United States Achievement Academy - National Award Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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EUNITED STATES ACHIEVEMENT ACADEM 2 LL 0F FAME 2 MILLICENT FENWICK Former U.S. Congresswoman The whole point of government is justice, declares Con- gresswoman Millicent Fenwick. With this conviction, she has become a vital, outspoken advocate of the rights of con- sumers, women, the elderly, the poor, racial minorities and small-business operators. Her remarkable successes have come in spite of limited schooling. Though fluent in several languages and extremely well-informed, Mrs. Fenwick received little formal training beyond age 15, when her father became Ambassador to Spain. She returned to this country in 1929 and soon thereaf- ter began work at Harper's Bazaar. Adolph Hitler impelled Mrs. Fenwick into politics. After hearing him speak, she joined the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Though a writer for Vogue in New York for 14 years, she remained interested in home-state politics and devoted her weekends to community affairs- in particular, civil rights, consumer interests, prison reform and conservation. She served as chairman of the Somerset County Legal Aid Society and of the Bernardsville Recreation Commis- sion, and from 1958 to 1964 was a member of the Bernards- ville Borough Council. From 1958 to 1972, as member and vice-chairman of the New Jersey advisory committee to the United States Com- mission on Civil Rights, Millicent visited building sites to make on-the-scene checks of discrimination charges and at- tend rallies of blacks and Hispanic demonstrators. Winning a seat in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1969, Mrs. Fenwick impressed Governor William T. Cahill with her approach to social problems. He appointed her to head a new state agency as director of the state's consumer affairs, where peers described her as controversial but very respected. At the age of 64 fin 19741, when most of her peers were planning their retirement, Mrs. Fenwick was elected to Con- gress. During her eight years as congresswoman the inde- fatigable Millicent served on several committees, working 12-hour days. Much of her energy was devoted to introduc- ing proposals benefiting the elderly, consumers, and small business operators. In addition, Mrs. Fenwick gained notori- ety in 1975 with heroutspoken statements on human free- dom while in the Soviet Union as a member of a Congres- sional delegation. Dedicated to public service for many years, Mrs. Fenwick has served voluntarily on dozens of organizations, including Stevens Institute of Technology, the New Jersey Historical Society, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Newark Museum, Somerset Hills YMCA and the Somerset County Legal Ser- vices. She has been affectionately parodied by the character Dav- enport Lacey in the cartoon strip DoonesburyF'

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NITED STATES ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY? 5 HALL DF F AM 2 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Leader Civil Rights Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the greatest civil rights leaders this country has ever had. His philosophy of achieving much-needed social change through rational, nonviolent direct action galvanized the conscience of Amer- ica. The movements and marches he led produced lasting ef- fects. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, for example, went to Congress as a result of the Selma to Montgomery march. Dr. King's concept of Somebodiness gave black people and poor people a new sense of worth. His charismatic lead- ership, eloquent speeches and courageous, seliless devotion to civil rights activities inspired millions of people in this nation and abroad. Dr. King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He began school at the age of four, but when his age was discovered, he was forced to stop and had to wait until age six to resume his education. His high scores on college entrance exams, taken when he was a junior in high school, enabled him to enter Morehouse College without formal graduation from Booker T. Washington. Having skipped both the ninth and twelfth grades, Dr. King was 15 when he entered Morehouse. He graduated from Morehouse in 1948 with a B.A. degree in Sociology. In 1951, he received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Studying at the University of Pennsylvania while at Crozer, Martin was elected president of the senior class and delivered the valedictory. He won the Pearl Plafker award as the most outstanding student and the J. Lewis Crozer fellowship for graduate study at a university of his choice. Dr. King then studied Theology at both Boston University and Harvard and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1955. In his short lifetime, Dr. King was also awarded 20 honorary degrees. Dr. King was ordained a minister at the age of 19, and his involvement with the Church continued for the rest of his life. He married the former Coretta Scott in 1953, and in the next ten years the couple had four children. From 1957-1968, Dr. King was a founder and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Among the most prominent of the several hundred awards Dr. King received for his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement are: selection by Time magazine as one of the ten most outstanding personalities of the year in 1957 and as Man of the Year in 1963, recipient of the John F. Kennedy Award from the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago in 1964, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize- at age 35 the youngest man and the third black to be so honored-in 1964. Despite all his demanding activities, Dr. King found time to write six books and numerous articles. In The Measure of a Man, he spoke of the meaning of success and the way to view one's lifels work: After he discovers his calling he should set out to do it with all of the strength and power in his being. He should do it as if God Almighty called him at this particular moment in history to do it. He should seek to do his job so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn could not do it better. No matter how small one thinks his life's work is in terms of the norms of the world and the so-called big jobs, he must realize that it has cosmic significance if he is serving humanity and doing the will of God. Dr. King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

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UNITED STATES ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY? HALL DF FAM 2 DR. ADRON DORAN Morehead State University President Emeritus The life of Dr. Adron Doran has been a unique blend of educational, political and religious activities, and he has made significant contributions to all three areas. Adron, the son of a farmer who believed in hard work and religion, was born in 1909 in Graves County, Kentucky. His father did not believe in advanced education for his six sons, but Adron managed to complete his high school training in 1928. Since Christianity was instrumental in Adronls selection of a college, he enrolled in the Church of Christ's Freed-Hardeman Junior College in Henderson, Tennessee. He became a minister during his freshman year and has maintained his ministry ever since. In 1930, Doran entered Murray State Teachers College. He married Mignon Louise McClain in his junior year. When he graduated from Murray State in 1932, Adron be- came principal of Boaz School in Graves County. At 22, he was the youngest principal the county had ever hired. Doran served as principal and basketball coach of the high school in Wingo, Kentucky, from 1938-1948. He also became minister of the nearby Trenton Church of Christ and president of the Murray State Alumni. In 1936 he was elected Vice-President of the First District Educational Association and four years later was elected President of the organization. By 1946 he had become so prominent that he was elected President of the Kentucky Educational Association. A strong believer in the importance of high-quality educa- tion, Doran knew that before he could improve Kentucky's educational system he would have to get to the source where improvements could be made. In 1944 he ran for the State House of Representatives and was elected to four straight terms. During his one-year term as Speaker of the House, appropriations for education increased from 510 million to S32 million. Doran earned his M.A. from Murray in 1948 and his Doctorate of Education from the University of Kentucky in 1950. In 1955, Dr. Doran began a 22-year term as Presi- dent of Morehead State University. A small college of 600 when he became President, Morehead State had an enroll- ment of 8,000 by the time he left in 1977. Some of the awards he has received include: the Outstand- ing Service to Education in Kentucky plaque from the Ken- tucky Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, being named Kentuckian of the Year by the Kentucky Press Association 1195915 selection as a Horatio Alger Award win- nerg and the coveted Lincoln Key for success in integration. When asked about the future of America's youth, he said, I see a stronger moral fiber developing. I have so much more conlidence in the younger generation than in the rebel- lious students of the l96O's. Now retired, Dr. Doran and his wife devote much of their time to church work.