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Alumni Profile

                                                              
In the late 1940s, a journeyman carpenter and former Navy cook with the resonant name of Ulysses Byas (M.A., 1952) left New York City because he couldn’t find a decent paying job.
“They did me a favor, and I’m glad of it,” Byas, now 85, says in his deep Southern accent.


The beneficiaries would ultimately include thousands of southern black children and their families. To make a long story short—a phrase Byas often uses—he returned home to Georgia, excelled at an all-black college despite having twice dropped out of high school, was offered an elementary school principalship, went back to New York City to earn his master’s degree in Educational Administration at Teachers College, and eventually became principal of all-black Fair Street High School in Gainesville, Georgia, where he convinced the white public that the school—supposedly among the best black institutions in the state—was woefully under-resourced on every level.

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 Upcoming Alumni Events
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2/8/2010   Equity Symposium, Teachers College
2/12/2010    Phoenix Alumni Reception in conjunction with the AASA Conference 
2/23/2009    Tisch Lecture featuring Robert Siegler 
3/4/2010    Alumni Reception, Chicago in conjunction with the NASPA & NASP   Conferences
3/12/2014    National Conference of State Legislators, Teachers College
3/25/2010    TESOL Conference, Boston, MA
4/8/2010    ICCCR 6th Annual Morton Deutsch Awards for Distinguished Contributions   to Social Justice
4/16/2010    Los Angeles Admissions Reception
4/17/2010    San Francisco Admissions Reception
4/23/2010    Nursing Luncheon
4/24/2010    Academic Festival 2010
4/28/2010    London Alumni Reception
5/2/2010    Denver A lumni Reception in Conjunction with the AERA Conference
7/15/2010    Boston Admissions Reception
7/25/2010    Atlanta Admissions Reception

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