Lift Every Voice and Sing
BE TRUE TO WHAT YOU SAY
ON PAPER
Words: James Weldon Johnson, 1871–1938
Music: J. Rosamond Johnson, 1873–1954
Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening 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 sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been
watered;
We have come, treading our path thru the blood of the
slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2016 Celebration
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PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
JANUARY 18, 2016
EVENTS
Interfaith Service
Old College Hall – 2021 College Way
9:30 AM
Commemorative Community March
11:15 AM
March to be led by the Roots & Shoots Peace Doves beginning at Rogers Park
NOON PROGRAM
Washburne University Center
12:00 PM
Patrice Fuller, Tyler Gilmore, Gabie Mbenza-Ngoma, Michael
Ashley &
Key Note Speaker
Mr. Gulzar Ahmed is President of Crescent Systems in Tualatin, Oregon where he is
involved in designing and manufacturing material handling and packaging systems. He
has several patents in weighing various products in motion to accurately feed various
process lines. Gulzar has worked as a consultant in the field of alternate sources of
energy where he was involved in designing energy systems to heat and cool commercial
buildings using solar energy. He has been involved in religious and interfaith
organizations in the Greater Portland area for the past 30 years. He is co-founder of the
Islamic Society of Greater Portland, and past president of the American Muslim Alliance.
He is presently co-chair of the Interfaith Council of Greater Portland. He has been
speaking at various churches, schools, and organizations on the subjects of Islam,
interfaith relations, and the importance of promoting understanding and cooperation
between various faiths. Gulzar also serves on MET's Local Advisory Board.
Savanna Carter, Soloist
Student Panel:
Patrice Fuller, Tyler Gilmore, Gabie Mbenza-Ngoma, Michael Ashley
Emcee
James D. Moore, Department of Politics and Government &
Director of the Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation
Welcome
Peter B. Truax, City of Forest Grove Mayor
Guest Speaker Gulzar Ahmed, President, Crescent Systems & Muslim
Educational Trust Local Advisory Committee
Musical
Presentation
Savanna Carter, Soloist
Student Panel
Musical
Presentation
Closing
Remarks
Song
Community
Meal
Pinwheels for Healing Classrooms
Pacific University is supporting “Join Students Rebuild,” the International Rescue
Committee and Global Nomads Group to help Syrian youth from conflict areas recover
from crisis and grow into happy, healthy adults. For each pinwheel sent, the Bezos
Family Foundation will donate $2 per pinwheel up to $400,000—to IRC’s Healing
Classrooms program. During the noon program supplies will be provided for participants
to design pinwheels that will be collected at the end of the program. This is a project of
the local Roots & Shoots Chapter under the leadership of Charlie Graham.
Mark Ankeny, Vice President of Enrollment Services & Student
Life
“Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Please join in song. (Words to the
song are printed on the back page of this program.)
Guests are invited to a complementary lunch in Boxer Pause
(Room #216), located in the northeast corner on the main floor of
the University Center.
Peace Doves Sponsored by Roots & Shoots
Started in 1991 with Dr. Jane Goodall and a group of teenagers, the Roots & Shoots
network has blossomed into tens of thousands of members in close to 100 countries, all
working on local and global community service projects. Many of the original members
are still involved, continually finding new ways to make our world a better place. The local
Roots and Shoots group is comprised of students from the Forest Grove School District
as well as the Community School and is led by Charlie Graham. Origami Peace Cranes
will be taught and shared again. This is a children’s international symbol of peace, based
on the true story of Sadako. She tried to fold 1,000 cranes before dying of leukemia
caused by the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Roots & Shoots is Jane Goodall’s
environmental / humanitarian program for youth. Each group designs activities that
improve the world for animals, improves the environment, and improves the human
community. It is now in over 130 countries.
HISTORY
PROGRAM SPONSORS
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was declared a national holiday in 1983 and observed for the first
time on January 20, 1986. Pacific University’s first annual event took place in January 1990. The
university, Forest Grove community, and local organizations continue to work together to
commemorate the legacy of Reverend King.
Roots & Shoots; City of Forest Grove; Center for Civic Engagement; Tom McCall
Center for Policy Innovation; Center for Peace and Spirituality; Student Life & Student
Activities; Student Academic Inclusion & Success; Office of Diversity; and community
member—Anya Doll