FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Elise Durham
Edurham@morehouse.edu
404-507-8648
MEDIA ADVISORY
ATLANTA,
April 30, 2003-
On May 15-18, Morehouse College will celebrate its 119th Commencement
Exercises.
The Reverend
William E. Flippin, Sr., senior pastor of Greater Piney Grove
Baptist Church in Atlanta, will deliver the Baccalaureate address.
Atlanta native
Vernon Jordan, civil rights activist, attorney and political advisor,
will deliver the Commencement address.
2003
BACCALAUREATE EXERCISES
| WHEN:
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Saturday,
May 17, 2003
3:00
p.m. |
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| WHERE: |
Martin
Luther King Jr. International Chapel
Morehouse
College
830
Westview Drive, S.W. |
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| SPEAKER: |
The
Reverend William E. Flippin,
Sr.
Senior Pastor, Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church, Atlanta |
2003
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
| WHEN: |
Sunday,
May 18, 2003
8:00 a.m. |
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| WHERE: |
Morehouse
College Campus Green
(quadrangle
in front of Mays grave site)
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| SPEAKER: |
Vernon
Jordan
Civil rights activist, attorney and political advisor |
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Ranked twice as the number
one college in the nation for educating African American students
by Black Enterprise magazine, Morehouse College is the nation’s
largest, 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.
Morehouse is one of only two Historically Black Colleges or Universities
to produce two Rhodes Scholars.
Prominent alumni
include Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and
civil rights leader; Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General
and director of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse
School of Medicine; 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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2003 Morehouse College. All Rights Reserved
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