Dr Martin Luther King Jr ~ President Barack Hussein Obama

I have a Dream

Sister Cecilia Gaudette, at 106 votes for Obama

xxxThe 44th President of the United States

Barack Hussein Obama

Inaugural Speech January 20, 2009

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2009 King Dream Celebration!

How are You preparing to celebrate!

JAN

12 Cambridge Public Schools

15 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
15 King County ~ Humanitarian Awards

18 Unsung Heroes Awards ~ Syracuse University

19 Holiday meaning by Coretta Scott King

19 Dream Award ~ Albany, GA Chamber of Commerce
19 Web Publishing Contest Awards ~ Monroe County, IN
19 Minneapolis Parks

APR

7-10 Civil Rights Historic Bus Tour

2008 - 2009 Football Season & Post Season Stats

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oponnent ~~~~
08/29/2008 ~~~~ Southwest DeKalb W 21 - 12
09/05/2008 ~~~~ North Cobb L 21 - 24
09/12/2008 ~~~~ McNair W 23 - 21
09/26/2008 ~~~~ Luella W 28 - 7
10/03/2008 ~~~~ Douglass W 41 - 26
10/10/2008 ~~~~ Newton W 56 - 0
10/17/2008 ~~~~ Stephenson L 7 - 27
10/25/2008 ~~~~ Greenbrier W 42 - 14
10/31/2008 ~~~~ Redan W 42 - 7
11/07/2008 ~~~~ Union Grove W 35 - 17
11/15/2008 ~~~~ Tift County L 14 - 24 (Play-off)

Stats Third Week Post Season

RUSHING (TOP 25) ATT GAME
PLAYER/SCHOOL YR G ATT YDS AVG AVG TD
William Pratcher, Cedar Grove SR 10 227 2010 8.9 201.0 20
Mack Brown, MLK JR 11 177 1660 9.4 150.9 21
Nathaniel Anthony, Columbia SR 10 164 1315 8.0 131.5 11
Arnold Walker, McNair SR 9 186 1111 6.0 123.4 17
Raymond Sanders, Stephenson JR 11 181 1305 7.2 118.6 14
Michael Gilbert, Stone Mtn. SO 10 117 1104 9.4 110.4 9
Treavor Scales, Dunwoody SR 13 184 1407 7.6 108.2 20
Warren Norman, Chamblee SR 10 132 1010 7.7 101.0 11
Stanley McBride, Cedar Grove SR 10 101 1002 9.9 100.2 14
Brian Holloway, Columbia SR 10 125 975 7.8 97.5 7
Justin Sims, Redan SR 10 172 922 5.4 92.2 7
Drayton Calhoun, Tucker SR 13 148 1115 7.5 85.8 11
Pascal Desir, McNair SR 10 101 825 8.2 82.5 7
Jonathan Davis, Tucker SR 13 137 1065 7.8 81.9 16
Ken Malcolm, SW DeKalb JR 12 143 954 6.7 79.5 12
Jerald Hatchett, Miller Grove SR 10 133 716 5.4 71.6 8
Darius Jones, Chamblee SR 8 46 493 10.7 61.6 5
Kenneth Gilstrap, Miller Grove SR 10 65 566 8.7 56.6 5
Jeremy Barnett, SW DeKalb SR 13 98 661 6.7 50.8 4
Jermaine Evans, Avondale JR 10 80 481 6.0 48.1 2
Garrett Williams, Chamblee SR 11 73 520 7.1 47.3 5
DeTray Shivers, Redan SR 10 75 472 6.3 47.2 2
Will Crochet, Dunwoody JR 13 84 612 7.3 47.1 6
LeFloyd Phillips, Duwnwoody SR 13 70 604 8.6 46.5 7
Mike Johnson, SW DeKalb SR 13 68 501 7.4 38.5 4


