Alabama State University Montgomery - Hornet Yearbook (Montgomery, AL)

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S.C.L.C. PRESIDENT ABERNATHY ADDRESSES l'Ir . . T . --i-..:-! awdrnw u-Ar-T nq-g .Ir-r Tag- I Administrative Representative stands as the rest of the procession files in. 26

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Dr. HARV EY: ttLookq Examine, God Will Speak To Yotfi Dr. Raymond Francis Harvey, Pastor of Greenwood Mission- ary Baptist Church, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama addressed the tItmvHundred-Second Baccalaureate Assembly May 26, 1968 ul. 3:30 p.111. in the Arena-Auditorium from the subject dTurning Aside-Seeing with scriptural background as re- corded in 3rd Chapter of the Book of Exodus. Pre- t-cnding the Messagr; was a memorial to the late G. Herbert Lockhart, consisting of organ music and a solo by Regina 'llayim ttBe Still My Soul? rThe procession was organ music, Dr. Ralph Simpson, organist. Dr. Felix james, College Chaplain gave the invocation and read excerpts from Letters l'u Timothy, Chapter 2. Music for the day included numbers from Vivaldits ttGum Sancto Spiritu 6k ttEt in Terra Pax tFrom Glorizo; and Haydn's ttAwake the Harp'h- Dr. Levi Watkins presented the Speaker. Following the Baccalaureate Sewice-Presideut 61 Mist Watkins t'eted the graduates, their parents, the faculty and friends ata reception in the Alabama Room, College Union. HARVEY ADDRESSED BACCALAUREATE ASSEMBLY 203 .. Dr. Watkins heads the, proucwsimlal out following ihc service. College relation officer Henry Spears in a serious mood as Dr. Hardy and Lyle exchange- views. llonur Guards in backgruund, 25

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DR. RALPH ABERNATHY, successor to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the S.C.L.C. left the mud 0f ttRessurt rcclion Uitya, tWashington D.CJ to come home and addressed 254 candidates for graduation of the College, May 31, 1963 in the ArenaiAuditorium. Abernathy, a 50 graduate of the College: and leader of the tthr Peoplek Marclfain Washington, D.C., had a contingent of his followers from the renowned gtHeassturrcction Cityi which inciuded his wife Mrs. Juanita Abernathy, also a graduate of the College, and Bernard Lee, a former Student of Alabama State. Rev. Abernathy, opened his speech by reminding the prospective graduates that times have changed from the old ways of society, and that today stu- dents have become a dynamic social force before and after graduatirm.H Speaking on violence and militants, Dr. Abur. nathy stalcd that ttWe must. have militant protest; this is unurgucublc; we must have unyielding resistance; this too is beyond debate, but. in both, it: is not necessary to use vio- lence . Continuing Abernathy said, nWe smashed many structures of southern segregation in less than a decade witllu out bowing in shame. We faced the guns of tho oppressors without. guns and defeated them. In the process we educalcd all of America in the inherent dignity and courage of black people . In closing, Dr. Abernathy lcfl these challenges: 0t make our world one world; Qt fulfill the dreams of our found- ing fathers: tin feel the importance of social protest. IIc asserted that t1! the prophetic task of challenging society's evil is nul undertaken by the well trained, a necessary leader- ship will be missing; and Q10 the protesting student must make himself he heard and respected even if the tactics 118 uses are sometimes jarring and the language waconventional. If this is not clone, the essential truths may be doomed in a sprawling social order of psychological brilliance of human degenera- lions? Dr. Ralph Abernathy making the Commencement Address Dr. Watkins, confedng Degrees. I EUNOH GRADUATES