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Virginia Union Announces Commencement Speaker

For Immediate Release: 
April 24, 2008

 

Contact Information:
Vanessa Moody Coombs
Vice President
University Relations
Phone: (804) 257-5856
Fax: (804) 257-5868
Email: vcoombs@vuu.edu

            Robert Scott Jepson, Jr. will deliver the 2008 Commencement address at Virginia Union University.  The ceremony will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 10, 2008 on Hovey Field located at 1500 North Lombardy Street in Richmond, Virginia.

            Jepson is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Jepson Associates, Inc., a private investment firm.  He is well known in the Richmond area as Founder and Principal Benefactor of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at University of Richmond. 

Virginia Union will hold its Baccalaureate service on Friday, May 9 at 6:00 p.m. in Coburn Hall.  The speaker will be Dr. John W. Kinney, Dean of Virginia Union’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology.

 

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