LeMoyne-Owen presidential finalists to meet public

College narrows search for new leader down to 3

Officials with LeMoyne-Owen College have narrowed their search for a new president to three people. The finalists are Dr. Charles Beady, Dr. Lester Newman and Dr. Patricia Ramsey. If one of them is chosen, he or she will succeed James Wingate, who stepped down in July 2006. Former Memphis City Schools superintendent Johnnie Watson has led the school since shortly after Wingate resigned.

Each of the candidates will meet with the community, beginning today through Wednesday, said Robert Lipscomb, chairman of the college's board directors. "They're coming in for community and constituent meetings. Let them feel the college out and vice versa," Lipscomb said Sunday.

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Albany State's Freeman interviews in Washington, D.C.

Albany State University's president is one of four finalists for president of the University of the District of Columbia.

ALBANY — Albany State University President Everette Freeman will visit a historically black Washington, D.C., university this week as one of four finalists for the president’s position there.

Freeman will be at the University of the District of Columbia on Thursday and will attend a public forum from 2 p.m.-3 p.m. during which he will answer questions asked of him, UDC spokesman Dan Brozovic said Monday.

Freeman stressed that he did not seek the position ,but instead was nominated and contacted by the university as a candidate for the presidency. The visit, he said, is purely “exploratory.”

Other candidates for the position are the acting president of UDC, Stanley Jackson; Delaware State University President Allen Lee Stressoms, and University of Virginia Vice President for Diversity and Equity William Harvey.

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What color is music, anyway?

I was educated once more about the color of music at Fort Valley State University's 67th commencement ceremony this month.

After degrees had been awarded to graduate and undergraduate students - and the celebratory noise accompanying that had subsided - it was time for the Army commissions. The officers-to-be marched down the center of the crowded gym, turned and faced students, teachers, family and friends.

Marcie Kindle, Jeremy Lewis, Jonathan Williams, Quintrina Edwards and Sophia Mudd stood at attention as the bars signifying their newly earned rank of second lieutenant were applied to their shoulders by understandably proud family members.

Then, on a musical cue, everyone in the gym spontaneously stood up and these words filled the air:

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