PASSING (TOP 17 with 50 Attempts)
PLAYER/SCHOOL YR ATT CP PCT INT YDS TD
Garrett Williams, Chamblee SR 88 56 63.6 2 870 5
Chris Beck, Tucker SR 55 35 63.6 2 542 8
Mydricus Ealey, Miller Grove SR 82 52 63.4 2 879 12
Stanley McBride, Cedar Grove SR 123 72 58.5 8 1053 9
Akil Dan-Fadio, Redan SO 118 68 57.6 3 1245 10
Jhyree Harris, Stone Mtn. SO 72 38 52.8 5 656 4
Bryan Douglass, Clarkston SR 94 49 52.1 7 598 4
Cameron Myers, MLK JR 73 37 50.7 2 406 6
Daniel Litt, SW DeKalb SR 112 55 49.1 7 807 10
Erick Cooper, Dunwoody SR 135 63 46.7 4 1175 9
Brandon Hamilton, Cross Keys JR 206 95 46.1 23 1003 3
Leopold Dixon, Towers JR 53 24 45.3 4 434 5
Willie Favors, Columbia JR 60 27 45.0 3 409 4
Andre Willis II, Towers SR 136 61 44.9 9 937 3
Kendrick Ings, Miller Grove SR 67 30 44.8 3 392 3
Carisseion Gilbert, Stephenson SR 64 28 43.8 2 407 6
Jay Cromwell, Druid Hills SR 283 122 43.1 7 1640 18


RECEIVING (Top 20, 7+ Games) AVG
PLAYER/SCHOOL YR G CGT YDS GAIN GAME TD
Richard Feacher, Cross Keys SR 10 53 665 12.5 5.3 2
Byron Dickerson, Druid Hills JR 10 48 596 12.4 4.8 5
Roy Reid, Avondale SR 10 45 680 15.1 4.5 5
Jarvious Hill, Towers SR 9 28 338 12.1 3.1 1
Stephen Hill, Miller Grove SR 10 30 577 19.2 3.0 8
Alex Randall, Towers SR 10 29 640 22.1 2.9 6
Darius Jones, Chamblee SR 8 23 290 12.6 2.9 2
Travis Benton, Redan SR 10 28 559 20.0 2.8 4
Vincent Dallas, Cedar Grove SO 10 26 463 17.8 2.6 7
Wilmont Stubblefield, Clarkston SR 10 25 250 10.0 2.5 2
Justin Traylor, Cedar Grove SR 10 24 311 13.0 2.4 1
Aquon Hill, Avondale FR 7 17 235 13.8 2.4 0
Marcel Baugh, Druid Hills JR 10 22 382 17.4 2.2 4
John Foster, Druid Hills JR 10 22 381 17.3 2.2 6
De'Antonio Murray, Stone Mtn. SO 10 21 343 16.3 2.1 3
Marcus Hickson, Towers SR 9 15 299 19.9 1.7 3
Dion Hamilton, SW DeKalb SR 13 21 289 13.8 1.6 1
Courtney Brantley, Avondale SR 7 11 179 16.3 1.6 3
Javoris Bryant, Redan JR 7 11 167 15.2 1.6 0
Andy Mills, Dunwoody SR 13 20 433 21.7 1.5 4
Jacoby Mitchell, SW DeKalb SR 13 19 333 17.5 1.5 6


PUNTING (TOP 10 at least 15 punts)
PLAYER/SCHOOL YR G KICKS YDS AVG
Mamadou Sanon, Cross Keys JR 7 18 781 43.4
Chris Beck, Tucker SR 13 32 1237 38.7
Mirnes Sinotic, Avondale SR 10 27 1040 38.5
Damian Goggins, Cedar Grove JR 10 19 715 37.6
Jordan Tarver, Stephenson SO 11 32 1200 37.5
Andy Mills, Dunwoody SR 12 35 1298 37.1
Darryl Jennings, SW DeKalb JR 9 22 776 35.3
Stephen Hill, Miller Grove SR 9 23 810 35.2
Brandon Denson, McNair SO 10 29 989 34.1
Tyrail Moore, Stone Mtn. SR 10 42 1392 33.1

Doug Guthrie, of the Detroit News MLK Article ~ 2008 Olympics

"ROMULUS — Deontae Watson hugged his backpack in a long line of luggage-toting teens, dressed in matching white polo shirts winding their way through security screening stations Sunday morning at Detroit Metropolitan Airport."

