An newspaper article profiling the youngest daughter of Sam and Helen Parker, Magdalen Parker Mileski. At the time of the article, Mileski was an English teacher at Ragsdale Senior High School in High Point, North Carolina. The article details her…
A newspaper article published after the death of Magdalen Parker Mileski. The piece is a remembrance of her many years of teaching and the influence she had on her former students as a demanding, yet kind, high school English teacher. The article…
The obituary for Edward W. Najam, published on May 10, 2005, in the Herland-Times of Bloomington, Indiana. Najam was the husband of Agnes Parker Najam.
The eulogy given by Edward W. Najam, Jr., the son of Agnes Parker Najam and Edward W. Najam, following his father's death. Edward Najam, Jr., describes his father's character, faith, and keen intellect, as well as the loving relationships that he had…
An article published in The Bladen Journal announcing the retirement of Alma Parker Farris and the closing of the Farris Department Store. The article contains a photograph of Alma and a description of her impact on Elizabethtown, NC.
A color photograph of Helen Parker (middle) surrounded by her children, Louis, Alma, Agnes, Lillian, and Magdalen. Though undated, the photograph may have been taken in the 1970s.
A photograph labeled "grandfather in his store." Presumably it depicts Sam Parker in his department store, likely called either the Parker Department Store or the Farris-Parker Department Store at this time. He stands in front of a board labeled…
Edward "Pop Charlie" R. Habit Jr.'s placement on the roster of death provided by Chowan County. He was killed in action at 18 years of age in the Invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II.
A photograph of Tony Habit and copy of an oral transcript. The hearing was titled “ESEA Reauthorization: Improving America's Secondary Schools,” taking place before Senator Kennedy on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.…
Built in 1927, the Habit Brothers Building was located at 200-300 South Broad Street – East Side of Edenton in Chowan County, North Carolina. It was a two-story, nine-bay, brick commercial building with corner entrance, boxed metal cornice, recessed…
Raja Khalifah (left) with two unidentified individuals. All three are members of the Triangle Lebanese Association and American University of Beirut Alumni.
A cover of Biotechnology Magazine featuring Raja Khalifah and James Wassenberg at work at BioStratum. This special report on Khalifah's work at BioStratum was published in the January 14, 2005, edition of the magazine.
A photograph of Raja Khalifah (far right) with an unidentified group of individuals standing behind a banner of the United States Tennis Association League 2008 National Championship.
A photograph of members of the American University of Beirut's tennis team. Though undated, the photograph was taken in the 1960s when Raja Khalifah was an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut.
A photograph of Raja Khalifah (fourth from left) marching in his graduation from the American University of Beirut, from which he obtained a BS in Chemistry.
An undated group photograph of Raja Khalifah's grandmother with a number of unidentified other young women, all dressed in white gowns and apparently sitting in a garden or a courtyard. Two different copies of the same photograph are included in this…
Raja Khalifah's business card from when he served as a research professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, circa 1990s.
A studio portrait photograph of three unidentified individuals--a man, woman, and infant--in ornate clothing. They are identified only as "Raad ancestors."
