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September 21, 2002	Susana Vera
Shaw University trumpeters, from left, Tierra Knox,19, Wade Johnson, 18, and Stacey Sowell, 22, play The Star Spangled Banner with the rest of the band during Shaw University's fall convocation ceremony for the opening of the 2002-2003 Academic Year at Spaulding Gymnasium on campus. Mathematics professor Dr. McLouis Clayton stands as a sign of respect. "We've been practicing for the last two weeks," Sowell said. The student body, faculty, members of the president's cabinet and members of the board of trustees attended the ceremony, the last fall convocation for Shaw University's president Dr. Talbert O. Shaw, who announced last May that he's retiring after15 years as president of the university. Shaw University was founded in 1865. It is the oldest historically black university in the South.