2023 Seniors Day Crown Forum - April 20, 2023

Page 1

SENIORS DAY Crown Forum

A CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE

THURSDAY, APRIL TWENTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING

A CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCEC
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE

Prelude “Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow” Fred Block

Opening Prayer Tyler Micah Washington ’23

The Occasion Daryl Bodrick ’23

An Epilogue for Morehouse Brothers Illya E. Davis ’89 Director for Freshmen and Seniors’ Academic Success

Introduction of Speaker Cornell K. Harris ’23

Poem Cruz -Malik Duhart ’23

Sage Reflections to Seniors Winford K. Rice, ’14 Adjunct Professor of Religion

Departmental Recognition of Highest Performing Seniors

Dr. Melvin Foster Associate Provost of Academic Success Associate Professor of Music

College Hymn Dear Old Morehouse J.O.B. Moseley ’29

College Organist Dr. David Oliver SENIORS

MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
Program
DAY - CROWN FORUM

SENIORS DAY SPEAKER

Winford K. Rice Jr.

Reverend Winford Kennadean Rice Jr., commonly known as “Kenny,” is the proud son of Winford K. Rice Sr. and Crystal S. Rice from Suffolk, Virginia, and has one sister, Jasmine Rice.

Reverend Rice is a 2014 Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion & Philosophy, and was the top ranking scholar in the department of Religion. While at the college, Kenny served as the President of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel Assistants program, presidential ambassador, NAACP political action co-chair, UPS Scholar, congressional intern for Rep. John Lewis through the Congressional Black Caucus, traveled to Toyko, Nagaski and Hiroshima, Japan as a peace ambassador for the non-proliferation of nuclear weaponry and was named the 2013-2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar. Additionally, he was initiated as a member of the distinguished Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and published his first work in an anthology of sermons by the Academy of Preachers in 2013. Reverend Rice has since been cited in the New York Times

Reverend Rice was licensed and ordained by Dr. Steven G. Blunt at First Baptist Church, Mahan in Suffolk, Virginia. He is a 2017 graduate of Harvard University’s Divinity School (HDS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he received his Master of Divinity degree as a Ministry Fellow. While at Harvard, Reverend Rice proudly served as the Youth and Young Adult Pastor of the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Reverend Rice also served as a Religious Services Fellow and prison chaplain for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, Department of Corrections in Chicago, Illinois, where his research examined the correlation between the usage of religious services and reduced recidivism rates for detainees in Cook County (Chicago). Additionally, Reverend Rice was the 2014-2015 Scholar in Residence at Myrtle Baptist Church in Newton, Massachusetts.

In March of 2017, Reverend Rice was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. College of Pastoral Leadership at Morehouse College for his commitment to bridging civil societies, political institutions, and religious communities after having traveled to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria, South Africa. He was also featured as one of the Late Night New Voices at the 103rd Annual Hampton Minister's Conference in Hampton, Virginia. In 2018, Reverend Rice graduated from Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia with a Master of Theology degree, specifically focusing on political and practical theologies. Currently, Reverend Rice serves as an Adjunct Professor of Religion at Morehouse College in the Religion and Philosophy Department as well as the Minister of Outreach and Men’s Ministries at Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia where Dr. Cynthia Hale is Pastor and is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree at Emory University.

Above all, Reverend Rice is passionate about preaching, pastoring, and people, and seeks to bridge the church and the academy by serving in the parish with both head and heart. In all things that he does, he aims to preach the gospel, and if necessary, uses words.

MOREHOUSE COLLEGE 202
3
SENIORS DAY - CROWN FORUM

Dear Old Morehouse

Dear old Morehouse, Dear old Morehouse;

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

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

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

Jordan Mills ’23 Secretary

Daryl Bodrick II ’23 President Justin Peterkin ’23 Vice President 2023 Senior Class Council Justin Mosely ’23 Treasurer Edmond Jackson ‘23 Master of Mentorship Bryin Thomas ’23 Outreach Coordinator Tahaj Barrett ’23 Creative Director

Ronald Barnes

Precious Martin

Howard Jones

Thane Wharton

2023 Senior Honors

Department of Africana Studies and History

George Pratt

Department of Business

BETA GAMMA SIGMA International Business Honor Society

Eric Russell

Eric Gallardo

Badi Joyce

Josiah Smith

Department of Chemistry

Donald Hill

Jaylen Reynolds

Tahj Henry-Jackson

Department of Cinema, Television, Emerging Media Studies

Henry McCants

Justin Upshaw

Department of Computer Science

Zavion Harris-Smart

Department of English

William L. Clay

Department of Economics

Cruz-Malik J. Duhart

Je’Vion R. Fluellen

Cornell K. Harris

OMICRON DELTA EPSILON International Honor Society

Aylon Gipson

Jondell Cumberbatch

Mark Nichols

William L. Clay

Cruz-Malik J. Duhart

Department of English

Jared Holt

Evan Gray

Steven Adams

Je’Vion R. Fluellen

Cornell K. Harris

Joseph Aderoju

Taurean Beville

Brandon Dalambert

Herman Gore

Rodney Gross

Department of Kinesiology

Justin Hayes

Kevin Long

Juilyen Mohammed

Addison Norwood

Darius Ragland

Department of Mathematics

Clarence Stephens

Jamal Thomas

Blake Wagner

Trenaj Mongo

Don Edwards

Tyler Hunter

Department of Music

Jeremiah Hickey

Kobe Lawson-Chavanu

Divine Linus

Naiem Battle

Shawn A. Brooks

Trenaj S. Mongo

Torri Michael Rodney

Department of Philosophy and Religion

Philosophy

Alexander Walton

John Curry

Religion

George Pratt

Lawrence

Department of Political Science

Tristan Hitchens-Brookin Miles Griffin

Department of Sociology

Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society

Caleb Strickland

Isaiah Ahmad Wilson

Departmental Honors

Jason Roberson

Torri Rodney

Caleb Strickland

Ricardo Vega

Isaiah Ahmad Wilson

Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.