| GGranddaughter of Robert Taylor (Dan II)
Dr. Anita Taylor Mosley joins the faculty as an assistant professor in the
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
 Dr. Anita Taylor Mosley earned a BS in Chemistry from
Alabama State University in 1991 and a PhD in Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
from Purdue University in 1998. She then joined the faculty of Campbell
University School of Pharmacy where she taught several courses in the BS and MS
degree programs. In 2000, she received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.
Her research interests include drug solubilization, nanoparticle technology and
dosage form design.
Dr. Mosley is a member of the American Association of
Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
She has represented the university as the delegate to the USP Convention. She
has also served as faculty advisor for several student organizations including
Student National Pharmaceutical Association, Kappa Epsilon, and the
International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering. She was also appointed
chair of the university’s Multi-Cultural Council and worked in an advisory
capacity for Pre-Pharmacy, BSPS and MSPS students.
The Son of Herbert Taylor (Dan II)
Moddie Daniel
Taylor was born in Nymph, Alabama on March 3, 1912. He received a Bachelor of
Science from Lincoln University, Missouri in 1935 and a Master of Science in
1938 from the University of Chicago. Taylor earned a Doctorate of Science from
the University of Chicago in 1943, where he worked on the University of
Chicago's Manhattan Project during World War II. The University of Chicago's
task was to demonstrate that a fissionable material could achieve critical mass,
thus proving that nuclear fission could be used as an energy source (or a weapon
-- the atomic bomb).
Dr. Taylor was
appointed Professor of Chemistry at Howard University from 1959 to 1969, later
serving as Chairman of the Chemistry Department at Howard University from 1969
to 1976.
Dissertation
Title: Acid-Base
Studies in Gaseous Systems; The Dissociation of the Addition Compounds of
Trimethylboron with Aliphatic Amines.
Memberships:
- Certificate of Merit
(1945)
from the Secretary of War for his
work on the Mahattan Project (1943-1945)
- Annual Manufacturing
Chemists' Award
- Manufacturing Chemists'
Association, Inc. Award
as one of the six best Chemistry
Teachers in the United States. (1960)
- Ford Foundation Fellow
(1953)
- American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Fellow, American Institute
of Chemists
- American Chemical Society
- Washington Academy fpr the
Advancement of Science
- New York Academy of
Sciences
- Beta Kappa Chi
- Sigma Xi
- National Institute of
Science
Selected
Publications
First Principles of
Chemistry.
(New
York, NY: Van Nostrand), 1960.
Moddie D. Taylor and Tin-tung
Cheung. The Infrared Spectra and Symmetry of Fluorocarbons Absorbed on
Lanthanon Halides -- The Fluorine Bond. Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear
Chemistry. 3449 (1973).
M.D. Taylor and R. Panayappan.
Modes of Decomposition of Rare Earth Metal Formates and Benzoates, Enthalpies
of Transition, and Activiation Energies of Decomposition. Journal of
Thermal Analysis 7 (2) 385-96 (1975).
Taylor, Moddie D.; Panayappan,
Ramanathan. Modes of decomposition of rare earth metal benzoates, enthalpies
of transition, and activation energies of decomposition.
Kevane, Clement
J. (Ed), Moeller, Therald (Ed). Proc. Rare Earth Res. Conf., 10th.
(Kevane, Clement J. (Springfield, Va: NTIS) 1973 2: 902-.
The son of Herbert L. Taylor and Celeste
(Oliver) Taylor. His father worked as a postal clerk in St. Louis, Missouri, and
it was there that Taylor went to school, graduating from the Charles H. Sumner
High School in 1931. He then attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri,
and graduated with a B.S. in chemistry in 1935 as valedictorian and as a summa
cum laude student. He began his teaching career in 1935, working as an
instructor until 1939 and then as an assistant professor from 1939 to 1941 at
Lincoln University, while also enrolled in the University of Chicago's graduate program in
chemistry. He received his M.S. in 1939 and his Ph.D. in 1943. Taylor married
Vivian Ellis on September 8, 1937, and they had one son, Herbert Moddie
Taylor.
It was during 1945 that Taylor began his two
years as an associate chemist for the top-secret Manhattan Project based at the
University of Chicago. Taylor's research interest was in rare earth metals
(elements which are the products of oxidized metals and which have special
properties and several important industrial uses); his chemical contributions to
the nation's atomic energy research earned him a Certificate of Merit from the
Secretary of War. After the war, he returned to Lincoln University until 1948
when he joined Howard University as an associate professor of chemistry,
becoming a full professor in 1959 and head of the chemistry department in
1969.
