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123rd Commencement Exercises: Making History, Embracing the Future
The College’s 2007 Commencement will fill many pages in the annals of Morehouse history. The College graduated its largest class to date, sending 547 well-prepared African American men to many of the top universities and corporations in the nation. For the first time ever, there were two valedictorians, Ruben Alexander and Darrell Bennett Jr., both of whom achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average. And this year’s Commencement marked the last keynote speech that Walter E. Massey ’58, who will retire in June, delivered as the ninth president of Morehouse.
Six distinguished academicians and entertainers received honorary doctor of humane letters: Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Institute at Stanford University; Quincy Jones, multi-Grammy Award winning entertainer; Butch Lewis, president of Butch Lewis Productions; Fred Renwick ’50, professor emeritus of finance at New York University; Willis Sheftall ’64, former provost and professor of economics at Morehouse; and Denzel Washington, Academy Award winning actor.
As President Massey culminated a remarkable 12-year history of vision and service, the largest class ever embraced their future with the hope of repeating history.
“Today, I’m looking at…future visionaries and entrepreneurs,” said Bennett during his valedictory. “Make no mistake about it, we will make history.”
Commencement 2007 DVD Order Form (pdf)
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