The public groundbreaking ceremony for the renovation and new construction of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell will be Saturday, June 12, from 2 to 3 p.m. at the 310 N. Triphammer Road center.
Held in conjunction with Cornell's Reunion 2004 Weekend, the ceremony features speakers including Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman; Provost Biddy Martin; Salah Hassan, the Africana Center's acting director; James Turner, the center's founding director; and university trustee Dwight Bush '79.
Also attending will be Africana Center administrators and faculty, members of the Cornell Black Alumni Association (CBAA), current students and distinguished guests (including an ensemble of live drummers), as well as many members of the returning Cornell Reunion classes of 1969 and 1974. The Class of '74 holds the record for the largest number of matriculated black students enrolled at Cornell.
The occasion celebrates the renovation and expansion of the existing Africana Center and the construction of an additional building to house the center's John Henrik Clarke Library and a multipurpose room.
Speakers at the groundbreaking also will include David E. Jackson II '04, who, as Class of '04 senior convocation chair, recently shared the stage with former U.S. President Bill Clinton during Cornell's Senior Convocation ceremonies, May 29.
For more information about Cornell's Africana studies program and the Africana Center, visit the center's Web site: http://www.asrc.cornell.edu/.
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