Honors Day

Texas Southern University recently celebrated excellence in achievement at its annual Honors Day Convocation ceremony. The event took place in the HPE Gymnasium on Thursday April 14 at 10:00 a.m.

The university recognized students who are on the President's List, Dean's List, Honor Roll, and who have a 4.0 G.P.A. Each student received an honors medal and recognition in the convocation program.

Guest speaker for the event was Marcus Davis, president of TSU's National Alumni Association. Davis received a bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science in 1996. He is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

He owns two very successful and popular restaurants in Houston the breakfast klub and the Reggae Hut. The breakfast klub has received rave reviews from respected media such as Good Morning America, Esquire Magazine, and USA Today. Davis prefers to be known as chief steward of tbk Holdings, Inc. the parent companies of his restaurants.

Marcus Davis credits his success on a good upbringing and God.

"As a child my mother would always call my name, when she called all three names I knew I was in trouble,each one of you are being honored today because your names have been called" Davis said.

Davis talked about how Harriet Tubman led the underground rail road to success.

"Harriet was fed up with being a slave so she decided to escape" Davis said.

"She went back for other enslaved Africans because she heard her name being called to help others" Davis said.

Mr. Davis gives credit to Harriet Tubman for his success and the success of the honorees.

"When she would make the 90 mile journey back and fourth sometimes taking three weeks she was calling your name" Davis said.

Texas Southern was proud to announce that out of 9500 hundred students 2000 of them were on the Honor Roll, some for two semesters.