The Southern Arkansas University 19th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Memorial March and Ceremony is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Monday, January 20, 2014.
The March will begin at Miller’s Cafeteria on Vine Street at 5 p.m. and proceed down University Street to the SAU Reynolds Center. The ceremony will begin around 5:30 p.m. in Foundation Hall. The community is encouraged to participate in the march and attend the ceremony.
Valerie Wilson, vice chancellor for information technology at SAU Tech, will be the guest speaker for the ceremony.
Wilson is active in her church, Shady Grove Baptist Church, and in her community. Among her involvement, she is president of the Ouachita/Calhoun County Single Parent Scholarship Fund Board of Directors, executive director of the Camden/Ouachita County Community Housing Development Organization, Inc., and secretary for the Ouachita Partnership for Economic Development Board of Directors.
Among her many professional honors, Wilson was a 2009 finalist for the Outstanding Arkansas State Employee honor in recognition of exemplary accomplishments presented by the Arkansas State Employees Association, won the 2008 Vida H. Lampkin Award for the Distinguished Woman of the Year for her service to the Camden Community, and earned the 2002 Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges Outstanding Staff Award.
The SAU Office of Multicultural Services annually observes and acknowledges the accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr., as he was an outstanding American pioneer and icon. To find out more, call Cledis Stuart at (870) 235-4925.
