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1992.01.15 :  Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration

Contact: Moses J. Newson 202/245-6343
January 15, 1992

     HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., today announced that
the Rev. Lewis M. Anthony, pastor of Varick Memorial AME Zion
Church in Washington, D.C., will be the keynote speaker for the
annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative program to be held at
the Department of Health and Human Services.
     The program, jointly sponsored by HHS, the Department of
Education, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the United
States Information Agency, will be held Jan. 22 at 10 a.m. in the
Great Hall of the Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Ave. S.W.
     Music for the occasion will be provided by the Omega Psi Phi
Gospel Choir, Kappa Psi Chapter, of Howard University Divinity
School.  George E. Holmes is choir coordinator.
     This year's theme, marking the 63rd anniversary of the Jan.
15, 1929, birth of Dr. King, is "Living the Dream: Let Freedom
Ring."
     A native of Washington, Rev. Anthony has been pastor of the
Varick Memorial AME Zion Church since May 25, 1986.  Before that
he was assistant pastor for seven years of his childhood church,
Union Wesley AME Zion, and served for two years as pastor of the
John Wesley AME Zion Church in Baltimore.
     Rev. Anthony is a graduate of the Anacostia High School,
Columbia and Harvard universities.
     He is the recipient of numerous awards and citations,
including the Van Am Prize Medal of Columbia University, the
Distinguished Public Service Award of the District of Columbia,
the Grassroots Award for Community Service from the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference and the National Trio Achievers
Award of the National Council of Educational Opportunity
Associations.
     In addition to Secretary Sullivan, other program
participants include Paul C. Johnson III of HHS, presiding;
Marian Green, ED; Doris Grant, HHS; Anthony Lopes, FEMA; Nancy
Silvers, HHS; Purnell Swett, ED; Schuyler J. Baab, HHS; and
Nittaya Maphungphong, USIA.

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