Thomas W. Dortch Jr., a board member of the national MBA and
Chairman Emeritus of 100 Black Men, was the keynote speaker at the MBA’s awards presentation last week.
He is shown here with scholarship recipients Shekeita Sproaps of Fontbonne University, local MBA president Samuel L. Gradford, scholarship recipient Eric Arthur of Lincoln University, and MBA members Gail Holmes and Anisha Morrell. The reception was held at AG Edwards on Thursday. Not present were scholarship recipients Fred Shelton (Morehouse University), Aaron Fuller (University of Missour-Columbia), Christopher Perkins (Brown University), Matthew A. Rice (Morehouse) and Jene Pulliam (Southern Illinois University).