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2005 Minority Health Conference, February 25,
2005
Introduction for William T. Small Jr. Keynote
Lecture by Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
Until
his retirement in 1999, Dean William Small was Associate Dean
and Senior Advisor for Multicultural Affairs in the School of
Public Health.
Dedicated,
compassionate, trusted, and insightful, Dean Small has been a
friend to students of all backgrounds, and a special friend to
minority students - seeking them out, opening doors, finding money
for them, going to bat for them in so many ways and often without
their even knowing, and staying available to them all the way
through their degree programs - and after.
Dean
Small's contributions go well beyond the School of Public Health.
Together with a fellow UNC SPH alumnus, Dean Small established
the undergraduate program in industrial hygiene and safety at
St. Augustine's College, the first such program at a historically
black institution of higher learning.
He
is also a long-time faculty member at North Carolina Central University,
and has served on numerous boards and commissions, including as
vice-chair of the Durham County Board of Health.
Dean
Small's service has been recognized with awards from the student
body of the School of Public Health and its Minority Student Caucus,
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from
its Black Alumni, and from the Black Caucus of Health Workers
of APHA.
Dean
Small and his wife Rosa remain strong supporters of the Conference
that he guided for its first two decades. Please join me in an
expression of appreciation to Dean William and Rosa Small.
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Joining
me as co-presider is Christopher Heaney, doctoral student in the
Dept of Epidemiology and Conference Co-chair. Mr. Heaney will
moderate the question and comment period after the Lecture.
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We
are all very excited to have Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. with
us today and to be able to share his lecture with satellite participants
in 27 states and over 200 Internet viewers.
Dr.
Taylor is Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
School of Architecture and Planning, and Director of the Center
for Urban Studies, at the University at Buffalo in New York.
Dr.
Taylor's teaching explores the urban building process, the role
that race, class, and gender play in shaping the urban environment,
and ways that planners can develop urban regions that meet the
human needs of people of color.
His
research focuses on black residential development and city and
regional building at particular historical periods and over time.
He is also working on a book about race and Cuba's neighborhood-based
development strategy.
As
Director of the Center for Urban Studies, Dr. Taylor uses the
resources of the university to attack structural racism and the
problems of distress and neighborhood underdevelopment in Western
New York. He is currently leading a major community development
project encompassing urban school reform, commercial corridor
revitalization, and neighborhood improvement.
Dr.
Taylor has received the William Wells Brown Award for Outstanding
Contributions to the Preservation of African American History,
the Fannie Mae Foundation Award for the Best Paper on Practice-based
Learning in Housing or Community Development, and the YMCA Toast
to Buiffalo Award for Outstanding Community Leadership.
Please
welcome Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
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