Augustus Cage A
ugustus Cage is the Founder, President & Managing Director of Cage Memorial Chapel & Cremation Services, 7651 S. Jeffery Blvd. His previous career includes agent with Prudential Insurance Company, credit analyst with Commercial Credit Corp, Loan Officer
and Wealth Management Specialist with Harris Bank & Trust Co. Cage is a graduate of Roosevelt University, Worsham College of Mortuary Science, American Institute of Banking and Northwestern. Some of his memberships include National Funeral Directors Assn, International Cemetery and Funeral Directors Association, Cremation Association of North America, life Member Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., life member NAACP, Montford Point Marine Corp Veterans Association. He have served as president of the South Shore Council of Commerce and the Cook County Association of Funeral Home Owners. Cage is a member of St Mark United Methodist Church.
Dr. Warrick Carter W
arrick L. Carter, Ph.D., has been president of Columbia College Chicago since 2000. Prior to that, he was director of entertainment arts for Walt Disney Entertainment. Dr. Carter spent 12 years at Berklee College of Music in Boston, serving as dean of faculty and then as provost/vice president of academic affairs. Carter is an educator, composer and performer. He has consulted on music education and minority issues in music education for organizations worldwide. He has published and lectured extensively on the subject of music education, jazz, and African American music history and culture, sharing his expertise as a guest lecturer at conferences worldwide. As a composer and performer, Carter has an international reputation. He has created commissioned works for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. His recordings are on Mark and Capital records and his live perform- ances include work with the Boston Pops Jazz Quartet, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Donald Byrd and many others. He has played at several collegiate and regional jazz festivals and in 1973 performed at the International Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. A two-time recipient of the National Black Music Caucus Achievement Award, he is a member of the International Jazz Educators Hall of Fame and is listed in Who’s Who in Black America. He has received the Lawrence Berk Leadership Award from the International Association of Jazz Educators. In 1997 Berklee College of Music established a lecture series in his name, and in 1996 Walt Disney Entertainment endowed a “Warrick L. Carter Scholarship” in the International Association of Jazz Educators. He received his doctorate of philosophy in music education from Michigan State University.
Carter currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the International House of Blues Foundation, the Interlochen Advisory Board, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, and the Federation of Independent Colleges. He was the chairman of the Jazz Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts for three years and executive director of the National Black Music Caucus for ten. He is a member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences, as well as the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
6 Chicago Defender • 2012 Men of Excellence • January 25-31, 2012
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