Successful businessman William Pickard will be the featured speaker at Clark Atlanta University’s commencement Monday, May 22.

Pickard is the Chairman of the Global Automotive Group, co-managing partner of the MGM Grand Detroit Casino and CEO of Bearwood Management.

The graduation will take place at 8 a.m. at Panther Stadium, 735 Beckwith St. SW on the Clark Atlanta campus.

Including in this year’s class is Ronald McCullough Jr., who graduated from Maynard Jackson High School in Atlanta at 15. He will earn his bachelor’s degree in biology at 19.

McCullough’s brainpower has not gone unnoticed. Post-graduate engineering programs are heavily recruiting him, including N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T) and University of Hawaii. McCullough wants to be an astronaut and plans to enroll in biological/agricultural engineering program at A&T.

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Channel 2's Lori Wilson reports.