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moRehouse college BuLLetin This splendid school this pleasant place, This home of wisdo e of truth, This other Athens,0hrTne=oF? This mecca, plai Against oppre< This noble tri This shining i Which keeps And lights the Agafltet the so — Paraphrase of Shakespeare by Hugh M. Gloster The Greatest Challenge to Morehouse Alumni in the History of the College Morehouse alumni have received the contributions over the preceding year and crease the number of new alumni con¬ greatest challenge in the history of the (2) a $100 bonus for unrestricted contribu¬ tributions because at present only 23 per¬ College. If Morehouse alumni successful¬ tions from new alumni donors up to a fix¬ cent of the 4,200 living Morehouse alumni ly meet this ed maximum. challenge, the College will be contribute to the College. able to obtain funding for a number of im¬ In 1978 the Bush and Hewlett Founda¬ The Bush program defines an alumnus portant projects of which most alumni are tions made $681,450 in challenge grants as "anyone who was officially registered aware. to seventeen UNCF colleges. This sum in¬ at Morehouse College for a minimum of In an effort to increase the amount and cluded grants of $80,000 to Atlanta one full semester." This arrangement number of unrestricted alumni contribu¬ University, $60,000 to Tuskegee Institute, makes it possible to count unrestricted tions to the College, the Bush Foundation $51,400 to Tougaloo College, and $50,500 contributions from former students who of St. Paul has agreed to offer a to Dillard challenge University. Morehouse could completed at least one semester but did grant of up to $75,000 in 1979-80 to match not qualify to enter the Bush-Hewlett not receive a degree from the College. increased unrestricted mati alumni contribu¬ competition earlier because we were en¬ While the Bush program is liberal in the tions on a dollar-for-dollar basis and to gaged in a restricted-gifts campaign to definition of an alumnus, it lays down pay a $100 bonus for each new donor raise 111 up $125,000 to pay for seats in the new several eligibility requirements which to a predetermined number. Moreover, if Martin Luther 3&n( King, Jr., Memorial Chapel. alumni and former students must careful¬ 1st the alumni increase their unrestricted giv¬ If we can fy equal and surpass the level of ly bear in mind in making unrestricted ing significantly so as to meet the Bush giving reached in the Chapel-seating contributions. These requirements are as challenge, the challenge may be con¬ drive, we can raise increasingly larger follows: tinued from three to five years. sums each iMorehc year to meet College needs (1) "Alumni gifts eligible for matching The purpose of the Bush challenge through the Bush-Hewlett Slime program. under the Bush Foundation matching grant is to encourage alumni to make un¬ On size anr September 30, 1978, the Board of grant must be unrestricted contribu¬ restricted contributions that will enable Directors of the Morehouse ‘tlibyJiO National tions of at least $5 and not more than the College to meet needs identified by Alumni Association fomp! voted that More¬ $5,000 received during the designated the College. In some cases alumni are in¬ house alumni should fluid;- accept the Bush year from individual alumni for cur¬ clined to make restricted donations that challenge. The College is now soliciting rent use. In the event of current-use do not meet urgent College needs, and unrestricted contributions from THIS c alumni donations larger than $5,000 from in¬ the Bush plan attempts to overcome this and is fts trying to increase the number of dividual alumni, only the first $5,000 inclination by providing (1) a dollar-for- unrestricted contributions from new would count toward the match for COiDE dollar matching of unrestricted alumni alumni donors. It is very important to in¬ these purposes." 2 moRehouse collecie Bulletin Commencement/Summer 1979 Vol. XLIV, Number7 362700 Contents Morehouse Graduates Its Largest Class 4 Minister Louis Farrakhan Addresses Baccalaureate 6 it Citations Presented to Nkomo, Gray, Holland, and Johnson 7 News of the College 11 nr Campus Spotlight: Career Counseling and Placement 17 Alumni News 19 *9 In Memoriam 30 . umni (2) "Gifts made through corporate OB, 3 matching programs are counted, but :use all the corporate contribution is not counted in considering new dollars aB alurr eligible for Bush Foundation match¬ EDITORIAL COMMITTEE v regist ing." nmimui (3) "Gifts from recipients of honorary irranger degrees, alumni club organizations, Cason L. Hill, '53 unrestri wives and widows of alumni, and aux¬ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF udents iliary alumni club organizations are not eligible for Bush Foundation William G. Pickens, '48 matching." CAMPUS EDITOR iberal ii The Bush Foundation dollar-for-dollar Nathaniel C. Veale, Jr., '63 : lays < matching plan and the $100 bonus for ALUMNI