Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 16, 1990 TAG: 9005160386
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"The outpouring of love from friends, those we know and those we don't, has been almost overwhelming," Davis' wife, Altovise, said in a news release Monday. "I want to thank everyone who has sent thoughts and prayers to Sammy. It means so much to him and to our family."
The couple marked a wedding anniversary Friday.
"I'm so grateful that we were able to share our 20th anniversary last Friday at home together," Altovise Davis said. "Sammy continues to rest comfortably at home. Everything possible is being done for him."
Davis' doctor, Irving Posalski, confirmed over the weekend that Davis was dying from throat cancer and that he was surrounded by family. The entertainer was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in March and his condition has deteriorated since.
Davis, first diagnosed and treated for carcinoma of the throat last September, suffered a recurrence of the cancer earlier this year.
\ Barbara Bush said someone in the University of Pennsylvania's class of 1990 "may be a future president of the United States - and I wish her well."
The first lady's mention of a future woman president brought the loudest applause and cheers Monday at the university's 234th commencement in Philadelphia.
"As important as your obligations as a graduate student, or future doctor, or lawyer, or business leader, you are a human being first, a husband or a wife first, a father or a mother first, a son or a daughter first, a friend first," she said in her address. "How sorry it would be to fail at one of these positions."
Bush is at the center of a controversy over an invitation to speak at Wellesley College's commencement. Some students at the women's school in Massachusetts complained that she is known more for her husband's accomplishments than for her own.
\ Bernice Albertine King has become the second woman ordained at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church.
In an emotional service Monday that drew more than 300 people, King, 27, daughter of Martin Luther King, delivered her first sermon more than 20 years after her father delivered his last sermon at the historic church.
The youngest of King's four children and the only one to go into the ministry, she also graduated Monday from Emory University with doctoral degrees in law and divinity.
"This is the most humbling moment for me in my life," she said. "I am not worthy of this high calling. No blood, no sweat, no tears could earn me this high calling."
by CNB