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Volume V Number 5 Atlanta, Georgia February 28, 1993 Follow Your Dreams Quincy Jones and William Warfield send out motivating message at convocation Quincy Jones, President Thomas Cole and William Warfield By Pierre Harris Contributing Writer and Jayme L. Bradford News Editor Two musical giants, Quincy Jones and William Warfield, received honorary doctoral degrees at a special convocation on Tuesday Feb. 16, at Clark Atlanta University. Jones has been a pioneer and innovator in the music and movie industry for over 40 years. He has worked with mu sicians like Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, ClarkTerry, and cites Billy Eckstine as being his musical inspira tion. At age 12, he began play ing trumpet and singing in a gospel quartet in Seattle. His first big break in the music business came when he was hired as a trumpeter in Lionel Hampton’s band. He went on from there to work with some of the industries greatest artists. Jones has received sev eral awards and accolades throughout his career in cluding an Emmy, six Os car nominations, and 26 Grammy awards. He also holds the record for the most Grammy nominations with 74. Singer, actor, entertainer, William Warfield, who’s ca reer has spanned more than 40 years as well said, “If you take a dream you must fol low it.” Warfield’s inspira tion for success came from watching his father toil as an Arkansas sharecropper, Clark Atlanta student dies in car crash Johneli Williams By Jayme L. Bradford News Eiditor PERSONALS Trials of an oversized woman. page 11 SPORTS Arthur Ashe remem bered. page 15 NIWS Students are upset with shuttle service, page 2 EDITORIAL Taking the challenge. page 4 LIFESTYLES/ ENTERTAINMENT Black bookstores packed with knowl edge. Historical First! Georgia Supreme Court Convenes at CAU President Thomas Cole and the Supreme Court Justices in Woodruff Library. By Jenel Williams Assistant News Editor The Georgia State Su preme Court held a histori cal session on Tuesday at Clark Atlanta University to introduce students to the judicial system. The event was sponsored by the CAU Criminal Jus tice Department and held in Woodruff Library’s Lacy Hall. Students, faculty, staff, and community members crowded the room so that television cameras were set up to accommodate those who were too far from the front to see. Justice Leah Sears- Collins, the first African American woman to serve on the Court, said the jus tices felt, “a special sense of joy” to be able to celebrate Black History Month by holding court at CAU. The justices present were Chief Justice Harold Clarke, Justice Willis Hunt, Jr. .Jus tice Robert Benham, Jus tice Leah Sears-Collins, and Justice Carol Hunstein. The court heard three crimi nal case arguments., Fugate v. The State, Swails v. The State, and Hall v. Timothy Madison D_A etal. Thefirstcase.Fugate v. The State, was an appeal of a murder case from Putnam County in which Buck Fugate had been sentenced to death for the murder of his ex-wife Patty Fugate. Students at Clark Atlanta University are in mourning over the tragic death of their classmate, Johneli E. Wil liams. Williams was killed Feb. 9 in a car accident while traveling down Ashby and Simpson Streets. The 21 -year old Chicago na tive was a junior majoring in accounting. She transferred to CAU after attending Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich, as a busi ness administration major. Williams was a honor stu dent and scholarship recipient from the Joshua M. Brown Lay Organization and the Wilfred Reid Service Club. She also worked at the Original Pancake Hoiase to help pay for her tu ition. While at CAU, Williams was veiy active in the Illinois Club and participated in the group's choir. She also tutored stu dents in accounting. She was buried on Tuesday at the Saint Stephens AM.E. Church in Chicago. A memo rial service was also held last Wednesday at Providence Baptist Church next door to the gym.