FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6/02/05

Greenville College Set to Host Ninth Annual Alumni Reunion Weekend June 10-12

Saturday's Sesquicentennial Music Revue Highlights Three-Day Weekend

GREENVILLE , Ill. - Greenville College will host its ninth annual Alumni Reunion Weekend Friday through Sunday, June 10-12.  The three-day weekend reunites the Wilson T. Hogue Society and the classes of 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, and 1980 for their class reunions.

The weekend kicks off at 7 a.m. on Friday, June 10, with the Panther Pride Golf Scramble, held at Indian Springs Golf Club, benefiting Greenville College athletics.  The Welcome Luncheon begins at 12 p.m. in the Armington Center and is followed by campus tours and trolley car tours of Greenville .  Kevin Kaegy, author of Images of America:  Greenville and Bond County will give the 30-minute historical trolley tours of Greenville 's downtown and historic homes.

The alumni banquet begins at 6 p.m. on Friday night and will be held in the Armington Center . This year's alumni banquet features guest speaker, Dr. Gerald Bates, Bishop emeritus of the Free Methodist Church , and this year's recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award.  Bates graduated from Greenville College in 1955 and completed a master's degree at Asbury Theological Seminary and Western Theological Seminary. He completed a doctoral degree at Michigan State University . Dr. Bates has served for 28 years as a missionary in central Africa . His most recent venture includes working with longstanding African friends to assist in the founding of Hope Africa University . He writes in religious periodicals and is author of the book, Soul Afire, a biography of J. W. Haley, founder of the Free Methodist work in central Africa .

A full slate of Saturday events, capped off by a Sesquicentennial Music Revue in the G.C. Music Center (old FM Church), provides a full day of activities.  The opening of the Sesquicentennial Exhibit will take place at 10:45 a.m. in Hogue Hall.  At noon , the reunion classes will reconvene for their class reunion lunches. 

After a Celebration Dinner, “A Return to the 1850's,” in the Armington Center at 6 p.m., the activities move to LaDue Auditorium where the GC music faculty will present a Music Revue spanning 150 years of music history at 8:00 p.m.  The Greenville community is invited to attend the LaDue Auditorium activities, which are free and open to the public.

To register or obtain further information on the weekend, please visit www.greenville.edu or contact Barb Sands at (618) 664-6500.

Greenville College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with more than 1200 traditional undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree completion students.  Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church , the college is located in Greenville , Illinois , 45 miles east of St. Louis .

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Assistant Director of Public Relations
Greenville College
(618) 664-6515