1975 MPH graduate of the UNC School of Public Health, Department of Health Administration [now the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management]. Before receiving my degree, I completed a seven-month internship in the Cleveland County, NC local health department, as part of the "Non-Medical Health Directors Training program". My subsequent career included 24 years as a local health director and deputy health director in North Carolina (Sampson, Lee and Cumberland Counties).
UNC-Chapel Hill Black Alumni Reunion Black Pioneers (1952-1972)October 2024 Discussion (Parents/Daughters Alumni) and Golden Rams/50th Class Anniversary, Town Talk TV per Rev. Rose Highland-Sharpe, UNC '80. Black Pioneers Committee Participants: Judge Donnie Hoover '71, Chair; Otto White '65, Invocation; Walter A. Jackson '67, Past Chair, Memorial Tribute; Dr. Rita L. Joyner '09 (PhD), Chair, UNC Black Alumni Reunion Planning Committee/Golden Rams Induction; Stacie Hewett, BAR Planning Committee - Logistics. Discussion Panel (Generations/Family, Alumni): Erika J. Hines '11 ('17, MBA, Duke Fuqua School/Business), Eugene C. Hines Jr '72 ('75 MPH), Granddaughter/Grandfather; Nora Wilson Dennis '01 ('08 MSPH) ('10, MD, Duke), Dr. Joanne A. Peebles Wilson '69 ('73, MD, Duke), Daughter/Mother; Rhonda Hubbard Beatty '87, Edith Hubbard '65 (MACT '69), Daughter/Mother.