Philip Morris, 273
Piedmont Airlines, 91
Piper & Marbury, 69, 70, 71
Playtex, 132, 135, 137, 138, 147, 148, 149, 150, 153, 154
Powell, C., xvi, 45, 186, 290
Price Waterhouse, 141, 160
Pryor, McClendon, Counts & Co., Inc., 86
Pulaski, P., 249
Quigley, L., 73, 74, 75
Reagan, R., xvi, 126
Reed, J., 273
Republic Furniture and Leisure, Inc. (RFL), 114, 137
RJR Nabisco, 265
Robinson, B., 56, 59, 62, 66
Robinson, J., 216, 273, 274, 308, 310
Robinson, M., 36
Rochlin, M., 73
Rockefeller Foundation, 51, 54
Salomon Bros., 187, 193, 205, 207
Salonga, L., 310
Sander, F. E. A., 50, 52, 54
Sanford, C., 273
Sanson, T., 222, 223, 252
Savage, F., 127, 129
SBA, 84
Schless, P., 130, 131, 135, 136, 139, 143, 144, 145, 147, 149, 152, 156, 193, 270, 290
Schonwald, G., 73
Schumer, R., 200
Schwartz, A., 170, 176, 177, 277
Schwartz, G., 199
Scott, R., 17, 20
Scovill Apparel Fasteners Group, 270
Shearson Lehman, 260
Sheehy, J., 170, 187, 193, 216, 259
Shields, B., 161
Simeus, D., 271
Simplicity, 135, 141, 157, 162, 163, 168, 180
Sinatra, F., 67
Slattery, B., 62, 65, 66, 89
Slattery, J., 66, 285
Sloan, A., 267
Smilow, J., 135, 136, 137, 138, 145, 148, 149, 150, 154
Smith, E. M., 40
Smith, M., 38, 42, 44
Smith, R., 73
Smith, W., 24, 25, 43, 157, 185
Smith Corona Corp., 266
Somerset Imports, 134
Sorensen, T., 74
Sotos, H., 138, 139
Stoutt, L., 245, 246, 247, 248, 279, 297, 298, 306
Strait, G., 51, 60
Strufe, H., 69, 99
Suarez, D., 301
Suggs, R., 79, 81, 287
Sutton, P., 45, 126
Swift, 132
Texaco, 310
The New York Times, 183
Thomas, A., 71, 73
Thomas, F., 110
Thompson, D., 271, 287
Thorpe, J., 76
TLC Beatrice, 78, 85, 124, 125, 137, 150, 186, 206, 217, 232, 234, 238, 240, 242, 244, 247, 251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 259, 260, 261, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272, 282, 287, 292, 294, 295, 298, 301, 303
TLC Pattern, Inc., 133, 154
Toepfler, L., 53, 54, 56
Travelers Insurance Co., 260, 261
Trowbridge, C., 134
Turner, E., 38
United Biscuits, 239
Urban Coalition, 77
USA Today, 183
Vanguard, 84
Vann, A., 126
Vogue, 157, 163
Walker, D., 246
Wall Street Journal, 183
Wallace, F., 74, 76
Wallace, Murphy, Thorpe and Lewis, 76, 96
Walter, B., 134, 135
Walter, D., 136, 137, 138, 139, 141, 145, 147, 149, 150, 151, 153
WCRN-FM, 127
Weinstein, M., 73
Wilder, D., 125
Williams, R., 27, 29
Wilson, D., 189, 219, 241, 272, 300
Winters, R., 153
WNET-TV, 292
Wolfe, T., 180
Wong, J., 142, 146, 167, 170, 196, 197
Woods, C., 177
Wright, K., 88, 122, 123, 139, 142, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 171, 172, 173, 174, 179, 210, 212, 213, 214, 219, 234, 238, 240, 255, 256, 259, 262, 266, 272, 293, 298
WSTX-AM, 127
Youngwood, A., 73
Reginald Lewis (kneeling), with his cousins Doris Hill (left) and Connie Hill, and his grandfather Sam Cooper in the alley alongside 1022 North Dallas Street. From the day he first saw Reginald, his grandfather treated him as his own son.
