Amherst Regional Jazz Workshop
Tommy Benfey, Nick Adolph, Nicholas Reyes, and Sarah Horowitz
8th Grade Art
I have a dream…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Citizen’s Award recipient Michael Bardsley with State Representative Ellen Story
Dr. Thomas W. Cole, Jr., Interim Chancellor University of Massachusetts, Amherst with Rev. Kent Higgins
breakfast volunteers
Breakfast
Jazz Workshop
After breakfast we moved to the auditorium
Dr. Cole awaits
Dr. Cole speaks, "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day should be referred to as a day ‘on’ not a day ‘off.’"
Bardsley accepts Citizen’s Award as nominated unanimously by his peers, "We are standing on the shoulders of those who worked before us."
Dr. Cole shares a light moment
Richmond Ampiah-Bonney extends a hand
Dr. Ruth Bass Green on the piano
Bardsley humbled by award
MLK Jr. Commemorative Breakfast founder Mary Pittman Wyatt. Wyatt recalled her experiences with the KKK and segregated water coolers.
after the award ceremony
attendees
Vocalist Imani Stevens with her mom Penni
