NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson Community College Cultural Activities will host the annual celebration to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event will begin on Sunday, January 15 at 2:00 p.m. in the Stringer Fine Arts Center on the HutchCC campus.
"We have, I think, a very good program on Sunday," said Dr. Hence Parson. We'll have several choirs. Buhler High School, Hutch High School and Badinage from Hutchinson Community College. We'll also have some young folks who are going to talk to the theme, Together—We Can Be The Dream."
Those speakers will be college age students, according to former long-time NAACP President Darrell Pope.
"Many of those folks didn't know anything about Dr. King, except what they have read or seen on TV," Pope said. "We get a chance to ask them what Dr. King means to them, or what their knowledge of him means to them. They get a chance to express that among themselves and their age group, etc. I think that's going to be interesting, to hear what their perspective is."
The group will come back together on Monday at 10:30 a.m.
"We're going to congregate again at Stringer Fine Arts," Parson said. "We're going to get our orders in terms of volunteering within the community of Hutchinson."
Monday is the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Day of Service.
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