Graduate From IlT

Thirty-one African-Americans students recently received their degrees during Illinois Institute of Technology's (IIT) one-hundred-and-tenth commencement. Some of the graduating students from left to right are Tara Peoples (honor guard); Keith O. Devers of Chicago (master in business administration); King S. Glover, Jr. of Maywood (chemical engineering); Kevin Murphy of North Chicago (master in business administration); Naima Fowler (accounting) and Daryl E. McGhee of Chicago (electrical engineering); Irma Dobbins, director of the African-American Educational Development Office (without cap); Andre D. Mason and Tonya Chipley of Chicago (electrical engineering); George P. Jones of Williamsville, N.Y. (chemical engineering); Helima Kane of Elgin (accounting); Justin K. Akujieze of Benin City, Nigeria (Ph.D. in physics); and Gary Winbush (honor guard). Other African-American graduates who are not pictured are Ashley H. Glinton of Nassau, Bahamas (chemical engineering); Cator A. Escho (computer science), Jerry Fletcher (physics), Hollins (business administration), Allyson D. Walton (business Administration), Donna M.Pilot (master of science in architecture), Muyideen Odenike (electrical engineering), Ingrid D. Wright (math), Walter L. Tuner, Jr. (business administration), Michael L. Burt (master of science in architecture), Nancy Alston (psychology and sociology with honors), and Princess R. Williams (master of science in rehabilitation) of Chicago; Francis Selli of Monrovia, Liberia (master of science in city and regional planning); Pamela Charleston of South Holland (master of science in environmental engineering); Loretta A. Moore of Jackson, Mississippi (Ph.D.in computer science); Lydia K. Gouveia of Lancaster, Pennsylvania (architecture); Ingrid E. Semple-Facey of Waukegan (master of science in biology); and Cornelius W. Pratt of Newark, N.J. (master of science in computer science).



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