Saint Augustine’s University will celebrate Founders’ Week beginning Sunday, January 26, 2014, with chapel service at 10:30 a.m. with Reverend Joseph N. Green Jr. as the guest speaker. Rev. Green holds a bachelor’s degree of arts from Saint Augustine’s University and a master of divinity degree from Philadelphia Divinity School Philadelphia, Penn. He was the first African American to earn a master of sacred theology degree from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He was ordained to the Episcopal ministry in 1953. Rev. Green is also a member of the Saint Augustine’s University Board of Trustees.

Throughout the week, a display of the university’s founders will be in the Prezell Robinson Library. Founders’ Week will end with a Founder’s Day Brunch on Friday, January 31 at 11 a.m.

A complete list of events is listed below.

Sunday, January 26

10:30 a.m.

Chapel Service

Historic Chapel

Guest speaker: Reverend Joseph N. Green Jr.

Monday, January 27

8 a.m.

Wreath Laying Ceremony

Tuesday, January 28

Noon

Classy Hat & Bold Tie Mentoring Luncheon (By Invitation only)

Martin Luther King, 2nd Floor

7 – 8:30 p.m.

Celebrating 147 years of Excellence: The Student Government Association

Founders’ Week Program

Historic Chapel

Wednesday, January 29

No scheduled events

Thursday, January 30

11:30 a.m.

Candlelight Ceremony: Honoring the Past, Present and Future

Historic Chapel

Friday, January 31

11 a.m.

Founders’ Week Brunch

2 p.m.

Campus Tour