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MOREHOUSE ALUMS COME TOGETHER
FOR FINAL TIME THIS DECADE
ATLANTA, May 10 - For the final time in the decade of the 90's, Morehouse College graduates will come back for a weekend of reminiscing and fun at Reunion Weekend 1999, May 14-15.
Alumni Relations Director Henry Goodgame said graduates from as far back as 50 years ago are expected to participate in the festivities, which include a golf tournament, meetings with fellow graduates and administrators of the College, a picnic and a banquet.
One alumnus from 50 years ago, author and Ebony Magazine Executive Editor Lerone Bennett Jr., will definitely be in attendance. Bennett is scheduled to be the keynote speaker during Commencement exercises, May 16, while special guest Oprah Winfrey will issue a challenge to the senior class.
Goodgame said Reunion Weekend is a little more intimate than Homecoming.
"It is purely focused on rekindling relationships and friendships with those men who came to Morehouse the same year you did, and graduated the same year," said Goodgame, class of 1984. "No one knows the experiences you had during freshman week but the guys who were there with you.
"Reunion Weekend coincides with the College's 132nd commencement ceremonies. Here is a schedule of events:
May 14
| 8 a.m. | Reunion Golf Classic | River's Edge Golf Club |
| 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Reunion registration | Kilgore Center |
| 11 a.m. - noon | Dialog with administrators | Sale Hall |
| Noon | Fair Street dormitory dedication | In front of Fair Street Dorm (renamed in honor of Dr. Wiley A. Perdue '57) |
| 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. | President's welcome luncheon | Chivers Dining Hall |
| 2 - 3 p.m. | Leadership Center open house | Kilgore Center |
May 15
| 8:30 - 10 a.m. | Golden Tigers breakfast | Chivers Dining Hall |
| 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Class photographs | Nabrit-Mapp-McBay Building |
| Noon - 3 p.m. | Reunion Picnic | Kilgore Center |
| 1:30 p.m. | Alumni memorial service | Hope and Mays Grave Sites |
| 8 - 10 p.m. | Reunion banquet | Ritz-Carlton Downtown |
Founded in 1867, Morehouse is the nation's only historically black, private liberal arts college for men. The College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and graduates 500 each year, conferring 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; Jeh Johnson, general counsel for the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force; Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York; Shelton "Spike" Lee, filmmaker and president of 40 Acres & A Mule; and Nima A. Warfield, first African-American Rhodes Scholar from a historically black college and university.
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