[bfsa] Black History Moment

Fri Jan 12 11:41:22 EST 2007

I agree.

JLBoyd

jacquelyn daniel wrote:

>You are so far out of line, that you should stop and really examine your
>motives for writing this response.
>
>One person of color's accomplishments do not diminish another's 
important
>accomplishments.  We should be celebrating the fact that we, as a 
people can
>celebrate ALL of our growth in EVERY area of business and science.
>
>You, sir need to learn to think harder and more critically.
>
>Jacquelyn Daniel
>Annual Giving Coordinator
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bfsa-bounces at lists.ysu.edu [mailto:bfsa-bounces at lists.ysu.edu] On
>Behalf Of Trev Watt
>Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:27 PM
>To: bfsa at lists.ysu.edu
>Subject: Re: [bfsa] Black History Moment
>
>No disrespect, but learning how to cook and learning
>how to manage chefs really does not impress me. What
>does impress me is the following. (I found this
>article on African Americans in science and
>technology)
>
>Barring a few notable exceptions, they are largely
>unknown outside their own secretive inner circles.
>Yet, their work is more important, more far-reaching
>and more exacting than virtually anybody else's. In
>fact, the future of the entire human race depends on
>their ability to make sense of the many mysteries that
>still confront and baffle mankind. They are the men
>and women who have dedicated their lives and immense
>talents to science and the pursuit of solutions to
>problems ranging from how to protect humans from
>deadly solar radiation to how to make cars go farther
>on less gasoline.
>
>Since the founding of this nation, African-Americans
>have played a vital role in the various science
>special-ties -- chemistry, physics, biology and math
>-- and engineering, and have made important
>contributions to scientific and technological
>progress. From the break-through achievements of
>mathematician Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), America's
>first Black scientist of note, who accurately
>predicted a solar eclipse, to the daring explorations
>of outer space by Black astronauts, Blacks have made
>their mark in virtually every imaginable aspect of
>science and technology. Many have made new discoveries
>and published important scientific papers -- the
>science equivalent of a game-winning slam dunk,
>touchdown or home run. But owing to the esoteric and
>arcane nature of scientific research, and the fact
>that scientists communicate in a language only they
>can understand, most have remained virtually unknown.
>
>Yet, a select few have managed to escape obscurity.
>Todays Black scientists whose names have transcended
>their own scientific community and become household
>words throughout the nation and beyond include
>physicist Dr. Walter E. Massey, formerly vice
>president for research at the University of Chicago's
>Argonne National laboratories and former director of
>the National Science Foundation and currently
>president of Morehouse College; mathematician Dr.
>David Blackwell, professor emeritus at the University
>of California-Berkeley, who until recently had the
>distinction of being the only living Black member of
>the prestigious National Academy of Sciences;
>theoretical physicist Dr. Shirley A. Jackson, who
>chairs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and who was
>the first Black woman to earn a Ph. D. from the
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. Benjamin F.
>Peery. Jr., professor emeritus of astronomy at Howard
>University, whose areas of research include the
>physics of stellar structure, evolution and
>nucleossynthesis; astrophysicist Dr. George
>Carruthers, who developed the Far Ultraviolet Camera
>that became the first astronomical instrument used on
>the surface of the moon, and electrical engineers Drs.
>Gary Harris and Michael Spencer of Howard University,
>both known for their trailblazing research in
>microelectronics and semiconductor technology. 
>
>These science superstars head a long list of
>scientific overachievers who in the laboratories of
>academia, the federal government and private industry
>are doing their part to assure that the country
>maintains its technological edge.
>
>Although there are far too many to mention but a few,
>these largely unsung heroes are found in virtually
>every area of science and technology. The following is
>a small sample of topnotch Black scientists who are
>active around the nation adding to the practical and
>theoretical advancement of scientific and technical
>knowledge:
>
>Dr. Christine M. Darden, a NASA deputy program
>manager, is helping to develop a U. S.-made supersonic
>airliner scheduled for unveiling by 2005.
>
>Physics professor Dr. Homer A. Neal, interim president
>of the University of Michigan who specializes in
>experimental high energy physics, conducts particle
>interaction studies in hadron-hadron and electron
>positron collisions" at laboratories in the U.S. and
>abroad.
>
>Dr. Neal's University of Michigan colleague, Dr. Billy
>Joe Evans, professor of solid state inorganic
>chemistry, lists among his research interests "low
>temperature synthesis routes for high temperature
>materials."
>
>Similarly esoteric are the fields of research of
>University of Maryland physics professor Dr. Sylvester
>James Gates Jr. Specializing in "mathematical and
>theoretical physics of supersymmetric particles," he
>lists the study of "Einstein's unified field type
>theories" among his primary research interests.
>
>Meanwhile at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>(MIT), tenurebound r. Paula T. Hammond, a chemical
>engineer, teaches "molecular aspects of chemical
>engineering" while doing research in "the molecular
>design and synthesis of self-assembling polymeric
>systems, and the variation of chemical structure and
>processing of these systems to control their order and
>function on both microscopic and macroscopic levels."
>
>At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), biochemist
>Dr. Ida Owens conducts studies in the genetics of
>detoxification enzymes, research that is aimed at
>shedding light on how the human body defends itself
>against poison.
>
>This is HIGHER EDUCATION!! One of the failures of
>Black History Month is the regurgitation of the "We
>Will Overcome" issues. These children need to know
>more about the successes past and present in the
>fields of science and technology. What would really
>stimulate a child more? A black scientist at NASA
>demonstrating a galactic robot space explorater that
>he or she invented, or some guy who talks about how
>cooking 10 lobsters a day saved his company millions
>of dollars. 
>
>
>--- Arlene Floyd <afloyd at ysu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Another history moment for us and our children
>> 
>> The Higher Education of the Nation's Top
>> African-American Restaurateur
>> 
>> Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an
>> Olive Garden or Red
>> Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know that
>> the CEO heading
>> these large restaurant chains is a black man.
>> 
>> Clarence Otis Jr. is the CEO of Darden Restaurants
>> Inc., the largest
>> casual dining operator in the nation. The firm
>> operates nearly 1,400
>> company-owned restaurants coast to coas t serving
>> 300 million meals
>> annually. Darden employs 150,000 workers and has
>> annual revenues of $6
>> billion.
>> 
>> Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Otis moved to Los
>> Angeles when he was
>> 6 years old. His father was a high school dropout
>> who worked as a
>> janitor. The family lived in Watts at the time of
>> the 1965 riots. In the
>> post-Watts period, Otis recalls being stopped and
>> questioned by police
>> several times a year because of the color of his
>> skin.
>> 
>> A high school guidance counselor recommended him for
>> a scholarship at
>> Williams College, the highly selective liberal arts
>> institution in
>> Massachusetts. Otis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from
>> Williams and went on
>> to earn a law degree at Stanford.
>> 
>> Otis landed on Wall Street as a merger and
>> acquisitions attorney for
>> J.P. Morgan Securities. He joined Darden Restaurants
>> in 1995 as
>> corporate treasurer. He became CEO in 2004.
>> 
>> > begin:vcard
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>> n:Floyd;Arlene
>> org:Youngstown State University;Associate Degree &
>> Tech Prep Programs
>> adr;dom:;;One University Plaza, Tod
>> 301;Youngstown;OH;44555
>> title:Director
>> tel;work:330-941-2333
>> version:2.1
>> end:vcard
>> 
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