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Fisk University Class of 1972 News Items - 2000
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December, 2000
- DENISE GRIFFIN FAIRCHILD sent us a "Merry Christmas" greeting card:

November, 2000
- DIANE ELIZABETH KIRBY DUNN named as "Teacher of the Year" . . . AGAIN and AGAIN:
  - In October 1999, Diane was selected as Hooper Alexander's Teacher of the Year 2000.
  - A couple of months later, she was selected as DeKalb County's Elementary School Teacher of the Year 2000.
  - The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) presented her with the Outstanding Professional Award 2000, in the area of Special Education.
  - On October 3, 2000, the State Superintendent of schools arrived at Hooper and in a surprise assembly, presented her with the Milken National Educator Award 2000. With this award, she receives a check in the amount of $25,000.00, as one of only four receipients to be chosen from Georgia.
- Diane teaches students with Specific Learning Disabilities, Mild Intellectual Disabilities, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, OHI (Other Health Impaired, i.e. ADD/ADHD, at times visually impaired), Severely Developmentally Delayed (SDD), and she has encountered students who are Autistic. She is considered an Interrelated Resource Teacher of grades K-4. We are so very proud of Diane's accomplishments and her many well deserved honors.

August, 2000
- CHARLES WESLEY "Ceedy" MORGAN, III was appointed to the Oklahoma Human Rights Commission:

The following article and photo appeared on the front page of Oklahoma City's "The Black Chronicle" newspaper on August 17, 2000:

Morgan Named to Commission
Governor Gives Nod for 4 -Year Term

By Robert E. Barnes
     Charles W. Morgan, III, president of the Diamond Printing & Publishing Corp., was recently named by Gov. Frank Keating to the Oklahoma Human Rights Commission.
     He was appointed to serve a four-year term.
     Mr. Morgan was appointed by Gov. Keating to the Oklahoma Small Business Commission in 1998.
     He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Youth Leadership Exchange, and has previously served on the boards of the Metropolitan Fair Housing Council and the H. B. Foster Community Center. The newly-named Human Rights Commissioner also previously served as a member of the Community Advisory Board of WestStar Bank.
     Mr. Morgan is one of the founders of the Douglass High School Alumni Association.

     He served from 1983-1986 as Polemarch of the Oklahoma City Alumni Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and has served in numerous other leadership capacities with the chapter, including 19 years as a member of its Board of Directors.
     In addition, Mr. Morgan has served as Keeper of Records and Exchequer of the Middle Western Province of Kappa Alpha Psi, and served two years as a member of the board of the Province.
     He has been appointed by the Grand Polemarch of the fraternity to serve on a variety of committees, with one of them being an appointment as Field Deputy of the Middle Western Province. Mr. Morgan served in that capacity from 1986-1988.
     Mr. Morgan is a graduate of Douglass High School and of Fisk University.

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