Hopewell presents Monday at Bernhard Center

Hopewell

By Fritz Klug
News Editor

Students will have a chance to hear a local leader share his experience as well as enjoy a free lunch this Monday.

Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell will speak at the second annual Multicultural Leadership Luncheon Feb. 22 in the Bernhard Center’s President’s Dining Room at Western Michigan University.

This year’s theme is “from leadership to legacy,” which Sherrie Fuller, assistant director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy at Western Michigan University, said she hopes will impact students on campus.

Unlike someone coming from another part of the country to talk about leadership, Hopewell “lives, walks and breaths in our community,” she said.

After Hopewell’s speech, there will be a question and answer period.

The luncheon is sponsored by the Office of Student Activities and Leadership Programs and Multicultural Affairs.

It started last year when Fuller said she and the SALP office wondered how they could give students a chance to see a local community member talk about leadership.

“Oftentimes as administrators we stress the importance of leadership, but we realize that many students don’t have the chance to realize those skills,” Fuller said.

The hope is to have the acting mayor give they keynote address every year, Fuller added.

The luncheon is scheduled from noon until 1:30 p.m. and will be held in the Bernhard Center’s President’s Dining Room. It is free, but seating is limited to the first 60 students who RSVP by Tuesday, Feb. 17 to Melissa Green at melissa.green@wmich.edu or Fuller at sherrie.fuller@wmich.edu.

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