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Clifton Wharton

Female Black Civic Leader Dies at 97

Dolores was elected the first woman and first Black to the boards of three corporations: Phillips Petroleum, the multinational food company Kellogg’s—where she initiated and chaired both companies’ first social responsibility committees—and the media company Gannett. She also served on the boards of both Michigan Bell Telephone and New York Telephone, the Michigan Council on the Arts under Gov. William Milliken, and was appointed by President Gerald Ford as a founding member to the National Council on the Arts. In…
June 11, 2025

Former SUNY Chancellor Wharton Interviewed By Chartock On WAMC

Former SUNY Chancellor Wharton Interviewed By Chartock On WAMC COOPERSTOWN – Retired SUNY Chancellor Clifton R. Wharton Jr. was interviewed on his new memoir, “Privilege & Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer,” this afternoon by WAMC-FM President Alan Chartock. Wharton, who has summered on Otsego Lake for the past two decades, was greeted by an SRO crowd when he spoke on his book Sept. 20 at The Fenimore Art Museum auditorium LISTEN TO DR. WHARTON’S WAMC APPEARANCE…
October 15, 2015

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

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