February 28, 2008
Each year in mid-February Hollins celebrates the birth of its founder, Charles Lewis Cocke, who was born on February 21, 1820. Dressed in academic gowns, members of the senior class and one member of the campus community chosen by that class process to the Cocke family cemetery and place a wreath on Mr. Cocke's grave.
The university also holds a Founder's Day Convocation often featuring a distinguished speaker. This year's Founder's Day is Thursday, February 28, 2008.
President Nancy Oliver Gray
and the Hollins Board of Trustees
cordially invite you and a guest to
Founder’s Day
celebrating the Jessie Ball duPont Chapel Jubilee
1958 – 2008
Hollins University
Roanoke, Virginia
Thursday, February 28, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Founder’s Day Convocation
Speaker: Justine Treadwell '01, consultant and former program adviser
to the Global AIDS Program of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) in Tanzania
Alumnae will join the Hollins Concert Choir
for Lift Thine Eyes, the Speech Choir will perform
Jessie Ball duPont Chapel
7:30 p.m.
A Celebration of the Music of duPont
Featuring Hollins faculty, the Hollins Concert Choir,
the Pan-Divas! steel drum ensemble, and guest musicians
Jessie Ball duPont Chapel
8:30 p.m.
Coffee and Dessert Reception
Hosted by the Roanoke Area Alumnae Chapter
Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
Friday, February 29, 2008
2:00 p.m.
duPont Chapel Rededication and Worship Service
With Suzanne Brooks-Cope ’80, preacher;
soprano Andrea Beegle Broido ’77; Chamber Chorale;
Alumnae Choir; Speech Choir;
student chaplains; and prayers of dedication
Jessie Ball duPont Chapel
RSVP by February 21 to rsvp@hollins.edu or (540) 362-6393
Founder's Day Convocation Speaker
Justine Treadwell '01
This year’s Founder’s Day speaker is Justine Treadwell '01, who since graduating from Hollins has devoted herself to helping victims of AIDS and HIV in Africa. She works part time as a consultant with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the nation of Tanzania
, where she currently provides support for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. She collaborated with the Tanzanian Ministry of Health to develop and creatively finance the implementation of a national strategic plan for Human Resources for Health and developed a sustainable mechanism for monitoring in-service training and continuing education for health workers in that country, among other responsibilities. Click here for her Founder's Day address.
Prior to joining the CDC, Treadwell worked with Africare in Tanzania, emphasizing an integrated approach to land conservation and community health, and the Peace Corps in Tanzania and Malawi, where she focused on knowledge and skills development in HIV/AIDS, sustainable agriculture, public health, and appropriate technologies.
Treadwell is currently working toward two master's degrees: an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and the Environment at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, both at Tufts University.
In 2006, the Echo Foundation of Charlotte, North Carolina, honored Treadwell with its Young Heroes of Hope Award.
duPont Chapel Jubilee 1958-2008
Reunion of Spiritual Communities
February 27-29, 2008
To mark, examine, and celebrate Hollins’ spiritual heritage of ministry and service
To gather alumnae with students with refreshment, inspiration, and dedication
The values of duPont, the chapel, as rendered by spiritual architect Dr. George Gordh: welcome, truth, earthly and divine beauty, love that overcomes struggle, peace that passes understanding, and the unifying and social element of faith and its practices.
In conjunction with Founder’s Day, Hollins will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Jessie Ball duPont Chapel, where students have gathered, worshiped, and explored the connections of mind and heart, faith and scholarship, during the past half-century. In celebration, Hollins is welcoming back to campus alumnae in ministry and service, religion/philosophy majors, Religious Life Association officers, and women who sang in the chapel choir, February 27-29.
For more information, please contact Camp Younts University Chaplain Jan Fuller ’78 at jfuller@hollins.edu.
