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Week of May 13,2009 - May 19,2009 • VoL 37 No. 12 • www.savannahtribune.com * 912-233-6128 * Fax: 912-233-6140
Savannah
State
Confers
Degrees
Sanya Shanique Compton
Bachelor of Science
Marine Science
Magna Cum Laude
Tiffany Marie McClendon
Bachelor of Arts
Mass Communications
Savannah State University
held its 174th commencement cer
emony on Saturday, May 9, 2009,
in Tiger Arena.
Approximately 230 students
received undergraduate and gradu
ate degrees.
United States Navy Captain
(Retired) Donnie L. Cochran, a
graduate of Savannah State, deliv
ered the commencement address.
Established in 1890,
Savannah State University is on the
move to become the best value-
added university in the nation.
The university’s 3,450 stu
dents are enrolled in 23 undergrad
uate and five graduate programs in
three colleges: Liberal Arts and
Social Sciences, Business
Administration and Sciences and
Technology.
Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights
Museum Named Official Georgia
Historical Civil Rights Museum
On Wednesday, April 29, 2009, Governor Sonny Perdue signed House Bill 108 into law. This bill designates The
Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum in Savannah as the official Georgia historical civil rights museum.
“I am honored to have introduced this legislation which has now made The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights
Museum the official Georgia Historical Civil Rights Museum,” said Representative Bob Bryant (D- Savannah).
“This museum is named in honor of the late Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert, father of Savannah’s modern day Civil
Rights Movement and fearless National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
leader.”Pictured are Representative Bob Bryant, Mr. David Richards - Member of the Board of Directors
Ralph Mark Gilbert Museum, Governor Sonny Perdue, Dr. Billy Jamerson - Chairman of the Board of
Directors Ralph Mark Gilbert Museum, and Ms. Erica Backus - Savannah Area Convention & Visitors
Bureau.
Goodwill Industries Names
The Savannah Tribune Print Media
Partner of the Year
On Friday, May 8,2009, Goodwill Industries presented The Savannah Tribune with the Print Media Partner of the Year dur
ing its annual luncheon. Tribune publisher and president Shirley Barber James, (r) and vice-president and advertising direc
tor Tanya Y. Milton accepted the award. They are pictured with Bill Oakley, President/CEO, Goodwill Industries (1), and Joe
Driggers, Director of Marketing and Development, and Cynthia Barnes Goodwill Board Chair. Other award winners were:
Chairman's Award-Marty Myers;President's Award-Coni Curtas; Leadership Excellence Award-Tekela Stilwell; Business
Partner of the Year-Gulfstream Aerospace; Community Partner of the Year-Savannah Waterfront Association; TV Media
Partner of the Year-WSAV; Radio Media Partner of the Year-Cumulus Broadcasting; Advocate of the Year-Mary
Edwards;Division of Rehabilitation Services Professional of the Year-Al Dixon; Goodwill Achievers of the Year-Maxwell
Scheer, Alia Raheem, Alicia Crews, Susan Lovett;Goodwill Graduates of the Year-Emily Pigott, Knowland Merriweather,
Dimonique Robinson, Teresa Williams Bobby Honester, Jr.
Children's
Choir hosts
Keith
Miller
Keith Miller
The Savannah Children's'
Choir will host Metropolitan
Opera singer Keith Miller for
an artist residency May 18-21.
Before pursing his career
as a singer, Miller played pro
fessional football with the
Denver Broncos for 5 years
and had the honor of being an
Olympic Torch Bearer for the
1996 Games in Atlanta.
A recent graduate of the
Academy of Vocal Arts, Miller
appeared there as Leporello
and Masetto in Don Giovanni,
Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore,
Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte,
Sarastro in Die Zauberflote,
and Figaro in Le nozze di
Figaro.
Other past opera engage
ments include roles in Madama
Butterfly, War and Peace,
Emani, Macbeth, Faust,
Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin,
Andrea Chenier, and Gianni
Schicchi at the Metropolitan
Opera; the Bonze and Ramphis
and in Aida at the Portland
Opera, Leporello, Monterone
and Sparafiicile in Rigoletto
and Don Basilio in II barbiere
di Siviglia with the Crested
Butte Music Festival; Alidoro
in La cenerentola with the
Fargo-Moorhead Opera, the
Bonze with Emerald City
Opera, Colline in La Boheme
with the Pouhgkeepsie Opera,
and Don Alfonso with Oberlin
in Italy.
He will share his vocal
talents with Savannah youth
through a series of workshops,
rehearsals, performances and a
free public recital. The free
public recital will be May 21, at
7 p.m. at the Lucas Theater, 32
Abercom St.
Program funding is pro
vided by the City of Savannah's
Department of Cultural Affairs.
For information, contact
912-228-4758 or visit
www. savannahehoir. org.