MEDIA ADVISORY
Lincoln University, America’s First Historically Black
University, to Celebrate 150th Anniversary at Washington, DC Gala
with entertainment by R&B recording artist Jeffrey Osborne.
Celebration of Lincoln University’s Sesquicentennial Anniversary
and 150 years of accomplishments, milestones, and distinguished
history in higher education.
(PRWEB) April 9, 2004--Lincoln University, America’s First
Historically Black University, to Celebrate 150th Anniversary at
Washington, DC Gala, Saturday, April 17, 2004.
The event at the National Museum of Women in the Arts will feature
singer Jeffrey Osborne.
WHO: Lincoln University of the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education
-- Founded in 1854 as America's First Historically Black University.
WHAT: Celebration of Lincoln University’s Sesquicentennial
Anniversary and 150 years of accomplishments, milestones, and distinguished
history in higher education.
WHEN: Saturday, April 17, 2004
TIME: 7:00 p.m. -- 11:00 p.m.
ATTIRE: Black Tie
WHERE: National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
DETAILS:A highlight of the program will include a short video paying
tribute to Lincoln on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. The
evening's guests will consist of Lincoln alumni and many dignitaries,
including District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams; Baltimore
Mayor Martin O'Malley; NAACP President and CEO Kweisi Mfume; Alexis
Herman, former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Marie Johns, president,
Verizon; Stedman Graham, of S. Stedman & Associates and Ms.
Janet Langhart Cohen, President, Langhart Communications.
Tickets for the event are $250.00 per person.
The gala will feature R&B recording artist Jeffrey Osborne.
Located in Pennsylvania, Lincoln University is nationally recognized
as a major producer of African Americans with undergraduate degrees
in the physical sciences (biology, chemistry and physics); computer
and informational sciences; biological and life sciences. Lincoln
has the unprecedented distinction among all colleges and universities
of having two of its alumni -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood
Marshall, and poet Langston Hughes -- honored with first-class commemorative
postage stamps in February 2003, and January 2002, respectively.
Lincoln University combines the best elements of a liberal arts
and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate
programs to meet the needs of students living in a highly technological
and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduate
and graduate students.
For tickets, contact Lincoln's Office of Special Events and Community
Relations at 610-932-1235.
For more information about the University, visit Lincoln's Web site
at www.lincoln.edu.
Media Contact: Don Clarke, Clarke & Associates, LLC, 202-723-2200;
e-mail: dsclarke@aol.com
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