Reginald F. Lewis, ten years old, posing in front of the West Baltimore apartment on Druid Hill Avenue where he lived for a short period after his mother married Jean S. Fugett. They later moved to 2802 Mosher Street.
Jean S. Fugett, Sr.; Carolyn E. Fugett; Jean S. Fugett, Jr.; and Reginald Lewis in their apartment on Druid Hill Avenue in 1952. Lewis took pride in and loved being a big brother, and would become a lifetime mentor to Jean, Jr.
In the food service business, waiting tables was probably the next best thing to being maître d’. It was a prestigious position for a teenager trying to earn extra cash. As this letter of recommendation attests, Reginald F. Lewis was taught by his grandfather to be the best.
Reginald F. Lewis received letters in basketball and football when he graduated from Baltimore’s Dunbar High School in 1961. Because of his skills as a quarterback, the local newspaper referred to Lewis as “Bullet Lewis.” Photo credit: Dunbar High School yearbook, Golden Memoirs.
Reginald F. Lewis poses with his father, Clinton L. Lewis, after his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1968. Clinton Lewis remained a friend of the Cooper and Fugett families after Carolyn remarried.
As a student at Virginia State College, Reginald F. Lewis knew what he wanted out of life. This rigid schedule he put together at the beginning of a semester reflects his discipline as a student. The caption at the bottom, “To be a good lawyer, one must study hard,” served as a constant reminder of his ultimate goal.
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Though most of the alumni expressed an intention to continue to work within white society, many acknowledged that the goal of blacks should be to create institutions independent of whites, and a few expressed outright hostility to white institutions including the Law School. Yet all of them agreed that a Harvard Law degree conferred special status on black lawyers and placed them in a peculiar middle ground between the white establishment and the black community.
The predominant youth of the alumni group reflected the recent trend of increasing black enrollment at the Law School. Nine of the 11 alumni graduated from HLS within the past six years, when black enrollment had expanded to meet the demands of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
The conference began with a morning panel discussion on “Nixon Administration Policies and no effort to defend the national leadership, but rather justified their jobs as a valuable training experience for black attorneys. Patricia A. King ’69, Deputy Director of the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, urged blacks not to be “shortsighted.” She said, “If we’re going to set up our own institutions, we need to know what the hell we’re doing.” She named the Tax Division of the Justice Department, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission as good locations for “short-term experience” for black lawyers.
Frederick L. Brown ’67, New England regional counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, told his audience “your Harvard Law School education will be the single most impressive thing that happens to you.” He said, “The best courses are the least interesting and stimulating ones. What you should avoid is becoming social workers.”
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Afternoon panel participants (left to right): Richard Banks, Claude Pickens, BLSA Chairman John Daniels, 2L, Reginald Gilliam, Reginald Lewis, Weldon Rougeau, Clarence Ferguson, Robert Washington.
Their Effect on the Practice of Law.” Massachusetts Secretary of Community Development Thomas I. Atkins ’69, a former Boston City Councillor, described the two major effects of the Nixon Administration as being “the elimination of priorities-setting at the national level” and the “shifting of control of local priorities back to the local level” and away from the federal government, through r
evenue sharing. He urged black law students and lawyers to shift their attention to the functioning of state and local government, saying, “If you study the national government, you’re preparing for the past.”
Two current Nixon Administration officials made
Bishop C. Holifield ’69, Deputy Director of the Florida A & M Business Development Corporation, an organization specializing in assisting minority business enterprises, strongly urged blacks to “set up our own institutions. And nothing is more important than establishment of black law firms.” He said blacks must become independent of the “whims and caprices of the man in Washington.”
In response to a question, Atkins scored the failure of black professionals to provide leadership for their community. He said, “In order to become leaders, the first thing black lawyers must do is get down in the street and take the same shit as their brothers.” He noted, however, that there is
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In the fall of 1973, Reginald F. Lewis (fifth from left) was invited back to Harvard to take part in a conference focusing on minority issues in higher education.
