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Morris Brown College - Students First: Serving...Learning...Leading! DECEMBER 2000/JANUARY 2001 - 3 CAMPUSNEWS A luvnvuAb' wv M e^noricuw The Morris Brown College Offices of Student Development and Campus Ministries held memorial services for Ms. Jamie Mulligan, one of our students who was mur dered on November 15th. Ms. Jamie P. Mulligan was from Dayton, OH, a Junior majored in Business Administration. Jamie Patrice Mulligan de parted this life on Wednesday, November 15, 2000 in Atlan ta, Georgia. She was born on August 19, 1980, in Dayton, Ohio to the Huston and Donna Mulligan. Jamie attended the Dayton Public Schools and graduated with honors from Patterson Coopertive High School in 1998. She was well- liked and enjoyed member ships in the Spanish Club, the Student Council, the Ameri can Youth Foundation, and Vocational Industrial Club of America. Jamie maintained honor status during most of her school years. In 1998, Jamie was the recipient of a Alpha Kappa Alpha Scholar ship award. Her dedication to academics led to her later enrollment at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. God became an important part of Jamie’s life at the early age of seven, when she accepted Christ at residence Park Church of Christ. Whenever time permitted, Jamie volunteered her servi ces at Mulligan Stew Academy, a private school, co-fourfded by her mother, Dona Mulligan. Jamie’s favorite leisure activ ities included movies, all kinds of music, and of course-shop ping. Jamie was indeed a blessing to our family. She always had a big smile and kind words, especially for her cousins. Jamie was a beauti ful and loving young lady who leaves to mourn, a devoted brother Huston G. Mulligan II, her niece Tania and sister Megan; grandmothers: Bessie Sumlin and Mae Mulligan; Aunts: Elizabeth (Robert) Morris, Betty Mulligan, Jane (Greg) Williams, Carolyn (Robert) Young, Charlene (Michael) Jones, and Darlene (Jerry) Brown; Uncles: Henry Mulligan, Johnnie(Phyllis) Greene, James (Cassandra) Sumlin, Ronald (Nancy) Sumlin, and Strawder (Melva) Cooper. Morris Brown College, Atlanta lay to rest distinguished alumnus and Civil Rights activist. The body of Dr. Hosea Williams (draped in the US flag), making it's way along Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. in a mule drawn carriage. housands lined the streets of Atlanta recent ly, to pay respect to noted alumnus and interna tionally known Civil Rights activist, Rev. Dr. Hosea Williams. Williams (MBC Class of‘51), is well known for his tireless fight against civil rights injustices, home lessness, poverty and hunger. He is the recipient of several local, national and interna tional awards for his work in the Civil Rights Movement and his commitment to com munity service. Morris Brown College has established a scholarship in his name, which will be fund ed through donations from the Tom Joyner Foundation HBCU Scholarship Fund. Rev. Williams was honored re cently by the college, as this year’s Grand Marshal of the Homecoming Parade. Photos were taken as the body passed through the Morris Brown College campus stretch of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Ike Wolverine OBSERVE! Documenting Morris Brown College Risionr for 63 Years Dying Legends By Angela McDowell STAFF WRITER M y mother once told me that the “old folks” used to say, “Give me my flowers now while I can still smell them.” I never understood the complexity of that statement until recently. Sitting in a Starbucks, waiting for time to past, I picked up an Atlanta Journal Constitution. I flipped past the Sports section and on to the Society pages. Somewhere between reading on the Georgia Lady Bulldogs’ victory over Rutgers and the alleged homicide of a horse jockey my eyes locked dead on a picture of Gwendolyn Brooks. The headline read simply, “Gwendolyn Brooks, prize-winning poet.” Had she won another award? No. It was much more tragic. The three-column article was to publicize her death. She reportedly died of cancer at the age of 83. The article listed some of her awards and how she has been the Poet Laureate of Illinois since 1968. It also listed some of her family members that she left behind. How terrible is it when we lost someone we love so much? All I could think about as I read this article in the bottom left-hand comer of the Obituary section is how much I regretted having never met her. The same morning, while riding the shuttle from the Days Inn. I heard on the radio an advertisement of a Living Legend gala in honor of the music icon, Ray Charles. It is so wonderful when we take advantage of our luminaries who are still with us. Excuse me. I don't mean to sound exclusionary. I don’t mean our African-American talents. I mean everybody who we value for their contribution to our lives. We should all, on a personal level; make it our business to honor the elders in our families and tap into the wealth of wisdom and experience that they can offer us because we don’t know how long we will have them with us. Neither do we know how long we will be here to enjoy them. About three years ago I discovered the music of Nina Simone and she has been my favorite singer ever since. On top of being an extraordinary songwriter and pianist she also played a part in Civil Rights Movement by expressing her feeling through protest songs such as Jim Crow, Four Women, and Mississippi Goddam. She was there on the front lines of the movement and she is still singing about it today. She recently performed at a college in Texas, and I can’t help but to think how amazing it would be to have her visit Morris Brown. Some of the people we are reading about in our history books are walking and laughing and still breathing today. In fact, some of them might even count it an insult that I appear to be writing an editorial in anticipation of their deaths. The point is that we have resources on this planet, and yes, with in the African-American community that are yet untapped. The famous MGM actress Lena Horne was born in the same year and the same month as Gwendolyn Brooks, June of 1917. She received an honorary doctorate from Yale in 1998. She also released an album that year at the age of 81. Suppose if Morris Brown was to give this grand lady an honorary degree. It is the year 2000: past time to give honor where honor is due. Many of our legends are still here with us. They don’t have to mean the world to everybody for us to appreciate them. They only have had to touch our lives in a way that made us live a little easier and made our burden a little lighter.