A joyful celebration took place in Lee Hall on the campus of Florida A&M University on Tuesday, April 21. The event was a formal investiture for the school's latest president.
To the strains of Florida A&M's alma mater song, Marva Johnson officially assumed the trappings of authority as the school's 13th president. Following a long parade of supportive speakers, including Florida's top education officials, Johnson took the podium, promising to be the university's number-one cheerleader.
"I will pour myself into changing hearts and minds in Tallahassee, in Washington, in board rooms and communities as the world fully understands what we already know and that is what we are capable of!"
The ceremony included Johnson being bestowed with an academic gown in the school's colors, a neck medallion with FAMU's coat-of-arms and a mace symbolizing presidential authority.
