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ROXBURY Community College 26th Honors Assembly Thursday, April 24, 1997 AM 11:45 Media/Arts Building RoxburyCommunityCollege 1234ColumbusAvenue RoxburyCrossing, Massachusetts Program Greetings HollyGuran Student Greetings ChesterfieldCoppin,English ClarisaGuzman, Spanish JimsJeanJacques,French/Creole NurAdam, Somali So ChingLam, Cantonese OpeningRemarks Dr. GraceCarolynBrown, President, RoxburyCommunityCollege Scholarshipand Honors Committee AlexAsare,Professor, MathDepartment Co-Chair, ScholarshipandHonorsCommittee Introduction ofKeynoteSpeaker TrudyThompson,Professor, NursingDepartment Co-Chair, ScholarshipandHonorsCommittee KeynoteAddress LorraineFowlkes, RoxburyCommunityCollegeGraduate1988 GarethR. Saunders, ChiefofStaff, OfficeofBoston CityCouncilor forDistrict7 Song "TheGreatestLoveofAll" RCCChoralVocal Club, ledbyMarguritaMorrissey Dean's List Recognition Dr. PaulK.Willenbrock,ExecutiveDean,AcademicAffairs President's List Recognition Dr. GraceCarolynBrown,President Presentation of RCCF Scholarships Mr.WilliamSapers, BoardofDirectors, RoxburyCommunityCollegeFoundation Presentation of theCherylSpencer MemorialScholarships Presentation of theAlise Rostan DowlingNursing Scholarship NadineValeryDowling, ChiefDevelopmentOfficer Recognition ofVeronicaSpriggs, RoxburyCommunityCollge student and Brandeis UniversityMcNairScholars Program Recipient Dr.TesfayAradom,AssistantProfessor, SocialSciences LiftEveryVoiceand Sing RCC Choir, directedbyDr. EdmondJ. Mousally Receptionimmediatelyfollowinginthelobbyofthe Media/ArtsBuilding About the Keynote Speaker Lorraine Fowlkes graduated from Roxbury Community College in 1988 with Honors in the English concentration, she made the RCC President's and Dean's Lists, earned the RCC Student of the Year Award and organized RCC stu- dents for Jesse Jackson's Presidential Campaign. In addition she worked as a student assistant, helping to,plan and devel- op the RCCTransfer Program. After graduating, she pursued further studies at Wellesley College and Northeastern University. A resident ofMattapan, Fowlkes has am long history of grassroots political and tenet organizing. She presently serves as chiefofstafffor Boston City Councillor Gareth Saunders. Prior to her current position, she was a senior organizer for the Greater Roxbury Neighborhood Authority where she HUD successfully mobilized tenants for cooperative owner- ship oftheir apartment buildings. Fowlkes has alsoworked as Branch Office and Legal Redress Clinic Manager for the Boston Branch of the NAACP There she served as client advocate, did fundraising and recruited new members. She was tenant organizer for the Housing Division ofthe United South End Settlements, where she served as tenant liaison, generated a monthly newsletter and organized community meetings. Her Community and political affiliations are numerous. She is a member and coordinator of the RCC Alumni METCO Association, co-chair of the Lincoln/Sudbury Parents' Council, president of the Dorchester High School Parents Council, co-founder/organizer of RISE (Resolve Injustice, Stop Evictions), and was a delegate to the 1988 Massachusetts Democratic Convention. About the Composer LiftEveryVoiceandSing James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1871. He received his early education there and then attend- ed Atlanta University. A subsequent career as public school principal, lawyer, diplomat, executive secretary for the NAACP andprofessor ofcreative literature at FiskUniversity paralleled his growth and maturity as a poet and man oflet- ters. In 1900, with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, he wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing". Johnson also wrote the lyrics for several