Claflin News

New York Times bestselling author and playwright Pearl Cleage will lecture at Claflin University on Tuesday, March 19. The Cleage lecture is sponsored by the Department of English and Foreign Language and the Claflin University Lyceum Committee.

Byranna Grice was one of more than 200 third graders inside the Columbia Museum of Art March 4. And she was having fun. Grice, along with her classmates from Orangeburg Consolidated School District 3’s St. James Gaillard Elementary School, were cutting out printed pictures of characters from the book, All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts. They then created their very own stories about them.

Claflin University has been announced as a finalist in The Home Depot’s 2013 RETOOL YOUR SCHOOL campus improvement grant program. Finalists are competing for $225,000 in grants for on-campus improvements. Claflin is seeking support from the campus and public to help the University win.

Claflin University Board of Trustees member Michael Brenan will receive the United Way of the Midlands Humanitarian of the Year Award this evening in Columbia. Brenan, who is the chairman of Claflin’s Capital Campaign Corporate Committee, is the president of Branch Banking & Trust of South Carolina. He was elected to the Claflin Board of Trustees in 2009.

The Claflin University Lyceum Series will present the acclaimed British production Call Mr. Robeson, a play, which celebrates the life and work of the great singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m.