classnotes Stacey L. Frazier ’99 was recently elected pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C. The church was previously pastored by the late Rev. Thomas Kilgore ’41, former chairman of the Morehouse College Board of Trustees.
2000s Kevin D. Johnson ’01, president and CEO of Johnson Media Inc., recently lectured to MBA students at Kennesaw State University’s Coles College of Business about entrepreneurship and new venture analysis. Johnson Media Inc. is a media holding company that specializes in print, the Internet, television and radio.
Isaac Keys ’01 recently signed with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. Keys plays rush end for the Eskimos, the CFL equivalent to defensive end, the position he played at Morehouse. A three-time AllSIAC honoree, the St. Louis native was the keynote speaker of the Morehouse AllSports Award Banquet in April 2007. Keys, the first Morehouse graduate to make it to the NFL, played almost exclusively on practice squads as a linebacker. Signed first by the Minnesota Vikings, he made stops in Green Bay, NFL Europe with the Scottish Claymores and three years with the Arizona Cardinals. Manu Platt ’01 was recently awarded a postdoctoral science research
fellowship by the United Negro College Fund/Merck Science Initiative. The program provides more than $13 million in scholarship grants over five years and targets students pursuing careers in scientific research at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels. Alexander J. Chenault ’03, a second-year law student at Tulane University Law School, was selected for a yearlong Federal Judicial Externship with Judge Ivan Lemelle of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Alexander is also serving as president of New Orleans Young Democrats, where he recently hosted United States House of Representatives Majority Leader, Congressman Steny Hoyer.
KATARRO ROUNDTREE ’04 RINGS OPENING BELL AT NASDAQ
Births
Tony Woods ’04 and his wife Sakinah are the proud parents of a son, Brendan Alexander Woods. Brendan was born August 21, weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 21 inches long.
Sarquis Parker ’98 and his wife, Keilani, are the proud parents of Evan Sadiq, born on Sept. 28, 2007, weighting 8 pounds, 1 ounce, and measuring 21 inches long.
Passages
Katarro Roundtree ’04 (far right) recently represented Morehouse College by ringing the closing bell for the UNCF for NASDAQ. Katarro is employed with Lehman Brothers in NYC. MOREHOUSE MAGAZINE
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Edwin R. “Doc” Edmonds ’38 died on Nov. 6, 2007, of pneumoniarelated complications. He was 90. Edmonds, a former chair of the UCC’s Commission for Racial Justice, was the retired pastor of Dixwell Avenue