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September 28,2011- October 4,2011 • Yol. 40 No. 31 • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
Native Son Appointed
Chairman of Surgery
Lynt Johnson, MD
Washington, D.C.- Dr. Lynt B.
Johnson, MD, MBA has been
named the Robert J. Coffey
Professor and Chairman of the
Department of Surgery at
Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington, DC. He is also Chief
of Surgical Services.
The Benedictine, Duke
University, Harvard Medical
School graduate established the
first Transplant Institute at
Georgetown and his team per
formed the first living donor liver
transplantation in the district. Prior
to his Georgetown appointment,
he established the Liver Transplant
Program at the University of
Maryland Medical Center in
Baltimore.
Dr. Johnson’s Investiture
was held July 15th at La Maison
Francaise in Washington, DC.
This historic event was attended
by over seventy-five of his col
leagues, family and friends.
Participants on the program
included Dr. Richard L. Goldberg,
President of the hospital; Dr.
Stephen Evans, Vice President of
Medical Affairs and Dr. Howard
Federoff, EVP for Health
Sciences. Other participants
included, Dr. Clive O. Callender,
Professor and Chairman Emeritus
of Surgery at Howard University,
Dr. L. D. Britt, President of the
American College of Surgeons
and the honoree, Dr. Johnson
Family members attending
were his parents, Lester and
Constance Johnson, his siblings:
Lisa and Kyle Webb, Lester and
Salyon Johnson, Leslie and Morris
Johnson, his niece, Kiara Webb
and his wife - Dr. Gloria Bowles-
Johnson as well as their children:
Brittany, Bria, Brandon and Bryce.
Friends in attendance included,
Mrs. Callaway, Mr. and Mrs.
David Parker and Anthony
Carswell.
Leonard Honored by Harvard Law School
Former Harvard University President Derek Bok, Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree and former
Assistant Dean Walter Leonard discuss opening Harvard Law School to Black students in the 1960s and '70s.
By Robert E. James, II
Harvard Law, Class of
1995
CAMBRIDGE, MA - On
Saturday, September 17,
2011, Savannah native Dr.
Walter Leonard received the
Harvard Law School Medal
of Freedom, the school’s
highest honor.
Leonard received the
award during a gala dinner
that served as the culminat
ing event of the Harvard
Law School’s 3rd
Celebration of Black
Alumni. After receiving the
award from Harvard Law
School Dean Martha Minow,
Leonard and fellow recipi
ent, former Harvard
University President Derek
Bok, shared their memories
of diversifying the law
school’s student body in the
1960s and ‘70s and design
ing protocols that would go
on to become the blueprint
for affirmative action in
higher education across the
country.
A leading educator and
scholar, Walter Leonard was
bom on October 3, 1929, in
Alma, Georgia. His early
education was in the
Savannah, Georgia public
school system and later at
Savannah State College. He
went on to study at
Morehouse College, Atlanta
University's Graduate
School of Business, Howard
University School of Law
and Harvard University
Business School.
Leonard has served as
Assistant Dean of both the
Howard University School
of Law (1968-69) and
Harvard University Law
School (1969-71). As
Assistant Dean and Assistant
Director of Admissions at
Harvard Law School, he is
credited, through the use of
conferences, recruitment,
and outreach programs, with
the education of more minor
ity and women lawyers than
almost any other administra
tor in the United States.
In 1971, Leonard was
appointed to the position of
Special Assistant to Harvard
University's President,
Derek Curtis Bok. There,
Leonard was the primary
force behind the Harvard
Plan, a blueprint for estab
lishing equal educational and
employment opportunities in
higher education. The Plan
was cited approvingly by
the United States Supreme
Court in the Regents of the
University of California v.
Bakke decision and adopt
ed by hundreds of colleges
and universities nation
wide. Leonard also
chaired the committee that
established Harvard
University's W.E.B.
DuBois Institute for Afro-
American Research.
He served as visiting
professor or lecturer in
law at many of the nation’s
finest schools, including
Virginia, Kansas, Howard,
Pennsylvania, Boston
College, Temple, Harvard,
California (Davis) and
Maryland. As Assistant
See Harvard, pg. 7
Paradise Park Traffic Calming
to Serve as Model
T he City of Savannah
on Friday celebrated
the completion of a
project that marks a new way
for citizens to help solve
thorny traffic problems in
their neighborhoods.
City officials and
neighborhood residents cut
the ribbon at a new mini-
traffic-circle on Dyches
Drive - one ot more
half a dozen traffic calming
devices installed at key inter
sections in the Paradise Park
neighborhood.
For decades, Paradise
Park has suffered from cars
speeding through the neigh
borhood as they attempted to
find a short cut form White
Bluff Road to Montgomery
Cross
The traffic-calming
features, often not much
more than a raised median,
are designed to slow cars
down, making the streets
safer for pedestrians and dis
couraging cut-through driv
ers.
The plan was crafted
through an extensive
engagement process that
paired citizens with traffic
experts and facilitators. Once
the plan was developed, tem
porary devices were initially
placed to see how they
worked, and citizens were
polled to gauge their
response. The permanent
devices were placed follow
ing a successful trial run.
NAACP to hold
Candidate Forums
T he Savannah Branch
of the NAACP and the
Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance will
host a series of Candidate
Forums during the
of October as follows: Oct.
6 - (Mayoral) St. Philip
AME Church, 1112
Jefferson St. at 7 pm; Oct. 13-
(At-Large) Jonesville Baptist
Church, 5201 Montgomery
St. at 7 pm; Oct. 18-
(Districts 3, 5, 6) Pentecostal
Miracle Deliverance Church,
4712 Bull St. at 7 pm; Oct.
20- (Districts 1 & 2) St.
John Baptist Church, 522-
528 Hartridge St. at 7 pm;
Oct. 27- (District 4) TBA.
All candidates will be
invited to each Forum. This is
an opportunity for the com
munity to meet and hear the
can-
id a t e s
present their platforms.
The NAACP has been
in the forefront of the strug
gle for justice and equal
opportunities for minorities
for over a hundred years. The
Savannah Branch was organ
ized more than ninety years
ago; making it the ‘oldest’
Chapter in Georgia.
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