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MOREHOUSE
A CAMPUS NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS
INSIDE MOREHOUSE, FEBRUARY 2010
Weldon Jackson ’72 returns to
Morehouse as provost
Students inspire Delsarte’s King
mural .
Maroon Tigers duo carry on
fathers’ basketball legacies
See Founder’s Day Observance
Calendar for week of events
Morehouse Celebrates its 143rd Year with Symposia, Concerts and Gala
By ADD SEYMOUR JR.
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men; a Founder’s Day speech by
the president of the United
Negro College Fund; a concert by
one of jazz’s leading songbirds;
and the annual “A Candle in
the Dark” Gala highlight the
College’s 143rd Founder’s Day
Observance, Feb. 9-14.
“This year takes on special
meaning with symposiums, a
impactful town hall meeting and
our Founder’s Day Convocation,
a wonderful concert featuring
Lalah Hathaway and, of course,
our gala honorees,” said Henry
Goodgame ’84, director of
Alumni Relations, Special Events
and Annual Giving.
Obie Clayton, executive dire-
ct&r-'&f-'thc -MOTc-hor.se- Research
Initiative will moderate the
Founder’s Day Town Hall
Meeting, “Pathways Out of Pov
erty to Opportunities: Father
hood and Healthy Families,” on
Feb. 9 in the Bank of America
Auditorium in the Executive
Conference Center. Higher edu
cation’s shifting gender balance,
health disparities, incarceration
of African American men and
civic disengagement will be the
topics touched on by five speak
ers from across the nation.
The 2nd Annual Founder’s
Day-Symposium, moderated by
psychology professor David Wall
Rice ’ 95 on Feb. 10, will feature
an array of speakers and pan
elists who will talk about
machismo, gender liberation and
other issues as they debate myths
and realities of the 21st Century
black male.
UNCF president Michael
Lomax ’68 will deliver the
keynote speech during the Foun
der’s Day Convocation in the
Martin Luther King Jr. Inter
national Chapel on Feb. 11.
Renowned, research scientist
August Curley ’50 will be pre
sented a Presidential Citation in
honor of his successful career.
The week takes a romantic
tone when songstress Lalah
Hathaway graces the King Chapel
stage for the Founder’s Day
Concert on Feb. 12 at 8 p.m.
Emceed by poet Hank Stewart,
the evening also will feature the
lush saxophone of Antonio Allen.
Saturday, Feb. 13, students will
get their chance to hear from the
Bennie and Candle Award recipi
ents as they talk about their
careers during “Reflections of
Excellence” in Sale Hall’s Chapel
for the Inward Journey at 11 a.m.
Richelle Carey, an anchor at cable
television’s HLN, will moderate
the discussion.
That evening at the Hyatt
Regency Atlanta, the seven men
who have made their marks in
fields such as music, medicine,
education and civil rights will be
honored during the elegant 22nd
“A Candle in the Dark” Gala for
their exceptional success in their
respective fields. Those men are:
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Construction of the Center for the Arts
Will Be Finished this Spring
By ADD SEYMOUR JR.
The finishing touches are
being put on the campus’ gleam
ing, new Morehouse Center for
the Arts, which will be completed
Morehouse College Center for the Arts
this spring.
The two-story, 75,000-square-
foot building, which will house
the Music Department, the
Morehouse “House of Funk”
Marching Band, the Jazz Ense
mble and the Morehouse College
Glee Club, contain state-of-the-
art offices, instrument storage
areas, classrooms, an outdoor
amphitheater for 200 people and
a 650-seat Ray Charles Perfor
mance Hall.
The building’s academic wing
will be completed in March with
the performance hall being fin
ished by the end of April. Andre
Bertrand ’76 vice president for
Campus Operations said depart
ments will begin moving into the
building this summer.
The project was seeded with a
$2-million donation by legendary
musician, the late Ray Charles.
The second largest donor to the
project was Charles’ trusted
friend and business partner, Joe
Adams who gave $1 million.
“We were also able to include
architectural elements in this
facility that mirrors some of the
architectural artistry of the his
toric quad - Graves Hall and Sale
Hall, for example,” said
Bertrand. “I’m very proud of the
fact that we were able to accom
plish a similar standard of archi
tectural beauty.”
“Our hope is to bring this sort of
architectural character to the
center campus, with respect to
the other academic buildings,”
he said.
Bertrand said that building an
intercampus student center,
adding more suite style housing
to replace the older, traditional
residence halls and addressing
some of the older academic
buildings on campus are now
future projects in the College’s
Master Plan.
College’s History
to Be Told
in 150th
Morehouse
Anniversary
History Project
By ADD SEYMOUR JR.
With the College’s 150th
anniversary approaching in 2017,
work has begun to gather,
update, retell and preserve
Morehouse’s rich history.
Led by Marcellus Barksdale
’65, chairman of the African
American Studies program, the
150th Morehouse Anniversary
History Project is a multi
pronged effort using several dif
ferent ways to collect and tell the
Morehouse story.
“Our work will leave a legacy
for generations of Morehouse
Men, scholars and friends that
will stand the test of time and
inform the future history of
Morehouse,” Barksdale said.
A new scholarly history about
Morehouse College is being writ
ten, building on earlier books
written for the College’s 50th
anniversary, History of
Morehouse by Benjamin G.
Brawley, and the 100th anniver
sary tribute, A Candle in the
Dark, A History of Morehouse
College by Edward A. Jones.
The anthological history of
Morehouse will be told by writ
ers, from the expertise they’ve
gained from their fields of study
in disciplines such as medicine,
politics, religion and business.
Documents, such as charters,
by-laws and blueprints, from the
past 150 years will be pulled
together so they can shape their
own historical tome about
Morehouse. A coffee table book,
featuring pictures, graphics,
prose and poetry, will give an
illustrated history of the College.
The papers of alumni will be
compiled for an archival history,
told through the College’s gradu
ates. Alumni are being surveyed
for their willingness to donate
their papers to a free-standing
archive that will be built on the
campus. An oral history also is
being compiled, with students
conducting the interviews. ■