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INSIDE MOREHOUSE, MAY 2012 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 up-to-the minute information about the College, go to www.morehouse.edu or visit Morehouse on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Tumblr. www.morehouse.edu YoufflTB mn SMOREHOUSE 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 Glennon Design Group Web Services Hana Chelikowsky Administrative Assistant Minnie L. Jackson Inside Morehouse is published monthly during the academic year by Morehouse College, Office of Communications. Opinions expressed in Inside Morehouse are those of the authors, not necessarily of the College. « rm H Im mt 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 ■ Debate (continued from page 1) 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.” ■