Business Focus r-r """"" " *'*' ?*" q Briefs NCCU chancellor among first recipients of Harlem Week Award DURHAM - N.C. Central University Chancellor James H. Ammons was recognised recently as a recipient of the '7002 Guardian of Our Legacy Award" given at the lira annual rtariem weex national Black College Fair and Expo. Amnions was one of four lead ers of historically black colleges and universities selected for the inaugural award. "This was a hard choice because a lot of university leaders have done exceptional things for their institutions," said Winston Majette. Expo co-chair. "North Carolina Central University has jumped leaps and bounds under Dr. Ammons Amnions' leadership there. He was one of the logical choices. Majette said the organization was aware of the local and national attention that NCCU has received since Amnions' anival in June 2001. Additionally, several com mittee members were familiar with him not only as chan cellor at NCCU, but also with his work while an adminis trator at Florida A&M University. Ammons received the "2002 Guardian of Our Legacy Award" along with fellow honorees John Garland, presi dent of Central State University; Dr. Algeania Freeman, president of Livingstone College; and Dr. Dorothy Crows er Yancy, president of Johnson C. Smith. Family of Cisco's John Chambers gives $1 million to Wake Forest The family of John and Elaine Chambers has given Wake Forest University $1 million to encourage student entrepreneurs at the university. John Chambers is the president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in network ing for the Internet. Chambers delivered the commence ment address and received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Wake Forest in May 2000, the same year his daughter. Lindsay, graduated from the university with a bachelor of arts degree. The family's gift was granted to the university through the Chambers Family Charitable Trust at the Fidelity Char itable Gift Fund. The donation will create the Chambers Family Endowment Fund for Entrepreneurship, which will be used to finance projects and courses at the university that support entrepreneurship using the Internet or electronic commerce. Chicago council bill aims to disclose firms' slavery profits Special to the NNPA - The Chicago City Council is considering legislation to make it the first U.S. city to require firms to disclose whether they profited form slav ery in order to secure city contracts. Under the "Slavery Era Insurance Disclosure" ordi nance, businesses would have to provide an affidavit to the city to verify that they had searched their records for con nections to slavery. Companies that fail to comply with the law could have their contracts voided; however, firms that truthfully disclose that they profited from slavery would not be penalized. African-Americans across the country are suing com panies with alleged financial ties to slavery. The firms include FleetBoston Financial Group, the Aetna Insurance Co., tobacco company R.J. Reynolds and railroad power house CSX. Earlier this year California passed a law requiring insurers doing business in the state to disclose if they had paid claims to slave owners when slaves died. Peacemaker editor to be honored The Secular Franciscan Order of the USA has select ed Carolina Peacemaker editor Hal Sieber, 71, to receive its U.S. Peace Prize of St. Francis for 2002 for his life time of work on behalf of human rights, justice and peace. The Peacemaker is published in Greensboro Presentation will be made in Rochester. Minn., in late October, according to Min. Bill Wicks. SFO. of Santa Maria, Calif.. American head of the contemplative order founded eight centuries ago by Francis Bemadone of Assisi. Italy. Among the previous recipients of the national award for contributions as peacemakers have been Ralph Bunche, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King, widow of the 1963 recipient of the award said of Sieber. "A strong supporter of my hus band, Martin Luther King Jr.. Hal has continued to serve as-an"enefgeitc and dedicate^ champtomof nbri-violenf" movements to entfpovefty, ractsm~ari3 violence. Freeman appointed to board SALISBURY - U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Roderick Paige appointed Living stone College President Dr. Algeania W. Freeman to the His torically Black Colleges and Uni versities Capital Financing Advi sory Board. The appointment will begin Oct. I and will end Sept. 30, 2005. The board advises the secretary and the designated bonding authority on colleges' and universities' financial needs. ? how to best implement approxi mated X350 million of construe Freeman lion financing on campuses of HBCUs and the best means to address those needs through the program. The board also makes recommendations on how to improve program implementation and operation. BE names top black executives SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE NEW YORK - The October issue of Black Enterprise features the magazine's editors' picks for the top 50 African-Ameri cans on Wall Strfeet, which represents sig nificant expansion from the 25 individuals reatureo on me 1992 and 1996 BE lists. Wall Street has long been recognized as the capital of free market America and the seat of global financial power. For African-Ameri cans, "The Street" is also a powerful symbol Raines ot the continuing struggle for full and equal access to eco nomic power. Today, despite the intense pressures, high turnover rates, and brutal performance standards of the financial industry. African-Americans are continuing to move forward, shattering barriers to advancement and rais ing the bar of excellence. The BE top 50 are investment bankers, traders, analysts, asset managers, or top executives with man agement experience over these areas. Two of the exec utives on this list, Fannie Mae's Franklin D. Raines and American Express' Kenneth 1. Chenault, are CEOs of