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This video titled, "Black Excellence Award Banquet: Making the Grade" was held in Alumni Gym on April 28, 2012. Leon Williams stated in a 2013 email to faculty/staff, "Since the inception of the Black Excellence Awards Banquet in 1993, Elon students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the community have gathered annually to celebrate the academic success of black students enrolled full-time in the undergraduate program at Elon University. The banquet was officially named the Phillips-Perry Black Excellence Awards Banquet in 2006 in honor of Elon"s first black student in 1963, Glenda Phillips, and the first black graduate, Eugene Perry in 1969. The mission of the Black Excellence Awards Banquet is to recognize, celebrate, and affirm the presence of black students at Elon University. The Multicultural Center remains committed to this mission by helping students become active participants in their personal growth and in the achievement of their educational objectives." The 2012, video recording of the "Black Excellence Awards Banquet: Making the Grade" program included: the "Welcome" Leon Williams, Director of Multicultural Affairs (not on the video file); the Opening Remarks by Leo M. Lambert, President, Elon University. Lambert"s remarks included: praising Dr. Donna Oliver (Class of 1972) for her excellence in education and leadership; disappointing that Glenda Phillips could not attend this ceremony tonight and wanting to acknowledge the presence of Eugene Perry; Phillips and Perry blazed the trails at Elon; Elon had not had its first Rhodes Scholar (named for the British mining magnate and South African...
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