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Annual MLK Observance |
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2007 Children's MLK Observance Committee
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Each January, Children's Hospital Boston honors the memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr by holding the MLK Observance Program. Scholars are invited to speak about his legacies as a source of inspiration. In addition to the presentation by a scholar, the program includes musical selections, performances by adolescents or children, and recognition of the year's Black Achievers Awardees.
The program is organized by the MLK Observance Committee. Its members include:
- Chair, Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP, '84*
- Chair: Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP '84
- Frantz Antoine '06
- Umilta Eadie '81
- Delores Eason '79
- Dina Hajjaj-Saouli
- Lillian Hughes '98
- Karol Jordan '95
- Ourania Nikolaidis
- Sonia Pinnock '00
- Malissa Williams '06
- Carol Wilson '02
*Indicates the year the member received the Black Achievers Award
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Opening Prayer:
Rev. Anoma Abeyaratne, MDiv, BCC
Department of Pastoral Care
Welcome:
Sandra Fenwick
Chief Operating Officer
Presentation of 2008 Black Achievers:
Inez Stewart
VP of Human Resources
The 2008 Black Achievers:
Domingas Fernandes -
Environmental Services
Valerie Ward, MD, MPH - Radiology and Office of Faculty Development
Boston Arts Academy Forensics Program:
Students: Kadahj Bennett and
Darius Adamson
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Musical Selection:
Valerie C. Caldwell, Esq. and
Twain M. Doyle, MPH
Introduction of Keynote Speaker:
Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP
Director, Psychology Training Program
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds
Harvard University
"MLK and the Legacy of Leadership"
Musical Selection:
Valerie C. Caldwell, Esq. and
Twain M. Doyle, MPH
Closing Remarks:
James Mandell, MD
President and CEO
"Lift Every Voice and Sing":
Led by Valerie Caldwell
Closing Prayer:
Rev. Maggie Geller, RN
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Click here to view the 2007 MLK Observance Program.
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Professor
Evelyn M. Hammonds,
Harvard University |
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann
Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science
and of African and African American Studies at
Harvard University became Harvard's first Senior
Vice Provost for Faculty Development and
Diversity in July 2005. In this role Dr. Hammonds
directs Harvard's institutional policies and
transformation, university-wide, in areas of faculty
growth and diversity. Dr. Hammonds' scholarship
focuses on the intersection of scientific, medical,
and socio-political concepts of race in the
United States. She is the author of Childhood's
Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control
Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930. She co-edited Gender and
Scientific Authority with Barbara Laslett, Sally G. Kohl and Helen Longino,
and she is completing two new books on the history of race in science
and medicine. Dr. Hammonds earned a Ph.D. in the History of Science
from Harvard University, a S.M. in Physics from MIT, a B.E.E. in Electrical
Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Physics
from Spelman College. She is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute.
Dr. Hammonds serves as a member of the Board of Governors, University
of California Humanities Research Institute; the Board of the Association of
American Colleges and Universities; the Board of Overseers, Museum of
Science, Boston, and the Board of Trustees of the Social Science Research
Council.
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Professor Theresa Perry
Simmons College |
Theresa Perry is a Professor in the Departments
of Africana Studies and Education at Simmons
College and Director of the Simmons
College/Beacon Press Race, Education and
Democracy Lecture and Book Series. Her
current writings and work have focused on the
development of a theory of practice for African
American achievement and a meta-analysis of
educational environments that normalize high
achievement for Black students. Dr. Perry is coauthor,
with Asa Hilliard III and Claude Steele of
Young Gifted and Black: Promoting High
Achievement Among African American Students; co-editor with Lisa
Delpit of The Real Ebonics Debate: Power Language and the Education of
African American Students; editor of Teaching Malcolm X; and co-editor
of Freedom's Plow: Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom. She is
completing a book entitled, Educating African American Students: What
Teachers, Teacher Educators and Community Activists Should Know.
Prior to joining the Simmons College faculty, Dr. Perry held the positions of
Undergraduate Dean, Dean of the faculty and Vice President for
Community Relations at Wheelock College. During her tenure as
Undergraduate Dean, the College was selected by NCEST (National
Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching) as one of the
seven exemplary teacher preparation programs in the country. Her
accomplishments while employed at Wheelock College include leading
the faculty in the integration of content about race, culture and ethnicity
into the curriculum; increasing the representation of faculty of color in the
undergraduate division to 25 percent, and developing robust partnership
relationships with Boston Pubic Schools, which linked teacher
development with the preparation of new teachers.
