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Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:04 |
MARS HILL ó As part of its Sesquicentennial Celebration, Mars Hill College will honor 150 alumni from its 20th-century classes as ìdistinguished alumni,î and another 150 ìalumni of promiseî from its 21st-century graduating classes.
These alumni have been invited to campus for a day of celebration next Monday, which will culminate with the Sesquicentennial Alumni Banquet at 6 p.m. in Pittman Dining Hall.
The alumni being honored were selected from a much larger list of names submitted by current and retired faculty as representatives of the wide range of contributions MHC graduates have made across many fields of work and study.
The dayís events will begin at 1 p.m. with a panel discussion in
Broyhill Chapel on ìEmerging Democracies Around the World,î featuring
two alumni and one current student.
The alumni speakers on the panel will be U.S. Rep. David Price,
D-Chapel Hill, a member of the MHC class of 1959; and Tim Storey, a
senior fellow with the National Conference of State Legislatures and a
member of the MHC class of 1988.
The student member of the panel is Thulie Mangena, a junior from
Zimbabwe whose family fled that country because of political
persecution.
Price was recently honored by Yale University with the William Sloane
Coffin Award for Peace and Justice. Storey spent time in Iraq
consulting with the Iraqi National Assembly to develop an
infrastructure for that countryís fledgling legislature.
Price will also give the keynote address, on the intersection of faith
and politics, at the 10th Annual G. McLeod Bryan Caring Awards at 4
p.m. at MHC Baptist Church.
Student Mary Margaret Fulk and assistant football coach Kevin Barnette
are this yearís recipients of the Caring Awards, which are given each
year to one student and one faculty or staff member in recognition of
outstanding service to the community.
The awards are named in honor of Dr. ìMacî Bryan, a graduate of the MHC class of 1939.
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