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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. m w 'm / j■ • m- v *. 5®”’ - flj Hi ft* ~ me • A ( t* about fat he; 5——— — —— ^ O oa, healthy families and black 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: story continues on page 2 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. ■