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AT&T NATION’S FOOTBALL CLASSIC® TICKETS NOW ON SALE
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2012– Events DC announced today that tickets for the 2nd annual AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® are now on sale via Ticketmaster, at the Howard University Box Office located at Cramton Auditorium and the Morehouse College Bookstore. The AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® takes place Labor Day weekend with a rematch between the Morehouse College Maroon Tigers and the Howard University Bison on Saturday, September 1 at RFK Stadium. Tickets are priced $25 to $50, plus all applicable fees. Through June 30, $25 tickets are available for $15 (while tickets last). Suite and group ticket sales will begin July 1.
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Morehouse Selects Heidrick & Struggles International for Presidential Search
ATLANTA, GA, April 25, 2012 -- The Morehouse College Board of Trustees has selected Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc., headquartered in New York, to assist in the search for a new president to replace out-going President Robert M. Franklin ’75.
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IMPACT CHURCH AND THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. INTERNATIONAL CHAPEL at MOREHOUSE COLLEGE PARTNER FOR THE FIRST EVER JOINT EASTER WORSHIP EXPERIENCE
ATLANTA (March 28, 2012) – Pastor Olu Brown of Impact Church and Dr. Lawrence E. Carter, Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, invite the Atlanta community to celebrate Easter on Sunday, April 8, at 10:00 A.M. at the MLK International Chapel, Morehouse College campus, 830 Westview Drive SW Atlanta, GA 30314. The worship experience is open to the public; with pre-worship activities beginning at 9:00 A.M. register today by visiting (www.impactdcd.org). All registrants will be entered into the 2012 Easter Gas Card Giveaway. Doors to the MLK International Chapel will open at 9:30 A.M. and the worship experience will begin at 10:00 A.M. All Impact Church worship experiences are come as you are.
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Morehouse College Announces Speakers for 2012 Baccalaureate and Commencement
Morehouse announces its guest speakers for Commencement weekend. The 128th Commencement exercise will take place on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 8 a.m. on the Century Campus. Dr. Robert M. Franklin, tenth president of Morehouse College, will give the Commencement address as he ushers out his final class, and they become Morehouse Men. Franklin will step down as president at the end of his term on June 30. Graduates also will hear a Commencement address from syndicated radio host Tom Joyner. Joyner, who is the host of the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” founder of REACH Media, Inc., the Tom Joyner Foundation, and BlackAmericaWeb.com, will receive the honorary doctor of humane letters.
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Dr. Robert M. Franklin to Transition as President of Morehouse College
ATLANTA, GA, January 30, 2012 – After an accomplished five-year term as president of Morehouse College, Robert M. Franklin ’75 has decided to step down at the end of his term at the close of the 2012 academic year on June 30.
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