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MOREHOUSE A CAMPUS NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS MAY 2012 Morehouse track team wins seventh consecutive title ESPN HOUSEsports honors legends A look at the class of 2012 Introducing Miss Maroon and White and her Court 2012-13 COMMENCEMENT/REUNION 2012 ‘Franklin’s Men’ to Take Lessons of Renaissance to the World President Franklin, Joyner and Sharpton to Deliver Addresses BY ADD SEYMOUR JR. I n 2007, President Robert M. Franklin ’75 initiated a renaissance among the student body that would see the development of Morehouse Men who embodied the Five Wells - well read, well traveled, well dressed, well spoken and well balanced - as they became leaders. Approximately 530 Renaissance men with a social conscience and global perspective remember his words to them about his vision four years ago. “As Renaissance Men nurtured at Morehouse, you will have the opportunity to inject new energy and hope into communities that desperately await a Renaissance,” Franklin said to the class of 2012 during their New Student Orientation in 2008. Now four years later, more than 10,000 family and friends will gather on the College’s Century Campus for the College’s 128Commencement as the group that now calls themseh Men” actually become Morehouse Men and Franklin, who is stepping down in 2012, presides over his last Commencement ceremony. Jamaji Nwanaji-Enwerem T2, who will deliver the valedictory, said becoming a Morehouse Man and being a valedictorian is keeping in line with Franklin’s wishes. “It’s a great honor, but it also means that 1 have been moved into a position to where I’m a role model for others,” he said. “That responsibility I plan to live up to and to take with me, no matter where I go.” Also speaking during the ceremony will be Tom Joyner, host of the nationally syndicated radio show, “Tom Joyner Morning Show.” He will receive an honorary degree, as will Chick-fil-A found er and chairman S. Truett Cathy; Elaine Tuttle Hansen, executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth; and Econet Wireless founder and chairman Strive Masiyiwa. A day before Commencement, the Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and chairman of the National will give the Baccalaureate address in the Martin Luther King Jr. International are required for seating in King Chapel, as well as satellite venues, for this event. It will also be Reunion Weekend as Morehouse alumni honor their newest members and cel ebrate old friendships and classmates. Receptions are planned for Friday and Saturday evening, and a cookout will be held Saturday afternoon. The Baccalaureate and Commencement ceremonies will be web streamed live on www.morehouse.edu. For more information about Commencement/Reunion 2012 see the full schedule on page 8 or go to http://www.morehouse.edu/commencement/index.html. ■ President Rftbert M. Franklin 75 S. Truett Cathy Strive Ma SPEAKERS OF THE 'HOUSE College’s Debate Team Garners National Rankings BY ADD SEYMOUR JR. IN THE FILM “The Great Debaters,” Wiley College of Texas defeated Harvard in an inspiring debate that proved a small historically black college wasn’t intellectually inferior to the Ivy League. The only problem is that match didn’t hap pen, though Wiley did debate the University of Southern California. This spring, the Morehouse College debate team actually did debate an Ivy League school - Yale University - and, according to popular sentiment, won. It capped a season that debate team direc tor Kenneth Newby ’97 calls a resurgence for the debate program at Morehouse. “We had some members of the team - freshmen and even upperclassmen - who had never debated before this year, but have gone on to achieve remarkable things,” he said. “I’m very proud of the team.” Debate has a long, successful history at Morehouse, but in recent years participation had waned. Newby, who was a member of a national (continued on page 2) Morehouse debate team members deliberate during a match against Howard University.