After a six-month courtship, Reginald F. Lewis flew to the Philippines to marry Loida. After the ceremony, bride and groom pass through a garden on their way to the reception. Lourdes Gardose, Loida’s niece, is the train bearer. Photo credit: Wedding Philippines, Inc.
Loida M. Nicolas and Reginald F. Lewis during marriage ceremony at St. Pancratius’ Chapel in Paco Park on August 16, 1969, Manila, Philippines. The wedding was held at seven A.M. The reception, which followed, was held at the Champagne Room in the Manila Hotel. Photo credit: Wedding Philippines, Inc.
Front row: Danilo A. Nicolas II, Callen Corleto, Asuncion Manalac, Roman Gardose.
Rear row: Magdalena M. Nicolas, Imelda M. Nicolas, Reginald F. Lewis, Francisco J. Nicolas, Francisco M. Nicolas, Jr., Jose M. Nicolas, Danilo M. Nicolas.
Thanksgiving, Baltimore, 1976. Reginald F. Lewis looked forward to his mother’s cooking, especially for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner every year. This photo was taken in the entrance foyer at 2802 Mosher Street. Photo credit: REJ & Associates Inc.
From left to right: (first row seated) Leslie N. Lewis, Sabrina E. Fugett, Pepper (the dog); (second row, seated) Jean S. Fugett, Sr., Lena C. Fugett, Carolyn E. Fugett, Joseph M. Fugett; (standing) Reginald F. Lewis, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Jean S. Fugett, Jr., Anne Payne Fugett, Anthony S. Fugett, Trittye C. Fugett, Sharon M. Fugett, Rosalyn T. Fugett.
Family reunion at Broadview, Amagansett, New York, Summer of 1991. Reginald with his wife, daughters, parents, brothers, sisters, brother-in-law, sisters-in-law, uncle, aunt, nieces, and nephews at their annual family reunion. Photo credit: Reed Photo, Inc.
Seated on floor (left to right): Marcus G. Fugett, Audie Fugett, Marissa Jennings, Elliott A. Wiley, Jr., Brandon Fugett, Reginald Fugett, Kahn Kanga, Kemi Kanga, Justin C. Wiley, Stephenie H. Fugett, Christina S. N. Lewis, Joseph Russell Fugett.
Seated (second row): Anthony S. Fugett, Lindsey N. Fugett, Leslie N. Lewis, Carlotta O. Fugett, Samuel J. Cooper, Jr., Jean S. Fugett, Sr., Carolyn E. Fugett, Jean S. Fugett, Jr., Sharon M. Fugett, Beverly A. Cooper, Trittye C. Fugett.
Standing (rear): Lena C. Fugett, Elliott A. Wiley, Sr., Rosalyn Fugett Wiley, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Reginald F. Lewis.
Arthur Ashe visited Reginald F. Lewis at his Manhattan office in 1991 to discuss support for the career development of promising young African-American tennis players. Ashe later delivered the eulogy for Lewis at a ceremony held by their fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi. Ashe died two weeks later. Photo credit: Christie Jones.
On December 21, 1971, Reginald F. Lewis flew with Benjamin F. Chavis from New York City to Wilmington, NC. Chavis was turning himself in to authorities, after being arrested while fighting school desegregation and then charged with accessory after the fact of murder for counseling and advising a suspect in a murder case. Lewis was his attorney and general counsel for the New York-based Commission for Racial Justice. Photo credit: Wilmington Morning Star.
Pictured (left to right): Lt. H. G. Grohman of the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Dept., immediately behind Grohman is Detective W. C. Brown of the Wilmington Policy Department, Benjamin F. Chavis, and Reginald F. Lewis.
Reginald F. Lewis with his law partner Charles C. Clarkson and Lewis’s wife, Loida, during a birthday party for Lewis held in his Paris apartment (Dec. 7, 1988). Photo credit: Studio de France.
Left: Reginald Lewis consciously put together a board of directors with African-Americans in majority. Here, he listens intently to colleagues during a recess in the April 1990 TLC Beatrice International Board Meeting in Paris held at the Hotel de Crillon.
