Go Marlins! A
fun evening was had by all last night as we celebrated our repeat NCAA
Division III national softball champions at “FanFest With the Champs."
Several of our award-winning players and coaches joined us for the event
at Shorebreak Pizza—a Virginia Wesleyan favorite co-owned by VWU
alumnus JB Maas ’01— and many guests posed for photo ops with the 2017
and 2018 championship trophies. Special thanks to our Alumni Relations
staff for organizing this memorable event. We will have many more
opportunities to celebrate the team in coming months, and I will be sure
to share event details.
The Virginia Conference of the
United Methodist Church will hold its Annual Conference this weekend at
the Hampton Roads Convention Center. I look forward to the annual
Presidents' Breakfast as well as a presentation by the Association of
Educational Institutions, a group I am honored to chair. We'll once
again host a luncheon during the meeting for attending clergy members
who are VWU alumni, and on Saturday evening, Dr. Bryson Mortensen will
lead the Wesleyan Chorale in a special performance during a Service for
the Ordering of Ministry. The opportunity to perform during the
conference is a great honor, and we are proud that our talented choir
has been selected for this occasion.
I’ll travel to
Washington, D.C., early next week for the U.S. Global Leadership
Coalition (USGLC) State Leaders Summit. As a member of the USGLC’s
Virginia Advisory Committee, I am proud to work alongside the
organization to further educate the American public and policymakers on
the importance of investing in diplomacy, development, and defense in
building a strategic, modern foreign policy.
If you are on
campus this summer, you may have noticed that structural work—funded by
a private donor—has begun on the Bell Tower. The 44-year-old tower,
deteriorating in recent years, is scheduled for complete restoration and
renovation by the end of September.
After a soggy spring
on campus, we are back on track for an early 2019 opening of the Susan
S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center. As always, I invite you to
follow the building’s progress on our live construction cam.
Wishing you a safe and relaxing weekend and a productive week ahead.