Read more.

MLK Marching Lions Return from Olympics

This is the Marching Lions' 2nd International Accomplishment, the first being the ONLY United States high school and first American band to perform in the "Field Band Foundation's" National Band Competition, in South Africa - Sept. 28- Oct. 4, 2006

MLK Lions Half-Time Kings 1st Game of the Season!

MC10Q is missing from performance, due to knee injury.

MLK vs McNair [MLK Jr. 23, McNair 21]

M.L. King's 6-year magic

Program riding a metro record pace with 52 wins already

By Rob Morton

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 10/25/07

Starting a football program from scratch is nothing new nowadays. After all, 37 new high schools have opened around metro Atlanta since 2000. But none of those programs has started like Martin Luther King.

In their sixth year, the Lions have won 52 games. With one more victory this season, they will do something no other existing metro Atlanta program did in its first six years since 1948, according to the Georgia High School Football Historians Association.

None of the familiar powers like Marist, Stephenson, Tucker, Parkview, Brookwood or Harrison started like the Lions have. It was now-downtrodden North Springs that set the metro standard by winning 52 games during its first six years (1964-69).

How did M.L. King get so good, so quickly?

"I tell people all the time that we have a different breed of kids," said Lions coach Corey Jarvis. "We've got kids who truly care about the program."

Jarvis discovered that shortly before he took the job three years ago, after M.L. King's first head coach, Ken Barrow, moved to Mundy's Mill.

"I came to see the school —- and it was a day when the kids were out of school —- and there were about 30 kids working out in the weight room and about 30 others on the field running and doing drills," said Jarvis, who was Mary Persons' defensive coordinator.

"I couldn't believe that these kids would do that without a head coach for three months. That is the sign of a great program."

The Lions had actually reached that pinnacle even before that. In their second year, they made the state quarterfinals and finished 11-2. They followed that by getting to the semifinals at 11-3.
"I went to the [Georgia] Dome when I was in ninth grade. When I first saw that, I was like, 'I want to be one of those guys,' "said senior tailback Cordellaro Jones.

"Everybody was together, wanting to win. At that time, they looked like giants. It was stuff I had never seen before, coming from a middle school. I said, 'Dang, I want to know what to do to get what they've got.' They said dedication and hard work. I've been feeding off that ever since."
Jones and Company did just that by going 9-3 to reach the second round the next year, and they bettered that last season, moving up to AAAAA from AAA, finishing 10-2 and getting to the second round again.

Now even greater things may be coming with the team ranked No. 3 and standing at 8-0.
"I am not surprised," said Barrow, their former coach. "I figured they were going to continue on to be pretty good as the years went on. Coach Jarvis is doing a great job of continuing the tradition that we started over there. Once you start a tradition, then you are going to get more kids coming to your school."

Numbers back that up. More than 150 players are involved in the program —- an all-time high. But it is not just the numbers. The Lions happen to be a pretty talented group on top of that.
"We've been fortunate enough to have a run of athletes," Jarvis said. "My first year here we had 12 kids that signed scholarships. Last year we had seven, and this year we will have probably have more than [12]."

Jarvis credits some of that to strong local recreation leagues —- at Gresham Park, Browns Mill and Salem Middle School.

"They've done a great job of having the kids prepared when they come over here," he said. "A lot of our kids played with or against each other and know each other real well when they get here. That helps."

A QUICK CLIMB
M.L. King's yearly record since its first season in 2002:
Year....Record....Coach
2002 ....3-7......Kenny Barrow
2003 ....11-2 ....Kenny Barrow
2004 ....11-3 ....Kenny Barrow
2005 ....9-3......Corey Jarvis
2006 ....10-2 ....Corey Jarvis
2007 ....8-0......Corey Jarvis