Morehouse College 2022 Baccalaureate Ceremony

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Saturday, the Fourteenth Day of May Two Thousand Twenty-Two Three o’clock in the Afternoon Franklin L. Forbes Arena City of Atlanta

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Order of Worship 2022 Presiding

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

Prelude Processional

“Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow” “Improvisation on Great Is Thy Faithfulness” “Improvisation on Dear Old Morehouse” “Trumpet Tune”

by John Stanley

Kenneth Alan Brown II ’22 Trumpet The Rev. Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter Sr. Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel

Call to Order Evocation

The Rev. Dr. Kevin Rae Miles Johnson ’96 Founder/Lead Pastor, Dare to Imagine Church President and CEO, Dare to Imagine Community Development Corp., Philadelphia, Pa. Willie E. Woods ’85 Chairman, Morehouse College Board of Trustees President and Managing Director, ICV Partners, New York City, N.Y.

The Occasion

*†Hymn Scripture Anthem

“Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!”

Spiritual Unveiling of Oil Portraits

Hymn Text: Reginald Heber Hymn Tune: NICAEA Composer: John Bacchus Dykes Bryson Devon Hill ’22 Senior Class President

Psalm 139:1-18, KJV

“Behold Now, Praise the Lord”

by Everett Titcomb

Morehouse College Glee Club David A. Thomas, Ph.D. President, Morehouse College

Introduction of Speaker Sermon

by Fred Bock Arr. David Oliver Arr. David Oliver

“I Went From Negative To Positive” 2 Samuel 9 (NLT) “Sit Down Servant” arr. Stacey Gibbs

The Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptitst Church Dallas, Texas Morehouse College Glee Club

The Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III The Honorable Raphael G. Warnock ’91 U.S. Senator (Ga.) Senior Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga.

The Rev. Dean Carter

“And Then Shall the Trumpets Sound” The Rev. Charles Leonard Fischer III ’97 Vice President for Seminary Advancement, Pittsburg Theological Seminary Pittsburgh, Pa.

Benediction Morehouse College Hymn Recessional

“Dear Old Morehouse” J.O.B. Moseley ’29

ALL

“Trumpet Tune”

by Henry Purcell David Edward Morrow, D.M.A. ’80 Professor of Music and Director of the Morehouse College Glee Club David Francis Oliver, D.M.A. College Organist

*Those who are able are requested to stand.

If you do not keep or mail this program, please deposit it in a blue recycle bin.

†Ushers may now seat guests.

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Baccalaureate Preacher 2022

The Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas The Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III is a pastor, leader, social activist, orator, and educator engaged in preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, and fighting against racial injustice. Haynes has also devoted his life to economic justice and empowerment in underserved communities.

Since 1983, Haynes has served as the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Under his servant leadership, church membership has grown from fewer than 100 members to more than 13,000.

On Nov. 10, 1960, Haynes was born in Dallas to the late Rev. Frederick D. Haynes Jr. and Lynetta Haynes-Oliver. After experiencing racism in the segregated South, however, Haynes’ father moved his family to San Francisco where his father pastored the historic Third Baptist Church.

At 14, Haynes’ life took a turn when his father passed away on his first day of high school. The young man overcame the obstacles of life in the following years with the help of mentors, his family, and God. Despite being discouraged by a negative assessment of his academic ability, for example, Haynes became one of three valedictory speakers when he graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco.

Haynes continued his education at Bishop College in Dallas and graduated, with honors, in 1982, with a bachelor’s degree in religion and English. In 1996, Haynes earned a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 2005 he received the doctor of ministry degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation, where he had the opportunity to study at Christ Church, Oxford University, in England.

A committed community activist, Haynes has formed alliances and partnerships with local, national, and global leaders to fight social injustice, domestic violence, and poverty. Under the Barack Obama presidential administration, Haynes was also invited to the White House to address issues ranging from the state of the economy to voting and civil rights. And he was also publicly applauded by Obama for developing the THR!VE Intern and Leadership Program.

A life-long learner, Dr. Haynes is committed to education. He has led Friendship-West to donate more than $3 million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, for example, and to students who are members of the church and the greater Dallas community.

As a reflection of his commitment to community transformation and social consciousness, Haynes serves in various leadership capacities in organizations that champion social change and education, including the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, the Conference of National Black Churches, the National Action Network, and 100 Black Men of America. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Paul Quinn College, an HBCU in Dallas.

Haynes is married to entrepreneur Debra Peek-Haynes. They have one adult daughter, Abeni Jewel Haynes.

