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A TALLADEGAN IN THE PENTAGON TALENTED TALLADEGANS Rev. Homer Hayes presented Tamera

How Talladega College prepared her to excel far beyond her dreams Prince with the Charles “Chuck” Elliot
Annual Scholarship during the 2019 Alpha
Chi/Honors Convocation in DeForest
Chapel. Rev. Hayes, who created the
scholarship, encouraged other alumni to
consider starting scholarships to assist
students.

Did you see him on TV? Detective Sergeant Christopher Anderson,
a lecturer and consultant in the Criminal Justice Department, is a
lead actor on the TV show “Reasonable Doubt.”

Duke University Professor Emeritus
Dr. Sherman A. James’64 developed Award-winning poet, author, and educator Honorée
the thought-provoking John Fanonne Jeffers ’89 received the Harper Lee Award
Henryism (JH) hypothesis. for Alabama’s Distinguished
The epidemiologist and public Writer of the Year for 2018.
health researcher conceived of Ms. Jeffers earned a B.A. in
JH while investigating racial English at Talladega College
health disparities between and an M.F.A. in writing from
blacks and others in North the University of Alabama.
Carolina in the 1970s. JH Her books include The Glory
is a strategy for coping with Gets (Wesleyan University
prolonged exposure to stresses Press, 2015) and Red Clay
such as social discrimination by Suite (Southern Illinois
expending high levels of effort, University Press, 2007).
which can adversely affect
the physical health of African
Americans.

Meharu Negawo was named
a finalist in the HBCU Digest
Award’s Male Student of the Year
category. The talented computer
science major from Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, maintains a 4.0 grade
point average; serves as chaplain
for the Presidential Honor Society;
and tutors his peers in math,
science and computer science. He
is also a Tom Joyner Foundation
Hercules Scholar. Meharu is Dr. Bess Chapman Jones (center) recognized Chapman Jones
committed to decreasing poverty Memorial Scholarship recipients Alexis Nealy, Arreah Wilson and
through education, mentoring and Ijewria Upshaw at the Alpha Chi/Honors Convocation.
volunteering.
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