Here’s the announcement from Warren Wilson College:
Warren Wilson College launches a full week of activities honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the college’s winter Service Day on Jan. 19, as new students engage in service projects at Hall Fletcher Elementary School in West Asheville.
The annual Service Day on the MLK holiday helps pay tribute to King’s life and work with “a day on, not a day off,” as encouraged by The King Center in Atlanta.
Although not matching the scale of Warren Wilson’s massive annual Service Day in August, the winter Service Day also affords students, faculty and staff an excellent opportunity to engage in the broader community. Transfer and other new Warren Wilson students will work on a variety of projects at Hall Fletcher, including outside work in the garden and on the grounds. Inside tasks such as preparing classroom materials and bulletin boards, organizing activity areas and deep cleaning also will be accomplished.
Another highlight of MLK Week is scheduled Jan. 20, when the Rev. Oscar McCloud will deliver the MLK Keynote Address in Warren Wilson’s Canon Lounge at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
McCloud, a civil rights pioneer and 1956 Warren Wilson graduate, was one of the first African-American students to graduate from a previously white college or university in the South. Now pastor emeritus of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, McCloud delivered Warren Wilson’s 1998 Commencement Address and received the college’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2000.
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