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...must use the Jr. when discussing the 31-year chairman of NASCAR, who died June 4 at 74; it's necessary in a way that it isn't with, say, Martin Luther King, Sammy Davis or Dinosaur. This is because there was a Bill France Sr.--was there ever. Big Bill grew up poor in Washington and had less than $100 to his name when he moved his family south during the Depression, seeking work. He found it in a gas station in Daytona, Fla., a town that loved gas. Soon France was helping organize stock-car races...
...first non-faculty individual to be invited to address seniors was Martin Luther King in 1968. He accepted the invitation prior to his assassination in April, and his wife Coretta Scott King spoke in his place...
...hope that you all share Martin Luther King’s dream, embrace Mandela’s spirit of reconciliation, support Bono’s concern for the poor, and follow Mother Theresa’s life and do some active service,” he said...
...Martin Luther King was the first non-faculty individual to be invited to address seniors on Class Day. He accepted the invitation prior to his assassination in April 1968, and his wife Coretta Scott King spoke in his place. Mother Teresa spoke in 1982, and U2 lead singer and activist Bono addressed seniors...
Seamus P. Malin ’62, who served as Harvard’s director of financial aid in the late sixties and seventies, said that after Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, there had been a “continuum of progress” throughout the 1970s in increasing ethnic and socioeconomic diversity on college campuses...