Alumni News & Announcements



Ben Wallace, '96. Professional basketball player with the Detroit Pistons
Charles Oakley, class of '85. Professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards
Rosyln Brock, class of '87. Director of Systems Fund Development for the Sisters of Bon Secours Health System.
Scott Phillips, class of '83. Manages IBM’s Mentor-Protégé and Minority and Women Business Enterprise Programs within the Federal Government industry.
W. Franklyn Richardson, class of '79. Senior Pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Mount Vernon, NY; Board member, Congress of National Black Churches; and trustee for the National Urban League and VUU.
Harlow Fullwood, class of '77. Franchise owner and founder of the Harlow Fullwood Foundation.
Judge George Wendell Harris, class of '62 - Judge, General District Court of the 23rd Judicial District for Roanoke City, Roanoke County, and Salem City.
Elizabeth Johnson, class of '61. Civil Rights Pioneer; Community Activist; Educator.
Dr. Charles Cummings, Sr., class of '53. Former President of the Old Dominion Medical Society, former President of the Richmond Medical Society, and board member of the Richmond Symphony.
 
 
 
 
   
L. Douglas Wilder, class of '51. Former Govenor of Virginia.
Lucille Brown, class of '50. Virginia Union University Board of Trustees member
Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, class of '50 & '53. Pastor/theologian, civil rights leader, and cultural historian.
Evelyn Reid Syphax, class of '48. Philanthropist, educator, and former VUU Trustee.
Laverne B. Smith, class of '48. Poet, Historian & Educator.
Dr. Bathrus "Babs" Bailey Williams, class of '40. Teacher and counselor for the handicapped and underpriviledged.
Charles Spurgeon Johnson, class of 1916. Guiding force in the Harlem Renaissance.
Eva Roberta Coles-Boone, class of 1899. Humanitarian and missionary for the peoples of Africa.