``HE WHO FINDS A WIFE”  TO BE PRESENTED AT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. --Bethune-Cookman College faculty member Jontoinette White presents the encore performance of her comedy stage play He Who Finds a Wife on Saturday, April 10^th  at the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center.  Showtime is 7 p.m.

After the sudden death of his wife, Pastor Melvin Jones (portrayed by Cornell Mack) finds himself surrounded by women who believe they are supposed to be the next First Lady of New Life in Christ Missionary Baptist Church.  Will they succeed? Not if Adelene Hawkins (portrayed by Brenda Weathers), the church secretary for eighteen years, can help it! In a secret prayer meeting, she receives a strange prophecy about her future husband, and she devises a wild scheme to get her man. 

White, an English professor in B-CC’s General Studies Division, has authored several comedies. Her other plays include the following:  Who Do You Roll With?, which explores peer pressure among  black adolescents,  Someone to Love Me depicts the rigors of college life, and  Seeds At the Gate takes a comedic look at complex marital relationships.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $17 at the door and can be purchased at the Bethune-Cookman College cashier’s office, Family Bookstore at 1808 International Speedway Blvd, or Divine Deliverance Ministries at 836 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Blvd.  For more information, contact Nathan White at (386) 316-0148.

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Bethune-Cookman is a comprehensive college, which offers degrees in liberal arts as well as professional fields, such as business, education and nursing. A United Methodist Church-affiliated school, the College has a diverse and international student population of more than 2,700 and a solid reputation for academic excellence and community service. As evidence of its outstanding program, the College has been listed in the Templeton Honor Roll of Character Building Colleges and Universities, and it was ranked by Black Enterprise magazine as one of the “Top 50” schools in the nation for black students.  B-CC is one of 10 charter member colleges of Project Pericles, a program to create civic leadership and involvement on its member campuses.  The College will celebrate its 100^th year of founding on October 4, 2004.

For more information, contact our website www.bethune.cookman.edu. 

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