Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? (55 page)

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).