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FLAKE, PULLIAM AND BRANDENBERG MAKE UP
MOREHOUSE'S FINAL HOMECOMING COURT OF THE 1990'S

ATLANTA, October 5, 1999 - Nailah Larese Flake, a senior economics major at Spelman College from Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.; Keshia Knight Pulliam, a junior sociology major at Spelman; and Heather Marie Brandenberg, a senior child development major at Spelman and a native of Detroit, make up the final homecoming court of the 1990's for Morehouse College.

The homecoming court will be honored at the annual Morehouse Coronation at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 15 in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at the College. The event takes place during the annual homecoming celebration, "Marching into the Millennium," Oct. 10-17.

Flake is Miss Maroon and White 1999. She is on the Dean's List at Spelman and is a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society, the Golden Key National Honor Society, and the Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honor Society. She is also a Morgan Stanley Richard B. Fisher Scholar, a UNCF Siragusa Foundation Scholar and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Also, Flake is in the Spelman Economics Club and the Morehouse Business Association, and she has also served as captain of the Morehouse dance team, Mahogany in Motion. She participates in a number of community service and outreach programs for the poor and homeless, and also serves as a mentor to young African-American girls. Flake wants to become a successful investment banker on Wall Street, and eventually establish a performing arts center in an underprivileged African-American community.

Pulliam is the first attendant to Miss Maroon and White. She is an honor roll student and treasurer of the Eta Kappa chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. As a Bonner Scholar, Pulliam has worked closely with the Girl Scouts of the USA and the Herman J. Russell Corp. to establish Daisy, Brownie, and Junior Girl Scout troops in the John Hope Homes and Castleberry Hill apartment complexes.

Most remember Pulliam for her role as Rudy Huxtable on the long-running sitcom "The Cosby Show." Along with that, she starred in several television movies, received a People's Choice Award, several NAACP Image Awards, and is the youngest person ever nominated for an Emmy Award. Pulliam wants to continue her acting career after graduation and ultimately write, direct, produce, and star in her own movie.

Brandenberg is the second attendant to Miss Maroon and White. She has been a member of Mahogany in Motion and has participated in Morehouse's fall and spring fashion shows, has held the title of Miss Mays Hall and was a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. homecoming court.

A recipient of the Detroit Compact Scholarship, Brandenberg has worked with the Enrichment Academy at Dean Rusk Elementary School, Habitat for Humanity and the Marian Wright Edelman Center. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Kappa Delta Epsilon Education Honor Society. Brandenberg wants to be a public school teacher and inspire and uplift a community by educating its youth.

All three young ladies will act as official representatives of Morehouse College at various community and social functions during the 1999-2000 school year.

Founded in 1867, Morehouse College is the nation's only historically black, private liberal arts college for men. 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 Sanford D. Bishop Jr., United States congressman; Shelton "Spike" Lee, filmmaker and president of 40 Acres & A Mule Productions; Michael L. Lomax, president of Dillard University and former president of The National Faculty; and Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, president of the Morehouse School of Medicine and former Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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