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THANK YOU! Thank You to All, It’s very difficult to stand in the present and try to recreate the past atmosphere on any campus, especially when the topic is someone as iconic, storied and universally revered as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Without doubt, he is the most famous of 18,000 alumni Morehouse has produced in its 151 years. So, I am extremely proud of The Maroon Tiger staff that examined the life and death of Morehouse’s favorite son to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his assassination on April 4,1968. First came a Special King Edition of The Maroon Tiger newspaper that was published on April 5th, followed by this 2018 Commencement magazine you have been reading today. Both are titled '‘King: A Great More house Man Revealed 50 Years Later,” and among all of the publications that respectfully honored King this year, none comparably captured the impact his presence, death, and influence have had on his college home. The King publications rank among the best of the signature editions the MT has produced during my 11 years as an adviser to it. Asking 20-year-olds to turn back the clock 70 years can be an intimidating task, so I have many people to thank for helping our staff successfully navigate their journey into King’s past. You’ll find the names of all of the writers, photographers and designers who contributed to both editions on the following page, but I want to single out Chief Layout Editor TJ Jeter and Creative Director Austyn Wyche for special praise. Our student reporters did a great job of interviewing people about their personal relationships with King and the ways in which his life and death affected them. But the result would have been a mere disparate collection of articles if they had not been packaged in an inviting, attractive, logical and sometimes bold way. Austyn Wyche, a junior psychology major from Chicago, contributed in a major way with his stylized framing of an actual photo of King as a student on pages 4-5 and his picture on page 31 of three current stu dents posed in front of Morehouse’s King statue. That was the cover photo in our newspaper’s King edition. TJ Jeter, a Philosophy major from Ft. Worth, Texas, brought it all to life with his very creative layouts of the newspaper and this magazine. In the days of brilliant black artists Henry Ossawa Tanner and Hale Woodruff, their tools were a paint brush and color palette. In this computer age, TJ’s tools were a mouse, software, keyboard, color monitor and his rich imagination. I also want to thank the many interview subjects who cooperated with Maroon Tiger reporters: More house’s new president, Dr. David A. Thomas, and his predecessors; professors who have taught at More house for more than 50 years (Delores Stephens, Linda Zatlin and recently retired Tobe Johnson) and their colleagues; Morehouse students of the distant past and the present; and Dr. Lawrence Carter, the Dean of King Chapel. Combining their efforts with those of our student journalists, The Maroon Tiger staff and I hope we have presented you with a historical document that you will cherish as much as we do. Into Ties More Brotherly, Ron Thomas Director, Journalism and Sports Program @THEMAROONTIGER