Jimmy Heath

Jimmy Heath, a legend and a muscial geniuis. A man filled with so much history and had seen so many historical events with his own eyes. Mr. Heath was a man with a musical gift! As he sat in front of us and talked I just felt honored to be in his presence. He was such a nice guy and a humble man. The stories he told us were just so amazing to hear. He told us about how He met Duke Ellington and a lot of other jazz legends. Mr. Heath also told us that his journey in life was not easy, but that did not stop him from accomplishing his dream.

Jay Bogust

"Never judge a book by its cover" is how the old saying goes, and it is so true. We were all sitting in class when Mr. Chambers told this guy to come in and speak to us. When this guy walked in he suprised the class with his attire because of how he was dressed. He was wearing shorts and a T-shirt like he had just came from the gym; the whole class was looking at him dazed to see what he was goin to talk to us about. Mr. Bogust began to talk and all the students faces in the class began to change from dazed to amazed. He told us that he graduated from North Carolina Central University in the 90's, and he used to work on the Campus Echo. Today, Mr. Bogust works for USA Today as a Sports Editor, gets to travel for free, and loves his job. Wow! I had to say I was truley impressed. It was obivious to see that Mr. Bogust was definitely living his dream.

Phyillis Cooley

Phyillis Cooley stopped in on our class to talk to us about what she did for a living and about accomplishing your dreams. One could tell that Mrs. Cooley was a focused woman and about buisness, which helped you understand why she was so successful. Mrs. Cooley was the Editor and Publisher for SpectactularMagazine, Event Planner for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade, and the Juneteenth Chairman. Wow, talk about being busy but Mrs. Cooley does very well with time management and stressed to us the importance of being on time. Mrs. Cooley let us know hard works pays off because even though she is very busy, she works for herself.

Autobiography

Writing my Autobiography was alot easier than writing my Obitituary if you know what I mean. As I wrote my Autobiography it brought back alot of memories some good and some bad. It made me think about my life and all the things that I had been through and where I am now. It was funny writing my Autobiography because I would have never have imagined that I would be where I am now, it was nobody but God that has brought me this far and I am truely grateful. I pray that there will definitely be some more chapters in this book before the Lord calls me home, and I am just grateful to know that the Lord will continue to have his hand on my life and guide Me down the right path.

Obitituary Assignment

I sat down and begin to write my Obitituary and I thought to myself what was the purpose, once I was finished I understood exactly why Mr. Chambers gave us this assignment. This assignment help me refocus my goals and help speak my dreams into exsistence. After I finished my Obitituary Assignment I looked at what I had wrote and I told myself I was determined to make all these things come true. It was interesting because we had to read our Obitituary in class, and it was very interesting to hear some of my classmates dreams. We have a talented class and a lot people headed in the right direction!

Obitituary

I read my Obitituary in class and that was a lot harder than I thought. It was already difficult to write my Obitituary for class, but when I got up and read it in class I got real emotion.The reason I got emotional while reading it was because I was thinking to myself that one day somebody is really going to be reading my Obititiuary and hopefully it will say the same thing that I am reading now. Expect for a few changes because I do not really know my wife's name yet or my childern and I do not know really when I am going to die. I do hope though that I will be able to accomplish my dreams and they will be in my Obitituary that would definetly mean a lot to me.

Camille

It was interesting to see somebody from Central that had graduated and were doing their thing. Working a job for a big time news company and even ending back in his hometown definetly seemed like he got the perfect deal. I liked his story of how he worked hard to get where he was at and doing whatever it took to get there. Pulling cables for ESPN and doing stories for ABC unpaid showed his dedication to being succesful. He seemed like he was a down to earth guy and was serious about his work. As I sat down and listened to Mr. Camille, I began to wonder how many years it would be before I would be able to come back to NCCU and talk to some students about the job world.

The Weather Man

As I walked in the classroom I had forgot that we were supposed to have a speaker that day. I sat down and began to listen to the speaker talk and I realized that he was very articulate and I could tell that he worked on TV. He said that he worked for NBC 17 and that he was their weatherman. He informed me on a lot of things that I did not know while he was speaking, but that I needed to hear. To me the speaker seemed like a humble guy, who was not big headed from his job, and was not caught up in the nostalgia of being on TV. I really respected that about him. He just seemed like a guy that had a dream of being a weatherman and he accomplished that dream; which I also respected about him. I pray that one day that I will be able to speak in a room to people and somebody will write about what I said and one of the things they will say is that he was a man with a dream and he accomplished it. God Bless!

Erica McCrae

As I listened to Erica talk about the things that she was doing and the things that she accomplished it felt good to hear somebody from Central actually accomplishing their dream. I thought she made some very interesting statements while she was talking to the class. One of the things she said that stuck with me was when she said orginally she went to Clark Atlanta University but then transferred to North Carolina Central University. That was interesting to me because orginally I had thought about going to Clark Atlanta University for their Mass Comm program because I had heard such great things about their program. Similar to how people talk about North Carolina Central University Criminal justice program. Erica then stated how it was not a family atmosphere at Clark Atlanta University and how it was basically everyone was on their own. That is when I truly realized how grateful I was that I choose to come here because North Carolina Central University is a family!

Inaugration 2009

I believe Sam Cooke put it best "It has been a long time coming but I know Change gonna come" and He could not have said it any better. That is the song that plays through my head as I watch the Inaugration 2009 of Barack Obama. To think that 50 years ago that a black man could not even sit in the resturant with white people but today be the President of America. Our parents, grandparents, and ancesters thought they would never see this day but "dreams" do come true. I believe that now and as I looked out at the crowd and saw our people I understand why they were crying because people gave their life in order for this day to happen and now it is here. "Free at Last, Free at Last, and let Freedom ring!!!"

MLK Jr

It seems like today alot of people in the african american culture feel as if the dream has been forgotten and I would have to disagree. I feel it is more an evoloution of a culture than amnesia and I believe that a lot of Martin Luther King Jr Dreams were accomplished for Black People. I also believe that it was a lot of things that were brought into our culture that hurt us as a culture more than it helped us.

Bryon Pitts

After listening to Bryon Pitts give his speech. You felt as if you were listening to a man that wanted to make it and he did and now he was giving you advice on how you could make it also. The advice he was giving was good advice but it is funny because it seems like everyone that makes it has the same advice to give you. "You must be twice as good being the minority" and "Claim your dreams and speak truth into them." Are things you hear a lot of people say who have made it and are trying to help you get there it seems like its a certain path to success and they want to help you get on it.