Summer 2008

Campus Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr.

Rose-Hulman dedicated a week of activities to the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., earlier this year.

The keynote speaker was alumnus Robert Wilkins, a Washington D.C.-based litigation attorney. He told a student audience that “We should celebrate... we should also be mindful of what work needs to be done to live up to Martin Luther King’s legacy.”

Other activities included a leadership presentation to student leaders by Taiwan Brown, former manager of Texas Instruments’ student sourcing and selection team. She discussed the leadership skills corporations seek from prospective jobseekers and passed along career advice during a special program. Following the speech, Brown had dinner with leaders of the college’s minority student organizations and other campus groups. Brown is currently a leadership development consultant in the WW Training & Organization Effectiveness Group.

Also on the agenda for the celebration were:

• An art and poetry contest in which Rose-Hulman students Mariah Walton and Jason Gibbs and local high school students Krysteena Cheek and Emily Rene Brown received first-place honors. All artwork and poems interpreted the contest’s theme: “Different Voices, Many Faces, One Nation.”
• Martin Luther King Jr. leadership awards presented to Rose-Hulman switchboard operator Mary Greer and students George Evans and Stephen Lewis.
• A presentation about servant leadership by Bryan Taylor, director of communications and marketing.
• A viewing of the “Eyes on the Prize” video about the civil rights movement in America during the 1950s and 1960s.