Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

central state university alumni achievement hall of fame inductees with dignitaries at the 2024 charter day convocation celebrating 137 years since central state's founding
The 2024 inductees into the Central State University Alumni pose for a photo with dignitaries during the 137th Charter Day Convocation ceremonies. Pictured are (front row, from left) Professor Erin M. Smith, '07, keynote speaker; inductees Gonzalo J. Rodriguez Jr., MD, '79; Cronicle A. Jackson, '83; Evelyn Garrette Jackson, '69; and Dr. Jane R. Caulton, '78; (back row, from left) National Alumni Association President Anthony E. Gardner, '92; Alumni Relations Director Keith Aaron Perkins, '82; inductees Samuel P. Martin, '81; Suzanne F. Stantley, '71; Phillip Black, '86; Wayne Knox, '08; Dawn Floyd, '99; Kimberly Johnson, '98; and Manuel M. Brooks, '97; Central State University Board of Trustees Chair Jacqueline Y. Gamblin; and CSU Interim President Dr. Alex Johnson.

2024 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Evelyn Garrette Jackson, '69
  • Suzanne F. Stantley, '71
  • Dr. Jane R. Caulton, '78
  • Gonzalo J. Rodriguez Jr., MD, '79
  • Samuel P. Martin, '81
  • Cronicle A. Jackson, '83
  • Phillip Black, '86
  • Manuel M. Brooks, '97
  • Kimberly Johnson, '98
  • Dawn Floyd, '99
  • Wayne Knox, '08

2023 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • James Hill, Jr., ’64*
  • Joyce Eldridge-Howard, ’65
  • Phillip D. Ayers, ’72
  • Edwin H. Lloyd, ’78
  • Keith Aaron Perkins, ’82
  • Malva A. Alexander, ’84
  • Dwayne M. Daniel, ’86
  • Pamela M. Hodge, ’90
  • Brandon Hayes, ’94
  • Angela K. Davis, ’95

2022 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Ralph L. McNeal Sr., ’57*
  • Richard Austin, Esq., ’65
  • Betty M. Sanders, ’65
  • Bill C. Littlejohn, Esq, ’69
  • A. Christopher Lyons, MBA, ’81
  • Bobby J. Bogan Jr., ’86
  • Dr. Belinda Tubbs-Wallace, ’91
  • Rob Murphy, ’96
  • Oyango A. Snell, Esq., ’98

2021 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Gary L. Lawson, ’73
  • Larry Kelly, ’83
  • Sandra Jaribu Hill, ’87
  • Christopher Saunders, ’90
  • Michael “Blue” Williams

2020 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Gladys Gunn, ’59
  • David R. Smith, Esq., ’69
  • Dr. Charlla D. Allen, ’78
  • Marya Rutherford-Long, ’78
  • Eric D. High, MD, ’91
  • Bryan “Scottie” Irving, ’91

2019 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Reginald Elwood Howard Butts, ’53*
  • Dr. Robert L. Bowles Jr., ’61
  • Gary A. Dowdell, ’74
  • Gillis L. Bowden, ’77
  • Peter C. Gibbs, ’86
  • Natalia S. Harris, ’97

2018 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Gonzalo J. Rodriguez Sr., ’52*
  • David A. Lister, ’62*
  • William H. Wiley, ’63
  • Brad M. Beasley, ’73
  • Deborah Perkins, ’73
  • Marcella A. Sampson, ’74
  • Lisa M. Peterson, ’87

2017 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Harold L. Flowers, ’59
  • Dr. James E. Gordon, ’73
  • Alvin R. Scott Sr., ’69*
  • Dr. Thomas E. Simpson, ’65
  • Dr. Hazel Symonette, ’68
  • Timothy L. Tramble Sr., ’93

2016 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Shendorah Fisher, ’00, ’03
  • Derrick Lee Foward, ’90
  • James N. Joyner, ’62
  • Rev. Dr. William Carver Lennard, ’63
  • Dennis J. McNeal, ’66
  • Rosie A. Turner, ’81

2015 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Marsha J. Bayless, ’73
  • Richard R. Boykin, ’90
  • John Benjamin Brown, ’62
  • Edwin R. Clay, ’69
  • Sandi Lynn, ’68
  • Dr. Delors Edgar Magee Jr., ’59
  • Willie A. Terrell Jr., ’73
  • Ethel M. Washington, ’69
  • Roland Winburn, ’71

2014 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Caleb Brown Jr., ’70
  • Terri Cope-Walton, ’96
  • Tyrone E. Dickerson, ’65
  • Dr. David “Fred” McBagonluri, ’96
  • Jeffery J. Mims Jr., ’73
  • Dr. Dennis W. Weatherby, ’82*
  • Dennis L. Wells, ’75

2013 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Darryl T. Owens, ’59
  • Kenneth S. Hudson, ’61
  • Mildred C. Joyner, ’71
  • Shirley L. Mays, ’76

2012 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Charles E. Delane, ’60
  • Curtis Owens, ’62

