SENIORS DAY
Crown Forum
A CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE
THURSDAY, APRIL SEVENTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY FIVE AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. INTERNATIONAL CHAPEL
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
The Occasion
Program
An Epilogue for Morehouse Brothers Illya Eliphis Davis ‘89 Director of Freshmen & Seniors’ Academic Success, Director of the Morehouse Accelerated Academic Program Instructor of Philosophy
Introduction of Speaker
Sage Relflections to Seniors
Departmental Recognition of Highest Performing Seniors
Dr. Nathaniel Norment Professor of English & Director of Black Ink Project
Dr. Melvin Foster Associate Provost of Academic Success, Associate Professor of Music
College Organist
Prelude “Paise God From Whom All Blessings Flow”
Fred Block
Opening Prayer
George W. Gatlin III ‘25 Noah Collier ‘25
Caleb Cage ‘25 Senior Class President
Dr. David Oliver
College Hymn
Old Morehouse” J.O.B. Moseley ‘29
James McGee, ‘25
Spoken Word
Nataniel Fields ‘25
Musical Selection Lesh’In Edwards ‘25
SENIORS DAY SPEAKER
Nathaniel Norment 2025
Nathaniel Norment, Jr. is the Director of the Writing , the Black Ink Project, and Professor in the Department of English at Morehouse College. He is Professor Emeritus of the Department of English at The City College of New York and the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He is former Chair of African American Studies at Temple University where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in African American Studies, African American literature and culture. He was the Director of The Center for African American Research and Public Policy (at Temple) where research focused on four areas affecting African Americans: criminal justice, economic development, education and health.
His publications include The African American Studies Reader (Carolina Academic Press, 2001, 2nd Edition 2007), Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features and PerspectivesVolume 1 2003 and Volume 2 2005 (Peter Lang Publishing), The Addison Gayle, Jr. Reader (University of Illinois Press 2009) African American Studies: The Discipline and its Dimensions (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2014) and he has articles published in the College Language Association Journal, the Journal of Basic Writing, the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, the Journal of Black Studies, and the Language Quarterly. Norment earned his B.S. at Ball State University, M.S. at Saint Francis University and Ph.D. at Fordham University.
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.
Caleb Cage ’25 President
LaDerrick Smith ’25 Vice President
2025 Senior Class Council
Khalil Bucknor ’25 Secretary
George Gatlin III ‘25 Class Justice
Mahdi Bakari ‘25 Business Manager
Jovenson Jerome ’25 Treasurer
Marveon Mabon ’25
Kennedy Johnson ‘25 Daniel White ‘25 Class Senators
Joshua Porter
2024 Senior Honors
Marchellos Scott
Ronald Davis III
Departmental Honors
Department of English
Torrien Nelson
Darion Johnson
Asa Gourdine
Department of Mathematics
Taj K. Allamby
Josh O. Kyei
Department of Sociology
Javonte Sellers
Honor Societies
Pi Mu Epsilon
Honor Society of Mathematics
Josh O. Kyei
Alpha Kappa Delta
International Sociological Honor Society
Javonte Sellers
Dedicated Scholarships
Oprah Winfrey Scholars
Maximilian E. Armstead
Caleb A. Dixon
Isaiah R. Jackson
Kennedy Johnson
Javen D. Kent
Jordan M. Mosby
Michael Anthony Newman
Javonte L. Sellers
Dr. Michael L. Lomax Student Success Scholars
Cameron Renard Ages
Noel K. Boadi
Isaiah Omar Burrell
Brian O. Carter
Charles William Cherry
Amir Isan Childs
D’Marre Justin Lamar Craddock
Caleb Justin Dixon
Drew Cassidy Duff SeMaj Hashim Musco
Egarnoise Cathiers Evans Tarell Myers
Robert Levar Holloway
Omarion Stanton Holmes
Haki Pasha Pratt
Jathan Kendrick Spaulding
Lamont Xzavier Leigh Braden Stevenson Starver
Aden D’Arte Mobley
Tahj Ere Kiri Morris
Miles Guy Moten
Amari Mark Torrance
Ali Osei White
Morgan Stanley Student Success Scholars
Richard Abraham Chandler
Xavier Deshun Foster
Coriss Tristan Redmond
Yardi
Khalil Johnson
Kyshan Jay Nichols-Smith