Homecoming 2007
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MSU Alumni House Baltimore, Maryland CONTENTS Homecoming 2007 . .1 MSUNAA President’s Letter . 2 Pre-Alumni Council . .2 Alumni On the Move . 3 Alumni News Items . .4 HBCU Legislative Update . .5 Chapter & Class News . 8 Life Members 2007 . .10 Alumni•News Necrology . 10 Alumni Calendar . 11 Fall 2007 Homecoming 2007 Feel theR oar “Whip ’em and whip ’em good” is the bling ability, and Baltimore native and Tyler feeling being generated from Hill Field Scholar Byron Selby, are competing for the House by head coach Donald Hill-Eley, as starting job. Chad Simpson returns as one the pre-game campaign winds up for this of the premier running backs in the confer- year’s big homecoming. Two promising, vet- ence, with his ability to score from any- eran quarterbacks will lead the charge this where on the field. year, as Morgan State University’s football “Our offensive line should be the best in the team, the Golden Bears, takes on the league,”says Kerr.“They’ve worked hard in Howard Bison on Saturday, Oct. 13, in what the off-season and have shown their com- is being billed as Homecoming 2007, “Feel mitment to success. The value of maturity the Roar.” and senior leadership will take us to the top.We have 18 to 22 seniors who are Morgan’s 23rd Annual Gala,“Morgan returning with the experience that counts Forever; Forever Morgan.”The black-tie for wins.”Morgan and Howard tied for affair will be held at Baltimore’s Martin’s fourth in the MEAC last year.“We should West on Friday, Oct. 12. have no problem getting one up on them again,”adds Kerr. Alumni are invited to come and enjoy it all: the tailgate parties; the halftime show with Recent campus additions, such as the New the Magnificent Marching Machine; a stroll University Student Center and the library, down the new promenade, which gives the have upped the excitement surrounding Morgan’s major transformation under the leadership of Dr. Earl S. Richardson. “Without a doubt, we have what is the best of all HBCU athletic fields on the East Coast,”notes Kerr, as he expresses his pride “Alumni can expect to see the Morgan in Morgan’s many achievements. Bears play a great football game again this year at Hughes Stadium, as well as (look “We are expecting a big crowd in the stands forward to) enjoying all the other campus this year,”he continues.“This is one of the activities,”says Floyd Kerr, MSU athletic biggest games on the East Coast.And even director. though they are from D.C., our close prox- campus a totally new look and feel; the imity gives it all the feel of a cross-town familiar hug of a long-missed friend in the At this year’s Homecoming, the Bears hope showdown….We’re looking forward to it.” stands, and the splendor of the renovated to add to their wins column with two Alumni are urged to get to Homecoming campus. Come participate in a new era, and returning quarterbacks, Mario Melton, “Feel the Roar” at MSU’s Homecoming known for his deceptive speed and scram- 2007 early to avoid the onslaught of a sea of fans. Homecoming Week will feature 2007. Morgan State University n Baltimore,Alumni Maryland News • Fall 2004 1 Alumni•News MSU National Alumni Association Attention All Former President’s Message Morgan Athletes Dear Fellow Alumni: As the fall season returns with all of its color and beauty, our love for Morgan should bring us back to a campus The MSU Athletic Department that is growing and transforming in appearance and would like for you to join them at everlasting in its place in our lives. the All Classes Reunion, following The campus we once knew as incoming students to Morgan is more exciting than ever. The University is still the game, in the University Student Ella Moultrie Harris, ’57 in the business of creating lifelong friendships, facilitat- Center Ballroom. We would like to President, MSU National ing wonderful experiences and cultivating excellence in Alumni Association present each of you with a special all who come through her doors.And it is a business that Morgan Bear Pin. is growing by leaps and bounds every day.If you haven’t visited the campus late- limited edition ly, now is the time to become reacquainted with Fair Morgan. Come and spend some time with New facilities and renovations have made a normal walk across the campus a your former teammates and other breathtaking experience. The efforts and contributions you have made and con- athletes that you may miss on the tinue to make, support Dr. Earl S. Richardson’s vision of our beloved alma mater yard! as a place that breeds as many fond memories for future generations, as it did for us. See you at Homecoming! Morgan Forever, Forever Morgan! FEEL GO THE BEARS! Ella