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1. Serna attended SOURCE on the afternoon of inauguration to talk with students and faculty members about their research projects. Read more about SOURCE on pages 8-11.


2. Board of Trustees Vice Chair Kathy Hudson Bigham ’73 placed the presidential medallion around Serna’s neck during the ceremony.


3. Big Stuff and Glen the Frog, the official mascot for Rock Hill's annual Come-See-Me Festival, posed for photos at the inauguration picnic.


4. Pitcher Aaron White and Catcher Ty Hooks shared a smile in between plays during the doubleheader against Presbyterian College over inauguration weekend.


5. Serna was joined by his family as Board of Trustees Chair Glenn McCall and Vice Chair Kathy Hudson Bigham ’73 swore him in as the university's 12th president.


6. The African American Studies program celebrated its 30th anniversary with the Sankofa banquet on April 14. Attendees included from left: College of Arts and Sciences Dean Takita Sumter; Political Science Professor Adolphus Belk Jr.; Jacqueline Venning ’70, ’73, Association of Ebonites (AOE) alumni member; Patricia Ware Brown '70, '72, founding AOE president; Sue Frances Meriwether Steed ’67 (seated), the first African-American student to earn a degree; Sheila McMillan ’73 (center), the first African-American to serve as a trustee; Byron Putman ’94, president of the Alumni Association; Cynthia Plair Roddey ’67, the first African-American woman to enroll and the first African-American graduate student; President Edward Serna; and Assistant Professor and African-American Studies Program Director O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight. Not pictured but in attendance: Delores Johnson Hurt ’68, the first African-American student accepted and the first African-American undergraduate to graduate with honors.


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