Morris Brown College Holds Founders Day Commemoration Celebrating 132 Years of Unstoppable Service

On Friday, March 22nd at 11:00 a.m. at the Hickman Student Center in Cunningham Auditorium, Morris Brown College will observe its 132nd Founders’ Day.  The speaker for this occasion is The Reverend Dr. Preston Warren Williams II, Presiding Prelate of the Sixth Episcopal District AME Church, and Chairman of the Morris Brown College Board of Trustees.

The theme for this founder’s day is “No Turning Back:  The Journey of Morris Brown College—Our Legacy and Our Future.”   During this commemoration, Dr. Stanley Pritchett, President of the college, will give an update of the Morris Brown’s activities and projections for the future.  “We are looking forward to a new and better Morris Brown College with innovative programs,” said Dr. Pritchett.

Other activities for Morris Brown’s Founders Day weekend include the annual meeting of the Morris Brown College National Alumni Association on Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m., also held in Cunningham Auditorium; and a Founders’ Day Jazz Concert and Soul Food Buffett featuring The Che Trio, Avis Ledbetter and the Bill Odom Trip, and staring Delores Majors, Jazz Violinist. Tickets to the  jazz concert are $30 per person and can be purchased in the Office of Institutional Advancement at Morris Brown.

All alumni and members of the community are invited to attend.