FGCU professor: Coretta King renewed hope
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Colette Cacciola, a Charlotte High School 10th-grader, recites her essay on the messages of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast Saturday in Punta Gorda. She was one of several who won first-place prizes in an essay contest during the event.
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Florida Gulf Coast University Professor Emeritus Patricia Washington receives the George Brown Huminatarian Award from moderator James Abraham and FGCU outreach specialist Carolyn Greene at the MLK breakfast Saturday. Washington, who also gave the keynote address, was honored for her career in education.
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Billy Williams, from left, and his wife Cart chat with June Clark and her husband, the Rev. Luke Clark, at the MLK community breakfast Saturday.
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The audience joins in the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as the MLK Community Breakfast got under way Saturday at Punta Gorda Middle School.
By GREG MARTIN
Staff Writer
PUNTA GORDA — When Professor Emeritus Patricia Washington of Florida Gulf Coast University was asked two weeks ago to give the keynote address for the seventh annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast here Saturday, she began writing.
And she didn’t stop until 3 a.m. Saturday, she said after her talk. However it wasn’t a speech she was writing; it turned out to be a poem.
