MEDIA ADVISORY

To:    Calendar Editors, Entertainment Editors

Fr:     Dan Ryan, Public Relations Specialist

Dt:     March 16, 2004

Re:     Annual Spring Concert

Please be advised that the annual Spring Concert originally scheduled for Thursday, April 22, 2004 has been moved to Sunday, April 25, 2004 at 6 p.m. in the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center, 698 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach.

Featuring the world renowned Concert Chorale and the Symphonic Band, The annual concert is the College’s way of showing its appreciation to the Daytona Beach area for its support. It is sponsored by the Board of Counselors, a collection of local business and civic leaders who serve as ambassadors of the College in the community.

Admission is free and the public is invited.

This will be the first spring concert to be held in the recently opened Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center as well as the final one for College President Dr. Oswald P. Bronson, Sr., who is scheduled to retire June 30, 2004.

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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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