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Oil Portrait Recipient 2022

The Honorable Raphael G. Warnock ’91 U.S. Senator (Georgia) Senior Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock ’91 made history on Jan. 5, 2021, by becoming Georgia’s first Black U.S. Senator.

Warnock was born on July 23, 1969, in Savannah, Ga., and grew up there in the Kayton Homes public housing project. One of 12 children, he was the son of a father who was a veteran, small-business man, and preacher, and a mother who taught her 12 children that they could do anything they put their minds to.

“I stand before you as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in America could only happen here,” Warnock said in his senatorial acceptance speech. “We were told that we couldn’t win this election. But we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible.”

After graduating from Savannah’s Sol C. Johnson High School, Warnock enrolled at Morehouse College, unsure about how he would pay the tuition. With help from sources such as low-interest student loans and federal Pell Grants, however, he graduated cum laude from Morehouse in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Warnock later earned master of divinity, master of philosophy, and doctor of philosophy degrees from Union Theological Seminary, affiliated with Columbia University. He graduated with honors and distinctions, and was ordained in the ministry.

In 2005, at age 35, Warnock became the youngest person ever called to the senior pastorate of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Under Warnock’s leadership, more than 4,000 new members have since joined the historic church.

Warnock’s election to the U. S. Senate in 2021 was in a special election runoff to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the late Sen. John Isakson. Warnock took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2021, and since then, he has served on the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, as well as the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and the Joint Economic Committee.

Among other honors, Warnock has been recognized as one of “Atlanta’s 55 Most Powerful” by Atlanta magazine, one of the “New Kingdom Voices” by Gospel Today magazine, one of “God’s Trombones” by the Rainbow Push Coalition, a “Good Shepherd” by Associated Black Charities, one of the “Chosen Pastors” by The Gospel Choice Awards, “A Man of Influence” by the Atlanta Business League, and one of the “Top 10 Most Influential Black Ministers” by Loop 21. He has received the Reverend Dr. William A. Jones Justice Award from the National Action Network, is a National TRIO Achiever Award recipient, and has been honored by induction into the Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers.

Warnock is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and 100 Black Men of Atlanta, as well as a lifetime member of the NAACP. His footprints are also on the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame, and as an opinion leader, Warnock’s perspective has been sought by media, locally, nationally, and internationally. His work has been featured on CNN, the CBS Evening News, The Huffington Post, and in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which hailed him “a leader among Atlanta and national clergy, a fitting heir to the mantle once worn by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”

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Necrology* 2022

Homer Erwin Nash Jr. ’45

Henry Nathaniel Mercer ’67

Grady L. Brewer ’80

Moses Clinton Few ’48

John H. Hall ’69

Charles H. James III ’81

Charles Vert Willie ’48

Lorenzo Bailey ’70

Harun Lemuel Knowles ’84

Andrew A. Adair ’54

Carey Henry Wynn II ’70

Harris Clemon Bostic II ’85

Samuel Wilson ’55

John F. Hicks Sr. ’71

John Eric Edmonds ’85

Curtis Lee Lewis ’56

John Frederick Hicks ’71

Eric Ramsey ’89

Rudolph E. Jackson ’57

John G. Dameron ’76

Hakim Mendez ’93

William Glass ’59

Tony Dolphus ’76

Charles McLien III ’97

James C. Hogan Jr. ’59

Jeremiah Gaffney ’76

Desmond Key ’09

Edgar Parker ’60

John Harris ’76

Cole E. Kirkland ’20

Morris J. Dillard Sr. ’60

Paul Madison ’76

Kevin L. Fulton ’21

James Bullard ’65

Edward Charles Wallace ’76

Tyrone Holmes ’22

Charles W. Hicks ’78 Lelan Weldyn Fowlkes ’80

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& staff

Grady L. Brewer ’80 Assistant Coach, Maroon Tigers Basketball Team — 13 years Head Coach — 21 years Vernon D. Humphrey Vice President, MRM Resources Morehouse Printshop and Post Office — 10 years

*The College honors the lives of all alumni and matriculating students who have made their transition since last Commencement.

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

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Hymn 2022

Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee.

Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!

God in three persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore Thee, casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee, which wert and art and evermore shalt be.

Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide Thee, though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see, only Thou art holy; there is none beside Thee, perfect in pow’r, in love, and purity.

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth, and sky and sea.

Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!

God in three persons, blessed Trinity!

Reginald Heber

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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.

J. O. B. Moseley ’29