Pearson, Ware, among CAU honorees at Greatness Gala
Television icon Monica Pearson and Carl Ware, the former president of The Coca-Cola Company’s Africa Group, will be honored Saturday by the Clark Atlanta University Alumni Association at its Spirit of Greatness Gala to raise scholarship money.
Along with Ware and Pearson, who is retiring from WSB-TV this year, the alumni association will honor Reatha Clark King who served as president and executive director of the General Mills Foundation; and James Patterson, who has been the director of the CAU Jazz Orchestra for five decades.
Tickets are $150 for the gala, which begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Loews Atlanta Hotel, 1065 Peachtree Street.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
