Marvin V. Curtis, is President of 100 Black Men of Greater South Bend. He is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Music of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at Indiana University South Bend, is the first African Americancommissioned to write a choral work for a Presidential Inauguration. The Philander Smith Collegiate Choir of Little Rock, Arkansas and The United States Marine Band performed his City on the Hill at the 1993 Inauguration for President Bill Clinton, and it is housed at the Smithsonian.

A Chicago native, his degrees are from North Park University (BM), The Presbyterian School of Christian Education (MA) and The University of the Pacific in Music Education (EdD). Additionally, he studied at Westminster Choir College, The Juilliard School of Music, and The University of Ghana at Lagon as a Ford Foundation Fellow.

An active composer of musical genres and a choral and orchestral conductor, his writings on African American music are published in scholarly journals. He is Vice President/President Elect of the South Bend Symphony, the first African American to hold that position. He is President of the St Joseph County Library Board and involved in numerous community organizations. For 12 years, he was National Scholarship Chair for the National Association of Negro Musicians.

His honors include his 2021 induction into The South Bend Hall of Fame.