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Saturday, October 1,2011 7PM SSU Tigers us Howard Uniuersity Bison PRSRT STD U.S POSTAGE PAID Savannah. GA Permit No. 923 tTOfje li Rlvd “GEORGIA’S BEST WEEKLY’ 1805 MLK Jr. Blvd. Savannah, Ga 31415 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED aimnnaf) tribune 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. arver Othia Sau*sy 7l|f>Skidaujn Kf*id LENDER Bf 1 ii ^ ■ r * % s i