Morehouse College 2020 Baccalaureate Program (Virtual)

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Saturday, the Twelfth Day of December Two Thousand Twenty Eleven o’clock in the Morning Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel City of Atlanta

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Baccalaureate Preacher The Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant ’94 Senior Pastor, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church

s a visionary, civil rights activist, and community organizer, the Rev. Dr. JamalHarrison Bryant combines sound Biblical teachings, business acumen, and political insight to propel the Body of Christ to action and greater levels of faith.

Since his youth, Bryant has prevailed against the odds—rising from a GED to a Doctor of Ministry degree. Before pastoring, he served as the national youth and college director of the NAACP for six years, helping to mobilize more than 70,000 young people worldwide in nonviolent campaigns.

Bryant, a third-generation minister, was the founding pastor of the Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore, Maryland, a church acclaimed as the fastest-growing African Methodist Episcopal church in the denomination’s history. He possesses an undeniable gift to bridge generations from the Civil Rights Movement to the Black Lives Matter era, and incites change in the faith community. Bryant’s ability to reach across social, economic, and political barriers has also helped people to not only experience the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ, but also to activate success in their everyday lives.

Bryant’s ministry has become an incubator for entrepreneurs and homeowners, and programs under his guidance have aimed to spread the Gospel, develop strong leaders, empower the economically disadvantaged, and challenge social injustices.

In December 2018, Bryant was appointed senior pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia. His leadership efforts have already strengthened the multi-generational bond among members, expanded community outreach, cultivated families, and expanded the church’s cultural significance.

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Order of Worship presiding

The Rev. Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel

Opening Voluntary

“Trumpet Tune” John Stanley

The Rev. Dr. Wallis Clinton Baxter III ’06 Senior Pastor Second Baptist Church SW District Heights, Md.

Evocation

Willie E. Woods ’85 Chairman, Morehouse College Board of Trustees President and Managing Director, ICV Partners New York City, N.Y.

The Occasion

Scripture

Psalm 139:1-18, KJV

Cornelius Ray ’20 Senior Class President

Anthem

“Hallelujah” from “Mount of Olives”

Ludwig van Beethoven arr. A.T. Davison Morehouse College Glee Club Dr. David A. Thomas President, Morehouse College

Introduction of Speaker

Sermon

Spiritual Morehouse College Hymn

“A Lesson for Losers” John 18:40, NIV

“My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord”

“Dear Old Morehouse”

Closing Voluntary

The Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant ’94 Senior Pastor New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Stonecrest, Ga. arr. Moses Hogan edited by Peter Eklund Morehouse College Glee Club J.O.B. Moseley ’29 The Rev. Dr. Seth Watson Pickens ’00 Director, Housing, Training, & Employment Project Economic Roundtable Los Angeles, Calif.

Benediction “Trumpet Tune” Henry Purcell Dr. David Edward Morrow ’80 Professor of Music and Director of the Morehouse College Glee Club Dr. David Francis Oliver, College Organist

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Dr. David Francis Oliver College Organist

Dr. David Francis Oliver College Organist

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Necrology* Alexander Leon Harris ’42

Charles Merideth ’61

Edward Jonas ’68

Leroy Johnson ’49

Ruben Ransaw Jr. ’61

Calvin McLarin ’68

Dr. C. Clayton Powell ’49

Douglas Rucker ’61

Ronald Pollock ’68

James Schell ’49

Mason Johnson ’62

Michael V. Roberts ’70

Joseph J. Farris ’51

Homer McCall ’62

Theo Harrell ’71

Robert Green ’51

Isiah Coats ’63

Talmadge Stewart ’71

Wesley Ball ’52

Benjamin Crawford ’63

Stephen Gill ’74

Alfonso “Al” Whitfield ’53

Chester Davenport Esq. ’63

Larry McQueen ’75

Jackson Sheftall ’54

Arthur Davis III ’65

Willie Webb ’75

Ira Harrison ’55

Simmie Lavender ’65

Jeremiah Gaffney ’76

Willie “Flash” Davis ’56

Edward Taylor ’65

James Palmer ’77

General G. Marshall ’57

Andre Whisenton ’65

Toussaint Hill ’81

Donald Stone ’57

Albert Duncan Sr. ’66

Richard Randall ’88

Joseph Arrington ’58

Herman Cain ’67

Benjamin J. Lambert IV ’89

Wilbur Leaphart ’58

Louis Dore ’67

Echol Nix ’95

Edison McDonald ’58

Marion F. Fye Jr. ’67

Justin Page ’02

Cameron Alexander ’59

David Garrett ’67

Tarik Jackson ’11

Charles D. Lusby ’61

Walter Dallas ’68

Najee Murphy ’11

Michael Harris ’68

**FACULTY AND STAFF Louis Delsarte 16 years

Barbara Wardlaw 28 years†

Phyllis Bentley 37 years

*The College honors the lives of all alumni and matriculating students who have made their transition since last Commencement. **Faculty and staff listed with the number of years of service to the College.

The list above, however, reflects only the names that were reported to the College.

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Hallelujah

Dear Old Morehouse

Hallelujah! unto God’s Almighty Son. Praise the Lord, ye bright angelic choirs, In holy songs of joy.

Dear old Morehouse, dear old Morehouse, We have pledged our lives to thee; And we’ll ever, yea forever, Give ourselves in loyalty.

Man, proclaim His grace and glory!

Hallelujah! unto God’s Almighty Son. Praise the Lord in holy songs of joy.

True forever, true forever, To old Morehouse may we be; So to bind each son the other Into ties more brotherly.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Make us steadfast, honest, true, To old Morehouse and her ideals And in all things that we do.

J. O. B. Moseley ’29

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