Moultrie Harris, ’57 ROAR! President, MSU National Alumni Association New Pre-Alumni Council Brightens Morgan’s Future The Morgan State new, it has been a University National vision of Mrs. Joyce Alumni Association con- Brown, Morgan’s tinues to find new ways Director of Alumni to create excellence, this Relations for many time with a dynamic years. Finally, our MSU addition of the Pre- family will be able to Alumni Council. The enjoy community serv- Pre-Alumni Council ice initiatives, (P.A.C.) stands on the fundraising, campus principles of love, har- events and more mony, endurance, because of the network resourcefulness and of students and alumni commitment. The P.A.C.vows to be the new “This innovative organization has a prom- created by the Pre-Alumni Council. They voice of the student body and the liaison ising future,”says LaShone McPherson, are Morgan students for only four years, but between it and the MSU Alumni. The vision founder and advisor of the council. MSU alumni for life. So, it is vital to foster of the Pre- Alumni Council is to strengthen The Pre-Alumni Council consists of more all collective efforts that will ensure a the bond between the student body and than 30 enthusiastic Morgan students who brighter future for students and the vitality alumni and to cultivate students’ desire and have made a commitment to become the of Morgan State University. fortitude to graduate from Morgan and University’s largest on-campus organiza- uphold the institution’s reputation. tion.Although the Pre-Alumni Council is 2 Alumni News • Fall 2007 Alumni•News MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Alumni on the Move Sarah L.D. Garrett, ’78, is the new A.M.E. Church, were all recently Minnie I. Carter, ’80, ’85, has Gen.William “Kip”Ward, ’71, the dean of Academic Affairs at Bristol honored by the NAACP as released her first CD of inspirational active U.S. Community College (Mass.). She Outstanding Women Pastors at the music, entitled “Songs For The Soul.” Army’s only was previously first Rosa Parks Prayer Breakfast, It contains three original songs as African- dean of held at the New Psalmist Baptist well as several familiar tunes such as American Academic Church in Baltimore, Md. “God Bless The Child.” Copies of the four-star gen- Affairs and CD and Ms. Carter’s most recent eral has been chief academ- book of poetry, Faith, Hope & selected to The Maryland Democratic Party ic officer at Patriotism, are available at A Good head the State Central Committee has unani- Asnuntuck Book Bookstore, located at 2101 newly formed mously elected Michael Cryor, ’68, Community Gwynn Oak Avenue in Baltimore. Africa Command. Ward, 58, who is as chair of the College, in Connecticut. In addition currently deputy commander of the Maryland to her bachelor’s degree from U.S. European Command, will work Democratic Darryl L.Avery, ’84, is vice princi- Morgan State University, she holds a with African countries to strengthen Party. Mr. pal of Hackensack Middle School in law degree from the University of their governments and militaries to Cryor,a Hackensack, Maryland at Baltimore. help combat terrorist influences in Baltimore N.J., and the region. businessman owner of Gen. Larry R. Ellis, U.S.Army and veteran Avery Tours, a (Ret.), ’69, is chief executive officer political and company that Countertenor Kenneth Alston, ’06, of DHB Industries, Inc. Since taking community activist, is the only handles trips performed at the top post African American in the country for groups the premiere late last year, now heading a state party. traveling in of “Passages of Gen. Ellis has the U.S. and abroad. He is pursuing Martin Luther led a dramatic an Ed.D. at Walden University in King,”at the Dr.André E. Godsey Sr., ’94, financial turn- Massachusetts. Oriental received the around of the Pioneer master of arts Pompano Theatre in degree, with “Heritage Vessel Exhibit,”a nine- Beach, Fla.- Beijing, China, an emphasis piece pottery collection created by based compa- in June. Mr.Alston accepted an invi- on Christian David Mack, ’71, was displayed at ny, which makes bullet-resistant tation from the National Theatre education, St. Petersburg College’s Clearwater vests and other antiballistic equip- Company of China and Stanford from Campus during Black History ment for the military.DHB brought University to join gospel singer Princeton Month, in Florida. Mr. Mack is a in $340 million in revenue in the last September Penn in arranging the Theological ceramics artist and adjunct profes- fiscal year. Gen. Ellis retired from the music and directing the gospel Seminary, at the school’s 195th sor at the college. The collection military in 2004 as the nation’s top- group for the play.