Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 29, 1993 TAG: 9304290086
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER SOUTHWEST BUREAU
DATELINE: EMORY LENGTH: Medium
Among those participating in the inauguration are Lt. Gov. Donald Beyer, United Methodist Bishop Clay F. Lee and three former Emory & Henry presidents - William C. Finch, Thomas F. Chilcote and United Methodist Bishop Earl G. Hunt.
The college is holding a week of arts performances and lectures in association with the inauguration. Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harry Carrico will be keynote speaker at a judicial forum, scheduled as a tribute to Morris who is a scholar of the judicial system, at 7:30 tonight.
Carrico will speak on the forum theme, "Justice in the 1990s and Beyond." Responses will come from Court of Appeals Judge James W. Benton Jr., Circuit Judge Diane Strickland and Virginia State Bar Association President William Rakes, with Bristol lawyer James P. Jones as moderator. Morris will make closing comments.
Morris became president at the college last July. He is a Galax native and Virginia Military Institute graduate, with master's and doctoral degrees in government from the University of Virginia.
Other activities during the week included the opening of an exhibit of 100 new prints made from the Phelps Collection, a group of about 2,000 glass-plate negatives taken in Southwest Virginia from 1900 to 1930.
The prints will be displayed through summer in the Lyceum Room of Kelly Library.
The college Alumni Association will present awards to five graduates in a program at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, following Morris' inauguration. Awards will be going to the Rev. Carl Looney and Arthur L. Mitchell of Emory; Michael B. Sullivan, Newport News; Steve Drinkard, Salisbury, N.C.; and B.G. Raines of Damascus.
On Sunday, alumni Michael Austin of Germany's Stuttgart Opera House and Janie Hicks Vernon of the Cincinnati Opera Company will take part in a presentation of Handel's "Messiah" at 11 a.m. The Oratorio Choir of Emory & Henry will perform Mozart's "Coronation Mass" at 8 p.m.
by CNB