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moRehouse college Bulletin Leontyne Price at Morehouse THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Dear Fellow Alumnus: tions from alumni clubs, women's auxiliaries of alum¬ Morehouse alumni and former students have the greatest ni clubs, and recipients of honorary degrees will not fund-raising opportunity in the history of the College, and be accepted for matching purposes.) we invite you to participate in an endeavor which will If Morehouse alumni significantly increase their enable us to obtain doubled funds to meet pressing needs unrestricted giving, Bush challenge grants may be renewed of this institution. from three to five years. These challenge grants, therefore, The Bush Foundation has awarded Morehouse a chal¬ offer an unprecedented opportunity to raise funds to meet lenge grant of $75,000 in order to increase the amount and College needs that have previously been identified during number of alumni contributions during the period from July alumni meetings and in The Morehouse Bulletin. In 1,1979, to June 30,1980. In this award $40,000 may be used this emergency we call on you to join in a united effort to match increased unrestricted alumni contributions on a to take full advantage of the Bush challenge grant by send¬ dollar-for-dollar basis, and $35,000 may be obtained to give ing a generous contribution. Please remember that loyal the College up to 350 bonuses of $100 each for each alumni alumni generally give at least one percent of their annual donor who did not contribute income during the fiscal year toward the support of their college and that any 1978-79. We hope that 100 new donors will give at least contribution received by December 31 is income-tax $100 each in our effort to claim the $35,000 available from deductible for the 1979 calendar year. Bush funds in bonuses of $100 each. Please help us to make this alumni effort a complete suc¬ an alumnus as cess Defining anyone who has attended and to take advantage of this golden opportunity. Morehouse for at least one semester, the Bush matching grant has established the following requirements for our Sincerely yours, alumni giving program: (1) Unrestricted gifts by alumni must be between $5 and Hugh M. Gloster $5,000 in order to qualify for the matching plan; and President (2) Only restricted contributions from individual alumni will be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis. (Dona¬ 2 moRehouse college Bulletin HOMECOMING/FALL 1979 Vol. XLIV, Number 8 362700 Contents Andrew Young Speaks At Homecoming Convocation 4 Morehouse Honors Leontyne Price 6 Reverend Carter Installed As Dean of Martin Luther King, J r. Chapel 7 News of the College 9 Campus Spotlight: Office Of Health Professions 15 Morehouse Medical School 17 Alumni News 20 In Memoriam 31 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Cason L. Hill, '53 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF William G. Pickens, '48 CAMPUS EDITOR Nathaniel C. Veale, Jr., '63 ALUMNI EDITOR Allen S. May, Jr. MANAGING EDITOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Mrs. Yvonne King, Mrs. Verna Bolton, Ms. Elizabeth Stewart Morehouse College admits students of any race, color, and nationality or ethnic origin. Published quarterly by Morehouse College 830 Westview Drive, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30314 Second-class postage paid in Atlanta, Georgia Photography: Bud Smith, William H Ransom, Timothy Mabron, Bobby Woods, W. H. Killian, Jr., Kenneth Hodges Morehouse Holds Homecoming Convocation For Andrew Young An overflow crowd packed the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Chapel on the Morehouse campus to welcome former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young back home to WELCOME HOME Atlanta. The occasion was a special con¬ vocation sponsored by Morehouse to mm YOUNG honor one of her most distinguished alum¬ ni (honorary). In introducing Ambassador Young to 11:00,TUE., OCT. 23 the convocation audience, Morehouse President Dr. Hugh M. Closter stated, “During my brief life I have met many men ranging all the way from farmers and laborers to presidents and popes, but I have never met a finer and more genuine human being than Andy Young." Dr. Closter added, “Everyone will agree that Andy Young is a black man dedicated to the overthrow of discrimination and segregation in this country and abroad; and no one will deny that he is also a world citizen equally interested in seek¬ ing peace, liberty, justice, and brother¬ hood for mankind everywhere." Mr. Young stated, "We have a history in the Atlanta University Center of continu¬ ing the great debates of our time, what¬ ever the debates might be. Martin King's coming out against the war in