By Nick Hancock (Whetstone Staff Writer)
After 88 students received more than $100,000 in scholarships at the annual Founders Day ceremony on March 16 the Schwartz Center, Wesley College unveiled its new slogan.“Great things await.â€
Performa Higher Education, a branding and marketing company, chose these three words to define the college.
In August, the Jesse Ball DuPont Fund awarded the college $113,150 for branding and marketing research, to develop a new website, advertisements, logo and slogan.
The template of the new website was also shown at the end of the ceremony.
Dr. Jeffery Gibson, associate professor of English, gave the welcoming speech to the audience, followed by Chaplain Erica Brown, who delivered the invocation.
Dr. Peter Angstadt, who retired last year from his job at Wesley after 43 years, gave the keynote speech, and spoke about the changes the school has seen since 1967, the effects of the Vietnam War and the peaceful demonstrations that students gave that reformed some of Wesley policies.
The only technology the campus had in the 1960s were two coin-operated phones, Angstadt said.
“The important tradition that has remained the same at Wesley since the beginning is the faculty’s dedication to the education and success of students,†he said.
Scholarships and departmental awards were then given to 88 students.
Wesley Dessesow and Antonique Vinson, accompanied by Dr. James Wilson, led the audience in singing the Alma Mater at the opening of the ceremony, and performed again at the end of the ceremony.
