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2 C/3 S l.'I'.S INSIDE MOREHOUSE, FEBRUARY 2010 Inside Morehouse is about the people who make up the Morehouse College community. To tell those stories, WE NEED YOU to send us your ideas, comments and thoughts, along with your news, information about your new books or publications and your commentary for sections like My Word. To send us your information, contact Inside Morehouse Editor Add Seymour Jr. at aseymour@morehouse.edu For more up-to-the minute information about academic departments, adminsitration, athletics, registration, financial aid, as well as the people and places at Morehouse College, go to www.morehouse.edu Inside (MOREHOUSE Director of Public Relations Toni O'Neal Mosley tmosley@morehouse.edu Executive Editor Vickie G. Hampton vhampton@morehouse.edu Editor Add Seymour Jr. aseymour@morehouse.edu Calendar Editor Julie Pinkney Tongue jtongue@morehouse.edu Photographers Philip McCullom Add Seymour Jr. Graphic Design Ellis Design Web Services Hana Chelikowsky Kara Walker Inside Morehouse is published monthly during the academic year by Morehouse College, Office of Communications, Office of Institutional Advancement. Opinions expressed in Inside Morehouse are those of the authors, not necessarily of the College. Greetings from President Robert M. Franklin ’75 Dear Morehouse Alumni, Parents and Friends: As we gather to celebrate the founding of the College, I am pleased to welcome all Morehouse stakeholders back to campus for Founder’s Week 2010. This week will undoubtedly be a time for renewing and establishing friendships. It will also be a wonderful opportunity for reconnecting with an institution that is dedicated to developing the minds and character of young men throughout the globe. One of the oldest historically black institutions for higher education, Morehouse is known for providing a first class education, coupled with a rich co-curricular experience unparalleled by other institutions. We have earned rightfully the distinction of being one of the best schools for balancing rigor in the classroom with a diver sity of opportunities to learn and practice leadership in the community. Although great leaders are known for their humility, we are pardonably proud of what Morehouse Men are doing in their local communities and around the globe. It should be a source of pride to all people that Morehouse has weathered 143 years of history and has extraordinary achievements to show for it. This week, we celebrate excellence, not merely endurance. That said, we acknowledge that we can be better and we will never stop trying to improve. Despite the past two years of global economic recession, we have maintained quality while reducing costs and improving efficiency. I offer a special heartfelt thanks to the many alumni, parents, and friends who have given generously to enable us to bridge this chal lenging period. You should know that your gifts and sacri fices will allow current students to cross the academic fin ish line. Thanks to you, future generations of promising young men will share in the Morehouse legacy of excellence. It is my hope that you will take advantage of the many opportunities to engage in our Founder’s Day Observance and that you will renew your commitment to be involved in the life of Morehouse in the future. Remember the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” I > Robert M. Franklin ’75 President Welcome, and enjoy! (continued from cover story) Ronald Sullivan Jr. ’89 is a distinguished professor of law and the director of the Harvard University Criminal Justice Institute. Aside from being one of the nation’s leading theo rists in criminal law, crimi nal procedure, legal ethics and race theory, Sullivan is a noted commentator on various legal issues, with his opinions appearing in publications such as The Washington Post. Perry Henderson, MD ’54 who was a renowned and respected professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical Sch-ool for nearly 30 years. But he, and his wife Virginia, have also made indelible impres sions in the Madison com munity with their service, volunteerism and philan thropy. Julius Coles ’63 is an inter nationally respected career minister and Foreign Service officer and the immediate past president of the Washington, D.C.- based Africare. Coles was also director of the Morehouse College Andrew Young Center for International Affairs from 1997-2002 and director Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center from 1994- 1997. Lonnie C. King ’69 became a leader in the civil rights movement as a student at Morehouse. In 1960, he led a series of sit-ins that led to the desegregation of public places throughout Atlanta. Among his rich movement history, he was a founding member and first chairman of the influ ential Student Non- Violent Coordin-ating Committee. Now a long time educator, King has taught history and social studies to college and pub lic school students. Lloyd Dean leads one of the nation’s largest health care systems, Catholic Healthcare West, in San Francisco. His manage ment of the facility brought the system out of a three-year financial hole to being an $11-billion system with 41 hospitals, 8,500 physicians and 53,000 employees. Dean, a vocal proponent of health care reform, has been named one of the nation’s top minority health care executives and one of the most powerful people in health care. Freeman Hrabowski III marched for civil rights as a child and was featured in the Spike Lee ’79 docu mentary, “Four Little Girls.” The film chroni cled the bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls, one Hrabowski’s class mate. Hrabowski has made his mark as president of the University of Maryland- Baltimore County, where he has turned a small commuter school into one of the nation’s leading feeders of minority stu dents in graduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics pro grams. Antonio “L.A.” Reid is chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group and is one of the most powerful and respected executives in the music industry. The Cleveland, Ohio, native went from songwriting success with former band mate Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds to becoming CEO of the legendary LaFace Records. Reid has shepherded the careers of music stalwarts such as Usher, TLC, Mariah Carey, Pink and Rihanna. Worship Service The Rev. Kenneth Flowers ’83, pastor of Detroit’s Greater New Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church is giving the keynote for the annual Founder’s Day Worship Service on Sunday, Feb. 14, in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at 11 a.m. The final event of the week will be the Morehouse College Glee Club s Annual Spring Concert, celebrating the Glee Club’s 99th anniver sary. The concert, free and open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. in King Chapel.