musica shows and put his name on a num- ber ofhit songs in his early writing days. At the time ofhis death in an automobile accident in 1938 he was regarded as one of the foremost African Americans of his generation, (from The Poetry ofthe Negro, 1746-1970, edited by Langston Hughes andArna Bontemps). Scholarship and Honors Committee SusanAllen, Dean ofStudents AlexAsare, (Co-Chair)Mathematics Antoinette Chabilal, SGA Elizabeth Clark, DirectorofStudentActivities Jose Gonzales, ESL HollyGuran, CAPS CAD BeatriceJohnson, Thomas Reeves, SocialSciences LewisTavares, SGA TrudyThompson, (Co-Chair)Nursing Dean's List The followingstudents carried 12 ormore college-level credit hours (days) or at least 6 college-level credits (evenings) with a grade point average (GPA) of3.50-3.75 or above (and no gradelowerthan aC) duringthe Spring 1996semester: SylvieAllianceKouanya Eunide-MarieE. Edouarzin So ChingLam PauletteW. Green-Wallace GlenAldenLomax AbbiM. Hashi MarieR. MacDowell TesfamichaelYosiefKudane CallixtusAzemnziMuanya ChanJuanLuo FarahPierre EdnaD. Martinez GranvilleL. Pusey LydiaMatombo MaryE. Robinson AbdilahiA. Mohamed VeronicaK. Spriggs DestineMarieRimpel EdithSelonTanaxloe JoAnneBeverlySeixas SarahYee RichardM.Thuku PeterS. Chandler AntoinetteT. Chabilal SandraSherleyCheruein JaniceC. Chandler ClaraCabral SandraSherleyCherubin GeorgyJeanLouis DianeB. Fagan HawaZ.Abu FewhiwotGebrehiwot PriscillaA.Ajoa BorisGolubitsky IreneC. Borum JaniceL. Graham ArturoJ. Bowen AlatagraceJean-Baptiste BeverlyF. Burkett JimsDevisJeanJacques EddyColin LudwineD.Jean-Jacques RafaelaL. Colon BeatriceN. Karanja VuC. Dao PierreA. Diligent Nesso Dubisson KenyaA. Edwards MalcolmA. Fomby Fall 1996 semester AdegoriolaAnjorin JoseLuisLaureno JaniceC. Chandler RaymondJ. Pifferrer Lubert Labad DilmaReyes J. Taj-KamauRobinson MandyRuss KlaraS. Rukshina AnthonyG. Sanders PortiaGalpurniaCharles JuneM. Sweet MahasinMuhammad GabrielUgoji MalcolmA. Fombu Helen White J. MarciaM. Campbell TracyJeanLarrabee SofiyaY. Dobromyslova ZakiyyahH. Muhammad NancyFernandez SharimeFalcon JaniceL. Graham LillianV. Romero CarlineA. Guzman MurielleSt. Paul DavidJiles PetulaG.Thomas AntoineLoreus GlendaGeorge LindaM. Owens EugeneL.Jones EridaniaJulissaPeralta ChunL. Kyi ShandaM. Furr CirishaHunte Nesso Dubuisson JudithK. Najjuma ArturoJ. Bowen FarahBernard MiriamAcajabon VilmaI. Colon ChristopherBlue Jean-JosephErrie JacquelineT. Cardenas DesireeE.G. Etienne PierreA. Diligent MarieEstellaFelixe-Tanis Capello Hector BrianC. Forde YunhongLuo ArleteP. garcia JuliaM. Richmond MeredithM. Morgan Madueno Barbosa VirginiaMutuura MarjorieCarmelBernadeau Carmen Ortiz J. RuthJanetBrowne VanT. Phan AndreanaD. Cheek MarieVital JianRongChen WandaL. Diaz President's List The followingstudents carried 12 ormore college-level credit hours (days) oratleast6 college-level credits (evenings) with agradepointaverage (GPA) of3.76 orabove (andno grade lowerthan aC) duringthe Fall 1996 semester: SandreCheruein KioweO. Smith ChesterfieldR. Coppin LudwineD.JeanJacques FewhiwotGebrehiwot PaulosBokreAbraha RichardM. Horner ManduI.Anaka AlethaR.James ErslynK. Baptiste StacyR.John EleanorJ. Batugios So ChingLam JoseBrandao LudmilaA. Blindman VirginiaCoakley BarbaraA. Badohu FlorenceI. Craig ClaraCabral LornaP. DunnFolkes AlatagraceJean-Baptiste LanciaG. Gilliam WendyR. Kelly HopeGuyton TesfamichaelYosiefKidane UdevbuluUxdenIhmekpen EdnaD. Martinez PbdelmoulaA. Lahlali EfimA. Miller OmarS. Oliveira TinerrMoniqueMowring OlgaOrdonez SiehE. Samura SalvadorH. Palencia ChanJuanLuo KeithPrtchette MaryB. Sinclair QuangChiTran RichardM.Thuku MercedesA.White JimsDevisJeanJacques BorisGolubitsky PeterS. Chandler NancyMarcial A Michelle Cokonougher Kevin Kelly J. JuliaAdalziraFerreira DorrethAnn-MarieChambers GeorgyJeanLouis