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Leaders of Tomorrow! FEBRUARY 1998 MBC Wolverine OBSERVER 3
CAMPUS NEWS
Student Support Services
gets new Assistant Director and
Honors former one
he Student Support Services
Progarm salutes Mr. Charles
E. Barker, the former assistant
director of Student Support Services
from March 1992-July 1997. Mr.
Barker, who is also a 1970 graduate
of Morris Brown College, will be long
remembered in Student Support
Services for his genuine enthusiasm
ind fun-loving spirit. Determined to
provide quality cultural exposure for
the 250 students of the Student Sup
port Services program. Mr. Barker
sought always to enhance their
college experience and life readiness
through exciting cultural educa
tional trips, which he managed to
finance through massive fundraising
efforts. During his tenure, Mr.
Barker became the first TRIO assis
tant director in the nation to trans
port students by air; in 1996 he
amazingly arranged for Student
Support Services students to travel
to the West Coast and in 1997 to
New York and Washington, D.C.
In recognition and appreciation for
his contribution to Student Support
Services, the 1997-98 staff of Stud
ent Support Services have renamed
in his honor the yearly award which
Mr. Barker instituted to recognize
student extracurricular achieve
ments. Beginning at the April 1998
Culminating Activity, The Charles
E. Barker Award will be presented
to the student who possesses the ad
mirable qualities of well-rounded
ness, institutional commitment, and
a dedication to life-learning. Mr.
Barker’s enthusiasm, love of life,
and contributions to SSS will be re
cognized through the granting of
this yearly award.
In October 1997, Ms. Bertha
Bernice Ford became the new assis
tant director of Student Support Ser
vices. Celebrating five years of being
on staff with SSS. Ms. Ford is very
thankful to Mr. Barker for his
Ms. Bertha Bernice Ford
Student Support Services Assistant Director
leadership. One of Mr. Ford’s first
activities as assistant director, along
with staff, SSS SGA officers and
students, was to host a holiday cele
bration on December 5, 1997 in tri
bute to Mr. Barker. The celebration
included a brief program with out
standing performances by the MBC
Gospel Choir and Delta Omicron
Professional Music Fraternity/Soror
ity. Ms. Ford served previously in
Student Support Services as the
Basic Skills Lab Coordinator and
English Clinician. Her vision as the
new assistant director is that the
MBC Student Support Services Pro
gram provides through its three
components (Tutorial, Counseling,
and Support) personal-social nur
turing, skill-enhancing instruction,
leadership training, and diverse
cultural equipping to graduate stu
dents who are sharp-sighted stra
tegic scholars. With sincere appre
ciation, the Student Support Ser
vices staff and students wish the
best for Mr. Barker in all his future
endeavors.
Salute to
Dr. Anderson
by Viola January
The Morris Brown College Up
ward Bound Math/Science program,
which is funded by the Department
of Education, began in November
1995. From its beginning, Dr. Gloria
Anderson has played a major part in
the scope and focus of the programs
design.
In December 1997 the program
began its publication of a monthly
newsletter. Naming the newsletter
was an easy task. Since our hero and
mentor, Dr. Gloria Long Anderson
had already devoted so many hours
to its success, naming the newsletter
in her honor seemed the most appro
priate response. The mission of the
Math/Science program is to pursue
post secondary training in mathe
matics and science. Dr. Anderson’s
contribution has been most benefi
cial in assisting us to achieve this
goal.
The Math/Science newsletter is
proudly entitled The Anderson
Star News. As the Fuller E. Cal
loway professor of chemistry and
now the interim president of Morris
Brown College, Dr. Anderson’s
example will motivate the forty-five
Math/Science students to follow her
lead as a STAR. Congratulations
Dr. Anderson.
Robbery
On January 11, 1998, two Morris
Brown College students were robbed
at gunpoint in the Middleton Com
plex parking lot. The first suspect is
described as a black male in his
early 20’s, medium complexion, last
seen wearing a green corduroy shirt
and baseball cap. The second suspect
is described as a black male in his
early 20’s, fight to medium complex
ion with a mustache and a goatee.
He was last seen wearing a navy
blue shirt with a New York baseball
cap. The suspects were driving a
four door 1995-1997 black or dark
green Maxima. It has tan leather
interior and has a spoiler kit. Sus
pects were last seen traveling west
on Mitchell Street from the Towers.
Anyone with any information on
the suspects or the vehicle are asked
to contact the Department of Public
Safety at 404-220-0121.
Dr. Gloria Anderson (right), Interim President of Morris Brown College accepting a limited-edition
lithograph of ‘ Spirit of Martin" from Mr. Johnnie B Bates, Jr. of BATES & BATES identity Development
& Graphics. Mr. Bates the creator of the work, made the presentation at the King Week convocation
Sweepstakes national promotion.
The artist, Mr. Johnnie B Bates,
Jr., still retains the original work
and will have it on display along
with several of his other paintings
at a Black History Month artshow
during the middle of February.
Bates has received numerous
awards and citations for his artistic
creations. In 1986, he was named
“Role Model of the Year” by the San
Diego NAACP. He is owner of
BATES & BATES Identity Develop
ment, Inc., an advertising/graphic
design firm and serves as consultant
to the award winning MBC Wolve
rine OBSERVER newspaper.
For more information contact Bates
& Bates at 404 212-8080.
The Counseling and
Testing Department of
Morris Brown
Individual, couples and
group counseling Py appointment
and walk-ins on
an Emergency Basis Only.
404 220-0258
Gift of Art
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Brown College received the signed
and numbered limited-edition litho
graph with great pleasure.
The original artwork previously
had been used for a local promotion
by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company
of San Diego which went so well
management suggested it to Cola-
Cola USA, Atlanta. Thereafter, the
artist met with Coca-Cola USA
executives in Atlanta, the portrait
was accepted and later reproduced
for use in their 6th Annual 1988
Black History Month $100,000
“Share the Dream ’’Scholarship