100 YEARS
THE NU CHAPTER CENTENNIAL
Far left: the 1981 Sweetheart Ball. Nu Chapter reunion 2015.
While at Butler, Blackburn led Nu Chapter as its polemarch. After com- pleting his studies, he served as the head of the Department of Sociology and Economics at Knoxville (TN) Col- lege and the head of the Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Insti- tute, now known as Tuskegee University. In 1948 Blackburn founded the Board for Fundamental Education (BFE), whose primary mission was job training. A Nu Chapter charter member and track and field athlete, Brother Cable was a dentist in Indianapolis for many years prior to moving his practice to New York City in 1949. Cable earned his D.D.S. degree from the Indiana University School of Dentistry located in Indianapolis. He graduated as an under- graduate from Harvard University, where he participated in the hammer throw on the school's track and field team. Cable set collegiate records, at the time, in the hammer throw, won meets, and compet- ed for a spot on the 1912 U.S. Summer Olympic team. Cable was the first African American Democrat elected to the Indianapolis City Council and later served two terms in the Indiana General Assembly. Cable passed in 1963. Arthur Lloyd Carter, Sr. (Nu 1947) was a longtime member of the Indianapolis (IN) Alumni Chapter. He was the 67 th Laurel Wreath Laure- ate and the 39 th Elder Watson Diggs Awardee (1986). Carter is one of only eight fraternity members bestowed the Laurel Wreath and the Elder Watson Diggs Awards. He led the Fraternity as
its seventh Grand Keeper of Records and Exchequer [1976–1986]. The 18 th Grand Polemarch Tom Bradley in 1964 appointed Carter to the Elder Watson Diggs Memorial House Management Committee. Afterward, in 1971, Carter was the non-voting member of the Grand Board of Directors. He was a past member of the Kappa Foundation Board of Directors. Carter grew up in Indianapolis and graduated from historic Crispus Attucks High School in 1940. He attended Indiana Central College and transferred to the Indiana University Extension Campus in Indianapolis in 1941. He served for the U.S. Army Air Corps [1942-1945] and honorably discharged from active duty. During his time in the military, he was an administrative clerk, a pilot mechanic, and a Tuskegee Airmen cadet at the Tuskegee (AL) Institute. After his military service, he earned a degree in accounting. Professionally, Carter worked for the Veterans Administration (VA), the Internal Revenue System (IRS), and the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO). Carter later started the first African- American travel agency, Twilight Travel Agency, in Indiana, and Carter was an annual fixture as a race official at the Indianapolis 500. Laurel Wreath Laurel Carter passed in 2015. Wilbur H. Grant (Nu 1925) was born December 11, 1897, in New Albany, IL. He was the younger sibling of Founder Dr. Guy L. Grant. Grant earned an LL.B degree from the Indiana University Law School in 1926 and
practiced law until 1976. He led Nu as polemarch in 1926. During the 1940s, Grant served as a state representative in the Indiana General Assembly. In 1942, shortly after being elected as a state rep- resentative, Grant joined the U.S. Army but left on temporary furlough to attend legislative sessions. As a state representative, Grant was the head of the Negro Division of the Republican State Committee and sponsored numerous bills to improve the court system and ban racial segrega- tion. In 1951, he became Marion (IN) County deputy prosecuting attorney from 1951–1958, secretary of the Republican state conventions in 1954 and 1956. In 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Grant to the state advisory committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He was a Marion County Juvenile Court hearing judge. In 1962 he served as a Superior Court judge—only the second African Ameri- can in Indiana history to be elected to the bench. Grant died in Indianapolis on August 25, 1983. Myron L. Hardiman (Nu 1966) earned a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Purdue in 1969. He was one of the first African American professional engineers in the state of Indiana. In 1976, he earned an M.B.A. degree from Indiana University-Bloomington. Hardiman spent two decades with Eli Lilly and Company in numerous leadership positions. While at Eli Lilly, he was the first chairman of the com- pany’s Minority Engineering Recruiting Task Force to improve the company’s re-
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