Lane College MLK at Convocation
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A special convocation was held for students, staff and faculty of an east Jackson college, Wednesday. Lane College held their annual Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior convocation on campus, Wednesday. Hardeman County Mayor Willie Spencer was the featured speaker at the event at the J.F. Lane Health and Physical Education building. Mayor Spencer, a Lane graduate, retired from Proctor and Gamble, owned his own business and served as a county commissioner before being elected to the mayor’s position. The mayor encouraged students to get an education in order to live their dream. “To have courage to continue to look at the goals that an individual would have knowing that there will be obstacles, knowing that there will be barriers, but to prepare yourself today so that your dream can be realized,” said Mayor Willie Spencer of Hardeman County. “Just commemorate someone who had that courage to continue to fulfill the dream that he had and the convictions that he had, we can have those same dreams and those same convictions.” Founded in 1882, Lane College is one of 105 historically black colleges and universities in the country.
