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Mar
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Melvin B. Tolson Senior Award
March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Attention DKC Seniors: You can now apply for the Melvin B. Tolson Senior Award. The award will honor one DKC senior for embodying the spirit of the Melvin B. Tolson. Your name will be engraved on a Tolson plaque with previous winners and you will receive an award to take home. Last year the award [...]
Feb
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DKC Goes National
February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Three DEBATE-Kansas City alumni currently on the UMKC debate team have been featured in a national vignette on Melvin B. Tolson. DKC’s Director, Gabe Cook, is also in the piece that gives a brief history of Kansas City’s own Melvin B. Tolson. Tolson graduated from Lincoln High in 1918 and went on to become the [...]
