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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
MLK2014
MLK Celebration
THE BELOVED COMMUNITY
MLK Celebration 2014
Thursday, Jan. 16MLK performance - “Shades of Gray” 5-6:20 p.m., Harre Union
Art & Essay Contest Recognition and Award Ceremony Reception 5 p.m., Harre Union
Friday, Jan. 17Community Conversations Excerpts from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Noon-1 p.m., various locations throughout the city of Valparaiso
Film Screening - “Half the Sky” Featuring pre-recorded intro from Sheryl WuDunn 5-7 p.m., Harre Union Ballroom
Student Coffee House 7-10 p.m., Harre Union Ballroom
Saturday, Jan. 18 Film Screening - “Half the Sky” Featuring live Q&A afterward with Sheryl WuDunn from 4-4:30 p.m. 2-4 p.m., Harre Union Ballroom
Sunday, Jan. 19Global Communion Service 10 a.m., Chapel of the Resurrection
Monday, Jan. 20Convocation Featuring keynote speaker The Rev. John Nunes 10 a.m., Chapel of the Resurrection
Tree Blessing 11:15 a.m., MLK Arboretum
Celebration of Service 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Harre Union Hearth Room
Luncheon Featured entertainment - Nigerian dance troupe Umuada Ure 11:45 a.m., Harre Union Ballrooms
Focus Session I 1:15 p.m., various locations
Focus Session II 2:30 p.m., various locations
Closing Jamil Khoury & Silk Road Rising 4 p.m., Valparaiso University Center for the Arts Theatre
“Talk to a Lawyer Today” 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Law School
Wednesday, Jan. 22Mock Congressional Debate Topic: Stand Your Ground Law: Law students will debate the pros and cons of the Stand Your Ground defense in light of the Trayvon Martin case. 6 p.m., Wesemann Hall
Thursday, Jan. 23Law School MLK speaker - William E. Nelson, NYU 4 p.m., Law School
Visit valpo.edu/mlk for updated information.
2014 Event Schedule
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Sheryl WuDunnSheryl WuDunn is the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize. She is a business executive, lecturer, and best-selling author. Currently, WuDunn is a senior managing director with Mid-Market Securities, an investment banking boutique helping growth companies, including those operating in emerging markets.
Jamil KhouryJamil Khoury is Founding Artistic Director of Silk Road Rising. Khoury’s plays focus on Middle Eastern themes and questions of Diaspora. He is particularly interested in the intersections of culture, national identity, sexuality, and class.
Khoury is a Kellogg Executive Scholar (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) and has been awarded a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Nonprofit Management. Khoury is the 2010 recipient of the 3Arts Artist Award for Playwriting.
William E. NelsonWilliam E. Nelson arrived at the New York University School of Law as a first-year student more than four decades ago, and he has been active as a legal historian since the publication of his first history article in the Annual Survey of American Law in 1966. During the intervening years, Nelson has published two prize-winning books, eight other books, and numerous articles in leading law reviews and history journals.
Speakers
John NunesThe Rev. John Nunes is Valparaiso University’s Emil and Elfriede Jochum University Professor and Chair.
Nunes comes to Valpo from Lutheran World Relief, a $49 million global organization, where he served as President and CEO, leading staff in 17 countries in working to end poverty, injustice, and human suffering worldwide.
MLK Celebration 2014
The Convocation, 10 a.m., The Chapel of the Resurrection
Prelude: Valparaiso University Chamber Concert Band — Jeffrey Doebler, Conductor
Opening Recitation: Members of the Northwest Indiana Community
Invocation: The Rev. Charlene Cox
Welcome: Mark A. Heckler, University President
Hymn: “ Lift Every Voice and Sing,” from the poem by James Weldon Johnson Music by John Rosamond Johnson Led by members of the Valparaiso University Chorale, Kantorei, Men’s and Women’s Choirs Accompanied by Tom Meyer, Valparaiso Community Schools Music Dept.
Lift ev’ry voice and singTill earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of liberty.Let our rejoicing riseHigh as the list’ning skies;Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;Facing the rising sunOf our new day begunLet us march on, till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, Bitter that chast’ning rod,Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;Yet, with a steady beat,Have not our weary feetCome to the place for which our parents sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears hasbeen watered;We have come, treading our path throughThe blood of the slaughtered.Out from the gloomy past,Till now we stand at lastWhere the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years,God of our silent tears,Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;Thou who hast by thy mightLed us into the light:Keep us forever in the path, we pray.Lest our feet stray from the places, our God,Where we met thee;Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of theWorld, we forget thee;Shadowed beneath thy handMay we forever stand,True to our God, true to our native land.
