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N.C. A&T Alumna Makes Her Mark in the Upscale and Luxury Wedding Industry
Excellence will always be produced with strong will and discipline, and Nishaka Proctor ‘00 is living proof. She is the owner and executive luxe event planner and producer for Events By Nishaka located in Greensboro, North Carolina. For 14 years, she has built a highly sought-after business due to her unique gift that brings together style, sophistication, and timeless memories.…
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Happy 100th Birthday, Mrs. Marian T. Logan ’57
Mrs. Marian T. Logan was born on July 7, 1921, and was raised in Roseland, Virginia, a rural community of Nelson County. She is one of eight siblings whose parents were deacons in the church, and they instilled core values of education, work ethic, and family in their children. Marian graduated 11th grade from Oak Hill School and then migrated…
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Bluford Library Archives: The Commencement Exercises of 1921
For 123 years, commencement has been the spring highlight for Aggie graduates, their families, and the community. In saluting the class of 1921, we can see how special commencement had already become 100 years ago. Then as now, faculty and staff were busy preparing for the 23rd annual commencement of the “Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina.” Before…
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Meet Our Alumni Chapter Presidents
Durham Alumni Chapter Chapter President: Rebecca Redd-Jolly, 1980 Major: Psychology What is your career background? As a member of the Army ROTC I began my career as an Army Intelligence Officer. I reached the rank of captain, and was honorably discharged after over five years in the military. I decided to study law and graduated with a jurist doctorate from…
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Cleveland Alumni Chapter Celebrates 60 Years
The Cleveland area in Northeast Ohio welcomed an influx of individuals who had common experiences and education. Those individuals were a group of distinguished A&T alumni. From that moment, this dedicated group of Aggies started to organize what would eventually become the Cleveland Alumni Chapter of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The alumni charter was issued June 4,…
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Bluford Library Archives: Garrett Whyte ’39 – Muralist and Civil Rights Cartoonist
In the first 20 years of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s visual arts program, it was established in 1927 by H. Clinton Taylor. The program’s most outstanding graduate may have been Garrett Whyte ‘1939 (1914-2000). Whyte was a Mt. Sterling, Kentucky native who transferred to North Carolina A&T from Hampton University’s art department. A review of his achievements…
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Hall Shares Journey of Becoming A&T’s First Female Drum Major, Entrepreneur and Medical Doctor
Most little girls want to be many things when they grow up, but Dr. Kellye Worth Hall ‘00 knew as a teenager she wanted to become an HBCU drum major. Her childhood consisted of being a natural, yet untrained dancer, an athlete, a musician, and surrounded by a legacy of family members who attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State…
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N.C. A&T Alumnus Chris Cook Joins Dewberry
Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has announced that Chris Cook, PE, has joined the firm’s mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) group based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Cook joins the firm as a project engineer with more than 13 years of experience. As a fire protection engineer, he has worked on various facility types, including commercial buildings, K-12 schools,…
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Bluford Archives: An Aggie Legend, Frances Grimes, A&T’s First Female Graduate
On May 30, 1901, three students were awarded bachelors’ degrees from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of the Colored Race (now North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University). This ceremony was significant because this was the first time a woman was a degree recipient from the college. This young lady was Francis Grimes of Asheville, N.C. In the 120 years…
