The University Diversity Committee invites the campus community to attend the Conversations on Diversity Series featuring

Dorothy E. Inghram

"San Bernardino: Then and Now"

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Noon - 1:30 pm

Santos Manuel Student Union

Events Center

Dorothy E. Inghram has lived nearly all of her life in San Bernardino.  She has been an educational pioneer, a mentor and role model to countless students, and a quiet activist for equality and civil rights.

She was the first African-American teacher in San Bernardino County and California's first African-American school district's superintendent.  In 1929, as a student, she composed the music for San Bernardino Valley's College's alma mater, which is still used today.  She is the author of five books including "Beyond All This," an account of her family's history in San Bernardino and of other African-Americans living in the area during the period 1888-1971.  A branch of the San Bernardino public library bears her name and in 2003, she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Cal State San Bernardino.

Today at the age of 102, she still works out on the treadmill, drives herself to church regularly, belongs to several community groups, bowls in a league and speaks at various events.

Past Conversations on Diversity Events:

Culture and Gender through Dance

Portraits of Courage

Faces of America

Julie Chavez Rodriguez "Si Se Puede"