Posted by William Nunnelley on 2009-09-25

Samford University will hold its annual Family Weekend Friday-Sunday, Oct. 9-11.  The program will include a variety of activities including a reception in the President’s home, State of the University address, Academic Fair, the Samford-Chattanooga football game and others.

Family Weekend will open Friday with check-in and registration from 4-8 p.m. in the Flag Colonnade of Beeson University Center.  President Andrew Westmoreland and his wife, Dr. Jeanna Westmoreland, will host a reception in their home at 8-9:30 p.m.

Saturday will begin with late check-in and registration in the Flag Colonnade from 9-11 a.m.  Greek life open houses are scheduled at 9-10 a.m.  President Westmoreland will present his State of the University address at 10:30 a.m. in the Pete Hanna Center Hospitality Suite.  Parents will be able to meet Samford faculty members in the Academic Fair at 11 a.m.-noon in the Hanna Center East Concourse.  Luncheon on the University Quadrangle follows at noon-2 p.m.

Samford will meet Chattanooga in a Southern Conference football game at 3 p.m. in Seibert Stadium.

On Sunday, Family Weekend visitors will be able to choose between the sixth annual Family Weekend Golf Tournament at Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Oxmoor Valley at 1 p.m. and the annual Samford Hymn Sing in Reid Chapel, a soccer match with Wofford and a Greenhouse Spa and Summit Shopping Trip—all starting at 2 p.m.

Registration is open by mail or online.  For information, go to www4.samford.edu/parents.aspx.  Also for information, email sinvolve@samford.edu or call 205 726-2345.

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 6,101 students from 45 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks with the second highest score in the nation for its 98% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.