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CIBA-GEIGY Poster Series Honors Exceptional Black Scientists

"It is necessary to develop all of our human resources as fully as possible. We cannot afford to have even one young black girl or boy fail to develop as a scientist just because she or he never dreamed that a black person could have a substantive career in the sciences." That's how Dr. Augustus A. White, III, orthopaedic surgeon-in-chief at Boston's Beth Isreal Hospital, has described the goals of the CIBA-GEIGY Exceptional Black Scientists Poster Series. Dr. White, who is honored in the 1982 series, added that the poster program "also recognizes that there is a need for more balance in the types of role models presented to our black youth."

Since 1980, more than 200,000 posters portraying 15 scientists have been distributed throughout the United States and overseas. The posters are displayed at conventions of the National Science Teachers Association, NAACP and National Urban League, among others, and the scientists are frequently on-hand to meet visitors and autograph their posters. 

Several of the scientists' portraits, which were painted by noted artist and illustrator Ernest Crichlow, have been presented to leading research institutions in the past five years. The potrait of Dr. W. Montague Cobb, medical educator and past president of the NAACP, was presented to the NAACP at its 1981 national convention by A.M. MacKinnon, president of CIBA-GEIGY. Later that year, the portrait of chemist Dr. Percy L. Julian, honored in the 1980 series, was presented to the National Institutes of Health.

During 1982 the portrait of Dr. Lloyd N. Ferguson, professor of organic chemistry at California State University at Los Angeles, was given to that university. The Massachesetts Institute of Technology received the portrait of Dr. Shirly Ann Jackson, who serves on MIT's board of trustees and has actively recruited minorities to the institution. On the first anniversary of his death, the portrait of Dr. Samuel L. Kountz was presented to the Harlem Hospital Center during ceremonies dedicating a hospital pavilion in his name. A kidney transplant surgeon, Dr. Kountz was honored in the 1983 poster series. 

In 1984 portrait presentations of the following scientists were made: Dr. Ernest Evertt Just to Dartmouth College, Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb to Talladega College, Dr. Augustus A. White, III to Brown University and Dr. Jennie R. Patrick to Tuskegee Institute.

In 1985 three more portrait presentations are planned: Dr. Walter E Massey to Morehouse College, Dr. Reatha Clark King to Clark College in Atlanta and Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. to Howard University College of Medicine. Also honored in the poster series are mathematician Dr. David Blackwell, physician Dr. Charles R. Drew, and cancer researcher Dr. Jane C. Wright.