Appreciative to be the namesake of the first endowed chair at Temple named for an African American, Bernard C. Watson urged those at the naming celebration to look past him to what the chair represents. Watson, a former academic vice president and professor of urban studies and urban education at Temple who has also served as an assistant superintendent for the School District of Philadelphia, was honored on April 1 at the Pyramid Center in Center City with a ceremony marking the creation of the Bernard C. Watson Chair in Urban Education. The chair is the result of about $1 million in fundraising through events like the reception, which itself raised more than $7,000.