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• Welcome to "the club": with her appointment as president of Saint Joseph College, Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid joins her husband, Wayne State University president, Dr. Irvin Reid, in making history

  - 2007-11-15

  Meet the Reids, Irvin and Pamela. In the 1960s they were Howard University sweethearts. When they met and married, she was an undergrad and he was a graduate student. They had a boy and a gift, and earned doctorates together at the University of Pennsylvania. A decade ago he became...

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• Sean "Puffy" Combs Gives Alma Mater Its Props

  - 1999-04-01

  WASHINGTON -- What do recording artist and producer Sean "Puffy" Combs and Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid have in common? Both were among the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award recipients at Howard University's 1999 Charter Day gala, held last month. Combs, who is considered a Howard alumnus even though...

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• Exhibit On Black Judges, Lawyers Opens In D.C'.s Thurgood Marshall Courthouse

  - 1999-03-01

  With a few snips of a giant pair of scissors, Mrs. Cecilia Marshall cut the ribbon to open the first exhibition in the only building in the nation's capital named for a Black American, her late husband, Thurgood Marshall. A galaxy of the country's civil rights greats and elected...

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