Guilford College

Ongoing Events & Programming

• Guilford Integration, 1962 Before and After: An Oral History
• Cash Crop Exhibit: Hege Library
• Look Back At It: A Student Documentary Project
• Book Club: Manchild and the Promised Land

Fall Semester 2012

September

• September 25 – Official Kick Off Event from 4pm-6pm, Founders Hall Patio, Rain Location Boren Lounge
• September 27 – Black Alumni Panel: Black, Bold, & Talented from 6pm-8pm, Dana Auditorium
• September 27 -The Element from 7:30-9pm, Community Center
• September 28 – Welcome Back Mixer from 6pm-8pm, Alumni House
• September 29 – Alumni & Student Breakfast from 9:30am-10:30am, Fresh Manna – Jamestown, N.C.
• September 29 – Open Forum: Black Alumni at Guilford from 11:30am-12:30pm, Community Center
• September 29 – BASIB, AACS, BUS Reunion Tailgate, Cookout, & Kickball from 3pm-7pm, Football Field Parking Lot

October

• October 3 – Underground Railroad Tour from 1pm-3pm, Begins at steps of Hege Library
• October 3 – Scholars dine with James McCorkle from 6pm-8pm at the Alumni House
• October 8 – Opposite Integration – Examining Native American Survival from 7pm-9pm in King Hall Room 127
• October 28 – Listening Project: Journeys to Justice and Civil Rights in N.C. from 4pm-6pm in the Carnegie Room at Hege Library

November

• November 1 – Brown Bag – Is Integration Enough?: Reconciling Truth from 7pm-9pm in the Milner Hall Lounge
• November 6 – Out to the Polls, Carpool to and from the polls, meeting behind Founders Hall

December

• December 4 – Re-visiting the Conflict – Reading of the Board of Trustees from 5:pm-6:30pm in King Hall Room 127

Spring Semester 2013

Ongoing Events and Programming

• Guilford Integration, 1962 Before and After: An Oral History

January

• January 30 – Honoring the Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Collective Voices Igniting Change:  Keynote Santes Beatty ’97 from 1pm-2:30pm in Dana Auditorium
• January 31 – The Journey to Loving Black Men, Hip Hop, and Transgressive Masculinities:  How I Got Over with Dr. C.P. Guase from 11am-12:30pm, Bauman Gallery West, Founders Hall

February

• February 1 – Breaking the Silece:  Looking at Dr. King in a New Light Discussion from 12:30pm-2pm, King Hall 127
• February 1 – Documentary Film, “Brother Outsider:  The Life of Bayard Rustin,” from 6pm-7:30pm, Kind Hall 128E-Bayard Rustin Center
• February 6 – Get on the BUS: African American Tour of Greensboro & Tour of International Civil Rights Museum 12:45pm-4:00pm, Meeting behind Founders
• February 7 – The Element:  Dance & Step Competition – BUS & CAB from 7pm-9pm, Community Center
• February 9 – Black Alumni at Guilford College Retreat from 9am-2:30pm, Multicultural Resource Center, RSVP blackalum@guilford.edu
• February 10 – Geoffrey Canada – Education Reform – The Bryan Series from 3:30pm-5:30pm, War Memorial Auditorium
• February 13 – Afor Body Butter for VDay: LOVE-ing Social Entrepreneurship – Africana CHANGE 1pm-2:30pm, Bonner House
• February 14, 16, 17 – “Love Black” – Poetry & music by Josephus III – BUS, OSLE, MED, 7pm-9pm, 8pm-10pm, 6pm-8pm, Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. Auditorium
• February 15-17 – Understanding Racism: Building Community & Trust Workshop, 4pm-8pm Friday; 9am-5pm Saturday & Sunday, Founders Hall
• February 21 – Celebrations & Misconceptions of Blackness, from 3:30pm-5:30pm in King Hall Room 127
• February 28 – Carolyn Beard Whiltlow Book Reception from 6:15pm-7:15pm, King Hall 127

March

• March 5 – Africana Brown Bag Luncheon: Students, What Would You Have Done? Reflections on the Civil Rights Movement- Elena Conley ’10 & Wesley Morris from Beloved Community Center from 12pm-2pm in the Dining Hall
• March 28 – Early Black Alum ’62-’77 Portraits & Profiles Exhibit Opening Reception – MED & PPS from 6pm-8pm in King Hall 126 & 127

April

• April 17 – A Lyrical Blast Into the Past: The Music that Moved Black Culture- Africana Brown Bag Discussion from 3:30pm-5:30pm in King Hall Room 127

May

• May 3 – Journeys in Blackness Banquet – Scholarship Fundraiser – “Honoring the Firsts” – 7-m-9pm, Gilmer Room
• May 7 – The Next 50 Years – Evaluating and Reconciling from 5:15pm-7:15pm in the Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. Auditorium

Downloadable Schedule (updated 4/1/13)