In 1960, Taylor's First Principles of Chemistry was published; also in that year he
was selected by the Manufacturing Chemists Association as one of the nation's
six top college chemistry teachers. In 1972, Taylor was also awarded an Honor
Scroll from the Washington Institute of Chemists for his contributions to
research and teaching. Taylor was a member of the American Chemical Society, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Institute of
Science, the American Society for Testing Materials, the New York Academy of
Sciences, Sigma Xi, and Beta Kappa Chi, and was a fellow of the American
Institute of Chemists and the Washington Academy for the Advancement of Science.
Taylor retired as a professor emeritus of chemistry from Howard University on
April 1, 1976, and died of cancer in Washington, D.C., on September 15,
1976.
GGrandson of Tom Taylor (Dan II)
Lieutenant General Lloyd James Austin III (Born August 8, 1953 in Thomasville,
Georgia) currently serves as the Commanding General of XVIII Airborne
Corps, Fort Bragg, North
Carolina.
Biography
Austin was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the
infantry in June 1975
after graduation from West Point. His tours
of Army service include assignments throughout the United States and Germany. His
education includes a Bachelor of Science Degree from the U.S. Military
Academy, a Master's Degree in
Education from Auburn University, and
a Master's Degree in Business Management from Webster University.
He is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced courses, the U.S.
Army Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Army War
College.
His initial assignment was to the 3rd
Infantry Division (Mechanized) in Germany where he served as a
Rifle Platoon Leader in A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th
Infantry and Scout Platoon Leader in the Combat Support Company, 1st
Battalion, 7th Infantry. Following this assignment and attendance at the
Infantry Officer Advanced Course, he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne
Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he commanded the Combat
Support Company, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 508th
Infantry and served as the Assistant S-3
(Operations) for 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne
Division.
In 1981 he was assigned to Indianapolis,
Indiana where he served as the Operations Officer for the U.S. Army
Indianapolis District Recruiting Command and later commanded a company in the
U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion. Upon completing this assignment, he attended Auburn University
where he completed studies for a Master's Degree in Education. He was then
assigned to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New
York, where he served as a Company Tactical Officer. After his selection and
subsequent completion of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, he was assigned to the 10th
Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, New
York, where he served as the S-3 (Operations) and later Executive Officer for
the 2nd Battalion,
22nd Infantry. He subsequently served as Executive Officer for 1st Brigade,
10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) and later as Director of Plans,
Training, Mobilization and Security for Fort Drum, New York.
In 1993, General Austin returned to
the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he commanded the
2nd
Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He later served as the G-3 for the 82nd
Airborne Division. Following graduation from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks,
Pennsylvania, he commanded the 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina. Shortly after Brigade command, he was assigned to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. where
he served as Chief, Joint Operations Division, J-3, on the Joint Staff. His next
assignment was as Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver, 3rd Infantry
Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart,
Georgia.
Austin served from September 2003 until August 2005 as the
Commanding General of the U.S. 10th
Mountain Division (Light Infantry),
stationed at Fort Drum, New York,
with duty as Commander, Combined Joint Task Force-180, Operation
Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan. His next
position was Chief of Staff of the United States
Central Command at MacDill AFB, in Tampa,
Florida from September 2005 until October 2006.
On December 8, 2006, Austin was promoted to Lieutenant
General, and assumed command of the XVIII Airborne
Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
In February 2008 he will become the second highest ranking
commander in Iraq,
replacing Lieutenant General Raymond T. Odierno,
who is due to leave when the 3rd Corps finishes its command. Lieutenant General
Odierno will then likely be promoted and assigned as Army Vice-Chief of
Staff.
Awards and
Decorations
Lieutenant General Austin's awards and decorations include the
Silver
Star, the Defense
Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the
Defense
Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious
Service Medal (with Four Oak Leaf Clusters), the Joint
Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation
Medal (with Five Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Achievement
Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Expert Infantryman
Badge, Master Parachutist
Badge and the Ranger Tab.
Grandson of Maggie Taylor Richardson (Dan II)
BIO
Council Member, District
1
City Council Vice President
Public Safety
Committee Chairperson
Rules/Press Releases
Committee
Insurance Committee
Fredrick D. Richardson, Jr. was born on September 4, 1939, in an
obscure remote village called Nymph, in rural Conecuh County, Alabama, near
Evergreen. He was 5th of 12 children born to his proud parents, Fredrick (Fred)
and Helen Richardson. His father died when he was sixteen. He completed grade
and high school in Conecuh County.
After completing high school in 1958, Richardson moved to
Mobile, Alabama where his first job was that of a housekeeper at Mobile
Infirmary Medical Center. Later, he passed the postal examination and was
subsequently hired on May 16, 1961, at the Mobile Post Office as a substitute
letter carrier. He moved up the ranks and retired in 1992 as Manager of Station
and Branch operations, serving both the Loop and Bel Air Post
Offices.
