Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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Spiritual Uplifters The Black Gospel Ensemble of Morehead State University, founded in the Spring of creative outlet to 3Students and community ' pgrticipants Over the yearswthe ensembi in formed' In more than 100 churches through- out the state of Kentucky and In the states of Ohio indiana, VIrgInIa West I - Pennsyivania, Georgia, New Jersey, and New York , The ensemble has nonioniy T . ,t churches, but has sung fer several civic 7 groups, such as the Kentucky Federatgon of Women Wondering Wands State Park Sue Bennett College Morehead Treatment Center, and the Daniel Boone Convales- cance Center BGE has also: performed I 'i t programs with the SU Recruitment team, helping encourage potential students to I, attend this university , Among other honors, BCE holds the dis- tinction of being chosen out of twenty uni- , versities and coiieges to takepart in the first '; Black Coiiege Festival held in Atlanta,fGA, in I : November 1973. The ensemble wiil host its L, annual Founder? Day duringthe m'thh of:?ir'j April, which will ceibbrate 19 years Of com- munity services and commItment to God. : BY ANNICE GRAVES - a 'I' THE CROSS CULTURAL house Is the site of many .20 hamburgers at one of the Black CoaiItIons ff 3 Brian E PHOTO BY RHONDA WOMPSON. THE BLACK COALITION Is an organization an Campus 4a sponsored by jerry Gore Mr; Care is the. add of Minority Affairs on campus 104 Service Organizations

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Blue Key National Honor Fraternity was established in the 19705. The organization, then all male, was active in awarding schol- arships to incoming freshmen, as well as in community service. The club was revised and reactivated in 1984. It has now built in strength to 35 members. The motto of the organzation is nServing, I Live. The club demonstrated its motto through several services to the community this year. Members took gifts to Hope Hill Children's Home in Montgomery Co. at Christmas. Each year the club participates in March of Dimes Walk America and Senior Oppor- tunity Days. The club is looking for a national philanthropy. A spring banquet was held for the re- tiring advisor and founder, Mr. Venet- tozzi. ? THE BLUE KEY National fraternity; motto is Serv- ing, ILive. This honor society lived up to its motto by an annual partcipation in the March of Dimes waIk-a-thon and by this year, sponsoring a deba te between student government nominees, Sheridan Martin, Steve Strathmann, lohn Parton, and Scot Sodes PHOTO BY IACK SIMPSON.

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C OALITION members stayed busy throughout the year by sponsoring Black Aware- ness Week in April and a picnic for parents during Parents Weekend The group also participated in Black History Month and Dr. Martin Luther Kings holida y celebrations PHO TO BY TIM C ONN Ensemble MEMBERS of the Black Gospel Ensemble sing for churches and civic groups in the states of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Virginia. The group was founded in 7968 and serves as a creative outlet to student and community participants. PHO TO B Y TIM C ONN Resident Life promoted The Residence Hall Association tRHAt is the organization on campus which pro- M t, 3am a oexpressthe'm i 0511??? residential population and to see that those needs reach their proper channels. Sharon Thompson, junior from Louisville, is an RA in Nunn Hall. PHOTO BY IA CK SIMPSON.