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INSIDE MOREHOUSE. FEBRUARY 2011
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
2011 FOUNDER’S DAY/PARENTS WEEKEND
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WEDNESDAY, 16th
11 a.m. - Noon
UNVEILING OF THE BLACK
HISTORY MONTH POSTAL
STAMP HONORING BARBARA
JORDAN
Location: Lobby, Martin Luther
King Jr. International Chapel
THURSDAY, 17th
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
PARENTS WEEKEND
WELCOME CENTER AND
LIMITED LATE REGISTRATION
Location: Lobby, Executive
Conference Center
10:45 a.m.
144TH FOUNDER’S DAY
CONVOCATION
Speaker: The Rev. Calvin O. Butts
’7 J, senior pastor, Abyssinian Baptist
Church, Harlem, N.Y. and president
of State University of New York (Old
Westbury)
Presidential Awards of Distinction
Honorees: retired business executive
Arthur McCIung ’66 and professor
Robert Steele ’65
Location: Martin Luther King Jr.
International Chapel
Noon
FOUNDER’S DAY LUNCHEON
Cake Cutting Ceremony, presented
by the Student Government Association.
Location: Olivers Dining Hall
2 - 4:30 p.m.
PARENTS WEEKEND OPENING
ASSEMBLY
Speakers: Weldon Jackson ’72,
provost and senior vice president
for Academic Affairs;
William Bynum, vice president of
Student Services; Harry Wright Jr.
’82, associate vice president for
Student Services
Special dance presentation by Issac
Rose & Co.
Location: Bank of America
Auditorium, The Executive
Conference Center
FRIDAY, 18th
8:30 a.m. - Noon
PARENTS WEEKEND
WELCOME CENTER AND
LIMITED LATE REGISTRATION
Location: l.obby, Executive
Conference Center
8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
PARENTS COUNCIL
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
MEETING
Location: Executive Conference
Center, Room C
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
COLLECTION DISPLAY
Location: Robert W. Woodruff
Library, Exhibition Hall/Special
Collections
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
International Renaissance
Luncheon and Presentation
Location: Woodruff Library, Special
Collection Extension Rooms
2-5 p.m.
FOUNDER’S WEEK SYMPOSIUM
THIRD ANNUAL BLACK MALE
SUMMIT
BOYS TO MEN:
INTERROGATING
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT BLACK
JVIALE DEVELOPMENT
Moderator: David Wall Rice ’95,
assistant professor, Department of
Psychology
Speakers: Bryant Marks ’94, director,
Morehouse Male Initiative; R.
L’Heureux Lewis ’00, assistant profes
sor, sociology and black studies, The
City College of New York of the City
University of New York; Deborah
Prothrow-Stith, executive search
consultant, Spencer Stuart; Ernest
Morrell, associate professor,
Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies, University of
California, Los Angeles; Glenda
Hatchett, author and judge;
Jawanza Kunjufu, publisher
Location: Bank of America
Auditorium, The Executive
Conference Center
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PARENTS WEEKEND
RECEPTION
Welcome by President Robert M.
Franklin ’75
Question and Answer session with
directors of the Office of Student
Services
Location: Reception Rooms, The
Executive Conference Center
8-10 p.m.
FOUNDER’S DAY CONCERT
R&B singer Angie Stone, violinist
Ken Ford
Tickets: $50 VIP Seating; $35
General Admission
Location: Martin Luther King Jr.
International Chapel
SATURDAY, 19th
8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
PARENTS COUNCIL MEETING
Location: Bank of America
Auditorium, The Executive
Conference Center
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
REFLECTIONS OF EXCELLENCE
PRESENTATION OF THE 2011
BENNIE AND CANDLE AWARD
RECIPIENTS
Curley Dossman ’73,
William Jackson ’56, Melvin Gerald
'64, Harry Wright Sr. '53,
Ron Davenport, Donald V. Watkins,
Frank Robinson, Morgan Freeman
Location: The Emma and
Joe Adams Concert Hall,
The Ray Charles Performing
Arts Center
6 p.m.
23RD ANNUAL “A CANDLE IN
THE DARK”GALA
Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta
265 Peachtree St. NF
Atlanta, GA 30303
Tor tickets, contact the Office of
Alumni Relations at (404) 681-
2800, ext. 2658.