From left to right: Samuel Peabody, Reginald F. Lewis, Lee A. Archer, Jr., and James E. Obi.
Right: Reginald F. Lewis with Earle K. Angstadt, the Chief Executive Officer of McCall Pattern, following the sale of McCall. This picture was taken at the Harvard Club, Lewis’s favorite haunt (1987).
Reginald Lewis being presented with an award in October 1987 by then Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley (right) with financier Michael Milken (left) looking on. Lewis had just finished addressing a minority youth conference in Los Angeles at which Milken was also a speaker.
Reginald Lewis receives an award from the New York Urban Coalition, a socially active, high profile group of New York City business, labor, and community leaders, on December 8, 1992. The event was the last time Lewis appeared in public prior to his death in January 1993. Among the recipients and participants shown in the photo are (from left to right): former New York City Mayor John Lindsay, Lewis, David Rockefeller, Andrew Heiskell, former Chairman & CEO of Time, Inc., then New York City Mayor David Dinkins, Walter Shipley, president of Chemical Bank, Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T, and Arthur H. Barnes, then President of The Urban Coalition.
A beaming Reginald Lewis presents his French partners Jean (center-left) and Jacques (center-right) Baud with a red Corvette ZR1 in early 1990 at the front of Paris’s famed Crillon Hotel in the Place de la Concorde as a reward for exceeding the plan for the year. The Corvette ZR1 was so rare that Lewis’s staff had to search out New York area dealerships for the car and then bid for it to ensure delivery to France, which in itself turned out to be no easy task. Jacque Baud got the Corvette while his brother, Jean Baud, received a Cadillac convertible from Lewis. Looking on (left) is Daniel Jux, president of TLC Beatrice France.
Reginald F. Lewis exits his first corporate jet, a Challenger, to meet with Vincent P. O’Sullivan (right), Chairman of Tayto, Ltd., and TLC Holdings, Inc. Tayto products dominate the snack food industry in Ireland (1990). Photo credit: Foto Estudio Angel, S.E.L.
CEOs of the top 400 businesses in the United States were invited to the White House in 1991 for a luncheon meeting. Reginald F. Lewis, shown here with President George Bush, was the only African American present. Photo credit: White House Photo.
During Jesse Jackson’s run for U.S. president, Lewis (left) held a fund-raiser at the Harvard Club in 1988, raising over six figures for the Jackson campaign.
On April 23, 1993, The Reginald F. Lewis International Law Center became the first building named in honor of an African American by Harvard. Lewis made a three-million-dollar gift to the Law School in 1992, the largest from a single individual in Harvard’s 175-year history. Photo credit: Bradford Herzog & Martha Stewart. Pictured left to right: Dean Robert C. Clark, Christina S. N. Lewis, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Leslie N. Lewis.
Loida N. Lewis and Reginald F. Lewis on the grounds of the summer home in Amagansett, New York during their 20th Wedding Anniversary celebration, August 16, 1989. Loida surprised him by hiring an airplane to circle overhead with a banner that read: “Reg! Loving you always. Loida.” Photo credit: Chong Monalac-Capati.
Reginald F. Lewis, in 1987, reviewing the operations of Savoy, the largest chocolate maker in Venezuela. Lewis wound up selling Savoy, a part of his strategy to reduce debt from the Beatrice purchase. Photo credit: Foto Estudio Angel, S.E.L.
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(Left): William Mowry, President of Beatrice International when Lewis made the Beatrice acquisition. Others in the photo are employees at Savoy.
Reginald Lewis and his wife, Loida, share a happy moment at their Paris apartment in 1990. The photo was taken by their daughter Leslie. A charcoal rendering of the photo hangs in Loida’s office at TLC Beatrice International Holdings in New York City.
Reginald F. Lewis is on top of the world as he poses in the outer reception area of the TLC Beatrice International offices at 9 West 57th Street high above the streets of midtown Manhattan with the Empire State Building in the background. Photo credit: Gregory Heisler.
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