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| Bowie State University Gospel Choir Raises the Roof in Las Vegas The Bowie State University Gospel Choir under the direction of Prof. LaTonya Wrenn, performed at the James Cleveland Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA) board meeting in suburban Las Vegas. GMWA is the largest gospel music organization of its kind with over 30,000 members. For the first time, the board meeting featured a "Collegiate Night Showcase" to its nightly musical lineup. The showcase took place March 10 in Henderson, Nev. Dr. Joan Hillsman, GMWA board member and former Bowie State University Gospel Choir director, is chairwoman of the Collegiate Project. The purpose of this project is to further expose the students to the heritage of gospel music, performance, music industry, and networking for career opportunities. |
In October 2008, Nikki E. Owens, a junior at Bowie State University, received a Milton Pericles Darden III Memorial Scholarship from the Scott Lee Foundation during its First Annual Nicole Lynette Scott Lee Memorial Scholarship Awards Reception. 
Professor E. Tony Yorkman currently serves as Lecturer in the College of Business, Department of Management Information Systems. 
Sherece West has risen far from her youth growing up in a public housing project in inner-city Baltimore. She is the president of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation in Little Rock, AK, a $150 million philanthropy founded by a former Arkansas governor.
