Looking ahead, the 2004-2005 Academic Year will be a time of great celebration for Curry College as it reaches it 125th anniversary. Already a number of plans are taking shape as a year long series of events, programs, reunions, and continued enhancements to academic programs and the campus take place.

Established in 1879 by Anna Baright Curry as the School of Expression in the heart of Boston, Curry College today has g rown significantly in both prominence among the colleges of New England and in promise for a future that will continue to "change people’s live for the better" for generations yet to be born.

The celebration will begin in the Spring of 2004. Anniversary details, dates, and ways to become invo l ved will be coming to alumni, parents, and friends throughout the next several months via the mail, e-mail and Curry website @ www.curry.edu.

Dr. Randolph W. Bromery celebrated the life of W.E.B. Dubois in February 2003 at the 8th Annual Diop Roundtable, sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Institutional Committee on Diversity, the Student Government Association and the Dean's Fund.

Dr. Randolph W. Bromery is former president of Roxbury Community College and former Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Bromery served with the all-black unit of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Howard University. For the next twenty years, Dr. Bromery was employed as an airborne exploration geophysicist while earning master’s and doctoral degrees part-time and at night. He is the recipient of eight honorary degrees from around the world and recently completed nearly 55 years in higher education and government service, having previously served as president of Springfield College, Chancellor of the Board of Regents for Higher Education under Governors Dukakis and Weld , and as president of Westfield State College.

While serving as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dr. Bromery was instrumental in securing a permanent home at the university for the archival writings of the civil rights pioneer and scholar W.E.B. Dubois. Dr. Bromery spoke to the Curry community on the contributions of Dr. Dubois in Africa and in America at a standing ro o m only lecture in the Parents' Lounge.

Dr. W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Dubois (1868-1963) was a sociologist, author, and one of the most influential civil rights leaders of the first half of the 20th century. Dr. Dubois was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard Un iversity in 1896 and shared in the founding of the National Association

for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, in 1909. In his time, Dr. Dubois collaborated with fellow Pan-Africanist Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, for whom the round table is named. Professor Diop is considered one of the greatest scholars to emerge in the African world in the twentieth century.

The Diop Roundtable at Curry College has brought together academics, professionals, and community leaders in the Boston area to discuss important topics in sociology, politics, history and linguistics. Dr. Magueye Seck, Professor of Sociology at Curry College, established the Diop Roundtable at Curry College, which has covered many topics over the years including slavery, Ebonics, and modern day terrorism.