multinational corporations with serious impact on markets. A third. E. Stanley O'Neal, will take over as CEO of Merrill Lynch in December, making him the first African-American to lead a major Wall Street firm. Another 25 hold partner or managing-director level positions at some of the world's largest financial insti See BE on A10 File Photo American Express chief Kenneth I. Chenault tees off with Tiger Woods and Woods' father, Earl, at a news conference. Former player makes jump to agent SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE While his players take the field every Sunday - making fleet-footed runs and earth-shattering hits - Eugene Parker has always preferred to stay out of the spotlight, letting his clients do the talking and the tackling. But then Parker - who represents some of the top players in the game, like Emmitt Smith, Curtis Martin, Rod Woodson and Derrick Brooks - is not your typical sports agent. After a basketball career that included four years starting at Purdue University, induction into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and getting drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in 1978, Parker gave up sports to practice law near his hometown of Fort Wayne, Ind. His first "client" was also a friend from home and a Purdue basketball teammate, Roosevelt Barnes. As a favor, Parker helped Barnes negotiate his contract with the Detroit Lions when he was drafted in the I Oth round after playing just one year of college football. Fast-forward 20 years and Parker has built one of the top football player repre sentation practices in the country, negotiat ing landmark contracts for Deion Sanders and Curtis Martin along the way. His Max imum Sports Management, now part of Assante Corp.'s sports management divi sion, prides itself on maintaining an inti mate, small-town feel. Parker says that keeping his business in suburban Fort Wayne - far from the bright lights of New See Parker on 1? File Photo Eugene Parker Banks work out plan to help William Brandon Srec; I ALTO THE CHRONICLE Mayor Allen Joines announced Monday that actions have been taken that will allow William Bran don to reacquire an interest in the -East Win ping Cenlen? Due to a foreclosure on this property, the shopping center was purchased ^ by a local L investor group. Brandon which pledged to allow Brandon an opportunity to regain an ownership position. Q In order for that to happen it was necessary to work with the hank consortium to obtain certain actions. Joines and Brandon said the following banks made it possible for Brandon to have an interest in the shopping center: Bank of America. Wachovia. BB&T. Centura Bank. First Citizens Bank. Piedmont Sav ings & Loan. Lexington State Bank, and Mechanics & Fanners Bank. Joines and Brandon acknowl edged that the banks made a tremendous effort in 1994 to make loans that al^wed Brandon to pur chase the reakestate and build East ay 'PtS/jfShnfipTng eemsrirrEast Winston, thereby helping to support the economy of the area . Representatives of the banks and the city came to/ether to work with Brandon, other local business owners arid members of the com munity for about two years before the loan finally came to fruition. When financial and other prob lems arose two years ago. the banks, led by Bank of America, worked with Brandon, the city and many concerned members of the commu nity to attempt to keep the shopping center open because of its positive influence on employment and the economy in East Winton. In a statement, the mayor and Brandon praised the banks for their previous actions and for their recent cooperative efforts to support Bran don's continued involvement with Eastway Pla/a Shopping Center. Supermodel Iman models a Fashion Targets Breast Cancer T-shirt as part of her duties as spokeswoman for the breast cancer awareness program. The T-shirts were on sale at Saks Fifth Avenue stores, and all proceeds from shirt sales over the Sept. 20 weekend went to breast cancer support programs all over the nation. Ralph Lauren designed the shirt. I.T. savvy alum to ? return to N.'C A&T SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE GREENSBORO - A&T alumnus Thomas A. Farring ton, president and CEO of Par tington Associates Inc., will be the keynote speaker for N.C. Agricultural and Techni- c. cal State University's annual Founders Day Program. The event will be held at 10 a.m. Oct'. 10, in Harrison Auditori um. Farrington is a widely rec ognized information technolo gy (I.T.) entrepreneur and business executive. In 1969 he founded Input Output Com puter Services (IOCS) and became a pioneer in.I.T. serv ices, participating in the evo lution of the major industry. Serving as i lit p r e s i - dent and i CEO of I IOCS, 1 Farring ton grew his com pany to m o r e | than a 400-per Farrington son organization. The company received numerous achievement awards, including the National Minority Service Firm of the Year in 1985 and was also rec ognized as one of the nation's top 100 black-owned busi nesses for more than 12 con secutive years. In 1994 Far rington founded Farrington Associates Inc., a technology consulting firm. In 2001, Farrrington authored a book titled "Bat tling the Killer Within." The book is about his experiences and the experiences of other men in treatment with him as he faced prostate cancer. This book has been widely hailed as an important contribution to fostering education and awareness about this disease, especially for African-Ameri cans and other men at high risk. Farrington has been involved extensively in indus try, civic and community activities. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Massachu setts Technology Park Corp. Farrington graduated from A&T in 1966 with a degree in electrical engineering. He continued his education at Northeastern University's Graduate School of Engineer ing in Boston, Mass.

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