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Page 3 • THE MAROON TIGER* Wednesday, January 20, 1993
THREE MOREHOUSE ALUMNI WIN U.S. HOUSE SEATS
Morehouse College alumni claim two
additional seats, joining a re-elected
incumbent in the nation’s Capitol Hill
as a result of this year’s national
elections.
Earl F. Hilliard and Sandford D.
Bishop Jr. are among a new wave of
African Americans who have broken
through the traditional, congressional
ranks during he recent nationwide
elections held on November 3, 1992.
They join Major Owens, a victorious
incumbent, in the opening of the 103rd
U.S. Congress in January 1993.
Hilliard, a 1964 graduate of
Morehouse from Birmingham,
Alabama, became the first African
American elected to Congress from
his state since Reconstruction, leading
his five challengers to win the state’s
new 7th Congressional District seat
with 86 percent of the vote.
As a Democratic representative for
District 45 in the Alabama State House
Representative Earl Hilliard (D-Alabama)
of Representatives from 1974 to 1980,
Hilliard served as chairman of the
Alabama Black Legislative Caucus for
Major Owens (P-New York)
three terms (six years). He is currently
serving his fourth term as a state senator
for Alabama’s District 15, where he
"It is essential for Morris Brown to Survive."
Morehouse makes $100,000 contribution to
Morris Brown College From Page 1
Ammons, Vice-President for Devel
opment were unsuccessful. However,
according to Ms. Lillian Jackson, Spe
cial Assistant to the President for Col
lege Relations, President Keith is still
planning other types of fundraisers to
assist Morris Brown College and she
added that, "It is essential for Morris
Brown to survive.”
The Situation at
Morris Brown Now
As Students enrolled at the Atlanta
University Center returned from Fall
Break, those who attend Morris Brown
continued to face the news of their ever
increasing deficit, even with
fundraising efforts from other AUC
schools.
As early as last year, reports had
surfaced about the college's finanical
woes. The initial estimate was at $5
million. Later that figure was changed
to $10 million, including a need to
raise $ 1.3 million in December of 1992
to meet payroll. Former president,
Calvert Smith, who now works for the
Cincinnati School System, had stated
that monies had been raised last year to
alleviate a .then estimated $5 million
dollar deficit. Since that time, internal
investigations have manifested that
those reports were misinformation. Not
only had the school's budget not been
balanced, but some of its academic
and administrative departments did not
have operational budgets. According
to one Morris Brown student, Rakim,
who has since transferred to Georgia
State, money was "being wasted" and
spent on things, "that were not impor
tant to the college."
As classes resumed no new informa
tion surfaced regarding the nature of
the debt, potential mismanagement at
the college by administrators, or the
response of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, which founded and
supports the institution. In spite of this,
many students at Morris Brown are
optimistic.
"There are a lot of schools that are
going through the same things that
Morris Brown is going through," said
Libra Murphy, a junior Hotel and Res
taurant Administration major. "In a
sense it's good for Morris Brown be
cause now at least the problem is pub
licized. .. I feel Morris Brown is going
to be O.K.," she said.
Research for this article was contrib
uted by Marlon Millner and Ed
Blakemore.
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has been on the powerful Judiciary
Committee as well as the Education,
Business, and Labor committees. He
is an attorney with the law firm of
Hilliard, Jackson, and Barnes in Bir
mingham and a member of the Na
tional Bar Association.
Bishop, a 1968 graduate of
Morehouse from Columbus, Georgia,
was victorious in his bid for to represent
southwest Georgia’s rural and pre
dominately Black 2nd Congressional
District with 64 percent of the vote. He
is a 16-year veteran of the Georgia
Assembly, where he served District
134 in the Georgia State House of
Representatives for 14 years and was
elected to the Georgia State Senate
District 15 in 1990.
As a state senator, Bishop sevred as a
member of the Appropriations Com
mittee. He is currently a lawyer prac
ticing in Columbus.
Owens, a 1956 graduate of
Morehouse, was an overwhelming
winner in the race for Central
Brooklyn’s (New York) new 11th
Congressional District with 95 per
cent of the vote. The incumbent con
gressman had been a public servant in
politics and civil rights for over two
decades.
Owen’s track record includes chair
ing the Brooklyn Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE) during the Civil
Rights Movement, and serving as the
Commissioner of the New York City
Community Development Agency. He
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was eected to the New York State
Senate in 1974, where he represented
the Brownsville and East New York
sections of Brooklyn.
Owens, a librarian by profession, was
first elected to the U.S. Congress in
1982, representing the 12th Congres
sional District for four terms. During
his years in Congress, Owens chaired
the House Subcommittee on. Select
Education and Higher Education Brain
Trust; served as a member of the Con
gressional Black Caucus; and was as
signed to House Committees on HOuse
Government Operations, Labor-Man
agement Relations, Postsecondary
Education, and Elementary, Second
ary and Vocational Education.
Beginning with George Crockett, ’31,
the first alumnus elected to U.S. Con
gress in 1980, and Dr. Samuel Nabrit,
’25, former Atomic and Energy Com
mission chairman under the Lyndon
Johnson administration, Morehouse
alumni have assumed esteemed posi
tions in government. Other Morehouse
alumni presently holding key political
positions include U.S. Health and Hu
man Services secretary Dr. Louis
Sullivan ’54, U.S. Postal Commission
chairman George W. Haley ’49, Na
tional Science Foundation chairman
Walter E. Massey ’58, Atlanta mayor
Maynard Jackson ’56, and Washing
ton D.C. city administrator Robert L.
Mallett ’79.
MOREHOUSE SCHOLAR WINS
BRITISH MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP
ATLANTA — Martin Duncan, a se
nior Spanish major at Morehouse Col
lege was recently awarded the presti
gious Marshall Scholarship. The
Marshall Scholarship is awarded to
only 36 college students nationwide
on the basis of their academic excel
lence.
The scholarship will enable Duncan
‘ to study at any university in Britain in
1993. A native of Greenville,
Delaware, Duncan is the second student
from a historically black college to
receive this award in 40 years. He
plans to use the scholarship to study
English literature and language at the
University of Durham in Durham,
England. He hopes to become a
playwright.
Duncan has achieved a 3.95 grade
point average (on a 4.0 scale) and
participates in a host of student organi
zations and activities, including serv
ing as campus editor for the College’s
award-winning Maroon Tiger news
paper and tutoring elementary students
who attend nearby Atlanta public
schools.
The marshall scholarship, awarded
annually since 1953, is Britain’s
national gesture of thanking Ameri
cans for rendering aid to them after
World War II under the Marshall Plan.
The Scholarship, financed by the Brit
ish government, provides an opportu
nity for American students to continue
their studies for two or three years at a
British university. The scholarships
are worth approximately $20,000
annually and cover tuition coasts,
books, travel, and living expenses in
United Kingdom
Famous past Marshall scholars
include Pulitzer Prize-winning authors
Tom Friedman and Dan Yergin, Dolby
sound system inventor Ray Dolby, and
1988 presidential candidate Bruce
Babbit.