Look Back ... to an early Cub Scout troop for Black boys in Piedmont, 1948

Bill Edwards, The Anniston Star, Ala.
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Oct. 19—Oct. 19, 1948, in The Star: The first Cub Scout pack for Black boys in the Ladiga district was registered this week with the Choccolocco Council. The pack, sponsored by Bethune High School in Piedmont, will be led by Cubmaster John W. Gregg and by den mothers Mrs. John W. Gregg and Mrs. George Alexander. Drawing from the 9-12 age group, the Piedmont pack counts Willie James Thomas, Tommy Lee Prater, James Boyd Alexander, Joe Louis and James Moody in its membership.

Oct. 19, 1998, in The Star: Anthony Robbins, who graduated from Jacksonville State University in 1982 and is now a vice president for Silicon Graphics Inc., has been chosen as JSU's Alumnus of the Year. Through Robbins, Silicon Graphics donated 10 high-performance O2 desktop workstations to JSU's computer science department. Martha McCormick, head of the Mathematical Computing and Information Systems Department at JSU, said the donated systems "have been instrumental in enhancing the university's computer science and chemistry curricula by several orders of magnitude." Robbins and his family live in Columbia, Md., where they are expecting a fourth child in November.