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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
THE MAROON TIGER
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Dr. Anna Harvin Grant
Fulton County to
name building in
honor of professor
By Mark Oliphant
Office of College Relations
The Fulton County Department of
Family and Children Services will
name a new building in honor of
Morehouse College sociology profes
sor Dr. Anna Harvin Grant on Thurs
day, Feb. 23 at 11 a.m., on the campus
of Southwest Hospital and Medical
Center in Atlanta. The Anna Harvin
Grant Building, which will house
DFACS' new Southwest Area Office,
is being dedicated to her for 16 years
of service as a board member of the
Fulton County DFACS, and for her
outstanding 41-year career as a soci
ologist and educator.
Grant received her associate of arts
degree from Florida Memorial, and
her bachelors degree from Florida
A&M University. She later went on
to earn her masters degree from Fisk
University, and her doctorate in phi
losophy, sociology and counseling
from Washington State University.
In 1963, Grantjoined the Morehouse
College faculty, and is currently the
chairperson of the sociology depart
ment. Among her major accomplish
ments at Morehouse are spearheading
programs and plenary sessions as di
rector of the College's Family Insti
tute, and serving as president and char
ter member of the Delta chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa national honor society.
Before coming to Morehouse, Grant
served as dean of students and associ
ate professor of sociology at Fisk. She
has also taught at Grambling State
University and Dillard University.
She has written and published nu
merous research documents on the
Black family, relationships between
Black men and women, and economic
issues affecting the Black commu
nity.
In addition to this most recent honor,
Grant has received awards and recog
nitions from the American Council on
Human Rights, the Georgia Socio
logical Association, the Georgia Hu
manities Council, the National Asso
ciation for Equal Opportunity in
Higher Education, and each of her
alma maters.
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Religious Emphasis Week to honor
the life of Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays
By Mark Oliphant
Office of College Relations
The college will host the 10th An
nual Martin Luther King, Jr. College
of Ministers and Laity Conference, in
conjunction with Religious Emphasis
Week, Feb. 26 through March 5,1995.
Conference activities will be held in
both the Martin Luther King, Jr. Inter
national Chapel and Sale Hall.
The theme of this year's interde
nominational conference is "Benjamin
Elijah Mays: To Seek a New World
Through Faith and Democracy," cel
ebrating the 100th birthday of the late
Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays. Mays was
president of the college from 1940-
1967. A host of lectures, presenta
tions and seminars planned will ex
amine the religious, cultural, scien
tific and social implications of both
present and future issues. Among the
conference speakers and participants
will include: the Rev. Dr. Michael P.
Williams, pastor of Joy Tabernacle in
Houston, Texas; Mr. Lerone Bennett,
executive editor of Ebony magazine;
and Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, pastor
of Trinity UCC Church in Chicago,
Illinois.
Twenty-five ministers of various
faiths from across the country will be
inducted into the Martin Luther King
Jr. Board of Preachers, while others
sponsors, leaders and distinguished
individuals will be honored, includ
ing former NFL great Mel Blount.
Old time religion
By Rev. Dr. Lawrence Carter
Dean of King Chapel
Spirituality is value-oriented free
dom or spiritual liberty rooted in the
Source of truth and power. Coopera
tion is the highest level of spirituality.
On the cooperative level, a person's
will is freed from bondage to selfless
ness, and he is able to gain the joy and
strength that comes from shared work.
There must be cooperation with God,
yet without dogmatic identification
of God with one institution, one tradi
tion, or one philosophy.
Spirituality is the priniciple unity. It
is based on the first principle of re
spect for personality. That principle
provides unity. Yet within that unity,
there is room for wide differences of
opinion and of cultures. The history
of human struggle for spiritual liberty
begins on the material level, where
freedom and divine favor are evi
denced by health and wealth. It may
then move to the miraculous level
where religion tends to be identified
with the extraordinary and even the
irrational. It may then rise to the far
higher level of the inner-life of the
mystics and saints of all ages and
religions.
The material level ceases to be mate
rialistic when all matter is seen to be
God in action. On the miraculous
level, there is the truth that God is
sometimes present in special ways religion. warm toward all Jews, Greeks, Sa-
and unusual events. The inner-level True spiritual liberty is found in co- maritans, Gentiles, Muslims, Africans
emphasizes the spiritual nature of all operation when a persons heart is and the physically challenged.
Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts 72 will speak at the 128th Founders' Day
Celebration, as well as participate in the first night of Religious
emphasis week, which will address Black and Jewish relations.