The Janice Ratliff Community Service Award is named in honor of Janice Ratliff, a former advisor of the Black Student Union, a long-time employee of Elon University, and well-known advocate and community figure for the university’s Black students, faculty, and staff. Class of 2023 (two-way tie): Jay Blue, Dani Toma-Harrold.Class of 2026 (five-way tie): Christian Atwater, Kaia Brown, Evelyn Ealey, Niara Legette, Logan Scott.Students enrolled at Elon University as full-time undergraduate students with a minimum of 12 semester hours of academic course work and a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or higher during the Fall Semester are eligible for this award. Approved by the Elon University Board of Trustees, the annual Black Excellence Awards Banquet was named on April 22, 2006, to honor former Elon students Glenda Phillips Hightower, the first Black student to attend Elon (in 1963), and Eugene Perry, the first Black student to graduate from Elon (in 1969). Recognize, celebrate and affirm the presence of Black students at Elon University. Established in 1993, the mission of the Black Excellence Awards Banquet is to Zeth Dixon ’24 and Anne Sophie Hill ’24 performing a musical selection at the 30th Annual Phillips-Perry Black Excellence Awards on Saturday April 23, 2022. The ceremony concluded with a charge to students by Kiara Hunter ‘23. Alex Bohannon ’17 presented Ethan Lane-Blake with the Elon Black Alumni Network Scholarship Award. The ceremony also included vocal performances by Zeth Dixon ’24 and Anne Sophie Hill ’24, students within Elon’s Music Theatre program. Several Elon black alumni were among those presenting awards, including Deborah Blackwell ’87, Brianna Nobles’21, and La’Tonya Wiley ’97. Keshia Wall, assistant professor of dance and program coordinator for African and African American studies, presented the African & African American Studies at Elon Award to Dani Tomi-Harrold and Shannon Seignious. Students sitting at the 30th Annual Phillips-Perry Black Excellence Awards on Saturday April 22, 2023. The ceremony included opening remarks from President Connie Ledoux Book, introduced by Simone Royal ‘17, assistant director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity & Diversity Education. Outstanding students, distinguished faculty, and staff members were recognized on April 22 at the 30th annual Phillips-Perry Black Excellence Awards. The deadliest incident of domestic terrorism ever, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Michael Fortier were convicted of the bombing.Students at the 30th Annual Phillips-Perry Black Excellence Awards. The most disturbing images were of children - a daycare center was hit by the bomb. Murrah Federal Building in downtown - killing 68 people, injuring more than 680 others, and destroying one-third of the building. A truck bomb went off outside the Alfred P. In 1995, in the year of Robert A Amaya's passing, on May 19th, the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil - before 9/11 - took place in Oklahoma City. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex". The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. In 1982, by the time he was 34 years old, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). President Truman had received the first Medicare card since he had been the first to propose national healthcare law. In 1966, at the age of 18 years old, Robert was alive when on July 1st, Medicare became available after President Johnson signed into law the Medicare Act in 1965. Sputnik I was only 23 inches in diameter and had no tracking equipment, only 4 antennas, but it had a big impact. In 1957, when he was just 9 years old, on October 4th, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first man made earth-orbiting satellite - and triggered the Space Race. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. In 1948, in the year that Robert A Amaya was born, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Robert's lifetime.
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