HU Alum to be inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame (2080 hits)
Hampton University Alumna Dr. Gladys Hope Franklin White, Class of 1939, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award today at National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame ceremony in Atlanta.
Hall of Fame honorees are black college graduates who are nominated by their alma mater and selected by the Board of Directors of the Hall of Fame. They are individuals who, through work, participation or support, have brought honor and recognition to their alma mater, their profession and their community. They are held in high esteem by their peers, and are deemed to be of high moral character and outstanding integrity. They have become one of the standards by which Black college graduates are measured.
A native of Elizabeth City, N.C., White attended Hampton Institute, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and supervision. She later pursued her graduate degree at Columbia University where she was awarded the Master of Arts degree in curriculum, teaching, and reading. She also received her Doctorate of Education in reading education from the University of Sarasota.
White has worked tirelessly as an educator for many years. After her retirement from North Carolina A&T State University, she founded Project CARE – Coaching Accelerates Rich Excellence. Designed as the city’s first community church SAT/ACT Test Prep project, Project CARE has rendered invaluable assistance netting students scholarships and awards to colleges of their choice.
“While being widely admired as a champion of proficient reading and test prep instruction and with devotion to Hampton, I do have cherished pride, humility and honor for Hampton naming a residence facility, The Gladys Hope Franklin White Hall,” said White.
White was married to the late Dr. Frank H. White, graduate of Hampton University and the former dean of North Carolina A&T State University College of Arts and Sciences; the mother of two daughters, Hampton graduates, The Honorable Johnese White Howard and the late Dr. Sharon White Williams, associate professor at Hampton University.
“Plainly, my life is based on the premise that ‘All that you send into the lives of others comes back into your own,’ while I ‘Let my Life Do the Singing,'"White said.
