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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Elise Durham
Edurham@morehouse.edu
404-507-8648
ATLANTA,
April 28, 2004 - On May 16, 2004, Morehouse College
will celebrate its 120th Commencement Exercises.
The
Reverend Charles Adams, senior pastor, Hartford
Memorial Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan will deliver
the Baccalaureate address at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May
15, in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel.
Entertainer,
educator and philanthropist Dr.
William “Bill” Cosby will deliver
the Commencement address on Sunday, May 16.
| 2004
BACCALAUREATE EXERCISES |
| SPEAKER:
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The
Reverend Charles Adams |
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Senior
Pastor, Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Detroit,
Michigan. |
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| WHEN: |
Saturday,
May 15, 2004
3:00 p.m. |
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| WHERE:
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Martin
Luther King Jr. International Chapel
Morehouse College
830 Westview Drive, S.W. |
| 2004
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES |
| SPEAKER:
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Dr.
William “Bill” Cosby |
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Entertainer,
Educator and Philanthropist |
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| WHEN: |
Sunday,
May 16, 2004
8:00 a.m. (rain or shine) |
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| WHERE:
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Morehouse
College Campus Green |
Ranked
twice as the number one college in the nation for educating
African American students by Black Enterprise magazine,
and recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of
the top feeder schools for the 15 most prominent graduate
and professional schools in the country, 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 three 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,
founder 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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