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MOREHOUSE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT/REUNION 2002
Julian Bond delivers address - Ted Turner receives honorary degree

ATLANTA - Morehouse College celebrates "A Gathering of Men" during its 118th Commencement/Reunion weekend.

The Reverend Kenneth Lee Samuel, Pastor, Victory Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia will deliver this year's Baccalaureate message.

Morehouse alumnus H. Julian Bond, Chairman of the Board for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will deliver the Commencement address.

Ted Turner, Vice Chairman of AOL-Time Warner, will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters.

2002 BACCALAUREATE Exercises

WHEN: 3:00 p.m., Saturday May 18, 2002

WHERE: Martin Luther King Jr International Chapel, Morehouse College
830 Westview Drive, S.W.

2002 COMMENCEMENT Exercises

WHEN: 8:00 a.m. Sunday, May 19, 2002

WHERE: Morehouse College Campus Green
(quadrangle in front of Mays gravesite)

Ranked the number one college in the nation for educating African American students by Black Enterprise magazine, Morehouse College is the nation's largest liberal arts college for men. Founded in 1867, the College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and confers bachelor's degrees on more black men than any other institution in the world. In addition to offering 36 majors in the humanities, natural and social sciences, Morehouse offers a number of programs and activities to enhance its challenging liberal arts curriculum through the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, Morehouse Research Institute, and Andrew Young Center for International Affairs.

Prominent alumni include Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights leader; Dr. David Satcher, U.S. Surgeon General; Sheldon "Spike" Lee, filmmaker and president of 40 Acres & A Mule Productions; Maynard H. Jackson, president of Jackson Securities and the first African-American mayor of Atlanta; and Nima A. Warfield, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from an historically black college or university.

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