Roswell O. Sutton ’41 received the Presidential Award of Distinction from President Franklin as his wife and Willis B. Sheftall ’64, interim provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs, look on.
Otis Moss Jr. ’56 (right), former chairman of the Morehouse Board of Trustees, and President Franklin, along with Anne W. Watts (right), associate vice president for Academic Affairs, with the winners of the 2008 Otis Moss Jr. Oratory Contest.
Panelists Martin E. Marty, (bottom) the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus from the University of Chicago, and Harold V. Bennett, (top) associate professor of religion at Morehouse, argued a point during the inaugural symposium, titled “Culture, Spiritual Values and the Pursuit of Excellence in Higher Education.”
President Robert Michael Franklin Jr. ’75 with the Bennie and Candle honorees: (left to right) Alvin Crawford, Moses W. Howard Jr. ’68, Clinton Warner ’44, Lloyd Trotter, William “Smokey” Robinson Jr., James R. Hall ’57 and Mack Roach ’75. MOREHOUSE MAGAZINE
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