Presentation of Awards: Mark A. Heckler, University President
Introduction to Keynote Speaker: John Ruff, Director of Valpo CORE
Keynote Address: The Rev. John Nunes, Emil and Elfriede Jochum Chair and former President and CEO of Lutheran World Relief
Song: “Oh Happy Day,” by Edwin R. Hawkins Arranged by Mark Hayes Performed by Cecilia Ballard, Valparaiso Nazarene Church, Alicia Thompson, Union Community Church, Tom Meyer, Valparaiso Community Schools, and members of the Valparaiso University Choral Music Program
Announcements: Elizabeth Gingerich, Becky Klein, Steering Committee Co-Chairs
Benediction: The Rev. James Wetzstein
Post-Convocation Music: Valparaiso University Chamber Concert Band
Reader 1: Alexander Uryga, Student Body President, Valparaiso University, Class of 2015
Reader 2: Tatiana Cochran, Instructor of Foreign Languages, Valparaiso University
Readers 3 (collective):
Alexx Brown, fifth-grade student at Central Elementary School
Bassam Elaiyan, fourth-grade student at Central Elementary School
Angela Harrington, freshman at Valparaiso High School
Marisa Johnson, freshman at Valparaiso High School
Haley Klein, sixth-grade student at Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Zhulia Omar, fifth-grade student at Parkview Elementary School
Lorena Torres-Cortez, fifth-grade student at Parkview Elementary School
Reader 4: Phillip Powell, Department of Communication, Valparaiso University
Reader 5: Dennis Martinez, Law School and Graduate School Student; President, Black Law Student Association, Valparaiso University
Reader 6: Jared Riddle, Department of English, Ivy Tech Community College
Reader 7: Diane Marten, Lutheran Deaconess Association
Reader 8: Susannah Larson, Valparaiso University MBA Student, Class of 2014
Reader 9: Charley Gillispie, Special Assistant to the President, Valparaiso University; Urban League
Reader 10: John Ruff, Director of Valpo CORE, Valparaiso University
Reader 11: Christina Crawley, Multicultural Programs, President of BSO, Valparaiso University Student, Class of 2015
Reader 12: Lanique Demartha, Valparaiso University Law School Student, Class of 2015
Reader 13: Daniel Ibarra, Valparaiso University Student, Class of 2016
Reader 14: Xiaojun (“Tangelo”) Liang, Valparaiso University Student, Class of 2016
Reader 15: Salena Anderson, Valparaiso University Department of English
Reader 16: Shavonn Nowlin, Residential Learning Coordinator, Valparaiso University
Reader 17: The Rev. Mike Cobbler, Union Community Church
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MLK Celebration 2014
MLK 2014 Steering CommitteeCo-Chairs: Elizabeth Gingerich and Becky Klein
Jim Albers
Salena Anderson
Amy Atchison
Breanna Barajas
Matthew Barlow
Charlene Cox
Christina Crawley
Patrice Davis
Sarah Degner-Riveros
Niru Devaraj
Deondra Devitt
Sri Frazee
Beth Garbe
Charley Gillispie
Del Gillispie
TJ Gordon
Deanna Hardwick
John Harrison
Luci Hicks
Cassie Hopkins
Stacy Hoult-Saros
Brian Johnson
Ruth Johnston
Zanele Kutamo
Law student organizations
Amy Lowery
Equilla McClain
Jaquann Merriweather
Rachael Muszkiewicz
Nicole Niemi
Jody Nix
Monique Nunes
Zahra Nwabara
Samuel Payan
Jennifer Powell
Benjamin Ridgway
Tracy Rongers
John Ruff
Dan Saros
Fred Sliger
Bianca Spencer
Larissa Sullivant
Aimee Tomasek
Dorothy Warner
David Western
Jim Wetzstein
Carrie Whittier
Jessica Wilson
Liz Wuerffel
1995 Lou Jeanne Walton
1996 Walter Reiner and Karl Lutze
1997 Valpo Faculty Jazz Trio
1999 Jane Claiborne
2000 Judith Erwin-Neville and Valpo Gospel Choir
2001 Hugh McGuigan
2002 David Kehret
2003 Bill Marion Jr.
2004 Jane Bello-Brunson
2005 Asian American Association, Black Student Organization, and Latinos in Valparaiso for Excellence
2006 James Kingsland
2007 Alan Harre
2008 Ryan Freeman-Jones and Gregory Jones
2009 Roy Austensen and Renu Juneja
2010 Alan Bloom and the Peace and Social Justice Symposium
2011 Zhimin Lin
2012 Ivan Bodensteiner, NaTasha Henry, and the Black Law Students Association
2013 Allison Schuette, Liz Wuerffel, and Holly Singh
2014 Stacy Hoult-Saros
Martin Luther King Jr. Award Recipients
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The 2014 MLK Jr. Day Steering Committee thanks the following for their participation:
Lorraine Brugh, Christopher Cock, Maura Cock, and Dennis Friesen-Carper
Community Conversations host sites: Lutheran Deaconess Association/Center for Diaconal Ministry, Valparaiso YMCA, Dayspring Women’s Center, Walt’s Place, HealthLinc, Pines Village Retirement Communities, and United Way of Porter County
Elizabeth Lynn, Institute for Leadership and Service, and Catherine Tufariello, Center for Civic Reflection
The Freshman CORE Program
NWI Schools - Art teachers and students
Valparaiso Black Law Students Association: Coaches – Jessica Sullivan, Olivia Robinson, Maurice Fulton II and Juden Hylton Debaters 1L law students. Faculty advisor – Law Professor Derrick Carter
We would like to thank the following for additional funding for the MLK celebration:
MLK Celebration 2014
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