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

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NBCS J ackson Watkins and Jackson enter from N0rthcas1 side of Arena in graduation exercises processmnal section for Academic brass. On left end of platform. Drs. Smith. Johnson. Reed and Watkins register various reactions 10 musicai Symphonic Band's rendition of Haydn Wood's Mmmiu MW: 23

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r And Dinner For President Watkins hosted two oc- caSiOHS for graduating seniors, Sunday May 31. beginning with Annual break- fast for Scniol's and their parents at which time Faculty Women's Club served :15 hostess. This breakfast was followed by a senior hour with the president. The occussion offered direct dialog between the president and students in a personal setting. The at'- fair was held in the Alabama Room University Center at I0 a.m. Several ministers of the Mont- gomery Ministerial Alliance attended :1 Courtesy Dinner given in honor of the guest speaker for Spring Commence- ment. Dr. J. H. Jackson. president of the National Baptist Convention Incor- porated at the University center on May 31 . Aiming the ministers were, the Revs. E. L. Marlow, president of the Baptist Ministers Conference; Dr. John H Cross. director of the Baptist Fellowship Center; Rev. W. F. Alford, president of the Southeast District Baptist State Convention and pastor of Beulah Baptist Church; Dr. M. C. Cleveland Sr. head of the National NBCS J ackson Convention Home Mission; Dr. A. W. Wilson, vice president, State Conven- tion, national director and pastor of H011 Street Baptist Church; Dr. M. C. Cleveland Jr. acting president of Selma University. and Dr. H. H. Johnson. board member, Natinnai BTU and Sunday School Congress, pastor of Hutchinson Street Baptist Church. tBollomJ Dr. Zeiia S. Evans greets a senior and her parent. Mrs. Zeolinc Pierce trightl and Misx Bertha Underwonpd Hem await another guest lBelnw tom; Guesl al Dinner fur Drt Jackson inciutletl Il-I'J Revs. l-'.. L. Marlowe Edward Martin. John H. Cross. W. F. Alford. M. L . Cleveland. Srt: Drs. J. H. Jackson and Levi Walkimt Revs. F. F.. Jamey At WA Wilson. M. C. Cleveland. Jr.: H. H. Johnson and Henry Spears.

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Advises Grads Of Two Life Patterns 7? 1970 graduates were advised 7 Sunday. May 31. of human behavior from which they must decide their path in life. The occasion was two hun- dred-sixth Baccalaureatc-Commence- men: exercises. Dr. Joseph H. Jackson. Chicago, Ill. president of the National Baptist Convention told the 341 grams, ates they must choose between the old ideals of democratic society and fol- lowing the rrYippie revolution? You must decide where you will take your stand. Wl'here is still a supreme law that summons us to work for freedom, for justice and for equality. Or. you can choose the foreign way of life of the Yippies. Dr. Levi Watkins, ASU president. presided at the ceremonies and con- ferred the degrees. Musical highlights included Sym- phonic Band. presentation of Mmmin Veen, Hydn Wood. and excerpts from Efizah. Mendelssohn. and Dawson's Ainuarha: Goad News, by University Choir. Dr. J. H. Jackson: . . You must decide where yop will take your stand , I czlni make - ' these decxsions For you . . . Honur guards and marshafs for the day lead a happy undergraduate section of prucex- sionul lo the Arena for Baccalaureatefunr menccmcnl exercises. DI: Simmons directs fhuir in And then shall your light break forlh' from Efir'uh. At 1hr: organ are John Shchaeffer and Mrs. Alma E. Lyler