Tuesday, August 25, 2020 10:30 a.m.
PARADE OF 100 CARS | 100 BIRTHDAY CARDS
We are asking 100 alumni and friends to donate $100 each for a $10,000 scholarship to be awarded during the 2020-2021 school year.
Please mail all birthday cards to the Office of Alumni Affairs, Dr. Prezell Robinson's Birthday Celebration, 1315 Oakwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27610
Please click on the button to register as a participant in the 100 Cars Parade
For more information contact: Sheryl Harris-Ximines at 919.516.4343 or sximines@st-aug.edu
About Dr. Robinson
Dr. Robinson received 11 honorary degrees from leading colleges and universities including his alma maters, Voorhees College and Saint Augustine’s.
Served as an active member in the Episcopal Church, at the parish, diocesan and national levels.
Time at Saint Augustine's University
- Received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Social Science from Saint Augustine’s in 1946.
- Served as Dean and Sociology professor on the campus between 1956 and 1964.
- He became President (February 1967) and continued to served as professor of sociology. He was the University’s 8th President where he served for 28 remarkable years.
- All together he devoted 44 years on the campus: 2 as a student, 10 as a Dean, and 28 as president.
- He was selected one of 20 college presidents in the “100 Most Effective Presidents of America” in 1986.
During his administration seven campus buildings were constructed:
Latham Hall – a residence for women in 1971
MLK Student Union - 1969
The Prezell R. Robinson Library – 1974
Seby B. Jones Fine Arts Center – 1976
Communications Center (a wing of Seby) – 1989
Joseph Gordan Health Center – 1979
Weston Hall (a residence for women) - 1987
- Was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to India in 1965.
- He was selected by the Department of State to visit and lecture in six African countries in 1971.
Dr. Robinson had three presidential appoints:
- President Carter appointed him to serve on the United States-Liberian Commission in 1980.
- President Bush appointed him to serve as a U.S. Alternate Representative to the United Nations in 1992 and he was reappointed by President Clinton in 1996.