- Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame M. Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is the mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Elected at age 31, he is the youngest mayor in the history of Detroit, as well as the second youngest current mayor of any major U.S. city. Kilpatrick briefly addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Prior to defeating City Council President Gil Hill (former Detroit police detective who also appeared in the Beverly Hills Cop films) in the 2001 mayoral election, … - Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia (b. March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy. d. November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania, United States, Obituary piece) was an Italian-born artist and modern furniture designer. At the age of 15 he traveled from Italy to Detroit to visit his older brother, however he chose to stay and enrolled in Cass Technical High School, where he studied art and design and learned the art of handmade jewelry making. - Geri Allen
Geri Allen (born June 12 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is a post bop jazz pianist and music educator from Detroit, Michigan, who has worked with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans. She is married to trumpeter Wallace Roney. - Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (born December 9, 1932) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter, born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Cass Technical High School. He performed with Lionel Hampton before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force, he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from Wayne State University and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music. - Regina Carter
Regina Carter (b. 1966) is an American jazz violinist. Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan, and began as a classical violinist but became increasingly interested in jazz, and is considered one of the finest violinists in the genre. Carter attended Cass Technical High School with close friend, Carla Cook, who was enthusiastic about jazz, and introduced her to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald. Cook went on to become a successful jazz singer. - Carla Cook
Carla Cook is Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist. A Detroit, Michigan native, music seized hold of Cook at an early age. As a student at Cass Technical High School she played string bass in the school orchestra, studied piano and voice on weekends, and sang in her church’s choir. An elder brother introduced her to jazz, Cook chose voice as her instrument of choice, and she became a disciple of jazz icon Eddie Jefferson, … - Shaun Robinson
Shaun Robinson (born 1962 in Detroit, Michigan) is a journalist, and co-anchor and correspondent for the show" Access Hollywood", the daily entertainment newsmagazine show. She is also the host of "TV One Access", a show on the TV One network produced by "Access" that brings viewers behind the velvet rope for an inside look at who's who in "Black Hollywood." Robinson is a graduate of Detroit's famous Cass Technical High School. - Carole Gist
Carole Anne-Marie Gist (born c. 1970) was the first African American woman to win the Miss USA title. Gist first won the title of Miss Michigan USA and went on to win the Miss USA crown on March 2 1990 in Wichita, Kansas. The 1990 pageant is to this day considered one the most competitive ever in the history of Miss USA, with representatives from Georgia (Brenda Leithleiter), Alaska (Karin Elizabeth Meyer), Kentucky (Tiffany Tenfelde), South Carolina (Gina Tolleson, … - Gerald Wilson
Gerald Stanley Wilson is an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer/arranger, and educator. He has been based in Los Angeles since the early 1940s. Wilson was born in Mississippi in 1918. He graduated from Cass Technical High School in Detroit. Wilson joined the Jimmie Lunceford orchestra in 1939, replacing its star trumpeter and arranger Sy Oliver. While with Lunceford, he contributed numbers to the band's book, … - Ella Joyce
Ella Joyce (born June 12 1954) is an American actress. Born Cherron Hoye in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Joyce graduated from the Performing Arts Curriculum at Cass Technical High School, and went on to attend the Dramatic Arts program at Eastern Michigan University. She has studied with several professional mentors, and worked in many regional theaters across America and overseas. - Tracy Reese
Tracy Reese (born on February 12, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American fashion designer. Tracy is the daughter of Claud (a manager) and Pat (a modern dance teacher). The women in the family always had an interest in sewing and would have contests to see who could complete an outfit first. This was when Tracy's interest in fashion first emerged. Tracy attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit where she was initially interested in interior design and architechure. - Daniel Okrent
Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer, editor and baseball fan. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of the "New York Times" newspaper. Daniel Okrent graduated from Cass Technical High School in Detroit. Okrent graduated in 1969 from the University of Michigan. Most of his career has been spent as an editor, at publishers including Alfred A. Knopf; Harcourt, Brace, … - Derrick Dial
Derrick Jonathon Dial (born December 20 1975 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player who played in the NBA. Dial graduated from Cass Technical High School. Dial played for Eastern Michigan University before being drafted in the second round by the NBA's San Antonio Spurs in 1998. Dial played for the Spurs until 2001. After that he played for the Toronto Raptors for the 2001-02 season and then the Orlando Magic for the 2003-04 season. - David H. Sanford
David H. Sanford is a professor of philosophy at Duke University. He specializes in perception and metaphysics. Sanford studied at Cass Technical High School, Oberlin College and at Wayne State University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1966, taught at Dartmouth College from 1963 to 1970, and joined the Duke Faculty in 1970. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Oregon. - Guy Frazier
Guy Frazier is a former National Football League linebacker who played for the Cincinnati Bengals (1981-84) and the Buffalo Bills (1985-86). He graduated from Detroit Cass Technical High School in 1977 and attended the University of Wyoming. He was drafted in the 4th round of the 1981 NFL draft by the Bengals and returned to Detroit in 1982 as a rookie year member of the Cincinnati Bengals Super Bowl XVI team. - Delores Ivory Davis
Delores Ivory Davis, mezzo soprano, is a graduate of Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan. She received her B.S. in Music Education from Wayne State University. She was born on January 3, 1939 to Henry Ivory and Willa Mae Frazier Ivory, both musicians. Ms. Davis is known internationally because of her performances in opera, oratorio, and performances with the Springfield (Mass.) Symphony, St. Paul Symphony, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. - Michael Reghi
