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MOREHOUSE COLLEGE BREAKS GROUND ON NEW LEADERSHIP CENTER

The Leadership Center at Morehouse College was established in 1995 with a generous four-year grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation. It was created to reflect the ideal of the "Beloved Community" embraced by former Morehouse President Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King Jr. and current President Dr. Walter E. Massey.

The 70,000 square foot facility will house the College's Division of Economics and Business Administration, Emma and Joe Adams Public Service Institute, Andrew Young Center for International Affairs and The Leadership Center. The building will feature state of the art computer and information technology and promote collaboration and interaction among students, faculty, administration and staff. Construction of the facility will cost approximately $11-million. It will take an additional $5 million to implement the programs.

What: Groundbreaking Ceremony - Morehouse College Leadership Center

When: Friday, February 15, 2002 - 11a.m.

Where: 825 West End Avenue (corner of West End Avenue and Lee Street)

Invited Guests: The Honorable Shirley Franklin, Mayor, City of Atlanta
Cathy Woolard, President, Atlanta City Council
Derrick Boazman, Atlanta City Council, District 12
Caesar Mitchell, Atlanta City Council, Post 1 at-large
The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/Push Coalition
Leo Mullins, Chairman, President and CEO, Delta Airlines
Thomas Dortch, Jr., President, 100 Black Men of America, Inc.
David Easterly, Vice Chairman, Cox Enterprises, Inc.

(Media passes available through the Office of Communications at 404-215-2680)

Ranked the number one college in the nation for educating African American students by Black Enterprise magazine, Morehouse College is the nation's only historically black, private 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 provides a number of programs and activities to enhance its challenging liberal arts curriculum, including the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, the Morehouse Research Institute, and the 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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