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Claflin University

In April 2009, Centennial Professor of Urban and Regional Planning June Manning Thomas hosted a recruiting event for potential Taubman students at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Professor Thomas’s father, Dr. H.V. Manning was a past President of the University who raised the funds for and supervised the construction of the H.V. Manning library, named in his honor. Her mother, Mrs. E.A. Manning, was an associate professor of educational statistics.

Clockwise from top left: 1. and 2. Professor Thomas speaks to an undergraduate class at about Urban and Regional Planning and other graduate programs at Taubman College. 3. June in front of her parents’ portraits, hanging in the library. 4. June and Ms. Marilyn Gibbs, the librarian of the H.V. Manning Library at Claflin. 5. June and and Mrs. Gladys Moss, Claflin alumna. 6. June with host and Jasper Institute Fellow Ms. Annalise Fonza (center) and Mrs. Elizabeth Rose (right), a friend who retired from Claflin’s physical education department. June is presented a book on past Claflin presidents which includes a chapter on her father.