B-CC DIVISION OF HUMANITIES TO HOST
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL HUMANITIES ADVISORY COUNCIL

DAYTONA BEACH, FL- The Division of Humanities at Bethune-Cookman College is scheduled to host its Fourteenth Annual Humanities Advisory Council, “The Humanities: The Legacy Continues,” on Wednesday and Thursday, March 24-25 on the B-CC campus. Professionals from various disciplines of the Humanities will offer their expertise to students and faculty in a series of lectures and classroom visitations..

Scheduled Lectures start Thursday, March 24, 2004 at 9 a.m. in Heyn Memorial Chapel. Presenters include:

Bobbi Alexander Leland. Leland, a retiree, was a nationally renowned actress who has performed on stage as well as on screen. Some of her most notable works are her recitations of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson and other poets of American Literature. She also performed on a Royal Caribbean Cruise to Bermuda and the National Black Theatre Festival for playwright Lester Melvin and director Darlene Gidney.

Mr. Anthony Cohen. Cohen is a historian, a lecturer, and a fourth generation descendant of a runaway slave. He helped train television icon Oprah Winfrey for her role as Sethe in the film Beloved. Cohen authored “Walk to Canada,” a book highlighting his story of a harrowing six-hour journey inside a wooden crated, smuggled onto a train like Henry “Box” Brown, a fugitive who mailed himself to freedom in 1849. 

Mr. Robert Thornton. A film-maker and photographer, Thornton established a love for the arts as a teenager when he was introduced to the theatre at the renowned Karamu House Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the co-founder of the Raven Rich Corporation, a minority owned film production company, the fifth company of its kind in the United States. He has produced docudramas for Merck, Sharp and Dohm and produced an anti-smoking film for the American Cancer Society and a recruitment film for the United States Army. Today, Thornton is the founder of Zieon Art, where he produces first line of biographical bookmark cards in association with the New York Public Library.  

On Thursday, March 25^th, seminar clinicians continue their interactions with faculty and students through classroom visitations beginning at 9:40 a.m. in the Fine Arts building.

All sessions are free and open to the public. For additional information, please contact Mr. Lewis Green at (386) 481-2711.

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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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