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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

Guest ReadersThe Beloved Community

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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