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AAMU Mourns Death of Former President Morrison
Huntsville, Ala. ---- The extended Alabama A&M University family is mourning the Saturday, July 30, 2011, death of the man who served as fifth president for more than two decades of the institution’s nearly 140-year history.
Dr. Richard David Morrison, 103, assumed the presidential post of AAMU on March 1, 1962, and served until 1984. During his 22-year term, Morrison
monitored the construction of more than a dozen major buildings. For instance, the construction of the L. R. Patton Building in 1971 marked the first time that AAMU had an administration building to serve as the heart of its busy hillside campus.
Other building projects stamped by the productive Morrison administration include the Walter T. Gravitt Faculty Apartments; Robert B. Prentice dining hall; Buchanan Hall, a women’s residence hall; the J. F. Drake Memorial Learning Resources Center; the house for home management training; the George Washington Carver Multipurpose Complex; Morris Hall, a residence hall for men; Terry Hall, a residence hall for women; and the T. M. Elmore Health Science Complex (gym)
http://www.aamu.edu/news/2011/Pages/AAMU-Mourns-Death-of-Former-President-Morrison.aspx
Rest in Peace Dr. Morrison
