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he was named Interim Athletic Director. Coach White was later chosen by North Carolina Central University to re-start its baseball program. The team won the CIAA championship in just their first year and he received honors as CIAA Baseball Coach of the Year. In 2009, he was inducted into the Saint Augustine's College Falcon Foundation Athletic Hall of Fame for his years of unwavering service to his alma mater. Although he received many accolades as a coach, the thing that mattered most to him was not so much the wins, but the relationships that he developed with the you men and women that played on his teams. He was not just interested in them as athletes but encouraged them to use athletics as an avenue to earn a college degree. He was no nonsense when it came to academics over ath- letes. He was very proud of the fact that his student athletes earned degrees from college at a rate of 97%. A Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi®, White was also a member of the Atlanta Chapter of the Saint Augustine Alumni Association, the Winchester Avenue Alumnae Association and served on the Executive Board of the Piper Davis Youth Baseball League in Birmingham, AL. White also had the honor of attend- ing a presidential State of the Union Ad- dress and sat on the dais with President Bill Clinton. Brother Henry E. White was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Melvin and Douglas, and sisters Bessie and Au- drey. He is survived by son, Tyrone Hill and granddaughter, Victoria Gambrell; brothers, Leon White (Tana), Eddie White (Cheri) and Eugene White; sister, Helena Funderburk and a host of close relatives, friends, former players and students.
at the university were the ones when he placed diplomas in the hands of graduat- ing students and when he was able to announce the achievement of accredi- tation through associate and then full membership in the National Associa- tion of Schools of Music (NASM) chief accreditation for music schools in the United States. Watkins was director of the Providence Baptist Church’s Male chorus for thirty years, first organist for the Spiri- tual Choir and founder of the church’s Temple Brass. He served four years (1962 - 66) as a clarinetist in the United States 528 Air Force Band; stationed at Belleville, IL with USA and abroad travels. A Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi®, Watkins received his 50-year member- ship award in May 2010. Under the leadership of Brother Gary Kellogg, Chairman of the Greensboro (NC) Kappa Beautillion committee, for many years, Bros. Cliff Watkins and Alexander Watson provided the instrumental and chorus music for the Greensboro Kappa Beautillion program for over 20 years. In April 2002, NCA&T honored Dr. Watkins with a “University Teacher of the Year Award” from the College of Arts and Sciences. Brother Dr. Clifford E. Watkins leaves to cherish his memory, Sally Martin Wat- kins, wife of 54 years, children, Rebehka and Clifford II; grandchildren, Jacob, Gabriel and Lucas; brothers, Gene, Wil- liam, Ray and Stephen; sisters, Audrey, Andrea, Rhonda and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws and loved ones.
Henry E. White, Ph.D. 1949–2019 Educator, Collegiate Coach Dr. Henry E.
“Coach” White (Raleigh (NC)
Alumni 1985) en- tered the Chapter Invisible on May 3, 2019 at the age of 70. Dr. Henry White was born in
Monroe, NC on April 2, 1949 and was the fifth child of the late Henry and Nel- lie (née Kilgo) White. He was educated in the Monroe City Schools at Win- chester Avenue School. He, however, did not get an opportunity to graduate from Winchester because a fire forced the high school students to transfer to Monroe High School at the end of his junior year. He was one of the first Afri- can-American students to graduate from Monroe High School in 1967. Whited earned a basketball scholarship from and attended Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill, SC. He then attended his beloved St. Augustine College where he graduated in 1973. He subsequently earned M.S. degree from North Caro- lina Central University and his doctorate degree from Middle Tennessee State University. He spent the next 30 years as coach, professor, and department chair. White loved sports and parlayed that passion into coaching. He began his coach- ing career at Parkwood Middle School as the Boys' Basketball and Baseball Coach. During his first year of cach- ing his middle school basketball team won their first championship. He was given an opportunity to return to his alma mater where he served as the As- sistant Coach for men's basketball, head coach for women's basketball, and Head Baseball Coach. Under his leadership, his teams won several Central Intercol- legiate Athletic Association (CIAA) con- ference and tournament championships as well as a Regional NAIA Tournament championship. He also, during this time received three Coach of the Year honors. While at Johnson C. Smith University,
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