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February 24, 2005
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Paine College 'OS Homecoming celebration a success
With a litde help from
triends, Paine College made
Homecoming week 2005,
February 7-12, a “supreme”
week. The College celebrat
ed the 123rd anniversary of
Its tounding during
Founders’ Day Convoca
tion where Ms. Mary Wil
son, of the Motown hit
making group, the
Supremes, delivered the
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keynote address. Paine
College also celebrated the
fifth anniversary of its
UNCF Masked Ball. The
sold out event, attended by
more than 600 people, was
held in the Radisson River
front Hotel. Ms. Wilson
along with golf legend, Lee
Elder, and wife Sharon,
were the honored guests.
During the week of festiv
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ities the Paine College fam
ily experienced two days of
historical and cultural
enlightenment at the Twen
ty-fourth Annual Confer
ence on the Black Experi
ence themed The African
Diaspora: Influence and
Impact. The speakers were:
Dr. Mallory Millender,
Paine College Professor of
French and Journalism; Dr.
Noel J. Makidi, Paine Col
lege Professor of History
and Political Science; Dr.
Faye McNair-Knox, Execu
tive Director of One East
Palo Alto (OEPA) Neigh
borhood Improvement Ini
tiative and a Stanford grad
uate in linguistics and edu
cation; Dr. Donna Akiba
Sullivan Harper, author and
Spelman College Professor
of English; and Dr. Charles
Willie, Professor Emeritus
of Education at the Har
vard Graduate School of
Education. Conference
topics rangcd from Ameri
ca’s debt to Haiti to the ide
ology and identity of the
African American Lan
guage.
Highlights from the Fifth
Annual UNCF Masked
Ball included an announce
ment by Paine College Pres
ident, Dr. Shirley A. R.
Lewis, and Lee Elder that
the College would feature a
new golf team in the 2005-
20006 school year. Dr. Lewis
also announced generous
contributions of SIO,OOO
from Washington Group
International and Thomp
son Hospitality. Masked
Ball participants also bid
tor silent auction items;
danced to the sounds of
Playback The Band; and
marched in the Parade of
Masks ceremony for covet-
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Photo by Korey London
Mary Wiison signs an autograph for Miss Paine College 2004-
2005, Alana Wells, after delivering the keynote address for
Paine College’s 123rd Founders’' Day Convocation.
ed prizes given to the win
ners.
In addition to the spon
sorships provided by Wash
ington Group International
and Thompson Hospitality
other Masked Ball sponsors
included AGL Resources,
Coca-Cola Bottling Com
pany, Kappa Alpha Psi Fra
ternity, Incorporated, J&B
Construction and Services,
Inc., ITlhe CSRA Classic,
Inc., Atlanta International,
Honeywell, Nicholas Dick
inson, A.LLA, Paine College
National Alumni Associa
tion, Procter and Gamble,
Wachovia and WFE
Paine College is a church
related, four-year, residen
ual, liberal arts college.
Paine ils supported by the
United Methodist Church,
the Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church, and the
United Negro College
Fund. Dr Shirley A. R
Lewis is President of Paine
College.