The Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization has started a year-long campaign to increase the number of its scholarships for black students.
The organization has scheduled a Leaders & Legends event on Sat., April 8 to recognize accomplished alumni, students, staff and faculty. The black-tie optional event will be at Tech's Academy of Medicine, 875 West Peachtree St. in Atlanta.
The endowment currently provides $35,000 in scholarships.
Tech has tried to increase the percentage of African-American students on its campus, which is currently about 7 percent.
This year’s honorees are:
- Jacqueline Jones Royster, Tech's first African-American dean
- Prof. Ronald L. Johnson, the National Basketball Association's first senior vice president of referee operations
- Guy Primus, CEO of the Virtual Reality Co.
- Sonya Rush, the alumni organization's founder
- Karl Webster Barnes, grant writer with the Morehouse College Community Revitalization Initiative
- Prof. Thomas "Danny" Boston
- Carla Gilson, Tech's associate director of sports medicine
- Michole Washington, founder of Afrithmetic, which promotes mathematics curriculum nationwide
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