Alumni Hall of Fame

2016

• Harold Mabrey ’55
• Dr. Roy E. Cheatham ’65
• Charles Seeney ’70
• Romona Robinson ’81

2014

• Joseph S. McDuffie ’47, law (posthumously)
• Professor James E. Jones Jr. ’50, law and educator
• Stanley S. Scott ’59, journalist (posthumously)
• Dr. Frankie Hurt Cooper ’62, educator
• Hon. Iris J. Goliday ’66, law
• Col. Ishmon F. Burks ’67, military and educator

2013

• Donald B. Corbett ’64 ’65, coach and higher education
• Kenneth Dean ’64, college administrator and law
• Henry Helm ’64, human resources and business
• James Tippin ’64, attorney and law
• Dr. Samuel H. Jimerson ’68, college administrator and education (posthumously)
• Lawrence Eugene Walls, coach and educator

2012

• Nathaniel Allen Sweets Sr. ’28, newspaper editor and owner (posthumously)
• Victor Mason Barker ’41, Tuskegee Airman and educator (posthumously)
• Major Richard C. Pullam ’52, Tuskegee Airman and college professor (posthumously)
• Jacqulyn C. Shropshire ’57, civic and urban league executive
• Moses Lacy ’64, educator and coach
• Dr. James H. Mahon ’61, educator and college professor
• Varryl K. Franklin ’73, educator and coach

2011

• Carl Connor ’34, education
• Robert J. Williams ’50, business
• Dr. Floyd L. Williams ’62, education
• Colonel Douglas C. Rose Jr. ’90, military

2010

• Troy J. Davis ’54, businessman and entrepreneur
• Dr. Stewart B. Fulbright, military and professor
• Wilbur Franklin Long, military and businessman

2009

• Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Julius F. Johnson ’64 ’72, US Army
• Wendell Oliver Pruitt, Tuskegee Airman aviator (posthumously)
• Ronald Townson, grammy-award winning vocalist (posthumously)

2008

• Lloyd Lionel Gaines ’35, Missouri civil rights pioneer (posthumously)
• Honorable George Howard Jr. ’48, United States District Court judge (posthumously)
• Donald E. Hudson ’53, college head coach
• Dr. Elmer P. Martin Jr. ’69, educator and creator of Blacks in Wax Museum (posthumously)
• Major General (Ret.) Henry Stratman ’73, Third U.S. Army
• Logan H. Westbrooks ’75, recording company executive
• Lemar Parrish ’96, professional football player

2007

• James M. Bailey Sr. ’39, educator and community leader
• Alva Lee Thomas ’49, educator (posthumously)
• Dr. Bette Spence-Dix ’51, educator and first female Alumni Association president
• Herbert G. Ellis, Ph.D. ’56, educator and social scientist
• Walter Jefferson, Jr. ’56, United States military aviator (posthumously)
• Oliver E. Lake ’68, composer, musician and poet
• Mervyn M. Dymally, Ph.D., Former State of California Lieutenant Governor

2006

• Margaret Bush Wilson ’43, civil rights attorney
• Dr. Cortez J. Bradley ’50, educator
• Dorothy Martin Wallace ’51, educator
• Dr. Henry Givens ’54, educator and college president
• Dr. Robert W. Brown ’56, federal government executive and educator
• Dr. Theodore (Ted) Savage Jr. ’58, MLB player and corporate executive
• Joe Torry ’88, actor and comedian

2005

• Mary Frances Everhart ’38, educator
• M. Carl Holman ’42, civil rights activist
• Evelyn Tutt Brackeen, Ph.D. ’47, educator and scientist
• Florence Shyne Bowers ’57, medical researcher/biologist
• Ida Mae (Ballard) Simon ’71, humanitarian and marketing executive (posthumously)

2004

• Dr. Moddie Daniel Taylor ’35, chemist and professor (posthumously)
• Judge Theodore McMillian ’41, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis
• Dr. Robert Wheeler ’48, educator 
• Dr. Julius Dix ’50, educator
• Dr. Gus T. Ridgel ’50, educator
• Joe Outlaw ’61, businessman and entrepreneur
• Dwayne Crompton ’68, educator

2003

• Dr. Julia H. Hill ’43, education and civil rights
• Rep. Yvonne Starks Wilson ’50, education and politician
• Zelma Lloyd Frank, Ed.D. ’57, educator
• Dorothy Butler Gilliam ’57, journalism
• Edward A. Rankin, M.D. ’61, medicine

2002

• Dr. Lionel H Newsom ’38, college president and educator
• Walter H. Sanderson ’42, business and industry
• Dr. Charles Franklin Martin ’49, scientist and professor
• Thomas B. Shropshire ’50, business and industry
• Dr. James Frank ’53, college president and athletics
• Judge Shellie F. Bowers ’57, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Earl Wilson Jr. ’57, business and industry
• Joseph "Jack the Rapper" Deighton Gibson Jr., pioneering disc jockey

2001

• Jesse Hill Jr. ’47, businessman and entrepreneur
• Clinita Arnsby Ford, Ph.D. ’48, college professor
• Odell Nails, Ed.D. ’53, Educator
• Ollie W. Gates ’54, businessman and entrepreneur
• Leo E. Lewis ’56, professional football player
• Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Donald Scott ’60, Military
• Joseph David Johnson ’68, businessman and entrepreneur