A00457 - Reflections on the Amherst College Black Alumni Memorial Service on November 6, 2025: The Time for Remembrance by Everett Jenkins

 After the Libation Ceremony by Junius Williams came "The Time for Remembrance: Honoring Those Who Have Joined the List of Ancestors Since the Last Reading of the Names".  This addition of names for this Memorial Service was extraordinary in that over fifty new names were added to List since the 2021 Memorial Service.  This rather significant increase in names came about due to the work of Matt Randolph, Class of 2016, whose "Remembering Dunbar" article was the source of a large number of previously unknown Black Alumni along with the work of the students and staff associated with the Amherst College Racial Reconciliation Project.  Below is the list of the additional names.   It represents an historical expansion of the African American presence at Amherst College -- a presence which we have only begun to fully understand.


Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins
Class of 1975
November 24, 2025

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Deceased Black Alumni


1901

George David Jenifer


1905 

Robert Henry Meriwether


1907

George Willard Johnson


1909

Edward Foster Newport


1923 

George Nolen Calloway

Charles Dudley Lee


1925

George Winston Harry


1926

Robert Tillinghurst Curtis

George Edgar Gilmer

William Charles Thomas 


1929

Ulysses Grant Mason, Jr.

Jonathan Edward Reed


1930

Joseph Hoskins Harris


1931

Carl Curtis Beckwith

Max Ganey Bowens


1934 

Harry Greene Risher


1940

Highwarden Just 


1949

Toussaint Timothy Tildon, Jr. 


1959

Lawrence Rogers Burwell           


1960

Leon Joseph Du Bois                   

James S. Jackson, Jr.


1961

Theodore Charles Jones


1965

Julian Raymond Davis, Jr.


1967

Jidlaph Gitau Kamoche


1968

Jaafar Kassem-Ali


1970 

Jamson Sulemani Lwebuga-Mukasa


1974

Franklin Owens, Jr.                   


1975

Edward Sommerville McCatty

Gerald Wayne Stover                    

Robert Willingham Yancey           


1977

Quentin Frederick Atherley

David Menilek Goodwin       


1978

Otho Wells Artis, II


1983

Beverly Elaine Allen


1984

Margaret Rose Vendryes              


1991

Derrick Andrew Lawrence           


2000

Dana Alexis Perry-Hunter         


2005

Renee Marika Chung                    


2009

Chike Bartholomew Nnaji       


2013

Omar Wallace Brown, Jr.   


2014

Reyane Nafi Jeni Mbaye     


2015

Morgan Ashly Venezia    


2024             

Kiiren Aamer Jackson


Faculty


Staff

Elizabeth "Liz" Agosto

Alexander Morton

Richard McDougald O'Daniel

Robert Gilbert Roberts


The Honorary Amherst College Friends

Robert C. Follette, Jr., Amherst College Employee - Friend of Amherst College Black Alumni (Long Time Director of Valentine Dining Hall)

Kenneth Joseph Howard (Amherst College Class of 1966), "The White Shadow" of Manhasset High School (Manhasset, New York), Television's "The White Shadow" and Pudd'nhead Wilson and the President of Screen Actors Guild

Charles Milson Stillman (Amherst College Class of 1967), Descendant of Founder of Stillman College, a HBCU; Long-Time Trustee of Stillman College; Two Million Dollar Benefactor of Stillman College

David W. Wills (Amherst College Professor of Religion) The General Editor of the African American Religion: A Documentary History Project 


The Town of Amherst Friends

Amos Newport


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Amherst College Black Alumni Memorial Service

November 6, 2025

7 – 9 p.m. ET on Zoom

Order of Service


Welcoming Remarks   Everett Jenkins ’75
Amherst Afro-American Society, Minister of Information 1972-1973; Amherst Afro-American Society, Chairman 1974


Musical Selection: My Tribute (To God Be the Glory) by Wintley Phipps 


Introductions


The Libation Ceremony       Junius Williams ’65, H’24
National Bar Association President 1978-1979; Amherst College Honorary Degree 2024


A Time for Remembrance       Everett Jenkins ’75

Honoring Those Who Have Joined the List of Ancestors Since the Last Reading of the Names


The Legacy Address          Walter White ’76

Grandson of Frederick Allen Parker, Sr. 1920, H’73; Nephew of Frederick Allen Parker, Jr. ’60; Brother of Adrienne White Faines ’82; Brother-in-Law of Larry Faines ’82; Cousin of Frederick Cliver ’86; Father of Alexandre White ’10; and Uncle of Nicholas Neisser ’14


Musical Selection: Precious Lord by Ellis Moss ’79


A Prayer by Gregory Domingue ’72 


A Reading of the Memorial List


A Memorial Message       Dr. Cuthbert “Tuffy” Simpkins ’69
Author of a biography on John Coltrane; Founder, President and Chief Innovation Officer of Vivacelle Bio; and the first Chairman of the Amherst Afro-American Society (1968)




Musical Selection: People Get Ready by Ellis Moss ’79


Amherst College Black Alumni Memorial Service, Continued


A Special Remembrance               Everett Jenkins ’75
Honoring Carol Holt Miller (’75 Mount Holyoke College) and Nancy Holt Miller


Musical Selection: My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion


Concluding Scripture: Matthew 5:1-16     Antonio Jackson ’78E, F’76

Attorney and Community Planner; Master of City Planning from UPenn; Juris Doctor from University of Richmond; Amherst College Wade Fellow 2000




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