EDITOR ents w each new alumni contributor provide the nustcar best fund-raising plan ever made avail¬ Allen S. May, Jr. able to unrestr Morehouse graduates and former MANAGING EDITOR nents a students. We are confident that Morehouse alumni and former students EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: )r mart will meet this challenge by increasing the Mrs. Yvonne King, Mrs. Verna Bolton, Ms. Stephanie Moore )n mat* size and number of their unrestricted con¬ ;(j cont tributions and thus enable the College to Morehouse College admits students of any race, color, and nationality or ethnic origin. )t more complete a number of projects for which e desigf funds have been sought for several years. Published quarterly by Morehouse College Bini tor PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO MAKE 830 Westview Drive, S.W. : curren THIS CAMPAIGN A COMPLETE SUC¬ Atlanta, Georgia 30314 CESS. WE 000 fra MUST NOT LOSE THIS Second-class postage paid in Atlanta, Georgia GOLDEN ; first $ OPPORTUNITY. Hugh M. Gloster President Photography: Bud Smith, William H Ransom, Timothy Mabron, Morehouse College Bobby Woods, W. H. Killian, Jr., Kenneth Hodges Morehouse Graduates Largest Class— Nkomo Featured Speaker (L-R) President Gloster and Honorary Degree recipients Joshua Nkomo, Jerome Heartwell Holland, and Arthur Lee Johnson. lie election in which 28 seats in the 100- Nearly 3,000 people packed the Martin only thing we can do is shoot ourwayout alti Luther King, Jr., Memorial Chapel on the member Rhodesian parliament are re¬ of prison." Morehouse served for campus to hear Zimbabwean whites, who represent less than Nkomo pointed out, "Now let me make bei leader three Joshua Nkomo address the largest percent of the total population. The this clear —we are not fighting against ffo class in the history of the College. The oc¬ police, the army, the judiciary, and the white people; we are fighting against am casion was the 112th Commencement ex¬ civil service are all in the hands of the fascism and racism. We have been ac¬ Soi ercise whites. There has been no program which saw 217 students election, cused of being terrorists. We have been an receive degrees from the prestigious At¬ friends, so keep cool. We are committed accused of being rebels. We have been $ lanta institution to we fighting and know that Zimbabwe accused of all sorts of things, and what is am Nkomo stated that the recent elections will be free, and it will be free this year." our crime? Our crime is that we want held in Rhodesia were not democratic Nkomo stated, "I did not pick up arms equality in our country." "because voters were intimidated by the because I like fighting. Fascists like Ian Concerning Zimbabwe's international Smith take no notice of reason. presence of armed troops and there was The only relations, Nkomo sternly stated, "We no voter registration. Some people who language they understand is the language must insist that our situation is more spi voted for the Muzorewa government cast of the gun. The armed struggle means pressing than any conflict facing the col their ballots as many as seven times." He death. It means bloodshed. It means los¬ United Nations. We therefore warn that to added that "the world is laughing at an ing your people. We are in prison, and the any government and its companies that k 4 7979 Senior Class Reverend William Guy officiates at the graveside services of President "Daddy" King offers words of encouragement to (L) Martin Luther King lohn Hope as members of the Class of 7929 look on. III and Victor Reid. will act in a manner regarded by us as hostile to the interest of our people shall be branded as our enemy —we have no ■ • ’[it alternative." Nkomo added, "Most of my life has make- been spent in the struggle for the libera¬ tion of Zimbabwe, indeed, for the struggle ; agaiitf against and liberation of the oppressed people of Southern Africa. But I have worked not as teen at- an individual, but as a part of a collective teen of the oppressed and exploited people iM* and the masses of Zimbabwe." w( Following Nkomo's presentation, More¬ house College President Dr. Hugh M. iil Gloster stated, "If it was right for Ben¬ et( jamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to speak in Europe in behalf of the American is tufi colonies, then it is right for Joshua Nkomo id»g to -■i that speak in the United States on behalf of Joshua Nkomo chats informally with Dr. Gloster before giving the commencement address. miesttiaP the Zimbabwean people." 5 Minister Louis Farrakhan Addresses Morehouse Baccalaureate Minister Farrakhan approaches Martin Luther Minister Farrakhan is surrounded by admirers following his stirring baccalaureate address. King, jr., Chapel with President Gloster. Minister Louis Farrakhan, National brilliant and eloquent speaker stated, Spokesman for the Nation of Islam, was “Education should never be education for the special guest speaker at Morehouse education's sake.