HAWKINS - The Board of Trustees, faculty, staff and the 90/10 Celebration Committee of Jarvis Christian College will honor its 10th president, Dr. Sebetha Jenkins, for 10 years of dutiful service, during the school’s 90th anniversary year. The event will be held Saturday, September 14, 2002 at the las Colinas Ballroom of the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas, 221 East Las Colinas Boulevard, in Texas. Festivities will begin at 5:00p.m. with a Silent Auction to benefit JCC in the foyer. A reception honoring Jenkins will be held at 6:00 p.m. and the banquet will be held at 7:00p.m. with a dance following.

Special hotel accommodations and room rates have been arranged with the hotel and reservations must be made by Monday, September 2, 2002 to receive the special room rate.
Recently, Jenkins was named Chair of the Presidents Council for all United Negro College Fund (UNCF)-member institutions. Jenkins is only the third female to hold the post after Dr. Mable McLean of Barber-Scotia College and Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole of Spelman College.

As chair, she will lead the group nationally and internationally for many minority students who want to obtain a college education.  As president of JCC, she has continually gained national recognition during her tenure. She has been appointed to a number of prestigious professional organizations, commissions and boards, and in 1994 she was appointed by President William Clinton to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

JCC, located in Hawkins, Texas on U.S. Highway 80, was founded in 1912 and is the only four-year institution of higher education in Wood County. JCC, a traditional private, liberal arts institution, provides a quality education in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

The mission of the college is to prepare students intellectually, socially and personally to function effectively in a global and technological society.
Call 903/769-5731 for more information.