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Deal Tackles the Tough Issues at Georgia
Legislative Black Caucus
Governor Nathan Deal speaks during the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Conference as GLBC members look on
By Andre’ Osborne
For The Savannah Tribune
eorgia Governor
Nathan Deal made
history last week
when he delivered a sterling
address to African American
legislative leaders who gath
ered in Savannah last week
for the Georgia Legislative
Black Caucus Annual
Legislative Conference at the
Hyatt Regency Savannah.
The Caucus is the
largest constituent body of its
kind in the nation. Gov. Deal
was the first Republican gov
ernor to deliver an address to
this body of legislators and
he petitioned for unity over
common concerns although
there are some differences.
Regardless of the polit-
See Caucus, pg. 7
Davis Denied
Clemency
Troy
On Tuesday, The
Georgia Board of Pardons
and Paroles denied clemency
for death row inmate Troy
Davis, clearing the way for
his execution which is sched
uled for Wednesday,
September 21.
Davis was convicted of
Davis
the 1989 shooting death of
Officer Mark MacPhail.
His supporters say he is
innocent, noting that 7 wit
nesses in the case have signed
affidavits recanting their tes
timony and indicating that
police coerced them into
implicating Davis.
President to Speak
at Rescheduled
MLK Memorial
Event
President Barack Obama
The White House says
President Barack Obama will
speak Oct. 16 at the resched
uled dedication of a memorial
to Martin Luther King Jr. on
the National Mall.
The ceremony had been
set for Aug. 28, the 48th
anniversary of King's "I Have
a Dream" speech. But the
memorial's organizers agreed
to delay the festivities as
Hurricane Irene barreled up
the East Coast that weekend.
The memorial features a
30-foot stone statue of King
bearing a stem gaze and
crossed arms. There's also an
inscription wall with 14 quo
tations from his many speech
es and writings.
King is the first person
of color and the first person
who was not a U.S. president
to be memorialized on the
National Mall.
SSU Athletic Hall of Fame to Induct
Six New Members
Bill Davis Russell Ellington
S avannah State University
will honor its athletic
heritage when six new
members are inducted into the
SSU Athletic Hall of Fame.
Slated to be inducted are
Richard Basil (football), Carl
Crump (men's basketball),
William R. "Bill" Davis (foot
ball coach), Russell Ellington
(men's basketball coach),
Phyllis Oliver Mattox
(women's tennis) and Kim
Jones Walton (women's basket
ball). Davis and Ellington will
be enshrined posthumously.
This year’s ceremony, set
for Friday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m.,
will mark the fourth group to be
inducted into the SSU Athletic
Hall of Fame. The contingent
honors the best of Tiger athlet
ics over the last five decades,
representing the sports of bas
ketball, football and tennis.
Damon Evans, Vice
President for Business
Operations at The Markley
Group and a former athletics
director at the University of
Georgia, will be the keynote
speaker at the banquet.
Shannon Sharpe, CBS Sports
Analyst, NFL and SSU Hall of
Famer, will be present at the
Hall of Fame Induction
Ceremony.
Basil transferred to
Savannah State from East
Central Community College
and played quarterback for the
Tigers in 1988 and '89. In two
years he passed for 3,645 yards
and 44 touchdowns. He also
rushed for 990 yards and 18
touchdowns.
Crump played basketball
at Savannah State from 1965-
69 and averaged 25.6 points a
game. During his career, he
scored 40 points on eight occa
sions and scored 36 points
against Armstrong State
College (now Armstrong
Atlantic State University).
Crump made the All-
Southeastern Athletic
Conference (SEAC) team in
1965 and '66. SSU also won the
SEAC championship in 1965
and '66. He served as a graduate
assistant at SSU during the
1970 season.
Davis coached the
SSU football team from
1986-92 and 2000-01.
Davis has won more games
than any other football
coach at Savannah State
with 52 wins. While at
SSU, he was named the
National Coach of the Year
by the Sheridan
Broadcasting Network in
1989 and SIAC Coach of
the Year in 1986 and 1988.
From 1989-92, the Union,
South Carolina native
coached ten All America
players. It was under Davis
that SSU made its only trip
to the Division II playoffs in
1992. Davis served as the
SSU athletics director from
Richard Basil
1990-92. Davis died in
2002.
Ellington coached the
men's basketball team from
1976-85 and has the most
wins by a head men's basket
ball coach in SSU's history
with 148. Under Ellington,
the Tigers won the SIAC
title in 1979, '80 and '81. The
'79 team reached the
Division III South Regional
Basketball Tournament and
missed going to the Final
Four after a one point loss to
Otterbein in the South
Quarterfinals. His record at
SSU was 148-91, a .619
winning percentage.
Ellington served as athletic
director at Savannah State
See SSU, pg. 16
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