Dr. Perry is currently a member of the advocacy group, Community
Partners for a New Superintendent; a member of the Board of the Boston
Medical Center; a founding member of the National Coalition for Quality
Schools in New Orleans; and member of the board of Child Magazine.
She conceptualized and is one of the leaders of the citywide lecture series
now in its third year, entitled Race, Culture Identity and Achievement
Seminar Series.
She has lectured to educators and/or consulted with school systems
throughout the country, including the public school systems in Evanston
Illinois, San Bernardino, California, and Webster Grove, Missouri. Most
recently she delivered keynote addresses to the Boston Public Schools'
school based administrators and to the Society for Educational Studies
Annual meeting in London England. She has developed and is the
principal faculty in a Boston based summer institute entitled, Promoting
African American Achievement --Theory, Research and Practice.
Dr. Perry received her baccalaureate degree from Loyola University in
New Orleans, Louisiana, a Masters degree from Marquette University in
Milwaukee Wisconsin and a doctoral degree from the Human
Development Laboratory at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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| From left, Rev. Jeffrey Lamont Brown and Children's 2006 Black Achievers, Malissa Williams and Frantz Antoine |
The two recipients of the annual Black Achievers Award are announced at the MLK Observance. Recipients are nominated by their managers and are then selected by the MLK Observance Committee members based on their contribution to Children's.
Black Achievers is a national program sponsored by the YMCA that provides business and industry leaders with community service opportunities that help minority youth.
Each year, Children's selects two employees to represent the hospital as Black Achievers, an honor that requires recipients to perform 40 hours of community service benefiting youth.
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| Domingas Fernandes (left) and Valerie L. Ward, MD, MPH |
Past Recipients:
2008
Valerie L. Ward, MD, MPH, Staff Radiologist,
Department of Radiology, and DCCC Faculty Director
Domingas Fernandes, Training Group Leader,
Enviornmental Services Department
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| Ronald Wilkinson and Stacey Williams |
2007
Ronald Wilkinson, MA, MS, manager of
Business Intelligence in Information Services
Stacey Williams, Pathology office manager
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| From left: Rev. Jeffrey with Malissa Williams and Frantz Antoine |
2006
Frantz Antoine, manager, Environmental Services
Malissa Williams, Nutrition/Food Services
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| Faith Patterson-Dupie (left) and Manna Heshe, RN, BSN |
2005
Faith Patterson-Dupie, radiographer
Manna Heshe, RN, BSN, staff nurse at the Martha Eliot Health Center
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Musical selections
Traditionally, the MLK Observance has included musical selections. Music was woven into the Civil Rights Movement, as many of the meetings were held in churches and the demonstrators sang as they marched and picketed.
Past musicians have included:
Past vocalists have included:
- Valerie Caldwell, JD, soloist, Charles Street AME Church, Boston, MA
- Min. Tracy Gibbs, soloist, Union Baptist Church, Cambridge, MA
- Taleesha Scott, sololist, New England Conservatory
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More information
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| 2007 suggested book |
Dr. King was a great orator and writer. Literacy is one of his legacies. From 2005-2007, the MLK Observance program included a list of "Suggested Books for Children and Adolescents." A longer list of books has been available at the MLK Observance reception where the books have been on display. In 2008, the books listed in the program were written by local Black women writers.
The goal of the lists is to encourage program attendees to purchase books for their family members and friends or for patients at Children's.
At the 2008 Observance Program, attendees were encouraged to submit their names for drawings for four gift baskets of books, two each for children/adolescents and for adults. This was well-received. The hope is that book gift baskets will become a part of the hospital culture.
Selected books have featured:
- 2007: Recipients of the Coretta Scott King Book Award
- 2006: Literature by authors Virginia Hamilton, Tom Feelings and Eloise Greenfield
- 2005: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
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Since 2005, students from the Boston Arts Academy have provided forensic performances at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Program. The Boston Arts Academy, a pilot school within the Boston Public Schools, is charged with being a laboratory and beacon for artistic and academic innovation.
Topics presented by BAA students in the Theater Arts Department include:
2008: "The Meeting" - A fictionalized meeting between MLK and Malcom X
2007: Manic Depression/Bipolar Disorder and Sickle Cell Disease
2006: Anxiety and Diabetes
2005: Depression and Asthma
In 2005, the scripts for the two performers were prepared by the students. Then in 2006 and 2007, the scripts were prepared by post-doctoral psychology fellows.
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