2011 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Barbara Saunders, ’60
  • Enrique Riggs, ’68
  • Leon W. Tucker, ’72

2010 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Yvette Coursey, ’63
  • W. Marvin Dulaney, ’72
  • Joseph H. Hill, ’62
  • Charles Whitehead, ’61

2009 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Nancy Travis Bolden, ’48
  • The Honorable Nolan B. Dawkins, ’69
  • Fred J. Grigsby Jr., ’69
  • Betty Kennedy Shepherd, ’71

2008 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Doris Nicholson, ’51
  • Felton Page, ’69
  • Samuel Williams, ’49*

2007 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Joyce Beatty, ’72
  • Edward T. Dixon, ’54
  • Carolyn Farrow-Garland, ’70

2006 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Richard Clay Dixon, ’63
  • Omarosa O. Manigault, ’96
  • Michael L. Nelson Sr., ’72
  • Frances “Kay” Welch, ’52

2005 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Dolores R. Alston, ’55
  • William J. Waterman, ’52*

2004 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Gary Allen, ’67
  • John W. Garland, ’71
  • Kwame James C. McDonald, ’54

2003 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Robert L. Hylton, ’54
  • Louis G. Long, ’68

2002 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Mildred Jones Henderson, ’67
  • Harry G. Johns, ’47
  • Edith Olivia Washington Johnson, ’59*
  • Thomas E. Kelley Sr., ’42

2001 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Curtis Symonds, ’78
  • Alfonso Wilson, ’48

2000 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Ronald Eugene Cosey, ’71
  • James A. Elam, ’54
  • Janette Hoston Harris, ’62
  • Donis Eugene Toller Sr., ’60

1999 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Dixie J. Allen, ’78
  • Albert L. Harrington, ’58
  • John T. Jackson, ’69
  • Anthony “Tony” Williams, ’54
  • Joey D. Williams, ’88

1998 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Gordon L. Berry, ’55
  • Bernida L. Thompson, ’68

1997 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Otha N. Brown Jr., ’52
  • Bryant Crawford Jr., ’50*
  • M. Delmar Edwards, ’48
  • Richard H. Shepherd Jr., ’71
  • Audrey L. Norman-Turner, ’68
  • Gloria Taylor Towers, ’54

1996 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • E. Eugene Brown, ’72
  • Theresa A. Check, ’74
  • Alex B. DarJean, ’75

1995 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • MacArthur DeShazer Sr., ’71
  • Earl H. Duval Jr., ’69
  • Clifford E. Gates Sr., ’48
  • Lawrence B. Mixon Sr., ’71
  • William Ross Jr., ’48*
  • James H. Sangster, ’59
  • Lawrence J. Turner, ’56

1994 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Calvin E. Davis, ’50
  • Jacqueline G. Davis, ’77
  • Jane Frazier Dixon, ’57
  • James Curtis Joyner, ’71
  • Aaron Lowery, ’58
  • Blanche I. Mayo, ’76

1993 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Michael O. Ajisafe, ’64
  • David G. Carter, ’65
  • Thomas J. Craft Sr., ’48
  • George C. Dumas, ’59
  • Terrence L. Glass, ’68
  • Judy L. Greene McGill, ’72
  • Charles H. Harrell, ’69
  • Maurice L. Reed, ’50
  • James C. Renick, ’70

1992 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Fillmore Freeman, ’57
  • Dwight L. Johnson, ’66
  • Sylvester G. Lee, ’57*
  • Theodore D. Toles, ’73
  • Elliott A. Treadwell, ’69
  • Carolyn Watts-Allen, ’69

1991 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Donald K. Anthony, ’56
  • William A. Dupree, ’56
  • James E. Farmer, ’67
  • Deborah K. Brown Gaines, ’68
  • Joseph E. Johnson, ’57
  • Melvin A. Johnson Jr., ’50
  • Fredric H. Leigh, ’63
  • Betty K. Pinkney, ’56
  • Chester C. Pryor II, ’51
  • Joshua I. Smith, ’63
  • James A. Wright, ’60

1990 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Vernon N. Ford, ’70
  • Raymond V. Haysbert Sr., ’47
  • Bettye Torrey Oldham, ’56

1989 Alumni Achievement Hall of Fame

  • Carneice Brown-White, ’50
  • H. Douglas Covington, ’57
  • Jay Crosby, ’50
  • Jerry Cummings, ’63
  • Dennis Dowdell Jr., ’67
  • Delbert L. Flowers, ’56
  • Ronald L. Garnett, ’67
  • Lathardus Goggins, ’54
  • Ronald E. Goldsberry, ’64
  • Charles A. Green, ’61
  • Edward D. Irons, ’48
  • William L. Mallory, ’55
  • June M. Moorehead Marable, ’48
  • Charles Moody Jr., ’54
  • Walter G. Sellers Sr., ’51
  • Fred Sheffey, ’50
  • Bernice Sumlin, ’48
  • O’Neil D. Swanson, ’53
  • Arthur E. Thomas, ’62

*Inducted posthumously