Michael J. Reghi is an American television play-by-play announcer. He is best known for being the former play-by-play announcer with both the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association and the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. He served as the Cavaliers play-by-play announcer from December 1, 1994 through August 3, 2006. He is presently a basketball announcer for Mid-American Conference basketball on Fox Sports Net Ohio. - Barbara Meek
Barbara Meek (born February 26, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress. Barbara Meek is best-known for playing the character of Ellen Canby for two seasons on "Archie Bunker's Place". Meek is active member of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, and has appeared in almost 100 of their productions. She was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Juanita and Harold Meek, and she was the granddaughter of the Reverend Horatius "H.H." Coleman, … - Theodore Baskin
Theodore Baskin (Born June 14, 1950) has been Principal Oboe of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra since 1980. Born in Detroit, MI, he studied oboe with Arno Mariotti while at Cass Technical High School and John de Lancie while at the Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to his employment in the Montreal Symphony, he held posts in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Symphonia. - Diane Ernestine Earle Ross
Best known as the the lead singer of the popular 1960s singing group The Supremes, Diana Ross was born as Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children born to Fred and Ernestine. After being raised in housing projects for most of the late 1940s and early 1950s, Diana started singing in the gospel choir of a Baptist church. With friends Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Barbara Martin, she formed a vocal group, The Primettes, at age 15.... - Earl Shipp
Earl Shipp is President for Basic Chemicals of The Dow Chemical Company, serving on the Business Operations Committee and leading a group of six individual chemical businesses. Shipp joined Dow in 1981 in Freeport, Texas, after intern assignments with Dow in Michigan and Texas. Between 1981 and 1985, he held several manufacturing positions, including an assignment in Japan. Since 1985, he has held leadership positions in Texas, Ohio and Missouri. - Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell
Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell Public Health Nurse Administrator Detroit Health Department - Horace L. Jefferson
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Raphael Bernard Johnson was born January 1, 1975 and raised in the City of Detroit. He attended the University of Detroit Jesuit High School for 3 1/2 years on a scholarship sponsored by Boys Hope of Detroit. Raphael graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1993. In addendum to earning Paralegal/Legal Assistant certifications from Blackstone School of Law, Business Courses were successfully completed at Montcolm Community college in Sidney, Michigan. - Lenore Coral
Lenore was visible in many scholarly and library organizations, among them the Music Library Association (MLA), the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML), the American Musicological Society (AMS), the Royal Musical Association (RMA), the Sonneck Society for American Music (now the Society for American Music; SAM), and the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG), of which she was a founding member. - Reverend Claudette Jefferson Jr
Reverend Leon is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and a graduate of Cass Technical High School. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Masters of Business Administration from Wayne State University. He has been married to Reverend Claudette Jefferson for 37 years. They have two adult sons, Leon III and Evan Jason. He believes that in order to have a strong church you need to have strong families and in order to have strong families you need to have strong marriages. - Harry Begian
Dr. Begian is a recipient of the National Band Association Citation of Excellence, the American School Band Directors Association Edwin Franko Goldman Award, the Notre Dame St. Cecelia Award, and was elected to the Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts. His more than 60 LP recorded performances with the University of Illinois Symphonic Bands comprise one of the largest and finest collections of recorded band performances in existence. - Lamar Willis
Lamar Willis Director of Music Lamar Willis was born on January 25, 1982 to Walter and Patricia Willis. Lamar attended Chrysler Elementary School and started piano lessons at Detroit Art Center Music School at age 5. Lamar was enrolled in the Civic Youth Chorus at the age of seven. Lamar moved on to Whitney Young Magnet Middle School where he joined the school’s award-wining choir and participated in a choir competition in Toronto, Canada. - Onita Sanders
Onita Sanders graduated from Cass Technical High School. She received a B.S. in Education from Wayne State University. Onita has received formal training in harp from Velma Froude and Harvi Griffin, voice from Celeste Cole and Avery Crew, piano from Julius Chajas and Albert Filmore, and jazz from Bess Bonnier and Matt Michaels. An accomplished musician, Onita is listed as a Performing Educator with Wolf Trap Early Education, Omniarts in Education, and Young Audiences of Michigan. - Kim Delaney
Kim Delaney , Academy Coordinator was born and raised in the city of Detroit. She attended Cass Technical High School and received her Bachelor's degree in Finance from Wayne State University and continues to challenge herself by pursuing a Masters in Business Administration at Wayne State University as well. She assists her husband in owning and managing a unisex salon in Oak Park, Michigan. - Norméa Banner
I have worked with youth in Detroit for over 5 years, specializing in creating foundations for future success. Having identified parents and families as the biggest contributor to the success of youth, I have worked to encourage parents and other adults to be positively involved in their child's lives - at home and in the community. I have developed skills in volunteer coordination, special event planning, project/program management, sales & recruiting, and resource management. - Ted Maciag
Hello and Welcome!; After falling victum to downsizing at BASF I have moved on to the world of finance. I specialize in personal refinance and small business restructuring. I can procure hard and soft monies for projects upto 10M dollars. I also have a new network of financial professionals that can assist you with other objectives or strategy planning. Additionally, I am a licensed Realtor with Heritage GMAC. I look forward to working with those of you that are in or around the . . . - Paul Meriweather
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George A. Hilborn George A. Hilborn is a native Detroiter, a graduate of Cass Technical High School in 1954. George received his B.A. from Wayne State University, along with a Secondary Education Certification from Wayne State's College of Education. He was consistently on the Dean's List at Wayne State. George graduated from Detroit College of Law in 1972. - Diane Lesley
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