Family Weekend

Schedule at a Glance

Day One: Friday, February 17, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Registration
President’s Dining Room,
Manley College Center

Attendees can pick up registration packets, name badges, and and event wristbands

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Campus Tours
Meet on Upper Manley Concourse

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Workshops
Cosby Auditorium

• Financial Aid FAFSA 101
• Housing Selection Process
Department of Residence Life & Housing

Have you ever had questions regarding the housing selection process? Come join the staff as they outline this year’s housing selection process. A question and answer session will follow.

NEW: What’s a Parent to Do: Challenges Your Student May Be Experiencing & How to Cope

Interested in a more complete picture of the changes, stressors, challenges and excitement your student encounters? In this session, we will explore some of those issues, along with strategies for responding. A quick review of resources at the college will also be provided.

12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Market Friday
Lower Manley Concourse & Patio

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Faculty 'Coffee & Conversation'
Cosby Auditorium

Faculty members and the students of Phi Beta Kappa will moderate a dynamic interdisciplinary panel that will provide a preview into the intellectual life of the college. In addition, this session will offer first-hand accounts from students who have traveled abroad.

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Museum of Fine Art Tour
Museum of Fine Arts, Cosby Center

7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Café 350 (Adult Affair Only)
Living Learning Center Auditorium

Join us for an elegant evening of delectable food and live entertainment. Attendees are encouraged to dress to impress.

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Café 350 (Adult Only Affair)
Living Learning Center Auditorium
Join us for an elegant evening of delectable food and live entertainment. Attendees are encouraged to dress to impress.

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Poppin Popcorn Theater
(For Children Ages 3-12)
Living Learning Center Breakout Room
Come one, call all and enjoy a wholesome family movie complete with popcorn, treats, music and more. While you are enjoying Café 350, leave the children with us!

Day Two: Saturday, February 18, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Registration
Manley Student Center
President’s Dining Room

Attendees can pick up registration packets, name badges and event wristbands.

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

President’s Breakfast
Manley College Center Atrium

Families are invited to fellowship with other parents and students. President Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD. will give a State of the College Address, which provides a comprehensive overview for the financial activity at Spelman College.

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Parent Association Meeting
Cosby Auditorium

11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Pre-Game Jaguar Jam BBQ and Vendors Marketplace
Johnnetta Betsch Cole Living and Learning Center ll, Auditorium

Embrace the spirit of the “Jaguar” at this Spelman College jam session. On your way to the basketball game, enjoy a traditional barbeque, music and the marketplace which features a variety of unique vendors!

12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Family Portraits
Lower Manley Student Center
Capture your weekend by stopping by the Student Center where a professional photographer will provide you with a portrait of you and your entire family.

12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Shopping Excursion
Departing from Lee Street Gate Entrance

2:00 p.m.

Spelman College vs. Bennett College Basketball Game
Read Hall

Join the community for the annual showdown between the Spelman Jaguars and the Belles of Bennett College. Wear your Spelman blue and assume pep team status as the loudest and proudest spectators in Spelman’s history.

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Relaxation Pampering Session
(Free Massages)
Lower Manley Student Center

Ladies, join us for a spa treatment Spelman style. Get away from the hustle and bustle of the weekend with some rest and relaxation. This event is free of charge.

4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Gentlemen’s Retreat
Lower Manley Student Center
Missed the Saturday line-up of sports? The Gentlemen's Retreat is the place to catch up on today's sports highlights or participate in a Bid-Whist tournament. There will be free giveaways!

7:00 p.m.

Mad at Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth Production
Written by Pearl Cleage
Baldwin Burroughs Theatre

With directness, Pearl Cleage takes an unblinking look at the current state of abusive relationships and battered women. Cleage deals with these issues between men and women and comes up with some insights and some solutions that may surprise you, but can also change your life! This is a funny, angry, lyric piece of theatre that all should see, in order to better understand the realities women have dealt with for decades.

Day Three: Sunday, February 19, 2012

10:00 a.m.

Worship Services featuring Minister Cynthia Pollard
Sisters Chapel

Minister Cynthia L. Pollard, an ordination candidate (March 2012), adjunct college professor, corporate professional and community leader is currently serving as a minister at The Resurrection Center in Wilmington, Delaware and is employed as a Legal Records Manager at the firm of Richards, Layton & Finger.

Cynthia is the creator of Utterance Now: A Ministry in Biblical Storytelling where individuals can examine and experience the power of the biblical text through the spoken word.

She received her Bachelor’s Degree in business administration/management from Philadelphia University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Master of Theological Studies degree from Palmer Theological Seminary f/k/a Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (2003) in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Cynthia shares her life with husband, Arthur and daughter, Elizabeth (C'2012).

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