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INSIDE MOREHOUSE, MAY 2012
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2012-13 Miss Maroon and White and Her Court
The newly crowned Miss Maroon and White, Jasmine Matthews, a drama major from
Houston, poses with her court: 1st Attendant Taylor Hawkins, an engineering and
mathematics major from Washington, D.C., and 2nd Attendant Cydnee Williams, a
psychology major from Houston. The ladies, all rising seniors at Spelman College, will
represent Morehouse during the 2012-2013 academic year. ■
New Trees Give
Morehouse A
Greener Look
BY ADD SEYMOUR JR.
Morehouse is getting a lot greener,
thanks to an anonymous donor and a
group of students.
Earlier this year, the donor gave
the College $100,000 to plant new trees
all over campus. Older trees that were
beginning to decay were pulled up and replaced with new oak, holly, crape myrtle
and magnolia trees. Many will be large, mature shade trees such as dogwoods and
rosebuds.
“We’re planting 186 trees, so whatever we took up, we more than made up,”
said Logistics Manager John Zachary ’79. “And a shade tree generates more than
$160,000 in environmental benefits over the course of 50 years. But it’s also going
to change the look and landscape of the campus. I think students, faculty and staff
will like the new look. We’ll begin to see the effects of it this spring.”
The new trees are in the heart of campus on Brown Street, in front of
the Leadership Center, along Westview Drive towards the security gate; near
Douglass Hall and the Morehouse tennis complex, near Graves Hall, along West
End Avenue across from the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center and Music-
Education Building and on Welborn Street adjacent to the Martin Luther King Jr.
International Chapel.
A few weeks later, the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., led a separate
effort to add more foliage on campus. They teamed up with the Spelman chapter
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Toyota and the Arbor Day Foundation to
plant 30 trees at Morehouse and another 30 trees at Spelman. ■
NEWSBRIEFS
SCLC Honors President Franklin
and Herman “Skip” Mason
President Robert M. Franklin ’75 and College
Archivist Herman “Skip” Mason were each
honored by the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference/Women’s Organizational Movement
for Equality Now, Inc., with the organization’s
Drum Major for Justice Award on April 4.
Morehouse Named One of
Nation’s Best in Social Media
Touting initiatives such as “Morehouse Mondays
on Facebook,” studentadvisor.com named
Morehouse one of the Nation’s Top 100 Social
Media Colleges for 2012.
As part of the College’s social media outreach,
“Morehouse Mondays on Facebook” allowed
potential students to chat online directly with
College administrators each Monday in April.
Honda Campus All-Star Team
Finishes in Final Four
Morehouse finished in the Final Four of the 2012
Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, which featured
48 teams from historically black colleges and uni
versities around the country.
The team - consisting of Terry Lyles II, Matt
Kemelek, Robert Myrick Jr., Evan Turnage, Eugene
Finley and coach Charles Walton Jr. - won $15,000
in reaching the competition’s semi-finals. Morgan
State won the championship, followed by Oakwood
College, Florida A&M and Morehouse.
The four teams were featured in a full-page ad
in USA Today on April 18.
Follett Donates $125,000 to College
Just one month after making a $25,000 donation
for the Morehouse Renaissance Now campaign
for student scholarships, Follett Higher Education
Group, which runs the Morehouse College
Bookstore, gave an additional $100,000 to the fund
on March 15.
Morehouse Included on Combined
Federal Campaign Charity List
Morehouse College has been included as an eligible
charity on the National/International Part of the 2012
Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Charity List.
The CFC is an umbrella campaign for nearly 20,000
nonprofit charitable organizations worldwide that
solicit federal employees for donations. These chari
ties range from emerging community groups to large,
well-known charities.
Since its inception in 1961, the CFC has raised
nearly $7 billion for charities. In 2011, the metropoli
tan Atlanta campaign raised $4,240,497.00.
The official solicitation period for the 2012 cam
paign is September 1 through December 15, 2012 ■
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championship winning debate team while he was at Morehouse,
took over the program last year after a couple of years when the
program was being revived.
Under Newby’s direction, the team ended the 2011-12 sea
son as Georgia’s top-ranked parliamentary debate program and
also was ranked 16^ in the nation. Morehouse debaters won first
overall in tournaments at the University of Tennessee, Gainesville
State College and Berry College. They finished in the Top 10
in competitions at George Washington University and James
Madison University. And they were lauded for exhibition perfor
mances against Howard, Bates and Yale.
This year s team consisted of Byron Grandberry, Brent
Brunson, Raheem Cooper-Thomas, Austin Williams, Christ
Fortson-Gaines, Curtis O’Neal, Derrick Reed, Nicholas Bacon,
Franklin Kwame Weldon and Anthony Voss.
They practiced three to four hours, twice a week, but also
had to keep abreast of, and be knowledgeable about, current
events.
“It’s really a lot of hard work and practice,” Newby said.
“They’ve met my expectations. To exceed my expectations, we
have to reach the next level and my goal next year is to have us
ranked among the nation’s Top 10 teams and to bring back some
form of a national championship.”
They will have that chance next year for not only a national
title, but for the first time a world championship. In December,
they head to Berlin, Germany, to compete in the World
L?niversities Debating Championship.
“It requires the heart,” Newby said. “Morehouse students
have the mind. If you have the heart, the will and effort, then
debate proves you will see the result.” ■