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INSIDE MOREHOUSE, FEBRUARY 2011
Morehouse Celebrates 144 Years of Excellence
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Hatchett, publisher Jawanza Kunjufu, psychology professor and
Morehouse Male Initiative director Bryant Marks ’94, former
Harvard School of Public Health associate dean Deborah
Prothrow-Smith, City College of New York professor R.L.
Heureux Lewis ’00 and UCLA professor Ernest Morrell.
• Three-time Grammy nominee Angie Stone brings her R&B
voice to the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel stage
for the annual Founder’s Day Concert on Friday, Feb. 18. Also
performing will be jazz violinist Ken Ford.
• Eight men - Academy Award-wanning actor Morgan Freeman,
attorney Donald V. Watkins, baseball Hall of Famer Frank
Robinson, acclaimed physician Melvin D. Gerald ’64, businessman
Curley Dossman Jr. 73, Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation
founder Ronald R. Davenport, Harry Wright Sr. ’53 and chemist
William M. lackson ’56 - will be honored with the 2011 Bennie
and Candle Awards for their work in their respective fields.
• They will discuss their careers with students on Saturday, Feb. 19 dur
ing “Reflections of Excellence” in the Ray Cherries Performing Arts
Center’s Emma and Joe Adams Concert Hall.
• That evening at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta’s Centennial
Ballroom, they will be honored at the 23rd Annual “A Candle
in the Dark” Gala. The master and mistress of ceremonies will
be and actor Glynn Turman and actress Terri J. Vaughn.
• The Morehouse College Glee Club starts a year long celebra
tion of their 100-year anniversary with their annual Spring
Concert on Feb. 20 in the Martin Luther King Jr. International
Chapel.
Also during the week, nearly 300 parents, guardians and fami
ly members will be on campus for the 24th annual Parents
Weekend.
For a full schedule of Founder’s Day events, go to page 7 and to
http://www.morehouse.edu/events/2011/foundersweek. ■
Education Secretary Urges Morehouse Students to Serve Their Country
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African American community... That needs to change. I can’t think of a
better place to begin that conversation than at Morehouse at the begin
ning of Black History Month.”
Less than 3 percent of the nation’s teachers are persons of color dur
ing a time when black children need black teachers as mentors and role
models, Duncan said.
“The facts are pretty stark,” he said. “We have to make sure our
teachers and principals reflect the great diversity of this country.
Right now that is not the case.”
Lewis, who recalled said having to sneak around to school as a
youngster growing up in the South, having black teachers is para
mount to the success of young black men.
It is important to see black males in our schools teaching,” he
said. “If it weren’t for Martin Luther King !r. and black teachers
encouraging me to read, I wouldn’t be in Congress today.”
Lee looked into the audience and pointed to reasons why teach
ers are important to him: Morehouse English professor Delores
Stephens and Clark Atlanta University communications professor
Herbert Eichelberger.
“I was a functioning illiterate, but [Stephens] would not accept
that,” Lee said. “And I would not be a filmmaker if it weren’t for
[Eichelberger]. “These two teachers made me who I am today.”
Duncan said with an aging teaching workforce, up to 200,000 new
teachers will need to be hired each year. But more importandy, black
men can serve their country by becoming teachers.
“If we are going to do the right thing by our communities, by our
families, by our men, by our country, we have to change this,” he said.
I think the men of Morehouse will be a huge part of the solution.”
Education Secretary Arne Duncan (left) makes a point to moderator
Jeff Johnson and President Robert M. Franklin 75.
Franklin said those men of Morehouse — many who sat in the audi
ence in maroon Morehouse blazers - are preparing for those roles as
mentors. He hopes their spirit will be something other young men
across the nation will emulate.
“Educating the character, to be a man who is good and right and
decent and who does the right thing even when no one isn’t looking,”
Franklin said. “Ultimately that is the test of a good education.” ■
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Nathan E. Carter, scuba diving instructor
LISTENING TO NATHAN E. CARTER and being in his strong presence, it didn’t take long to figure out
that he was a long-time military man. But the retired U.S. Army Ranger loved students and scuba div
ing just as much as he loved his country.
Carter, who taught scuba diving in the Department of Kinesiology after retiring from his 30-year
Army career, died in November at the age of 66.
Carter, who fell in love with scuba diving during his early Army days, taught scuba diving at
Morehouse for seven years. Long popular as a class at mainstream institutions, scuba diving was some-
tiling he wanted more black students to experience.
“My goal was to bring it to an HBCU,” he told Inside Morehouse in April 2009. “My ultimate goal is
to prepare them for open water.”
Nearly 90 students became certified scuba divers during Carter’s tenure.
“Nathan trained many of the African-American divers in Atlanta, and made scuba diving an attrac
tive physical education option at Morehouse,” said J.K. Haynes’, Dean of the Division of Science and
Mathematics and himself a scuba diver. “He loved to teach, and was a great role model for all of his students.”
Nathan E. Carter
Bonner Schedules
Service Activities to
Celebrate Black History
Month
BY ADD SEYMOUR JR.
Morehouse students are celebrating
February's Black History Month by lending a
hand to those who need a little help.
The Bonner Office of Community
Service is leading a month-long communi
ty service effort, using each week to
emphasize an area of focus.
Since we were unable to do our annu
al King Day of Service because of the
January snowstorm, we decided that
February would be an ideal time to commit
to service," said Jacqueline Dugger of the
Bonner Office of Community Service. "Our
Bonner students are working on several
issues for service and we thought it would
be a good segue into Black History Month
for all of our students to get involved."
These are the weekly themes and the
service opportunities that
are available:
FEB. 1-6-HOMELESSNESS
Making A Way Housing, Inc.,
377 Westchester Bh/d, Atlanta, GA 30314
Contact: Robby Travis, (404) 792-8011
Date: Friday, Feb. 4,10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Task: Landscaping, painting and cleaning
apartments.
Cafe 458
458 Edgewood Ave SE, Atl. 30312
Contact: Alison Smith, (404) 446-4680
or email alison.smith@atlantacss.org.
Date: Feb. 1-4, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Task: bus person, server, line cook, dish
washer, lead server, greeter/host
FEB. 7-13 - ENVIRONMENTAL
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc
Corps Community Center
Contact: Ikenna Ubaka, (404) 638-7254
Date: Saturday, Feb. 12, 8 a.m. - noon
(Four hour commitment)
Task: Clean-up and preparation for a new
community garden; includes building
and painting fences, shoveling dirt, remov
ing garbage at Welch & Mary
Street, SW in Atlanta. Breakfast refresh
ments will be provided. This is a
collaborative project between The Salvation
Army, Pittsburgh Community
Improvement Association, and Project Pride.
Feb. 14-20 - Education
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc
Corps Community Center
Contact: Ikenna Ubaka, (404) 638-7254
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 15, noon - 8 p.m.
(flexible hours)
Task: Cataloging and inventory of our library
books; Four hours,- Need 2 volunteers.
Thursday, Feb 17th, 4pm-8pm
Task: Read-a-loud volunteers for the Family
Literacy Program, "Reaching Out to Read"
Event; Four hours,- Need 5-8 volunteers.
February 21-27-Community
Development
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc
Corps Community Center
Contact: Ikenna Ubaka, (404) 638-7254
Saturday, Feb. 26,10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
(2-4 hour commitment)
Task: Volunteers can sign up to assist
with food service, children's
activities, decorations, set-up, clean up,
building monitors, registration
and information desk.
For more information about signing up,
see Jacqueline Dugger in
room 426 in the Leadership Center or
email her at jdugger@morehouse.edu.