CAROL WHITE MOHAMED ‘73
SHARON FORD WATKINS ‘71
Carol took her frst job out of college with Pittsburgh’s Equitable Gas Company as a customer service representative. She used her home economics training to help customers better use their gas appliances. Six
Following graduation, Sharon earned her master’s degree in social work at the University of Pittsburgh, and then earned a fellowship from the National Institute for Mental Health to study drug and alcohol addiction at the Washingtonian Center for Addictions in Boston. Returning to Pittsburgh, she worked for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse for several years. In 1978, she moved to Washington, D.C., to work
years later, she was promoted into the company’s human resources department. In 1990, she was recruited by Duquesne Light, Pittsburgh’s electric utility company, as director of compensation. Late In 1994, she was recruited again, joining the University of Pittsburgh to head up its employment and employee relations divisions. She flled a number of roles at Pitt, but for the last 10 years before her retirement in 2015 she directed the Ofce of Afrmative Action, Diversity and Inclusion for all Pitt campuses. Since the late 1980s, Carol has been active with Lott Carey International Ministries, a global Christian mission community that now works in 26 countries around the world. She is currently president of its women’s unit, Women in Service Everywhere (WISE). She has gone on Lott Carey mission trips to Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, and will travel in October to Nigeria. Working with superintendents who are natives of these countries, she has served in day care centers, orphanages, soup kitchens and food pantries, and provided one-on-one counseling at centers for the addicted and women who have been rescued from human trafcking operations.
for Dorothy I. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women. That experience instilled in her a love of activism, public policy and politics that would inform the rest of her work career. At the end of December 2017, she retired after 23 years as feld director of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, an organization devoted to ending breast cancer through the power of advocacy and action. She loved her work directing and managing grassroots advocates across the country as the coalition forwarded a progressive public policy agenda that included working for passage of the Afordable Care Act. While working in Washington, she met and married Alex Watkins Jr. in 1987. A Chicago native and Howard University graduate, he passed away in 1994. Since retirement, she’s been spending time with her family in Pittsburgh, and is actively involved in her church (Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia) and in political resistance.
Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, congratulates Sharon Ford Watkins on her 20+ years of service with NBCC.
BEVERLY DIANE MILLER ‘70
An English major at Mercyhurst, Beverly earned a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, an award that recognized “the most intellectually promising 1970 graduates who plan a career in college teaching.” She went on to earn an M.A. in English Literature, with a concentration
MARGARET (PEGGY) FOX LAPE ‘71
Peggy majored in elementary education and taught for 38 years in the public schools of her hometown, Elizabeth, New Jersey. She received the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award for the Elizabeth Public School District in 1998. She retired about 10 years ago. Her husband, James (Jim), is also retired. They sold their former home in Mountainside and now
in African-American Literature, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973 and completed coursework for a Ph.D. in English at Morgan State University. Beverly taught within the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Fayetteville State University for more than 30 years, and also taught at Morgan State University, UNC Pembroke at Fort Bragg, Shaw University at Fort Bragg, Durham Technical Community College and UNC Chapel Hill. She received multiple National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships and was invited to speak in Avignon, France. She was active in the community with Steel Magnolias Inc. and Brother’s Keeper. She died Jan. 8, 2016, after a long, valiant struggle with liver cancer.
live on the Jersey Shore. They’ve been doing some traveling and the next move, she says, will be to California, where both their grown daughters live.
Peggy Fox Lape with daughters Erin and Megan
Beverly Miller and Rochelle George Wooding
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