The Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals with outstanding service to the greater community.  All living alumni are eligible for nomination Nominations are invited from any Rhodes alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents or friends of the college.

The Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis has honored three women with its annual Legends Award for contributions they made to the Memphis community.

Each year the Women’s Foundation pays tribute to women who are trendsetters, visionaries, and innovators. They are honored through original art and prose.

Memphian Pat Morgan has made it her mission to work on behalf of the homeless both locally and nationally, and she wrote about that mission in The Concrete Killing Fields: One Woman’s Battle To Break the Cycle of Homelessness, published in early 2014.

What first inspired your passion to combat homelessness, as you have?

“I had been very political in Arkansas. I moved to Memphis and I immediately started looking for a church home. I knew that I wanted to give. Within six months…”

A report from the city’s “Concrete Killing Fields.” by LEONARD GILL

Pat Morgan doesn't know how a Memphis man named John Marshall, age 65, died in November 1987. But she knows this: A bulldozer operator at a city dump discovered Marshall's body. Which means Marshall had been collected from one of the city's trash bins, where perhaps he'd sought warmth against the cold.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans face the holidays without shelter and without hope. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John Kennedy and the legislation that he championed, commonly called the Community Mental Health Centers Act.

Thousands of Memphians spend their nights in homeless shelters or squatting in abandoned buildings. And the problem is getting worse.

Just before 8 o’clock on a blustery January morning, about 50 men and a few women gather…

Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton and City of Memphis Chief Financial Officer Robert Lipscomb joined Yvonne Leander, HUD Memphis Field Office Director, in a ceremony held March 14, 2007, to celebrate the award of $4.9 million to the Memphis/Shelby County Continuum of Care. The grants will go to 13 agencies for 19 different programs that aid the chronically homeless.