Vietnam, his dealing with racial segregation, his whole struggle of his time from Mont¬ gomery to Memphis was always con¬ ducted in the light of the education and cultural experience he received in this in¬ stitution." He pointed out, "There has always been in black America a dimension which is beyond our simple blackness and which Andrew Young emphasizes a point at the convocation in his comes from the fact of our oppression, honor at Morehouse. and we have not been able to isolate ourselves and be parties to injustice been identified with the sufferings of the right of Israel to exist and called for self- anywhere because we have been so much world. People came to me from all determination for Palestinian people. in our time and we know the history of quarters of the world who had identified Nothing could be more fair or just. The our forefathers with being victims of injustice the struggle of black Americans as only problem was we had just had a here." they struggled for justice. And when they tremendous upheaval in our government Mr. saw me, Young, with reference to his United they did not see a man; they saw and the entire cabinet had been asked to Nations career, stated, "When I went to a tradition. They saw a heritage of the resign. I did not resign then. I always felt the United Nations, it was in the tradition pursuit of truth and justice." that if I had to resign, it would not be for a of black Americans—it was not He "When I became Andy added, President simple political issue; it would have to be Young— it was not ambassador from the of the United Nations Security Council in for some serious moral reason." United States of America — it was a suffer¬ August, I realized that the report of the Mr. Young pointed out, "The govern¬ ing brother who ought to know about the Committee on Palestinian Rights was ment then was in the process of re¬ sufferings of the world and one who had coming up. The report recognized the constituting itself. There was almost no 4 I President Closter shares a laugh with Mr. Young during the introduction of the former U. N. Am¬ bassador. way you could get this country during the President Gloster and Mr. Young welcome surprise guest Ms. Eartha Kitt. first few weeks in August to reassess its position in relation to the Palestinians. And we were facing a resolution where anything we did would not only hurt Palestinians, but would hurt this country and the state of Israel. But particularly it would run the risk of hurting the mod¬ erate Arab states. In that kind of situa¬ tion, the ideal thing to do is postpone the resolution and avoid a confrontation. When I went to the Arab states, they said the only way that vote could be post¬ poned is for the PLO representative to agree to its postponement. I agreed to talk to the representative of the PLO. In talking to him I violated a policy of the United States of Ajnerica. ... My conten¬ tion was that that policy had to be challenged because a new situation ex¬ isted. I could not go to the President or the Secretary of State and ask them to challenge it because, by and large, they had to consider the whole range of political activities. I had to take a step. That step was in the interest of my coun¬ try .. all parties involved . and peace in the Middle East.” Andrew Young joins the Morehouse Glee Club in singing "We Shall Overcome On a different note, Mr. Young stated, "Those of us who believe in this country . must continue to uphold what this country stands for abroad. In upholding the world is in which we live a.nd how Crider, President of the Morehouse Stu¬ dent Government what this country stands for, we do make much our goods and resources are depen¬ Association; and Mr. more friends for this country, and more dent on the good relationships with other Henry M. Harris, President of the Atlanta Morehouse Club. friends, unfortunately, or fortunately, people in other parts of the world.” A mean money. If our policies change, our Before Mr. Young's presentation, greet¬ surprise visitor to the convocation was Ms. Eartha abilities to do business will also change. If ings were brought to the Ambassador and Kitt, who made a few brief we do not have the abilities to do business the convocation audience by Mrs. Coretta remarks. abroad because of our political insen¬ Scott King, President of the Martin Luther Following the convocation, Mr. Young sitivity, we have not yet seen the kind of King, Jr., Center for Social Change; Mr. A. was presented two plaques —one by Mr. inflation and recession that we will have Reginald Eaves, Vice-Chairman of the Ozell Sutton on behalf of Alpha Phi to confront.' Essentially our politics have Fulton County Commission; Dr. Robert H. Alpha fraternity; and one by Morehouse got to be in keeping with our principles.