8 Years of Glory: Barack Becomes a Morehouse Man
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S. Earl Wilson III
S. Earl Wilson, III comes from a family of educators. His father, a Morehouse College honor graduate, was a high school principal while his mother taught English. He was born and raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1955. He was the first African-American to get a master’s degree in science from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970. He has taught science both in Mississippi and Rockland County, New York, for a total of forty years. During those years of teaching, he has also coached baseball, football, basketball, tennis, girls fast-pitch softball, wrestling, track, soccer, and volleyball. He attributes his tireless working habits as “taking after his daddy.”
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8 Years of Glory - S. Earl Wilson III
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ISBN: 978-1-9822-1164-6 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910589
Balboa Press rev. date: 12/07/2018
Inside%20cover.jpgWith special recognition to Henry M. Goodgame, Jr., class of 1984, for his complete dedication to Morehouse College, its name, its aims, achievements, and goals as Director of Alumni Relations.
Much obliged!
Also, Special Thanks to:
Anthony Tetro of Dumont, New Jersey
Paul Toscano of New City, New York
Stephen Stallone of Clayton, California
Grazie!
CONTENTS
Introduction
As An Inspiration For Afro/American Youth
One or Some of Sam Wilson’s Books
A Man And His Books
8 Years of Glory
President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
Inaugural Ball
He Be Proud
Blowing Your Mind
He Don’t Play
The Welcoming News of the Death of Osama Bin Laden
Love of Country Over Race, Religion and Dangers
He Got Game
Damn, He’s Cool
He Be Calm and Collected
Ain’t He Got Good Religion? Certainly, Certainly Lord
He Be Cool And Determined
He Be A Funny Man
Foods That Barack Obama Eats
Drinking And Eating Habits Of United States Presidents
Two Places Of Grandeur
Petra
Patriarch-Paternity
8 Years Of Glory
America Is Beautiful, But
In Times Of Disaster
About The Songs
In Times Like These
U.s. Automobile Industry Saved
Science, Medicine, Technology
The Precision Medicine Initiative
President Obama Visits Atlanta
And We’ll Ever Yea Forever Give Ourselves In Loyalty
President Obama Delivers Morehouse College Commencement Address
And Barack Becomes A Morehouse Man!
Epilogue
Hallelujah! Glory!
Appendix
The City Of Michelle’s
Today, Tomorrow, Forever?
Addendums-Accomplishments-Achievements (11)
INTRODUCTION
42017.pngMy mother attended Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia for two years, then married my father who was a student at Morehouse College. She never finished, but he did – graduating in 1929 with honors. My father’s mother, my grandmother, possessed a brilliant mind and was allowed to gain a high school diploma by her Caucasian kin folks. A noticeable feat in those days when very few Negroes could even read and figure. All three of them became school teachers. Needless to say, they all played a significant part in my life. Each of them taught me quotes and words of great writers and thinkers of which I apply to other great people, one in particular, President Barack Obama.
From my mother, Longfellow:
"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Footprints, that perhaps another.
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother
Seeing shall take heart again."
From my grandmother, Edgar Guest:
"Somebody said that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn’t,
but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no Black man ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and HE DID IT!"
May I add - He shole did.
My father – Ella W. Wilcox:
"One ship drives east, another drives west,
With the self same wind that blows.
’Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
That tells us the way to go."
Myself – William Cowper:
"Fleecy locks and black complexion
Cannot forfeit nature’s claim
Skins may differ but affection
Dwells in white and black the same."
May I also add: His complexion was not ebony nor his hair nappy.
AS AN INSPIRATION FOR AFRO/AMERICAN YOUTH
42020.pngI quote myself again:
SUPPOSES
Little black children playing ring around the roses,
I wonder what are your supposes?
If you graduate from the University of Alabama,
Do you suppose you could become another Barack Obama?
If you finish Georgia Tech with joy,
Could you become another Elijah McCoy?
Suppose you finish Morehouse College and get your graduation ring,
Would you become another Martin Luther King?
Suppose you are from Washington, D.C.
And you went to Tuskegee.
Could you become another Washington
Like George Carver and Booker T. Washington?
Suppose you are from the city of the Kentucky Derby,
Could you attend Paine college in Augusta
And become another Frank Yerby?
If you studied dramatics at the school of Yale,
Could you become another Denzel (Washington)?
How about studying at Tennessee State and not being a loafer.
Suppose you could be another Oprah?
Mississippi’s Congressman Bennie Thompson finished Tougaloo
Could this, perhaps, in the future be you?
There are thousands of things that you can be
It’s all up to you and me.
You to make up your mind
And me to see that you don’t fall behind!
What about me, the author, and why do I write? I have a meticulous, sensitive, demanding attitude about children and adult learning and reading. In some school districts, black children do not seem to do well in the reading categories.