Background
Cureton, Claudette Hazel Chapman was born on May 3, 1932 in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of John H. and Beatrice (Washington) Chapman.
Cureton, Claudette Hazel Chapman was born on May 3, 1932 in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of John H. and Beatrice (Washington) Chapman.
AB, Spelman College, Atlanta, 1951. Master of Arts, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1966. DHum (honorary), Morris College, Sumter, South Carolina, 1996.
Teacher North Warren High School, Wise, North Carolina, 1952-1960. Teacher Sterling High School, Greenville, 1960-1966, Wade Hampton High School, Greenville, 1967-1973. Instructor Greenville Technology College, 1973-1995, retired, 1995.
Board directors State Heritage Trust, 1978-1991. Commissioner Basic Skills Advisory Program, Columbia, since 1990. Member advisory board American Federal Bank, North Carolina National Bank Bank, Greenville, since 1991.
Member Higher Education South Carolina Committee for Selection Professor of Year, 1995.
Member Greenville Urban League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, South Carolina Curriculum Congress. President Woman's Baptist E.& M. Convention South Carolina, 2008. Member South Carolina Commission on Higher Education Committee for Selection of Governor's Professor of Year, 2005, Governor's Task Force on Juvenile Crime, South Carolina, Best Chance Network Task Force of America Cancer Society, since 1995, Governor's Juvenile Justice Youth Council, South Carolina, since 1996, Governor's Juvenile Justice Task Force, 1997, South Carolina, Piedmont Mental Health Board, Simpsonville, South Carolina, 2006.
Board directors Sisters Saving Sisters, Roper Mountain Science Center, since 2003. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Women, National Association Biology Teachers, South Carolina Curriculum Congress, National Council Negro Women, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta (past vice president Greenville chapter alumnae), Benedict College (Columbia, South Carolina) (member board trustees), Morris College (Sumter, South Carolina) (member board trustees).
Married Stewart Cleveland Cureton, December 27, 1954. Children: Ruthye, Stewart II, S. Charles, Samuel.