SPC to Celebrate Founders’ Day

March 2, 2012 - PRLog -- Saint Paul’s College (SPC) will hold its annual Founders’ Day Weekend March 10-11, 2012.

The weekend kicks off on Saturday, March 10, 2012 with the Founders’ Day banquet which will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the Student Union on campus.  Tickets are $20.00 and can be purchased from the College’s cashier’s office located in the William H. Scott Administration Building or at the door the night of the event.  

Founders’ Day Convocation will be held Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Saint Paul’s Memorial Chapel.  Guest speaker for convocation is the great granddaughter of   Archdeacon James Solomon Russell, Judith K. Deane-Cisco.

Celebrating 124 years of existence, Saint Paul’s College was founded by the late Archdeacon James Solomon Russell as a way to educate freed slaves and offer educational opportunities not afforded to Blacks at White institutions during the days of legally mandated segregation.

The community is invited and encouraged to celebrate Founders’ Day Weekend.

About Saint Paul’s College

Founded in 1888 and affiliated with the Episcopal Church, Saint Paul’s College is a private, historically black, accredited, four-year coeducational and culturally diverse liberal arts institution of higher learning located on a beautiful 183-acre campus in the rolling hills of Brunswick County in Southern Virginia. Saint Paul’s offers baccalaureate degrees in the arts and sciences, teacher education endorsements, professional and pre-professional programs, and the only Single Parent Support System program for degree-seeking single parents in Virginia.  Saint Paul’s offers an accelerated degree program for working adults in four locations across Virginia including Richmond, Farmville, Franklin and Lawrenceville.

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Private, Episcopal-related, liberal arts, co-educational historically Black college, founded in 1888.