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ATLANTA, July 25, 2003 – Approximately 35 men will make history today as the first class to graduate during an independent summer commencement at Morehouse College.

The speaker for summer commencement is Morehouse College alumnus the Reverend Dr. Robert Michael Franklin ‘75, former president of ITC and Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics, Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

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. Morehouse is one of only two Historically Black Colleges or Universities to produce two Rhodes Scholars.

WHEN: Friday, July 25, 2003
11:00 a.m.

WHERE: Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel
830 Westview Drive, SW
(on the campus of Morehouse College)

SPEAKER: Reverend Dr. Robert Michael Franklin
Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics, Candler School of Theology
Emory University

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 African-American 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.

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, 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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