----------------------------------------------------------------- Nine Employees Set to Receive Martin Luther King Jr. Awards ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sweet Honey in the Rock will perform at the third annual Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at Turner Auditorium. The ceremony recognizes the Hopkins employees who have been selected as the 1994 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award recipients. The award program was designed to recognize and encourage significant voluntary community service activities by staff and faculty members of The Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. They are awarded to members of the Hopkins community who have demonstrated the same spirit of volunteerism and citizenship that characterized the life of Dr. King. Throughout his life, Dr. King had a deep faith in what people working together could accomplish for themselves and for the nation. This year's nine recipients, who were selected by a committee of university and hospital employees, are Benjamin S. Carson Sr. (School of Medicine), Lenora Davis (School of Hygiene and Public Health), Catherine Felter (School of Medicine), Lawrence Gomer (Johns Hopkins Hospital), Nannie Jones (Johns Hopkins Hospital), Patricia Fern ndez Kelly (School of Arts and Sciences), William Milliken (Johns Hopkins Hospital), Lewis Myrick (university administration) and Kenneth A. Shaw (Johns Hopkins Hospital). "The very special men and women who have won this award represent the best Johns Hopkins has to offer the community," said Ed Roulhac, interim vice president for human resources. "While each performs an important job for the university or hospital community, they also find time--make time--to help the communities beyond their campuses. They deserve to be celebrated." Sweet Honey in the Rock has been sharing their a cappella music with the world for more than 20 years. The community-based cultural organization describes themselves as "singing fiercely about being fighters, tenderly about being in love, knowingly of being a woman, and about the complex journey of celebration and struggle that is rooted in the history of the African American legacy with a love and respect for life wherever it surfaces in the universe." Seating at Turner Auditorium is limited to employees of the university and hospital. The event will be broadcast live, by satellite, to 110 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus, the Tilghman Room in the Turner Building in East Baltimore and at the Applied Physics Laboratory. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Profiles of the award winners are scheduled to appear in next week's Gazette. -----------------------------------------------------------------