Massey to Head Bank of America

The word's been spreading fast.

Evidently, Bank of America has announced a new chairman, Dr. Walter Eugene Massey.

Normally, I could care less about this type of information. This time, it's different, though, because the new chairman is the former president of my alma mater: Morehouse College.

Dr. Massey served as the ninth president of Morehouse, the nation's largest four-year liberal arts college for men.

His legacy as the school's ninth president includes a fundraising campaign that brought in $119 million in three years -- almost $15 million more than he set out to raise -- and helping the school land the coveted collection of more than 7,000 handwritten notes, letters and sermons by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the school's most famous alumnus, wrote journalist Errin Haines, in a 2007 Washington Post story.

Below is a summary of what's transpired in the past -- it's now 12:15AM -- six hours or so.

Shareholders of Bank of America stripped Kenneth D. Lewis of his post as chairman on Wednesday while allowing him to remain president and chief executive, in a vote that may mark the beginning of the end of his leadership at the embattled bank, The New York Times’s Louise Story reports from Charlotte, N.C.

Walter E. Massey, the former president of Morehouse College and a longtime board member, will succeed Mr. Lewis as chairman, the bank said.

SOURCE: NY Times

For good measure, I've also thrown in a picture from waaay back with Dr. Massey, his wife, and yours truly.

("Chairman," I like the sound of that.)