Counts’ Honors And Awards Are
Numerous!
Howard Counts
.Data Processing manager
puier airaiegy ana Man
ning Workshop in Walker’s
City, Bahamas, and Co
ordinator and Director of
Computer Center Design
Installation at Celanese
Colombiana in Bogota,
Colombia, South America,
all in 1961; and speaker for
Large System Hardware
and Software Direction at
Hoogovens Steel Visitation
Seminar in the Nether
lands and Charlotte, 1961.
The professional achieve
ments Counts is proud of
exist at Celanese, “I’m one
of the few Mack execu
tives in Celanese manage
ment in Charlotte. I have
been able to travel ex
tensively both domestically
and internationally in Ca
nada, Mexico, and South
America while I was doing
installation planning of
computer machinery. That
has been the most reward
ing for me. Another thing is
being able to command
respect from those who are
very high up in the or
ganization as well as those
who are lower in the or
ganization,” be announced.
One of the other achieve
ments occurred while he
and his wife lived In New
palti, N.Y., during 1971-73.
“Stephanie, Assistant
Principal at Randolph Jun
ior High School, and I
worked together with mi
grant workers and helped
them develop a program
for their own self-enrich
ment and education. She
was employed at State Uni
versity of New York as an
instructor, and she devel
oped a Black Student Cur
riculum for public schools
and set up an Urban Cen
ter. I worked in Georgia as
an instructor with black
graduate students who ma
jored in Computer Science
and Statistics so they could
graduate .and get into in
dustry,” Counts remin
isced.
He confessed that there
aren’t many blacks in data
processing, which he de
scribes as rewarding and
lucrative, today compared
• to 20 years ago. “You
don’t have to be mathe
matical but able to think
r— 1 -
out solutions logically. I
spent the last two years in
Career Development for
my fraternity, Kappa Al
pha Psi, and stressed to
high school juniors and
seniors the need of contin
uing their education, the
effect that data processing
will have on the world, and
why they should expose
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more exposure, the more
prepared they’ll be in the
Industry. I also told them
that if they want to get into
the business world, edu
cation is important and
enables them to raise their
concentration on the ability
to communicate (verbal,
written as well as effective
listening), understand, the
financial world and work
effectively with people on
all levels.” -.
Counts adds that there
are a lot of blacks in very
high positions within data
processing and that they
rise to the top very quick
ly. “Primarily; blacks
seem to apply themselves
more towards this career.”
Black History Month
isn’t important to Counts
because it recognizes the
achievements of past and
present black leaders in the
community and on the na
tional level solely. “It’s a
time when we should recog
nize the achievements
within the black family
structure. My father, the
late Rev. Dr. Herman L.
Counts, was the most sig
nificant person in my life.
He taught at Johnson C.
Smith University for 30
years in the Theology and
Philosophy Departments
and was very well respect
ed in the community. All of
us have someone within the
family who makes us real
ize how we’ve gotten whore
we are today, because we
wouldn’t be where we are if
it weren’t for that person.
It’s a time in which we can
show our appreciation to
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The son of the late Rev.
Dr. Herman L. Counts and
Oletha W. Counts has two
brothers-Herman and Wil
son—and one sister, Mrs.
Dorothy Scoggins. He and
his wife Stephanie have one
- son, Jonathan, six, and
attend Memorial United
Presbyterian Church
where Rev. Edward New
—berry is pastor. Counts is a.
1965 graduate of West
Charlotte High School and
attended one year at Phil
lips Exeter Academy, a
prep school in Exeter, New
Hampshire. During his
freshman year; he attend
ed Knox College (111.), and
transferred to Johnson C.
Smith University where he
received a B.S. degree in
Mathematics. He received
additional graduate work
in Mathematics and Statis
tics from the University of
Georgia (Athens) where he
received a Master’s degree
in Computer Science and *
— Statistics. He is also in
the process of opening a -
_ computer center and
makes periodic trips”®
Dallas. Howard Counts has
been a member of the
Kappa Alpha Psi Fratern
ity since 1968 where he was
former Polemarch, 1971-72,
and member of the Char
lotte Alumni Chapter of the
fraternity: Executive •_>»
Board of Friends of John
—son C. Smith University;
National Board of Celanese
EEO Committee; Guide
and Share International.
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