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James Cash Jr. is the first and only Black tenured full professor at
the Harvard University Business School.
James Cash:
Harvard University's
Computer Whiz Professor
James I. Cash Jr., the first and only Black tenured full professor at
the Harvard University Graduate School of Business, is profiled in the Octo
ber Ebony.
Cash joined Harvard in 1976 as an assistant professor and became a
full professor by 1985 which he says "was the fastest you can do it if you
come in at the bottom ." The professor, with a Ph.D. in management infor
mation systems, has recent college grads and executives from top corpora
tions as students; oversees a multi-million dollar project to electronically
access the school's information "banks"; and travels the world doing com
puter research. He has introduced four computer courses for the MBA
program, written three computer-related books and organized the com
puter club, one of the school's most popular student organizations.
Cash got hooked on computers when he was an honor student at all-
Black I.M. Terrell High School in Texas. Thrilled by the "surge of power
you can get only when you feel like you have command of the machine,"
he knew he wanted to work with computers. Cash even has three com
puters at home.
In school, he also excelled in sports, which led the Pittsburg Pirates to
draft him for baseball in his senior year in high school. The Seattle Super-
sonics drafted him for basketball when he attended Texas Christian Univer
sity, where he made sports history as the first Black to play college basket
ball in the Southwest Conference in 1965.
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Black Press Honor Roll
Stanley S. Scott, Vice President, Philip Morris Companies, Inc.,
second from right, greets descendants of heroes of the Black media during
the recent Black Press Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies sponsored by
the Afro-American Newspapers. With Scott are, from left: Christopher
Perry IV, great grand son of Christopher Perry, the founder of "The Phila
delphia Tribune"; Nettie Douglass Morris, great grand-daughter of Frede
rick Douglass, abolitionist and founder of "The North Star," and Alfreda
Farrell, grand daughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, co-founder of "The Mem
phis Free Speech" and a co-founder in 1909 of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Scott, who was the
guest speaker for the Black Press Hall of Fame's induction ceremony,
began his career as a journalist for America's first Black-owned, daily
newspaper, "The Atlanta Daily W orld," a publication founded by his father
Lewis A. Scott.
Dorothye H. Boswell, Executive Director of the National Associa
tion for Sickle Cell Disease, Inc., received contributions totaling
$15,000 at the NASCD annual conference held recently in Balti
more, M D. The donations were made in matching checks of $7500
each by (L) Cornell McBride, President of M & M Products Company,
and (R) Edward H. King, Director of Governmental and Public
Affairs of The Walgreen Corporation. The donations resulted from
a National Black History Month campaign conducted earlier this
year by M & M Products. M & M Products pledged .50 cents to
NASCD for every purchase of several of its products during the two
month effort. Walgreens committed to match the M & M Products
contribution.
The first newspaper printed on a train was the Weekly Herald, a single
sheet, printed on both sides. It was issued by Thomas Alva Edison and
the first known issue was dated Port Huron, Michigan, February 3,1862.
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