SUNDAY, 20th
11 a.m.
FOUNDER’S WEEK WORSHIP
SERVICE
Speaker: The Rev. Ronald F. Peters,
president, Interdenominational
Theological Center
Location: The Martin Luther King
Jr. International Chapel
4 p.m.
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE GLEE
CLUB CONCERT
David Morrow ’80, director
Location: T he Martin Luther King
Jr. International Chapel
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN ARTS AND
ENTERTAINMENT. MORGAN FREEMAN
Morgan Freeman, an actor, film director and narrator, has
received Academy Award nominations for his performances
in "Street Smart," "Driving Miss Daisy," "The Shawshank
Redemption" and "Invictus," and won in 2005 for "Million
Dollar Baby." He is co-founder of the Frank Silvern Writers'
Workshop; has given $250,000 to establish a chair of performing arts at
Hutchison School for Girls in Memphis; serves on the board of Earth Biofuels, a
company promoting the use of clean-burning fuel; and supports Artists for a New
South Africa and the Campaign for Female Education.
BENNIE SERVICE, CURLEY DOSSMAN 73
Curley M. Dossman Jr. 73 currently serves as vice presi
dent for Community Programs for Georgia Pacific and as pres
ident of the Georgia-Pacific Foundation. He is responsible for
the development of community relations programs for GP
headquarters and local plant communities, and for the devel
opment and implementation of the company's overall philan
thropic strategies. He also serves on the Diversity Council for Georgia-Pacific, where
he champions the need for diversity.
CANDLE IN JOURNALISM, RONALD DAVENPORT
Ronald R. Davenport is chairman of Sheridan Broadcasting
Corporation and co-chair of the American Urban Radio
Networks (AURN). Currently providing more than 200 weekly
programs to more than 300 affiliate radio stations, AURN has
the satellite capacity to reach 94 percent of the African
American population. Sheridan was the country's first black-
owned radio group and the largest black-owned broadcasting firm.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN ATHLETICS, FRANK
ROBINSON
Frank Robinson, who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1982, is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and the
first black manager in the major leagues. He played from 1956
to 1976, most notably for the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore
Orioles. He is the only player to win league MVP honors in both
the National and American leagues; he won the Triple Crown,- he was a member of
two teams that won the Vlforld Series (the 1966 and 1970 Baltimore Orioles), and he
amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement
BENNIE ACHIEVEMENT, DR. MELVIN GERALD '64
Melvin D. Gerald '64 currently serves as the medical director for
the Washington Nursing Facility in Washington, D.C He previ
ously saved as president and chief executive officer of Gerald
Family Care, PC, also in Washington, D.C. and later as president
and CEO of G&G Healthcare PC in Cerro Gordo, N.C. with the
responsibility of managing six office locations and a staff of 50.
CANDLE IN BUSINESS AND LAW, DONALD V.
WATKINS
Donald V. Watkins, a highly regarded attorney and entrepre
neur, is president of the law firm Donald V. Watkins PC. spe
cializing in strategic corporate litigation. He rose to fame for his
role in getting the last of tire Scottsboro Boys pardoned and for
his success in defending the government's first test case for a
violation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act He is founder of Alamerica Bank, The Voter
News Network and The Children's Bank, and is co-owner of Masada Oxynol, LIT.
BENNIE TRAILBLAZER, WILLIAM JACKSON '56
William M. Jackson '56 is professor emeritus of chemistry
at the University of California, Davis. He also has worked with
some of the country's top scientific companies and organiza
tions, including Martin-Marietta Company, the National
Academy of Sciences and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). He is co-founder of the National
Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical
Engineers (NOBCChE), and has lobbied on behalf of minority and female scientists.
CANDLE IN RELIGION. HARRY WRIGHT '53
The Rev. Dr. Harry S. Wright Sr. '53 is pastor emeritus of
the historic Cornerstone Baptist Church of Brooklyn, New
York, and former dean and president of Bishop College in
Dallas, Texas. In 1995, the sought-after speaker and lecturer
was bestowed the Frederick D. Patterson Award, the United
Negro College Fund's highest honor.