Having to work during the day, Richardson managed to further his
education at night. He attended Carver State Vocational College, Bishop State
Community College and the University of South Alabama, where he earned a B.A.
Degree (1974) in Political Science and History. He did further study at the
University of South Alabama towards a Masters Degree in history. He was also
very active in the Neighborhood Organized Workers (NOW), a movement against
injustice and exclusion of the 60's and 70's, in Mobile Alabama.
While working and attending school, Richardson found time to do
research and write. His first book, THE GENESIS AND EXODUS OF NOW, was published
in 1978. It documented social and political change in Mobile from 1965 to 1975,
as a direct result of NOW. A second edition to that book was released in
February of 1996.
His research on the Stone Street Baptist Church has been
published in Hard-back, entitled: THE STONE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, ALABAMA'S
FIRST 1806-1982. That research led to the church being placed on the Alabama
Historical Register and the National Register of Historical Places by the U.S.
Department of Interior, as a national historical site. He has recently written a
play that is now on national tour entitled, THE BIRTH OF A CHURCH, which
dramatized the early beginning of Stone Street Baptist. The church organized in
1806. The world premier of this play took place before 2000 delegates attending
the National Baptist Winter Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on December 3,
1996. He has completed other books: TITHING, WHAT DOES GOD REQUIRE, which was
published in 2001 and IMPRINTS, TRACING TODAY’S BEHAVIOR TO PAST EVENTS, both
are available at Amazon.com.
Richardson is a member of the Stone Street Baptist Church where
he serves as historian; on the Board of Deacons; as associate general
superintendent of the Sunday school and as a Sunday school teacher. He was a
member and past board chairman of the History Museum of Mobile; a past member of
the Board of Zoning Adjustments; a member of the Executive Board of Mobile
Tricentennial Inc.; The Gulf Coast Emporium Museum of Science Board and named
Who is Who Among African Americans; he is National Coordinator for National
Coalition of Justice and Equality, a group that monitors criminal justice
issues; He graduated from the 2003 class of prestigious Leadership Alabama, an
organization that selects key leaders from around the state to examine pennant
issues. Richardson is the recipient of Stratmore's distinguished 2007-2008 Who's
Who Award, which honors limited individuals who have demonstrated leadership and
achievement in their occupation, industry, or profession. He is a member of many
other social and civic organizations.
As a political scientist, historian, writer, playwright, author
and lecturer, Richardson was appointed to the Mobile City council in February of
1997, to fill the vacant District 1 Council seat left by Council Member Vivian
Davis Figures who, after the death of her husband, ran and won his seat in the
Alabama Senate. In August of 1997 Richardson ran on his own for a full four year
term. Three others entered the race also. Richardson won the election by a
whopping 70% landslide. He won again in August of 2001 by 73%. In August of 2005
Richardson was in Rome, Italy on a trade mission because he had no opposition to
his seat on the council.
On the Council, Richardson is chairman of the Public Safety
Committee. He played an active role in reshaping the approach to criminal
justice issues including implementing community policing, establishing entire
neighborhoods a drug free zone, and establishing advisory groups that function
at the precinct level. Richardson has focused on removing conditions that breed
crime such as litter, junk, abandoned houses, weeds, and blight in general.
Affordable housing, family oriented community centers, storm water retention,
recreation for youths, jobs, education, economic development, training and all
issues pertaining to illegal drugs are apart of Richardson's focus. His Beat by
Beat, Street by Street and House by House model of representing the people has
become standard in all council districts.
Richardson joined Mayor Michael C. Dow in leading a trade
delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1998. He, Mayor Dow and
Councilman Clinton L. Johnson attended the International Air Show in Paris,
France. They also visited Cherbourg, France where the Confederate Battleship,
CSS ALABAMA was sunk by USS (United States Ship) Kearsarge on June 19, 1864.
Richardson and Johnson attended the World Conference of Mayors in 1997. This
Conference was held in ABUJA, Nigeria (West Africa). In November of 1999
Richardson and Johnson led another trade delegation to Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2005 he and Council Member Connie
Hudson led a goodwill tour through Eastern Europe as well a trade mission
through Italy as well as Paris.
His Pre-emptive Drug Free Zone Crime Fighting Initiative for
Trinity Gardens Community is now the model for Community Policing throughout the
City of Mobile. It received national attention when the National Crime
Prevention Council voted his crime fighting model semi-finalists among several
thousand nominations. On December 2, 2002 Richardson honored 100 District 1 Neighborhood Block Captains, in a reception
held at the newly constructed Toulminville Library, for becoming a network of
District 1 anticrime fighting community leaders.. He is the proud father of
three children, Lawanda, Lisa and Fredrick III. He has two grandchildren,
Crystal Womack and Maya Lawson.
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